“Community is Holy”   On Tuesday night, I offered  a free call introducing Women’s Voices Rising.  On that call, I shared one of the secrets that I teach in the program, that can make a huge difference when it comes to your writing.   It’s the power to know you are not alone, when you write.  Even when you sit down by yourself at your desk, you are never alone.  When you start to know that, you can source your writing in a place of strength and connection, instead of feeling isolated, and afraid.   I taught three practices that help you cultivate the awareness that you aren’t alone when you write:   Recognizing and remembering that you’re part of a global community of women, rising, to bring their voices into the world. Learning to write in a way that allows you to be supported by, as well as in support of, the Earth. Connect with the great love of the Divine—the Sacred itself—as a real and palpable source of support when you write.   Those practices are part of what Women’s Voices Rising  will teach you.  If you missed the call but would like to listen to the recording, you can download it here.   By the end of the call, one of the women listening shared her insight:  “Community is holy.”   Yes.  Community is holy, and so helpful, when it comes to writing.  It’s so easy to get trapped in feeling like there’s something wrong with you if you’re not making time for writing, or not finishing the projects you begin.   But what if what’s holding you back is simply a problem whose solution you have not yet found?   What if one of the solutions is to write in connection with a community?   I’m offering another free call to share more about Women’s Voices Rising, on Thursday, January 22 at 10 am Pacific Time, 11 am Mountain Time, 1 pm Eastern.  Remember, there are two options for taking this course:  Tuesday evening at 5 pm Pacific, and Thursday morning at 10 am Pacific, starting the week of February 10.   The focus of this call will be another key I teach in this program:  “Turning Your Fear of Writing into A Portal of Love and Unleash Your Creative Power!”   In my experience, almost every writer struggles with fear at some time or another.  Some of us get totally paralyzed by that fear.  But very few writing programs address this fear.   So, if you’re one of the ones who get stopped by your fear, you end up feeling like something’s wrong with you.   What I’ve found, though, is that the fear that stops you is a doorway.  If you find the courage and support to walk through that doorway….to step closer to the fear, so you can really see what it’s all about, you open up tremendous possibility.   The possibility of loving parts of you that are starving for love.   The possibility of freeing your writing from the prison it’s been locked in.   The possibility of truly falling in love with your writing, and having access to all the gifts, magic and energy that comes when you actually write.   And finally, the possibility of bringing your voice into the world, which desperately needs the voice and vision of creative, intelligent, sensitive women, like you.   One the important teachings of Women’s Voices Rising is how to honor your sensitivity, so that you have access to it in order to write; while also protecting it, so you feel safe.   I want to remind you that the early bird registration for Women’s Voices Rising ends today, Thursday, January 15 at midnight Pacific Time.   With two exceptions:   If you come to call live on Thursday, January 22 (10 am pacific, 11 am Mountain, 1 pm Eastern Time)  you can register on that day only for the early bird price.   If you sign up with a friend.  You register for the early bird price of $197, and your friend registers for only $97.00!  That special offer will last until February 1.   If you have any questions about the program, and if it’s right for you, please don’t hesitate to contact me.   Here’s to your voice rising in 2015!   Women’s Voices Can Heal Our World!!  And your voice matters,   Warmly,   Debora Seidman     … [Read more...]

“When I dare to be powerful---“ “When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ---Audre Lorde Women’s Voices Rising exists to help you become powerful, to learn to use your strength in the service of your vision…if and when your vision includes writing. Writing is an incredible paradox. It calls upon us to be courageous, to take the risk to go within and bring out words and visions….but to do this, we also need to be receptive, and soft. We need to find the feminine version of strength: one that allows us to listen deeply to the most tender parts of ourselves, combined with the fierce courage to bring those parts into the world. That’s why Women’s Voices Rising is a program that gives you support and tools to explore your fears about writing. Not so those fears can keep holding you back, but so you can access all the power the fears are covering up. To do that, you need a new way to think about being powerful and strong; one that includes enough receptivity and softness for your creativity to flourish. Today, January 13 at 5 pm Pacific Time, 8 pm Eastern Time, I’m offering a free teleclass to introduce you to this program. I hope you’ll join me. This link will take you to the call- in information. Early Bird Discount This Week: If you register for Women’s Voices Rising by Thursday, January 15, you get a significant discount. So if you’re considering signing up for this program, now’s the time! On the call today, I will share some of the powerful processes that Women’s Voices Rising teaches. I’ll also answer your questions. Please join me! And remember again, the words of poet Audre Lorde: “When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” Where would you be, at the end of 2015, if you learned to find your true strength, your true power, and used it in the service of your vision…in the service of your writing? Here's to your voice rising, Debora Seidman www.deboraseidman.com … [Read more...]

