A Whole New Kind of Women’s Movement.

Hi there, beautiful women. I’m Sara Avant Stover, the author of the best-selling book The Way of the Happy Woman. I’m also a yogini, teacher, and mentor to thousands of women around the world. My passion is helping women reclaim the sources of their greatest power and insight.

One of the most profound sources of our power is the very thing that we, as women, are taught to turn away from and ignore. I like to say it’s the “M’s” — our menarche and menopause, menses and moods.

If you have a simple question or minor problem with your cycle, you may be missing the deeper question and profound answers hidden within it. Freedom from self-sabotage, procrastination, creative blocks, emotional eating, painful cycles, and paralyzing self-doubt lies at the very heart of your own cycle.

Let’s see what’s there for you!

What is “Reversing Our ‘Curse’”?

An Online Immersion

April 1 to August 1, 2013

At our best, we work, play, and live “putting up with” menstruation and menopause. At our worst, we consider it a ‘curse’. Either way, we’re missing the true power and grace that our cycles gift us, every single month. We don’t have the infrastructure of support to recognize that our cycles are not isolated events.

They are part of an interconnected web in the totality of who we are, and more importantly, who we can be. No matter if you’re an in-the-world entrepreneur, a stay-at-home mom, or a healer moving into her golden years, this program will ground you in the most powerful part of yourself.

Reversing Our ‘Curse’ has different themes, extended over 5 initiations:

• Reclaiming the Dark Feminine and Loving Our Disowned, Shadow Selves
• Healing Our Shame and Uncovering the Hidden Truth of PMS
• Period Power: Channeling the Red-Robed Goddess (YES! The Goddess Bleeds!)
• True Wisdom Initiation: Perimenopause and Menopause
• Integrating Your Cycles into Your DAILY Life, Work, Relationships, and Play

Reversing Our ‘Curse’ is designed to bring you back into harmony with your cycles.

Our Periods Are Not a ‘Curse’

Far from it. It turns out that when we are in harmony with our cycles, our world gets a whole lot easier. Less stressful and more playful. Increased fertility, of mind and body. Greater creativity and joy. Heightened intuition, self-confidence, and sense of personal power. And fuller reserves of energy, sexuality, and overall vibrancy. When you’re in harmony with your cycles, you can:

• …Stop living on the surface of life, and instead step out and live the life you know you were born to live.
• …Get real answers to your questions about life that honor your depth, your complexity, and your deepest femininity.
• …Find better ways to exercise, eat, construct our business plans, make love, relate, and connect to the Divine.
• …Be more productive, and to uncover that ever-elusive happiness and joy we keep seeking outside of ourselves.

Reversing Our ‘Curse’ is About Every Part of You…

This online immersion is designed to allow you to reclaim the deepest parts of your femininity. We’ll dive into what you can do to harness your deepest gifts, even in the midst of a (very) busy life and at any age and season of life. We’ll explore each of the following areas of your inner and outer worlds for optimal feminine health, happiness, and wisdom:

• Emotions — capacity for joy, happiness, embracing your shadow feelings, and ecstasy…
• Body — fertility, weight, overall health, fitness, digestion, energy levels, aging, diet choices, hormones, vibrancy and radiance, longevity, disease resistance…
• Mind — focus, creativity, intensity, sexual arousal, drive, body image, envisioning and manifesting your dreams…
• Spirit — intuition, unshakeable inner guidance, devotion, divine feminine archetypes, meditation and yoga for different times of the month and stages of the moon
• Career — business planning and feminine business models, scheduling, managing others, visioning, manifestation and execution of ideas, rest and play
• Relationships — sexual and relational intimacy, emotional connectedness, genuine bonding, clear communication, nurturing unions, wise parenting, skillful and loving boundaries…

… And ROC is Especially About Your Spirit

Most courses and programs on menstruation and menopause teach the things you can do externally for yourself. We will certainly cover these, from foods to supplements to lifestyle and physical practices. But there is a truth about being a Goddess, sisters: the Goddess bleeds.  

This is expressed through the Dark Feminine who lives within you, and who gets very strong for a few days each month. When she is ignored, she sabotages you with PMS, self-doubt, viscous inner criticism, and a life deeply out of touch with what’s around you. When you learn to listen to her, she becomes a powerful ally in life, in business, in parenting, and in partnerships.

