Resources

Supporting each other along the way

Love opens all doors,
no matter how closed they may be,
no matter how rusty from lack of use.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My deep gratitude to all of you who are a part of my web of support. What a great tool for connecting with our clan members the Internet is! Here are some of the people whose good work is building sustainable, life honoring options for us all:

Allies who helped make this website so beautiful:

• Karen Gurwitz, project manager extraordinaire!  Karen’s vision, organization, talent, and experience saved my sanity.  I will never create another website without her.  She can be reached at karengurwitz@gmail.com.  She is a translator fluent in the language of the graphic artist, the web technologist and the client – and she knows how to keep us all happy.
• Rosemary Arroyave is the brilliant artist who created my home page image and the custom artwork on every page.  She has a magical way of translating someone’s essence into beautiful and useful images.  Thank you, Rosemary, for your talent and generosity!  She can be reached at arroyave@vivrelartlibre.com.
• Charlotte Zink, www.zinkmetalart.com, creator of the luscious tree Goddess on my Daughters of the Earth Page and many more divine and delightful images.
• Jim Digby, www.jimdigby.com, “Purely Visual Experiences”. Most of my awesome photos are from Jim.
• Lori Gama , www.dagamawebstudio.com, creative, talented, knowledgeable, wise, sensitive, dynamite web strategist who loves to support women in creating powerful, successful web sites, in combination with results-oriented SEO, and effective Social Media marketing/training.

Healers, Elders, Sages and Shamans:

• Geo Cameron Trevarthen, www.celticshamanism.com, this is the website of my beloved anama chara or soul friend, one of the most wise and beautiful teachers I have ever known.
• Ann Drucker, www.herbalhealingarts.com.  Ann has a thriving private practice in Boulder, Colorado.  She offers earth-centered healing sessions, herbalism, and shamanic teachings – including soul retrieval and extraction ceremonies, shamanic body work, uterine massage, herbal steams, healing remedies, plant brushings and shamanic journeys.
• Sandra Ingerman, www.sandraingerman.com. Sandra teaches workshops internationally on shamanic journeying, healing, and reversing environmental pollution using spiritual methods.
• Susun Weed, www.susunweed.com, Herbal Medicine and Spirit Healing the Wise Woman Way
• The Center for Self Inquiry, www.innerpeace-nomatterwhat.com, when we have the courage to walk The Uncommon Path to Inner Peace, then our challenging times won’t break our hearts, they will burst them wide open instead. From this vantage point, we can see that there is a something so incredible, so awesome, splendid and sublime that nothing in life—no matter how painful—can diminish it. Visit our slideshow “Silent Victory: A Family’s Journey through challenging times to inner peace and joy.”
• Connie Ridgway, LCSW, LMT of Full Circle Creative Healing, takes an integrated approach to healing, encouraging our natural state of wholeness. Just as the sun changes the shape of the moon, our self-awareness may wax and wane. But behind the play of light and shadow, we are innately whole.
• Jeannie Lindheim  (617) 633-6338, LINDHEIMJ@aol.com; www.youranimalspeaks.com Compassionate practical consultations and problem solving with all species. Behavior, emotional, physical, death/dying and beyond. Reiki. Phone and in-person.
• Alix North, www.alixnorth.com, brilliant and funny bad-ass babe, Pirate, artist and woman of wisdom.

Coaches and Coaching:

• The Center for Right Relationship, www.centerforrightrelationship.com, the website for cutting edge relationship systems coaching. “Relationship Systems Work is the art and science of powerfully leveraging the generative potential of human relationship systems, whether personal or professional.”
• Lynne Morrell, www.LynneMorrell.com, life strategies coach and EFT  practitioner. Lynne’s bone deep strength, clarity of thought, and her knowing heart combined with her training make her an awesome coach. Take the leap with Lynne and soar to a new way of living.
• The Coaches Training Institute, www.thecoaches.com, my alma mater, this school trains coaches in the Co-Active coaching model.
• The Northern Colorado Coaches Alliance, www.nccoaches.org, is the organization of coaches from the northern front range of Colorado.
• The International Coach Federation, www.coachfederation.org, is the primary professional organization for coaches.
• Kim Loftis is a spiritual and life coach, dedicated to assisting her clients in discovering and cultivating their own unique and magical ways of being in the world.  She is passionate about partnering with others to help them more easily reduce stress and anxiety, achieve peace, balance and harmony, and broaden and deepen their spirituality.  At Kim’s site you can learn more about her services, check out her inspiring line of products, subscribe to her Heartsong newsletter, and more.

Magazines, E-zines, Printed Materials:

• School of the Seasons, www.schooloftheseasons.com
• Sage Woman, www.sagewoman.com, a fine magazine, “Celebrating the Goddess in Every Woman.”
• The Beltane Papers, A Journal of women’s Mysteries, thebeltanepapers.net, “focused on Women’s Mysteries and Goddess Spirituality,” this beautifully powerful magazine connects, supports, challenges, stimulates, honors, teaches, and delights wise women on their paths.

Nice stuff and support services:

• Sacred Source, www.sacredsource.com, offering an extensive collection of Goddess images.
• The Luna Press, www.thelunapress.com, produces a fantastic lunar calendar.
• Mariposa Plants, www.mariposaflowers.com, my favorite plant and flower shop. They can send gifts of the green ones around the world.
• Mothers and Menus, www.mothersandmenus.com, offers meals, advice and information for expectant and new moms.  My brilliant friend and project manager, Karen Gurwitz, wrote a wonderful cookbook: The Well Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook, Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel.  I highly recommend this book for everyone who wants to eat well.
• Wild Genie, www.wildgenie.com, recover the power and wisdom of female embodied intelligence. This site helps women to unfold their inner calling, live with passion and authority in the world, and get menstrual healing through valuing their cyclical nature.
• Waste-Not Recycling, www.waste-not.com, has been a pioneer in recycling in the northern Colorado region for over 20 years.  Check out their site for reusable items and helpful information.
• Linda Hoffman, www.comebacktothetable.com, Linda is a kitchen diva who also just happens to take fantastic photos.

Organizations that are doing great work and need our support:

• The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program, www.rmrp.org, providing care for injured birds of prey and educating humans about those magnificent hawks, falcons, owls, and eagles.
• American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org, a loving organization dedicated to helping people in need around the world.
• The Rocky Mountain Institute, www.rmi.org, is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining.
• Honor the Earth, www.honorearth.com, is a national foundation and advocacy organization that supports front line Native environmental work. Our mission is to increase funding and public support for Native communities protecting the Earth we all share.
• The Earth Charter, www.EarthCharter.org, “The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century.  It seeks to inspire in all peoples a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family and the larger living world.”
• The Charter for Compassion, www.charterforcompassion.com, “The Charter for Compassion is a collaborative effort to build a peaceful and harmonious global community. Bringing together the voices of people from all religions, the Charter seeks to remind the world that while all faiths are not the same, they all share the core principle of compassion and the Golden Rule.”