with Guest Susan Andrian, LMFT, of Hope Reimagined
This is a powerful episode where we talk about trauma, how it affects our brains, the impacts of the ACE studies, and what Susan has been doing over the last 25 years implementing trauma informed approach to problem solving in both the school systems in Brockton, MA as well as Oakland, CA.
Considering the current challenges the education system is in right now after the pandemic, this is an episode, worth watching if you are seeking a better way to address the increasing stress rates of our youth.
Susan shares 3 Tips on what you can do today to be a part of what we can “Reimagine” moving forward
ABOUT SUSAN:
Susan Andrien LMFT, is a Phase 2 trainer in The Neurosequential Model, a neurodevelopmentally informed approach to clinical problem solving. With more than 25 years of experience working with children and families heavily impacted by trauma, Susan founded Hope Reimagined, a Mental Health & Educational Support Services organization with a mission to better support communities, schools and families to be relationally rich environments informed by neurophysiology.
Our mission is to be a catalyst to show others the way to become the solution to breaking they cycle of the epidemic of the perpetuation of unhealed unresolved trauma on all life.
This is a NEW collaborative program with industry experts, survivors, who have figured out the “how” to heal the effects from their trauma breaking FREE from the chains that bound them in ways society said was not possible
We’ll feature a different guest w/ each episode sharing experiences & solutions w/ the greatest epidemic of our times world – an epidemic of unrecognized unhealed unresolved trauma that is placing misguided burdens on our society, increasing rates of chronic illness, mental illness, & addictions & stressing an already taxed broken healthcare system ill-equipped to treat root issues because it is NOT profitable.
Click here to learn more about our program and mission
RESOURCES:
“My grandmother’s Hands; Racialized Trauma and Pathways to Mending our Hearts and Bodies” by Resmaa Menakem
“What Happened To You” by Dr Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
“The Boy raised As A Dog” by Dr Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavits
Triggers & Spiritual Medicine: Episode #2 with guest Lovern Gordon
TOPIC: Healing & Recovery from Domestic Violence.
Join us in the conversation about healing & recovery after Domestic Violence. Lovern shares her story of repeated domestic violence as shared in her Memoir “The Legacy He Left Me”.
Her story doesn’t end there. She is an inspiration to so many survivors of abuse from all over the world. It is not only what happened to her, but her recovery.
Lovern shares her struggles leaving and the shame that comes with it as well as her ability to leave and thrive. She shares her spiritual medicine with us giving us 3 things she did that was key to her recovery, healing, and thrive as well as to how to relearn to self love and what healthy love looks like.
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ABOUT LOVERN:
Lovern Gordon is a two-time sur-THRIVER of domestic violence (a child witness until she was 15 years old and a 2-year, young adult relationship). Ten years after escaping, she subsequently became the Founder of Love Life Now Foundation, Inc. (LLN), where she used 2 back-to-back pageant wins to increase awareness around issue in 2010 and the following year, LLN was formed.
Today, she conducts DV Awareness Workshops worldwide, hosts events that raise thousands of dollars to benefit DV shelters and points people in the right direction for DV resources.
She is the author of the DV awareness memoir, The Legacy He Left Me and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including: CBS This Morning nationally and NBC’s This is New England locally.
Print includes features on Huffington Post and Boston Voyager Magazine.
The Boston Celtics named her one of their ‘Heroes Among Us’ and she was featured as part of Instagram for Business’ – entrepreneur ‘togetHER’ minidocuseries for Women’s History Month.
Learn the mechanics of HOW and transform your life in this 3 part interactive experiential virtual workshop series
If you clicked on a link and you are reading this, there is a reason. Thank you and thank yourself too (you will be glad you did).
Let’s uncover what’s blocking you from BE-ing in your full power, and harness it with simple easy to learn time tested exercises backed by a facilitator with immense personal & professional experience of almost 20 years.
