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Fire from the Inside

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

We were driving down the Gorge yesterday in a haze of smoke. We finally figured out that there was a timbre fire on Mt Hood behind us, a grass fire to the South of The Dalles beside us, and a brush/grass fire covering several hillsides that we could see burning on the other side of the river from us, directly across. Since the other fires threatened more homes and were more generally huge and out of control, there was only one lonely helicopter carrying bucket after bucket of water to little tiny portions of this extensive fire-edge. And suddenly, we felt surrounded.

Today dawned clear and sunny and cool. FINALLY NOT HOT, I tell you! And the smoke has all cleared, and at least the fire on our side of the river has gone out, but not enough to open the roads apparently (not until after my appointment, anyway)… So all seems well. But yesterday was different.

Yet again, the universe shows us how precious and unique and powerful each day really is, all in its own right. So, today?
Be Well.

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September 10- Workshop

Friday, August 26th, 2011

I’ll be having my monthly workshop at Crystal Cavern of Oregon on September 10th, at 6 pm. This month, we’re having an Inspiration Day! So bring your favorite book, or at least your favorite quote, and some folks who inspired you as a kid, and we’ll get together and talk about the value of inspiring words. We’ll also create our own little Inspiration Mandalas (no experience needed– nor art skills, I promise) so that you can Take A Little Magic Home With You.

See you at Crystal Cavern!

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Little Joyfuls

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

My garden is growing! My garden is growing! And producing incredibly delicious heirloom purple cherry tomatoes! And two kinds of heirloom carrots, and we’ve got ONIONS! And the snap-pea bush even gave us a few last sweet little peapods this week. And it’s nearly September! We’ve got these awesome green heirloom tomatoes that grow to fist-size, with green-on-green stripes. The chard is finally coming along, too. Lovely. And tasty.

Talk about abundance in the palm of your hand! And the joys of a well-tended harvest. And well… tomatoes. The nights are cooler again (yay!), and the sun is still warm in the afternoons (try 85* today where I was), and I’ve just put together the coolest string of healing-type words onto a postcard-sized business card. So all is right with my world. I hope you have as much or more to celebrate in your day, too. Those little joyful-bliss moments are everywhere, just waiting to be noticed.

Be Well.

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At the Core

Friday, August 19th, 2011

Have you ever thought about your core values? The standards by which you judge your life or weigh your big decisions? Those one-word or one-line statements that sum up your whole life’s wisdom to date, and explain why you make the choices you do each day?

It isn’t a fast process. I would hold off on the calligraphy and expensive gold leaf paper for now. I wrote my words on an index card. They’re easier to carry around that way. I’m an exceptionally fast processor of  new ideas and such, once I know there’s something new to learn in that area. And it’s taken me about a year to get a really solid short-list of words to live by. And even then, the four I had for the first six months were pretty great, and the eight I have now might change in another year or two. So I went ahead and used that gold leaf paper for something else. We are constantly evolving.

But I carry that list around with me. It’s my check-in for those little everyday decisions. Do I buy ice cream this week? Do I spend $60 on a new purse? Does that pair of shoes really support my purpose, or my ego? Do I have the energy to drive to Portland again this week– for the third time this week? Do I want to stay up another ten minutes, and do Yoga, or do I need my sleep? Am I spending my time and energy on the people who really matter in my life, or on the strangers I don’t want to offend? And then I dig into my wallet, and there’s that little list staring at me. Daring me to be my best self NOW. With this decision.

Take some time to write down words, or even sentences and phrases (and then maybe find a single word that encompasses those ideas, if you can) that speak to your core values and beliefs– the life you want to lead, and the person you want to be in your life.

The first word on my list is Simplify. Not because I’m good at it, but because I know that if I don’t simplify my life, I’ll die from a stress-related heart attack before I’m fifty. And I’m tired of renting that storage unit for all my extra books. Which I can’t read because they’re in storage. So…

Simplify. Or sometimes, Simplicity.
Integrity is next on the list. In my teens, I relied heavily on those little white lies that made everyone happy, and made my life easier, but were only… shall we say SHADES of the truth? And I don’t like being that person who cares more to please the people around me and make them feel good at my own expense– to be a people-pleaser. Instead, I care to represent myself with integrity. So I changed that behavior long ago. Integrity is a core concept for me, and I live as best I can with Integrity.

Have you ever heard or read the Navajo Blessingway Prayer about beauty? The final lines are… I walk with Beauty around me, and my words will be beautiful. I read more about the meaning behind this prayer in a book by Native wisewoman Jamie Sams. Her words continue to resonate. That prayer made my lifeway list, too. Walk in Beauty.

