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A wise woman who attended the Leaving A Legacy Retreat, wrote the following article...I hope you enjoy reading the article and inspire you to attend the next Leaving A Legacy Retreat 🧘🏽‍♀️...follow my page for updates for the next Retreat.

What I Learned at Crone Camp Lessons from Wise Women at the “Leaving a Legacy” Retreat

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Here is a small excerpt from the writings of one of the wise women...Get a copy of the book by clicking on the following link:
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Read a small paragraph of the introduction of Leaving A Legacy: Confident Words from Wise Women

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Be inspired by the words of wise women...
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Be inspired by the words of wise women...
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A wonderful reminder...

TO THE WOMAN WHO IS SLOWLY FADING AWAY...

To the woman who has lost her spark.
To the woman whose get up and go, has well and truly gone.
This is for you.
This is to remind you whose daughter you are.
This is to remind you, that you don’t have to be everything to everyone, every day.
You didn’t sign up for that.
Remember when you used to laugh? Sing? Throw caution to the wind?
Remember when you used to forgive yourself more quickly for not always being perfect.
You can get that back again.
You really can.
And that doesn’t have to mean letting people down or walking away.
It just means being kinder to you, feeling brave enough to say no sometimes.
Being brave enough to stop sometimes.
And rest.
It starts the moment you realise that you’re not quite who you used to be.
Some of that is good, some of that is not.
There are parts of you that need to be brought back.
And if anyone in your life is not okay with that... they are not your people.
Your people will be glad to see that spark starting to light up again.
So, if you have been slowly fading away my friend, this is the time to start saying yes to things that bring you joy and no to things that don’t.
It’s really pretty simple.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘to the women’

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"We are calling the Grandmothers, Mothers, Sisters, Aunts, Daughters
The wild women
The crones
The seers & midwives
The mountain & desert women
The soul summoners
The water carriers
The tenders & feelers of Earth
The ocean women who are rising the tide
The fire women who are ready to roar
The girls who already breathe consciously with the trees
and the elders who choose to sing the song
that ends the desecration of our world.
We are calling you to to rise together now.
You are invited to unite & awaken
to who, what you really are,
on behalf of the forests,
on behalf of the trees,
on behalf of Life."~

~Clare Dubois

art: Three Generations by Kel Nu

Leaving A Legacy: Confident Words from Wise Women is here!!! After almost 2 years of hard work!! I'm very excited to present my book in collaboration with my amazing friend Carol Guenther!!
Our launch book party was a success and we are very grateful to all the wise women who participated in this book!!
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You don’t have wrinkles
You have memories of smiling, thinking, laughing and expressing yourself fully

You don’t have sagging skin
You have a body that enables movement and vitality

You don’t have eye bags
You have skin that supports your ability to see and interact with the world visually

You don’t have scars
You have markers of strength, sturdiness and survival

You don’t have stretch marks
You have a body designed to create, nurture and sustain life

You don’t have pigmentation
You have a constellation of colours
That brighten and enhance your complexion

You don’t have cellulite
You have systems in place
To protect and sustain you
In case of famine or scarcity

You don’t suffer from shortness or tallness
You have a unique, beautiful build
That complements your individual features and nationality

You don’t have a body or identity that you are destined to dislike forever
But one that you may learn to love and embrace
Through enhancing it
Or changing the way you choose to see it

And you don’t have to appear perfect
As life was not meant for looking flawless
But for fully living.

Words by Tahlia Hunter

Inspired by a post by the very talented Donna Ashworth. Check out her page for inspiring and uplifting words that are similar to mine: https://www.facebook.com/ladiespassiton

Artwork by Lisa Aisato

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Great reflection 🤔

My friend,

You can avoid alcohol, drugs, sugar, salt, wheat, dairy and carbohydrates etc. your whole entire life...
You can exercise, meditate and focus half your day on your health...

But if you are swallowing your dreams, your ambitions, your regrets, your fears, your desires and your bitterness on a daily basis - YOU WILL SUFFER.

For nothing, NOTHING, rots the flesh more, than the negative emotions we ram down our own throats on a daily basis.

Food for thought.

Say your truths,
live your own way,
be yourself,
share your dreams,
honour your desires,
CHASE your ambitions.
Or don’t.
Maybe your ambition is quite simply to be peaceful.
Whatever it is you choose to do,
give yourself peace.
It’s the most healing and rejuvenating path of them all.

Let yourself be peaceful.
Let yourself be accepted, by you.
No one else matters.
Make peace with the world.
Let peace be your goal every day.

It’s the only way to live a truly healthy life.
Let go.
Be peaceful.
You deserve it.

Donna Ashworth
‘LIFE’:
https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Working on it!...

A friend recently sent me this image and quote by Sylvia Plath, which she saw in a bookstore in Oxford, England. It took me back to my early forties when I first dreamed of writing fiction. For years I played it safe, unable to find enough belief in myself to attempt my first novel. I’d been writing nonfiction for years, but I was hesitant to put myself out there in a completely new way. My small tipping point came one morning when I woke up and understood in a place inside deeper than my head that my longing to write the novel mattered more than my self-doubts.

I took a deep breath and began, and whenever the self-doubts came, I would return to my longing, which is where I found, and continue to find, what Plath called “the ongoing guts” to keep writing.

Sometimes listening to our longing will teach us everything.
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I had the privilege of working with women of different ages, beliefs, and the fruit of this work is coming soon!!

WHEN WOMEN COME TOGETHER

When women come together,
something magical happens.
It’s science, the mystical kind,
and it’s an unstoppable force,
to be reckoned with.

When women come together,
they connect,
on a deeper level,
both spiritually and cellularly.
Souls nodding in alignment, I see you.

Put women together for long enough
and their cycles will sync.
If that is not an example of the wondrous, connective majesty of womanhood,
what is my friend, what is?

When women come together,
an unseen wall is fashioned,
built from the wisdom of the breaks,
we have all endured,
and the passion to scream louder,
so that those beneath us can hear,
and need not suffer the same.

When women come together,
and tell their stories,
the good and the bad,
the power created is a tsunami of strength and intuition.
Washing us all on to better things.
A wave of majesty, wisdom and connection.

When women come together,
we are, quite frankly, intimidating.

So watch out for those will keep us apart.
They are afraid.

We are not.

Donna Ashworth

From my new book ‘LIFE’: https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Art by Autumn Skye

In honour of International Daughters Day….

WOMEN

In this life we women are many things,
mothers, sisters, wives, friends, carers.

We are creators,
we are nurture,
we are home.

But above all,
we women are the magic.
We are the intuition.
We are the product of generations,
who fought to be heard,
to be believed,
to be empowered.

And that runs very deep.

When women come together, magic happens my friend.

And those who tell you otherwise are afraid.

We are not.

So come together in all your glory today and every day.
Because you can,
because you must,
because you are called by deep-seated ancestry to do so.

And because, most of all, we hold up half the sky,

and our half must show the other

how to be.

Donna Ashworth
From my new book ‘LIFE’ ; https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Art by Celeste Yarnall