Happy New Year – celebrating with the Healers Almanac
As we start a brand new year today, I am thrilled to be a Blog Buddy on Day 3 of the Blog Tour of author Patricia Shaw whose book Healers Almanac, Journey into Health with Wisdom from the 21st Century Goddesses! launches on Amazon on Thursday, January 5th, 2012.
Patty Shaw is an UCM minister, Reiki Master, Spiritual Counselor and teacher and has been interested in the way we heal for most of her life. When she became a mother she took her own mom’s strategy for health care for the family and added to it by exploring many alternative healing modalities and medicine. Over the last twenty years Patty has been helping others create happiness through creating health in our body, mind and spirit. Patty is passionate about helping people whether it’s in her private practice, at her Reiki Clinic or at her School of Akashic Healing where she teaches others how to be spiritual healers.
Patty is also co-owner of Coventry Creations with her sister Jacki Smith. Coventry Creations is known for its candles incense and oils that inspire us to make magic the Coventry way. No matter what’s getting in the way of your success, Coventry Creations has a candle for that.
Yesterday, Patty visited Andrea Hylen at http://andreahylen.blogspot.com/ where they talked about what we all have in common when it comes to healing.
Here’s what Patty and I chatted about the other day when I got to ask her some questions about being a goddess and a woman. I hope you enjoy it.
Callie: Hi Patty, I am so excited about your upcoming book launch: I’d love to know when, and how, you became aware that this book needed to be birthed?
Patty: Hi Callie, I am honored that you are coming along for the ride! Well, I didn’t even know I was pregnant with this book when it was clear there was going to be a book in my future. That must have been a hell of a one night stand! The book kinda snuck up on me, which is how life had a habit of dealing with me. Somewhere among all the studying, mothering and dealing with various health challenges (mine and others) several people encouraged me to write it all down. It was of their opinion that I had a way of making alternative healing modalities sound like a viable option to conventional medicine. I seemed to take the scary out of trying something different when it came to dealing with our health.
Honestly once the “seed” was planted I really got fired up about putting this book together. We’re taking this birthing metaphor all the way Callie!
When the book started to carve out a place in my life, I felt really ready to talk about healing. I had completed my own training as a spiritual healer and had hung out my shingle. I realized I did have something to share and I wanted to do it in a way that was fun, personal and informative. I think I pulled that off.
Callie: As Goddesses ourselves, how can we use your book to work with the help and guidance of contemporary Goddesses to gain insight into our personal issues?
Patty: Even goddesses need love and support getting through the blind spots of life and the twelve lovely goddesses of the Healers Almanac are lined up to be available to all. In each chapter you will find a message from the goddess that will prime your mind for opening to a higher thought or perspective. It’s there to soften your resistance to change, because healing means changing. For those of you who shudder at the thought of that, I recommend reading the message before going on the meditation and get yourself relaxed and ready to go with the flow.
In the meditation, the goddess is going to bring to you what is needed for your healing. Sometimes she will use stories from your past; other times she will challenge your beliefs to get you to the point where you can let go of limiting mindsets and flow right into a calmer more empowered way of seeing yourself. With each meditation you will learn something new about yourself, let something go, forgive someone or yourself, or recognize how beautiful your soul is. These are all very important steps to healing and the goddess will be there to help you take each and every one. Before each meditation you will be asked to get a few things ready, like a candle, something to help you ground and create a sacred space around you. These help you set the stage for a successful visit with the goddess.
I recommend writing down your experience on the journal pages right in the book, even if you don’t understand the significance of it all. Include all the metaphors and symbols. Don’t leave anything out. Later, when you go back and re-read your notes, you will be amazed at how brilliant you are and poignant the personal message is.
Callie: Reflecting on your experience as a Spiritual counselor, what would you say is the most pressing issue facing women in the world right now?
Patty: To be noticed and valued. A tremendous amount of stress is generated within women because they are bound by low self esteem perpetuated by being seen as less than or second class citizens. The level of suppression of their creativity and freedom to move about their lives causes a lot of damage in the psyche of women. I write about Sisterhood in the “Almanac”. In this chapter, I introduce Sarah and she teaches us that one way out of this trap is to upgrade and heal our relationship with the divine feminine. It is in reconnecting with this unconditional love that women can heal this wound and be able to stay in love with themselves when the world around them tries to tell them differently.
The divine feminine is present in our relationships with other women and this is where we start the healing. Every time we resist feeling jealous or compete in a destructive way with other women we make the choice to elevate ourselves and retrain our behavior, but first we need to heal the wound. In the meditation with Sarah she will ask us to understand, forgive, love and let go of the wounds created from painful relationships with other women. It may have been with mom, a sister or female boss, either way the message is the same, you are worthy of love no matter what has been done to you. It may take more than one visit; this is a very difficult lesson! The point is to heal so we can become a part of the sisterhood of compassionate women. It is in these friendships nurtured by the sisterhood that we will feel the needed support to regain our sense of value. This is where we begin to undo all the damage and remember our worth to the divine and to ourselves
Being a woman is a gift and brings the opportunity to demonstrate how powerful love is. The first step is to love and heal ourselves. Then we can, by our example, impress the world.
Patty, thank you so much for sharing your story with us and for answering my questions – I look forward to reading the Healers Almanac and learning how to support my inner Goddess!
I hope you enjoyed this interview with Patricia Shaw and that you’ll check out her book Healers Almanac, Journey into Health with Wisdom from the 21st Century Goddesses at http://healingwithpattyshaw.com/launch-bonuses
Here’s why you’ll want to do that:
* When you visit the page at the link above and request a “launch reminder”, you will automatically receive a FREE gift from Patty. The audios from her Get Healthy Stay Healthy Seminar. These recordings are completely free
“no purchase necessary” gifts from Patty
* FREE GIFTS
When you buy Patty’s book on Thursday January 5, 2012, you can ALSO receive many inspiring and uplifting gifts from authors, speakers, coaches and other enlightened professionals from the four corners of the world.
To claim your GHSH seminar (5 audios in all) and read about the free gifts, go to: http://healingwithpattyshaw.com/launch-bonuses
Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.
AND … be sure to follow Patty tomorrow when the next stop on the Blog Tour is my dear friend, Paula Tarrant, who will be discussing with Patty Healing Wisdom for Inner and Outer Wellness. To visit Patty over at Paula’s “stop” on the tour, go to http://inspiredwomenwork.com/healing-wisdom-for-inner-and-outer-wellness/.
