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    November 16th, 2011lisaBeauty Queen

    I haven’t done one of these for ages, and after reading The Beauty Belle, it made me allsorts o’ happy so feeling a li’l frivolous and superflous, I’ve filled it in too…

    Makeup!
    Blush or Bronzer? Blush. I’m Kelly O pale, so bronzer is NOT for this english-rose-y complexion.
    Lipgloss or Lipstick? Ohhh, that’s hard. Right now, I’m a li’l obsess-o by MAC and Illamasqua lipsticks. Sigh.
    Eyeliner or Mascara? Eyeliner. Mainly because I wear eyelash extensions so don’t need mascara – they put me in a time-saving happy place. I use rimmel black eyeliner. LOVE it.
    Foundation or Concealer? Concealer. ALWAYS concealer. Thank the Goddess for Benefit.
    Neutral or Coloured Eyeshadow? Colours. I am not a neutral kinda girl.
    Pressed or Loose Eyeshadow? Pressed. Mainly, because if it’s not it will end up on cheeks, dresses and generally everywhere apart from my eyes.
    Brushes or Sponges? Brushes. I’m no make-up artist, but sponges just aren’t proper.

    Nails!
    Long or Short? I keep them short, but if I could grow them, I’d LOVE long nails.
    Acrylic or Natural? Natural. I’ve worn acrylics and they look lush, but I can’t keep up with the maintenance of it all, so instead I just paint them. Every day. Hot pink usually.
    Brights or Darks? Brights. Darks show up every mistake, and this girl o’ SASS does not have a steady hand!

    Body!
    Perfume or Body Splash? Perfume. Mainly because I don’t entirely know what body splash is?
    Lotion or Body Butter? Lotion if I’m short o’ time, body butter after a bath.
    Body Wash or Soap? Soap. Lush soap. Deelish.

    Fashion!
    Jeans or Sweat Pants? sweat pants. I don’t own ANY trousers apart from my gym pants. Just call me Dita Von Teese!
    Long Sleeve or Short? Short sleeves. I love an excuse to show off my ink.
    Dresses or Skirts? Dresses. Always.
    Stripes or Plaid? Neither particularly rock my world.
    Flip Flops or Sandals? Flip flops. I’m still wearing mine in November, only to the shop, but I’m still wearing them!
    Scarves or Hats? Oh I do love a hat and have a particular penchant for a beret. Oh la la.
    Studs or Dangly Earrings? Ohhh, I love ANY excuse to work the Pat Butcher look. The bigger the better.
    Cowboy Boots or Riding Boots? Um…motorcycle boots?!
    Jacket or Hoodie? I’m not going to lie, I DO love a hoodie. Comfort wins out.

    Hair!
    Curly or Straight? Straight. I have NOT got a face for curls.
    Bun or Ponytail? Ponytail and when I have enough hair, a high ponytail that swings when I walk.
    Bobby Pins or Butterfly Clips? Bobby Pins. Finally the bob is long enough for Victory rolls and other such pin-up goodness – hurrah!
    Hair Spray or Gel? Hair Spray. Gel is soo…well, 80’s innit?
    Long or Short? Oooh tough. Long. I’ve been working a bob for long enough, I want vixen-length hair. Hurry up, already!
    Light or Dark? Dark. Brunettes rule the world. Fact.
    Side-swept Bangs or Full Bangs? Full Bettie Paige-esque bangs. Always.
    Up or Down? I am a lazy moo, so up. With a floral accessory of some description.

    Random!
    Rain or Shine? Rain. I love the rain, but I do love winter sunshine, it throws a very nice, uber-flattering light on the world…
    Summer or Winter? Winter. The summer is no friend o’ mine.
    Fall or Spring? Fall is by far my most favourite season o’ all, mainly because it’s my birthday, but the colours are pretty, the light is gorgeous and did I mention it was my birthday…I did? Oh.
    Chocolate or Vanilla? I am a choc-girl fiend, so chocolate it is.

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    November 16th, 2011lisaBeauty Queen, Prod Love

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    I have been dying my ‘do for at least 15 years now, and the only way I’ve found NOT to stain towels and the bathroom is to do it topless, perched on the edge o’ the bath – classy, eh? – and despite that, I STILL manage to get a splodge of total-not-shifting dye on my personage which is why I’m now doing star-jumps o’ joy ’bout the Tie Towel.
    Enter the Tie Towel.

