Entries by Tracee

Dis-enchanted, a Romance with Feminism

I’m going to a panel about feminism and blogging with Heather, the queen of getborn magazine tomorrow. I’ve long said that blogging and the internet brings Freedom of Speech to reality for women in this country. Women may have had the “right to speak” before, but who would hear them? I’ve also identified as a […]

Online Date is Perfect Filter

I’m now dipping my toe in the dating scene. Literally, the last date I went on was a foot massage. I work from home and I go to church with menopausal lesbians, so online dating is the perfect place to meet men. Here’s what I have learned about online dating in your 30s and 40s. […]

Cheaping Out on Yourself?

I have had some amazing massage experiences since I made the commitment to my own healing work in a luxurious way. And I’ve had some pretty bad experiences too. Every single time it was because I was cheaping out on massages. I was paying rock bottom prices on Living Social and I went to a […]

Help Me Change My Life: Belly Flat

I went see Catherine Gregory, the Mayan Massage therapist whose hands are featured on my dream board. I had been preoccupied with my belly area. In 2012 I gained a shocking amount of weight. I broke my clavicle and could barely move, in fact, was instructed not to lift, push or pull anything over five […]

Create a Vision Board: Healing Work Manifesting

This is a picture on my dream board for 2013. My Soul started the year weary. My body too. I’ve come to realize, over time, that healing doesn’t have to be “hard work,” as I had been told in my early 20’s in traditional therapy. Instead, it can be easy, delicious and soothing. It’s a […]

Help Me Change My Life: My Own SpiritQuest in Sedona

I’m surrounded by red rocks, Vortexes and phallic crystals in Sedona, Ariz. I am being hosted by SpiritQuest, a spiritual guide company. Established six years ago by Ed Preston and Katherine Preston Lash, this company fields calls from the hurting, traumatized people of the world who find themselves at a pivotal point in their lives. […]

Temporary Sovereignty is Divine @TheBroadSide

As I embarked on a personalized week-long retreat with SpiritQuest, a spiritual retreat company, in Sedona, I take a deep breath and realize a very important thing. I am sovereign. Standing at a crossroads in my life I find myself in a uniquely liberating position. Sovereignty. I divorced last year, . . (read the rest […]

SpiritQuest in Sedona (2012 Rehab)

2012 was kind of a bitch. She whipped and whirled me. She tossed me this way and that. She brought some pretty amazing gifts, but they were hard-won and raggedly delivered. I spent most of the year going through a divorce and grieving a 12-year-marriage. We had to piece together a new family dynamic from […]

Law of Attraction & Relationships: Sister Wives

My friend Jenny is the coolest person I know. As a writer I admire her unique ability to turn a phrase. I frequently steal choice catch phrases and claim them as my own. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, so they say. Every time I’m with her I pee myself a little, from laughing, […]

The Cycle of Womanhood: Abundance Week vs F* You Week?

My moods and personality can currently be predicted by my menstrual cycle. They call it perimenopause. It means that my body, spirit and soul is going through a life-changing transformation, as every woman does. Abundance Week: The real me is optimistic, powered, productive, ambitious, full of self esteem and self approval, and reacts to life […]

Law of Attraction & Money: The Entrepreneur vs. The Unemployed

In 2009 I sat in a Toastmaster’s meeting in which we shared what we really, really wanted to do for a living. One woman said she dreamed of working with geriatrics, but felt that was impractical so she was struggling through to retirement from the postal service. Isn’t that funny? I know many people who […]

The Year of Yes! Following My Inner Wise Woman

I had a realization in 2012: my Soul will always get what She wants. To resist or ignore the voice of my Inner Wise Woman, the Still Small Voice, the Holy Spirit’s promptings—whatever you want to call it—will lead to unhappiness and discontent. To listen to this Inner Wise Woman, my Soul’s cry, is to […]