As some of you know, each full moon I make a dream board, set my intentions for the next 28 days and call on the magickal full moon ju-ju to help me to make them a big, beautifulreality.

Some months I share, some months I keep them right here, *I’m pointing to my heart right now* but this full moon seemed super-powerful, (I mean have you looked at it the last couple o’ nights? Bee-you-tiful.) so it felt right and proper that I share my intentions and invite you to do the same…

Tonight, light a candle, make yourself a yummy warm drink, put on your favourite soundtrack – right now I am totally in love stuff with Caro Emerald – arm yourself with a bundle o’ magazines (I love keeping it old skool and ripping out pictures and using paper and glue) or do like I did last night and use the Oprah dream board facility and then find words, phrases and pictures to set your big, beautiful, life-enhancing intentions. Keep it all in the present tense, keep it all positive and be sure to whisper sweet nothings to yourself as you do it – you’re awesome, remember?!

Then, when you’re finished, print it out and place it somewhere you’ll see it every single day, then g-friend, you gotta do the work. Make it happen, I dare you!

I’m excited. Y’see, I’m noticing a shift and g-friends, I like it.

While the hippy image of spirituality may remain in some circles, a plethora of up-and-coming women are giving ancient spiritual practices and beliefs a truly modern twist. Just look at my gorgeous gal-pals Alice Grist, Goddess Leonie and Stephanie Brookes, or the awesomeness that is Kay Gillard, or my brand-new girl-crush: Dianne Sylvan – spiritual girls with Sass.

Until recently, for most, the term spirituality conjured up images of floaty, tie-dye clothing, a diet of nuts and beans and people sitting crossed legged chanting om, but now, spirituality has gone a li’l more mainstream. Why? Because women especially, are finding that the things that usually make us feel better, like shopping, new shoes, a fab lipstick, or amazing sex aren’t quite hitting the spot and we’re now looking for the kind of spirit that’s not in the bottom of a cocktail glass.

That’s not to say that we don’t still want those things, far from it, we’ve just realised that there’s a little more to life than just that.

Does this sound like you? If so, you’re not alone.

Thousands of people are now reaching out for something else, something that will compliment and transform their lifestyle. We’ve been so caught up with the mundane of our day-to-day lives, that we’ve had precious little time to feed our souls and now our inner selves are in desperate need of spiritual nourishment.

Although as a tarot reader, healer and life coach AND a lover of all things gorgeous and sparkly, I struggled with this concept for a while. I study tarot, psychometry, divination, EFT, reiki and astrology, but while I love studying the stars, I also want to read about the celebrity star form in magazines, I never miss an episode o’ Strictly Come Dancing or X Factor and I really, really want to wear my gorgeous Vivienne Westwood heels as often as possible, even if it’s just to the local newsagent.

Does that make me any less spiritual? No.

Does that make me any less skilled at coaching clients or reading tarot? Hell to the no.

Can a trip to the Vivienne Westwood store be a spiritual event all of its own? Abso-freakin’-lutely.

I’ve encountered a li’l bit of, shall we say, ‘negativity’ about how I roll, but guess what? What other people think is none o’ my business. I’m a powerful, spiritual business woman who rocks a pair o’ heels, loves pretty shiny things and watches obscene amounts o ‘ reality TV, and I make no apologies for that. In fact, while we’re at it, I’ll let you into a li’l secret, I also watch Emmerdale. Whatcha gonna do?!

Do you want to embrace your SASSY? The Spiritual, Authentic, Sensual & Sensational You? Well you can with The SASSY Sessions. It’s all-encompassing coaching for women who want to flick their spiritual switch and become mistress of their own destiny. I read the cards to get an insight into any questions you’re currently having about your life – whether it’s body image, career, love, relationships, fears, hopes, family – and then combine coaching and a touch o’ magickal sass to help you create your very own blueprint for SASSY success. And, in case you were wondering, whether my sessions are carried out online, on the phone or in person, I always wear my heels, just because I can!

