NEWS FLASH!

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, Self-HealingExpressions' instructor of Create Your Romantic Resume: A 30-Day Program to Transform Your Romantic Destiny has a new book out!

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A GODDESS IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
A Divine Guide To Finding Love, Success and Happiness
by Laurie Sue Brockway
Publisher: Perigee Books
Pub date: December 3, 2002

"If there is anyone who can bring wisdom, caring, pizzazz and an upbeat (often humorous) spin to the topic of women's empowerment, it's the Rev Laurie Sue. Laurie Sue knows how to touch women's lives like no other."
-- Dr. Patti Britton, Columnist, iVillage.com

New York, New York December 2002

-- Abraham had a direct line to God. Jimmy Carter has a close personal relationship with Jesus. Richard Gere is a pal of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Isn't it time that women have the opportunity to choose a divine female or awesome archetype as a close advisor and cohort? Women deserve a hip, informative, fun guide to calling upon all the divine intervention a girl can use when she needs a little helping hand - at the office, in her love life, with the family and in her own personal and spiritual health and growth. Author Laurie Sue Brockway brings the ancient wisdom of the Goddess down to earth for modern women in her new book, A GODDESS IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND: A Divine Guide To Finding Love, Success And Happiness.

A GODDESS IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND brings to life 31 popular deities, spiritual heroines and saints from many of the world's traditions and focuses on the kind of assistance each is famous for. Brockway elaborates on how each of these awesome archetypes can assist and empower contemporary women in their daily lives by outlining practical and spiritual solutions to issues that today's women grapple with, such as: building a career; negotiating office politics; making more money; having healthier relationships; dating; falling in love; thinking about marriage and kids; loving your body; feeling beautiful and strong; having a great place to live; handling your real mother and family; and how to create a more balanced; compassionate and spiritual life.

With insight into the history and mythology of each Goddess, the book offers many suggestions on "how to invite her into your life," through ritual, meditations, prayers, blessings, wish lists, day dreaming, fun and creative exercises and activities. The variety is designed to give readers many options to follow the guidance that feels most appropriate. The book offers many simple, fun and relaxing ways readers can tap into the power of the Goddess, including:

• Designate a special mirror in your home as the mirror of the goddess, and Egyptian goddess of beauty, Hathor, can help you appreciate your unique beauty as you learn to see yourself through more admiring eyes.
• Create a sacred savings bank in honor Hindu Goddess of Fortune, Lakshmi, and she will help you increase your income as you consciously watch your wealth - and your concept of abundance -- increase.
• Give yourself a "Goddess Day" complete with special music, rose scented bath and fresh rose petals and Roman Love Goddess, Venus, can help instill you a deeper feeling of self love that can lead you to true love.
• Meditate and learn the simple, ancient chant to Tibetan Goddess of Protection, Green Tara, and she can bring you a greater sense of peace and safety.
• Invite your best girlfriends for a sleepover and the Muses, Greek deities of the arts, will help you joyously celebrate friendship by sharing stories, having fun and declaring new goals in one another's presence.

Goddesses represent and reflect so many different kinds of women. They're wild and mild, powerful and soft, compassionate and passionate; they're virgins and queens, mothers and daughters, rulers of the universe who can transform the planet, nurse a baby and love their consorts simultaneously. Their images, energy, and the mere concept of female divinity can heal, empower, instruct, and help women find their way on life's rocky path.

A GODDESS IS A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND explains that true divinity is inside each woman and by calling upon various Goddesses - often represented as females with real curves and a even touch of lipstick -- one can personify and recognize that divinity.

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