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Wild Woman Network Newsletter

Tuesday, June, 2006

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Welcome to the June 2006 edition of the Wild Woman Network Newsletter

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Slo-mo Contradiction

It seems hardly possible but it has been one year since the first edition of this newsletter. It is also 12 years since I was first ordained as an interfaith minister. My father would have been 87 years old this month. It seemed like yesterday when we celebrated a friend’s fiftieth birthday. I still remember my cousin as a baby when I was just two years old. As I sit here remembering the past I am also looking to the future. What will the next year bring? What do I want to happen? As I write this I am home waiting for the first of several deliveries I am expecting this week. I moved into this apartment four years ago. My plan was to decorate and organize it over the first year. Then I was laid off and my plans were sidelined. My friend Laurie Sue besides being a wonderful wedding goddess, author, mother, wife and friend is also a feng shui consultant. With her help I have been making changes in my apartment. My bedroom is the largest room and doubles as my home office. It still has boxes from my move here four years ago. Papers litter a dresser and I have a door as a desktop. Very soon I will have a new an improved room. In a year I expect to have a different life.

Those who know me well know I can be incredibly slow about things. I am a muller. A ponderer. A stroke the chin and think about it kind of person. There are things that take a long time. Sometimes. Those who know me also know I can be quick at decisions. Both can be extremes. After all this time I try not to undermine my peculiar ways. But I do look for opportunity to improve both extremes so I end up somewhere in the middle. I would like to think a little smarter. As I plan the changes in my physical space I have been dreaming of moving into a new home. Night after night I am in a new place that is larger, brighter, and different then where I am now. I am not a dream expert but I think this is good. It means that I am growing into a larger space of consciousness. It took me four years to decide to do a newsletter. A year later it still is a work in progress. I want it grow too. I want it to look better, sound better have more fun and informative articles. I may be a contradiction when it comes to making decisions but I do get to them eventually.

We can’t help but be surprised by life. It shifts and changes in ways we can’t imagine. At the same time it can be designed by us with a little more thought. Choices can be made everyday to shape our days. What will the next year bring?

Want to start? Five tips to change your life listed in the tips section. Have fun!

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Write A Way: Journey to Creativity

Exploring the World with Your Senses: Touch
By Sandra Lee Schubert

As an artist, it is important to engage in all our senses as fully as possible. Think of a potter out of touch with her clay. She might create technically correct pieces yet they would lack a certain feeling to them. There is a potter's work I love. I like to hold her pieces. They have a wonderful feel to them. Each piece seems to have a special energy... Wouldn't each of us want our work to elicit that kind of energy?

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View the entire newsletter here:

Issue. 42 - June ~ Embrace Healing and Life in Every Sense
By Self-Healing Expressions http://www.selfhealingexpressions.com/holistic_expressions_42.shtml

The Long Road to Courage

By Sandra Lee Schubert

Ask anyone who they think is courageous. They may respond it is soldiers serving their country or fireman and police officers who are in the line of duty. Another person may say it is the teacher who is in a high school in a bad neighborhood. They might mention their parents or friend. Very few people would say they are courageous. Yet just to be alive is to have courage ….read more http://www.soulfulliving.com/long_road_courage.htm

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Blogs or sites of choice:

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Wild Woman Tips

Five tips to change your life:

· Change your place, create more space. Your place could be perfect but sometimes just moving the couch from one side of the room to the other can give you a new view of your world. Look around your home. Is it clean or cluttered? Is it warm and inviting? Or do people prefer to stand rather then sit on your furniture? Being a clean freak can distract you from living life but a messy place can stop you from engaging with other people. See what you can change, clean up the messes. Make your home a haven for yourself and others.

· Journal your way to change. Keeping a journal can keep you honest. Write the things you would not tell to a friend. List your goals without fear of another’s opinion. Write a goal and then list what you hope to gain in your life when it is met. You may find other goals lurking. Tracking your, goals, feelings and accomplishments allows you to see where started and where you are going.

