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	<title>Barefoot Phoenix - Reflexology and Tarot in Seattle</title>
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		<title>the awesomeness of others!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>i updated my friends page!</p>
<p>now you can find resources and play with the people i love! i have pages and pages of links and information and helpful people planned, so more information to come. but in order to keep the overwhelm to a minimum we dance with these friends!</p>
<p>go check them out!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i updated my friends page!<a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/friends-pages/"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1007" title="friends-button" src="http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/friends-button-150x150.png" alt="friends-button" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>now you can find resources and play with the people i love! i have pages and pages of links and information and helpful people planned, so more information to come. but in order to keep the overwhelm to a minimum we dance with these friends!</p>
<p><a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/friends-pages/">go check them out!</a></p>
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		<title>who ya gonna call?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>well when i need help getting things done i call Hopscotch Distillery.</p>
<p>they make this pretty and help you get it out in the world. Eileen and Brianna are awesome, and truly your thing is so safe and nurtured and loved in their hands.</p>
<p>and they interviewed me about my process creating mommy&#8217;s helpers</p>
<p>click here to read [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well when i need help getting things done i call Hopscotch Distillery.</p>
<p>they make this pretty and help you get it out in the world. Eileen and Brianna are awesome, and truly your thing is so safe and nurtured and loved in their hands.</p>
<p>and they interviewed me about my process creating<a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/mommys-helpers/"> mommy&#8217;s helpers</a></p>
<p><a href="http://hopscotchdistillery.com/blog/">click here to read </a></p>
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		<title>an amazing offer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[announcements!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all things yum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>am amazing woman from Havi&#8217;s kitchen table just announced she is giving away everything she&#8217;s ever made plus more for just $99</p>
<p>and anyone who find this entry should go buy it before she comes to her senses.</p>
<p>i have been procrastinating buying stuff and now i know why.</p>
<p>Goddess Leonie is an incredibly generous and amazing spirit, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>am amazing woman from Havi&#8217;s kitchen table just announced she is giving away everything she&#8217;s ever made plus more for just $99</p>
<p>and anyone who find this entry should go buy it before she comes to her senses.</p>
<p>i have been procrastinating buying stuff and now i know why.</p>
<p>Goddess Leonie is an incredibly generous and amazing spirit, i have been playing with her at the kitchen table this year and it is so delightful to receive her amazing words of wisdom!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.goddessguidebook.com/goddess-circle/">here is the link you need</a></p>
<p>go forth and get $600 worth of ebooks, meditations, business and life help all for $99</p>
<p>http://www.goddessguidebook.com/goddess-circle/</p>
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		<title>do you know?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[YES]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>when work feels like fun and you adore where you are and what you are doing.</p>
<p class="wp-caption-text">there are as many possibilities as stars</p>
<p>i love that.</p>
<p>i think this might be what happens when we continually say YES and pray that someday things will work out.</p>
<p>writing faery postcards to people i&#8217;ve played with and people i&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when work feels like fun and you adore where you are and what you are doing.</p>
<div id="attachment_972" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/post-from-the-faeries/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-972" title="million-stars" src="http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/million-stars-300x225.jpg" alt="there are as many possibilities as stars" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">there are as many possibilities as stars</p></div>
<p>i love that.</p>
<p>i think this might be what happens when we continually say YES and pray that someday things will work out.</p>
<p>writing faery postcards to people i&#8217;ve played with and people i&#8217;ve never met is the most delightful thing ever.</p>
<p>surprises leap out of my pen and i find myself writing things that feel so true they could only have come from beyond me.</p>
<p>i only hope the person on the receiving end finds them as useful.</p>
<p>since everything gets filtered through me, i find nuggets of wisdom and reminders of insight, and truth, and joy and peace and forgiveness.</p>
<p>right now faery post is closed for the year long membership but you can buy one month of post for $8.  a new year long subscription will open at the end of November to begin at winter solstice-save your gold <img src='http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/post-from-the-faeries/">go here</a> and enter i&lt;3fairies where prompted to read more.</p>
