Woman Rise and Shine: A Simple Path for Women who Want to be Themselves

By Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen

Woman Rise and Shine
A simple path for women who want to be themselves

This book helps you develop a deeper relationship with yourself and step into the woman you are.
It's a fantastic way to connect with the only voice that matters... YOURS!

The true nature of women is the innate energy of creativity, genius and love of the divine female, which connects all of life. The world in which we are competing for survival and for the rights of women is giving way to one in which interconnectedness and compassion for each other is important.

Be a part of it!

“Woman Rise and Shine” is a self help book which shows you ways to transform into the woman you are supposed to be.
It contains:
the knowledge that we don't need anything special, nor does anything big have to take place to be yourself,
many easy personal transforming exercises,
advice for better self-care and a healthier life,
information about the importance of community,
encouragement to shine as the woman you are,
how to find your own voice,
beautiful practices to continue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen
• Release date: Sep 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370797707

Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen

Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen is a visionary holistic transformational coach, esteemed author, and skilled alchemist with over 25 years of experience in personal and spiritual development. A gifted intuitive, she possesses a unique ability to read energy and provide her clients with profound intuitive guidance that supports their healing and transformational journeys.As a trained cellular healer for the body, mind, and soul, Ruth is dedicated to empowering women to reclaim their healthy lives and follow their soul's calling, and to restoring feminine consciousness to the world. She is passionate about helping her clients awaken to their highest potential and live lives of joy, purpose, and abundance.In addition to her coaching work, Ruth is an experienced course presenter and the founder of the Intuitive Feminine Leadership Academy, where she teaches and writes about the power of feminine leadership and the importance of cultivating intuition in the workplace and beyond. Her work is truly transformative, and she is committed to creating positive change in the world through her teachings and healing practices.

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„In her book Women Rise and Shine, Ruth shares her own journey of coming to a place of healing, wholeness and forgiveness. She offers straightforward advice and simple exercises to encourage you to reconnect with the truth inside, with your inherent feminine power, compassion and inspiration."

Brandon Bays – Internationally Best-selling Author of The Journey and Freedom Is

„This book re-affirms and guides us to a path back to our female nature in all its purity, power and beauty. It’s easy to forget and this book really helped me to re-connect."

Bettina Hallifax,

Conscious Coach

"It all starts with you – this is probably one of the reasons why you have this book now in front of you. A call for substantial, healthy change, written from the heart and from personal experience – a path of self-discovery and growth – to become and to be THE WOMAN, who you really are.

Ruth invites you to come along and feel into being a woman. She encourages you to rise and shine as your true self in this new female paradigm. She offers help on letting go what belongs to the past and to fully embrace what is in the here and now.

Join us and be the change in this world, for yourself, and for other women: rise and shine!"

Iris Patricia Furer,

INSIDEOUT Coaching Furer, Rotterdam/Netherlands

„This is one of the best books I've read. I am deeply moved."

Lisa Ferguson-Saboth,

Animal therapist and Horsetrainer

"This book emanates a confident woman, whose life's experiences have taken her to the edge and beyond and her courage has given her the power to move through its challenges and come out the other side glistening. She has listened well to all her teachers and she has understood the truth.

Each chapter gives the reader a glimpse into her life, making it personal, and in that share, the subject matter is easier to hear."

Valerie Hayes

TAWA

Woman Rise and Shine

A simple path for women who want to be themselves

Ruth Bleakley-Thiessen

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Contents

Introduction 7

1 Introducing the New Feminine Paradigm 10

2 Compassion and Awareness 23

3 Creativity 33

4 Letting go 41

5 Freedom 51

6 Health 66

7 Creating Peace 80

8 Nature 89

9 Desires 94

10 Personal Transformation 104

Introduction

I'd like you to take a moment to imagine something.