It’s Not Just About Us. It’s About ALL of Us.

We’re Giving Back.

Millions of girls living in developing countries skip up to 20% of the school year simply because they cannot afford to buy sanitary products. This has enormous consequences on their potential.

If you register for this course, you will sponsor an African girl to receive a complete AFRIpads kit that will supply her with re-usable cotton pads for the entire year, through the Vancouver-based company Luna Pads.

Reversing Our ‘Curse’ Includes:

• 5 initiations:
  1. Reclaiming the Dark Feminine and Loving Our Disowned, Shadow Selves
  2. Healing Our Shame and Uncovering the Hidden Truth of PMS
  3. Period Power:  Channeling the Red-Robed Goddess (YES! The Goddess Bleeds!)
  4. Wisdom Initiation: Perimenopause and Menopause
  5. Integrating Your Cycles into Your DAILY Life, Work, Relationships, and Play
• 10 live classes (about 2/month) , 75 minutes each. Six of these will be a lecture format (audio), where I will unravel in depth the topic at hand. Four of them will include a yoga and meditation practice tailored for that theme (video), as well as time for Q & A.
• 11 intimate interviews with guest experts. These will be delivered via mp3 (audio) in between each of the live classes.
• Flexibility for your schedule. Everything is recorded, so you can enjoy the course at your own pace.
• Diet, exercise, supplements. You’ll learn all of the latest from my own life experience and from our hormone and nutrition guest experts.
• Yoga and meditation.  Live video classes for all levels of experience. Custom fit for different times of the month, and different seasons of life.
• A healing sisterhood. The women in this community WILL feel like your sisters! This is a place to connect, reveal, receive, and guide one another.
• A place to feel safe talking about what you’re afraid to talk about. Sex, birth control, bleeding through you pants in public. All of it. It’s ALL okay here.
• Tap into your deepest soul wisdom. We’ll dive into the heart of your femininity — your soul, your relationship to the Divine, and your own inner goddess
• A tried and true, completely unique course, not available anywhere else, where you’ll decode your own feminine rhythms to steer and serve you for the rest of your life.
• Ongoing support, guidance, and wise woman leadership. I will be there with you, like a fiercely loving and compassionate mother, every step of the way. Beside me you will also have the love and support my 3 talented and well-trained teaching assistants for the course, as well as my office manager, Watz (to keep us all organized).  We have a full support team waiting for you with open arms!

During Our Journey, You’ll Have Access to These Resources:

• A private Facebook “Virtual Women’s Circle” to get your questions answered, learn and share with other women of all ages and cultures, and continue our studies and discovering in between our live classes
• Audio and video recordings for all of our live classes to review, or to take the course in your own time
• Special articles, practices, recipes, and other inspiring surprises
• An archive of rich, wonderful, and oh-so very “raw and real” interviews with our esteemed guest teachers
• A recommended reading and resource list
• A pretty PDF poster of how to align your life and work with the moon cycles

This is My Passion & My Purpose. The Culmination of the Last 13 Years of My Life.

You deserve to live this feminine wisdom that can change every part of your life! Reversing Our ‘Curse’ is for any woman who is ready to take charge of her own life, in a deeply feminine way.

The Full Course:

Discover and integrate the creative genius and irresistible power of your darkest parts.

• Stop running from the darkness your cycles bring.
• Gain an understanding of your own inner Dark Feminine, and what She’s trying to tell you.
• Channel Her amazing power and creativity into the hardest places in your life.
• Turn Her into an ally that you can use at will.
• Learn to use Her to find the true lightness, joy, and happiness you’ve always sought.
• Find out how to communicate Her needs clearly and skillfully to curtail the secretive and shameful ways that you self-sabotage as well as the monthly, explosive tiffs with your partner, children, or colleagues.

Trade in the taboos you’ve inherited about your monthly cycles. Gain the wise-woman skills to decipher your Soul’s secret callings hidden inside PMS, using it as fuel for your grandest life vision and highest expression of yourself.

