DRESSES OF TRANSFORMATION

1. Black Forest: My Home: This is a place of recognition that all women are connected; they are of the Earth and they are in pain (grandmothers-mothers-daughters-wives-sisters-aunts-nieces-cousins-girlfriends). Women hold the threads of life together. The forest is a dark place but if you keep staring in the dark, eventually you begin to see. This leads to self-reflection.

2. Self Reflection: I look at myself with no illusions. Women have been measured and confused as they have been told what to wear and how to feel, but who am I under all that judgment and expectation?

3. Love at Arm’s Length: Separation is essential to find one’s own truth. The two arms are separate and the whole body is the love that brings them together.

4. Tear Drop: The lesson of love in relationships requires the shedding of many tears.

5. Ode to Joy: At the end of tears there is joy, and life! Water is life.

6. Snake Charmer: When living your truth, you rise above the lies that have been put upon you. You come to your passion, and following it takes you boldly to create yourself.

7. Resurrection: It takes you beyond, into the realm of what is both real and invisible, "Beyond Good and Evil."

8. Metamorphosis: You transform, realizing you need grounding and also wings, earth and sky.

9. Many Eyes, One I: You realize you are the only one who can say "I" although there appear to be many "I"s! You cannot disappear into the crowd; you are important and unique; you are a creator. Give voice to what comes through you!

10. My Lips Are Sealed: Knowing what I know, I walk on this earth with my Ego Lips sealed.

11. Unlock Me!: My power can be unleashed now!

12. Growth: I can grow now in any direction life takes me.

13. Anchor: I am an Anchor unto myself. Old beliefs and other people’s opinions don’t push me around anymore.

14. The Song of the Universe: I am my own Universe: I give to myself, and I give thanks.

15. Birth: I birth a new me from my own realizations.