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Uncaged: The Rise of the Badass

Michelle Catanach

25 stories of the Wild Woman to Ignite the fire in your soul

25 trail-blazing women turn their mess into their message with powerful, life-shifting and taboo breaking stories of truth, shame and vulnerability to free the wild woman within.

  Personal Growth & Self-Improvement    Memoir   62,500 words   50% complete   5 publishers interested
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Synopsis

The road to womanhood is never an easy path, especially in a world driven by ego, fear and the patriarchy. For hundreds of years women have been treated less than, not just by men, but by women too. They have been victimised, violated and denied their basic human rights. They've carried shame and guilt, the long-suffering mother wound buried beneath a fake smile and inability to say no. As a result they've disconnected from who they really are, using food, booze, sex and shopping as a way to self-medicate and stuff down the disease of not-good-enough-ness. Until now...

In Uncaged: The Rise of the Badass 25 trail-blazing women share their stories of strength from struggle, turning their mess into their message to empower and inspire their peers and future generations. These are women united in their mission to create positive change in the world through truth, authenticity and an indestructible knowing that women are worthy and deserving of so much more.

It is part-memoir, part self-help, taking the reader on her own journey of insight, exploration and self-discovery so that she too can awaken to her truth and uncage the wild woman inside. 

This book is an essential read for all women, young and old, and a celebration of our strength, courage and resilience in the face of adversity. Women will open their once closed hearts, listen to their inner authority and boldly step into their innate power and potential. When we rise our children rise. And that is how we change the world.

Outline

The book will consist of 25 chapters written by 25 co-authors.

The order and content is yet to be determined however themes will include how to thrive following rape, attempted suicide, physical and emotional abuse, workplace bullying, addiction, eating disorders, dysfunctional relationships, divorce, homelessness, walking away from families and relationships plus much more.

Each author will provide a vivid, raw and unadulterated account of a pivotal breakdown moment in their life and how they emerged to create the joyful, abundant and uncaged life they now lead.

At the end of each chapter there will be some reflections and questions to help the reader explore her own inner world and facilitate her own growth and transformation. 

Audience

This book is targeted at women aged 25 to 50 who are feeling lost, dissatisfied and questioning the meaning of life. They are awakening to (or certainly open to) a more spiritual path. They will have experienced many of the issues raised in the book and not yet fully processed or overcome them. This book will particularly appeal to mothers with daughters, who remember in vivid detail  her own struggles and be living in fear of passing her own wounds onto her children. The women who will like this book will already be following people such as Rebecca Campbell, Gabrielle Bernstein, Louise Hay, Wayne Dwyer and Daniella de Porte on social media and will likely still suffer from body confidence and self-esteem issues so will be members of related forums or actively seeking different ways to improve their body.

This book will also appeal to women who have or are thinking of starting their own business. Either they are in the start-up phase or have struggled to make a success of their business for a while because they're struggling to show up fully as themselves and are stuck in feeling not good enough. They will recognise some of the issues raised in this book as their own. This book will inspire them to be vulnerable, connect with who they really are and really connect with their deeper mission and message. These women will be following pages such as The Female Entrepreneur Association, Leonie Dawson, Kimra Luna and Marie Forleo on social media. 



Promotion

The co-authors run online businesses and collectively have a large following across social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Linkedin as well as email subscribers. They are also active members of their own (or other) highly engaged Facebook groups.

A number of the co-authors have featured as guest bloggers for Thrive Global, Huffington Post, Psychologies Life Labs and The Metro, to name a few, as well as speaking internationally.

REVIEWS/ENDORSEMENTS

I will be approaching some high-profile influencers, some of whom I interviewed for my podcast, to review and endorse the book eg  a mention on social media, a written review on the book page (website), foreword.

FACEBOOK PAGE

A Facebook page has been set up for the book and this will be actively used as part of the marketing campaign. I will be interviewing the co-authors live using belive.tv and creating a FB ads campaign to offer the first 2 chapters as a free download in exchange for their email address (and therefore subscribers can be notified when the book is launched). We will be actively and consistently using the page to generate buzz in the lead up to launch. 

PR

One of the co-authors (who specialises in PR) will be assisting with our PR campaign. We will approach media outlets for interviews as well as approaching podcasters in the online space that are aligned to the overarching message of the book. We will also contact on and offline publications to write features. 



