Soul Musings

The beginning of the year is  that sweet spot where we collectively begin imagining possibilities to fill the fresh new year before us that is inviting us to try again, begin again and to once again attempt to create all we desire.   The energy and anticipation can feel so potent, so exhilarating and our intentions for greater yet to be so possible! We start strong and then, lo and behold around mid-January we settle back into our old familiar patterns and ways of being. When we set intentions or resolutions what we really are doing is acknowledging that we need to move out of our cozy limited comfort zones. And this, my friends, is no easy feat! It requires faith, trust and a willingness to be uncomfortable for a while! Goal and resolution setting and even visioning don’t work on their own for many reasons. First of all, the comfort zone is our mind’s way of attempting to keep us safe and protected from the great “unknown”, which is everything outside of the comfor

Did you just “get up” this morning or did you “WAKE UP”?   To "get up" we stay in a day to day familiar and routine pattern. Even before we open our eyes in the morning, our programmed mind kicks in and we start thinking about the activities of the day. We go through our current daily morning routine on automatic pilot from the stored references in our subconscious minds that make up our habitual way of being. “Waking up” begins in a sacred way, with reverence for the gift of a brand-new day. With the awareness that there is something greater happening and that greater possibilities exist beyond what our human eyes can see. It's creating rituals that weave our unique soul missions into the collective great mystery unfolding. We become present before opening our eyes to any whispers from our souls or images from our nightly Dreamtime. We pray, vision for higher possibilities, set intention and offer gratitude for what is and gratitude for the yet to be.

Being a healer doesn’t mean that you are “healed” or have it all “together”. Rather it means that you've dedicated your life to being on a perennial journey of self-discovery, learning, healing, seeking, unfolding, transforming, etc. and feel called to support others from the well of wisdom deepened along the way.   A healer is committed to their own inner work and honors the times when they are called to take deeper dives for more exploration of their wounded/gift-bearing places in order to surface with more awareness, compassion and additional gifts gathered from being with what surfaces. With willingness and surrender, they drop deeper roots and scatter seeds of possibilities as they grow through difficult times trusting that the time spent working with “what is” will yield a bountiful harvest of fortified insights and blessings to nourish others and themselves with. During the times requiring deeper inner work, they may need to withdraw their energies from pr