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Personal Message From Dinah

Article Of The Month: "Our True Power Awaits In Midlife"

Plus, I regularly write for a very popular soulful web site run by an enchanting woman named Valerie. Please have a look if you are not familiar with it and read my article on achieving balance in midlife. CLICK HERE: http://www.soulfulliving.com

"Discovering Your Authentic Soul In Midlife" Tele-class: This rich, interactive, and insightful four week tele-class will be offered again on Thursday evenings from 8:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern/NY. The dates are September 22, 29, Oct 6, and 13 for only $50.00. This includes workbook materials via email, an extensive midlife book list, weekly calls on a special conference line, a yahoo support group, and more!!

Want to read more about the tele-class? Read reviews from previous participants? Reserve your spot and register via Pay Pal or check?
CLICK HERE:  http://www.midlifefairygodmothers.com/Tele-Classes.htm

Saturday, October 1 ~ Women's Wisdom Retreat: If you are a wild, bodacious woman who wants to experience a day of ceremony, food, camaraderie with other like minded women, and a powerful ceremonial sweat which will cleanse and renew you and bond you with the earth unlike anything you have ever experienced, all for $50.00.  CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER DETAILS: http://www.midlifefairygodmothers.com/Womens-Wisdom-Retreats.htm
The ceremonial sweat is also a rite of passage ceremony where you get to say good bye to the past, let go of the past, and fully embrace the new.

Want a Midlife Fairy Godmother? Are you stuck trying to create an enchanted life that feeds your soul? I have taken a few new clients already and plan to continue doing so after September 10. We meet together via the phone (I make the hour long call). All you pay is $50.00 per call and commit to working together for three months. We can meet weekly or bi-monthly. After your first fr*ee introductory session, we set up a specific goal that will help you move forward with an enchanted life that feeds your soul.

As your fairy godmother I promise to hold you accountable for action steps, effectively deal with whatever is getting in your way through guided inner journeys along with many other tools, and start to become your own fairy godmother in your thoughts, words, and actions. Ready to sign up for a fr*ee introductory session?

CLICK HERE to send me an email: Dinah@Midlifefairygodmothers.com

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Personal Message From Dinah
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Thank you for your patience during my time of inner communion and reflection on the passing of my dear father. I appreciate all the love and support I have receive from countless emails! You are a very special group of souls. I have scattered his ashes to all of the elements and he will be joining the earth during the fall equinox as I bury his ashes under a tree I recently planted in my enchanted "fairy circle" where countless women have experience a powerful connection with the earth during the ceremonial sweat ceremonies for women.

Every time I experience a power transition in my life, I give myself some kind of rite of passage. It is often a journey that takes me far away from home into unknown territory so that when I come back home, everything feels new as I enter my new life. Barbara De Angelis writes: "Many of us go through undefined, unmarked and unnamed rites of passage without realizing it. Our society has no rituals for honoring a true inner rite of passage."

No problem, we can do it for ourselves. After all, we are after all learning how to take care of ourselves not only externally, but internally as well through becoming our own fairy godmothers! I have spent a week with a sleeping bag and a tarp in the Manistee National Forest on a vision quest when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and could hardly move. I also ended my five year midlife sabbatical by crewing on a sailboat with dear friends for ten days in the Florida Keys.

This Tuesday, I am taking a cross country trip to California with a good friend and will return on Thursday September 8. This journey will end the grieving process over my father's passage and welcome in the next chapter of my life. This includes integrating the exciting new insights for continuing this powerful work that I know will benefit many women. You will all be invited to participate in this after I come home!!

In the meantime, I will be checking my emails when away and will delight in your comments, questions, and feedback to anything in this newsletter. I hold you all close to my heart.

In Enchanted Joy,
Dinah ~ Midlife Fairy Godmother

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Article Of The Month
~ 'Our True Power Awaits In Midlife'~
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""The midlife crisis is an experience that is misnamed. It should be called a midlife awakening. it is the emotional alchemy that rebirths us at a crucial point in our life journey." Barbara DeAngelis

As you are transitioning from the woman you were to the woman you are becoming, you may be experiencing some uncomfortable feelings. You may not know who you are any more, especially if have identified with certain roles like parent, child, teacher and those roles are gone. Your parent may have died, your children left the nest, you have retired, on and on. Your entire world feels like it's just shifted and left you behind! You are dangling and wish there was something you could hang on to, but nothing feels familiar. You are not in Kansas anymore!

