Sofia: What are magical/mystical creatures?

Pam: These are the creatures that you hear in legends and stories. Creatures that no one can prove with physical evidence even though some of you may have encountered them before and know that they do exist! 

Most of these creatures have a different vibrational energy then us humans and that is why in order to connect with them we sometimes have to do it through a visualization or mediation until we are comfortable with matching our energies to theirs. 

The three creatures I love to connect with are mermaids, unicorns, and fairies. They are in the category of creatures not currently residing in our physical world, but have been in the past. 

The other category holds the creatures like big foot who still lives in our plane but is rarely seen. These magical creatures all hold different energies of the universe and we can share and tap into their energies to help us in our everyday lives by connecting with them.

Sofia: What inspired you to write?

My spirit guides kept on telling me that I needed to write a book and kept dropping physical clues to me so I decided to listen!

My mentor was just about to start her three month book writing program so I jumped on that. 

I knew instantly that I needed to share my connection with these magical creatures because I talk about them all the time. Connecting with them makes me happy and I want everyone to find that joy in their lives also. 

A lot of my clients ask me questions about this topic, so I decided to put it in writing! I have always heard the saying “Write or teach what you know.” 

I know these creatures and how to connect with their energies well, so it was the perfect topic. I always wanted to write a book because I love reading and I love books!

Sofia: What were your challenges?

Pam: First of all, I never wrote an official paper or essay in my life that I remembered! My grammar and punctuation is not the best and I have never written a book in my life! That was my biggest fear. 

My mentor then assured me that all I have to do is write and at the end get an editor, plus she will be double editing my book. 

Once I got over that, my next challenge was actually chapter one. I didn’t know how to start the book. I sat on my computer for days trying to think on how to start the book! 

Also I was worried I wouldn’t finish the book in time, the writing program was three months, but in the middle of the program I left to Australia for two weeks! That took two weeks writing time away from my book! 

Fortunately for me my mentor got on my @$$ and pushed me to write all that I can! Boom… My book was finished!

Sofia: What made it easy?

Pam: Like I said, I was in a book writing and publishing program. I had timelines and deadlines to complete every week. 

My mentor, Leeza Robertson, who is a best selling author on Amazon knew what she was doing. So in the course she gave us proven steps to achieve the process. 

I also called upon my magical guides to help me channel parts of the book! They are so willing to help. I set time everyday or week to just sit down and write the book. 

I am really big on schedule and to do list, so I make one every week. I like the feeling of checking off a task so that motivated me to finish me book. Also my friends were there for me to help edit and give me feed back!

Sofia: What are you up to next?

Pam: I’m thinking of writing some mini books to publish on Amazon Kindle. 

I have already decided that my first book will be about Chakra Fairies. They are fairies that live in your chakras, I found them one day while I was in a chakra clearing meditation.

You can read about them in the fairy section of my current book. I will go into detail about them and share with you the knowledge on how to balance and heal your chakras through connecting with these fairies.

Chakras are important to us, they are sort of like your spiritual organs. Wouldn’t it be fun to keep yourself healthy by playing with fairies? Anyone can do it! 

My next super big project though is to finish my program. I want to share with everyone how to find joy in their lives and figure out what their life purpose is. I want to help you get unstuck in your life and learn how to feel harmony, peace, and happiness. 

This will be a 6 step program that takes you through an amazing transformative journey that turns the frustrated, unhappy you into the Divine Gorgeous You. Learn how to connect to your higher self and make the easy and right choices in your life. 

Sofia: Why you should someone buy this book?

Pam: This book is written for beginners and advanced practitioners alike. It includes step by step instructions and visualizations on how to connect with these magical creatures. 

I offer you a scientific view and a spiritual view of these creatures and let you decide for yourself which you resonate with. 

By connecting with these magical creatures you can help yourself through the challenges in your life. Connect and ask your magical guides for advice! 

I have also included free downloads for my visualizations and a free webinar training as free gifts if you purchase this book! Please leave me a good review on Amazon if you love it!

