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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
To Come Forth Gradually into Being
Although I’m truly content with my life, I never want to stop moving forward as a person. Reaching higher, aiming farther. I never want to become stagnant. I’ve always been goal-oriented. Pretty sure it’s a personality trait that is with me to stay. So I like setting goals and I love crossing them off so I can make new ones!
I’ve settled on EVOLVE for my word of the year.
“To come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution”.
Now that I’ve become a health coach, this is not going to
radically change my life. I’m not
looking for a full-time career. I do,
however, want to EVOLVE into that role gradually. In a way that feels comfortable. In a way that integrates my new knowledge
into what I was already doing. And in a
way that moves me toward becoming a healer.
I will set small-step goals and work from there.
Where it’s going? I think that is the beauty of EVOLUTION. One never knows for sure! And since one of my words last year was
MYSTERY, I can be perfectly OK with that.
The other word that I can’t seem to let go of is PAUSE. Instead of word-of-the-year, this will become
a practice that will help me EVOLVE. PAUSE to find the magic. PAUSE to check intention. PAUSE
before reacting. So many
applications! This is something I have
already been cultivating, but here is a chance to make it official and expand
the practice in new directions.
So there you have it!
It’s a start. Now I need to
explore these concepts in writing and find some daily practices that can help
to implement them. I’m excited! Particularly because I haven’t been motivated
to write a blog post in a very long time... and now here I am. Can’t help but think this may be a step in
the EVOLUTION! No promises - ha ha!
Monday, June 27, 2016
The Silver Lining
it’s been just one year since stu’s prostate cancer
diagnosis. a journey for
sure. this was not the slow-growing non-aggressive type that lots of guys are able to just let be. it had to be dealt with. so in addition to surgery we started a
journey of wellness that is with us for the long term.
first we soaked up the knowledge from The Truth About
Cancer (video series). revealing. eye-opening. mind-boggling. what really causes cancer and how to avoid it
and deal with it. all the stuff that you will never find out within the walls
of the medical establishment.
next we participated in Food Matter’s Total Wellness Summit.
validation and much more detail about the nutritional course we were following
as well as the various aspects of wellness. it
all makes so much sense. we are left wondering
why this info is not more “mainstream”, but then there are lots of powerful forces
keeping that from happening, despite the horrendous health risks our current
culture is fostering. (there are not a lot of dollars to be made from wellness but plenty from illness...)
to top it off we signed up for the Food Revolution Summit
with john and ocean robbins. fascinating
information, all based on scientific research. tips, recipes, suggestions, etc. totally practical and very hopeful
and positive in its message.
we have learned massive amounts of information about the
current state of our soils and food supply, industry-induced food addictions,
the american disease/drug epidemic (all so unnecessary!) the horrific treatment
of animals in the meat and dairy industries, environmental impacts of these same industries and so much
more.
Precious Life Animal Sanctuary |
truly, we were clueless.
once you know, you can’t “un-know”.
we are both loving the new way of life and how it promotes not only
physical health but confidence, mental alertness and a clear conscience
regarding what we put into our bodies. now instead of facing meal prep just
thinking of what would be easy and taste good, i truly think in terms of what
kind of nutrition i can pack in. and it
tastes great too! we do not feel “deprived”
in any way or miss the old foods. happily, as a side effect, stu has been able to ditch all the medications he was previously on and we are both illness-free.
so…. while we wouldn’t have asked for cancer in our lives, we
are deeply grateful for the path it has taken us down. so there you have it – the silver
lining!
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
My Year of Wild
i have not been
disappointed. Mary Reynolds Thomspon
writes beautifully and compellingly about the ways in which 5 “soulscapes”
(desert, forest, ocean/river, mountain, grassland) can aid us in the process of
self-discovery and also help us relate more deeply to our natural environment.
i had no idea when i started out of the ways in which “wild”
would manifest for me this year, but here it is april and i am finding
out. besides the obvious draw that
nature has for me to get out there and explore, there have been some other ways that
wild has worked its way into my life and art.
even as a kid, i loved rocks, shells, pinecones,
acorns and such, but this year i am paying even more attention to these little
manifestations of mother earth. picking
them up, photographing them, re-arranging them, creating with them, letting
them tell me their stories.
when i hung my mixed media pieces at pacific
pantry for the months of february and march, i decided to give the show a theme
of “wild wanderings” with a little sign and explanation.
i’m working on a chatbook which matches some of
my favorite pics of this area with quotes (my own and others). i may offer it
for sale and the title will be “wild western washington”.
My other 2 Chatbooks |
as i began reading through each of the
soulscapes in the book, i realized that i have literally thousands of pics that
could illustrate the ideas expressed there.
i decided to make photo powerpoint presentations for each
soulscape. so far i have completed “wild
desert” and “wild forest” and i’m just starting to work on ocean. as with my
other presentations, they contain images, written words and music and these are
about 10 minutes each in length. i
honestly have no idea yet of their destinations or audiences, but i’m trusting the process…
the wild focus has given me some new
insights. i’ve always craved wild and
now i’m seeing that it’s truly my portal into the sacred. it’s the link to my own spirituality. church never did that for me, but this….these
places speak to me of all that is divine and holy and nourish that side of my
being as nothing else could. pure and simple joy.
so there’s still a lot of year left…. hopefully this is just
the beginning.
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