Heal old stories & trauma (personal, generational, karmic & past life) stealing your joy, purpose, and life. Learn HOW to turn triggers into super powers.
This is a three part interactive experiential virtual workshop series NOT a lecture series that is designed to help you make breakthroughs you have been seeking but maybe never considered THIS as a possibility.
This event is NOT pre-recorded. This event is a LIVE interactive experiential virtual event on Zoom.
We will dive deep in the operating systems of our subconscious minds to reveal what needs upgrading or purging preventing us from BE-ing in the fullness of our power..
This program comes at a time where the craziness of the world perpetuates more divide and harm knowingly or unknowingly avoiding the key root issues.
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We chose these dates with the 1st New Moon of 2022 on January 2, 2022 at the start of our course and the 1st Full Moon of 2022 is on January 17, 2022 at the completion of our course.
This is a GREAT course to kick off the new year with 2 POWERFUL moon cycles to start the year off strong and the timing can not be more perfect with this moon cycle.
This course also makes a GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT to ask for or give as a gift to someone you love this holiday season.
Who This Program Is For:
This program is anyone called to it for whatever reason and/or for those
seeking deep guidance, direction and breakthroughs through a series of experientials.
who feel like they are doing everything right, but not matter what they “do”, they can’t seem to make the breakthroughs they are seeking. They want to understand what is missing and make a change.
for those who want to improve outcomes, results, and manifestations.
who want to break cycles, but don’t know how because everything else they tried has not worked or worked effectively enough.
who are struggling with triggered responses
Part 1: The POWER of the Word
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
7-9pm (NY-EST)
(1st New Moon of 2022 on January 2, 2022)
Words have energy do they not?
If you are saying to yourself right now, “yeah yeah yeah. I have heard this. I do this work. I have done affirmations and mantras.” I want to challenge you. Let’s uncover what is unseen buried in the subconscious mind through a series of experientials.
Words have spiritual power is also what makes gaslighting so effective to create harm, but why haven’t we mastered the power of the word to empower us? Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power to breakthrough imaginary walls and empower our very BEing.
We will use some very simple Japanese concepts rooted in Shinto teachings. There is a reason why Japan did NOT have a written language until Buddhist was imported in 4th century.
Part 2: The POWER of the Pause
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
7-9pm (NY-EST)
The RBG Superpower
This is the most widely known concept, but the most misunderstood. Shift the power of the word and shift the energy driving it by learning not just to pause, but learn how to master the pause.
Bring clarity into the problem and identify HOW you can move towards an effective solution.
Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power. THIS was the power that Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) mastered that enabled her to win five our of six supreme court cases. Are you ready?
Part 3: The POWER of Processing
Tuesday, January 18th
7-9pm (NY-EST)
(1st Full Moon of 2022 is January 17th)
Feel. Understand. Let Go.
How many times have you heard “just let go and move on” Well if we knew HOW to do this effectively, we would, right?
Emotions are energy in motion. This is a step I witness most folks wanting to avoid, escape from, or numb ourselves from. Learn why this is a crucial step that is needed and why processing our junk effectively matters.
By Learning HOW to effectively process our “stuff”, we gain clarity. We gain understanding. We make sense of things. We deal with our “stuff” in a healthier way so it is NOT running like a toxic operating system running in the background of our minds sabotaging our efforts.
How we process starts with our own tool box.
Join us an learn HOW.
Are you ready?
About Your Facilitator:
Laura Joseph is New England native located just south of Boston. She goes by the pronouns she/her. She is a seasoned multi-generational healer, speaker, intuitive, holistic health practitioner, educator, truth seeker, social justice junkie, trauma survivor, trauma recovery specialist, seer, & earth based medicine woman.
Laura is currently working on getting certified in addictions counseling and is learning every day through various teachers on the topics of privilege, anti-racism, diversity, inclusion and decolonizing the mindset.
What started out as trying to learn how to fix the broken me after succession of various form of abuse Laura endured culminated by domestic violence, let to her career practicing spiritually based integrative holistic health enrichment since 2006.
