OVERCOMING MID-LIFE CRISES, ENJOYING MID-LIFE TRANSITIONS

At mid-life the common question is, “WHAT NEXT?” This is a pretty good read.

OVERCOMING MID-LIFE CRISES, ENJOYING MID-LIFE TRANSITIONS

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Energy Medicine Heals

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Lynne Rothstein, Psychotherapist and Energy Medicine Practitioner shares her story about making a change in her work that helps people with a wide range of physical and emotional issues heal faster. Learn about energy medicine and how it can be used to heal you. Learn a technique to give yourself energy and mood enhancement and finally hear how a courageous woman made a major change in her life.

Hear the Call Towards Your Next Bold Move

My latest and greatest TV show clip is now available on YouTube. Hear the Call Towards Your Next Bold Move with my guests Jen Cohen, Kate Harper and Melanie Holden.




Enjoy!

Women Want More

According to a study of 12,000 women in 40 countries, this relentless upward climb in business, social influence and economic power has left women feeling stressed out, time starved, and overburdened As a result, women look to products and services that will help them claw back time, juggle multiple roles and capture a few moments of enjoyment.

"No kidding", say I.

Radio Show Interview

Listen to how Mission Unstoppable Radio interviewer Frankie Picasso talks with founder of The Magic Parties, (that would be me)Wendy Capland on how to live an unstoppable life.

Listen Up! I'm on the Radio Dec 1st 8PM ET

Hey everyone,
Listen in to me Tuesday nite, December 1 at 8PM ET I'll be on Mission Unstoppable internet radio Tues nite Dec 1, at 8PM EST talking about how to be unstoppable in life. You can listen on the internet at http://www.blogtalkradio/missionunstoppable

Girls Night Out

It takes a lot to play all the roles and wear all the hats that we do. We are mothers, daughters, wives, girlfriends, teachers, cooks and cleaners. It all takes so much time, there is little left for ourselves. For our dreams. To create a life that actually includes something just for ourselves. Maybe it's a legacy we leave. Maybe it's a life we help save in some way. Maybe in our own unique way, we change the world with our own special touch.

The relationships in our lives, and how we manage them, determine how successful we are in living a life of happiness, passion and purpose.

On November 30th in Andover, MA, we will be having a fabulous conversation about relationships!

Register, come and bring a girlfriend!

The White House Project

The White House Project just released a report, Benchmarking Women's Leadership which is a fascinating overview of women's leadership in America This is is fascinating report. I'd like to hear what you think about it. http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/

Women's Escape Retreat

We had a fabulous retreat last week at the beautiful Stonehedge Inn & Spa. We each celebrated the wonderful women we are and the fabulous women we are yet to become. It was a sensual experience of body, mind, and spirit. We hope to have you join us next year. It's never too early to register. Click here to know more.

Wake Up with Wendy November 2009

Check out our current TV show episode. It will be great for those of you thinking about a career change and wondering just how to go about it.

October monthly news

Hi All,
Check out our October newsletter. So many great resources for your body, mind and spirit.

http://tinyurl.com/yktpu4r

Vacation from Stress in October

Get a little vacation from stress by joining us on Oct 23-24.

Wake Up With Wendy: What’s Next for You? Check Your Childhood for Clues

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Lisa Campion is a psychic who shares her story about discovering her psychic abilities when she was just a child. Lisa believes we all were born with psychic and intuitive abilities and we just need to learn how to use them to help us. Through her story, Lisa teaches us how to listen to our inner guidance and use it to help us make important decisions in our lives. Lisa shows us that we can discover many of our gifts and whats next in our lives if we look at our childhood for clues.

Womenade Event - Boston

Cindy Loughran and I went to wonderful event this past week. Another example of women helping women. Womenade Boston is a grass roots organization of Boston-area women dedicated to raising awareness and funds for global issues that affect women.

Click here to see us shmoozing with other wonderful women.

Monthly news!

Check out our monthly newsletter of sisterhood, spirit, and a little chocolate!
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THE WOMEN’S ESCAPE: A RETREAT FOR YOUR BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

Come and join us at our second annual Women’s Escape Weekend on October 23-24 in Tyngsboro, MA featuring some of the region’s most renowned experts in personal transformation. The retreat will blend conversations about identifying passions from Kate Harper of Groton, to improving relationships and taking a Vacation from Stress™ with Melanie Calitri Holden from Pelham, NH. Littleton’s Mary Elizabeth Wheeler will help attendees find their rhythm with energizing drumming while Debra Stark of Debra’s Natural Gourmet in West Concord will teach women the magical aspects of eating the right foods. The Women’s Escape is the brainchild of Wendy Capland, a seasoned leadership coach who created The Magic Parties to help women through personal and professional transformation via women’s circles, Magic School programs and retreats. The network is growing quickly and today includes more than 500 women, primarily in the New England area. For more information visit http://www.themagicparties.com/MagicPartiesInvitationOCT2009D.pdf.

