“Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But… feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.”
– Pema Chodron
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I returned home after an amazing month away to find my sweet boy, Pirate limping. Pirate found us (Missy and I) while we were living in Melbourne, Australia. As a huge cat lover I could not resist befriending him, feeding him and allowing him to come inside to sleep on the lounge. Over time we forged a lovely relationship and he was officially welcomed into our family. That was back in 2003 and since then he’s lived in Melbourne, Darwin, Sydney and Hong Kong - a well travelled pussy cat. Today I will be saying goodbye to him.
Last week he was officially diagnosed with a cancerous tumor and unfortunately it is now causing him pain, so much so that he’s not moving around much and is staying under our guest bed, not wanting to come out for his much loved cuddles. At least today he’s allowing me to pat him, and he’s purring when I do so - yesterday was a completely different story. A wise goddess said “Like children, pets are here to teach us lessons.” Pirate has taught me to love unconditionally because that is the way he loved me. I’m not good at showing my vulnerability but these past few days I have been vulnerable, tears have flowed and sadness has set in. As the wise goddess suggested, maybe Pirate is here to help me show my sadness.
Aside from this, I’ll be running an online Soul Coaching program starting Monday, 21st July. If you would like to register, please email me at nicole @ moderngoddessonline.com (take out the spaces). BONUS OFFER: I am offering my blog readers that participate in the program, a free Soul Coaching Oracle reading each week throughout the 28 day program.
Thank you to all my readers who link to me and leave comments.
Affirmation of the Month
“You are beauty-full.”
Articles Seen In
- ‘Journey to the Centre of the Soul‘ was promoted in the Chronicals of Coaching Blog Carnival over at Coaching Commons.
Link Love
- Wishcasting is a safe haven for wishes, a fertile field in which to plant wish seeds and have them witnessed and tended lovingly. It’s a place where magic begins.
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Boy oh boy… have I been having a huge problem with technology lately! I upgraded WordPress and my template didn’t like it, so I tried to upload the older version of WordPress back on, and my host server wouldn’t take any files through my FTP - even though I tried 2 other FTP software programs.
Finally today, things have kicked back into “normal” mode and I was able to reload my old version. Give me a couple of days to catch up as I have a couple of other blogs I need to fix as well.
It’s amazing… I was able to pre-plan many of my blog posts while I travelled around South America and upon returning have not blogged much at all. My apologies.
I’ll be back blogging soon!
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“So, I try to do one new thing every day - if its picking up a book by an unfamiliar author or even sitting in a different chair with my morning coffee, if only to see my house from a fresh perspective to keep the mind alert and alive.”
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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As someone who is not so fond of paperwork, a friend recently offered me some tips on organising my office. I had earlier in the year purchased new office furniture, with the hope it would inspire me to get organised but it just gave me shelves to put my paperwork.
Since my friend’s visit, I have been consciously filing my paperwork on a weekly basis, instead of monthly or every second month. I also purchased a big notebook with dividers as this allowed me to separate my businesses - The Modern Goddess (Hong Kong); The Modern Goddess (Online); Modern Goddess Gifts; Modern Goddess Magazine and Journals for Empowerment.
I now have folders for my different workshops and coaching programs, as well as large boxes for different resources. Just doing what I’ve done so far has made me feel so much more on top of my paperwork. I felt a weight lift off my shoulders. I still have a bit to go, especially after reading A Good Sort, a blog about organisation and making organising easy. In their blog post, Labels Sally explains that labeling is a great way of keeping things organised.
This is my next step… I have a filing cabinet with hanging files and they need to be labeled, all my folders need to be labeled and it won’t hurt to label my boxes. My goal for the next month is to label my office.
I think I’ll be all labelled out by then, but I have no doubt I’ll feel great once it’s done.
Do you have any office organisational tips? If so, I’d love to hear them.
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During our Virtual Book Tour promoting our journal, Journal for the Modern Goddess, I created four affirmation video. Here is the second video. Please enjoy!
