Author Archive
To Your Liberation!
by Shann on Jul.02, 2010, under Career Transition, Reinventing Yourself, entrepreneurs
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” - Albert Einstein
Happy 4th of July weekend!
I am coming up for air after a whole lot of crazy-cool work to prepare for the pre-sale and launch of Life on Your Terms. I spent the last two days proofing more than 66,000 words. Thank GOD for professional designers and editors.
Writing, editing and publishing a book turned out to be a much larger project than I’d ever expected it would be. I found myself calling in all of the techniques learned as a coach to stay as balanced as possible through this enormous undertaking.
The professional support of a number of brilliant people made this book come together.
I am in awe of the process. I am in awe of the brilliant entrepreneurs involved in the project. I am in awe of each person who volunteered to step and help me. And finally, I am grateful to my family and close friends for supporting me through an experience, that on some days felt like a manic ride!
This weekend I will be celebrating our nation’s independence while celebrating the completion of a manuscript dedicated to the sharing of stories about personal liberation. How cool is that?
Perfect Timing!
It requires profound vision to see the path of liberation.
To all of the men and women who fought for our nation’s freedom, and to all of the entrepreneurs who seek to lead each of us to personal freedom, this book is respectfully dedicated.
More details about the Life on Your Terms pre-launch promotion coming soon!
“Freedom lies in being bold.” - Robert Frost
If You Could Just Change This One Person, You Could Change The World
by Shann on Jun.24, 2010, under Life Coaching, Reinventing Yourself
Pace Smith from Freak Revolution shares a thought provoking post.
Enjoy!
Do you ever feel guilty about reading self-help books or blogs when there are people starving elsewhere in the world? Do you ever feel like global tragedy dwarfs your personal tragedy? Do you ever feel small or insignificant, wishing you could make a difference but overwhelmed with the vastness of it all?
This post is for you.
Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” He didn’t mean that if you want to create world peace, become a peace activist. He meant that if you want to create world peace, you must first find peace in your own heart. How many angry peace activists have you seen? I’ve met a couple. They march in protest rallies, carrying anti-war signs and railing against the government. I believe (and I think Gandhi would agree) that they’re going about it the wrong way. The path to peace doesn’t wend through anger or violence. The path to peace begins inside yourself.
People who try to change the world without first changing themselves burn out, instigate infighting, or otherwise undermine the goal they’re trying to achieve.
People who heal themselves before healing the world radiate empowerment, possess quiet determination, and have the peace of mind necessary to turn big dreams into reality.
Changing yourself, creating the life you want to life, is a revolutionary act. People aren’t inspired by hypocrisy. People are inspired by those who practice what they preach. Choosing to live a happy and empowered life will show others that they can choose the same for themselves. Living your own best life and sharing your joy with others will inspire those around you to seek it for themselves. There are billions of people out there who would be looking for something better if they only believed that something better were possible.
They’re waiting for you to show them.
Pace Smith is the co-leader of the Freak Revolution, a community of passionate world-changers with alternative lifestyles and more importantly, alternative mindsets. She and her partner Kyeli are passionate about changing the world in ways that foster connection over control, authenticity over conformity, and love over fear. Their latest project is the World-Changing Writing Workshop, where aspiring writers learn the skills they need to create change.
Song For The Sea
by Shann on Jun.15, 2010, under Reinventing Yourself
It is with great pleasure that I share the following poem written by the lovely and talented Johanna Courtleigh. Johanna wrote this prose as a tribute to our beautiful sea and its current suffering.
Song for the Sea
I must have been a mermaid once
in the cool dark waters of her dreamy sleep.
In the cool dark waters, holding my breath and diving,
diving into the sinuey florescence of lolling wave and rocking seaweed,
into the deep blue-green churning
that’s become this dancing of love.
I must have been the ocean’s mistress
and more than once, I’m sure, I stood
I stood at her shores calling back the wave.
More than once, raising my arms high, high
I sang down the rain, thunder-black and mimicking night
as seal heads rose and cormorants called
and pelicans dove into her wild, cacophonous roiling.
I must have been Neptune’s daughter, surely,
down on my knees at the ocean’s edge.
Down on my knees
my hands flowering starfish,
anemone, etched snow-white sand dollar,
delicate jellyfish, all undulating seduction.
Gulping her into me, gulping her in
my mouth wide, wide open
my hair, heaving sea grass,
my eyes, shock of sun-glinted starlight
skimming a shimmer across her moody skin,
fish darting and turning their sacred ballet,
their tiny mouths kissing the sea.
Or perhaps I was a salmon, all rainbowed and wild-eyed
my wisdom-fins finding their way
shocked and steady, in the freezing snow run-off,
in the cascade of waterfall, leaping
battered belly over sharp-edged rock,
and never, never doubting my way
upstream to my birthing waters
returning and returning again
since before god called down
the beginning of time.
Now I step forward to be her queen,
or her bride all a-blush in the glow of sunset,
the foam of the wave encircling me in lace,
the sea, all rocking and pulsation,
the tide all rising and falling,
as easy as a gasp in the wind of god’s billowy breath
as the cool dark waters calling me down, down
to embrace the tight-lipped oyster,
entice the wild-armed octopus,
rollick the gentle sea horse,
ride the joyful dolphin,
and nestle into the deep-bellied whale
drumming the ancient heartbeat of her lovely liquid planet.
Singing my name
and calling for a crown
of pearls and shark’s teeth,
lions paw and moon shell
to anoint me
as I shiver the wave
and take my place
in the dance of this vast watery dreaming,
dreaming love back into her wild passionate body.
Johanna Courtleigh is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Hypnotherapist and Confidence Coach in private practice in Lake Oswego, Oregon, just south of Portland. She is also a Certified HypnoFertility® Therapist and Birth by Hypnosis® Facilitator, assisting women who’ve been unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term reach their goal of becoming pregnant and bringing beautiful, healthy babies into the world, peacefully. She has been a Certified Hypnotherapist since 1988, a Licensed Counselor in full-time private practice since 1991, and in the helping professions for over twenty-five years.
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