Ohhhh, I have a book you are going to fall head over Westwood heels in heart with. I loved it so much, I read it one deelish sitting, it’s called The 52 Seductions and is by blogger and girl o’ fabulousness, Betty Herbert. Basically, Betty and her husband Herbert remembered whimsically the days when they couldn’t keep their hands off each other, but then real-life happened, and their sub-duvet status was set to coitus interupputus indefinitely. Enter Betty and her challenge setting abilities. After a weekend of spontaneous sex, Betty and Herbert remember what they’ve been missing, and set themselves the task of spending a year seducing each other – ohhh la la! This book will have you laughing, nodding knowingly and pulling a cringe-y face at Betty’s total frankness and attention to detail as the couple explore their hopes, fears and disappointments and answer the burning question, ‘does monogamy really mean a lifetime of monotony in the bedroom?’ FYI: since I put the book down, the beau is now looking at me somewhat expectantly…

Come meet author-girl Betty Herbert, she’s rather fabulous.

Describe Betty Herbert in 5 words…
Delightful, funny, tall, excitable, hungry

52 seductions started as a blog, what made you start writing it?
Desperation! I really wanted to do something about our flagging sex life, and I knew from bitter experience that just trying to have more sex wouldn’t work. I invented the project because I really wanted to force us to think about what turned us on, and I decided to blog about it because I thought it would force us to stick to it.

It’s now a book o’ awesomeness, how do you feel about sharing your seductions with the world in book form?
Great! But it’s a weird feeling too – now it’s out in the world, I have no control over it. Unlike blogging, I can’t explain parts that people don’t understand, or add and extra bits when I feel something is missing. It’s a very disembodied experience to see it being talked about in the papers and on TV.

Out of the 52 seductions in the book, which was your most successful?
Ooh that’s a tough one! Different seductions were successful for different reasons. For example, the upside-down 69 made us laugh so much that didn’t matter I couldn’t do a headstand. And the final one was great because it felt like coming home – I could be honest about what would turn me on and not feel ashamed or shy.

And the worst?
There were plenty of those, too! Early morning sex sucked – and we’re still in dispute over whether Herbert fell asleep in the middle of it.

How does Herbert your husband feel about sharing his sexual exploits in this book?
I was really worried about it because he chose not to read the blog while it was being written – the first time he read it was when I’d completed the first draft of the book. But actually he loved it – he said afterwards, ‘I feel like you’ve written a book about how much you love me.’ I’m so grateful that he could see that – I was worried he’d fixate on the bad things and not see the overall good.

So what is the REAL truth about sex in a relationship, Betty? Can sex REALLY survive after the heady excitement of first date passion?
It can, but you have to work at it. For some couples, it comes naturally, but for most of us it’s about planning, organisation and commitment. Sounds boring, but it’s so worth it, because you reap the rewards in terms of communication and intimacy.

What’s next in the world o’ Betty? More sex? More books? Both?
Definitely both, although I don’t think I could face another year of seductions! I’m working on some ideas for new books now, but I’d quite like to write about our new project to make a baby next – I’ve already started blogging about it.

Quick fire round – what’s your favourite:
Shop: Daunt Books in Marylebone. A bookworm’s dream.
Make-up brand: I’m a Laura Mercier addict
City: Barcelona
Food: Spag Bol, but it has to be one I’ve cooked myself!
Quote: ‘Don’t wrestle with pigs. The pig enjoys it, and you get covered in shit.’
Motto for life: Get on with it.
Book: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke or L’Etranger by Albert Camus
TV programme: Currently, The Killing
Movie: When Harry Met Sally, of course!

Go visit Betty at: www.bettyherbert.com
And buy your copy of The 52 Seductions here!

I’m an obsess-o reader-girl and spend a lot of time reading inspirational lean-stuff-from books, but my big reading love is magical realism. I read a LOT of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joanne Harris, Francesca Lia Block and Louis de Bernieres, but this weekend I have re-discovered my most favourite book in this genre, Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.