Please join me for a free call introducing Women’s Voices Rising on Tuesday, January 13 at 5 pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 8 pm Eastern Time. Click here to find the call in information. Learn more about the program by reading further. https://deboraseidman.com/programs/womens-voices-rising-teleclass/ Here's what I want you to know: Your Voice Matters. Period. End of story. Your voice matters. That’s the truth. On the deepest level, and at the highest level of who you really are, it’s always true. Your voice matters. Your writing matters. You would not have the desire to write if that weren’t true. It’s part of the blueprint of your soul. Can you imagine how different your life would be if you knew that, in your bones? Your voice matters. Your writing matters. Because you matter. Yes, take a deep breath, please. Women’s Voices Rising is designed to help you have a breakthrough in your relationship with your writing, which essentially means a breakthrough in your relationship with yourself, so that you know, once and for all, that your voice matters: for yourself, and for our world. And you have tools and support to remind you, when you forget. Once you have that breakthrough, you get access to the treasure your fears are keeping you from: the writing itself! Here’s one of the secrets that you learn in Women’s Voices Rising: all the stuff that gets in the way of your writing: all the “I’m not good enough” … All the fear, self-doubt, self-blame, etc, makes itself known when you move forward on the writing path because it’s covering exactly the place where you’re ready to grow, transform, heal, and evolve. So that you become the woman your writing is asking you to be! How cool is that? One of the things we discover, in Women’s Voices Rising, is that when you open to the truth of what your writing wants for you….it wants you to Write! Really, it does. And when you unlock that door, to hearing the truth of what your own writing has to say, you open the door to a tremendous source of strength and support. That’s just one of things that will happen in this program. You will learn how to follow the path of writing as a path of love. Your own writing AND all the stuff that comes up to get in the way, becomes a way to learn to love yourself, in all the places where love got interrupted. If you follow the path of writing as a path of love you get stronger, healthier, clearer about your purpose for being here. And….if you follow the path of writing in the company of other women, rising their voices for life on earth… You get to be part of creating a world where all of life matters. You get to be part of healing the earth. Yes. The earth needs your voice, now. And you need your voice, now. Please join me for a free call introducing you to this powerful, life-changing program: Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth The free call is Tuesday, January 13 at 5 pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 8 pm Eastern Time. Click here to find the call in information. The program starts February 10. There’s a day time as well as an evening option. If you register by January 15th you get a significant discount. I look forward to hearing from you. Because, your voice does matter. Blessings on all the songs and stories of your soul, Debora Seidman www.deboraseidman.com … [Read more...]

Imagine a world where women’s voices matter. Yours. Mine. Every woman—and all women—who care about the earth. Those voices matter. Every woman—and all women—who care about healing lost parts of themselves so they have access to their whole self here, now, to live their truth. Those voices matter. Every woman—and all women—who hear the voices of the river, who commune with oak trees, who listen to the red tailed hawk soaring above: their voices matter. My vision for the world I want to be part of creating in 2015 is a world where women’s voices matter. A world where women’s voices rise, together, to speak the truth on behalf of life on earth. Imagine: A circle of women, standing, shoulder to shoulder, linking arms, hands, hearts—spreading across the globe. A circle of women of all colors, all ages, all nationalities, who care about life on earth. Supporting one another, so that each can bring her unique and necessary voice, her unique and necessary vision, into the world. Imagine how supported you would feel, if you stood in that circle, knowing there was a woman beside you, supporting you, caring about your voice, as you care about hers. That’s the world I invite you to join, in Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth. Do you feel you have something to say, but struggle with fears, self-doubt, even shame when you come face to face with your longing to write? Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth is for you. Do you know three women whose voice matters, but isn’t yet being heard? Would you share this email with them? Because Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth is for them. On Tuesday, January 13, I invite you to join me for a free call introducing the vision of Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth. The call will be at 5 pm Pacific Time, 6 pm Mountain Time, 8 pm Eastern Time. Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth is a powerful, life-changing seven week teleclass. The class begins February 10, if you want an evening class ( 5pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 7pm Central, 8 pm Eastern) Or, if you prefer a day time class, there’s also a section that begins Thursday, February 12, at 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, 12 noon Central, and 1 pm Eastern Time. There’s an early bird discount if you sign up by January 15, so now’s the time to register!! Or come to the free call on Tuesday, January 13, to learn more and get your questions answered. Please check out my new video (very short, only 1 minute) about why women’s voices matter. And leave your comments below…I want to hear from you! Why do you think women’s voices matter for life on earth? If you feel women’s voices matter for life on earth, where does it get hard for you, to value your own voice? How might that change, if you were part of a circle of women, each one supporting you, each one someone you wanted to support, to find her truest voice, her most powerful, significant, life-enhancing vision? And the words, the courage, the confidence, to know that nothing is more important than this: to love yourself enough to know that you matter, your voice matters, and your vision is necessary to the healing of our world, starting with your own world? We are all inter-connected. If your voice is blocked, or stuck, or deeply buried in fear, it affects me, because, in the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Now is the time! Your voice matters! We need you….and You need you! To believe in yourself that much. And Women’s Voices Rising is here to help. To help you believe in yourself, so you can be free enough to know that your voice matters! Come to the free call, Tuesday, January 13, 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern Time. Register for the early bird special. Watch this video and leave your comments about why you think Women’s Voices Matter for Life on Earth!!! … [Read more...]

