| Women! What fascinating creatures we are! We | | | | What do you know about oestrogen and |
| come in all shapes, all sizes, all colours, all religions | | | | progesterone and how they affect our bodies? |
| and from all backgrounds and belief systems. Yet | | | | Did you know that most of us are not oestrogen |
| something in us all is the same. We all want the | | | | deficient but progesterone deficient? When you |
| same things, to be loved, accepted and respected | | | | take unnatural hormones into your system you |
| for who we are. We all have a Goddess sleeping | | | | throw it into confusion resulting in some fairly |
| within us all, waiting to be released and allowed to | | | | deadly statistics. Did you know that the genetically |
| fly free. | | | | engineered soy bean does not legally have to be |
| In order to get that freedom though, there are | | | | mentioned in products you buy? Soy is found is |
| certain things we have to do. One is to own the | | | | many products including biscuits, bread, ice cream |
| truth of who we are - that we, as women, are | | | | etc. So what you might say! For me, if I want |
| beautiful, powerful, nurturing, caring, intuitive | | | | organic soy products then I want just that.... |
| beings. We have to rediscover our true self | | | | natural organic soy beans and I personally don't |
| esteem... that belief in ourselves that comes, NOT | | | | want to ingest genetically engineered ones that |
| from having a man in our lives, a career in our | | | | our government tells us are safe. They said the |
| hands, children at our breast or money in the | | | | same thing about Agent Orange and if we check |
| bank.... but from the knowledge that we are okay | | | | the statistics on men who were in Vietnam, the |
| just the way we are. Freedom comes from | | | | cancer rate is astronomical! |
| accepting that we are probably never going to | | | | There are so many things that we know nothing |
| look like Elle and that is okay too. Freedom comes | | | | about in terms of what we consume and use yet |
| from the acknowledgment of the Goddess who | | | | if we did, we could do something about it and |
| will be heard. If we are not prepared to listen to | | | | thus make a difference in our world. However, if |
| the inner voice that most of us have ignored, | | | | you are stuck in the "not good enough" |
| then our bodies will tell us in no uncertain terms to | | | | syndrome, then most of our energy goes into |
| "wake up". In our 20s and 30s it might give us | | | | the basics of daily survival and we don't have |
| signals such as pain, tension, anxiety. From mid | | | | enough left over to protest about anything. There |
| 30's on as a feeling of emptiness, sadness, or | | | | was an old movie that contained a great line, it |
| even disease. For this do we need Valium or HRT | | | | said: "Do you want to be part of the problem or |
| tablets? No we do not! | | | | part of the solution." The time has come for |
| We need to honour those parts of ourselves that | | | | solutions for women, for men, for relationships, |
| have gone unloved, unnoticed, unappreciated.... by | | | | for the children and for this beautiful planet we |
| ourselves. We need to read and educate | | | | share. |
| ourselves and I am not talking about the weekly | | | | When the sleeping Goddess rises in us all we will |
| mags that tell us to buy this face cream and look | | | | recognise that enlightenment or spirituality actually |
| 20 years younger when the model is actually in | | | | refers to service... service to ourselves and our |
| her teens pretending to be 40! We need to | | | | world. Each of us has a purpose and that purpose |
| discover the truth about who we are and what | | | | is more than simply living and dying. It is about |
| we can do and believe me, we can do lots, to | | | | supporting each other, about letting go of beliefs |
| help heal ourselves, our families and our world but | | | | that no longer serve us, about releasing the past, |
| it cannot begin out there, it has to begin with | | | | about changing our perception of men by realising |
| ourselves. | | | | the lessons we have learned from them, |
| By discovering our patterns... why do we repeat | | | | recognising that we raised them in the first place |
| them in our personal relationships and our jobs? | | | | and, more importantly, that we gave away our |
| How many people do you know who marry | | | | power somewhere, sometime, perhaps in the dim |
| someone, divorce and marry again... a different | | | | distant past and now we claim have it back. Not |
| person with a different face and body but the | | | | the power 'over'... such as we associated with |
| same patterns emerge in their lives? Or take a | | | | male domination but the power 'to'... to achieve... |
| job to find the same patterns repeating | | | | to be... to do... whatever we want. We do not |
| themselves with colleagues? How many of us | | | | have to pretend to be men for we are not! We |
| have taken on as partners men that need to be | | | | don't have to act tough and forget the very |
| mothered.... How many of us have rescued | | | | qualities that we are blessed with as women for |
| someone? How many of us think we can change | | | | they are what will take us into the future. It is |
| our partner? All these games (and men do the | | | | absolutely time to Show up with everything you |
| same thing with us) seek to disempower us and | | | | are.. there is so much to do. |
| keep us trapped. How many of us, as women, | | | | I saw some powerful words recently in a video |
| are still attempting unconsciously to heal our | | | | on women by women. They were: "Every |
| relationships with our parents, to gain their total | | | | woman has power. Every woman has wisdom. |
| acceptance in order to feel loved? Some of us | | | | When we get in touch with it, everything |
| may never gain that full acceptance from our | | | | blossoms and the world will change. This is the |
| parents however, if we understand the only | | | | Dawn of a new time. It is time to reclaim the |
| person we need acceptance from is ourself, then | | | | heroic life journey and rediscover, redefine, |
| we are on the way to freedom. | | | | express ourselves for who we really are. To |
| As women we are moving toward a new | | | | become wise to ourselves and to risk seeing the |
| consciousness. A time when we can make an | | | | truth. For when we are not afraid to be |
| impact on all levels of society; economically, | | | | vulnerable, when we find the courage to follow |
| politically and in business. An example is that the | | | | our dream then life becomes meaningful. It is time |
| majority of sanitary products use chlorine to | | | | to come out of isolation into the fulfilment of the |
| bleach their products (including diapers). | | | | human race. An epiphany is happening. It is time |
| Furthermore dioxins (a deadly toxin which is a | | | | to rewrite the script. This is a time to celebrate." |
| chlorinated compound that is an unwanted | | | | The time has come for us to honour the |
| byproduct of processes using chlorine) and furans | | | | Goddess in all women, to acknowledge the |
| were all found in sanitary products, diapers and | | | | masculine and the feminine within ourselves and |
| coffee filters. Amazing given that these are | | | | our men. To recognise our strengths, to learn to |
| known carcinogens. What is in the products you | | | | walk together toward a world where each human |
| use? Do you know that a very small group of | | | | being is acknowledged for the gifts and talents |
| women in England took on the paternalistic cluster | | | | they bring to this world. The world needs us to |
| of sanitary protection companies and made them | | | | stand together right now, to bring ethics and |
| see their shortcomings and what's more they | | | | integrity back to business and politics, to right the |
| made them do something about them, they | | | | wrongs of the past, for all living things so that we |
| succeeded in getting one product eliminated | | | | have a planet worthy of the generations to come. |
| altogether. (This was a product that had caused | | | | It is going to take courage and determination but |
| toxic shock syndrome and death to not just 1 or | | | | that is what we have for we are Goddesses! We |
| 2 women but many women). | | | | are women. This is our time! |