So look around– what cultures and values and families and individuals and such do you admire? What do you already try to live by– acknowledged or not? What are your words? What is at the core of your best self? What words do you WANT to carry in your mind, to nourish and encourage you throughout your lifetime? I’ll give you a hint– none of that negative self-talk you do– none of those guilty SHOULDs– made the list. Everything on the lifeway list of words and phrases is a positive thing. Either a belief or a goal for the way you live and make those little decisions every day.

Be Well.

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Looking for Violet

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

I am looking for a few key ingredients. For the life of me, and six months of vague searching, I have not yet been able to locate any dried violet leaves (or flowers), nor any violet EO– that I trust to be well-made and pure. And I would REALLY like to have some violet in my tool kit. So I’m spreading the word– if you come across it, please think of me, and then email me and let me know where it was? Please?

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Who is Your Audience?

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Often, we come from a place of desperation. We are completely self-supporting, and don’t have any clients yet (except mom), or we work on commission, and money is tight. I’ve noticed that it is very easy to expand our target audience in relation to the size of our fear at these times. But the reality is that if you broaden your marketing to target EVERYONE, nobody feels that your services are especially appropriate to them. And people pay less for a service that doesn’t specialize in what they need.

Take a look at your target audience. Who do you have in mind when you write your flyer, or define “what you do” in that tagline on your new business cards. Are you trying to appeal to everyone you can think of who might buy what you have to offer? Or are you marketing with your ideal client in mind? The ideal client isn’t just “somebody who can pay me for what I do.” Your ideal client is exactly the kind of person and the kind of problem you ENJOY WORKING ON or WITH. Who gives you that rush of energy and excitement when you solve their need? You want more of THOSE folks in your professional life!

So… what are those kind of people looking for? Let your marketing answer that need. Specifically. I’ve heard all this before, but for me it really sank home when I realized that I teach nearly all my coaching clients how to ground, center, shield, and clean their personal energy so they can BREATHE without tasting other peoples’ problems. Hey– why  not teach that as a workshop?

And then I realized that I have a whole series of workshops to share– Energy Management for Empaths and Healers, I’m calling the series. But really, I have some teachers, writers, a computer engineer or two, a cement truck driver, and a bunch of empaths and massage therapists and chiropractors, etc showing up for these workshops. AND I LOVE TEACHING THEM. And I realized that if I offer these energy-management tools to the healing community, all their clients benefit, too. Bingo. That is my audience. And I love them. I love working with them. I love supporting the work that they do in the world. Perfect.

So today, I hope for you that you can step away from your desperation over enough money coming in, and look instead at getting the right sort of people into your office. The clients who will feed BOTH your budget and your soul.

Be Well.

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Grounding

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

I find that certain topics and certain types of TV are really upsetting. The politics of our country are important– and in uproar– and there is currently so much hate attached to American Politics that I feel dirty even TALKING about any of it. And I’ve realized that while I will be voting, I need to limit my exposure to all those dirty hateful vibes. In fact, I honored my feelings and my sense of being pulled out of center by politics just this morning.

My partner showed me yet another ridiculous argument from the opposing side, another YouTube News article with lots of enraging content, but not much actual truth or facts. And then I decided I’d had enough. And I went to my little meditation mat, and focused on grounding my energy in the beautiful endless Earth. As an Empath, being able to ground myself quickly and effectively is one of those skills that keeps me sane and functional. Five minutes later, I was ready to fix a glorious breakfast, complete with lots of fresh organic fruit slices in our Greek Yogurt. And then I went to work on my community outreach to-do’s. Which require a a very healthy sense of self in connection to All That Is.

Is there a place in your life that pulls you off center? What do you do to return to your Self?
Be Well.

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Summer Daze

Friday, August 5th, 2011

I’ve learned to plan a rest-day after large events like the Healing Festival. I have a wonderful time, and use/channel great energies during the event. Then, I go home and sleep a lot, meditate, re-ground myself, re-fill my energy, remember who I am when I’m not “eventing.”

One of those life lessons that our culture actually dislikes today (and, to our detriment, tells us to ignore) is that of taking care of ourselves first. If we are not whole, not energized, not grounded and healthy– then what kind of energy or attention will we be giving those in our care? Probably not healthy energy and attention. If you can’t take care of yourself for your own sake– and you deserve to be healthy– then take care of yourself for the sake of those relying on you at home, at work, in the community, energetically… You get the drift. It’s a personal responsibility as well as a right and a joy. Take a bath, take a load off your feet, take a nap, take an extra helping of that yummy salad with it’s summer berries and nuts and tomatoes and such.