A session I had last week with a long time student began with her reflecting, “I gave up on every dream I had.” She continued to say how she feels now, when she comes back to her creativity, her writing. “It’s the gift of returning home.” She’s been dancing with her writing for a few years now, coming closer, moving away, like many of us. Like I did for a long time. Until I learned to trust myself. Until I learned what I needed to be safe, in order to actually stay present with that dream I wanted most: the dream of being a writer. I know this is a busy time of year. But because it’s also a reflective time of year, I want to offer you a question to consider: How would your life change if you Really knew, that your voice mattered? How would your life be different, this time next year, if you took a stand to believe in yourself and your call to write? If you got it in your bones, that you are worthy of doing the writing that you long to do? After twenty years of teaching, coaching and mentoring women who want to write, and longer than that working through what gets in the way of my own writing, if there’s one thing that I know for sure it’s that what keeps us from writing is never what we think it is. It’s not that you’re not good enough. It’s not that you don’t have time. It’s some version or another of not knowing your own worth. Not knowing that your voice matters. And mixed in with that, is fear. On some level, it’s all about fear. All of this makes a lot of sense. Writing is scary. It’s risky to be vulnerable, to go within and find what you really think and feel. And it’s risky to put your voice out into the world, where it’s subject to what other people think and feel. It takes a great deal of strength, courage and self-respect to keep going for your writing dreams. And yet I believe that if you’re called to write, for any reason, that call matters. And if you don’t write, something will always be missing from your life. Following that call may very well lead you into territory that’s uncomfortable, because, as I said, it’s risky to write. Yet if you keep going toward the call, you have the opportunity to truly fulfill your soul’s destiny. And if you pay attention to the places where you get scared and stuck and filled with self-doubt, you have the opportunity to heal your own wounds. Writing can teach you to love yourself. Writing can show you where you are not yet able to love yourself. And then, if you pay attention, writing can set you free to love yourself more than you ever knew was possible. I believe that Women’s Voices are profoundly necessary to life on earth, in these times. I believe that your voice matters. It matters to you, because only if you free your voice will you have access to the fullness of yourself. And it matters to our world. Because only if sensitive, intelligent, conscious women bring their voices into the world, will the conversation change, about what matters for life on earth. I created the class, Women’s Voices Rising for Life on Earth specifically to address the fears and doubts that get in your way, and to offer you new tools and a new paradigm for creating a healthy relationship with your writing. The class will help you clarify your Sacred Call to Write. And teach you to source your writing in a connection with the Earth, the wisdom of your own body, and what is Sacred to you. This is a powerfully transformative class. I’ve been teaching it over this past year as a four week teleclass. As I’ve developed this program, it’s deepened and strengthened, and in February, 2015, I’m launching it as a seven week teleclass. This class draws on twenty years of experience teaching writing as an earth-centered, body centered, sacred process. And twenty years of experience working with women to free them from the blocks that keep them from writing. On Tuesday, January 6 I’ll be offering a free teleclass to share the important teachings of this program, and to give you a chance to ask any questions. The class itself begins Tuesday, February 10, or on Thursday, February 12. There will be two sections. Tuesday at 5 pm Pacific Time ( 8pm Eastern) and Thursday at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern. You can learn more about the class here. Please join me on Tuesday, January 6 for a free call to learn more about Women’s Voices Rising. The call will be at 5 pm Pacific, 6 pm Mountain, 8 pm Eastern Time. If you’re ready to register, there’s an early bird price in effect from now until January 19. After that, the price goes up. For now, I invite you to consider the question I started with: how would your life change if you really knew that your voice matters? In these sacred days as we move toward the end of 2014, take some time with your journal to respond to that question. May you be blessed with miracles in this season, Debora Seidman www.DeboraSeidman.com … [Read more...]