Women’s Topics

Something Magical Happens When Women Get Together (The Power of Friendship)

Strong, vibrant friendships with other women are nourishing to the heart and spirit, and significantly reduce anxiety.

Hallmarks of good friendships:

  • emotional intimacy
  • healthy vulnerability
  • good boundaries
  • commitment to joy and mutual empowerment

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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepng, and then with the breath of kindness throw the rest away.”- Dinah Mulock Craik

Stories

  • Mary, Annie, and Lois on Halloween
  • Mary, Annie, and Lois and their de-stressing techniques
  • Eccentric traditions
  • Situational Friends vs. Soul Friends

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A Woman’s Ways: The Values and Practices of Women’s Spirituality

“Women’s spirituality” is the cultivated awareness of God as Divine Mother, immanent (within) the natural world and our own selves. It is the consciousness of the interconnectedness of all things within one web of life. It honors the sacredness of all of life’s passages from birth through death, including the important initiations contained in a woman’s fertility cycle.”

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  •  God as Feminine
  • God as immanent
  • My intimate connections with creatures and places

Spiritual practices:

The Circle, seasonal cycles, intuition, fertility passages, sacred sites, creativity.

Stories

  • The Spider
  • The Birth Goddess
  • Journey to a Cave
  • Mother Mary, Face of the Divine Mother
  • Mary2 (Mary’s Hilarious and Practical Relationship with Mother Mary)

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Heal Your Husband Disappointment: A Guide to Forgiveness in Marriage

Husband Disappointment: What to do? We’ve all got it: pesky, serious, and worst case

  • We need to get over it, get out of it, or get through it
  • Use your will to get clear and make a choice
  • Fantasy and reality: healing the painful gap about who he is
  • Psychological clarity:projections, expectations, and boundaries
  • The eight steps of forgiveness
  • Unconditional love: it’s do-able
  • “Happily ever after”

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Excerpts

“Husband Disappointment is a miserable condition identified by it’s low-grade fever of chronic resentment, anger, and sadness. Women in the grip of this disease display a tendency to sigh and roll their eyes and mutter caustic remarks about their partner’s character. As the problem worsens, they feel stuck in a mediocre life because of the mate they are with, and they start to lose respect for themselves as they lose respect for him. Worse yet, a woman with an advanced case of Husband Disappointment lives a shadowy existence — numb, depressed, and void of vision — she becomes crippled with helplessness and blame. She is lost from who she is, and the dream of who she wants to be in her fullest potential.

A study done by xxxx in xxxx claims that fully 80% of women interviewed said that if they knew everything they know now at the time they got married, they probably wouldn’t do it over again. This high statistic indicates that this form of emotional discontent with our marriage is practically a norm for married women. And yet most of us are not going to get a divorce because of the inevitable pain and chaos that accompanies divorce. Some women live with their husbands in a state of alienation and resentment for decades! We’ve all seen it, and it’s not pretty. Not all of us are seriously ill with Husband Disappointment, but we can’t leave it at that because that means too many women are settling for a form of unhappiness that is common but not necessary. I think we want more for ourselves than to live life like this. I say, let’s have some attitude, girls, and let’s get some tools to create a worthy life, with or without him.”

Stories

  • Tales of Pesky, Serious, and Worst Case Husband Disappointment
  • Mary’s Husband Disappointment: From Loser to Dreamboat (–and He didn’t Change, She Did.)
  • Elsie Falls In Love With Her Husband Again After 40 Years

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The Woman Entrepreneur: A Spiritual Journey of Empowerment

Key Ideas

  • You create your business out of who you are and what you need to learn
  • In partnership with God, people, and the planet: It’s all about relationships
  • Using your will: strong will, skillfull will, good will, and universal will
  • Persistence and discipline the tools that make your luck
  • Do your best and let go of the outcome each day

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Stories

  • Mary’s journey as a spiritual entrepreneur
  • Annette’s story: keep working the model until it’s right
  • Beyond magical thinking: putting the ground under your vision

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