Competition

Rise Sister Rise: A Guide to Unleashing the Wise, Wild Woman Within by Rebecca Campbell, Hay House UK 2016

Many women have spent their lives trying to succeed by 'making it' in a man's world. But things are changing - more and more women are realizing that this way of being is no longer sustainable. We are experiencing a global shift which mystics through the ages have predicted: the return of the mother and the rise of the sacred feminine.

Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic. by Lisa Lister, Hay House UK 2017

A WITCH IS A WOMAN IN HER POWER. She's wise, a healer, someone who is aligned with the cycles of Mother Nature and the phases of the Moon. Yet for so long, the word 'witch' has had negative connotations - being used as an insult, a slur and to perpetuate fear. In this book, third generation hereditary witch Lisa Lister explains the history behind witchcraft, why in past centuries the word 'witch' has led women to be tortured, drowned and burned at the stake, and why the witch is now waking once again in women across the world today.

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regina Thomashauer, Hay House UK 2016

With this book, you're being handed the keys to a turned-on life - a life that is authentic, radiant and open to pleasure and joy. Regena Thomashauer has long noticed that 'pussy' is one of the most pejorative words in the English language. No one calls you a 'pussy' when they want to tell you how radiant you look, how capably you work or what an inspiring life you lead.But all that's about to change. In this remarkable book, Regena reclaims the word for what it rightly is: the highest of all possible compliments, a sacred living prayer. Pussy has been written to reacquaint you with your own power source. Drawing on her 25 years of research, Regena teaches you how to:- learn to awaken a part of yourself you've been taught to repress or even despise- see that pussy is anything but pornographic - it's actually the seat of all feminine power and pleasure- discover how a woman's sensual awareness is critical for her spiritual, intellectual and emotional health- crack the confidence code and understand that sex appeal is an inside job... and much more!By turns earthy and erudite, passionately argued and laugh-out-loud funny, Pussy is your call to tune in, turn on and live more richly and fully than you ever thought you could.

The Universe Has Your Back: How to Feel Safe and Trust Your Life No Matter What by Gabrielle Bernstein, Hay HouseUK 2016

'My commitment with this book is to wake up as many people as possible to their connection to faith and joy. In that connection, we can be guided to our true purpose: to be love and spread love. These words can no longer be cute buzz phrases that we merely post on social media. Rather, these words must be our mission. The happiness, safety and security we long for lies in our commitment to love.'


Through acceptance, surrender and a commitment to her continually evolving spiritual path, New York Times bestselling author and international speaker Gabrielle Bernstein has been transforming her fear into faith. Her stories and universal lessons provide a framework for releasing the blocks to what everyone most longs for: happiness, security and clear direction. These lessons can help us relinquish the need to control in order to relax into a sense of certainty and freedom - to stop chasing life and truly live.


Ride the swell of your energy and true power to find strength when you are down, synchronicity and support when you are lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy in what might otherwise be pain. Bernstein has secrets to reveal, and she is determined to unleash the presence of your power with the comforting knowledge that the Universe has your back.


The Uncaged book has similar themes to each of the above: spiritual awakening, connection to the divine, trust, truth and joy, feminine power and freedom.

Yet it is different because it is an anthology, a collection of a diverse range of stories and experiences that show true struggles of the every day woman that are relatable to the reader, things seldom openly spoken about, and the emergence of the wild woman as she steps into her divine truth. It is a book that beautifully merges the human and soul experience in a way that is raw, real, unadulterated and refreshingly honest.  

Michelle Catanach

About the author

Michelle Catanach – International Bestselling Co-Author for Love Unboxed, Speaker, Kids Mentor, Soulful parenting Coach and founder of www.theuncagedrevolution.com – helps sensitive & soulful mamas uncage themselves, their kids and their lives using the power of consciousness, connection and creativity. She helps mums connect with their divine wisdom, heal generational wounds, bust through old paradigms and set their souls free so that they can authentically lead the next generation. Her mission is to transform the way we collectively raise our kids, from a fear-based to soul-centred approach. Michelle believes that when you empower a mum you empower a child and THAT is how we change the world.