This book is utterly beautiful. It’s a divine tale of unrequited love, the story of Tita De La Garza and the only man she will ever love, Pedro. Sigh. Sadly, Tita is the youngest daughter of four, which, according to Mexican tradition, means it’s her duty to stay at home and look after her mother until she dies. This means that Tita will never marry or have children. Pedro is desperate to still be around Tita, and consequently marries her older sister Rosaura, just so he can be close to her. What follows is a poignant, but turbulent tale of love, lust and families…

Like Water For Chocolate is laced with magic, humour and sumptuous Mexican cookery. Seriously, words cannot express how much I love this book. The descriptions of the food and drink are so divinely delicious, that they make Nigella sound like a bad-mouthed, lorry driver. They simply ooze through the pages, you can almost taste them- and I also particularly enjoyed how the *preparation* of the food was included so cleverly in the plot too, it was almost poetic at times and beautifully done. Believe me, I was desperate for some Mexican food after reading this and you will be too!

I’ve read this book about 6 times, and each time I am always sorry to see this story end. It is frivolous, fanciful and feminine, it looks at the connection between our emotions, the food we eat and the people closest to us. The author doesn’t hold back, the food is described almost as a living, mythical thing, and the process of making it is more like alchemy than cookery. Her principle is that in cooking a meal you have a venue through which your emotions are concentrated and expressed – Sadness, anger, jealousy, lust and of course, love, the ultimate goal. The recipes are mouthwatering, the characters are vivid and the atmosphere is intense and infectious.

Um…if you didn’t quite get it, I ADORE this book. You can buy it from my new Store O’ Sass – get me, I’m so swank.

I have a li’l crush on Guy Kawasaki.
He’s a super-big name in all things business-y, he’s a top Twitter star and yet, he seem like the kind o’ guy you could just sit down and have a nice cup o’ tea and a chat with. I like that in a man.

His new book, Enchantment,The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions has most definitely enchanted me. Did you see what I did there?

Now, without being a complete girl about this, the book was always going to be a success because quite frankly it has the prettiest cover I’ve seen on a personal development book in a whole lot o’ forever.
Guy KNOWS how to enchant people, it’s his thing. Which is why Enchantment is such an apt title. I mean, isn’t that what we all want to do on a daily basis? Enchant partners, the people we work with, people we meet – ourselves even?

As a business-girl, Enchantment is a must-read book as he proves that a cheer-leading, social-media fueled blend of creating a kick-ass product/service and enthusiasm, is ultimately about the art o’ persuasion. And to see it in action you only have to look at how Guy has created a buzz around this book – amazing.

Enchantment starts with making sure you are personally prepared to enchant people. As a Sorceress, this approach made me very happy – you’re not being deceptive, you’re making sure that you’re genuinely real for your clients and potential customers. The idea of putting people under your ’spell’ is an amazing one when it’s done in an honorable way. See how enchanting you are according to a test Guy created, check out this 23-question quiz. FYI: I scored 16 to 18: ‘You’re ready to change hearts, minds, and actions.’ Hurrah.

Have you ever read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie? Well Enchantment is like that, but it’s for the ‘now’ generation.
Us.
It’s about how to create a successful product AND a successful you. Which has got to be a good thing? Non?

Get your copy at: www.amazon.co.uk

This is such a touchy subject for me, so much so, that I’ve umm-ed and ahh-ed as to whether to actually write about it, but I can’t talk the talk, if I’m not willing to walk the walk, right?

So, here we go, my name’s Lisa and I emotionally eat.
I eat when I’m happy, I eat when I’m sad, I eat when I’m worried and I eat when I’m indifferent. What can I say? I eat.

We could go crazy-deep and look into the psychology of eating, because nothing is more telling than the language we use when we talk about food. Words concerned with loss, defeat, denial and deprivation become the pillars of our vocabulary. But I won’t.

My ‘food thing’ is bargaining. Mum’s tell their children: ‘Because you’ve been good today, you can have a sweet.’ Food then becomes tied in with our own personal reward system, and voila, unhealthy beliefs about eating are established. Getting chocolate as a reward puts a value on it that’s way higher than that of any actual brown food substance – it becomes acknowledgment, approval and even a pleasure and decadence that we should only allow ourselves on those rare occasions when we are being very good.

These beliefs stay with us – hello, I’m 32 and still play the ‘you can have a bar o’ chocolate if you write a 1,000 words.’ Yet, also now I’m a bit older, I’m beginning to associate being good with the denial of food too. My belief system is then adapted, so that I think I’m being good when I eat substantially less, but to reward myself, I eat. How messed-up is that?

