A few short years ago I was broke (not just broke but far below the poverty line), jobless, going through a divorce and living in a huge city far away from everyone I loved. I was wracked with anxiety and insomnia. One snowy night in January, I checked myself into a Bronx hospital because I couldn’t feel my body anymore. I was having a nervous breakdown. I felt disconnected, unloved and completely worthless.

Then I got a call inviting me to go to Hawaii… for free.

A few months later, I was there with my sister. You can see how exhausted I was by the dark circles under my eyes. I had been crying for the whole plane ride there. You can see that too. But you can also see how all my pain was melting away like that sunset…

The islands are full of mystery and magic.

Pele, the volcanic fire goddess reigns over it all. I begged her to bestow some healing upon me. She heard my prayers.

Pele cut me open on sharp coral reefs and bled me into her waters. She soaked up my tears with her dry, sandy shores. Schools of fish watched curiously as I exhaled silent screams underwater. Waterfalls roared in tune with the anger I was holding inside. Pele and I sang together in perfect pitch.

And then, mysteriously, all that pain just sort of washed away. I experienced a major shift in consciousness that week, and was suddenly perfectly okay with where I was in my life and where I was going. In less than a week, I found my true self again…

Hiding somewhere under the Pacific ocean, or…

Behind a waterfall, or…

Buried in the sand, or…

Melting into the sherbet-colored sunset…

There she was! My queenly self. All sparkling and bright eyed, waiting to be discovered, honored, valued and loved… by no one other than ME! 

I found my luminous self and I stepped into her. I returned to the mainland a week later totally renewed, inspired and in love with myself and the life I had created.

I am still that whole today. Thanks to Pele. Thanks to the islands.

This fall I will go back and pay my respects to the Goddess who set fire to my life, destroying the pain and igniting the passion. And I will introduce this divine feminine power to other women. Together we will dance under Lemurian moonlight and shed our pain, self-doubt and shadows. We will learn the tools to access our inner Queenly power and never again feel like the servant to our daily lives, our bodies, money stressors, less-than-perfect-lovers, soul-sucking jobs or anything else that zaps our joy.

Together we will embrace our luminous femininity!

If you’d like to experience this, my friend, and fellow international master coach, Zoë Wild and I are taking a small group of women to Maui. Upon our return home, we’ll be leading them through a virtual 3-month mastermind to awaken them to the power of their own inner royalty, through the re-discovery of unique feminine allure, connection with spirit, deep purpose and the major importance of tapping into pleasure!

Our mission is to share these tools with you- in a setting where you will be treated like the Queen you are, because you are worth it!

You are precious!

This is your life, and every moment is a chance to create the life you want instead of waiting for one more day, week, month, year, lifetime…

If you’re interested in transforming with us, you can write to me here or write to both of us at RoyalLifeSociety@gmail.com

And now for the super exciting news!

We are giving away a scholarship to one fabulous woman!

Click HERE to find out how you can win a luxury retreat and 3 months of VIP coaching and sisterhood.

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