Michelle spent 15 years in corporate London successfully working within IT, finance + project management before uncaging her true potential to focus on her family+ business. She is mutipassionate with certifications in Sports & Remedial massage, baby massage, Eating Psychology Coaching + NLP. She is a gifted artist, doTERRA essential oils advocate, IsagenixUK ambassador + in more recent years has awakened her intuition + taken a more spiritual path. While her deeper work is based on her own experiences and gift of ‘seeing’ other people beyond their mask, she also combines the 3 principles, mindfulness and creativity to guide her clients home to who they really are.

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Introduction

In a world where at least 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, 120 million girls worldwide have experienced forced intercourse or other sexual acts and child marriage and domestic violence are on the increase, It’s time that we women united in our power, stepped into our truth and owned who we are, even the dark and uncomfortable parts of us, because that is how we collectively heal.

That is how we be the change.

That is how we put an end to these shocking statistics.

That is how we raise our kids to be the fullest expression of themselves and be the leaders of their life.

It starts with us.

As women we know what it’s like to be too much.

Too emotional.

Too sensitive.

Too quiet.

Too confident.

Too shy.

Too prudish.

Too slutty.

Too posh.

Too common.

Too intelligent.

Too thick.

Too something. ALWAYS too something.

I personally know what it’s like to desperately want love and approval without condition and when you don’t receive it to go on a long, dark and devastating journey to find it.

I know what it’s like to use your body as power over men because somehow you’ve been given the message that that’s all you are, that that’s how you validate your place in this world, that that’s the only way to get love and attention.

I also know what it’s like to have bruised ribs and a black eye, to be co-dependent and addicted to an emotionally abusive partner, because someone who supposedly loves you feeds into your feelings of self-loathing.

I’ve done the drugs. Years of destroying myself with alcohol. Nights I’ve blacked out and still have no recollection of events.

I’ve abused my body with laxatives, starvation and gruelling exercise regimes. Desperately trying to mould it into something more lovable so that I could attract – or KEEP – a man because that’s the only way, in my mind, that I could prove my worth.

I’ve had massively psychotic episodes and lashed out at the people I care about while allowing myself to be treated like dirt by the assholes who, in truth, didn’t give a shit about themselves.

I’ve been dumped for being too “common”, for not being educated enough. And I’ve been ridiculed for being too “posh”.

I’ve been sacked from several jobs and so far removed from my straight A potential because I’ve been told “you’ll never be good enough to work at X”, “you’ll never make it to being a Y”, “you don’t look like someone who got these grades”.

And I've tried to kill myself. For real.

My story isn't unique.

It is one that is mirrored every day in the lives of hundreds, thousands, MILLIONS of women in the world. Which is why Uncaged: The Rise of the Badass was born.

I have brought together 33 trail-blazing, world-changing women on a mission to collaborate and share their stories of struggle to strength, turning their mess into their message to empower women to say NO MORE.

NO MORE to passing on old patriarchal beliefs and wounds.

NO MORE to allowing women to be treated less than who they really are.

NO MORE allowing our voices to be silenced.

NO MORE taking on other peoples insecurities as our own.

NO MORE living in shame for being human.

If we want to see change in this world, to stand up for all women, for HUMANITY, then it starts with us.

WE need to be the change. Each and every one of us reading this book today.

This book is going to take you on an adventure into the unknown. You'll be taken to some dark and uncomfortable places yet you'll find peace and light as you connect more and more with the truth that lies within your soul.

You will emerge feeling empowered, inspired, seeing the world from a whole new perspective as you awaken into the wild woman you were born to be.

When you empower a woman you empower a child.

And THAT is how we change the world.



CHAPTER 1: 

FROM TRAPPED SOUL TO LIVING A LIFE LESS CAGED

By Michelle Catanach

“No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Have you ever wanted to die?

I am not talking about wishing the ground would open up and swallow you in one of those excruciatingly
embarrassing moments.

I mean real death. The kind when you truly, genuinely do not want to live anymore. The kind when you deliberately act, with all intent and purpose, to attempt suicide.

This is not the cry for help or attention seeking type with the hope a knight in shining armour will ride up on a white horse and save you kind.

It is because you have an undeniable belief that the world would be a happier and better place without you contributing another second of your worthless existence.