2 greatest tips on how to create joy in your life

Watch our latest and greatest on YouTube for the answers you may be looking for to create your next move. You can
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WM0Op-fEM

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Announcing new TV episode of Wake Up with Wendy

Hi Everyone,
Watch our most current TV episode with my friend and guest Johanna Lyman of Romance Recovery. Johanna shares her story of how she found her most unique new career and how we can use her ideas to find our next career move!

Wake Up with Wendy TV Show on Creating Joy

Hi Everyone,
Click on this link and you can watch our most recent episode with my friend and guest Johanna Lyman who teaches us about creating joy in every area of our lives.

http://blip.tv/file/2514519

Partying with the sisterhood in Westford - Westford, MA - Westford Eagle

Partying with the sisterhood in Westford, MA

Wendy Capland loves to party with her sisters – all 500 of them. Capland, who is the founder of “The Magic Parties,” which has hundreds of members around the world, wanted to help women in their 40s, 50s and 60s discover their true talents and dreams.

A Sneak Peak at our Summer retreat

How was it?

We had the most amazing time exploring the topic of Intuition led by Lisa Campion and learned how to connect deeper to our own brand of listening, sensing or seeing signs meant to help us in our lives.

We went on a guided visualization led by Luella Earley and met our spirit guides face to face! Wow, that was quite something.

We had a fireside ceremony led by Melanie Holden where we removed the roadblocks that get in the way of our connecting to our intuition.

We ate, we laughed, we were moved beyond words, we each clearly saw our path and rejoiced, and of course there was chocolate!

Our summer retreat is one of our signature events. Consider coming next July 8-9, 2010!

My attempt at a vacation

I have been looking forward to my summer vacation for months. Like many of us, I really needed a break from my work, my office, my phone and my email. I made an agreement with myself and my husband that I was going to completely shut down and off for 10 days. I was excited at the prospect of time off. Maybe I would read, exercise more, smell the roses, sit by the water...who knows what might happen when a girl is taking some well deserved time off. It started off great. We got to our cottage on the lake and I settled in to what I imagined would be a respite from my busy life. After day 4, I couldn't take the silence of not having any contact with the outside world. What if a client needed something and I was the only one who could respond appropriately? What if someone was trying to reach me? It did not seem to matter that my voicemail and email had out of office messages on them. Sadly, I only lasted 4 days before checking email. Geez, how sad is that?! Looks like I have work to do on myself so I can shut it all off and feel perfectly fine about it. Maybe next year I'll go someplace without internet access!

Come to our summer retreat!

We have seven spaces left for our women's Magic Party retreat! The topic this year is intuition. Hear a little more about what to expect! If you are interested, register at "Events".

Lab work done for less

My Lab Testing (http://www.mylabtesting.com/) is a clinical lab, located in facilities all over the United States, where you can have your own blood work and tests done to monitor your own health, at a fraction of the cost of traditional lab work and without having to use a doctor. And your results come to you on line in less than a week.

I used this service recently because my naturopath suggested blood work so the cost was out of pocket. I was delighted with both the cost and the results which came to me quickly with a clear explanation instead of to my doctor which takes forever to get results.

Women Drive Business Success

Authors of “Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success.

Claire Shipman and Katty Kay wrote an interesting article in the May 21, 2009 issue of Business Week, called “How Women are Redefining Work and Success.” In this article they discuss how women are changing the future of organizations and how they operate by working how they prefer to work. This is a radical change from the top-down corporate directive approach to work that most women have built their corporate careers under. The authors say that the most important component driving the future of work is that women are finally understood to be good for business. Three studies, including one by Catalyst, a leading advocacy group for women in the workplace, found that the more senior women at a company, the more money it makes. Read this article: http://tinyurl.com/luhfhg.

What's Your Bold Move?

At our Magic Party summer retreat last July, Magic Faculty member Alexandria Hilton led us through an entire day of how to make our dreams come true and then followed it up with a teleclass for those interested in going deeper and into action. Both programs were remarkable and, even though I think everything we do is pretty remarkable, these two programs changed my life in a good way. I know from emails I have received that I am not alone and many of the women have already created remarkable results themselves.