    Designed by style-dude to the celebs, John Woods MBE , the Tie Towel is totally bleach and tint resistant, perfectly sculpted to fit the neck (so there’s nowhere for the dye to escape underneath and onto your skin – yep, I’ve been there too g-friend!) and features a toggle to keep the towel securely in place until your dye job is done – hurrah!

    Now, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting too much from the Tie Towel. BB contestant, Louise manages to make it look hot in the ad campaign for deffo, but could it get me through one dye-job stain free and without ruining my entire towel collection in the process? Turns out the answer is a resounding, big fat YES!
    For real. It’s light, and you don’t have to worry about it falling off while you’re applying dye because the toggle ACTUALLY works and keeps it fixed in place – hurrah!
    Of course I had a few spills, what can I say? I’m a messy-girl, but because this towel o’ awesomeness is bleach and tint-resistant, if you use it to wipe away the spills, you can simply pop it in the washing machine and it’ll be as good as new in one cycle – double hurrah!

    Seriously, you could try and argue that a towel tied round my neck will do just the same job, and feel free, but I will not listen, because I will be too busy being stain-free, with a airing cupboard filled with stain-free towels, which makes me VERY happy, k?!

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    The Tie Towel is available from Asda, Boots and Superdrug for £9.99 – if you’re a regular dye-girl, it’s a deffo SASSY must-have.

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    November 11th, 2011lisaInner Minx

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    Now as you know, I’m one of those woo-woo types, so today, as I do at every full moon, I’m channeling the ju-ju, but I didn’t altogether understand too much about all this 11.11.11 malarky, so I’ve done a li’l research, and basically it seems the deets are unimportant, what IS important is that it’s an opportunity for us to begin afresh, individually and collectively, which makes it a perfect-o day, and weekend, for focusing on where, and how, you want your road trip of life awesomeness to go from here.

    So I got to thinking, how fun would it be to offer up a SASSY tarot reading for the purse-friendly sum of £11.11!

    Book your reading today, I’ll send you a paypal invoice, you’ll let me know what questions you’d like me to ask the cards, and I’ll use this weekend o’ special wipe-the-slate-clean and get-focused energy to help you point the compass, turn the map the right way round and set you safely on the road to Destination Awesome – woohhooo!

    To book your reading, email me at: lisa.sassysorceress@gmail.com – offer ends midnight on November 13th 2011.

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    November 11th, 2011lisaHead Over Heels


    Well, are you? Is it a question that you’ve ever stopped to ask yourself? Am I being kind? This book, Am I Being Kind, by Michael J Chase kinda stopped me in my tracks because I like to think o’ myself as a kind and caring girl, in the world, yet I’d never actually asked the question.

    Do it now.

    I’m a li’l bit in love with this book. If you ask my mumma, she’ll be sure to tell you about my obsess-o need to make the world a better place as a kid. I’d pick up litter – I was like a freakin’ womble – I’d nag incessantly not to use aerosols as I didn’t want the ozone layer to get bigger, I was a kid possessed, then I became a teen, felt an unhealthy need to fit-in and got caught up in the joys o’ consumerism, but as an adult I’m slowly returning to my planet obsessed childhood. I may not dress like a hippy and wear patchouli oil (although I do love it) but I very much have a hippy heart. We simply MUST be more kind. To ourselves, to others, and to the planet. Kindness is like a magickal ju-ju that creates love stuff in abundance, it’s like the gift that keeps giving and giving – what’s not to love about that?

    This book is a huge helping o’ awesome sauce. The author, Michael J Chase shares his slightly harrowing personal story, including abuse and attempted suicide and shares why at the age of 37, following a life-changing epiphany, Michael ended an award winning photography career to found The Kindness Center. what motivates him to be kind to others, and his need to spread the word. He believes that the key to happiness and living a great life is about being o’ service to others. High fives to that, MC!

    Kindness is the key to happiness – but with all the pressures of work, finances, relationships, parenting and health issues, living a kind-hearted life isn’t always easy. Inspired by the Dailai Lama’s philosophy that “world peace must develop out of inner peace” Am I Being Kind shows you how by simply asking yourself ‘am I being kind?’ you can change your life, and the lives of those around you.
    Am I Being Kind is being published to coincide with UK Kindness Day on the 13 November 2011, and gives simple lessons that anyone can implement!