This program is born out of the accumulation of teachings, personal growth, healing & recovery and her professional experience helping thousands of others in their path.
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The Future of Reiki, Martial Artists, Spiritual Based, & Holistic Therapies in MA & USA
Your freedom to access or practice any of these therapies is being threatened with regulation.
What’s the threat?
The threat is coming from the private sector, organizations which stand to benefit by controlling from whom you can receive treatment, from whom you can learn any of these therapies, how you practice professionally, and what you teach.
That control can be gained by manipulating state governments that write licensing laws, ostensibly to protect the public from harm.
Do I have your attention? Are you ready to protect Reiki and other affected therapies?
Although this proposed bill affects ANYTHING that is deemed a holistic therapy or a spiritual therapy through “word or touch”, I am going to stick to my lane of knowledge in the realm of my extensive experience in trauma healing & recovery especially for domestic violence survivors and sexual assault survivors as well as spiritually based therapies such as meditation & reiki.
For more details on what is happening, please check out my prior post here.
If you teach or are a practitioner who uses other therapies such as
meditation,
yoga,
personal, business, spiritual coaching,
Thai chi,
martial arts,
acupressure
You are being called to TAKE ACTION
If you receive any of these therapies especially for/or a part of a:
PTSD, mental health or trauma
terminal illness, dementia, cancer
senior care, volunteer programs, homelessness
Military vets
addiction
battered women’s shelter
or the like
Your access to services may become adversely affected … ACTION is needed NOW
Holistic healers are fighting “An Act Regulating Bodyworks,” the latest bill filed by State Sen. Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) and Attorney General Maura Healey to allow authorities regular access to establishments they say are often fronts for trafficking.
Reiki practitioner Rita Glassman (Staff Photo By Chris Christo/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
I recently spoke with Rita Glassman who is heading up the lobbying efforts in Massachusetts to object to regulation of reiki that is beginning to sweep through many states in USA.
She and other practitioners from the National Health Freedom Action have been working to protect their right to professionally practice their respective modalities.
Montigny’s bill defines bodywork as a large swath of practices including touch, words or directed movement, from reiki to reflexology to meditation or martial arts.
For practitioners, you were you able to choose from among diverse practitioners and found the one you thought was the best fit for you.
When you started your professional practice, did you assume you’d always be able to practice according to your understanding your unique practice, without interference from your state government?
All of those choices will be taken away if we allow state legislatures to be manipulated by the private sector into requiring unwarranted licensing.
If you missed my prior blog post on what is happening, please click here to read it for information & background. Above all … please
share it,
take ACTION.
Pamela Miles https://reikiinmedicine.org
More recently, Pamela Miles (Reiki, Medicine & Self Care), who was instrumental in helping bring reiki on the map in the medical community in NYC and has been featured on Dr. Oz has jumped on the anti-legislative board due to the dangers this widespread legislation poses to folks in gaining access to specifically reiki.
She wrote a fabulous piece on how the threat of regulating reiki would affect you that I will NOT redo as it is perfectly executed.
You can read her wonderful article here where she talks about
WHO stands to profit from this regulation,
how this regulation can affect you,
the reiki diversity,
the reiki spiritual practice,
what states are under attack NOW,
and what you can do about it.
Pamela Miles has been a national voice and featured on the following:.
Pamela has hosted multiple webinars and sent out numerous emails on how to address what we are faced with in regards to legislation. Her voice is one highly credible and respected in the industry.
You can listen to her recent webinar, Protect Reiki from Regulation, with Rita Glassman. You can access it here.
It is imperative that we start writing and calling legislators NOW to oppose this bill.
Laura at the Ma State House to testify against the harmful bills & supporting the Safe Harbor Bill.
The MA attorney general has filed the identical bill in the house and senate to ensure its passage. It is going to take a miracle to stop it.