Pamela Chen has her Bachelors in Metaphysical Science from the University of Metaphysical Science and is working on her path to a Ph.D. She is an Intuition Coach that is certified in Reiki Master Teacher (Usui, Atlantean, and Fairy), ThetaHealing Advanced, Metatronia Therapy Master. Her energy is described as magical, old wisdom, but with child like innocence. Pamela’s passion and unique skills are packed into do it yourself online programs and her first book!

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to hear women’s mysteries expert Nuit Moore discuss the myth of Medusa.

Her retelling of the relationship between Athena and the snake headed Gorgon opened my eyes to a very sinister and common division every modern woman is carrying around inside of her. This is part one.

In Part II to this post, I’m also going to talk about how this myth relates to my healing journey and the Little Mermaid. 

(I’m skipping my usual Moon post this month as Part II will be pretty personal).

Medusa and Athena

According to Nuit Moore, Medusa and Athena were originally part of matriarchal cultures in Northern Africa.

These two powerful women presided as goddesses for tribes for cultures that understood the power of the feminine.

Myths changed in their tellings, at times Athena, goddess of wisdom, was daughter to Medusa, the beautiful Gorgon who’s blood was both a poison and medicine. At times they were sisters.

Always were they bound in love.

Fast forward to the absorption of Athena and Medusa in the Greek Pantheon……a patriarchial culture.

(NOTE: This is not a man hating rant just a “down with the patriarchy” rant: patriarchies are topped by one male person which hurts alllll the men on the lower rungs as well as women. Matriarchies are more circle oriented and sweet for e’rebody.)

The connection of love between Medusa and Athena is severed. 

Here’s a little description of Ovid’s version from wikipedia:

In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, “the jealous aspiration of many suitors,” but when she was caught being raped by the “Lord of the Sea” Poseidon in Athena‘s temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa’s beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid’s telling, Perseus describes Medusa’s punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned.

Medusa is no longer a beautiful free woman, she is a hideous wicked monster who gets raped AND punished, I guess, for “asking for it?” Isn’t that how these things normally go?

Perseus, some hero, kills Medusa with her own stony reflection and lops her head off.

Athena forever wears the head of her formely-loved-now-“justly”-punished-for-being-raped sister/mom ON HER SHIELD.

Nuit Moore discusses this as a wound that Athena forever carries with her. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices that she made to be absorbed into the patriachy.

A while ago I mentioned that when I had two pen names, I was a more extreme version of myself in every way. 

This happened to Athena and Medusa too– Medusa got ugly and monsterous, and Athena stopped caring about the fate of humanity and switched to looking over MANkind.

She stopped being a goddess of all kinds of wisdom, like clairsentience (body knowing, a kind of intuition) and became stuck in her head with analytical logic.

I’ve listened to a Greek historian who honors Athena as her primary goddess, and she opened my eyes to Athena’s true essence: caring, intuitive and “like Galadriel.”

Athena wasn’t always seen as a cold smartypants like Hermione in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

But I’m going to draw a line in the sand here because society is still going with this Medusa/Athena split:

Virgin or whore
Bad girl or good girl
Work hard, play hard

Two different kinds of woman with two different lifestyles that are expected to stay separate. If they don’t converge in the same person, than they at least don’t converge in the same environment ever.

Well, dammit, I’m not into boxes.

I’ve been aiming to break down this separate wall because I personally am tired of having two websites, facebooks, whatever.

Since I heard this hearing this myth, I keep noticing this split. I see how it shows up in our ‘persona’ and what we think we and others can and should do.

This is holding women back inside and in community.

There is a wound, but Nuit told me that by honoring this story, we start to move against it.

And it is so.

Read on to Part II for a post on my personal journey.

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This weekend I flew to California for the first time to attend the Women’s Visionary Congress. I can’t imagine a better reason to visit the West Coast for the first time.

I recorded a short video about my experience there.

