Tag Archives: reiki

Repeat After Me

Posted by Aug 23, 2018 Advocacy, Coaching, Divine, personal power, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , , , , , ,
Repeat After Me

What happens when you work through your Shadow and learn to stand in the space between Dark and Light with awareness and power to choose is a predictable process that you can repeat the rest of your life. When you do, change becomes permanent. You won’t pick up an old journal this time next year […]

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Can You Own the Love?

Posted by Feb 23, 2017 Advocacy, Coaching, Divine, personal power, Reiki, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , , , ,
Can You Own the Love?

Shadow work, which is my primary focus, is not only looking at the rejected parts of you labeled as “negative”. It’s not just about loving your inner bitch or your petty childish thoughts. The harder challenge may be to own your beauty, how much you are loved by others and how much the world needs […]

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The United States of You

Posted by Dec 18, 2016 Advocacy, Burnout, Coaching, Desire Map, Divine, personal power, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , , , , ,
The United States of You

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor E. Frankl As our beloved country finds itself more and more divided, I’m struck by how much more important it is that we […]

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In Defense of Ego and Energy

Posted by Aug 19, 2016 Advocacy, Coaching, Desire Map, Essential Oils, Reiki, Relationships, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , , , , ,

Similar to our physical body’s immune system we have one for our emotions and energy fields. All kinds of specialized systems and cells rush to the sites of injury to protect, isolate the danger, sometimes encapsulate and to heal. T-Cells, B-Cells, antibodies, phagocytes, plasma cells, neutrophils, inflammation responses, etc. Our bodies are a miracle of […]

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Forgiveness Clears the Way for the Big Feels

Posted by Apr 5, 2016 Coaching, Desire Map, Essential Oils, Reiki, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , , , ,

We forgive ourselves not for shutting down due to our lack of skills but for our judgment of that clumsiness and the damage we’ve done to ourselves in order to survive.   And more importantly: for all the times we’ve passed up opportunities to repair said damage as adults. I have a woman in my […]

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Cats and Coaching

Posted by Jun 30, 2015 Advocacy, Burnout, Cats, Coaching, Desire Map, Essential Oils, Self-Care , , , , , , ,

Here’s what I know about cats and coaching: cats are coaches in furry disguise. They encourage us to change without even trying. They are quiet listeners (unless they have the 2am zoomies), they have the deepest eyes that make you talk to them thereby processing your junk and they support us without being overbearing or […]

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A Final Plea to Prevent Burnout:Self-care for Advocates Series End

Posted by Jun 5, 2015 Advocacy, Burnout, Committment, Essential Oils, Exercise, Reiki, Self-Care, Young Living , , , , , , ,

Recently a woman I know and have gotten a cat from (Ginger Rose who is currently living with my mom in Colorado) is closing her doors to her phenomenal cat rescue and TNR (trap-neuter-return) services because why? She’s burned the eff out. Her heart has in her own words “hardened”, she has no more tears […]

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Embrace the Whine to Find Your Shine: Self-care for Advocates Series Part 2

Posted by Mar 13, 2015 Advocacy, Catification, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , ,

Wallowing in negative whiny thoughts for too long can be devastating to your well-being however that’s not what I’m talking about today. There is a difference between wallowing and diving in.  Diving in and embracing the negative allows it to flow through you leading you back to your shine, your smiling face that your friends, family […]

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Self-care? What self-care? Self-care for Advocates series part 1

Posted by Mar 9, 2015 Advocacy, Reiki, Relationships, Self-Care , , , , ,

I will be speaking at BlogPaws 2015 Conference in Nashville, TN on the subject of self-care for advocates. Until the middle of May I’ll be posting a series of articles covering various ways to manage that hard work of animal rescue, advocacy and taking good care of yourself. Here is the first post and please […]

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