The Enchanted Self --- by Dr. Barbara Becker
Excerpts from THE ENCHANTRESS WITHIN(TM) Audio Show
Featuring Guest Lisa Hammond, Founder of Femail
Creations –
Part Four of Four
Thank you yet again for staying with me!
In the first two parts of this article series I explained how negative
messages from a woman’s childhood can affect her life. We also found out how some amazing women
found the energy and commitment to turn those negative messages into dreams and
find enchantment in their lives. Please
enjoy the final piece of a script from an audio show in which I interviewed my
guest Lisa Hammond. Lisa found a way to
make her dream a reality and put enchantment back into her own life.
Dr. Holstein: So did
somebody give you the courage or share with you some enthusiasm? For example, we were just on vacation and I
met this woman who had become very successful as an author and she said that
when she was traveling on some mountaintop somewhere she ran into somebody who
took a liking to her and they chatted. And you know it's just the right person
saying, "I think you have great ideas. I think you can do it. You can get
in touch with me when you're back." And it started the whole process.
Lisa: ... I think for me it wasn't so much for any one specific thing
being said, I think it was years and years of kind of feeling like I was
waiting to take my turn. You know, waiting for my children to be in school,
waiting for my home to be finished, waiting for all of these things to have
every body else's life perfectly organized before I kind of dared to take my
turn. And I had done for the first time in my life, something that was purely
selfish and had gone on a women's tour of the (goddess) sites of
I was gone for a couple of weeks. And I think being on that tour gave me a new
space with which to process all these thoughts. For the first time in my life,
I wasn't worried about anyone, really, but myself. And I got to be in a space that
women are rarely in of really being nurtured by other women and being on very
sacred ground and not being in the chaos we all live with of car pools and
dishes and laundry and jobs and everything else that goes in our women - in our
lives, we're just busy as women. ... I
think that having some quiet time for myself was
really instrumental and it was just a few months after returning from that trip
that everything kind of bubbled to the surface and I just kind of had this deep
knowing that the ducks are never in a row. If you wait for that perfect moment
when it will be the least disruptive to everyone else's life to take your turn,
you'll never do it.
My daughter was about ten at the time and I remember thinking I spent my
whole life with her, you know, encouraging her to do anything she wants, telling her she can be anything she wants to be. I
just had this real deep knowing that I needed to walk my talk. For her to
really believe it was possible, I had to do more than just say that and I think
I didn't want to set the example for her that it's okay for a woman to start
her own business or it's OK for a woman to follow her dreams as long as ...I
just think there was ja real congealing of all these
thoughts when they came together. And it just jelled. And I suddenly knew that
I had to take my turn now.
I hope that you were inspired by Lisa's realization that it was her turn
now. She realized that she couldn't wait until everyone else's needs were met.
She had to find a way to live out her dreams also. I hope you will or are
taking your turn! To listen to the full
audio show and finish Lisa’s story go THE ENCHANTRESS WITHIN on www.Ladybuglive.com and click on the show featuring guest, Lisa
Hammond.
--- © Dr. Barbara Becker
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