Midlife Fairy Godmother Enterprises™ Newsletter
Welcome to the July 2006 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 be there for themselves the way they always have been for others.
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Contents Of This Issue:
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Personal Message From Dinah
Article Of The Month: "Transforming Your Relationship With Change"
Women's Wisdom Retreat: Saturday, August 5, 2006. 1:00-11:00 pm Eastern time. This retreat is held at my home by Grand Rapids, Michigan on 40 acres with a private lake and costs $75.00. You are welcome to camp, stay at close motels, or on a sleeping bag. You can click here for details: http://www.Midlifefairygodmothers.com/Womens-Wisdom-Retreats.htm
Ongoing Midlife Support Group in Rockford, Michigan: Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00 pm. Come to one or all. This group is going so well that the Open Mind Metaphysical Store has asked me to extend it into the fall! If interested email me at Dinah@Midlifefairygodmothers.com and put Open Mind in the subject line.New members very welcome!! Read about it in the article below.
Book A Personal Retreat At My Home: I am offering women the opportunity to spend time immersing themselves in nature, and connect with the peace within. You can camp in a majestic place overlooking the lake/use my shower/kitchen OR stay in my lower level walk out with a great futon. The cost is $60.00 per night either way. Contact me at 616-7549672 if interested. Add some personal coaching for an extra $50.00 per hour. I'll even pick you up from the Grand Rapids airport which is 40 minutes away.
~*~*~Personal Message From Dinah~*~*~
I finished clearing the last bit of sacred land around my property. For those of you who don't know, the land I built my home on has been passed down from woman to woman. My grandmother planted immaculate gardens and created park like areas to the right of my home and my mother did the same to the left.
After they both died, I was a single parent creating my homestead here and had no time to tend to what they had created. It got VERY overgrown with everything from brambles that were five feet tall to brush that you couldn't even walk around.
It was my goal to open it all back up to hold ceremonies and for women to have safe, sacred space to hold personal retreats and inner quests.
I finished it!! I broke several lawn mowers and at times I had no idea what to do, but it's done and amazingly beautiful. I'm taking pictures that I will put up on my web site soon.
In Love & Enchantment ~ Daina (Dinah) Midlife Fairy Godmother Enterprises tm
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Article Of The Month
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~*~*~* Transforming Your Relationship With Change*~*~*~
When we stop resisting change and see it through new eyes,
it releases an amazing amount of energy for us to use however we choose.
Have you noticed that there has been a "quickening" going on in the world for some time and it continues to get stronger? By that I mean everything has been intensified and is moving faster.
In midlife, many women recognize that they become more sensitive to vibrations and are experiencing a "quickening" themselves. We have a deeper sense of what others are feeling, we become much more influenced by our environment,and our of senses and perceptions are all intensified.
We often feel like we need our own space and time to be with ourselves....to commune with the Divine, be out in nature, and to focus our energies on discovering our life purpose, inner gifts, and mission in life.
These needs become stronger and stronger. If we don't get them satisfied, we become resentful, we lash out, some of us think we're going crazy - and of course others are quick to point out that indeed we are!
So the combination of the global "quickening" and the heightened awareness of our own needs and what's going on around us can become so intense that we can easily feel like something is going wrong with us.
It is here that I invite you to look with new eyes at what is happening - to begin to recognize the opportunity in your particular challenges. You can take advantage of the quickening by using it instead of becoming overwhelmed by it.
You can begin to see that your life is speaking to you trough your challenges, that your authentic soul is trying to get your attention to move closer to it, and that what appears to be something negative is really a blessing in disguise.
Exercise ~ Think back to a time in your life when you had to move past your comfort zone - when you had to do things that you had no idea how to do, when you had to experience a huge learning curve, when you were going through a major change, feeling vulnerable but had to move forward anyway.
When it was all over, did you end up learning things that you would not have otherwise learned? Do you feel proud, expanded, more self-actualized and wise from that experience? How did the passage transform you?
As a wise woman stepping into her power, you can now do this consciously which will give you access to even greater wisdom, power, and energy.
Here's the main question to ask yourself ~ Am I willing to accept that even though it doesn't feel like it right now, there is nothing going wrong with me or my life?
It seems that we humans don't like change and do everything we can to avoid it. So it's really a gift in disguise from the deepest part of our being (our soul) to move us forward, onward, and upward. We however, have to claim the gift and the first step is seeing it through new eyes.
Change can either inform and inspire us or threaten us. We get to choose our relationship with it.
In the ancient art of alchemy, something is transformed from one form into another like lead into gold. A substance is heated, elements are separated, and a new essence is distilled producing something precious and very valuable.
We too are practicing the art of alchemy when we take something not particularly desirable in our lives like change and turn it into something valuable.
In the Midlife Support Group that I am facilitating at a metaphysical book store, each woman is experiencing profound results from being willing to work with change in this way after only two months! The group is amazed how fast things are changing in their lives.
One Woman's Story
After tuning in to what her life and her soul were trying to show her through her heightened sensitivity, one woman realized it was not some inner craziness that was making her feel this way, but her need to claim a lot of space for herself and allow her inner artist to come out and play.
She was willing to be radically honest with herself and her family. She made a declaration to her family that she needed a place to go and let the artist in her come out. She didn't want to feel anyone else's energy or do anything for anyone else for an indefinite period of time.
With the support of the group and her own courage to speak up for herself, a beautiful condominium showed up in her lap the next week!! She only had to pay for the utilities!!
She had to be willing to go through the fire herself - through the discomfort of focusing on herself and her needs. She had to be willing to give up what others thought of her and what they might say about her behind her back. Most of us will do anything not to be thought of as a bitch even if it means sacrificing our deepest desires.
This takes enormous courage! She said that whenever she felt guilty, she could hear our voices urging her on. She could not have done it without us. This is the power, the synergy, and the magic of a support group.
If we choose to transform how we view change,crisis, and challenge by listening to what our lives are telling us instead of resist it, we will experience a high so great... so thrilling and gifts so magnificent that they will surpass our wildest expectations.
~*~*~*~Virtual Midlife Support Group~*~*~*~
Are you ready to re-create your relationship with change? Are you willing to be there for yourself the way you have always been there for others?
I am setting up a trial run for a Virtual Midlife Support Group this fall for 10 women using a conference line and email for those who want to transform their relationship with change.
Interested? I don't know the details yet, but it will be very inexpensive and will probably last six to eight weeks.
Enchantingly,
Daina Puodziunas ~ (Dinah)
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