· Educate. Read. Learn. We are never too old to learn a new thing. In fact studies show learning something new can stimulate your brain and keep it young. If in a year you want to be a freelance photographer but have never used a camera then you better start education yourself now. Take a course. Read a book you would not normally read. Go to a lecture or museum. Learn a new skill and you may find a whole phase of living opening up to you.

· Move your body. I can admit to couch potatoism. I am writing at the computer, watching TV or sitting on the subway. But I do know when I take care of myself; eating right, exercising, getting outside my head is a lot clearer. Moving your body will energize you and make you more able to meet your goals.

· Decide to change, begin to grow. Maybe your life is going OK and you think change is not needed. Or your life is in complete chaos and change is necessary. Either way deciding to make big or small changes can be beneficial. Change can be good. Decide today what small steps you make to begin to transform your life and see what the year will bring.

Romantic tips by Laurie Sue Brockway

13 Steps For Making Your Romantic Dreams Come True:

"Always be ready - you can meet that special someone at the most unexpected times and places." -- Dr. Judy Kuriansky, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Dating

Welcome to Project Soul Mate.

These tips will help you to open your heart, your arms and your life to love in 2005 and beyond. Forget about searching for the one who might be The One. First, clean up stuff you no longer need, get your life in order, and simultaneously, get ready for love. Here are just a few of my pearls of wisdom on the topic, culled from more than 25 years of work on the front line of the Relationship Revolution and many more than that out and about on Love's Battlefield.

Tip # 12: Know that when you find one another, it will truly be a reunion Jewish mysticism offers one of my favorite descriptions of soul lovers. This is from The Zohar, the key doctrine of Cabalistic wisdom: "Each soul and spirit, prior to entering this world, consists of a male and female united into one being. When it descends on earth two parts separate and animate two different bodies. At the time of marriage, the holy One, blessed be He/She, who knows all souls and spirits, unites them again as they were before, and they again constitute one body and one soul, forming as it were the right and left of one individual."

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway regularly marries couples in love and has been cited as one of the New York's most creative and unique wedding officiants. She is also widely recognized as an expert in women's empowerment, self-esteem and spirituality. She is a bridal stress expert, devoted to helping brides-to-be tap into their inner power and poise. She co-facilitates the nationally acclaimed Bridal Survival Club for The New York Wedding Group and is author of WEDDING GODDESS: A Divine Guide To Transforming Wedding Stress into Wedding Bliss (Perigee Books, May 2005).

Visit her at www.WeddingGoddess.com.

Buy her book at Amazon.com.

Wild Woman Links and Blogs of interest:

Space does not allow me to post many notices.

http://www.writingforlife.blogspot.com/ - poetry, prose and other things from time to time.

http://www.wildwomannetwork.blogspot.com/ - newsletter, articles of interest.

Want to see your link here? E-mail me here: wwn@wildwomannetwork.com

BlogHer - Where the women bloggers are http://www.blogher.org/

First 30 Days of Pursuing your Dream

http://www.first30days.com/First30DaysOfPursuingYourDream.do?s=12#

LIME - Healthy living with a twist http://lime.com/

Are you interested in creativity coaching? Visit Eric Maisel's web site.

http://www.ericmaisel.com/

Donna Henes, Urban Shaman, is a contemporary ceremonialist specializing in multicultural ritual celebration of the cycles of the seasons and the seasons of our lives. http://www.DonnaHenes.net

Visit the Spiritual Chicks or some Kick-Ass content.

http://www.spiritualchicks.com/

Mary Foley is a nationally recognized leader for women in business.

http://www.gobodacious.com

http://www.bodaciouswomensclub.com

Sark – my wild woman inspiration

http://www.planetsark.com/

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Write A Way: Journey to Creativity for Holistic Expressions an online newsletter of Self Healing Expressions. She also leads workshops and co-facilitates a popular writing program called the Wild Angels at the historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

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