<p>faery FAQ page is coming soon- what are your questions that i can include on the frequently asked question page?</p>
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		<title>the birth of a new thing</title>
		<link>http://barefootphoenix.com/reflexology/the-birth-of-a-new-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>and the new thing is all about babies!</p>
<p>i made an ebook!</p>
<p>hooray!</p>
<p>and it&#8217;s for sale!</p>
<p>yippee!</p>
<p>it&#8217;s a tiny ebook about how to help nurture mom&#8217;s-to-be through the delightful and challenging process of pregnancy and birth.</p>
<p>here&#8217;s a link to the sales page that tells you who the book is for and why you want it</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and the new thing is all about babies!<a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/mommys-helpers/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-967" title="Mommys_Helpers_175" src="http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Mommys_Helpers_175.jpg" alt="Mommys_Helpers_175" width="175" height="260" /></a></p>
<p>i made an ebook!</p>
<p>hooray!</p>
<p>and it&#8217;s for sale!</p>
<p>yippee!</p>
<p>it&#8217;s a tiny ebook about how to help nurture mom&#8217;s-to-be through the delightful and challenging process of pregnancy and birth.</p>
<p><a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/the-store/mommys-helpers/">here&#8217;s a link to the sales page that tells you who the book is for and why you want it</a></p>
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		<title>life is like a garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>if only i could remember this more often</p>
<p>things need to be watered</p>
<p>weeds need to be pulled</p>
<p>flowers come and burst forth in glorious color, then die-only to feed the next round of flowers, gently scattering their seeds for next years appearance.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m afraid i will never be done with my garden. this is a thought of comfort [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if only i could remember this more often<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-955" title="tree-tarot-small" src="http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tree-tarot-small-164x300.jpg" alt="tree-tarot-small" width="164" height="300" /></p>
<p>things need to be watered</p>
<p>weeds need to be pulled</p>
<p>flowers come and burst forth in glorious color, then die-only to feed the next round of flowers, gently scattering their seeds for next years appearance.</p>
<p>i&#8217;m afraid i will never be done with my garden. this is a thought of comfort and dread. it seems as if i will never be able to keep up, that i don&#8217;t enjoy the beauty enough, that there is never enough time for it. and yet today as i surveyed the front i realized i was almost complete with it. that i had worked long and hard to establish this beauty and at this point it could now almost take care of itself. such joy and sadness in that realization. my front garden now only needed me a few times a year to trim up and a few drinks of water during the summer.</p>
<p>thank goodness i walked around to corner to be confronted with the chaos that is my back and side yard-but even they will only need maintenance in the coming years.</p>
<p>grass-you have been warned soon you shall be ripped out and replaced with carpets of moss and thyme, maybe an herb spiral and definitely a chicken coop.</p>
<p>maybe in 7 years the neighbors will let me take over their yard <img src='http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>until then may i continue to learn life lessons from my garden</p>
<ul>
<li>about rest</li>
<li>about compost</li>
<li>about pulling that which is killing/stifling you</li>
<li>about trimming back the unnecessary growth</li>
<li>about bursting forth in all your glory</li>
<li>about seeding for the next time around</li>
<li>about loving where you live and digging in roots</li>
<li>about faith that even if this doesn&#8217;t work out-well the effort will fertilize someone else&#8217;s growth</li>
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		<title>the key for the door</title>
		<link>http://barefootphoenix.com/faery/the-key-for-the-door/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="wp-caption-text">the key is: i&#60;3fairies</p>
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		<title>sooper secret project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s faery post. </p>
<p>mail coming to you written by amy and her faery guides.</p>
<p>if you want to know more you have to go here or click on envelope.</p>
<p>it has a secret password, which will be posted in the next post under the door.</p>
<p>because making things a bit more complex means that only cool people will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s faery post. <a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/classes/post-from-the-faeries/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-842" title="mail" src="http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mail.jpg" alt="mail" width="100" height="100" /></a></p>
<p>mail coming to you written by amy and her faery guides.</p>
<p>if you want to know more <a href="http://barefootphoenix.com/classes/post-from-the-faeries/">you have to go here</a> or click on envelope.</p>
<p>it has a secret password, which will be posted in the next post under the door.</p>
<p>because making things a bit more complex means that only cool people will go to the effort of viewing.</p>
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		<title>Friday #13 sooper secret</title>
		<link>http://barefootphoenix.com/the-good/friday-13-sooper-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>once again a glorious post all about me! weeeee! and you can play too by writing all about you in the comments!</p>
