It’s now two weeks post surgery from revision of the distal
end of my right leg and repair of a complete tear on my right shoulder repair. Over
the past 17 years there’s been numerous surgeries, 5 within the last 2 years
alone. Recovery’s road is not unfamiliar
ground to me but implementing 3 new practices in the last 3 years has made the expedition
far more tolerable and healing much greater not only physically but
emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
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I Incorporating the Ideal Life Vision program has
taken me leaps and bounds in honing in with clarity my dreams and setting and
accomplishing my goals. Personally there have been and continue to be powerful
and successful shifts in my life thus it is the base program I use with clients.
While this is a little plug for Keeping It So Simple it is more of a thank you
to Lauri Cox for introducing me the program and Ann Webb for its creation.
Recognizing and honoring my Vision as a living document of me and remaining
persistent and consistent has brought more awareness to my limitless possibilities
and potential and healing.
As my
life has spanned so has my prayer and meditation. The past several years I sought
assistance for energy therapy guided by some spectacular practitioners. This
type of healing work has brought up a lot of stuff, a surfacing of things, as
well as satisfying answers or altering perspectives to a wide range of
emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental feelings, thoughts, questions,
aches, pains...yeah this is a good juicy practice which brings clarity to a
different realm of me. I’m blessed to have worked with Vickie Warner, Pam
DiFranco, Shamsi Pettus, Lisa Dieken, and Jill Chesrow. I will continue to work
with some of these gifted women as well as continue to expand my own energy
work. Like my vision, remaining persistent and consistent to an energy practice
offers holistic well being and expands my awareness.
Pre surgery I was taking another of Connie
Hozvicka’s intuitive art classes, Painting the Feminine. Intuitive art is the third
practice. I’m deeply grateful to have immersed myself in and Connie’s courses
which introduced me to this practice. For several days leading up to surgery
this painting kept calling and calling me. While there’s much meaning for me in
the process and imagery of this piece, it is the bubble, circle shapes on her
head which made me most curious. I resisted, in fact, painted over them at
first but inevitably had to give in. This shape reoccurs not just in my work
but in several intuitive artists work as well and that’s what drove my
curiosity. Pondering this shape the night before surgery I woke with this
thought and I’m gonna date myself here, but I thought of Laugh In, a ‘60’s
television show filled with hilarious skits. One skit was done by Lilly Tomlin
in which she portrayed an operator. She sat in front of switch board plugging
and unplugging callers into one another, she was controlling the connections.
T These 3 practices, this intuitive
art piece, these shapes, are about that, our connectedness, our ability to plug
into one another. I think at times we become energetically intertwined which
isn’t necessarily a bad thing, or sometimes it is, there are times when we no
longer serve someone or something or they us. The key thing to note is that we
are the switchboard operators; we hold all the power to plug in or unplug, to
mix and mingle or intertwine.
We do not need sojourn this life
alone, we are meant for connections. As for me, surgery after surgery then
embarking along recovery’s road, I am ever grateful for the connections I have
chosen to plug into, family, friends, clients, tribes, teachers….from well
wishes, thoughts, prayers to 3 of my kids coming home and helping me out (much love
to Heather, Chris, and Audrie), yes grateful for allowing me to plug in and a
knowing when to unplug.