• Learn essential yoga + meditation practices for PMS (NOT taught in any public class).
• Get compassionate communication guides with your partner/family/co-workers that will invite them into your inner world, not leave them on the outside.
• Relieve painful PMS problems.
• Discover how lunar rhythms impact your mood, energy, and hormonal cycles and how to synch up with them, as our ancestors did.
• Find out what foods, herbs, supplements, and other “externals” can help heal your PMS.

Discover why the key to your greatest creativity, rejuvenation, intuition, and empowerment comes once a month — right to you, right within you. And learn how to ecstatically dance with, rather than deny, Her.

• Uncover your own biases and self-judgments about your period (and why that matters).
• Learn to cultivate the raw emotional power and (otherwise bewildering) dynamism that comes at this time.
• Weigh the pros and cons different kinds of birth control and different forms of menses management.
• Cultivate hidden intuitive powers to steer the rest of your life.
• Know how to honor and protect your boundaries with partners, children, colleagues, and friends.
• Explore important lifestyle questions: Sex, sleep, food, vitamins and supplements, exercise, saunas, swimming, and more.
• Embrace the women’s yoga and meditation practices to unlock incredible intuition and inner goddess goodness (again, NOT taught in any public class!) that’s only available in such excess at this time.
• Recognize how to participate in this power each month, even if you are no longer bleeding and/or no longer have a uterus.

View the whole arc of your womanhood and prepare yourself for what’s here, or what’s ahead.

• Learn to stay connected to your feminine rhythms by living aligned with lunar cycles, even when you’ve stopped bleeding.
• How to tap into your womb wisdom, even if your womb has been removed.
• Discover what foods, supplements, yoga and meditation practices, and activities best help your hormones and moods during these important shifts and changes.
• Receive support for the identity changes you’re undergoing and be seen and received in the fullness of who you are and the life you’ve lived.
• Reframe bewilderment and frustration as deep wise-woman knowing.
• Explore how to enrich your sexuality and vibrancy during these seasons of life.
• Deepen your wisdom and understanding to help the next generation of women.

Weave all of your revelations and breakthroughs into the nitty gritty of your day-to-day life—business models, creative projects, 9-5 jobs, raising families, and leading communities.

• Map out the “4 seasons” of your monthly cycle and how to harmonize all aspects of your life with it.
• Know the peaks and valleys of your month, for best times to tap into distinct flavors and expressions.
• Give your vision “legs.” Develop business models and creative strategies from your intuitive unearthings and feminine rhythms.
• Learn the womanly way to do business in the world.
• Take the leap and make those hard choices, speak those words that you keep inside, with the help of your new self-confidence and unshakeable inner knowing.
• Establish thriving partnerships—with spouses, children, friends, and co-workers, by owning and skillfully communicating your needs and deepest truths.
• Get the ones you love on your side to realize the success and joy that you most long for.
• Enhance your simple daily self-care and spiritual rituals and routines to carry you forward. Continue living your ah-hah’s far beyond the scope of our course, through the rest of your life.

Why Wait Another Month … This is Your Precious Life!

I taught a shorter version of course for the first time in spring of 2012, and it was a huge success. Women left ablaze and alive.

Here’s what some of them had to say about it (and this is just a tiny sample — look to the Praise section below for longer from-the-heart comments!).

“Intense, wild, and powerful…”
“An amazing journey…”
“A powerful month for me…”
“I never expected a course could touch me this deeply…”
“Life changing…”
“JUICY…”
“This course contains such profound wisdom…”
“Best course ever!”

A Journey Unlike Anything You’ll Find Elsewhere

It’s the result of a lifetime of work on my end, and of the combined wisdom of dozens of my most treasured teachers and mentors. I’m standing on the shoulders of the women giants who came before me, who were kind enough to reach out and pull me up.

And now, I’m reaching out to you.

Our (Sexy) Guest Teachers

• Angela Farmer

  Creative Women’s Yoga Luminary “The Descent of the Goddess.”

