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Goddess Exposed: The Personal and Spiritual Growth of a Goddess

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The lens chronicles the sometimes bumpy, sometimes glorious journey of one little goddess searching for a better understanding of herself and her place with God. With a strong focus on positive manifestation and the law of attraction merged with Judeo-Christian belief and influences from other world religions, the journey is sure to be an interesting one.


After starting this lens, I realized that I have a lot to say and that it may become a bit overwhelming in size. So I've decided to use this lens as a home base for all my articles. I'll put an introduction here and if you want to read, click to open the article lens in a new window.


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The following lenses in the "Goddess Exposed" series are now available for your reading pleasure and your own introspective venturing:

Somewhere Near the Beginning
When We Want and Want, but Just Don't Receive
Seeking Fulfillment
Forgiveness

Somewhere Near the Beginning 

Somewhere Near the Beginning

About a year ago, I realized that I had lost myself somewhere along the course of my life. This was a very disturbing realization, as I had always looked at myself as a rather "together" sort of person. But I woke up one morning and realized that my trouble marriage wasn't really getting any better in spite of therapy, I was in more than one codependent relationship, I had no spiritual focus, friends who I thought were my best friends really weren't my friends at all, and I didn't even know what I wanted from life any more. Not a good place.

This realization made me see that I had been focusing on fixing the wrong things. I was trying to fix my relationship with my husband; I was trying to fix the problems in my friendships; I was trying to fix my life. But I wasn't trying to fix myself. It was time for me to take the focus off the things that had gone bad in my life and start working on the things that had gone bad in me.

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youhavegottobekidding

this is a great lens. very inspiring.

Posted July 01, 2008

spiritartist

NICE!

Posted June 18, 2008

 
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When We Want and Want, But Just Don't Receive 

When We Want and Want, But Just Don't Receive

"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover..."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Recently, I have been thinking and talking a lot about gratitude.

It seems that so many of us want more than what we have. It's not that we aren't happy with what we already have in our lives, we just want more. We want a better relationship, we want more money, we want a bigger house, we want, we want, we want.

But what about being thankful for what we already have?

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Do you feel that gratitude has or should play an important part in your life and your own personal and spiritual growth?

karl

Thank you for letting me grow. Give me a spark to my inner self. bless your anima --> www.zazzle.com/lluwellyn

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Posted May 22, 2008

GoldenOpportunity

Hi Goddess Mari,

I think we all find our selves in this position from time to time, needing change and wanting more out of life.

Once you find out you need improvement in your life and except it, than you need to take the next step and be thankful for what you do have in life.

I like both of your articles and can relate to them. I have been down the same path before. Reading your articles make me reflect on my inner thoughts and how I improve my self to be grateful for the things I have too.

It seems so simple but it is vary powerful! Because it changes your own inner self to drive your self to be a better person and thankful for what you have in life. The "want" will soon follow after your inner thoughts are in the right mind set.

I look forward to read more of your articles.

Thanks for sharing!

Joe

Posted May 11, 2008

 

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Seeking Fulfillment 

Seeking Fulfillment

"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled." ~Lao Tzu

There are four aspects of a fulfilling relationship - intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual. It is said that, in order to have a truly fulfilling relationship, your partner needs to be able to meet your needs in these four areas. That's always made a lot of sense to me. I think we have all been in relationships before where our partners did a great job in one, two, or even three of these areas, but we still didn't really feel satisfied.

I've been thinking a lot about relationships lately; not only relationships with other people, but my own relationship with myself. It's my belief that you can't love anyone else more than you love yourself. Therefore, it would be fair to say that you also cannot accept another person if you aren't accepting of yourself.

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RandyWood

Very true to life Mari. Thank you for this story as it relates to me. I have found that through the years in a failing relationship, I too began to attract only those things that would come from the physical. It wasn't until I realized my lowered self esteem was causing this that I decided to make some changes. I am worthy and deserving and things are different. keep up the good work.

Randy Wood
http://jrandallsweb.com

Posted May 12, 2008

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Forgiveness 

Forgiveness

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you." ~Unknown

Forgiveness is something I have to work on every day. It's very hard to forgive. It's almost as if I think that if I truly forgive, I am somehow saying whatever injustice I have been dealt was okay.

But forgiveness is not the same as acceptance. And forgiveness has a lot less to do with the person you are forgiving than it does to you. As a matter of fact, forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts that we can give ourselves. When we forgive, we free ourselves from our own emotional prisons. It allows us to move on in our lives and no longer be victims. Forgiveness gives us back our power.

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Do you feel that forgiveness is important?

audiobooks1

Good thoughts! this is somehting we all should think about and then adapt our lifes accordingly!

Posted May 27, 2008

ArticleCK

Great article Mari, I think we can all learn something from that.

Posted May 16, 2008

 
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About GoddessMari

Hello! Thanks for visiting my lens. My name is Mari Peckham, also known as The Goddess Mari (and Ms. Mari in the Rock-It Productions, Inc world!). I am a professional belly dance instructor, choreographer and performer in the Chicago area. I have also taught creative movement (pre-dance and imagination development all rolled into one) since 2001.

I've been working online for years, but my real passion is dance and my own spiritual and personal growth. I also have a great love for the preschool age group, and teach creative movement to about 250 children 5 years and under each week. I've put together a lens series with some great suggestions for themed activities that you can do with your child(ren).

I'm also having a great time sharing some of my knowledge on cooking with herbs.

I look forward to sharing lots of stuff with you and hope you find it all enjoyable and informative!

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