That is how I felt in 2001. I was 19 years old.

I remember that night as if it were yesterday, out enjoying a drink with friends in our regular haunt. I use “enjoying” loosely. In reality alcohol was my way to numb out and slay my demons. It was that period in my life when I spent every night out boozing for fear of missing out and to fill the void of what was an otherwise unexciting life. I did not even have any hobbies. I would wake up, go to work then to the pub. A pattern repeated each day and every single day. Wash, rinse, repeat.

That night I drank more than usual and became drunk. Booze made me a more fun and exciting person to be around, helping me lose my inhibitions and create a mask of confidence. It helped me to take my mind off the emptiness I felt inside.

I was grieving that night, or at least that’s how it felt. The loss of my ex after yet another volatile breakup had left me in a state of mourning.

I remember drinking copious amounts of vodka to hide my sadness. I was free of him, so should have been celebrating, not drowning my sorrows. He was a complete bastard. Everyone told me so. Yet I didn’t see it. More than two years of torment and manipulation meant I was co-dependent and needy, convinced that I was nothing without him. Believed that I needed him to survive. I was laughing on the outside, flirting
with anyone with a pulse, yet crying on the inside, the voices and insecurities getting stronger the more inebriated I became.

The walk home was long and lonely without him by my side, yet the torment and abuse would have been unbearable if he was. I trudged through puddles, the rain drowning me and leaving me looking scruffy and bedraggled. I looked old for my 19 years. The way I walked, the clothes I wore and the pained expression set in my face, far removed from the vibrant and happy girl I had once been.

I found myself calling him, begging him to take me back, sobbing as he screamed a torrent of abuse and profanities down the phone.

He was right.

I was a slag. A nutcase. A whore.

No one wanted me. Why would they? Even my family were ashamed and embarrassed by me.

At least he had wanted me. He had pitied me and taken the burden off someone else by being with me. He had done the world a favour; taken one for the team as they say, now even he had walked away. He could not bear the burden any longer.

At least that is what he made me believe.

I felt so alone. I did not have anyone to talk to. I had spent so many years believing that showing emotion and asking for help was a weakness. I did not know how to express my feelings. If anyone took the time to ask, I would smile like a good girl, saying everything was ok, instead bottling all my pain, sadness and loneliness up inside.

The truth was I was addicted to him like a crack addict needing that next fix. I needed him. Without him I felt I was nothing. He gave me a reason to wake up every morning even if it meant crying myself to sleep by bedtime.

A DARK DECISION

I remember reaching home. Still swaying as I fumbled around for my door key, tear-stained and bleary eyed. I staggered down the hallway and into the kitchen. The gaudy green and orange
cupboards illuminated in the moonlight.

At this point I was not really thinking anything. I knew what I had to do. It had been an easy decision to make. I did not even consider the outcome. The effect it would have on the people around me. What would it matter; I would be dead.

The house was eerily silent as I opened the kitchen cupboard where I knew a stash of pills were stored. My hand blindly grappled around in the dark, rattling condiments and tins as I
reached to the back of the cupboard. I pulled out whatever I could find.

I took as many as a could; one by one. Rapidly pushing my feelings of self-loathing, loss and loneliness down with every swallow. Praying, praying that whatever they were, they would work and end my existence. I wanted to vanish from this world.

I have no memory of how many I took. I did not even know what I was taking. I did not care. They were drugs. Pills. They had to kill me if taken in excess. Right?

In my selfishness, I did not give a shit about the outcome. No-one gave a shit about me, so why should I give a toss about them? I simply focused on the task in hand. I was so angry with me, the world, the universe.

And then I went to bed.

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I awoke dazed and confused, my head throbbing as the room spun. I vomited into a pint glass that was on the floor beside my bed, initially impressed with myself that I had avoided spewing
on the carpet.

Then it hit me, like a juggernaut at 100mph.

I was still alive.

To this day, I will never forget the wave of disappoint engulf my entire body as I realised that my attempt to end it all had failed. All the feelings of hurt, pain, hatred and despair came flooding in like a tsunami, leaving me in a crumpled, sobbing heap on my bed. I was so useless, I could not even take my own life properly.

I felt like I was grieving all over again.