To be honest I didn’t know what to expect from my travels, I found a lot more than I bargained for in a wonderful way– amazing people, profound ideas, and deep sense of understanding of some problems I had been sorting through lately.

I’m truly feeling blesed that I went with my gut and came here! So thankful to my friends, old and new, that welcomed me here. 

I have a feeling that I will be coming back many times, but for now I have work to finish on the East Coast. 🙂

My first look at the Pacific Ocean

 

So Little Mermaid-y! This weekend I felt called to perform a Sound Healing in a way I never have before.

I really let my voice sing freely. I felt like Ariel and I so enjoyed the transformation that came to be in the space I was holding for my new friend, for her and myself as well.

As I relaxed in the hot tub I felt I had so much inspiration I needed to use it so I offered a few brand new friends some chakra readings.

Another night I felt so drawn to connect with others that I offered to lead an open circle outside with whoever would like to send some intention out for the rest of the world. Hope, beauty and song surrounded us under the stars.

I invited others out of calling and excitement. Later I realized I had created an event I had always dreamed about but I’ve never had the opportunity before. MD is not such an open state.

It really warmed my heart that even in the middle of California I still had something unique and magical to offer.

Kind of made me feel like maybe I should make a move…for right now though I am tied to MD.

I’ve come out of this with a new sense of worth of my gifts and what I have to offer to the world.

If you are interested in a service please contact me at sofia at sofiawren dot com, because the prices will be going up soon 🙂

It takes courage to write. It takes courage to express a deeper dream.

It’s more comfortable to be confused than focused. It’s more comfortable to be lazy than driven.

Or if you are driven, it’s more comfortable to overwhelm yourself with everything you “need” to get done than to objectively evaluate and pare down with confidence.

It’s more comfortable to go it alone than to make a real commitment by investing in support.

Because maybe it would really freak you out to be successful. That might change your life, relationships and everything you know.

But the dream doesn’t go away.

I would know.

Since I rediscovered my creativity in 2009 I feel like I unraveled every kind of block there is.

And there are still more, there will always be more.

Something is unfurling for me though….a clarity, a determination, a vision. And it’s 2013.

This last year, I have to say, I completely accelerated the progress.

I’m on the precipice of crossing over into everything I have always wanted with an amazing array of skills, knowledge and integration never before achieved.

It’s more than just getting ready to publish: my book is going to be a footstop to establish my brand and lead into my coaching business for a sustainable income and career as an artist.

And I’m going to tell you how I got here when a year ago I was an office manager with a massage certification and no clients, going through the motions of my life.

As an intuitive it amazes me how difficult it is to read for myself.

What I mean is, I can objectively sense information about people I have never met before who are timezones away.

I can sense energy patterns, habits that cause imbalance, greatest talents and the things getting in there way. I can jot everything down and make a private video about it within a half hour.

But it can take me months to see my own flaws.

I can ask my angels and guides for information but my ego and my limitations can still get in the way of the honest truth and clarity I can offer other people.

I don’t think I’m that different than other people in this: We all live in a glass box that we can’t even see.

The ways in which we stand in our own way are insidious.

To birth a creation, a business, a new way of life requires not just new skills and knowledge and expertise, but new pathways in your brain.

I believe that inside of us we all carry everything we need to make our dreams happen.

Problem is most of us were never raised this way.

Problem is most of us were raised with a lot of rules and limitations that we sucked up from our parents, peers and society.

If you want to start playing big, if you want to not only be published but to be recognized as an author, to come out of hiding, to embrace the freedom of creating your own life rather than taking what is dealt to you—-then you need help.

2009 was four years ago, for three years I swam it out on my own.

I wrote three pages a day, edited in chunks every day.

By the end of those three years I didn’t feel like I was closer to a clear vision of what I was going to do with any of those pages.

I felt like I had the same sort of job that I had IN college. Office administration.  A little bit of everything.

I worked for other people who had started their own business and I did all the unfun part of it that actually kept things going.

