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Of The Goddess Ltd.

March 25, 2013

Founded in 1995, Of The Goddess Ltd. was a Woman Owned Company, whose Natural Aromatherapy and Bath & Body Products, Business Policies and Principles were based on Enlightenment, Spiritual Theory, Healing and the Well Being of All. As of January 2016 Of The Goddess Ltd. is no longer in business.

Originally located in Toluca Lake, CA, Of The Goddess Ltd. moved to Amesbury, Massachusetts in 2009. Recipes for all of the products were taken directly from ancient tradition and have been created by the founder of the company, Pamela J. Leavey.

Of The Goddess Ltd. utilized only the finest pure essential oils, true to nature fragrance oils, food grade vegetable oils, solar kiln sea salt, and herbs, resins and roots. Ninety percent of the company’s products contained no chemical preservatives or additives, those products that did utilized botanically derived chemical preservatives and additives. There were no animal by-products used. Products were never tested on animals, only happy humans!

Ecologically friendly and user-safe PET plastic bottles and jars were used for all bath & body, spa and specialty products, and all containers contain UV protectants to preserve the integrity of the essential oils and other natural ingredients. Each of the product lines featured logos that were inspired by and reflected the Goddess in her many forms and aspects. Our colorful labels were printed ecologically friendly high-gloss paper labels.

Products from Of The Goddess Ltd. were available for resale to Bath & Body Shops, New Age Shops, Gift Shops and Women’s Specialty Shops, Health Food & Natural Healing Stores, Hotels and Spas, across the U.S.. Of The Goddess Ltd. also operated an online Retail Store for consumers.

The high quality and accessible price points of the products made them saleable in a multitude of markets. This met the company’s goal: to create natural products for healing, relaxation and intent that transcend the traditional Aromatherapy and Bath & Body products currently available, and that are easily accessible to people the world over who desire positive change and well being in their lives.

Of The Goddess Ltd.’s founder, Pamela Leavey was an early adopter of technology, taking her company digital in 1997.

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Getting Rid Of Stuff…

February 19, 2013

Four and a half years ago, I embarked on my grand mid-life crisis adventure that took me from West Toluca Lake CA (aka North Hollywood or NoHo) to Eastport, ME to Amesbury, MA all with in the time frame of 7 months. It wasn’t the plan, the plan was to stay in Eastport, ME, but for a variety of reasons, the plan took it’s own turn back south again and brought me back to the river, the Merrimack River where I grew up. There’s been two more moves since I landed back here on the wrong side of the Merrimack River in Amesbury, MA and I’m now preparing to move again, to a new place, a place where for the first time in almost 24 years, my daughter will have never lived. It’ll going to be my place, I’m feeling the urge to lighten the load.

I dragged across country every thing that would fit in a 6′ x 12″ trailer only to fill a UHaul truck when I left Eastport, ME for Massachusetts. The load has gotten heavier, yet and it’s time to give it up and admit, I am a stuff person.

But, I don’t want to be so much of a stuff person anymore. I need to give some stuff up, let it go, pass it along, leave it behind. It’s a new life for me, living alone for the first time in 24 years and it’s time to introduce a fresh frame of mind with a some fresh feels in my home.

I’m looking at my bulletin board filled with years of fun while living in Los Angeles, as my daughter was growing up. It’s a precious part of the pest that needs to get packed away safely in an envelope with the dates on it. There’s a new bulletin board to begin now. Sometimes you know when stuff needs to get packed away to a special place to keep it safe.

Sometimes it’s so good to just say, I don’t need or want that stuff anymore. It’s just stuff. And, hey… There’s always more stuff out there to acquire… Around here, you can drive down the road and find some good free stuff on the side of the road. There’s plenty of stuff to go around. I’m letting go of some of my stuff, since I’m moving again. And it feels good to let it go!

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Book Review: To Be Sung Underwater

August 18, 2011

It’s hard to know where to start with my thoughts on Tom McNeal‘s new book, To Be Sung Underwater.

As a women who’s own mid-life crisis adventure placed her back at her roots a couple of years ago, on so many levels I could identify with the main character in the novel, Judith Whitman. In To Be Sung Underwater, Whitman’s life took her from Vermont to Rufus Sage, Nebraska and then California, where she ironically ended up living in Toluca Lake, CA, the area of Los Angeles that I lived in for 19 years.

I could not help but wondering when reading the book if there was not something in Los Angeles, that for small town people like myself and Judith Whitman’s character, drains the soul for lack of nature. Because surely in reading To Be Sung Underwater there was a sense in my opinion, that as Judith Whitman returned to Rufus Sage to meet her long lost love after 25 years, she returned not only to a relationship she left behind, but to a place where life was simpler and far more serene. A place that where simpler truly connected the soul to the earth, sky, air and water.

In our youth the idyllic notion of love is far more simplistic than the reality of adult life. Marriage and children bring responsibility that can be difficult at times to settle into and often as the years pass by, leave us wondering about that simpler time in our lives. This time when we start to wonder, mid-life, for many brings a strong desire to reconnect with our lost youth.

Judith Whitman’s wake up calls in mid-life, triggered a series of round-about events that brought her back to her past. And what she found there was profoundly heartbreaking yet enlightening. In the time spent reuniting with her lost love, Willy Blunt, Judith Whitman was given a chance to grow, and make peace with the past. I finished reading To Be Sung Underwater and felt that in time she would.

I was immediately captured by the characters in To Be Sung Underwater. I felt the author, Tom McNeal was at his best in describing scenery in the book only in writing about Nebraska and looked for more about her surrounding in Toluca Lake which were vague. Perhaps it was the parallel of my own life spent in Toluca Lake, but I think it was more of interest in Judith’s life there.

Once immersed totally into the book, as the story deepened I could not put To Be Sung Underwater down. Then when I knew I was nearing the end, I needed to step away to breathe deeply before I finished it. I was glad I did.

If you’ve been through your own mid-life crisis, or long to rekindle with a lost love, you’ll feel this powerful book very deeply as I did. In truth, To Be Sung Underwater is book to get lost in at any stage of adult life.

I may just have to read it again because it’s one of those books that I know will cast a different light the next time around. So much to absorb, so much to feel. So good to read.

Pamela Leavey

Of The Goddess Ltd.

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