• Sofia Diaz

  Hatha Yoga Master and Expert in Feminine Spiritual Practice (and my core spiritual teacher!) “Divine Feminine Archetypes, Love Devotion, and Key Components to a Feminine Spiritual Practice”

• Dr. Sara Gottfried

  Author, The Hormone Cure, Harvard-Educated Gynecologist, Yoga Teacher and Transformational Speaker “How to Be Happy, Hot, and Hormonally Healthy through PMS, Periods, Perimenopause, and Beyond”

• Surya Little

  Director of Prajna Yoga & Women’s Yoga Specialist “Women’s Yoga & Nutrition for Perimenopause and Menopause”

• Sabrina Chaw

  Founder of A Feminine Feast; Women’s Wellness & Empowerment Coach “Surf the Waves of Your Hormones through Perimenopause & Menopause with Ease and Grace”

• Chameli Ardagh

  Founder of Awakening Women “Reclaim Your Feminine Rhythms in Work & in Life”

• Catherine Hunziker

  Wise Woman Herbalist and Founder of WishGarden Herbs “Simple Herbal Remedies for Feminine Cycles and Self Healing”

• DeAna L’Am

  Founder of Red Moon School of Empowerment for Women & Girls™ “Speaking skillfully to young girls and women about their cycles “

• Alisa Vitti

  Functional Nutritionist, founder of FLOliving.com and author of WomanCode “Embodied Cyclical Time Management: How to use the biochemical and neurochemical shifts in your cycle to get everything you want in life”

• LiYana Silver

  Relationship Expert; Founder of Man Whispering and The Inner Feminine Badass Bootcamp “How to Magnetize Your Man Into Your Greatest Ally During Your Most Sensitive Time of the Month”

• Jennifer Racioppi

  Women’s Health and Success Coach “Success Is Not A Race, It’s a Rhythm: For Entrepreneurs and Women in Business, How to Create a Feminine Business Plan, Around Your Cycles”

Ready to Receive the Happiness You Deserve?

I’ve shared everything I can about happiness with you.  My book, the just-finished I Heart My Moon Cycle Month.  Newsletters.  Public talks.  YouTube videos. Interviews.  Practices. But we need more than to just hear the message in order for our lives to change. We need to do this together.

Words O’ Praise

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  “…I used to experience a lot of tiredness, weakness, and anxiety around my cycles …Now, instead of those things, I feel my power…”

  “Before I participated in “Reversing Our ‘Curse’” I used to experience a lot of tiredness, weakness, and anxiety around my cycles …Now, instead of those things, I feel my power. I’ve learned that my anxiety was a sign that I wasn’t taking good care of myself during the rest of the month, or most especially during my period. I now feel like I’m on a journey and an adventure, and I look forward to my cycles. We women are really lucky to have this time to slow down…”

  Lydia England Los Angeles, California
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  “…It has changed my relationships on all levels, I’m astounded and continue to process what this means for me. Thank you, Sara, for the grace, wisdom, and beauty you are sharing…”

  …”I realized that I didn’t understand my menstrual cycle at all, beyond the basics I was taught in school. I never really looked at myself and thought: how does my cycle affect me, my moods, my health? I hadn’t really given it any thought—and I’m 32!… Overall, I learned how powerful it is, even in an online space, when women come together not just to learn, but to share their experiences. It’s incredible for me to realize this, but I don’t think I’ve ever really had a discussion with a woman about what her menstrual cycle is like, and I’ve never talked to women about their menopause process is like either. It was very educational for me to engage in it in that way.

  I’ve slowed down, tracked my cycle, and explored what it means to live from my feminine centre, rather than my over-achieving linear masculine centre. It has changed my relationships on all levels, I’m astounded and continue to process what this means for me. Thank you, Sara, for the grace, wisdom, and beauty you are sharing. I look forward to much more!

  I think every woman should take this course!”

  Claire Higgens Dubai, UAE
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  “…I didn’t know if I could really learn from Sara, considering she’s a few decades younger than me, but wow, I had so much to learn..”

  “I almost didn’t sign up for this course because I’m already in menopause, but I’m so glad that I did, because there was so much for me in this too! I also didn’t know if I could really learn from Sara, considering that she’s a few decades younger than me. But, wow, I had so much to learn from her. She was a wonderful teacher, and I realized that I have much to learn from women of all ages…”

  Christine Frances Jefferson Cupertino, Califonia
• “Intense, wild and powerful. My words fall short. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU, Sara, Thank you fellow goddesses!”
  Eirin Selsvold Asker, Norway
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  “…To have been so seen in this course was truly gifting and deeply healing.”

