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Because of its detail and breadth Naked Soul can become a referenced classic,

not in a scholarly sense, or because it is the first to allude to cosmic relationships,

but because the author has brought into the book detailed insight not yet surpassed.

​Philip Paul, Out-of-Body Research Foundation

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Goddess Consciousness is a multi-faceted reference book

for many types of Goddess-informed practices. Donato's book

provides a fresh new set of ideas for connecting our beliefs

to our daily routines.​

SageWoman Magazine

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Multidimensional Aromatherapy

is a fantastic reference and I am glad to have it in my library.

Amanda Klenner,Natural Herbal Living Magazine

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I cannot recommend Goddess Consciousness enough

especially if you are at the start of your journey

with the divine feminine or if you are a teacher or circle facilitator.

​Laura Slowe, Goddess Pages Magazine

Midlife Crisis?

Be Inspired by Novelist Marlaina Donato

        Bucks County Women's Journal  

         August/September 2013            

by Linda C. Wisniewski 

 

Marlaina Donato believes that “words are sacred; words are energy.” She spent nine years writing her novel Broken Jar and says “I could never have written it in my twenties or thirties.”

 

Donato’s mother took her to visit the Pearl S. Buck estate when she was eight and showed her little girl the famous author’s desk. “It was nothing less than magical,” Donato says, noting that some scenes in Broken Jar come directly from the years she lived in Bucks County as a child. When she was 10, she began a weekly 4-H column in her local newspaper. As a teenager, she started a novel and hired a typist who was also a professional editor, a woman who taught her the basics of writing. With no other formal training, Donato found her own voice.

 

Broken Jar is the story of Tee Buckley, a woman in midlife who suffers great loss and finds redemption in the Bucks County town of New Hope. Donato says writing the book helped her navigate her own losses and life transitions. “Don’t be afraid to write from the solar plexus, the deepest emotional place of your own experience,” she advises. And “make writing a priority. Let your stories out of the prison of excuses and never settle for less than your own level of excellence.”

 

Now living in rural New Jersey, Donato is also an accomplished painter, photographer, and composer. She is certified in massage and bodywork, clinical application of essential oils, Reiki I, and hospice volunteer work. She is an essential oil practitioner and meditation instructor specializing in eclectic women’s spirituality and the Sacred Feminine. With all these accomplishments, how does she find time to write? “We make time for the gym, our kids’ extracurricular activities, salon appointments...make writing just as important, and you will find time. If you write just one page a day,” she says, “you’ll have a draft or a finished manuscript in a year.

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Marlaina is the author of
15 books in several genres including 
the 1998 OBE memoir Naked Soul (Llewellyn Worldwide),
Multidimensional Aromatherapy, Goddess Consciousness,
Spiritual Famine in the Age of Plenty
, and the novel Broken Jar.
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