    UK Kindness Day encourages everyone to perform at least one act of kindness or a good deed – cool, huh?! After all, kindness is free to do and we all know that it really can make you feel good!

    For more information about the day you can visit: www.kindnessdayuk.com

    Buy your copy of Am I Being Kind by Michael J Chase at the Store o’ Sass – it’s really rather fabulous!

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    So, I’ve been given a gentle nudge by a few minxettes to update y’all on my weight release journey that I started earlier this year…

    Now I’m nothing if not honest, so here’s the deal.

    Firstly, I got complacent.

    I’d released 56lb – hurrah – and thought to myself, do you know what? I can take a break now, surely? The doctor was pleased with me, I was feeling lighter and brighter in myself and I deserved some time out, right? Wrong.

    Y’see, while the releasing weight bit was actually do-able, the head and heart stuff? Well that’s a whole other plate o’ food…

    I might of released some weight-age, but what I hadn’t done, was change up my story. Y’see, when your story remains the same, yet you try and change up your behaviour, life falls out o’ whack. Now, as a life coach and girl who helps others to transform and grow, I felt a bit o’ a failure. Why hadn’t I realised that to shed the poundage for good, I had to change my thinking, my programmed beliefs about food and my body? Thing is I had realised, it’s just that, well…that shit’s hard work.

    Now, I’m not afraid o’ hard work, not at all, in fact I thrive on it, but when it involves having to do some digging into the deep, dark shadow-y stuff that I’ve spent a substantial part o’ my life trying to keep locked away, well, that’s crazy hard. So for a few months, I ignored it, but when, like me, your weapon o’ mass-self-destruction in life has been self-sabotage, you’ll know that, unless you put down your weapons and make self-love your weapon o’ choice indefinitely, you’ll start to hear the whisper o’ seductive self-sabotage-y-ness in your ear. Now, I know ALL about self-love, I’ve written books on it, yet, it still feels like something I dabble in. I LOVE the skin I’m in, yet I still seem to struggle with feeling worthy enough to be healthy and happy in the world, which is why it’s words o’ sabatoge-y-ness were sounding a li’l something like this:
    “You don’t think you can actually be a size 14, do you?”
    “You might as well eat a chocolate bar, because this healthier happier you isn’t really you, is it? It’s not like it’s going to last, is it?”
    “You’re from a council estate, what makes you think you can be someone who’ll be able to eat organically and nutritionally, who do you think you are?

    I slowly felt myself slipping back into my old attitude of despair, thinking I had absolutely no choice but to accept defeat, give up on myself. Then, something clicked. I was standing in front of the mirror and I made a decision.
    “I am not accepting this. I am no longer playing at this level now, I’m healthy and happy, and I want more of it.”
    So I did ‘the work’.

    In fact, I’m still doing ‘the work’ and I’m thinking that I’ll always be doing ‘the work’.

    Some of my belief systems around how worthy I am o’ success and happiness are so hard-wired and need a LOT of work, but that’s okay, because I’m a girl o’ SASS – Spiritual, Authentic, Sensual & Sensational – and girls o’ SASS know how to lock and load their awesomeness to make amazing things happen. Fact.

    So, I’m now locking and loading. I gained 11 of those 56lb during the self-sabotage-y wobble (I’ll be writing more about what to do when your weapon o’ mass self-esteem destruction is self-sabotage next week) and I still have 3 stone-age to release to make the doctor types happy and to substantially ease the Endrometriosis, but I’m on it. I’m eating yummy, healthy nutritious food, I’m reading lots of books about emotional eating and transforming thoughts, learning all about how to eat to balance my hormones which’ll aid healing my Endrometriosis, and swimming, belly-dancing and burlesque-ing, I am a girl o’ SASS after all!

    EXCITING NEWS: Sassy Minx is soon to get a swanky new look to coincide with the launch of my brand new book series, SASSYology, to make sure you don’t miss out on all the updates, news and most importantly, freebies, go ‘like’ Sassyology over at FB and ‘follow’ me, I’m Misssassyology, on twitter!

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    November 8th, 2011lisaGirls On Top

    9780670918805I am in book-reading bliss right now.

