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Godmothers is a bookstore & gathering space in Summerland, California. (Though we're less a store & more a storefront for magic.) We host transformative events that inspire & expand perspectives—and we share those events right here, on our Substack.
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The Hard Decision You Haven’t Made Yet (opens the original)
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What if it was easy?It’s a deceptively simple question and one Jim Curtis believes can create enough space to begin changing a life.Subscribe nowIn conversation with co-founder Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at Godmothers, Jim, author of The Book of Possibility, traces transformation through three stages: release, align, become. First, notice the patterns quietly running the show. Then ask what you actually want. Finally, practice b
The Part of Transformation We Try to Skip (opens the original)
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We’re very good at wanting resurrection. Less good at “Saturday”.Subscribe nowIn The Alchemy Transmissions: A Pathway to Miracles, Carissa Schumacher maps transformation as a three-part passage: Friday is the death of what no longer fits; Saturday is the messy, necessary work of becoming; Sunday is what gets born afterward.The temptation, she says, is to leap straight from ending to renewal. But “the real alchemy happens in the Saturday.”In conversation with J
Annie Meyers-Shyer, Detail by Detail (opens the original)
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There are people who like design, and then there are people who have a reverence for the difference between two nearly identical samples of paint.Annie Meyers-Shyer is firmly in the latter camp. Her new book, This Oak House, grew out of the Instagram account she started while renovating her family home, and the thousands of decisions, detours, discoveries, and tiny obsessions that came with it. Paint samples migrate from room to room. Colors change with the light. Original character meets modern
Mark Nepo on The Language of the Soul (opens the original)
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In conversation with longtime friend and Godmothers cofounder Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo returns to the roots of familiar words to recover what they once asked of us. Sacrifice: to give up what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred. Appreciate: to move toward what is precious. Algebra: the reunion of broken parts.Subscribe nowTheir time together moves from language to creativity, friendship, fear, repair, the stories that retu
Priya Parker On The Art of Fighting (opens the original)
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Priya Parker has spent years teaching us how to gather. Her new book, The Art of Fighting, asks what happens once we’re in the room and the temperature rises.Subscribe nowIn conversation with longtime friend and Godmothers cofounder Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Priya makes the case for conflict as a skill worth learning: how to hold “healthy heat,” ask the obvious
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