We began by identifying a dream and then standing up to declare it out loud.

I decided to go for broke and figuring I had nothing to lose somehow squeaked out that I wanted to be the next Oprah with a syndicated TV show focused on helping viewers heal their bodies, minds, and spirits and bring a little magic into their lives.

Aside from all the reasons I knew this was a stupid, ridiculous and very far fetched dream, I somehow found myself taking some small but wicked courageous steps over the next few months. The first thing I did was sign up for an acting class. I figured if I was ever going to be on TV, I should probably have some idea of what might be required.

Since I have absolutely no acting, television, or media experience, acting class seemed like a good place to start. Until I walked into the room on the first day, that is, and almost passed out from fear. Seriously! No kidding! Yup, me, the sometimes daring chick, who has been in front of corporate groups for 20 plus years, way out of her comfort zone and scared to death!

The experience turned out much better than I thought once I got over the initial panic. My teacher Daena Giardella, www.daenagiardella.com said I have potential and that’s good enough for me. I just completed her 5 week improv class and found out I really like this acting thing and look forward to doing more of it.

But here is my really big news. Thanks to Jackie Bell, www.NaturalBell.com who inspired me by starting her own local cable TV show and Anna Huckabee Tull www.customcraftedsongs.com for introducing me to Szifra Birke, who let me sit in on her taping of her local cable show called ShrinkRap, I, yes that would be me, the girl who dreams big and then wonders what the heck she was thinking, taped my first show; Wake Up with Wendy; Discover the Magic of YOU!. this week on local cable television.

OK, so it’s just local cable and not syndicated television, but I figure everyone starts somewhere. I am proud, excited and, after viewing the shoot; realize I have LOTS and TONS of room for improvement. My producer says it’s great to have things to work on to improve yourself, otherwise you get bored. I cannot even fathom the idea of being bored.

The show is about helping viewers bring a little more magic into their lives through finding, expanding, and using their gifts and talents to make a bigger difference in the world. I am finding it can be fun being a beginner if I can control my inner critic.

Every dream starts with a single step; just one crazy single bold move. Being a beginner can be loads of fun. Just think, as a beginner you have no bad habits to have to break.

I know many of you have dreams. I know many of you are working on your dreams. Please do share by sending an email to info@themagicparties.com and we will post them in next month’s newsletter.

If would like to receive our free monthly Magical Moments newsletter, sign up for any level of membership at www.themagicparties.com

Social Media tool especially Twitter

I have been using Facebook, LinkedIn and now Twitter for quite a few months. It surely can be time consuming but so is all marketing. I would put this kind of marketing into the "second degree" bucket, like a newsletter or e-brochure. It's a little removed and usually don't know whether anyone is even interested or to what degree in what you have to say. I don't think the jury is still out whether these social media tools are here to stay; they are. Now we just have to figure out how to use them to suit our needs and purposes. Mike Stelzner wrote this interesting Social Media Marketing Industry Report. It's free. Click here to read. http://cli.gs/QYEpY2 #smreport

Saturday's Women's Circle

We had a really great Women's Circle at Melanie's yesterday. Kate, our new Magic Faculty member, facilitated our afternoon. The topic was Wisdom of the Heart. I know the topic kind of sounds a bit generic but we had an amazing time as Kate taught us how to talk to our minds, hearts and our Divine selves. The best part was posing a question we each had been struggling with in our lives and learning how to hear the real answer instead of the voice of worry and struggle. Man, I can't wait to apply this technique on an ongoing basis. Kate and I are going to talk about whether we can somehow teach her technique on our television show. This is something everyone will just love.

UCLA does study on women

A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are.

Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our friends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis. A landmark UCLA study suggests that women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women. It's a stunning find that has turned five decades of stress research.

If you want to read more about this fascinating study, email me at info@themagicparties.com

Television here I come!

Ever since I was on “Bozo the Clown” a Boston-based children’s television show when I was five years old, I have dreamt of being on television and having my own television show. Today was my lucky day where the dreamer in me got awakened.

Last summer at our Magic Retreat by the lake, our topic and theme was “awakening the dreamer and turning our dreams into reality.” As part of the program we each had to declare out loud to the group a dream we have. Yup, you guessed it; mine was I wanted to have my own national television show.

As soon as the words left my mouth, I thought it sounded ridiculous and I wondered who else thought I was insane. The reason it sounded especially crazy is that I have no background in the television industry or background in media of any kind. I considered that my declaration was just a moment of “workshop passion,” you know the excitement one has while in a workshop to make a big change in your life? I knew I was probably safe because usually workshop passion disappears, brings you back to your senses and convinces you whatever you said was not something you either believed in or expected would actually happen once you spend a few days back in your real life and away from the workshop.