We need an army of practitioners to contact their legislator and senator to establish a relationship with them and to let them know how this proposed bill would affect their income and family. They are elected officials and they listen to their constituents.
Rita and her team has made it easy for us to take ACTION. It is all done for you to make it easy for you to help stop this legislation.
Sample letters & talking points
Click on the links below for:
Draft of an email to students, practitioners, teachers and consumers
I STRONGLY suggest that you blind copy (BC) me on your emails to their legislators, so I can present all the letters to the committee it is assigned to at the public hearing.
You can bcc: your letters to healingwithspirit1@gmail.com.
Results?
Last year, Rita Glassman presented the list of over 20,000 who signed the an online petition she had created to oppose the legislation as well as copies of letters that were sent to legislators.
KEY RESULT: When NH tried to pass licensure legislation, they had a strong turnout of over 400 at the public hearing and over a thousand letters to legislators. They never filed another licensure bill for holistic practitioners. We need to do the same and just flood them.
WE NEED YOU.
If we learned NOTHING else from the election in November 2020, it takes the rise of us ALL. Please do NOT rely on someone else to take action. We can NOT do this alone. This does NOT only affect reiki, but other spiritually based practices as well.
To defeat this will require ALL of us to step up to the plate.
As for me, regulating these services will prevent folks in vulnerable communities I serve from gaining access to these therapies which in turn would harm my mission to break the cycle of abuse through healing the unrecognized unhealed epidemic of unresolved trauma that plagues our communities and over burdens our broken health care system.
Please share your thoughts and comments below in regards HOW this may or may not affect you. Thank you for reading.
After partaking in another Patreon as a member with strong social justice goals, and watching the benefits unfold, I finally created a Patreon account to give you a better virtual experience, expand our virtual reach, offer exclusive specials and offers while broadening my social justice goals that are so important to me.
I want to share with you more about myself with you. So, I would be honored & grateful if you could take a moment and read my WHY I launched on Patreon.
My why
What I have done in the past
What is happening NOW
What I can offer It take a community to make this happen.
Let’s join forces AND BREAK The CYCLE of the Perpetuation of Unresolved Unhealed Trauma TOGETHER.
To be honest ….
I am a bit Nervous.
Excited.
Anxious.
AND that is all ok.
I am putting the trust and faith in this journey and allowing it to unfold as it needs to.
Have you ever heard of Patreon before?
Here is the dish … It is a wonderful subscription service for content creators and in my case content creators with a social justice or social impact mission in mind.
What is unique about this platform, it lets people financially support and reward content creators — such as podcasters, writers, and YouTubers — through a monthly subscription.
Creators can set up multiple membership tiers with various rewards so each subscriber can choose the amount of money they feel most comfortable giving to a project and in my case – healing the perpetuation of unhealed unresolved trauma that is plaguing our society.
So, please check out my “My WHY” Patreon post, and if the message resonates, please consider
commenting on the original post
sharing with loved ones or those in your community who identify with my mission.
joining to support my social justice impact goals
or joining for the great benefits such as FREE 1:1, FREE events, and up to 40% off classes offered.
Would LOVE your thoughts AND …
I am new to learning how all this works and working on building a team to make my dreams and missions come to light so I can show up more effectively and more impactful for YOU.
Me doing THIS work is and always has been about BE-ing of greater service to the community & our Mother Earth.
Like everyone else, I am learning HOW to show up BETTER to meet that soul journey mission.
If you decide to become a patron on Patreon, you become active participants in the work I am doing while supporting a cause we all love and NEED especially during these challenging times where the trauma epidemic is running wild like an uncontrolled unchecked avalanche or a volcano that is about to explode.
I am grateful and honored to have been invited to be on Laura Cowan’s Empowerment Hour radio show.
Laura Cowan is an Award Winning Speaker, Educator, Radio Personality/VoiceItRadio & DV Advocate who has been a featured guest on national tv shows such as the Tamron Hall Show. You can learn more about her here: www.lauracowanstory.com
PLEASE
Join us THIS Monday at 6pm.
