In This Issue:

• Note from Dawn: Happy New Year!


• Feature Article: "How Do You Heal the Past with Love?"


• Teleclass: with Linda Cassell
  

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Note from Dawn

Happy New Year %$firstname$%!

This is a very special week for us. After 14 years, my daughter’s father arrived today to meet his daughter for the first time. It was a moving and emotional experience for all of us, but also one of great joy.

He will be with us the rest of the week, so it will be a very special New Year. We leave tomorrow for Portland, so he can take Lina shopping… her most favorite thing in the world. He’s won her over already. She had him the moment he laid eyes on her.

This week, I decided to reprint an article I wrote over the summer. It is about forgiveness and learning to heal from the past. As the New Year approaches, it’s a good time to let go of the past and start anew. I hope my article helps you on that journey.

If you would like some additional support moving on from the past, my “90 Days to Turn Your Love Life Around” Program is a wonderful way to begin your New Year and New You. I’ll be announcing all the details next week.

Until then, may this New Year bring you the most joy, abundance of love, and prosperity you’ve ever known.

With love, light and blessings,

Feature Article

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"How Do You Heal the Past with Love?"

Some time ago, in one of Wayne Dyer's books, I read the story of how he had visited his father's grave. After years of struggling with the fact that his father had deserted his mother, left her with three boys and no means of support, Wayne talked about how not only was he able to forgive his father, but also found gratitude for what his father had taught him.

I was deeply moved and inspired by Wayne's ability to be grateful to a man, who had brought nothing but pain and grief into his life. It was a story that stuck with me, but I was not at a place in my life to see the personal lesson, much less act upon it.

Fast-forward a number of years...

I had been doing a great deal of work on my personal relationships with the law of attraction, both current and those in the past.

Knowing how important it was to not only find forgiveness for those that have "harmed" us, but to also take the next step in finding gratitude and appreciation for what they brought to our lives, took me on a complex, emotional journey.

I was determined to clean up any negative feelings from old, hurtful relationships. I wanted my life completely aligned with harmony, peace, and love…including all my relationships from the past.

I knew it was impossible for me to achieve that kind of alignment if I was still hanging on to any resentments, or negative feelings, towards someone or something, from the past.

Onward I pushed... to the one person and relationship I had struggled with for over 32 years... the man my mother was married to for almost 30 years, my former stepfather.

My stepfather and my mother first got together when I was 16. He began making sexual advances towards me every time we were alone. I was so confused I didn’t know how to deal with his behavior. I didn’t want to hurt my mother. As a very conflicted teenager, I wondered what I had done to deserve this. I did my best to avoid him, but with minimal success – it was such a difficult situation for me. I tolerated his advances for the 30 years he and my mother were together.

Then he did the same thing to my 9-year-old daughter. When she was able to tell me what he'd been doing, I gave my mother an ultimatum... she could continue to see her only grandchild, or stay married to her husband, but not both. She got divorced.

I had previously done a lot of forgiveness work around my stepfather. I had come to a place of peace and understanding about his behavior and actions, both towards my daughter and me. It helped that my daughter is now a happy, well-adjusted, and thriving teenager, after a year of therapy.

However, I had never moved into a place of being able to find appreciation and gratitude for my stepfather. That is, until recently when I focused on applying the law of attraction to that part of my life.

After weeks of journaling and meditation, I finally realized that I would not be on the path I am on today, nor would I be the person I am today, without the experiences with my stepfather.

I found a place of gratitude and appreciation for everything he had brought to my life.

A few weeks later, my mother was expecting my stepfather to come through town, and stop by her house to drop some things off. I told her my daughter and I would make ourselves scarce that day to make sure we didn't run into him.

He never called and never showed up. My mom figured either he chose not to come by, or something else came up.

A few days later, I stopped at my mom's house to drop off my dog before I went to an appointment. My mom was volunteering at the hospital, so I knew she wouldn’t be home. Our dogs like to keep each other company when we're both away.

As I drove up to her house, I saw a strange car parked in her driveway. I noticed someone standing in her garage. I parked my car and got out. I suddenly realized it was my stepfather.

After my initial shock of seeing him for the first time since I found out about what he'd done to my daughter over 3 years ago, I realized I had nothing to be afraid of anymore. I was not that frightened young girl anymore. I felt only compassion for this confused, old man. I walked up to him and said hello. Then I gave him a hug as if he'd never done anything wrong.

In that moment, I let go of 32 years of fear I'd had towards this man. It was over. God brought us together knowing how much more powerful this act of forgiveness would be for me to do in person.

I realized he had come into my life to bring me to where I am today, and the same for my daughter. She is now beautiful, strong, and knows how to speak her mind.

I felt only gratitude... and love.

Life changed forever in that moment. The past was over… completely over.

Is there a part of your past that’s waiting to be healed? Once you heal your relationships from the past, you can start creating the love you desire in the future.

"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not open, no gulf that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how great the mistake, sufficient realization of love will resolve it all. If you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world."
~ His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

© 2008 Dawn Allen

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Teleclass with Linda Cassell

My friend, Linda Cassell, CPCC, is obsessed with 2009! She can’t wait for the New Year. She thinks, despite everything we are hearing on the news, that we can make 2009 a year of amazing results!

A new 3-month teleclass that will show you how to make 2009 the Year of You and Your Amazing Results!

Linda tells me that in the class you will:

• Learn how to transform your top 3 career, financial, and health goals into the results you seek
• Discover how to raise your career, financial, and health “set points”
• Implement an accountability system to monitor your progress
• Learn how the new media can help you achieve your goals

And much more! It will be an action packed 3 months designed to get you into “inspired action” mode.

Go here now to register!

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