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This week has been busy… I’ve been working with our Graphic Designer to finalise the design of our latest, soon to be released journal, Journal for the Pregnant Goddess.
Tara and I felt that this was the perfect journal to compliment our Journal for the Modern Goddess, as there were so many women around us pregnant or trying to fall pregnant. However, we didn’t want just any old pregnancy journal, what we wanted to offer was a resource for women wanting to have a positive birth experience - whether it be a natural birth, medically assisted or a c-section.
Our beautiful journal inspires and encourages all women to uncover their own path of ‘Positive Birthing’ because a positive birth experience offers a woman a great deal of confidence, wisdom and empowerment. There is nothing more amazing than a woman bringing life into this world. The positive birth experience enriches this journey and equips the mother with great life skills and support for not only her own journey into motherhood, but for life.
The flow of the journal follows the natural flow of pregnancy, with each trimester offering words of wisdom, affirmations, blessings and 434 pages to write as much or as little as the expecting mother wants.
We have a wonderful section on ‘Postive Birth Stories’ with a story about a natural birth and a story about a cesarean birth. We also have a certified Midwife/Doula introduce the topic.
The companion guided meditation CD features 3 tracks recorded by Tara Spicer. It is the expecting mother’s constant, through which she is guided in connecting deeply with her own mother wisdom, where she can release her fears, and prepare herself for a calm and empowering birthing experience.
With all this talk of “birthing” it didn’t surprise me when I stumbled upon the movie, A Business Being Born over at Pink Heels. The movie is a documentary about the birth industry within the US and how it is failing expecting mothers nationally. It is definitely well worth watching… but you will need to put aside 2 hours.
Back to our journal… The Journal for the Pregnant Goddess will be released on the 9th July 2008. Very Exciting!!
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“A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.”
– Montaigne
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This is a special issue of Empowering Women because I wanted to profile a couple of blogs that have interviewed successful who have taken a chance on their business. Enjoy!
Daniel Lafleche from The Ipex View interviews innovative, entrepreneur Tonisha Johnson about her company and its highly successful TOMI Film Festival. Tonisha went from working for other people, to opening and running her owm company, TOMI (The Other Movie Industry) Enterprises.
Sheila Scarborough from The Driving Woman interviews Lori Morgan, a NASAR team co-owner about running a race team, finding sponsors in a touch economy and getting more women into NASCAR garages and haulers.
Jackson Kern from the Alternative Channel TV Blog presents an exclusive excerpt from the powerful and inspiring documentary Roots of Change: The Vision of Wangari Maathai by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater. Dr Wangari Maathai is the first African woman and first environmentalist, to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Tell others about this Empowering Women Carnival… pass on the love, the knowledge and the wisdom and help anothers become empowered. Have a great week!
Thank you to everyone that submitted articles. I would appreciate author’s linking back to this carnival.
You are invited to submit your blog article to the next issue using our carnival form.
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One thing that I’ve discussed a couple of times is recycling and in this post I want to explore the concept of ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’.
- Reduce - Become informed about the environmental impacts of the products you buy and start to look at products that have less packaging or recyclable/reusable packaging. Buy quality goods that will last and buy products in bulk when possible.
- Reuse - Explore if goods can be repaired rather than replaced and reuse containers and bottles instead of disposable wrappings. Reuse envelopes and paper as notepads. Donate or sell unwanted clothing, furniture and white goods or buy second-hand furniture or homewares and refurbish it yourself.
- Recycle - Speak with your local council and find out if they collect glass, plastic, paper and metal for recycling. Explore the options of composting and start recycle your kitchen and garden scraps, which can make up almost 50% of your garbage. Ask your council about how batteries, pesticides and potentially hazardous household waste can be disposed of safely.
To give you an example of what one woman can do with old homewares. Elena of EP Designs has turned an old, metal tray and heart-shaped tricket box, into recreated treasures.
What do you do to reduce, reuse and recycle?