<p>the hard</p>
<p>being woken up by evil cackling of crows [at 5 am or earlier]</p>
<p>having sooper secret projects and wanting them to work right now damn it</p>
<p>finshing up other projects and wanting them to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>once again a glorious post all about me! weeeee! and you can play too by writing all about you in the comments!</p>
<p><strong>the hard</strong></p>
<p>being woken up by evil cackling of crows [at 5 am or earlier]</p>
<p>having sooper secret projects and wanting them to work right now damn it</p>
<p>finshing up other projects and wanting them to be done right now damn it</p>
<p>damn it <img src='http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>pulling my psoas and being in SO MUCH PAIN. i remember pain, i have no love of pain. stupid blackberries of doom! must remember never tackle blackberries alone, there will be pain.</p>
<p><strong>the good</strong></p>
<p>magical reflexology which totally fixed psoas and made pain go away. i worked on myself but mainly it was my friend who made it all better!</p>
<p>the alley is spanky clean and sans blackberries which makes it look less yuckified</p>
<p>SOOOPER SECRET PROJECT HORRAY! which will be not secret by next week! *cross fingers*</p>
<p>art! doing art for my website! painting! yay color!</p>
<p>new people coming to see me! i love new peoples! i love being found [mostly]!</p>
<p>inspiration to dig up my entire yard and plant food&#8230; yum food! and dig a root cellar and can things and generally be domestic and a farm wife! where are my chickens? sorry can&#8217;t talk i&#8217;m making jam! the joy! the work! the&#8230; who am i kidding, however there is some &#8220;grass&#8221; that is mainly dandelions that now have a limited life as anything other than next years spinach, broccoli, tomato and pumpkin patch. and maybe this falls kale, spinach, and chard patch <img src='http://barefootphoenix.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>have a glorious 4th of july weekend! go blow things up responsibly. hey america you are 234 and that is kinda cool.</p>
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		<title>more praise for shiva</title>
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		<dc:creator>amy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>here is yet another dance of shiva ramble</p>
<p>i think the important thing with the dance of shiva is finding  someone  to flail around with. i have been much more consistent in my  practice  since i have started meeting once a week or every other week  with my  friend. plus [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>here is yet another dance of shiva ramble</p>
<p>i think the important thing with the dance of shiva is finding  someone  to flail around with. i have been much more consistent in my  practice  since i have started meeting once a week or every other week  with my  friend. plus there is hysterical laughter, great conversation and exclamations of &#8220;Ack! OMG! i had it for like 10 seconds, i was doing it!&#8221;</p>
<p>before that i would really only use it when i was down in the dumps  or  at various really random moments.</p>
<p>i just figured out recently that shiva really helps me integrate and   form my to-do list. although it also inspires brand new projects with   other to-do lists&#8211;crazy!</p>
<p>but if i feel stuck i will often just run through the horizontal and vertical arm positions and maybe wave my arms around wildly in a non-patterned way (which is probably against some rules and i am killing rare birds in mongolia with mad flailing uncontrolled) shoot! now i am worried i cause the oil spill with my disrespect of shiva&#8217;s pattern and form. well i can flail some more then and create the solution too.</p>
<p>i bought the book + dvd cux i love Havi and her book  helped me at first&#8230;. i  need to go back and read more but that&#8217;s ok&#8211;learning the theory and reading take second to actually showing up for myself and flailing my arms about.</p>
<p>Havi repeatedly talks about how hard it is. it&#8217;s not actually hard, the hard is surrendering to the fact that you have no control over your own body, and that you are supposed to do it wrong. that you aren&#8217;t supposed to understand and that you are always just reacting. and yes that sucks, and is hard, but it&#8217;s great practice for real life. and it gives your arms a kick-ass work out and toning-in 3 days i hardly recognized my arms-no gym work out gave me that. stupid gym!</p>
<p>below is  a link  in case you want to read more or buy your own copy to flail along with. someday i am hoping to see Havi and Selma doing their own video, even though i love Andre he is so good and beautiful and precise that he&#8217;s hard to relate to. doing shiva live with Havi and Selma in the room was a relief my brain and body said &#8220;oh thank god! this can be fun and i don&#8217;t have to look like a master of martial arts, i can have boobs and funky shoulders and still have radical epiphanies. YAY!&#8221;</p>
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<p>the god of destruction wants to tear down old pattern and build you a brand new shiny infrastructure full of options&#8230; why aren&#8217;t you clicking that link and buying things.</p>
<p>enough with the blabbering!</p>
<p>oh wait one more thing&#8230; Havi is working on a new  project/ebook thinger about shiva and the levels, so if you care about stuffs like levels and mastering things, help and directions are coming soon.</p>
<p>since  finding someone to destroy and rebuild the world with is cool, my friend and i meet pretty regularly in the mornings here in seattle. if you live here or are in town and want to play contact me and we will make it happen!</p>
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