    I never usually blog about a book ’til I’ve finished it, but this one is so good, I HAVE to tell you about it now. When I put it down, the characters call me back ‘…but wait Lisa, I’ve got more words of heart thumping beauty to share with you…’ I’ve got a gazillion deadlines, yet while I try to edit, create a brand bible and re-name a product, all I can do is think about the what’s happening within those pages, what are they doing without me? I keep giving myself ten minute breaks to go hang out with them and find out more, but I don’t want it to end either.

    I discovered this book o’ wonder on Saturday on my first trip to Totnes. Have you ever been? It’s now my most favourite of places, I adored it. On arrival, the beau and I passed a man giving gong showers outside this most deliciously cute esoteric book store – if I had needed a reason to fall in love with the place ( I didn’t, I was instantly smitten) then this was most deffo it. This book was waiting for me on the shelf as soon as I walked in, and I felt an insta-heart tug. I’m not the only one that gets these over books, am I?

    Just so you know I am a Rumi obsessive, and hold his poems personally responsible for my love of all things…well, love. This book, The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak shares the story of Rumi sewn together exquisitely with the contemporary storyline of Ella who has truly forgotten what it is to love and to be loved. The book, that’s been translated from Turkish, gives real insight into Rumi, his friendship with Shams, the mystical magic of Sufism and the most beautiful, beautiful rules o’ life and love. Sigh.

    It’s clever, it’s beautifully written – lyrical almost – and it makes my heart sigh the biggest sigh of happiness. Now, if you don’t mind, I need to go finish reading it, erm…I mean work.

    The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak – buy your copy here – you won’t regret it, it’s like a beautifully woven tapestry of words and love and wonder. Sigh.

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    October 23rd, 2011lisaStrawberry Sunday

    Yep, it’s that time again…bring on the strawberries. Those juicy, juicy life moments that make you super-grateful and full o’ gratitude-y love stuff!

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    my kindle
    What can I say? I am a bad book-o-phile. I am now the proud owner o’ a kindle. And well…I’m a little bit in love. Actually, scrap that, I am in all kinds o’ big crazy love with it. It was an early birthday present from my parental – thanks mumma – and it’s literally changed my life. (And stopped one shoulder from hanging substantially lower than the other due to my obsess-o need to always have at least five different books in my bag at ALL times) It’s been a week and I am still totally blown away that right now, in my cute mini-satchel, I have over 350 books. Don’t worry, I still have huge love for real books, NOTHING will ever beat the feel or smell of a real book in my hands, but for a travel-girl like me, a kindle is most deffo a thing o’ beauty. FYI: I’m currently reading The Andy Warhol Diaries and JZ’s autobiography, decoded – both are acecakes.

    My fam
    I spent Friday night at a party for my Auntie Beryl. She’s been diagnosed with motor neuron disease, and while I don’t know exactly what it is, I know it’s not good, yet she rocked out like the super inspirational lady that she is, and as a fam we celebrated, made beautiful memories together and also raised lots o’ money to buy her the medical equipment she’s going to need pretty soon. In the past, I’ve totally taken my family for granted, right now, today though, I am so full o’ gratitude that they’re mine…

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    My pregnacious bestie
    I am beside myself with excitement as my beautiful bestie, Miss Aimz is glowing with all things pregnacious and pretty soon we will have a mini Mister or Miss to hang with. No one knows how life is going to pan out, not even me and my Diva o’ Destiny super-powers, this time last year I was prepping to lose her to the sunny climes o’ Australia and this year, we’re prepping for the birth of her beautiful bambino. I am so crazy proud o’ her and means I get to have a gorgeous bouncy bubba in my world without having to go through the whole pregnacious 9 months business – win win!

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    Inspir-o people

    I am loving the whole connection thing that’s going on for me right now, I meet a person through chance circumstance, who introduces me to another, who then goes on to inspire or motivate me in a certain way, it’s the most beautiful game o’ connect the dots and I love it! I also got to spend time with the beautiful Lyndsey Inspired, (with a name like that, she’s deffo someone you want to know, right?) And we walked and talked, and walked and talked some more in a beautiful locale in the middle of the New Forrest and then went on a green tea crawl, ending the day with a sparkling water, I know, get us, positively angelic! After spending the day with her, I felt awesome. As in ‘I can do anything’ awesome. It’s encouraged me to be that ‘make you feel awesome’ person to others, it’s like a be awesome game of pay it forward.