SHARE this offering with loved ones or anyone who could benefit.
Laura Cowan on the Tamron Hall nationally syndicated tv show.
For those checking this out, I met Laura a couple years ago while I was volunteering as a moderator for the National Domestic Violence Conference sponsored by National Coalition Against Domestic Violence where she was an incredible powerful speaker talking about her incredible journey surviving domestic violence.
I was instantly drawn to Laura and her beautiful energy. She’s a powerful speaker and radio personality.
If you are struggling right now, please join us.
If you are a survivor of abuse, please join us.
If you just need extra support right now, please join us.
Please join us Monday evening 6pm where we’ll be chatting about
♡ our shared healing journeys from abuse,
♡ my upcoming book on healing the roots to chronic illness & trauma through a Japanese healing system,
What I will be sharing will give you a glimpse into my upcoming virtual classes on healing trauma whole-istically through Spirit:
I am grateful and honored to have been invited to be on Laura Cowan’s Empowerment Hour radio show.
Laura Cowan is an Award Winning Speaker, Educator, Radio Personality/VoiceItRadio & DV Advocate who has been a featured guest on national tv shows such as the Tamron Hall Show. You can learn more about her here: www.lauracowanstory.com
PLEASE
Join us THIS Monday 11/9 at 7pm (EST)/6pm (CST).
SHARE this offering with loved ones or anyone who could benefit.
Laura Cowan on the Tamron Hall nationally syndicated tv show.
For those checking this out, I met Laura a couple years ago while I was volunteering as a moderator for the National Domestic Violence Conference sponsored by National Coalition Against Domestic Violence where she was an incredible powerful speaker talking about her incredible journey surviving domestic violence.
I was instantly drawn to Laura and her beautiful energy. She’s a powerful speaker and radio personality.
If you are struggling right now, please join us.
If you are a survivor of abuse, please join us.
If you just need extra support right now, please join us.
Please join us Monday evening 6pm CST (7pm EST) where we’ll be chatting about
♡ our shared healing journeys from abuse,
♡ my upcoming book on healing the roots to chronic illness & trauma through a Japanese healing system,
What I will be sharing will give you a glimpse into my upcoming virtual classes on healing trauma whole-istically through Spirit:
If we look at the state of our society in 2020 in the United States of America, we might question, “how did we get here?”.
After the Spanish flu in 1918, Rockefeller discovered that humans and disease could be traded as a commodity on Wall Street. As a result of this colonized model, Americans in general are now suffering unprecedented increasing rates of
uncontrolled stress
suicides
domestic violence
anxiety
depression
chronic illness
autoimmune disease
trauma related illnesses
What I Have Witnessed In 2020
Since March 2020 when COVID shut our country down. I began offering extra support, spiritual medicine and meditation to the community 3x a week in our FB group. I am witnessing A LOT.
I have also launched polls via social media, worked with clients individually while elsewhere witnessed very heightened and triggered responses plagued with assumptions, toxic tongue, and weakening immune systems.
So what do we do about this?
As an empath, intuitive, seer, truth finder, healer, medicine woman, educator and trauma specialist in me, I began to witness some collective patterns.
Could there be a solution?
In this video, I share
my 15 year journey on how I turned my PTSD into a super power
the offering
why these mini classes are so important to the NOW in the grand scheme of things.
why take these classes
I share some very vulnerable things in this video about my journey not for sympathy but to let you know I GET IT and I have got skills to help you too.
I share with you my HOW
Culturally, we have turned what could be powerful negative emotions into an addictive toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing. We have become a culture of avoidance, addiction, distraction as a form of oppression, while blinded on seeing a way out and a path to wholeness.
Words have energy do they not?
Word have spiritual power that affect our physiology more than we really know or understand from a scientific standpoint.
If what we say can affect us, then HOW we say it affects us even more.