This crazy relationship with food means that I never see food for the simple thing that it is, so that common wisdom of ‘just eat less’ feels practically impossible. It’s not, it’s just when you’re an emotional eater, it most deffo FEELS like it.

Which is why I’m taking steps to understand what motivates me to eat.

And this is where it gets interesting. Y’see, for many people it’s a sense of entitlement, that food is the one thing in their lives that they shouldn’t have to worry about. What complicates this further is that the food that people use for comfort, such as chocolate, increase the body’s natural feel-good neurotransmitter, seretonin.
Unfortunately, like most quick fixes, the delicious good stuff that comes from comfort eating is soon followed by a sense of guilt and feeling like a failure, which triggers low mood, which in turn triggers the need to comfort through eating.

Now, I may know all this, but how do we get our minds, as well as our stomachs, to agree to a healthier way of eating? And FYI, that’s what I’m working with here, healthy eating. I DO want to lose weight, but I am so done with diets and crazy weight-loss programmes, I want to nourish my body, and give it the goodness it needs to be the most kick-ass vessel that I get to rock out in.

Here’s the Sassy way forward…

Why are you doing it? Many people see weight loss as a means to getting other things that they want in life – a relationship, better job or even more self-confidence, so it’s important to ask yourself if losing weight will bring you those things or if there are other ways to obtain them. By pinning aspirations on a certain weight then, inevitably, if you fail to reach that weight you’ll feel that it’s impossible to reach your aspirations, too.

Remedies – now, I am happy to try all the the remedies available to help deal with emotional eating, and over the past 10 years probably have, but one that I’ve actually noticed a significant difference since using is the Bach™ Emotional Eating Kit. Now I SWEAR by my Bach™ Rescue Remedy in times o’ anxiety and worry, so was very excited about the Emotional Eating kit. Each one includes x3 10ml essences; Chestnut Bud, Crab Apple and Cherry Plum all of which help deal with different elements of emotional eating and help you to think and act more rationally when food is involved.

Depending on your own particular emotions, you may want to take one, two or all three of the essences contained in the set. Your feelings may vary from day to day so you can change your choices as you wish.

Two drops of each chosen essence may be taken directly from the bottle, four times a day. Alternatively, add two drops of each chosen essence to a glass of water. Sip from it as often as you want, but at least four times a day for longer-term issues. For convenience when taking several essences at once, add two drops of each chosen essence to an empty 30ml dropper bottle. Top up with mineral water, adding a teaspoonful of brandy or cider vinegar as a preservative if you wish. From this bottle take four drops at least four times a day.

This prod doesn’t claim to stop you eating emotionally but it’s definitely helping me to cope with the various feelings that affect my eating habits, and that’s deffo good enough for me! You can get it from Boots or Holland and Barratts.

Don’t go for the quick fix – The truth is that quick-fix diets rarely work and when they do they are so drastic that it’s hard to adhere to them for long. What really works is healthier eating and exercising throughout your life, not just for six or eight weeks or whatever the latest diets promise.

See it for what it is – a healthy lifestyle change, not something that will transform every aspect of your existence. Buy new clothes when you need them, make plans that you’ll enjoy at any size, validate yourself for the person you are today, not for the person that you hope to be in the future.

Make peace with food – Don’t see food as the enemy but, likewise, don’t see it as some divine experience either. Whether we have a weight problem or not, many of us see food as a form of comfort or reward. The only way to get around this is to strike a balance with regard to how we eat and how we think about food. On a mental level, don’t make that chocolate bar an object of dread or desire – it’s a snack. The more you can take the emotion out of food, the more successful you will be.

Because you’re worth it – A slab o’ chocolate may make you feel good in the short term, but it’s not addressing the real issue you are trying to deal with – you need a coping strategy other than food. Linking what you eat to how you feel about yourself only reinforces negative beliefs that centre on a conditional acceptance of who you are. Saying things such as ‘I’ve been a good girl because I’ve eaten only one piece of toast for breakfast’ sends the direct message that we should accept ourselves only if we are restricting our natural instincts. And this is counterproductive.

