Stretch the comfort   This year required a little extra oomph in the back yard.   I built wire arches to re-route my grape vines from the fence. Along with the garden aches, I was naturally accompanied by the ongoing pains of life. I found myself in need of a small miracle between my neck and lower back. I was literally begging for my hot water bottle. In my search for an old world solution, came a new world discovery.   The elongated hot water bottle.   I like to think of it as full coverage. It wraps everything!   https://amzn.to/3qja8ty   You know I’m the queen of having emotional ties to inanimate objects.   My faith in hot water bottles is decades old.   When I was a little girl, I remember them always being in the house.   They of course serve many functional uses, but my fondest memories were when I was sick. They would warm me and sooth my ailing disposition.   I also like heating pads.   However, ...

      The Sound of Healing   Recently I’ve been fascinated by the idea of sound healing. It was a about 6 years ago I started working for a new company.   Transitions can always be jarring.   Within about 6 months my hiring manager was rapidly let go, and we were left in limbo about 45 days. During this time of uncertainty, anxiety, doubt, and doldrums grew like weeds in my head space.    I just felt off.   I wasn’t sad.   I wasn’t mad.   I was on the cusp of full fledge Negative Nelly.     I couldn’t get motivated and couldn’t find a groove.   I was stuck in downward slow motion.   I knew that I needed to pivot.   Google came to the rescue.   I searched how I could elevate my mood and get my vibes flowing again.   It gave me sound healing techniques.   I began listening to high frequency tones and binaural beats.   I was instantly more engaged, upbeat, and had greater clari...

  May is for mental health.   There is so much to talk about.    Mental health is a personal priority for me.   As a child, I grew up with a grandmother who was diagnosed with mental health issues.   I saw the effects on her life and our family first hand.   We were able to wrap her in a bubble of Jesus, love, supervision, and   managed healthcare.   Our tribe was able to stabilize her care and make her life more joyful and consistent.   Her disease created little interruption, but it was our normal, and we functioned. We were fortunate.   What about the people who don’t have the community or resources?   How do they manage?   They don’t.   As a matter of fact, some people have all those same resources and community, and the roller coaster if violent and catastrophic.     They spiral out of control.   They have over the top highs and below the bottom lows.   Some people suffer in silen...

  Mothers do the Most   This week we celebrate moms.   Mother’s can be so amazing, and moms can just be…the most. I’m a mom, so I know both sides of this coin.    Before I was a mother, I was a happy girl.   I like to stay that happy girl most of the time.   Life is about finding balance in the juggle of self, and obligations to others. I have a mom.   She is perfect.   As perfect as mothers truly come.   However, in her millisecond moments of ill actions,   grace doth much more abound.   The fact is that we are all human.   We are not always doing the most for others.   Some times we are doing the most for ourselves.   Some times it comes up cooked and short.   Mothers, require grace.   Some make it look simple and effortless.   Others are a poster child for poor example. All mothers require grace.   Everyone does not have a positive relationship with mom.   Some people in fact...

  Effortless   I mentioned earlier that I’ve spent a lot of my life figuring things out.   One thing that I’ve been working hard to figure out was simplicity.   How do I live a simple, relaxed, and satisfied life?   Truth be told, its is easy.   It is so easy, its hard to believe, and even harder to achieve.   We just spend so much time over complicating things.   I’ve been writing my thoughts down on paper since I was a young child.  It mostly started out as therapy.  I would write down things that I could never say.  I would throw them away.  I started writing poetry and songs.  Most of it was about love, and frustrations.  I’ve spent considerable time writing about inspiration, affirmations, and love.  These days a lot of it is about deep emotional trauma, personal freedom, and social injustice.   In 2019 I was ignited to take action on writing a book that would be published.   I took a ...

  On May 3 rd we celebrate INTERNATIONAL BLISS DAY! This is a day for world peace. Inner world peace.   That place inside you that springs JOY.   Sometimes its easy to access.   Sometimes joy evades us. The month of May is always for Mental Health. Joy is like a bank.   There are things, places, and people   that fill our reservoir.   There are things we think, places and people that   STEAL and deplete us.   Some activities multiply our joy.   Somethings divide it. Peace is a protector of joy. Boundaries and awareness are the protector of our peace.   I only know this because of self-discovery.   A long-broken road, lead me to higher ground and a less traveled path; my path to peace. Here’s the thing about Joy, and its protector Peace.   They are typically mutually exclusive.   Where we experience more peace, we find more joy.   I’m a true Taurus, and in true Taurus fashion, we celebrate our life cy...