That is what makes gaslighting so effective to create harm, but why haven’t we mastered the power of the word to empower us? Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power to breakthrough imaginary walls and empower our very BEing.
We will use some very simple Japanese concepts rooted in Shinto teachings. There is a reason why Japan did NOT have a written language until Buddhist was imported in 4th century.
Words can heal or words can harm!
You may know this, but is your reality matching what you think you know?
The Power of the Pause
This is the most widely known concept, but the most misunderstood.
Shift the power of the word and shift the energy that is driving it. Bring clarity into the problem and identify HOW you can move towards an effective solution.
Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power. THIS is the power that Ruth Bader Ginsburg mastered that enabled her to win five our of six supreme court cases.
Are you ready to learn the secrets of what you may be missing in this super power?
The Power of the Processing
Learn the million dollar question when told to just “let it go”. In this class, learn HOW to let go and move on.
This is a step I witness most folks frequently wanting to avoid, escape from, or numb ourselves from. Learn why this is a crucial step that is needed and why processing our junk effectively matters.
It is important to undue the toxic oppressive cultural conditioning of the way we have been taught to misuse these powers in ways such as.
Words -> abuse, shame, greed
Pause -> silence, lack of, control, enslavement
Processing -> Getting triggered & reacting without pausing without understanding the power of the word or energy behind it and we become fuel to the raging fire instead of the sacred waters.
By facing this shadow aspects of these power, we can harness these powers effectively and create the shifts we need with more joy in our hearts.
Are you ready to own your power?
Are you ready to take the next step to learn HOW?
coming soon
I have spent the last 15 years looking to heal the broken me searching for the right seasoned rooted teachers that span the globe. THIS is important because I have been witnessing another phenomenon of spiritual addictions over the years as a way to avoid doing the work to heal, elevate or create necessary changes in our lives aka spiritual bypassing that is leading to our chronically sick culture.
I have walked this path NOT just talked it.
I have understood that value and power of the undoing, healing, letting go, processing, languaging, pausing, and more. This is personal to me. Maybe this momma bear does not want to see the kind of suffering I am witnessing and wants to share a BETTER WAY of EXISTING.
Are you ready to learn how to harness these powers for empowerment and growth?
I am still in the planning stages of this offering.
Click here to stay in the loop as these classes unfolds and for special offers. You may also join our Facebook group to also stay in tapped into what is happening with this launch.
I look forward to sharing the wisdom, lessons, and power behind it all and most importantly the HOW through a virtual format to including experientials and meditation.
Wow … this September new moon was a doozy for this empath, Pisces, and intuitive. I thought I would share with you my experience yesterday. How I pause and my processes leading up to this morning. I call it the #cantmakethisshitup story with signs.
The story may be different than yours, but I am curious to know if you’re experiencing anything similar maybe with signs or polarity or processing.
I started my morning early with a multitude of signs starting with cardinal/finch feather then a juvenile turkey feather and followed by a mourning dove feather all before 7am.
Signs galore on the new moon of 9/17/20
Then around noon time, I took the puppy for a walk to find a $5 bill in the parking lot. Ok signs? feathers? One? Two? Three? Four signs in a few hours? Now I think, something must be up and it is more than just the new moon or is it?
The energies this week with the uncontrolled fires on the west coast mirroring the anger and rage within the hearts of folks in the US had the trauma survivor, empath, and intuitive in me amped up with stuff coming at me from all different directions despite my feet firmly planted on the ground.
When to Pause
The veils have been quite thin since the sun entered its new solar cycle 25 and mars went retrograde. I can feel it. With this new moon hailed by astrologers to be one potentially a productive one, I saw opportunity, desire, and need for space for this new moon ritual, but something was not aligning.
When things are NOT flowing as easily or effortlessly as I had hoped in this process, I see this equally as a sign.
I recognized the power in the pause.
So I stopped.
I paused.
I attempted to get myself in alignment to tap into the new moon as well as all the other crazy energies for vision and clarity and struggled a bit mostly because I wanted to go DEEP to ensure my egoic mind is NOT impeding.
