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Emergence – Back to Life
It’s been a long year. Our world has been dragged into the depths of hybernation and soul searching. I feel that it’s time to come back to life. This past week I experienced a healing of my soul and an emergence. Cycles and Changes Every living thing experiences cycles and changes. There is the ebb and flow of the tides, the hibernation of plants and animals in the winter, the rebirth of these beings in the spring. It’s a part of life that we cannot ignore. Everyone has been affected by the quarantine and the economy and politics! Yet we all have choices when it comes to how we recover…
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Movement of Life – Update
Life is filled with surprises, endings, new beginnings and unexpected journeys. We need to be ready in a moment’s notice to embrace what’s to come! I started to title this “New Beginnings” but “Movement of Life” seems more freeing! Not So Good With Change I have been licking my wounds and trying to see the good in weeks of not so great! After all of the hurdles and paths I have been down over the years, all of the self help and therapy, I honestly thought that I would be good with change. I thought I was truly prepared for anything that life threw at me. At 59 years old,…
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Surviving Aches and Pains
Life can become so busy that without realizing it we (actually I meant to say “I”) start to neglect projects, family and friends. But more important, I begin neglecting myself. I don’t take the time to listen to my mind or my body. And then one day it starts screaming at me and I can’t ignore it any longer. I am searching for a way to survive with my aches and pains. A New Year It’s 2019 and I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions. They never last for more than a few weeks or months. But this year MUST be different. It will be my 60th year on this…
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Messages From the Universe
Sitting down at the computer this morning, I was going to write a completely different post, but something happened today and I need to write it down so I don’t forget the feelings and the profound messages that have come to me. Sometimes I get these messages from the universe. Life Has Ups and Downs My life has been so happy! After two rocky, emotionally damaging marriages, I finally know who I am. I have been able to feel love, happiness and peace in my life! Learning to love myself was not easy but I have accomplished this and have learned how to take care of ME finally. I have…
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How to Accept Death
As in past blog posts, I am posting old journal entries that helped me get through rough times. Here is one that I found on dying. Writing this journal entry was my way of figuring out how to accept death. My Best Friend’s Husband My best friend’s husband passed away this weekend. I was around when she met him and when they married and had children. He was like a brother to me. Steve wasn’t even 60 years old yet. How does this happen? We are supposed to grow old and enjoy grandchildren and great grandchildren. How is she surviving this horrible loss? How would I ever survive such a…
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Life Half Over? Or Is Life Just Starting? Thoughts on Aging
I have so many thoughts on aging these days. As each birthday approaches I start wondering, is life half over or just staring? I love reading the Wild Woman Sisterhood posts that are on my Facebook screen almost daily. They resonate with me! I have never been one to conform to the fads or the norms. My Childhood Dreams My childhood was on the tails of the hippie movement. We watched the older sisters of my best friends walk out the door with their hippie beads around their necks and their bell bottoms and halter tops. My soul surrounded itself with folk songs, black lights, beads hanging from my room,…
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Horses and Chickens
Sometimes life gets the best of us and stress takes over. I truly believe that laughter is good medicine. If I find myself being bogged down with life I try to step back and notice life around me. There just might be that brief moment where something funny can help get me back on track. Here is a journal entry from years ago. Friday, September 15, 2006 Just at the moment when I need something in my life to make me laugh…. I was having dinner with some friends last night on their farm in Prospect. It’s a very beautiful part of town with a lot of land. The whole…
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Mental Abuse and Doormats
Here is a past journal entry from July 2007. My eyes were finally starting to open to the mental abuse around me from everyone I love. It still amazes me how I allowed myself to be treated this way. What happened to my sense of self worth? Before My Eyes Opened Monday, July 9, 2007 “Doormats” Doormats! Handy little things. They just lay around outside through all kinds of weather, getting stepped on, mashed, beaten, kicked. Then having to deal with everyone’s crap being wiped on them. Just so that person can enter into their nice clean environment. Leaving the doormat to deal with the dirt!!!! There is a question…
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FORGIVENESS Is The Key
A Key Element I have realized over the years that forgiveness is a key element in staying healthy and happy. It’s important to be able to forgive and move on. It is healing for the soul! Life is so short. It passes with a blink of an eye. Why waste one minute of it being angry at someone and not letting the past go. I stress this to my loved ones all the time. My belief is that we were put here to learn unconditional love and to learn from our mistakes. I believe people are placed in our lives to help us learn these lessons or to help us…
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The Breaking Point
There were a few events that led to my moment of awakening. Signs of emotional abuse are easy to ignore or dismiss. A black eye or broken arm can awaken the point of walking away but how do you know when enough is enough after subtle emotional digs, over and over? When is the point where you say enough is enough? We start thinking that something isn’t right, but our minds go straight to only the good times. When we start thinking we are gaining the courage to really look at what is happening, floods of memories pour into us and blind us to the truth. Silent Treatments are Abuse…
EMPOWERMENT, TRAVEL AND AGING GRACEFULLY