Our acceptance of who we are should be unconditional, not based on calorie intake or dress size.
It is only when this happens that we will be able to value ourselves enough to eat healthier and to lead a happier, more positive lifestyle.

I would love your thoughts, words o’ wisdom on this and I’ll be sure to keep you posted on my own healthy eating journey…

So, you know how much I heart my gorgeous gal-pal Goddess Leonie Allan, right? Well, a couple o’ years ago, she posted about her Things To Do This Life list, and well, it inspired me to write my own, it’s been in my journal, right next to a tarot card of the High Priestess for a while, but well…my other gal-pal Sarah Clark has created her Naughty Forty List, and as I’m on deadline to edit my book, Sassy Sorcery, it seems only right to procrastinate a li’l and share my list, add to my list and I’m going to keep it as a working document here on the site so I can cross off things I’ve actually achieved…I declare February 23rd Make a Life List Day – are you in?

The Sassy Sorceress’ Life List

1. Go to New York – Done. And plan on going a LOT more.
2. Move to Glastonbury
3. Own a pug called Frodo
4. Commit to the man I love – Done. I did this on the 3rd Feb 2011, outside the White Spring in Glastonbury. The beau and I swapped rings, blessed them with water from both the red and white springs – we also did a li’l smoochy-smooch too, natch.

5. Firewalk – Done. And plan to do it again in May 2011 with the beau – eep.
6. Travel across America with the beau in a pink Cadillac – I’ll be wearing a headscarf, natch.
7. Learn the qualities and powers of as many crystals as possible
8. Get my nipple pierced
9. Own a beautiful creative den in San Fran
10. Learn Italian
11. Perform burlesque
12.See the Northern Lights

13. Go to Iceland – Done. I LOVED it.

14. Write a book – Done. I’ve written 10 of my own, and 10 for other people – wohhhooo. Plan to write many more too.
15. Grow my own herbs
16.Stay in an Ice Hotel

17. Go to Paris – Done. Most magickal 4 days of my life spent with Miss Aimee.
18. Have a midnight picnic under the stars
19. Look into the eyes of the man I love and say *I do*

20. Get a half sleeve tattoo of my gypsy heritage – Done and ohmystars, I LOVE it.
21. Learn the stars and constellations
22. Paddle in the sea in December – Done. I did this in Dec 2010. Yemaya made me do it!
23. Drink Pink champagne in the bar at top of Harvey Nichols. – Done – to celebrate release o’ Think Pink.
24. Create my own set of oracle cards
25. Learn to Lindy Hop and Swing dance with the beau
26. Create a successful SASSY brand – with products, course, workshops and books – working on it!
27. Meet Emma Forrest
28. Create my own line of greeting cards and stationery
29. Dress like a rockabilly beauty and go to a weekender
30. Create a beautiful creative and spiritual sanctuary
31. Become a reiki master
32. Meet Francesca Lia Block
33. Run a Sassy retreat for women every summer
34. Stay in an ashram in India
35. Write for Soul and Spirit magazine – Done. And I still do!
36. Give birth
37. create without fear – working on it!
38. stay in an airstream caravan
39. own a cupcake/bookshop
40. make my own pasties
41. sing in public
42. Help girls and women to love themselves and become divas of their destinies
43. become a tattoo-ed domestic goddess – Done. I can cook at least five meals and bake the best cookies you’ll ever taste.
44. Make Paloma Faith my BFF.
45. Be grateful every day for everything I have – I do this every morning, because I am. VERY grateful.
46. To be able to fit into a Marc Jacobs dress. Not done, but I hear he’s doing a plus size range which will mean I WILL be able to fit into one of his creations – hurrah.
47. To immerse in a spring naked – Done. Did it August 2010 in the White Springs, Glastonbury – best experience of my life s’far.

48. To fall head over kitten heels in love with a man who would be my partner for life – I wrote that in 2009, and in August 2010, I met the beau. He is ABSOLUTELY the man I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.
49. To be a healthy, fit size 16. – Working at it.
50. Kiss in the rain. Done. And Plan to do it a lot more in the future.

I need to put it out there, I love Emma Forrest.

