Wealthy

What does it mean to be wealthy?  Does it mean lots of money?  Does it mean to spend lots of money?

To me wealthy means lots of things.  Yes partly wealthy mean to have money and be able to spend it.  But more importantly being wealthy means to live in abundance in all areas of life.  I am feeling so abundant right now.  I have many wonderful friends that are amazing.  I have a great family who I love.  And I have a fun job that I enjoy!

I am grateful for all the abundance in my life right now.  I feel so wealthy!  I live in a great area of the city I live in.  I am close to great little shops and this fabulous tea house where I am sitting.  Enjoying a great chocolate mint tea!  I'm on my second pot of tea!  It's wonderful!  I feel so amazing.  And the lady who works here just went and filled my pot again!  Wow!!

I feel abundant in my work place too, I have many different things I do at work, and I also have times to be creative, making posters and bulletin boards!

I feel abundant because of the amazing friends I have here in Calgary and across the country and world!  I have friends who I can call at 3am for support.  Friends that love me for me, and can see past all my shells or masks that I can wear.  I can celebrate with them, cry with them, and just be me with them.

I love my family as well!  My Mum and Dad are great.  And my Sister is amazing!  My little nephew is just a joy, and my brother in law is so supportive of Aren!

I am wealthy because I am healthy!  I have no major illnesses to speak of at this moment, and that is a very good thing!

Where in your life do you see yourself wealthy?  And if it's not in every area of your life why not??  You are wealthy!

Find below a little movie that I found on you-tube.  All about abundance!

Love your "girls"

I dedicate this blog to my Aunt Peg who is fighting breast cancer.  In honour of all women who are fighting this cancer in this moment or who are survivors, or to the memory of those women who are with the Great Goddess now looking down on us from up above.  I send my love to you all!

Okay, I must admit, I thought I would never write about a topic that I've had huge self body issues over.  Tonight in the shower I started thinking about the "workshop name" I was given by my teacher this past summer.  He named me "Lady Pomplomous", it's french.  It means Lady Grapefruit. 

When I first heard this name I didn't know the translation from french to English.  Then someone told me!  I laughed!!

I am well blessed in my chest.  It is on the large side.  I started to send love to my breasts, I pressed love into them.  I zoned (a burlesque dance term) and started moving my hips in the shower as well.  I then sent love out to the world from them as well.  There are women in the world because of cancer maybe have lost one or both breasts.  I wish that there was a way to do a breast transplant, I would gladly give some of mine to another woman who has none!  I have lots to share!  Like I have lots and lots of love to share!

So love your breasts!  Big, small, love them all!  Find below two video's that I found on you-tube, dedication to breast cancer awareness month!

Interview Radio Show

Hello everyone!  Today I accomplished something amazing!  I was interviewed by Bright Biz Hub here in Calgary on blog talk radio.  Here is the link to listen to the radio show in it's entirity.  It was such a beautiful thrilling experience!

Listen to internet radio with Bright Biz Hub on Blog Talk Radio

Make Moves

A few days ago I saw this message on a friend's twitter posted this message/quote:  "Make a move even if you're afraid... You'll become bigger as you make bolder moves"  How many moves have you done that you were afraid to do?

I've done many....moving out here to Calgary was one.  I was afraid to do so.  Didn't really know where I was going to live, or what I was going to do for work, all I knew was that I chose to stay.

But how many of those moves have you made where you have lots of butterflies and you're scared out of your tree, but you know in some funny way that you are making a really good choice?

Doing this blog page I was afraid to do, but I knew it be a great thing.  And since starting the blog, I've become bigger.  Now I don't mean physically bigger, in that regard, I've become smaller!  But no, bigger as in I'm not as afraid to try new things, to really put myself out there to shine my love light to the world.

Today I attended a gathering of friends, we did some partner mediation practices.  We had the wonderful opportunity to come up with our own dyad/partner question to work on.  The question I worked on was "Tell me something you yearn to surrender more deeply too."  Wow!  What a question I came up with.  I had lots of learning's and insights around this.  I yearn to surrender more to love, to trust the universe, to surrender to love of self, trust of self.

Trust self that yes I am doing the right thing, that yes I trust myself that I do know what to say to others when the fire is so strong in my belly that I know it will serve both the one I'm speaking with, and others around. 

I made a big move at the Women Embracing Brilliance event a week or two ago here in Calgary.  I had the amazing opportunity to create a mini video to share with the world Awakening Goddess.  I have it below for you.  It's a group of women doing their own individual messages.  Mine is the last one!  Enjoy!

Social Dance Trust

Last night I went out to a social dance.  I try to go when ever they are hosted at the studio where I have my practices for Burlesque.  It's such a fun place, the owners treat everyone like family.  I invite you to visit the website of DancEnergy.  Great atmosphere, everyone is so friendly!

Since it was my birthday on Wednesday at the dance last night we celebrated my birthday too!  Before the day of the dance I requested a song to be placed on the dance list called Amie, it is sung by Lone Star and the original version is by Pure Prarie League.  Growing up my Dad would sing this song to me, and we would dance together, normally me standing on his feet! 

Gerald the owner of DancEnergy was able to find the song and said we could dance to it.  Little did I know what he really meant!  Just before the song played, the music stopped last night, and Dale the other owner of DancEnergy was on the microphone, asking for me to come to the dance floor, and everyone else leave.  I stood there breathing everyone in and sending love out.  Gerald came over and we started dancing with everyone watching!  It was a two step, and not my forte!  Then out of the corner of my eye I saw another man step onto the dance floor, he took over from Gerald and started to lead me around the dance floor, still with everyone watching!  This happened about 6 times!  Being led around the dance floor by these 6 men was a thrilling experience!

