Warrior Goddess Training Quotes

When we bring our attention back to discovering who we are on the inside—not who we wish we were or who we think we should be—we begin a sacred path of transformation toward our innate, authentic, embodied power. This is the path of the Warrior Goddess.

Our deepest healing occurs when we learn to be our own best friend, companion, and cheerleader.

When we choose to be what others want us to be, we end up being dissatisfied with our life, because we are not living from our authenticity, but from our domestication.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. —Diane Ackerman

The truth is simple: Life is perfectly imperfect, unpredictable, and unexplainable.

Your heart is not a fragile, delicate bird, but a resilient, powerful hawk learning to fly.

Power does not come from who you know, what you do, or how much money you have in the bank. It comes from blossoming into unconditional love for yourself and embodying joyful faith in your gifts.

Commit to You Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up. —Richelle E. Goodrich

We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been—a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —Anaïs Nin

While we cannot control life, we do have a choice in how we respond to what life brings and how we react.

if we make other people responsible for our own freedom, we will not have what it takes to truly inhabit our essential nature. When we stand in our own center, the challenges we encounter temper us. We can see

Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice.

When we create a life based on what we think we are supposed to do rather than from our own heart's desire, we always feel like something is missing, that we are not quite free. There is a deeper longing that keeps calling us to stop conforming, to break the chains of our fears, to jump the fence of people's opinions and find our innate wild happiness. Inside,

This book is dedicated to all the women on this beautiful planet. May we reclaim the fierce love of the warrior and embody the wisdom of the goddess to bring balance and harmony to the Earth.

You are whole. You are valued. You are loved. I see your wholeness. I know your value. I love you, just the way you are. Welcome to the path of the Warrior Goddess.

The keystone of committing to yourself is very simple: Learn to love all of who you are, flaws and all.

Often we miss the immensity of our being by focusing on the details and dramas around us.

When we create a life based on what we think we are supposed to do rather than from our own heart's desire, we always feel like something is missing, that we are not quite free.

You are whole. You are powerful. You are divine.

But every time I am willing to look within I am so grateful for every experience, every obstacle, every learning, because I've learned to use everything that arises in my field of awareness as a tool to discover who I truly am.

The paradox is to know what you want, put your energy behind it 100 percent, and then let your intention go to a higher force. Work from your feeling sense rather than from your mind. Stay open and curious about what shows up. Sometimes what shows up is the obstacle that needs to be cleared from your being before you will be able to open fully to your highest possibility.

Igniting your will occurs when you are clear on what you really want for yourself, and when you take action based on this knowledge. If you are consumed with what others think, you are repressing your fears, and you will not have the will needed to stand in your power.

It is not an easy task to accept what we don't want—especially when what we are experiencing is pain or suffering. I wrote her back with compassion and invited her to be with what was true for her body right now, without making up any story about what it would be like tomorrow. Acceptance is not a dispirited surrender from a place of powerlessness; acceptance and aligning with life is an active, courageous walk with the flow of what is.

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up. —Richelle E. Goodrich

Warrior energy is a combination of focus, dedication, purpose, and determination.

Your mind, energy, emotions, and body are sacred, no matter what state of disarray they may be in at the current moment.

When we choose to be what others want us to be, we end up being dissatisfied with our life,

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Life does not personally punish people or seek to cause suffering; it simply moves. It is only when we claim life should look this way or that way that we limit ourselves and suffer.

When steel is tempered, heat and pressure are used to strengthen the metal. When a butterfly first begins to emerge from its cocoon, it must struggle in order to strengthen its wings. If someone frees the butterfly from its cocoon prematurely, it will not be able to fly because its crucial tempering stage will not have occurred. In one experiment where an entire ecosystem was created within a protected bubble, the healthy trees fell unexpectedly. Researchers later realized that these trees needed wind in order build their structural strength to stay upright.

On an energetic level, humans are a lot like trees. A well-balanced tree has deep, grounded roots that go into the earth like a grounding rod. A tree's roots are both its stability and its source of nutrition. The deeper and wider the roots, the more resilient and anchored the tree will be, and the more likely it is to survive changes in the environment, such as high winds or drought.

This means going beyond our fear of our power, letting go of trying to be nonthreatening little girls or enticing sexpots, and releasing the habit of putting everyone else first without including our needs. It's time we claim our innate crone wisdom.

words—how we speak our story to ourselves and others. Like body and mind, words are vessels. Each word we choose can hold the vibration of healing, peace, and love, or be brimming with fear, victimization, and judgment. Our words help to nourish or deplete our vessel.

The life cycle of a plant is a great metaphor for all cycles. When we plant a seed in the ground, we push it into the darkness of earth. A miraculous, hidden process happens that takes that hard seed and cracks it open to let the life out. If we impatiently keep digging up the seed to see if it is sprouting, we risk stopping the process of growth.

Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice. While you do not always have control over how or when the changes will occur in your life, you can choose how you are in relation to those changes. When you step towards rather than ignore, fight, or resist change, you reclaim your personal freedom. You step onto a path of transformation, and move from being a victim of change to being a co-creator with change.

I recently heard about some new studies on stress that challenge everything we've been told about how stress is bad for us. This new research suggests that stress might actually be good for you, as it helps build strength and focus when it is needed most. Health psychologist Kelly McGonigal believes the harmful effects of stress may be a consequence of our perception that it is bad for our health, but the stress itself is not inherently bad. Nature seems to have the same message for us Warrior Goddesses: You can use your environment and experiences to gain strength and resiliency.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. —Maya Angelou

if we make other people responsible for our own freedom, we will not have what it takes to truly inhabit our essential nature. When we stand in our own center, the challenges we encounter temper us.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. —Diane Ackerman You

When you let go of who you wish you were, you reclaim your power to be radiantly, magnetically, and creatively who you are.

While we cannot control life, we do have a choice in how we respond to what life brings and how we react. Explorations

We learn to take nothing personally, especially not the force of life. This

It is not an easy task to accept what we don't want—especially when what we are experiencing is pain or suffering. I wrote her back with compassion and invited her to be with what was true for her body right now, without making up any story about what it would be like tomorrow. Acceptance is not a dispirited surrender from a place of powerlessness; acceptance and aligning with life is an active, courageous walk with the flow of what

must be willing to give up who you think you should be in favor of who you are.

say no to anything

There are many ways we create a (false) sense of safety: by trying to change and manipulate our environment (controlling) by bouncing from thing to thing (distracting) by hiding and pretending to be small (isolating) by making sure others like us (pleasing)

You must be willing to openhandedly release the past and surrender up the future. Most importantly, you must be willing to give up who you

my authentic heart could not break, or be given away, or belong to one person, or even have preferences. My heart was not a separate organ, but the whole Universe of stars and space pulsing in my chest. I felt and understood how intimately I was connected with everything, and how fiercely I loved all of it! The pleasure, the pain, the suffering, the joy, the lover, the thief, the lady at the checkout stand, my best friend were all sacred, pure love in motion viewed through the eyes of my true heart.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? —Caroline Myss

When you release the old rules of who you are supposed to be, which are often preceded by the words should, have to, or must, you create the space to stop trying to be your best so you can just be your best.

If we try to avoid the hard work of breaking down our old confining structures or if we make other people responsible for our own freedom, we will not have what it takes to truly inhabit our essential nature.

Warrior Goddess Training is about finding out who you really are and what you really want, and, armed with that knowledge, creating an external reality that authentically matches who you are on the inside.

acceptance and aligning with life is an active, courageous walk with the flow of what is.

you must be willing to give up who you think you should be in favor of who you are.

we think we should be—we begin a sacred path of transformation toward our innate, authentic, embodied power. This is the path of the Warrior Goddess. Warrior energy is a combination of focus, dedication, purpose, and determination. Consciously bringing these things together gives us our power. When we harness our warrior energy we are confident, clear, and bring 100 percent of ourselves to each action.

The truth is simple: Life is perfectly imperfect, unpredictable, and unexplainable. A Warrior Goddess does not try to control life or even understand it. Our job is to consciously choose what we are aligning with and then let go, and dance in joy and gratitude for every moment of existence.

So use every opportunity you have to let things go in a graceful way. Start small.

mountain of God, O many-peaked mountain of Bashan. The mount that Elohim desired for his abode.’” He looked directly at Demas and Gestas. “The phrase, ‘twice ten thousand, thousands of thousands’ refers to the heavenly host of Elohim’s divine council. They are his holy ones, Sons of God who did not rebel.” The brothers knew that “host” was a military term for a king’s army of warriors. “Sinai was Yahweh’s holy mountain in the Exodus, until Mount Zion with its temple in Jerusalem became the holy mountain.” Simon’s eyes narrowed as he spoke. “This area is known for the Seirim, the sons of hairy Esau. It is an original dwelling place of satyrs, goat demons of Azazel. Pan is the last of the satyrs and the guardian of Gaia, the Mother Earth Goddess.” It was all coming together for Gestas. He tried to finish Simon’s thought. “So Hermon is the cosmic mountain in opposition to Yahweh? And Jesus is going to strike down the ‘hairy crown’ of Pan, storm the Gates of Hades, and occupy this cosmic mountain as his own?” Simon nodded in agreement, and added, “And he will ascend on high with his train of captives, as any military conqueror would in a Triumphal Procession.” “Grandiose claims for a man without a single soldier amongst his wild-eyed fanatics,” said Demas skeptically.

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up.

Power has nothing to do with money, or fame, or outside appearances, but with our connection to self, love, authenticity, and the inner mystery of life. From the perspective of true abundance and immanent spiritual connection, powerful people are the ones who have the strongest connection to their internal resources.