After reading her debut novel, Namedropper, my life changed a little bit forever. Since reading her other heart-hurt-y, honest and beautifully crafted books, Thin Skin and Cherries in the Snow, I’ve come to realise that this is what happens when you read her books. It’s just the way it is.

On the cover quote of Emma’s new book, Your Voice in My Head, author, Elizabeth Gilbert says “Emma Forrest craft’s the living daylights out of every sentence” and damn, she’s right. Her words weave their way into my soul and I literally crave her books like I crave chocolate. I emailed her once to tell her this and she mailed me back in an email titled ‘Lovely Miss Pink’.

As a writer-girl I should have the vocabulary necessary to share with you how much this book moves me, makes me laugh, makes me feel incredibly uncomfy, makes me shed tears and once again, how it’s changed me. Except, I’m not sure I’d know where to start. In fact, I’m struggling. It’s easy to write a bad review, there are a million words to describe how bad something can be, yet when it comes to writing a good review it’s much, much harder, mainly because I don’t know how to say ‘this book is f**king awesome’ in a more articulate way.

Your Voice in my Head has the potential to be one of those misery memoirs, but it’s not. It’s far from it. Yes, it’s a tale of loss, heartbreak, bulimia and suicide attempts, and I can’t promise it won’t make you feel really uncomfy in places, but underneath it all is hope. Of how she managed to resist drowning in her own insanity.

I also love how she tells of her most important relationships: with her family, with Dr R – the therapist who was her absolute lifeline and the actor who she fell deeply in love with and calls her Gypsy Husband. She lost both men: Dr R died and ‘GH’ ended their apparently idyllic relationship rather abruptly.

Emma is intense, precocious and a li’l bit messy and she writes as if the act of writing itself is her life buoy in a big angry sea that is threatening to swallow her up, and maybe it is, because this book is a survivor’s story. I read it in one sitting and through her word-weaving and strangely odd yet gorgeous and lovely stories you root for her. Really you do. I wanted to, and still do, take GH aside and shake him, hard. ‘Can’t you see how much you love her? Go back. Try harder.’

Yep. I ADORED this book. My beau rang me just as I was reading the last page and I was crying. Big fat salty tears. In public. And a day later I’m still thinking about every word.

Like I say, this book is f**king awesome.

As much as I’d like to say that this has been just another Magic Monday, it hasn’t.

I know, I know. I’m meant to be the Queen o’ Sass and most o’ the time, I am. In fact, if you were to ask the beau, he’ll tell you that I even do moody/grumpy/antsy with a teeny, tiny element o’ sass. It’s just that sometimes, on days like today, I wobble.

And do you know what, that’s totally okay. We’re not perfect. I’m deffo not perfect. Yet, we spend so much time trying to be through fear of upsetting people, not meeting the expectation of others, not being good enough – when actually, all we really need to do is give ourselves permission to be absolutely, positively, beautifully imperfect. To have flaws. To feel a li’l insecure and anxious at times. To feel lost. To wobble. In fact, I’m going to make a permission slip for us all to do all of the above, but on one condition. we are only allowed to do all of those things, as long as deep, deep down in our big beautiful hearts and super-sweet souls, we know we’re freakin’ awesome.

Deal?

Now I know that you might not feel the awesomeness mid-wobble, I didn’t today, that’s fo’ sho’. But I did have a moment, where I thought – ‘g-friend, you need to check yo’self, before you wreck yourself’ and yes, before you ask, I did say it in my best gangsta-girl drawl. Because, as I tried to deal with my anxious, antsy and other not-nice words beginning with A ways, I had to remind myself that I haven’t chosen the easy option.
That in itself makes me awesome, I could totes of taken the easy option.

And not choosing the easy option means that sometimes things will get a li’l tough, and yep, maybe a li’l icky too, but I chose this. Therefore I am awesome.

