From my “About This Site” page:

This is a website devoted to creative change - to helping women everywhere reclaim their divine power to make their lives over, or any aspect of their lives, according to their own desires.

But this wasn’t always my blog. Originally, the fabulous lady who dreamed up this blog and commissioned the ultra-fabulous design from Lisa Sabin Wilson of E. Webscapes (author of Wordpress for Dummies) had a very business-like vision for this site. It was going to be a place where she could write a book about reinvention for women in blog form, and simultaneously offer e-coaching services to women who were interested in reinventing themselves. There were plans for incorporating ad-based revenue, for creating a membership site eventually where members could buy subscriptions to get access to one-on-one coaching, books, and other resources. Pretty cool stuff, if not exactly unique on the web.

But, as it does from time to time, life intervened and our benefactor goddess, Sherrie, came to the reluctant conclusion she just didn’t have the time or energy to devote to this site that it deserved.

Which brings us to me. I’m Lakshmi. It’s not my given name — consider it my pen name for purposes of this blog. I really dug the idea of adopting a goddess name for this project, and Lakshmi’s one of my faves, being the Hindu goddess of abundance. And frankly, if I’m missing anything these days, it’s abundance.

Being a writer, I have a very different purpose in mind for this site — I couldn’t just put the original concept into motion, and wasn’t sure I wanted to. It’s just not me, but more importantly, it would be the height of hypocrisy because I’m far too in need of reinvention myself to be offering instruction and advice to anyone else on the subject.

So, the new focus is this: the new Goddesses in Progress is a journal of my experience with reinventing myself. You can read more about why that’s necessary, what I’m sloughing off and what I’m trying to create in Lakshmi’s Story.

I also figure I’ll write about resources and different topics related to reinvention, self-improvement, or self-acceptance issues from time to time, apart from the pure narrative of my experience. So, instead of being other-centered, it’s going to center around me, Lakshmi, as I scramble to extricate myself from a life gone horribly awry and recreate myself in what I think is my true image.

That might not seem so radical, but for a relatively private person (me) who’s more used to writing about other people, it’s huge. (And hugely scary, as most worthwhile things usually are.)

So how is that supposed to help others? Well, if it goes like I’m hoping it will, I will be your guinea pig goddess. I’m going to experiment with various strategies and tools and programs, and report back on what works, and how well. You can learn from my mistakes (and successes — I plan on having those, too), and thus inform your own reinvention.

If you want to get in touch with me, I’d love to hear from you. Use this form to contact me. Drop me a line and let me know how your reinvention’s going, ask a question, rant, rave, throw a divine goddess hissy fit — it’s all good.