What’s This Blog About?

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.

What’s the Backstory Here? Wasn’t This Someone Else’s Blog, Or Supposed to Be…?

Yes, once upon a time the woman 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 particular vision for this site. It was going to be a place where she could write a book in blog form, and offer e-coaching services to women who were interested in the “art of reinvention.” It was going to have ad-based revenue, and subscriptions eventually where members could 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. Enter Lakshmi ….

Who’s Lakshmi?

Which brings us to me. I’m Lakshmi. No, it’s not my given name, but if the daughter of academic atheists can grow up to publish awesome books like Creative Visualization as Shakti Gawain, then I can blog as Lakshmi Light.

I have a very different purpose for this site, and since I took it over from the original concept and holder, that purpose has been evolving into a pretty wild proposal in my head. Honestly, it’s something that I’ve never tried before, not in years of writing (much of it on the web), so I really don’t know if it will work or not. But it really speaks to me in a very profound way, so I’m taking a huge leap of faith and just doing it.

So, here it is: the new Goddesses in Progress is a logbook, if you will, 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.

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.

So how is that supposed to help others? Well, if it goes like I’m hoping it will, I will be your guinea pig. 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.

And I wouldn’t say “no” to a book deal either …

Why “Goddesses”? Why “In Progress”?

I can’t put it better than this, which was written before I came on board here. I asked if I could keep it, and the now-behind-the-scenes goddess quoth “Be my guest”:

I chose the name “Goddesses in Progress” because it really captures the process of change, I feel. We are all of us divine, as we are made in God’s image - we’re told this by our different religious texts and faiths. And as such, we all create our own worlds, or our little corners of it, every day, with every action, every thought, and every belief.

But as spiritual beings we are also “in progress” at all times - we are none of us finished works. As the old glurge goes, “Be patient with me - God isn’t finished with me yet.” I submit we’re not finished with ourselves, either.

Can I Write to Lakshmi?

I hope you will! 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.