Inspired by a poem from Patricia Lynn Reilly, imagine just for a moment

a woman who believes it is right and good to be the woman she is,

a woman full of self-trust and respect for herself,

a woman who pays attention to her needs and desires, and who meets them with tenderness and grace,

a woman who honours her experience and tells her stories, who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life,

a woman who acknowledges the past's influence on the present, who has walked through her past and has healed into the present,

a woman who authors her life, who exerts, initiates and moves on her own behalf and who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and wisest voice,

a woman who names her own gods, who sees the divine feminine in herself and who designs a personal spirituality for her daily life,

a woman in love with her own body, who believes that her body is enough, just as it is and who celebrates its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource,

a woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom, who refuses to use her life-energy disguising the changes in her body and her life,

a woman who values the women in her life,

a woman who sits in circles of women and who is reminded of the truth about herself when she happens to forget,

a woman who allows her innate creativity to flow naturally and freely through her.

Imagine also a world where everyone feels welcome and wanted,

a world where everyone knows, deep in their hearts, that they belong.

This world is one big human family.

This is not just a dream, not even a far off vision or possibility. This is reality covered over with layer upon layer of disguise. We haven't lost access to all of this, we just have to break open a lot of shells and dust off to allow the real women to emerge.

For millennia, we have felt the discord and destruction that comes from the polarizations we have created between men and women, between nations, between religions, and between those who have and have not. These artificial divisions have led to struggle and strife, violence and war.

What if, instead, we choose to create a society based on our deep interconnectedness... based on the truth and wisdom of who we are?

What if we started to create and live a new feminine paradigm?

Times are changing. An energetic tsunami is breaking over us, in us and through us. There is an energy in the air about feeling, creating and being the freedom of spirit we embody as women.

This book is going to make you question a lot about being a woman up until now.

It's time to sink into the woman you truly are and be strong together. We are one Woman.

If not now, when?

If not you, who?

Let's do this together!

Chapter one

Introducing the New Feminine Paradigm

The most powerful thing I have seen are women who, no matter what age they are, make use of their wisdom, the kind of wisdom that resides in their heart and in their bones, are courageous beings and grow intensely with it.

The most painful thing I have felt is the emotional pain of women in different phases of their lives - the pain of collective fear, illness, the physical and emotional pain of genital mutilation, and the shame and pain of verbal, emotional or physical abusiveness. Women have been suffering, been put down and used for multiple generations.

I know this sounds harsh. I myself, and I assume most of humankind, long for an end of violence, hatred and suffering.

I grew up in a male dominated world. I was born as a daughter between two sons. As a girl, I played with boys, mainly because there were no girls in the street we lived in, so they used me as a goalie when we played football, really just to make up numbers in the teams. The boys, and there were a lot of them, fired the ball hard at me. I did my best to be good at stopping it, which wasn't always easy. My mother left her body when she was much too young, she never lived to see my own children. I had three boys. So I lived surrounded with males of many generations, having had mostly male cats and a male horse too.

I have no problem whatsoever with men, I don't just like them, I love them. I also adore the company of women just as much.

I'm a person who likes questioning things. Perhaps I just have some resistance to being conventional. What hit me like a thunderbolt around eight years ago was that I harboured my own concept of how men should be, which was loving, supportive, strong, caring, always there for a shoulder on which I could lean upon, the hero, superman, my knight in shining armour who comes along to rescue me. Needless to say, holding this concept resulted in a lot of expectations on the men in my life, not to mention disappointment and anger which resulted when my expectations weren't fulfilled. Although I worked hard trying to keep this illusion up, it was shattered. Thank goodness for that! Men are human beings, they have a weak and needy side to them, just as women do.

Indeed, I had many illusions about how a woman is supposed to be as well. These concepts came from many different areas – from my conditional upbringing, my heritage, culture, beliefs I grew up with and from society. There is no blame to put on anyone or anything, just a lot of concepts I was thankfully able to question, in just the same way you can.

I have done a lot of personal transformation work on myself as a person, then as a woman, being in my woman's body. For years I have watched my brilliant female friends, colleagues and coaching clients struggle to be themselves, own their innate brilliance and share themselves fully in the world. I have come to realize that we are not alone in our struggles to be seen, heard and live in the freedom and truth of who we really are. So in this book I want to offer you something you can take and use.

In my everyday life, apart from being a writer, I work as an artist, a coach, an organiser, and a workshop facilitator, helping people who want to make changes in their life, be it with health issues, behavioural patterns or getting through blocks. It is wonderful to uncover and work on hidden problems which sabotage your life.

As an artist, I use creative tools to enable things to