Ageless beauty

Beauty is ageless.
As I embrace my dear friends I celebrate it.
The shy girl, yet to be initiated into womanhood, a young maiden beside her, two mothers and a grandmother.
All doing "women's business" : eating, laughing, sharing stories and love for one another.
(True) "...beauty is a joy forever. 

On the path to the heart of women's business

This is the path that we desert women will follow on our retreat in May. It circumnavigates Uluru, the world's largest monolith, located in the heart of Australia.

This is where we will contemplate our lives as uninitiated women, and review our women's business: our self esteem, our body image and self worth , and in particular our relationships with our first contacts, our mothers. 

It is here that, the protagonist in my book  (and alter ego), psychologist Dr Diana Verdi has the  revelation that will change the way she works and lives her life. 

You can follow her journey (and ours) in my book 'Finding Artemisia: a journey into ancient women's business.' http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Artemisia-Journey-Ancient-Business/dp/1452503842

Full moon smile

What is it about full moon that enchants us?

                           makes us feel romantic?

              makes us feel connected?

  makes us stare in wonder?

Is it the magical way it paints the ordinary

       and makes it... extraordinary

                          bathing us in its light?


Or is it the comfort of having such a big round ball reflecting its glow into the darkness of our night?


I love the moon, to me it represents the Feminine, the Ruler of the tides.

I enjoy lunar celebrations, Easter and Chinese New Year.

When I look up at the shining globe, I don't see a man in the moon. I see a smile, a smile that says:

the Universe is at peace.  What do you see?

Rainbow Food

Just back from my local farmers' market: roses, honey, capsicums, red and yellow, eggs,
passionfruit, pineapple, limes, garlic, tomatoes, bananas, pineapple, ginger, eggs and honey.

Out of picture breads and nuts.

In the fridge: kefir, cheese, humus, beans, beetroot, spinach, sprouts, tempe, zuccini, squash.

Fresh, vital, colourful. For more Rainbow Food, check out my site www.rainbowfood.com.au 

Mothers need to supported, less isolated...

In NewYork a young mother plunges to her death with her baby strapped to her.

How isolated must she have been?

Unsupported?

Undiagnosed with post natal depression perhaps.

So convinced she is a bad mother, so she writes in her  suicide note

What a tragic loss.


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/03/14/Baby-survives-8-story-plunge-from-building/UPI-36981363306920/


Women need to be specially supported in the early years of motherhood.

Please check out my upcoming Uluru mother's day retreat www.denisegreenaway.com

International Women's Day

Women of the world unite for International Women's Day.

             You have nothing to lose but the false images that have been manufactured for you.  

Imagine whom you might have been had you been born into an image free world. 

I have been to such a women's world and tasted its freedom. I write about it in my book Finding Artemisia: A Journey into Ancient Women’s Business, a cross-cultural journey into the female mind and spirit.

It was in the central desert of Australia where I had the privilege of meeting  a community of women who did not define themselves by their physical appearances but rather by their valued roles as the guardians of children, the earth and each other.

These women knew their business. Do you know yours?

OR

Have you lost the core of what it means to be a woman, free from society’s definitions?

Don't you want to get back your roots, away from the images society has made?

Come celebrate your essential self at my image-free website

 www.denisegreenaway.com 

                                     where what counts is on the inside.

AND come on my desert retreats. 

Seeing the sacred...in everything

An invisible person or persons scavenge through the aftermath of the cyclonic storms and build a sacred altar.

Such seeing, such honouring, such recognition.

Storms humble humans, bringing them to their knees and it is from that they see the sacred...in all things.

Thank you, invisible one(s), for taking my attention and inviting me to worship at the altar you so lovingly created.

Blessing on you...