Of course, I carried on like nothing had happened, leaving the house that morning, my mum ranting as I left, affirming everything I already knew about me being a useless waste of space.

Me being late for work with what she believed was simply yet another hangover only added more fuel to her flame.

I called in sick at work then spent two hours sitting on the swing of a children’s playground, head in hands, routinely vomiting as my body desperately tried to expel the toxins.

No one knew what I had done. In fact, it took several years before I confessed to anybody.

I would like to say that this experience woke me up. That I saw that I had a second chance in life. Something to live for. That I would radically transform and live out my soul’s desires. I
would find my passion in life and spend my time trying to attain it.

But it did not. It was simply another chapter of a deeply troubled life that in all truthfulness had not reached rock-bottom from its spiral downwards from the age of 16.

HAD I SEEN THE LIGHT?

Please do not judge me. I know what you as my readers must be thinking about me. Is she selfish and self-centred that she has no respect for the people around her? Why can she not see she has been gifted a second chance to find her way again? Well, not all stories have silver linings.

I needed my fix, my drug, my cocaine, my high, my self-loathing, my addiction to pain, so I got back with my ex again after that night. We even moved in together. Thus began six months of
emotional bullying, the odd black-eye and bruised ribs. I went to work struggling to make ends meet while he bummed around smoking pot and watching porn all day.

Such was his power, his control, that everyone thought it was me. I was the problem. They saw a crazed, nagging girlfriend. Yet what they didn’t see was the powerless girl reacting to
whispered threats and muttered taunts while he acted like the innocent, downtrodden, charming boyfriend to the outside world.

I absolutely despised the guy, but felt too weak to leave.  I fell into a deeper depression, stuck in a limbo of not wanting to be at home and not wanting to be at work. Not wanting to be anywhere. Until one day I found myself with my hands around his throat, squeezing it tight, desperately trying to rid myself of this nightmare that I had found myself living in.

For a moment I really wanted to kill him. To end the torture.

The only thing that stopped me was the thought of a prison sentence. And he really was not worth it.

It was then that I knew I had to leave.

This triggered several years of self-destructive behaviour as I found solace in anything that would make me feel validated, loved or simply numb the pain.  

Drugs, excessive drinking, countless one-night-stands, toxic friendships, excessive dieting, binge eating, rebounding from one job to another, clinging on to lousy men while pushing away
any chance of happiness. Anything that made me feel good while supporting a deeply embedded unconscious belief that I was not worthy enough.

I was a far cry from the straight A student of my school days who had had so much promise and potential. And a far greater cry from the baby given the spiritual name of Joy for the delight she would supposedly bring to other people’s lives.

THE RETURN OF JOY

I had become comfortably numb as the song goes. I was nobody. I felt nothing. I was existing yet not living. It seemed I had been lost for a lifetime.

Then one day, I had my “Forest Gump” moment. No!! I did not start running as in real running. I had been running away all my life. This time I was going to run with purpose. I made the decision to travel.

Travelling had been a dreamof mine for years, but I had been so sucked in by my boozy lifestyle and toxic relationships that I did not have the motivation – or self-belief - to actually do it; only lame excuses not to.

Then I met Steve. He had already travelled the world on two occasions. He took me on holiday to Cambodia and after being so touched by the experience, it was then that I knew: I had to travel.

I asked Steve to join me. Reluctantly he agreed. Our first year together had been hell (for him). So convinced was I that he was just like all the others that I constantly tried to provoke him to prove my belief that all men were arseholes. In reality I was
the aggressor, often violently lashing out after too much drink. He, of course, never retaliated.

Travelling was the making of me and while it forces many couples apart, it brought Steve and I closer together. Away from the people, places and situations that triggered my insecurities, I was able to see things clearly.

I finally understood love, compassion and humanity. I understood how the world really worked, witnessing genuine innate happiness in people with materially poor lives.  I observed pure joy and gratitude despite obvious hardship and often traumatic pasts.

I realised that Steve was not like all the others and that he was in fact a decent bloke (and double brownie points for putting up with so much of my shit when most men would simply walk
away).

But most of all, I made peace with myself. I accepted myself and no longer felt ashamed of who I was.

When I stood on top of a relatively small mountain in Australia’s Warrumbungle National Park on my 26th birthday, for the first time in 10 years I felt free. I had finally left the bullshit of the past behind.