I had to totally let go and surrender to what was happening and just let myself flow.  I also had to trust the masculine 100%.  To trust that he'll lead me in the right direction, not let me bump into anyone or anything, and direct me in the dance.  I kept breathing and let myself flow with the music.  A couple of the guys I danced with I had either just met, or did not know them at all.  And that took going too, to dance with a man who I know only very little or not at all was a pretty big step for me.  Trusting the masculine is something I have to relax and practice lots with.  I have to let him be in control, and take his guidance.

Where in your life do you have to relax and trust??

It's Your Time

This morning while enjoying some tea, and the sun shining through the windows of the house where I am house sitting for the weekend the song "Time of my Life" by David Cook came on my music player on the computer.  Have you heard the words of the song?  They are pretty powerful!

The words really spoke to me, they speak about surrendering, letting go of things, dreaming  big, and having the time of my life, and really truly living.

This is the time of my life, it's my time.  As David says in the song, I'm ready to run, arms open wide, keeping my feet on the ground, face to the sun.  I face the sun, breathing and surrendering to love, and living big!  I feel a shift coming in my life, it's a good shift.  I am open to receiving with open arms and surrender to love and gratitude!

I am much more  than just a name, or another face in the group.  I am Aime, I am a divine Goddess! 

To quote another amazing Goddess Sierra Bender:  "I am a 21st century Goddess!  I am feminine.  I am powerful.  I am sensual.  I am sexual.  Don't ever mistake my kindness for weakness.  And don't ever take me for granted!"

Living life from my passion and gift of love for the world, is so much fun!  I love inspiring women to be fully who they are and accept their own wisdom, beauty, grace and power!  We all have that inner spicy Goddess or inner sex kitten in each of us.  It's just when will you let her out to play and embrace your power?! 

Come on Sister, I invite you to take my hand.  It will be a thrilling experience, come and embrace life with me!  I'll be here to support and inspire you!

Find below a version of the David Cook song that I found on you-tube.  I don't own the rights to the music or anything like that, it's just something I found on you-tube that I wanted to share with you all!

I CAN!

So I've had a couple of really busy weeks.  Been really up and down emotionally too.  Last week I got to see and have all the pictures taken at my boudoir photo shoot with Impressive Photography.  I saw the pictures and didn't recognize myself in a bunch of  them.  It didn't look like me at all!

Find below at the end of this blog a picture or two of my favourites!  I have many favourites!  Enjoy!

I am blown away by the responses I've been getting on facebook of the photo's.  I feel very blessed!!

I also had the wonderful pleasure last night attending a beautiful event called Women Embracing Brilliance!  Wow!  What an experience it was!!  I was in the company of some amazing brilliant women!  Even one of my child hood hero's!  Growing up in our family we would watch the Olympics, both summer and winter, to the point where that was all that was on the TV.  I remember watching the 1988 summer Olympics.  We watched the synchronized swimming portion, I saw the duo Canadian team do their routine.  I remember thinking I wanted to meet those athletes!   I was so moved by their gold medal performance, that I wrote a story about competing in the Olympics as a syncro swimmer and winning gold.  And I finally got to meet one of them last night!  I kept thinking I know this woman, then I heard who she was and what sport she used to compete in, and it all clicked!  I knew her from watching her on TV those many many years ago!  It was so amazing to finally meet her!  She is an amazing brilliant woman!

Going into the event last night, I did not know what to expect.  I knew it would be a group of women in one room, but what was going to happen I had no clue.  And that was a risk for me, to step into the event not knowing really anyone that was going, or so I thought.  I knew of a couple yes but when I got there, I knew more than I thought!  It was wonderful.  Hearing 3 stories from the heart from 3 amazing women was so uplifting.

I connected with many women, traded business cards for Awakening Goddess, did a 1 minute promo video for Awakening Goddess and was on cloud nine for most of the night!  One Goddess that I connected with I've known for a few years now.  She told me something that I thank her profusely for.  She looked into my eyes and my heart and said that I am a writer, to keep on writing/blogging.  I connected back with her and was amazed at what she had just told me.

I couldn't believe it, me a writer?  Are you serious?  Growing up I was diagnosed with border line learning disabilities, low level of grammar, spelling and comprehension.  Was told things like I'll never spell well at all, and writing would always be difficult for me.

So NO!  I'm shedding that mask that was put on me growing up.  Even during my adult life, I was "ordered" by an old employer to take a grammar course to become better at writing for my reports.  They said my writing wasn't were it needed to be.  It was humiliating, I thought I was communicating quite well in my reports that I had to write.  They weren't huge reports either. 

So I will continue to keep on blogging.  Maybe one day, they might appear in a book some where, some how.  I am choosing to write, I am choosing to do things that I've been told in the past that I can't do something.  Hey!  Even the best writers in the world still get their work edited!

I can and I will continue to dance, even when my Mum had told me many years ago that I don't look like a dancer and I should stop.

I will continue to teach and inspire women through dance, even when I've been told by others that to be a teacher you need a "diploma" to be seen as a teacher.

I will continue to live!  Even when my Mum and Dad were told 35 years ago that I will not live past 24hrs right after I was born.  I just turned 34 a couple of days ago!  So there medical professionals!

What will you do today that you've been told you can't, or you're not good at ______?

Embrace your power!  You can do it!