Life isn’t always easy, is it? We get tripped up, tired out, over-committed, afraid.

That’s when we need to pull our communities and our stories around us like a warm blanket and let them draw out of us the strength and power that we all have, deep inside.

A great new e-course

Which is why I’m delighted to be a contributor to a new six-week e-course that Rachelle Mee-Chapman is launching at Magpie Girl on 13th September. It’s called Power Stories: tips and tales for standing in your own power.  Here’s the first part of Rachelle’s description of her course:

“Standing in your own power” is a phrase I use to describe a certain way of be-ing that involves listening to your intuition and following your gut. Too often, these things are programmed out of us by social norms and well-meaning institutions.

This course is designed to help you tap into your intuitive source of guidance; and to shut down noisy interlopers. As a result you will move through life from a place of powerful internal authority.

Learning to STAND results in:

  • a strong sense of direction about personal relationships
  • confident, “right fit” work decisions
  • the strength to live into your own spiritual or religious beliefs
  • a life that feels stable and energized – not timid and depleted.

Sounds just right, doesn’t it?

Now in the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that if you book a space on Power Stories using the link in my sidebar to the right, I get a financial reward. But I would not recommend anything to you unless I believed in it, and I’ll be joining in the first Power Stories course myself.

You can read more about the course and the contributors at Magpie Girl: just click here.

Interview with Magpie Girl

Rachelle

Here’s an interview with Rachelle about her course. And keep reading to get to an exciting offer at the end of this post.

  1. What inspired you to develop and offer your readers this course? My post *8Things I know about Standing in Your Own Power really resonated with Magpie Girl readers, and people emailed me asking for more information and advice.  I’m always excited by topics that emerge organically from the community. So I created more material around the topic, since it was such a felt need.  Many women struggle with standing in the truth of who they are.  Institutions, male influence, cultural images of “ideal” women – all these can push us around. Yet my young daughters, ages 10 and 12, intuitively stand in their own power. This tells me we aren’t meant to shrink and hide ourselves. I believe we can recover the ability to be powerful.
  2. How did you decide what other voices to bring into the class and what do you think the diversity of voices brings to the course? Because learning to stand in my own power is a growing-edge for me, I wanted to recruit partners in the process. I thought of women who just hum with power, confidence, and kindness; and invited them to participate in the course. The lessons I received back from them were incredible! Having so many voices in our teaching pool helps us learn from a wide range of life experience – gay/straight/bi, married/divorced/single; child-free/mothers, 30/40/50 – there are so many perspectives amongst the contributors; it’s bound to meet the needs of far more people than my voice alone could impact.
  3. Do you have a favorite aspect of the Power Stories? I’m really pleased that it has collection of learning tools – essays, podcasts, videos, and worksheets.  That variety makes it very textured and accessible. And I love how communal it is – both that the idea for the course emerged out of the Magpie Girl community, and that it is led by a collection of amazing teachers. Plus I get a kick out of some of the downloadable treats my design partner is cooking up!
  4. How does Power Stories tie into the other work you do on Magpie Girl, and Flock ? At Magpie Girl I provide care for creative souls. At Flock we are building an online soultribe for spiritual misfits. Power Stories offers a skill-set that both communities need. Magpies need to stand in their own power to develop their artistic voice and to make room for creative pursuits. Flock members need a deep-rooted stance to support them as they re-define faith and spiritual practice in their own powerful terms.
  5. How will the course fit into busy lives? You can read each lesson in Power Stories (or do each worksheet) as they arrive in your email box every couple of days. Or you can save them up and give yourself a bunch soulcare goodness on a self-styled weekend retreat. It’s up to you. Plus, I’m sort of a lackadaisical minimalist. I like a nice turn of phrase, but I don’t want to read filler. So each piece of material is honed to be beautifully to the point.

An offer you can’t refuse

Rachelle’s course will normally cost $100 (£65) for the six weeks, which seems like a pretty good deal to me, given all that’s included. And I’m really excited to say that I have two spaces on the course to give away for free. Nada. Nothing. If you want to be one of two lucky readers to get this six-week shot of strength and wisdom for absolutely nothing, leave a comment on this post or email me and I’ll pick names out of the hat next Sunday, 5th August.

Elsewhere:

While we’re talking about strength, you might want to take a look at a post called What Do You Want to Look Like. Not what I normally talk about here, but I love clothes. Although I think slavish fashion victims are pathetic, it’s easy to underestimate what our appearance says about us. Don’t compromise. Look the way you want to look.

Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

{ 6 comments }

Counting time

August 16, 2010

I was thinking about money the other day. To explain: I currently work as an interim human resources project manager, taking on a series of short-term contracts. I just started a new nine-month contract, which is quite a long-term deal for me, a longer commitment than I ideally like. But as anyone who works freelance [...]

Read the full article →

Do we all inhabit the same world?

August 7, 2010

I remember reading about the separate worlds we inhabit in Richard Bach’s book Illusions: …You live in the same world, do you, as a stockbroker, shall we say? Your life has just been all tumbled and changed, I presume, by the new SEC policy… You live in the same world as a tournament chess player, [...]

Read the full article →

Service, slow or not?

July 31, 2010

In the small corner of the provincial English town in which I currently live, there’s a local post office. It closes for lunch each day, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays it closes for the entire afternoon. I find this intensely irritating. It inconveniences me and it goes against all modern ideas of business as a [...]

Read the full article →

Ten films I love

July 14, 2010

Well what a delight, Sue at Discombobula has been kind enough to pass on to me the I Love Your Blog award! I’m very grateful and am in pretty august company. The idea is to list ten things that you love, and pass on the award. Check out Sue’s post here where she lists her [...]

Read the full article →

Sacred Messiness

July 9, 2010

I’m delighted today to publish a guest post by Marian Van Eyk McCain, editor of a new book GreenSpirit, Path to a New Consciousness. Marian has long been one of my favourite writers and I was happy to meet her in real life a few weeks ago and spend time in her beautiful corner of [...]

Read the full article →

How obedient are you?

July 7, 2010

see more Lolcats and funny pictures Obedience is an old-fashioned and emotive word, isn’t it? Memories of childhood and school. Makes me want to yell “SHAN’T” at the top of my voice! It’s one of the three vows Benedictine monastics take. I’d love to know how you react to the word and the concept. What [...]

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Read the full article →