Somehow I was able to feel both crazy and excited at the same time with the possibility of having my own show and I started to brainstorm ideas for getting started. The first thing I did was sign up for an acting class. I figured if I was going to be on television, I should have some skills and learn some foundational techniques.

Well, today was my lucky day where the dreamer in me knew without a doubt that I was on my way, even though in the early stages of my journey. Today I made the first foray into television as I had the first taping of my new local cable television show called, Wake Up with Wendy; Discover the Magic of You. It wasn’t half bad for the first time out of the shoot.

I’m no Oprah but I have a dream that is bigger than my fears!


Dreams really do come true. So can yours.

Are you Emerging?

This century is being referred to by many as the Sophia century where women’s energy is predominating and the men who are in power and who are successful are those in touch with their feminine side.

I believe the whole collapse of the financial markets, many traditional model companies, and the upheaval of entire industries is in part due to the collapse of the masculine model of leadership and the old way of doing business, where:
>More is better.
>It’s a “you or me” world.
>That’s just the way it is.
>Command and control leadership.
>Individual heroic (I can do this alone) is the model.
>Focus on the mind as the primary method for determining the best strategies and solutions.
>Doing more, driving to get results, and striving to get things done.
....Is over.

More and more, women all over the planet are being called forth, by the universe, by spirit, by their inner voices to step in, step up, and step out. Personally, I am experiencing the emergence of the feminine model, in contrast to the masculine model above, where:
>We have more than enough. I am enough.
>It s a “you and me” world.
>There’s no such thing as “That’s just the way it is.”
>Collaboration, sisterhood, circles of women are forming all over the planet in ever increasing numbers. Women are bringing their uniqueness to the collective team in new ways to make a better product, outcome, and result.
>Affiliation is the model.
>Paying attention to our inner voices, accessing mindfulness and spirit to solve problems and find solutions.
>Love and power are now being integrated along with the mind as the primary methods for determining strategies, goals and outcomes.
>Supporting ourselves and others to flourish.
>Just being, experiencing the natural flow and creating space to let the answers come and the results unfold.

How many of you are doing things in your life, personally and professionally that you have never done before? Maybe even never dreamed of doing?

I say YEAH! Let’s keep going.

Hot Chocolate and Wisdom

The happiest people don't have the best of everything...they just make the best of everything that they have. http://tinyurl.com/5orwhz

Soulful Singing

I love this Navajo chant that I heard sung by Barbara McAffee at the 2008 ICF Annual Conference. She is a wonderfully soulful singer. Here is her mission....
I sing with the sweet breath of God
And I dance on a living planet
My body is holy water
And I dream a world made new

Here are the words to the Navajo Chant

When you born you cried
And the world rejoiced
Live your life so that when you die
The world cries and you rejoice.

I wonder what things I can add to my life so that I can connect to spirit more often. What about you?

To hear or learn more about Barbara, go to her website www.barbaramcafee.com

Courage

What does it take to be courageous and why would you do it in the first place? A few thoughts come to mind. Feeling so strongly about something that you say or do what you think is right in spite of what other people's reactions might be. Belief that what you say or do is for the greater good for your well being and/or the well being of others. This American Psychologist is, in my opinion, very courageous. I wonder if she thinks so? This short YouTube video clip is a must see. I imagine it might not be on the internet for long, so watch it as soon as you are able.
http://tinyurl.com/63acnw

What are you waiting for?

I believe each of us can make a difference, even if there are days when we don’t know what difference that will be or how we will accomplish it. I have been giving this a lot of thought lately and wondering what I can do. And wondering how I can help others see and take action on what they can do to make a deeper difference in the world so that we feel like our lives are contributing to the greater good and leaving a legacy we are proud of. One idea I came up with is to think about what gifts we have; you know what I mean when I say gifts, right? I mean our talents, our sparkle, the things that others adore about us, the unique touch that we have and have had our whole lives and sometimes don’t use to its fullest potential. We each have multiple gifts that we have been given or have developed over the years. And there are many ways for us to express these gifts in our personal and professional lives. I don’t know about you, but I spend too many days, wondering and fretting over the most ridiculous things, most of which I have no control over anyway.

So this morning, I am immersing myself in the question, “Which gifts could I use more and what might I actually do that I am not doing or not doing well enough now?”

And what gift and talent will you immerse yourself in expressing bigger, stronger and with more courage?