I won’t bore you with the content o’ the wobble – it was a bunch o’ old tracks on the mp3 player o’ my life that seem to be stuck on repeat and need switching up, pronto – what’s important is, that we allow those feelings to just be. Being a life coach, I’m very quick to be super-harsh on myself. As soon as I woke up this morning I could feel the grey cloud o’ glum resting on my pillow above my head, where the rainbows and unicorns usually sit. And before I even had chance to wallow in the murky ick, I was self-coaching: ‘Lisa, feel where those feelings are for you in your body… now what do you think they really mean? Are they your truth? Or are they a racket that you’re creating?’ which, FYI, are all totally valid questions, but Jeez Louise, if you’re feeling shit, feel shit. If you’re feeling jealous. Feel that green eyed monster coarse through your veins. Whatever your ‘wobble’ is about, let it be. Not for a long period o’ time, I tried to shh mine by listening to Alfie Boe, ‘cept that made me make eyewater. A lot. On public transport. Which then broke down. (The public transport, not me.)

My point is, allow. Give yourself permission to be you. In whatever form that comes in.
Now, I know that I AM kick-ass. I AM fabulous with a remarkable ability to accessorise. I DO wear heels in the snow. I AM inspiring. I DO write books that make girls feel better about themselves. I AM a great life-coach. I AM an artist.
These positive life-affirming statements are at my core.

but these statements are also true o’ me… I DO like chocolate which means I have a chubby tummy. I DO worry. I DO get anxious. I DO cry at LEAST once a week. I DO feel out of my depth sometimes. I DO fret. I AM afraid o’ the dark – literally and metaphorically. I DO love to scream into a pillow.

ALL of these statements are true. It’s just that sometimes – mid-wobble – the bottom statements can become a li’l too big and out-o’-shape and make me feel like I’ve failed at the top statements. This, of course, isn’t the case AT ALL. The fact I fret, doesn’t cancel out my abilities as a coach, nor does my fear of the dark make me any less fabulous, they all just combine to make me the beautifully imperfect Sassy Sorceress that I am.

It’s just that when you allow, you can then start to put your wobbly, out-o’-whack thoughts into some sort of order that actually make sense, shed a li’l perspective on the matter. Personally, I can’t do this alone – I need beau and besties, but if you don’t want to talk about it out loud, make a date with your journal and write and write and then write some more…

So, back to my choice. Yep, it was hard. It’ll continue to be hard – long term it’ll be AMAZING – but right now, it’s freaking hard. Not like when the beau asked me to move in with him – getting to spend more time with hot boy who I heart? That was easy. No, this will deffo be hard, but that’s okay because in every choice we make, we choose who we are. And I chose to be awesomely imperfect.

What do you choose?

EXCITING NEWS! Today sees the launch o’ the too-fabulous-for-words School o’ Sassy Arts.

Yep, after much arm-twisting, I have combined my life-coaching skillz with a whole lot o’ magickal chutzpah to create affordable e-courses that will make your life significantly sweeter! Cool, non?

I’m ringing the school bell and kicking off classes with Rock your Sass – an e-course for grown-up girls, y’know, the Sassy kind. Obv.

Rock your Sass is an 8-week e-Course for grown-up girls packed with juicy, juicy exercises that will help you to: channel your inner goddess, love what you see in the mirror, create awesomeness on an epic scale and become the most kick-ass version of you that you can possibly be. There are invocations, visualisations, mantras and journalling prompts – because seriously, a Sass girl is deffo a journo-keeping girl. Fact. You’ll get gentle nudges to push you out of that comfy place, a hand-to-hold while you shine a torch in the icky shadows where fear and doubt lurk, and a support network of fellow Sass-girls to share it all with…plus the whole course will be sprinkled with my very own glitter-filled brand o’ Sassy magick to add a li’l extra sparkle to the whole occasion!

The idea is to take your very own roadtrip o’ self-discovery alongside like-minded, goddess-girls who want to become feisty, capable and kick-ass…Sounds pretty awesome, non?

This course will kick off on February 2nd, 2011, Sassy-fication in the form of a PDF file will fill your inbox with glitter-filled love each week, you’ll have insta-access to the Sassy Minx’s coaching prowess, that’s me btw, and you’ll have the space to chat and share your experiences with your fellow partners in all things Sass…

Everyone deserves the opportunity to come splash around in the bubble bath o’ Sassy-fication, which is why I’m offering this 8 week course o’ fabulousness at the very special launch price of £55 – I have limited spaces available, so what are waiting for? Email me at: lisa.sassyminx@gmail.com to book your place NOW!

Let 2011 be the year that you Rock Your Sass…

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