Joy had found her way home.

SPIRALLING INTO THE SHADOW

Following that day, life became pretty phenomenal. I overcame eating issues and shed a load of weight (without even trying). I drastically cut down on the booze. I discovered hobbies and a passion for learning. I cycled from London to Paris and ran my
first half marathon, feats that before I would not have considered trying. I had more travelling adventures. I attracted some amazing people into my life, forming deep and meaningful connections and my career, which had always been a non-starter, soared.

And remember Steve? Against all odds we got married (in Vegas!) and now have two gorgeous children (and this despite my own resistance and belief that I did not deserve kids).

Then I followed my dream. I left work to have baby number 2, set up a business then BOOM!

All the crap about me not being good enough, stuff that I thought I had overcome, well, the truth is I had just filed it away. I had not addressed the other me. The real me? I was locked away in the shadowy depths of my mind waiting to be found. I was found and I came back with a vengeance.

I felt my life spiralling downwards again. All those old feelings of shame and self-loathing were creeping back. I felt like a failure. I was a terrible mother. A lousy wife. My business was a sinking ship weighted down by mounting debt.

I started drinking more alcohol than normal, bingeing on junk and not taking very good care of myself.

I retreated into myself, pushing people away and felt ashamed for imagining life without my kids. The stress and overwhelm was all consuming and I simply did not recognise the person I was anymore. I only knew I did not like who I was becoming.

TURNING MY WOUNDS INTO MY WORK

Then it happened. My 3-year-old daughter hit me. Really hit me! My anger took over. In that moment all my pent up frustration came out as I picked her up by her shoulders and shouted loudly in her face, took her to her room and threw her  - like a
rag doll - onto her bed.

When I saw her sobbing inconsolably, pleading with me with her eyes, it's like I woke up.

I saw me. My inner child who wanted nothing more than to be loved. And I realised in that moment that I had turned into all the women before me, unleashing generations of wounds,
patriarchal patterns and insecurities onto the one person I had always vowed to protect.

I knew that I wanted better for my daughter. I knew that I wanted her to grow up free from insecurity and suffering, to be able to fully express herself, to love herself, to be loved and know her worth and give her the freedom to live HER life, not mine.

When I looked at my daughter, full of unconditional love, so pure and innocent, when I realised that her challenging behaviour was a mirror of me, I knew that I had to set myself free from my shadow.

The generations of hurt and wounding had to stop with me so that I could leave a better legacy for my children.

READER’S NOTES

Feeling is healing.

When you allow yourself to be present with your feelings in any given moment - even the dark and uncomfortable ones - you allow nature to take its course. You can process your emotions and allow the energy to flow through you. 

When you stuff your feelings down, hiding parts of yourself through fear and shame, you become a pressure-cooker of pent up emotions and stagnant energy ready to explode.

Who you BE is who your children become.

If you want to raise children who are deeply connected to who they really are and live as the fullest expression of themselves – physically, emotionally and spiritually including all the messy parts - then YOU need to be the change. YOU need to be that
person.

You need to stand in your own power, walk your own path and live as the most authentic embodiment of you because it gives your children permission to do the same.

Take a moment to reflect on these questions:

- Where in your life are you hiding behind a mask?

- What truths are you not
speaking?

- What emotions are not being
fully expressed and why?

- What is your biggest fear
when it comes to living as the fullest expression of you?

BIO

Michelle Catanach aka The Uncaged Mama helps women uncage themselves, their kids and their lives using the power of consciousness, connection and creativity. Michelle’s
vision is that every child lives as the fullest, boldest version of their true self without shame weighing them down and crushing their spirit....and it starts with women being the change. She believes that by empowering women we empower our children and THAT is how we change the world. Michelle lives in Amersham in the UK with her two spirited children and adorable husband. She’s obsessed with campervans, avocados and has been described as an undercover hippy. 



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  • Steph Drane
    on June 4, 2017, 4:54 p.m.

    Thank you so much for this, it's so important. Bright Blessings to you and your book, Namaste, Steph

  • Michelle Catanach
    on June 4, 2017, 8:27 p.m.

    Thank you so much Steph, we really appreciate your support! Much love, Michelle x

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