The success of the workshops led to her first book Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want (written with Annie Gottlieb).

Many of us constantly hold ourselves in check—about food, relationships, careers—stuffing our desires down deep into the self, as if sheer determination can keep the lid on longing.

If there’s something you want to do with your life and another woman has done it before you, there’s no reason you can’t achieve it too. And if no woman has ever done what you dream of doing, there’s no reason you can’t be the first. Someone has to be. Who are the women you most admire? Why? Find out everything you can about their lives because

Taking a bath, as the Victorian social critic Ambrose Bierce described it, is “a kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship.”

Dreams call for a leap of faith, trusting that Spirit is holding the net, so that you can continue in the re-creation of the world with your energy, soul gifts, and vision.

Please let me never forget how rich my wonderful life is right at this moment. Please let me never forget that all I have is all I need. Please let me never forget to give thanks.

If we ever had an inkling of the intense labour required to bring the Work into the world, we’d be out of here.

Deadlines are chronos, the world’s time; Divinity knows only kairos, Eternity. The deadline will be met if I remember to ask for grace.

William Hutchinson Murray, the leader of the Scottish Himalayan Expedition team that scaled Mount Everest in 1951, urges the dreamer in you to take a leap of faith: “Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits