Mal Duane has triumphed over devastating life challenges to become an Alpha Chick extraordinaire. After having struggled with alcoholism as a young woman, Mal now has a dream marriage, a highly-successful business, and as a certified Professional Recovery Coach, is deeply involved with helping women discover and use their connection with the divine power to redefine their lives and step away from their pain. She also serves clients through the multi-million dollar real estate company that she built from scratch. As she strongly believes in educating women, she built a school in Konjila, West Africa that educates a hundred students annually, and created Holly’s Gift, an educational assistance fund, which will receive proceeds from the sale of each copy of Alpha Chick.

Alpha Chick, Five Steps for Moving from Pain to Power is a model for any woman who dreams of having happiness, success, and fulfillment. It clearly guides the reader step-by-step in the process of becoming her own unique brand of Alpha Chick, using Mal’s simple 5-step formula for self-worth, freedom and transformation. The book is coming to Amazon on Tuesday February 14th, 2012 – Valentine’s Day. Mal says, “I chose Valentine’s Day because I wanted women to give themselves the gift of self-love on that day.”

Yesterday, Mal visited Shelagh Jones at http://SpiritualMarketing-Blog.com/books-by-spiritus-members/alpha-chick-by-mal-duane/, where she shared her recent podcast interview with Mal about her story and her new book Alpha Chick: Five Steps for Moving from Pain to Power.

Today, I’d like to share with you a recent interview I had with Mal when I got to ask her some questions on the subject of spiritual practices, self-love and personal power. I hope you enjoy it.

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Krystalya Marie’: What different forms of Spiritual Practice do you find helpful for most women you work with and why?

Mal Duane: I love meditation for centering and discovering out true voice. I utilize prayer or reading spiritual material for enhancing my awareness to my divine guidance. I think when we plant the right seed in the garden; we get the blossoms we are looking for. Thirdly, I recommend journaling. It is amazing when we write things on paper, the truth flows. Releasing the truth about how we feel or what we want to attract into our lives liberates our consciousness to go to work on our behalf. All three ultimately bring us to the same place of identifying who we really are and releasing our limited beliefs.

Krystalya Marie’: How important is Self-Love to becoming an Alpha Chick and why?

Mal Duane: Self-love/self-esteem is the root for personal transformation. Everything in life is tied to how we think about ourselves. Nothing is more important for women than to work on their self-love. When we truly embrace who we are, we become better partners in all the other relationships we build in life. You have to have something in order to give it away. This includes love. Once we learn to love ourselves every other aspect of our being changes. Our health, our attitude and our appreciation come into alignment with self-love. Unfortunately there are so many forms of media that work against us with false imagery of success and fulfillment. All that we need to transform ourselves will come from within.

Krystalya Marie’: What are the top 5 things a woman needs to do to “Discover and Maintain Their Own Personal Power”?

Mal Duane: I think by using the five steps of F-A-I-T-H women are able to recognize their connection to a higher consciousness, identify their negative behaviors and thoughts as well as set new intentions for positive actions steps. When women really embrace their power they need to start giving away their knowledge to those in need. The five steps are:

Focus: Go within through a spiritual practice of meditation or prayer to connect with the divine guidance within

Acceptance and Attitude: When you accept your past mistakes and suffering, you free yourself from the bondage of a personal history that no longer has any bearing on who you are. As you leave the past your attitude starts to change about your present.

Identification and Intention: You identify your negative behaviors that block your potential and set new intentions for positive action. When you consciously evaluate where you need to make changes, you create a plan for positive transformation.

Thoughts: Your mind can only hold one thought at a time, so why not make it a good one. Our thoughts are magnets for what we want to attract in our lives. It is imperative to pay attention to what you think about.

Healing and Helping: Once you restore yourself to the divine being you are meant to be, experiencing self-love and joy daily in your life, you need to seek out others that are suffering and share your strength and knowledge with them. To keep your power, you must give it away.

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I hope you enjoyed this interview with Mal Duane and that you’ll check out her book Alpha Chick: Five Steps for Moving from Pain to Power at http://alphachick.com/book-launch/pages/pre-launch.html

Here’s why:

FREE GIFTS!
When you buy Alpha Chick on Tuesday February 14, 2012:

1. Author Mal Duane will give you over 4 hours of MP3 audio downloads from the Alpha Chick Telesummit recently held on February 7th, 8th & 9th, 2012
2. PLUS, Mal will send you an invitation to attend a special teleclass where she will personally take you through the five step process of transformation from the book
3. AND FINALLY… you’ll also receive a complete library of beautiful gifts from authors, speakers, coaches and other enlightened professionals from around the globe including one from me;

Secrets for Having Peak Performance Energy, Audio Program

To find out more about these gifts, and to request a “launch reminder”
so you don’t forget to pick up your copy of Alpha Chick on Feb 14th, go to:
http://alphachick.com/book-launch/pages/pre-launch.html

Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.

AND… be sure to follow Mal tomorrow when the next stop on the Virtual Blog Tour is Katherine T Owen, who will be sharing her recent interview with Mal about spiritual connections, acceptance and empowerment. To visit that “stop” on the tour, go to http://www.a-spiritual-journey-of-healing.com/aa-spirituality.html

First and foremost I want to say there is hope with both conditions and of course as I’m sure you are already aware they are both highly interrelated. The advice I’m about to provide you with should be done only in conjunction with your medical doctor’s support and recommendations.

In my opinion you will want to resolve the hypothyroidism and then work on the excess weight issue once you have resolved the problem with your thyroid.  Hypothyroidism typically causes most people to put on weight and to have lower energy. Once you have balanced out the thyroid, have your energy back, and your weight has stabilized you will want to work on the weight issue if it still exists.

Hypothyroidism means that your body is not producing enough thyroid hormones and in some cases it may mean that you are deficient in iodine.  You will want to have the appropriate tests performed by your doctor to determine whether your hypothyroidism is actually Hashimoto’s, which is an autoimmune thyroid disease or not.  Hashimoto’s can actually be improved by eliminating iodine from the diet .   I recommend that you consult with a physician to determine which form of hypothyroidism you may have.

At the age of 18 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and for the next 30+ years I took a thyroid hormone supplement.  In the mid nineties I started changing much of what I was doing to a more natural holistic approach, and when I wanted to come off of my thyroid medication I was told that I could not be taken off of the medication and that I would have to take it for the remainder of my life.

In 2002 after receiving healing images for several ailments I asked for a healing symbol for my thyroid and made a decision to do the work I am suggesting that you consider doing in order to take myself off of my thyroid medication.  My doctor advised me against doing so but finally agreed to allow me to do so under her supervision and with the appropriate testing.  With my doctors blessing I have not needed to take thyroid medication since that time. Previously if I missed even one or two doses of the medication I became lethargic, while today most people comment about me being an “Energy Bunny”.

You see, I believe that all physical ailments have a root cause that should be addressed and hypothyroidism is no exception.  I’ve found, as have many others, that when we address the underlying cause of the disease the body innately heals itself. These root causes come in two forms. First the energy flow within the body, known as the chakra system and secondly the underlying emotional issue that caused you to shutdown the energy flow within the body.

In the case of hypothyroidism, the thyroid resides in the throat chakra area of the body and so therefore I would first recommend that you work on getting the energy flowing within that area of the body.  There are many techniques for opening and balancing the energy centers within the body.  In my case I have the gift of drawing images (healing symbols) that heal the body, including images specifically for working with the chakra system as well as specific health issues.  These symbols typically work within seconds to open the flow of energy within the body.  To access a copy of my newsletter which provides samples of some of the symbols, including the throat chakra symbol you can register by entering your name and primary eMail address in the box on the upper right side of this page.

Opening the throat chakra is only the first step in resolving the problem in that the energy will become blocked again if the underlying cause of the blockage is not resolved.  To discover the underlying cause you will want to consider the following as possibilities. My recommendation is to listen intuitively by paying close attention to how your body feels as you read and consider each of the following possibilities.  If you feel a tightness when reading one or more of these ideas, that may be your intuition providing you with feedback indicating your underlying cause to the problem.

In the case of hypothyroidism there is typically a feeling of giving up, feeling hopeless or stifled in some way.  There may be other underlying emotional causes such as feelings of being humiliated or never being able to do what you want to do, but instead always giving way to everyone else’s needs.  Do you find that you constantly put your own needs last?

You may also find that you avoid responsibilities by fleeing into idealized thoughts and dreams typically because you find life to be burdensome. Are you looking for refuge somewhere else?  Have you stopped participating in life?
Identifying and acknowledging the root cause of the problem is a big step in moving yourself forward in the healing process.  You will then want to do the emotional healing work necessary to release these issues and change your beliefs about yourself.

For the most part these feelings, emotions and beliefs became a part of us due to a variety of repeated issues that happened when we were small children at which time we decided based on our perspective what they meant.  You will need to recognize those beliefs and begin to change them.  This can be done through the use of various tools for releasing the emotional feelings and through the use of affirmations to change your core beliefs.

A few of the affirmations that you will want to consider are as follows.  Keep in mind though that an affirmation that does not directly target the underlying core belief will not get the result you are looking for.  It is important that your affirmations work to bring your beliefs forward from the current underlying belief.  An attempt to change your belief directly to what you want the new belief to be may not work.  For this reason I recommend that you bridge the beliefs in stages. To learn more about this and to uncover a very powerful, easy to use belief transformation process you can order my book One-Minute Energy Tune-up: Power Symbols for Balanced Energy by going: http://empoweredspirit.com/Emporium.htm

Affirmations to Consider are:

1. I feel safe being myself
2. I trust the process of life
3. I trust myself and my inner guidance
4. I love myself totally and completely
5. I create a new life that totally supports me
6. I am important
7. My needs are important
8. I easily take care of my own needs
9. I easily take time to nurture myself
10. I am loveable

You can also contact me for information about a having a private session by going to the contact page and submitting your information.

Welcome to Empowered Spirit Insights.  A place for sharing empowering insights to your healing questions.  The primary focus is energy healing of body, mind and spirit.  Here you will discover how your chakra’s relate to your health, and success as well as discover how your beliefs, emotions and feels are related to your health and success.

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