During these times the quest to find ourselves again can be driven by an obsession to get rid of our discomfort and confusion if we allow it to. It can get even stronger when we are in the midst of challenges, turning points, and wake-up calls. So my challenge to you is to take a deep breath and acknowledge that you are in the middle of a powerful life transition from who you were to who you are becoming and remember what Henry David Thoreau said: "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Acknowledging that our society does not recognize let alone support this kind of inner transition because it rewards stability, certainty, control and has no name for what we are experiencing. It dismisses our powerful journey as some kind of problem or midlife crisis. In other words before this we were "normal" and our deep self - reflection and reassessment is some sign of emotional instability or temporary confusion instead of a great awakening.

This is precisely why we have to take our midlife transition into our own hands and I believe that the most important thing we can do for ourselves is use it as an opportunity to become our very own best friend. I refer to creating this powerful relationship with ourselves as becoming our own midlife fairy godmother. I heard Suzie Orman speak a few weeks ago and she spoke passionately on how our relationship with ourselves influences our financial lives more than anything else.

She said, "Money is the physical manifestation of who you are!" She went on to say, "How you feel about who you are determines what you have, what you get to have, and what you get to keep." "Money is the currency of your life and is a teacher"

Since we're talking about money and our relationship to ourselves right now, in the September issue of Phenome News which can be found at http://phenomenews.com soon, I was delighted to read Alan Cohen's article on the power of creating a powerful relationship with self.

He talked about a woman who was a disaster relief fund raiser for the Red Cross. She had no problem raising millions of dollars in a short time for people in need, but had trouble paying her bills each month. he told her, "When you find the same worth in yourself that you do in the victims of disaster, the universe will provide for you as well as you provide for them."

A simple, but extremely powerful and totally enchanting exercise that has worked for me when trying to find a way to start saving for my retirement follows. Find a picture that you love of yourself when you were a toddler. Put it by your bed. On a sticky note write the words: "This is a bill to my future self from my current self." Every week when you get paid, look at that picture with the words next to it and make the first payment you make to your retirement account. This has the power to shift your psyche tremendously. A part of you will feel loved, cared for, and adored by you!

We are on the threshold of an exciting new frontier as far as this aging business goes even within our society. I'm sure you've noticed the new "Dove" soap adds featuring women with real bodies. The "Gap" store has created an extensive line of clothing for midlife women and beyond. Our entire culture is about to take a big shift in recognizing baby boomers in every way imaginable. Of course the focus our society gives will be predominantly occupied with the outside rather than the inside and that's just fine with me. We don't need to change society in order to get what we want.

Countless midlife women are longing to find their passion, purpose, and meaning in life, but feel stuck. They have a deep longing to return a piece of the heart back to the world and this is a genuine longing of their soul. But in order to change lives, we have to have reserves. In order to return a piece of the world's heart to itself, we need to return to our own first. Very few of us have been taught how to do this. Women have been constantly rewarded for being there for others and labeled selfish or worse when caring for themselves.

The Fairy Godmother archetype has all of the qualities that we need to finally be there for ourselves in the way that we have been there for others. She is there for us whenever we need her with total compassion. She is a bridge between the physical world and the Divine realms. She is an enchantress who awakens our senses and takes us into enchanted worlds. She encourages play and the enjoyment of life.

As an alchemist she transforms dramas into dreams and obstacles into coaches which help us find our way back home to ourselves. She makes our dreams come true. The list goes on. The magic is real and it all takes place inside of us. As our inner transformation takes place, our outer world begins to reflect the enchanted magic of our inner world and we begin living an enchanted life that feeds our soul. Won't you use this time of uncertainty and longing to discover her within the deepest places of your heart? She's been waiting with great anticipation for your awakening to begin.

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Enchantingly,

Daina Puodziunas - Just call me Dinah, Midlife Fairy Godmother
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