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Detoxing The Goddess

Louise Maree’s first book Detoxing The Goddess was self published and released in November 2004. After writing DTG, a three-year journey of one financial disaster after another, she has finally nurtured her dream to fruition. Belief in her dream and indelible support from a chosen few is what Louise Maree contributes to achieving this dream.

Detoxing The Goddess is Louise Maree’s very personal journey of a life fraught with negative lessons and experiences, to a life filled with Love. Yes it’s drugs, sex, Rock-n-Roll and one heck of a roller-coaster ride!

Some of those experiences could be said to have shattered her and could have allowed her to exist in a life of a victim. Instead Louise Maree used them…albeit eventually to give her understanding, not only to embrace her true nature, but for exactly how life works and to make it work for you!

Louise Maree offers new tools/life skills that she herself lives daily to continue to build self-esteem and positive embodied loving experiences.

THE TOXIC PROCESS

At the tender age of three I vividly recall questioning life, as I knew it. I kept thinking there has to be more to life than this. Keep in mind that I am an Aquarian and out there is normal. So I did what any other self-respecting three-year-old would do, ask my Mummy. Mummy’s response was, “Pray and ask God why you are here.” So I did. And continued to do so for seemingly forever, actually a further 29 years. See what I mean about not being willing to get it. I was stubborn with a capital S.

I would get ready for bed every night and kneel in prayer position and ask away. I don’t think that God’s switchboard was in any way connected to mine, of cause this was pre-fibre optics. I just wasn’t getting any feedback, or so I thought. I felt like I was out there on my own and I started to doubt myself and decline into an enormous well of very low self-esteem.

I felt abandoned by God, Mummy and Daddy and had no idea who I was or why I was here. No one seemed to understand what I was going through or trying to find. My Holy Grail. Life. What the hell is it about?

BEGINNING DETOX

I told my Mum to leave my life, as I was sick of the dictatorial control over me. For a short while I felt like I was in this massive ocean with no life raft or sight of land. Somehow I unconsciously just remembered how to paddle, and then I started to swim. I was now like a dry sponge, I was willing to soak up new information to enable me to transform my life. I started having experiences come into my life that elevated my self-worth and I began to increase. I listened carefully to what I felt and thought. And started letting go of outmoded ideas I had been taught. Louise L. Hay was the next author I versed myself with.

By this time I had begun to become a lot calmer and more understanding of those and myself around me. With my mindset changing on a weekly basis I dabbled into anything that caught my eye to do with self-help. Natural therapies and health and nutrition were also on the top of my favourite reading list. After everything I had been through I wanted to understand how my body worked. My body started talking to me, more to the point I was listening at long last.

I just lost the craving for all manner of things, coffee, excessive alcohol, sweets and processed foods. I just lost the desire to implode myself with them.

This was a huge turn around as we are talking about a girl who could devour a double chock mud cake for morning tea then another for afternoon tea, this time smothered in chocolate sauce. Sweet tooth was an understatement, and I’m surprised I still have any teeth. I also had the desire to reconnect with my Dad, as since I told Mum to leave my life I no longer felt guilty to have a relationship with him, and to this day adore him deeply, he is my hero.

Testimonial

I have just finished reading your book. I got it from the Library at Southport.

I saw the title and it interested me. I didn’t expect to read an almost exact replica of my own childhood.

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old, and I held onto such obscure thoughts and turned them into patterns.

I have just started seeing a psychologist to help me sought through my feelings to give me tools to advance in my life.

Your book came into my life at exactly the right time and I know that is one of the reasons you wrote it.

I recently got married and started my own business and I have started to feel truly happy again about myself and my future.

It’s been challenging starting my own business as I had spent a lot of time saying to myself I don’t know what to do or how to do anything to advance.

I realized I was holding myself back and that’s all changing now thanks to and for your book,

Lisa Wells.

The way I see it, I’m very blessed. I love my life, I love the rewards and satisfaction of working with people who want to build better, more authentic lives. I’ve had many requests from clients, colleagues and peers to collate my views and my findings into an easy-to-read summary for quick reference. This is not intended to be the last word on self-development, and personal growth. It’s meant to be the first word. The first port-of-call when you think you have lost your way, forgotten your bearings, or need a reminder. Underpinning the following information is my own story. My incredible journey thus far has brought tremendous lightness simply because of it. Lightness has afforded me so much centeredness, peace, joy and happiness and I believe this is what we all want. And so I’d like to introduce you to one of my greatest teachers, my wounded inner- child, Lou-Lou. Lou-Lou was and still is–to a very diminished capacity–a great teacher for all the right reasons. She demonstrated the art of excuse-making (excuse-itus); the price of living in de-Nile; how to be a control-freak; and all the fundamentals of self-sabotaging. If you’re dealing with someone similar, perhaps a lot more intimately than you care to admit, this book will provide perspective, ideas and encouragement to give your inner-wounded-child the sack. When I recognized Lou-Lou I experience tremendous growth; physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally. I hope this book gives you the courage to experience the same.

UNDERSTANDING THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION HOLISTIC BEINGS: are physical, mental, emotional, spiritual beings. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Our bodies are our vehicle for us in this life. They are our temple, to be treated, kindly, gently and respectfully. Our body is the physical manifestation of our internal mental, emotional and spiritual state. Your outer body reflects your inner health. The mind and the body are interconnected and cannot be separated. Because you have chosen to improve your health, or to let go of weight, you must work on all of your being so that you don’t miss the root cause of your obesity, illness or ill-health. For example, it may be an emotional cause which is causing your body to hold onto unnecessary body fat. If this is the case, then you will have to address what is happening to you emotionally first, before your body will shed those unwanted kilos. Or perhaps your anxiety is causing stomach issues which are preventing you from digesting food properly. If this is the case, before your digestion can work properly, you must address your anxiety and learn to relax. Your body is constantly, moment-to-moment, responding to your mind and to your emotions and your mind is constantly responding to your body.