And one day I picked up the phone, feeling unpaid and overloaded and trapped, and two calls in a row people said my name back to me incorrectly.

I gave my best customer service. The second time I put the phone down with a slam.

How could they not know my name, when I run this place??

By November I started hiring coaches.

Better than any information products or online courses is a real person.

A real person reflecting who I wanted to be not who I had been.

Friends and family are great support, but they don’t see you in the future.

And because that’s awesome, I pretty much didn’t want to disappoint my coaches, so I stepped up to do the specific goal and time oriented tasks on route to the goal I picked for myself.

About two months ago I had a program I built to bring blocked writers into inspiration, focus and flow in 13 weeks.

Somehow I got off track…let’s just say something fell through and I didn’t even realize I dropped the whole thing to start over.

Two months I feel like I wasted some big opportunities to spread my message.

I have a whole lot of spiritual tools up my sleeve and I used them. In hindsight the messages were there but because ti was my life, I couldn’t see.

I needed coaches to give me feedback, to see my gifts, to help me shape things, and to overcome the last leap to bring it into the world. 

I could still be reinventing the wheel rather than committing to helping a population of creative writers that I really love.

It’s more comfortable to have multiple projects than to commit to one for worse….or even for better.

Surprisingly fear of success is just as big a pitfall as fear of failure.

It’s more comfortable to hide, to be small….today…but one day it won’t be. 

One day every dream swimming around in you right now is going to strike your status quo like a thunder bolt.

What if you invested in support before you got so sick of your dayjob that you have to quit?

What if you had help to plan your novel before you wrote it messy style and made it take three times as long to edit?

What if you got support on your block so you could get back to writing and produce amazing content sooner rather than later?

At every step of the creative process from generating ideas, to organizing them, to putting them out into the world, to creating a profession that will use all of your creative gifts, it would be a whole hell of a lot easier if you had someone to help you.

Are you ready to make the commitment now? Or shall you wait it out until the explosion?

When you are ready, you will be ready.

Sometimes breakthrough comes after breakdown.

But I want your life to be as amazing as you dream, and as easy as possible.

If you are ready for my help, I’m here to hold your hand, to offer perspective, new techniques, and a sacred space for you to bloom.

Fill this form out the for a free Blast Your Blocks Session with me.

Inspiration. Clarity. Freedom.

You ready?

 

In the last post Self Sabotage New Moon I vowed to take a weekend off from passive entertainment including the internet, social media, reading, listening to recorded voice or radio, and watching TV.

This proved to be a very difficult endeavor. But I am glad I did it all the same. 

First I will describe the benefits of the media diet and second I will admit all the ways in which I cheated.

So there is something about taking a couple days off of social media and all that.

Life has more space. 

It kind of reminds me of my youth when I didn’t have all these distractions—before I got a game boy and when tv was too boring to watch, on vacation with no internet or cell service and I could only read so much in a day anyway.

It reminded me that it is possible to pay full attention to people we are with, that life can be done one thing at a time. 

Without passive entertainment, the easiest thing I can think of for killing time is meditating.

Every time someone with me checked their phone or I felt that pull myself, I would be struck with a thought like —oh yeah, wow it’s so weird. 

Weird to want to keep checking, weird not to.

I’d look out the window instead and just observe the reality around me.

Here are all the admitted ways in which I cheated:

I scheduled multiple posts for every day, so I did still have a media presence.

Friday was reallly hard. As the first day I unplugged I got off to a bad start immediately.

Having a phone that likes to update me about everything in my online universe I quickly realized that there was an outstanding invitation from a friend, actually a couple that I should really respond to ASAP.

This got me facebooking and then I quickly began to do specific practical things online but not requiring much reading like approving Triberr posts and scheduling acupuncture. 

I had a peek at my emails to see if there was anything good by the titles. Not much.

I didn’t do any reading…that is until I got settled in a cafe and read over instructions to fill out third quarter documents.