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    Birthday Roadtrips
    The beau and I have birthdays two weeks apart so have decided to pretty much stretch our celebrations across the entire two weeks, because let’s face it, you can never have too many celebrations, right? This week we’ve had picnics on the beach and cinema trips – Three Muskeeters, LOVED it – next week we’re gathering up the beau’s fam and going to see my most favourite musical EVER, Wicked, celebrating Samhain with our beautiful besties in Glastonbury and then heading down the West Coast for a magickal mystery roadtrip – culminating with the beau and I eating salmon out the packet, with a glass o’ pink fizz, on a windy west coast beach on my birthday morning – what could be better than that, huh?!

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    Laqa & co. nail polish pen
    Superfluous? yes. Does it make me happy? Abso-freakin’-lutely! After seeing the gorgeous Miss Aimz last week, she gave me my b-day present early and along with a bag o’ jelly beans – yummo – was this stick o’ loveliness. A nail polish pen. It’s great for those o’ you, who like me, have trubz painting your own nails, these pens let you neatly do your nails anywhere without being messy. It contains no formaldehyde, toluene, or DHP either and the packaging features unique artwork by young artists from around the world. I am a little bit in love with their philosophy and stylin’ too. Laqa & co is deffo a brand-new fave in my world o’ sass. Fact.

    What are you grateful for this week? What are your strawberries?

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    October 20th, 2011lisaInner Minx

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    Do you ever get a gut feeling about something? Do you act on it, or simply just ignore it? As members o’ girlkind we all have a huge-ass gift, it’s called intuition, and if we let it, it can help guide us in the path o’ awesomeness.

    Enter Barbara Ford Hammond.

    Her book, The Psychic Way is filled with the techniques that Barbara demonstrates and teaches during her retreats and workshops, that were developed as a fun way to meld the esoteric with the corporate. Barbara shows how to understand your mind using hypnotic meditative techniques that lead naturally to expansion of self-awareness and inner abilities are switched on in a fun easy manner. The Psychic Way is everything you need to know about being super-intuitive plus how to use the knowledge for pleasure or to ensure success in business – pretty cool, huh?

    Come meet her, she rocks.

    Describe Barbara Ford Hammond in a tweet…
    Lover of life. Opinionated. Kind. Transient. Can manage to write or tweet to exact word count whether writing sensibly or talking nonsense.

    You are author o’ brand new book The Psychic Way - can you tell us a bit about it and why you wrote it?
    It led on from my psychic development salons. I thought it would be good to have everything we did, available in a book and then if people choose, they can work through the exercises alone or in groups.

    I am keen to normalise psychic related happenings and keep it real. Pleased to report that people are saying nice things about the book: including teenagers. They are often the hardest audience!

    So, what is intuition and how can we tap into it?

    Intuition is ‘just knowing’. Entrepreneurs refer to it as gut instinct or having the knack; knowing a deal will be good without necessarily having back-up figures to hand. Most of us have experienced meeting someone who we immediately like or dislike. Also there are the times when we should have trusted our instincts but didn’t. Regret is often avoidable.

    An easy way to tap into your own intuition is to slow down a little and become an observer of yourself. Notice feelings, thoughts and body sensations when you meet new people or have new experiences. Think about how you felt on entering different buildings or visited new places. You’ll soon be able to tune in and be in the flow.

    As well as being an author-girl, you’re a publisher too – tell us all about your imprints: 6th Books and Psyche Books…
    Both are imprints within John Hunt Publishing and I am the first port of call for authors who are seeking publication in the genres of each.

    6th covers parapsychology and the paranormal and Psyche deals with psychology and the mind. If I receive a book idea or query that looks promising I invite the author to complete a more thorough proposal as the first stage towards possible publication.

    I am always on the lookout for talented authors to join our happy band!

    How did you discover your passion for all things psychic and paranormal?

    I grew up thinking everyone saw auras and knew about chakras and the like. As a small child, I didn’t have the language to describe the ‘splodges’ but I learnt early on that it wasn’t polite to tell people what was happening or to query their fibs. When I was in my early teens I realised that either people didn’t know what others were thinking or going through or they were choosing to ignore everything that wasn’t clearly black and white. I then let myself tune out for most of the time. It all popped up again when I began studying psychology and hypnotherapy in the late eighties/early nineties. It came back in force when I opened my clinic 20 years ago.

    I don’t talk with or pass messages on from the dearly departed. I am not a medium. This is something that gets muddled with many people thinking that all psychics talk to the dead.