  “YES! YES! YES! I marvel at the miracle that happens when women honor each other and mirror back the truth of all that we contain. To have been so seen in this course was truly gifting and deeply healing.

  This work is vital… I’ve been very involved in women’s work already for decades. This course truly helped me to deepen in my journey.

  It’s the medicine of our time.”

  Naree Shields Australia
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  “…I have come deeply face-to-face with my personal beliefs about my cycle, my feminine personal history, and my fears, shame, and dreams.”

  “This past month has really cracked me open and stretched me in ways I’ve never been stretched before. I have come deeply face-to-face with my personal beliefs about my cycle, my feminine personal history, and my fears, shame, and dreams. Being in perimenopause how, there are juicy things percolating inside of me now….I feel like I’m on the brink of something new. This gives me tingles and goosebumps because I know, really know, that I’ve met me on the path again. I feel honored to not only continue on my journey, but to also trust, open up, and share what I can offer to the women I meet along the way. In deepest gratitude and love to you all, and especially to you, Sara.”

  Linda Maria Sperl Long Island, NY
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  “…During the course I realized, wow! I can develop a relationship with myself and my cycle every month“

  “I have always looked at my cycle as a curse. When I signed up for “Reversing Our ‘Curse,’” I was truly fed up with my relationship with it and my negative feelings towards it.

  During the course I realized, wow! I can develop a relationship with myself and my cycle every month. It’s okay not to feel “on” all the time, and to allow myself the space to ebb and flow throughout my cycle.

  I found this work of looking inwards to be very emotional. I was afraid to really get to know myself, of finding out what is really “deep down in there.”

  But this course really helped me with that. It helped me to dig deeper and get to know myself. When I came out on the other side, I was surprised at all the wonderful things I discovered about myself.”

  Natasha Krochina Wyoming USA
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  “…Now I am much more comfortable with my negative emotions and the darker aspects of myself and my womanhood.”

  “I realized that it is possible to live in peace and harmony with my cycle. This was not only intellectual realization, but something I could deeply feel. Plus, now I am much more comfortable with my negative emotions and the darker aspects of myself and my womanhood.

  Sara, you created here such intimate and caring atmosphere, I really appreciate it. I learned from you also as a teacher, thank you once more!”

  Evelin Tael
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  “…My life as a woman is forever expanded because of this work.”

  “I was working on healing a chronic disease when I met Sara…Now, having completed the course, and also being a part of Sara’s Red Tent, I can’t express how much my perspective on my life has changed because of this work! For the first time I realized my resentment and denial of my womanhood, and how unhealthy that was. I was craving connecting with the cycles of nature, and wasn’t even aware that meant my own cycles as well!

  After opening up and diving into the “deep end” I am so grateful for this transformation. I feel connected to nature, the moon, and my hormonal cycle in a way I have never known before. I feel like I am healing and expanding in a deeply beautiful way.

  On the physical level, after the course, my moon cycle shifted after just one cycle from the full moon to the new moon. My menstrual cramps are much less, as well as other feminine problems that I was formerly experiencing.

  I am now daily embracing being open and receptive to the “dark feminine,” which speaks to me as much as the bright and shiny assertive goddess that I am!

  My life as a woman is forever expanded because of this work. I would highly recommend this course to all women regardless of life stage- I am so grateful for Sara opening the door and holding the space so that I and the other women can step through with our vulnerable hearts.”

  Zina Mercil Boulder, CO

What Men Have to Say About This Course

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  “…Zina is a different woman now…embracing fully all the beauty, power, and messiness that that includes”

  “This work is seminal to any partnership in which women participate, as well as to a woman’s individual process, because of the involvement in a community of reclamation, and a shared mystical experience… two things that our culture desperately needs, especially where women are concerned. Zina is a different woman now, seeking solace amongst her sisters in her very own “Red Tent”, embracing fully all the beauty, power, and messiness that that includes.

  Our individual and household spiritual practices have deepened, and my own relationship to my beautiful, magical partner have been directly effected by her taking ownership of her “curse”, and turning it into the reclamation of her womanly birthright.”