I was doing my 3rd quarterly planning and I needed to check stats for social media, websites, etc That’s what really got me into trouble as I couldn’t help but repost a status (and leave one) on facebook as well as responding to my personal messages on twitter. 

I love social media. Too much.

Friday I was so bad! My boyfriend gave me crap for it as well as for stubbornly refusing to not watch tv.

That’s when I learned that cutting passive entertainment is a great time to sit with unsettled feelings and to get into fights.

Saturday:

Better. I left my cellphone alone for the most part

Had in person entertainment to distract me. Went to the gym.

Decided that tarot reading doesn’t count as reading even if I look at my tarot book.

Not quite sure why that is ok, but it feels ok.

Sunday and Monday evening I broke down and started watching tv. Television has become such a social activity.

And it was the season finale of Game of Thrones.

On the plus side Monday night I really enjoyed Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a documentary on the oldest cave drawings found in France.

Monday I shamelessly went into my email and responded to personal communications.

If I did all of this while cheating, how much passive entertainment do I normally do?

A lot. I’m one of those people 

I normally pull out a book for a one minute grocery line.

I check my texts at a stop light.

I listen to webinars for every drive.

I eat while learning from audio or video classes.

I read to sleep and when I wake up.

I create reasons to use social media or check emails probably ten times a day.

So this was a good exercise for me. I will continue the challenge of avoiding passive entertainment….

So yeah sorry for getting back late.

Love
Sofia Wren.

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Doreen Virtue posted ” This week’s energy is about revealing hidden secrets. You are being pushed to get brutally honest with yourself. Everything that you’ve pretended to like will come to the surface, forcing you to deal with it directly… 

Your best way to handle — and even enjoy — this energy is to take quiet rest time to contemplate your entire life. Admit which parts of our life aren’t working. This knowledge will help you to make important decisions which will help with healthful life changes.

Don’t worry about HOW to change these areas of your life. Just focus upon admitting that these areas need help. Pray for help and guidance, and notice the signs and inner guidance which follows. Healthful life changes can happen quickly and miraculously if you’ll work in partnership with Heaven.”

Are You Receiving the Juice? Pic by Sofia Wren

Trying to make your dreams come true? Are you getting frustrated, making vision boards, visualizing your success, using affirmations and seeing nada?

Well maybe you are skipping a step.

The following post rings true for me lately.

I will probably spend my entire life sorting out this one lesson — learning to receive. 

It’s very important as a creative, sensitive entrepreneur. I always want more inspiration, more intuitive pings, more money and clients rolling in.

But what if I’m standing in my own way?

In the Law of Attraction ‘Bible’ Ask and it is Given by Ester Hicks and Abraham, there are three steps mapped out for receiving anything you desire (ever).

1. Ask.

Life is full of contrasts which allow you to have certain preferences. You express this as a desire (said or not) about how you’d like things to be.

Since quantum physics teaches us that everything in the universe is really a kind of vibration, your desire or asking sends out a frequency.

2. It is Given

The Universe supports you in providing what you asked for by pairing your desire frequency with something similar in nature. I.e. What you asked for!

Of course if you ask for “NOT a sh*t car” then that causes a problem. The Universe won’t process the “NOT” and will continue to bring you a Sh*t car that doesn’t work.

Hence the importance of being clear about what you want instead of what sucks.

Where you put your focus boosts the request frequency that will be matched with the Universe’s gift to you.

3. It is received.

HELLO—Is this you? Is this the reason you aren’t getting what you want?

When the universe comes to deliver the match to the frequency you sent out in the first place, are you home to take the package?

In order to receive what you want, you need to be on the same level of frequency as what you want.

So if you are looking for a dream house and you are so stuck in hating where you live right now, what you really want isn’t going to match up with what you want now.

You could see an ad, and come up with a billion excuses as why it won’t work out.

Package returned to sender.

I’d like to give you a big example from my life:

–My old pen names were very complicated: Sofia D’oro, Wren Doloro, my birth name. I agonized over whether these were good or I should change them and how to juggle profiles, blogs and stuff for each of them.

