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Midlife Fairy Godmother Enterprises (tm) Newsletter
Welcome to the January 2005 Issue of the Midlife Fairy Godmothers Online Newsletter
Tips, tools, and treasures for leading edge, midlife women who are ready to become their own fairy godmothers and give themselves permission to become re~enchanted with life.
If you wish to unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking here: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Article Of The Month: "Activating Our Own Passion & Vitality In Midlife" Website of The Month: I have met another woman who has designed a business around the art and power of enchantment. Please take a look at all the wonderful things she has to offer on the "Enchanted Self". Tele-class ~~ "Discovering Your Authentic Soul In Midlife": Two class times are available starting February 16. One late enough for west coast women and in other parts of the world. Go on a search and rescue mission to discover your inner treasures......the heart and soul of your purpose in life. Your purpose is not something you do it is a state of being that you take with you whatever you do. (scroll down for details) Join the dozens of midlife women who are becoming re-enchanted with life through the tele-classes which are part of the Midlife Fairy Godmothers School Of Re-Enchantment. "Thank you for the wonderful teleclass. I must say I enjoyed it more than any other teleclass I have taken because it gave me tangible, intangible gifts that I can take with me; i.e., it gave me nuggets of insight into myself that I had not recognized before. As a holistic divorce lawyer I have many clients that I feel would benefit from your class and I intend to recommend it to them. It is a great way to inspire and empower someone finding their way in 'midlife'!" Mindy L. Hitchcock ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ My life is becoming richer by the moment as I meet women from all over who are ready to do whatever it takes to tap into their vitality and power in midlife! Midlife can be the most exciting, powerful, invigorating time in our lives, but that won't happen automatically. It really is all about becoming our own fairy godmother ~ giving ourselves what we need in order to step into that kind of energy. We do it through expanding our capacity to experience joy and enchantment, excavating our inner treasures, embracing our inner divinity, engaging our mind, and establishing an enchanted relationship with ourselves. In the article of the month, I share some of my story of how I discovered the magic and power of activating my own life force energy and the five main ingredients for doing that. I am now living the life I envisioned when I became my own fairy godmother and allowed myself to take a "time out" of every day life for five years. Sharing our stories with each other is such an important thing to do. It helps us not feel alone, it gives us hope, and encourages us to move forward sometimes in the face of all odds. For this reason, I invite you to check-out Valerie at; http://www.soulfulliving.com. She is inviting readers to share stories of reflection and of future envisioning. I am a one of the regular contributing authors on her five star site along with other enchanting authors. Comments about anything I have written are always welcome. Please share this newsletter with anyone you think would benefit. Join the Midlife Adventurers Club if you haven't yet as I will be inviting participants to try out new winter tele-classes I am designing. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive"! Harold Whitman In my late 30s I had a life threatening wake up call that ended up being a blessing in disguise. I was a radically independent, cleverly resourceful, spiritually awake super single mom. I woke up one morning unable to move any part of my body no matter how hard I tried. I had begun having seizures and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis a few months before that. The doctors said I would be in a wheel chair in two years. On that morning, while I was lying there feeling helpless and terrified, I realized that my life force energy, my authentic power was literally leaving me. I knew that life does not just happen to us and in that moment, I decided to go on my heroine’s journey to reclaim my power, vitality, and passion for life. Even though my friends and family all thought of me as a woman who was standing in her own power; fiercely independent, cleverly resourceful, strong, spiritually connected, and even heroic at times, I saw that I had abandoned myself and was literally burning out! I was living my life for others and giving my power away. I was dimming my own light by shrinking myself, conforming, and driving myself in order to please others. Since then I have meet countless bright, strong, powerful women in midlife who are realizing that they, too, have abandoned themselves by caring for others more than they have cared for themselves. They are also realizing how hard it is to begin putting themselves first in their lives. I knew I needed to do something drastic and within a short period of time set things up so that I could take a midlife sabbatical. It ended up being an extended vision quest which lasted five years. This felt like such a selfish thing to do. I unplugged from society and all distractions, immersed myself in nature, and went into deep introspection, meditation, contemplation, and self discovery in order to activate my own life force. I developed a wonderful relationship with myself and became re-enchanted with my self and life. I came "down from the mountain" pain and seizure free, full of passion and vitality, with a knowledge of who I am, what matters to me, what my gifts and talents are, and what I want to do with the second half of my life. As a result, I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to helping women empower themselves in midlife through becoming their own fairy godmothers to create enchanting lives. I wish I could tell you that it was smooth and easy, but I can't. What I can tell you is that I have taken everything I learned and have found five main ingredients for connecting with your own life force energy. I call it the process of re-enchantment "Inner Magic For Second Half Bliss". "Inner Magic For Second Half Bliss" 1) Establishing your relationship with yourself as the single most important thing in the second half of your life. Why? Because it is the single most thing that affects how others see you, treat you, and believe about you. When you become enchanted with who you are it is not being narcissistic, it is a way of honoring the creator and giving thanks for your life. 2) Expanding your capacity to experience joy and enchantment attracts more of the same through the universal law of attraction. Interestingly enough it is the very highest spiritual discipline!! I was brought up to believe that suffering was the highest spiritual discipline and since I so wanted to be like Jesus, I made a commitment to suffering when I was about eight years old! In midlife, I made the commitment to enchantment. 3) Excavating your inner treasures - your true passions, feelings, interests, and dreams is how you learn your purpose, meaning, and direction for second half bliss. 4) Embracing your inner divinity is how you access a love within that is so powerful you will never need to look outside of yourself for it again. Your main purpose on this earth is to remember and reconnect with who you are as a spirit inside of a body. Inner stillness is the path for this connection. Allowing your self to be bathed with this elixir of love right down to the cellular level is the way to become one with it. 5) Engaging your mind and taking charge of it by. You do this by questioning your assumptions and beliefs, focusing on what you want by making clear choices and decisions, resolving inner conflicts, learning powerful positive self talk, and learning how to dream and imagine. These five ingredients will help you find your way back home to yourself and embrace your enchanting, passionate female power in midlife. The result is you will know how to access and activate your own life force energy for astounding vitality and longevity. And of course, we never stop growing and learning how to use these enchanting tools for personal transformation!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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Dinah@Midlifefairygodmothers.com ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* There Comes a Time in Every Woman's Life for....DELIGHT! Hi! I'm Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, psychologist and originator of THE ENCHANTED SELF. That is the special wondrous part of ourselves where we find delight, purpose, meaning and pleasure. That's where we fill ourselves up, rather than running on empty! You can find out all about my work at www.enchantedself.com. Let me share with you my newest 'delight' which is actually my new book, DELIGHT. This is where I tell of my mid-life adventuring, emotional and spiritual. I invite you in and you come too, as I come home to being Jewish. My stories and the journaling time for you following each story encourage you on your path and personal adventures! I sure hope you will join me in this wonderful rush of life and passion. My book DELIGHT is available via my website, on Amazon and through www.ladybuglive.com the publishers. It is a CD-rom, which means that you will hear my voice in parts of the book, see wonderful art as you read and hear great music. Can't wait until you come along! Enchantingly, Daina Puodziunas - Just call me Dinah, Midlife Fairy Godmother Join the free Adventurers Club and receive a monthly newsletter, community calls, and much more: Dinah@MidlifeFairyGodmothers.com *************************************************** |
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