Be Well.

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Connecting to the Great Something

Monday, August 1st, 2011

This has been an amazing weekend. I spent Saturday at the RoseSprings Healing Festival in Portland. I spent Saturday evening giving my monthly Take A Little Magic Home With You workshop at Crystal Cavern of Oregon. I spent Sunday doing what I do best: Connecting with the Great Something and encouraging personal growth.

The Healing Festival was a lot of fun– I met wonderful people, had fun getting “deep” with free Tarot Readings (now, don’t you wish you’d come?!), and “talking shop” with other amazing healers. Since this is the Festival’s second year, I look forward to an even bigger event next summer. The gathering also benefited from my first batch of six individually hand-made Charged Healing Candles, and we discovered that they have a total burn time of about 30 hours! Not bad for a well-loved pint-sized candle. (I think the healing energy I put into them helped…)

After meeting so many great– and empathic– folks this weekend, I’m really looking forward to our next Take A Little Magic Home With You workshop on August 13th. The topic is: Energy Management for Empaths. So if you (or someone you know!) find yourself constantly feeling way too many emotions, or feeling angry or sad when there’s just NO REASON… you might be empathic. If you find yourself feeling the emotions of others as if they were your own… you might be empathic. If you are gifted in the healing arts (particularly body and energy medicine such as massage), you might be empathic.

What’s an empath? Empaths don’t just sympathize with someone else’s emotions– they feel those emotions for themselves! And since folks don’t always SHOW how they feel on the outside, this can get confusing, fast. So how do you get some relief? How do you know which emotions are really your own? How do you set healthy boundaries with energy? You come to my workshop, Energy Management for Empaths on August 13th. Or call me for a personal consultation, and we’ll tailor the lesson specifically to you and your empathic/energy situation.

At the end of this crazy movie that I just love to laugh at (ever watch Big Trouble? I warn you, there are goats), the ridiculously selfish father has been sprayed by a toad’s halucenogenic saliva, and is thus imagining that his dog is Martha St*ewart. And he yells– very theatrically– “MAKE. IT. STOP!” with lots of shakespearean gesturing and such. I used to feel the same way about being Empathic. I know what you’re going through. And there are ways to manage it without going crazy.

Be Well.

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Break On Through

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

This Full Moon (Midwife Moon, on my calendar!) has been a gift. I met with my sacred community of women last weekend. It was healing, beautiful, nourishing, lovely. And even better, they all had the opportunity to meet each other. I am truly blessed with amazing friends. And this was only a few of them!

This week, also, my MCS skin allergy rash thing finally disappeared. I have a management plan that WORKS! It is such a relief to have my body back. And it turns out that New Seasons has a TON of lovely soaps with no actual soap and no sodium lauryl sulfate in them. (Two things the dermatologist wants me to avoid.) New Seasons also provided me with a wonderful alcohol-free lotion (tons of yummy ingredients in their Borage Butter Cream by Wild Carrot Herbals– and it feels all lovely going on), and a shampoo I actually look forward to using. My conditioner came from there, too, but all from different companies whose products I don’t find other places. And all free of sodium lauryl sulfate, and most other sulfides as far as I can tell. Which isn’t far.

And this week, many people have taken a few minutes to tell me what a difference I have made in their lives. I am myself every day, so I forget how important my work can be. (Especially when I’m not taking horrid medications that don’t actually help my rash. Which I’m glad to say, the treatment that works does NOT include horrid medications. So I’m back to normal.) I feel like my birthday came early because of all these great insights into how my healing work and Empathic Tarot readings have positively affected peoples’ lives. Lives I care very much about. One client even told me that she still refers to a Tarot Reading I gave her two or three years ago for insights and guidance. Wow.

So thank you. Thank you friends, thank you Dermatologist, thank you clients and even strangers whose lives I have touched– and from whom I learned so much about myself. Thank you Universe, and Great Something that fills everything with Energy. It has been an amazing week.

I’ve also had some insights about how I want to be more present in the world. How important it is to make the healing that I channel and the knowledge that I hold more available. For example, I have some great new workshop ideas. So I’ll be making some changes to my website (www.BeWellMedicine.com) over the next week to reflect those insights. I’ll definitely post a message here to let you know when the changes are done. (For now– I find that Change is one of the few constants.) Let me know what you think!

I hope you experience your own breakthroughs, your own moments of pure joy, your own feeling of having an important place to fill in your community, family, or work this summer. I hope you choose to share those moments with me. Happiness is contagious, you know!

Be Well.

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