    What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?

    If you can’t be nice, be quiet.
    I have another now courtesy of the RAF and it is, ‘Man up! Skin’s waterproof!’ This works on so many levels.

    What would your superpower be and why?

    Invisibility. I like mischief and lots of fun could be had but if I were being grown-up with it I could affect crime. In a good way!

    What books are currently on your to-read list?

    I always have lots on the go. Sometimes I crave knowledge and other times I want to laugh or escape into fantasy. The authors on my bed cupboard at the moment are: Bill Bryson, Dawn French, David Starkey, Philippa Gregory, Bettany Hughes and Katherine Webb. I get much pleasure reading through new book proposals and doing reader reports for the other imprints and can read from anything: computer, Kindle, ipad, phone as well as actual books and magazines.

    Who and what rocks your world?
    My family.

    What’s your life motto?

    Enjoy the ride.

    Quick fire round: What’s your favourite EVER…

    Book: The Gruffalo
    Movie: Moulin Rouge
    Song: At the moment is Delilah – Go
    Place to hang: Warm beach
    City: New York
    Website: this one :) – my likes change by the day
    TV show: Weeds and Green Wing

    What does the term Sassy mean to you?
    Strong, confident, classy.

    What’s next in the world o’ Barbara?
    I have contracts for 2 books for the Made Easy Series: Hypnosis and Past Life Regression. I am in the midst of planning workshops and retreats for next year and I’m looking forward to spending a lot of time in Greece.

    Coming up in the New Year is a fabulous writing competition that Prediction Magazine and 6th Books are running.

    To find out more about Barbara and her books head over to: www.thepsychicway.co.uk

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    October 15th, 2011lisaHead Over Heels, Inner Minx

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    Since taking a taster course back in the summer, I am having a full-on smooch-filled love affair with all things belly dance. Who wouldn’t? It’s the dance o’ the goddess, it’s beautiful, magical and mesmerizing, it’s also freakin’ hard. REALLY freakin’ hard. So when my belly dancing teacher announced that she ran a two hour fitness and dance class each Thursday, I was super-keen to sign up. The fact that is was being hosted at the local university didn’t phase me at all. Well, until I actually walked through the door to be greeted by over 70 late teens with super-toned bodies and not many clothes on.

    Now, I know I’m a confidence – self-esteem coach and all, but I got a belly wobble. Not the kind that I could pass off as an actual dance move, but inside, deep down, where all that past conditioning lives and the story-telling ’bout all things life-y happens. It awoke the grump-a-tron, she of bad-mouthing and toxic thoughts, and within minutes, the internal convo went a little bit like this:
    ‘Seriously chica, what are you doing here?’
    ‘Look around you, these girls are super-fit and ready to work out for an hour, you on the other hand, will be sweating within minutes.’
    ‘Do you really think you can compete with these girls? Go home now, with your dignity in tact.’

    A few years ago, the grump-a-tron would have seriously won out. I’d have grabbed my bag, turned right back around and walked out of there as quickly as I could.

    ‘Cept now, I answer the bitch back. Hah.

    My convo went something like this:
    ‘Yep, those girls sure looked fit and fabulous, and I want to BE fit and fabulous, so it actually makes sense that I was in that room, right?’
    ‘And of course I don’t bloody look like them, they’re 18 years old, I’m 32 – 33 in 2 weeks time, all cards and presents gratefully received! – comparing is a no-win contest that we’ll NEVER win because there’s always someone thinner/taller/younger/richer, delete as applicable, than us, I’m me, I rock, I love belly dancing, now bring on the lesson!’

    Yep, I stood at the back, but I was there and I was doing it. Yep, I did some serious sweating, but it felt freakin’ amazing and even when the super-fit, Lycra clad 18 year-old bronzed beauty stood next to me gave me a back-pat of pity and told me ‘not to worry, I’d pick it soon enough’ I smiled and took it as positive encouragement.

    Oh, that last bit? That’s a lie, because for a split moment, I wanted to punch her on the nose. HARD.

    What? It was only for a split second and then I smiled and took it as positive encouragement. Anyway, while I did leave the class a li’l broken, don’t EVER get it twisted that belly dancing is easy, it’s absolutely, positively not, I also felt a whole lot of awesome, and that, quite frankly, is the most important thing of all.

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    October 14th, 2011lisaHead Over Heels

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    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!

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