  William E. Ashton, II Boulder, CO
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  “…She tells me when her moon has started. That day and night, she gets my full attention. I bring over her favorite take out food, and we watch a musical of her choice…”

  “My girlfriend Tessa read The Way of the Happy Woman a few months back, and it completely changed the way we look at her monthly moon cycles. It used to be a rough day; we’d disagree, or have some kind of argument, and I’ only find out afterwards that she was on her moon.

  Now, we have an entirely new thing we do. She tells me her moon as started. That day and night, she gets my full attention. I bring over the food of her choice, and we watch a musical of her choice (an admission: I don’t really like musicals, but she loves them). It’s two small things that I do — food and a movie — that completely changes how she relates to her cycle and how we relate to each other.

  She now LOVES the first day of her moon, and she actually looks forward to it instead of dreading it. We connect so nicely on this day that it really helps to set the tone for the next month. Her moon cycle is now a day of rest and connection for both of us.”

  Jason Lange Los Angeles, CA

Free Your Deepest Desires On the World

I invite you to slow down and drop in. Deepen your breath. Place one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly. Connect with your inner wisdom. Connect with Her. Ask yourself: is this something I could really use? What would be the benefit to me, my loved ones, and my work in the world if I loved myself in this way and gave myself this gift?

A Recap and Why You Should Say “YES!”

What: An online immersion to heal your cycles (at any age), reclaim the most powerful parts of your femininity, to fuel the change, vision, creativity, fertility, health, and connection to spirit you most strongly desire!

When: April 1 – August 1, 2013 (the Year of the Woman!)

Why: Because what you’ve been taught about your cycles is far too limiting for the real power locked inside of your feminine spirit.

Cost: $89/month for 5 months, or one payment of $400.  OR TWO WOMEN FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!  Bring a friend, and save 50%.

Refund Policy

This is a non-refundable investment in your relationship with your own deepest femininity. This also means that payment plans cannot be stopped prematurely. It’s your invitation to turn into your deepest shame and fears, and to transform the darkness of your cycles into the light of your life. This program really is different. And it’s this difference that made me decide to have a no-refund policy. Read on to see if this is something that resonates with your deepest calling. (For the record, last time this was offered and there was a refund policy, not a single woman asked for one!)

• This is your chance to face some of the biggest taboos in your life, and in all our lives as women. This is sometimes dirty, messy work. The joy and lightness we desire, the fertility and happiness, are linked to our willingness to acknowledge the darkness. To be whole, you need to go the places you’ve avoided, maybe for decades.
• When you’re growing up, you can’t stop halfway to 18 and turn around and go back to childhood. The Goddess is too smart to give us that choice. Real growth continues until it’s finished, sometimes in spite of ourselves. This course is designed to take you through a specific arc of learning, insight, and empowerment. If you stick with this WHOLE program, I’m confident you’ll emerge on the other side having grown through the parts of yourself that most needed it. Your life will reflect the change in ways you can’t anticipate yet.
• But some of what you face may be unpleasant and difficult. When I teach live events I never let women leave part-way through. They need to stay until the end. This strengthens our collective container, and helps to soar to new levels of freedom that have never been possible before. The same must be true for an online space if we are going to go deep. You may want to quit. By not offering a refund, it helps to ensure that you stick through this entire program and gain the benefits of all the work!
• All the information you need to decide is right here, either on this page or on my website. I made sure there are no surprises, no unexpected things you’ll find or uncover as you go through the course. It’s all here. So ask yourself: Does this page sense to you? Does it resonate with what you want? Are you curious about the topics? Do the guest teachers seem interesting? Perhaps most importantly, do you believe you can have a life-changing experience through an online program? Use what’s here to see if this program really, truly speaks to you.
• No refunds means there’s a cost to your leaving. When you feel resistance, you have to make a choice if you want to push through (with my help) to the next insight, or walk away. By not giving you an “out”, I’m asking you to TRUST YOURSELF, to trust this process, and to trust your community of soul sisters taking the plunge with you.

Most of all, I’m asking you to consider, deeply, right now. What is your soul whispering? Listen closely, and you’ll hear Her speaking to you in this moment.

Reverse Your ‘Curse,’ Forever…

This is it. Here we go into a whole new kind of women’s movement. Are you ready?