I wished I could just be like a normal person with one identity. Too bad my erotic writing would probably ruin my reputation as a massage therapist, and being open about my Wiccan Priestess-ness would also weird people out even if they liked .

One day my boyfriend tells me I don’t need a million pen names separate from my massage business. It is actually possible I will be accepted for who I am by everyone–readers, clients, my family. And it would be less work.

Instead of hearing, I listen to the fears and freak out having no idea how that is possible because I am too weird. Still have separate websites.

One year later I hire a couple coaches to help me figure things out about my pen names and brand. They tell me to combine everything under one name and bring up my vibration so I could see how empowering and awesome this would be. I said yes and let them take me by the hand.

Hence my current name: Sofia Wren

Now wouldn’t it have been cool to do that a year ago? Wouldn’t have been so hard.

But I had so much resistance I made a mess to clean up and have to pay for this lesson in time, energy and money.

It is so common to stand in the way of what we really want. 

A lot of us weren’t raised to believe that the Universe is made to support us. That we have to work really hard for what we want because it is NOT going to drop into our lap.

Unfortunately that attitude is a block to receiving.

What if we are causing the problems?

Have you had an argument where the other people suddenly conceded and gave you everything you wanted? Did you find yourself unsatisfied and needing to run through your whole argument again?

Did you ever get something you wanted only for it to cause as much stress in your life as things before it?

Remedies:

• Practice Gratitude for the things in your life anytime you get in a funk.
• Keep your eye on the prize—prepare yourself to receive by allowing things to work out with a little patience.
• Recognize you aren’t fully in control and sometimes what you want will look different than expected. But for every problem you come up with, exercise some faith that a solution will come your way.
• Stay positive by calling in all the emotions you would feel if your dreams came true. This brings you to the vibration of receiving your ideal life.

That way when the universe comes a knocking with everything you have always wanted, you will be right at the door.

xx Sofia Wren

PS. You need a coach to hold your hand through receiving what you desire, contact me at sofia at sofiawren dot com for a free Manifest Goddess Coaching session.

 

Stephanie Carovella left her career, her friends and her home town of Los Angeles, but she couldn’t outrun the demons on her past. When she is lured back by the death of her best friend she enters a world where no one’s safe.

As her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed, Stephanie must find out who she can trust.

Will it be Jesse Carlisle? Her ex-lover and the man she left behind. He would give anything to have her back in his arms, but is it enough?

Or will it be Jase Devlin? Her best friend’s boyfriend, and a man with secrets as dark and dangerous as her own.

Can Stephanie find her friend’s killer or will she discover that she has nowhere to run?

Nina D’Angelo told us all about her book in her Passionate guestpost. It’s climbed to be one of the most popular posts of 2013.

I used to focus this blog on book reviews, but these days I try to keep them to twice a month.

So for me to review a book says something about the quality, even though I’m a picky b*tch. And proud of it!

Here’s the skinny:

1. Page turner (once you hit the third chapter)

The main beef I have with this book is that there are so many characters. I felt like I was being hit over the head with character background from the very beginning.

In the first scene the protagonist is flying to LA for the first time after a long gap. As she sits there she decides to review all the complicated relationships she will be entering into again.

We writers call this an info dump and it’s a no no.

But you would be missing out to stop reading then. Keep reading because it gets really juicy.

I read it over an international flight, and I liked it so much that I was actually reading my kindle as I strolled through the airport. (Yeah, that’s me!)

2. Suspenseful emotions

The book has the vibe of gritty emotions and drama. It reminds me of YA literature because it is so intense, but it’s definitely adult.

There’s a love pentagon or something, and frienemies and secrets.

It’s pretty nuts. But interesting. Interesting nuts.

3. Dark Dark Dark

Stephanie is a criminal profiler at heart. She spends her time trying to get into the mind of a killer that is coming after her and her friends.

Dark stuff man.

But it sure keeps those pages flipping.

Highly recommended! Thanks for the great read Nina.

xx Sofia