However, there was lots of static creating lots of indecision.
Gracie the 12mo old mix breed pup
When this happens I usually need alone time out in nature to quiet the static and listen to the whispers of the divine. This was ANOTHER sign that I was NOT to go through this process in a LIVE video, but needed to sit and work through this alone.
So I took Gracie (the 12 month old puppy I am fostering & rehabbing.) outside to accomplish 2 things.
1) to attempt more off leash training
2) to get myself grounded, centered and connected to the natural world around me. I know that when I access this, I access one of my so called super powers for the wisdom, clarity, and answers I seek.
Then THIS happened yesterday while outside …
The 5th sign on the new moon on 9/17/20 – Turkey feather.
… the 5th #sign of the day with MORE turkey. This one is an adult. The other from yesterday morning that I posted was juvenile.
Initiating The Processing
So I instantly gravitate to the juvenile Turkey feather & the adult one & think: “Does this mean that mother & daughter will finally be united and the justice scales begin to repair a long overdue injustice?”
“Does this mean that after 13 years, there might be a positive outcome that I had thought at one point was lost in this lifetime?”
As a trauma survivor and as someone who has experienced first hand systemic injustice and oppression, where the systems in place that on the surface were to protect people like myself and my children FAILED miserably.
If I couldn’t trust people nor myself back then, then who or what do I trust do I trust NOW?
This is where I learned the power of the pause where we can access the clarity, wisdom, and spiritual guidance aka the whispers from the soul that go beyond our logical mind that at times may seem incomprehensible.
SO I did what I have been doing for a long time. I stop. Paused and I went up … into spirit, God, the Universe or whatever divinity calls to you.
Beginning early 2009, I began my relationship with the divine in a new way through signs. I recall the experience as if it were yesterday driving and seeing angels in the sky.
That particular story is too long to share, and I will share that experience with you another time. Let’s just say, it changed my whole trajectory
Receiving signs from the divine have taught me so much since then. The first lesson I got from that initial experience was “Stop, pause and listen for they will guide you”. This was the message I heard from that first time seeing my first sign.
A deep healing needed to happen. The kind I was blinded from seeing at the time due to the protective mother hypervigilance of fight/flee/freeze that resulted in complex post traumatic stress disorder or CPTSD. So I improved my skill sets. Addressed and healed the wounds and continue to do still today. I don’t believe we are ever done. We just get better at addressing and healing them is all.
So yesterday was one of those days. I stopped. I paused. I open the gates to the awareness beyond what my eyes can see, my ears can hear, and my body can sense.
Turkey Medicine
Turkey medicine has so much to offer and has been one of those message bearers that has been with me on/off through this journey.
Turkey are most known symbolically associated with abundance and reflect an energy of sharing.
Turkey has been showing up STRONG since right before I found out what happened with my family. I guess time will reveal itself these truths soon enough.
I’ve learned to NOT expect an absolute truth over the years, but more of a process like putting pieces to a larger puzzle together for a different picture than maybe originally thought.
Turkey is sometimes called the earth eagle with rooted connections to our great Mother, inner vision and the 12mo cycles and is one of the most adaptable birds.
It also reminds me of a very powerful PBS documentary I watched a few years ago called “My Life As A Turkey”
And finally, some indigenous mythologies talk about how Turkey can fight off evil spirits. Hmmmmm I wonder if this is what I need to listen to. The sitting. Pausing. Allowing. Processing will reveal when it is time what is needed to be known.
This is not something we can force, but align with and allow the flow of the process to commence in a sacred partnership.
Eagle Medicine on 9/18/20 a Master 22 Number in Numerology post new moon
The Eagle & The Master 22 Number
This morning as I woke up writing about this experience, I lost track of time, and was late to our FB LIVE event.
What I discovered was today is a master 22 number in numerology with eagle as the spiritual medicine.
The 22 is one of three master numbers in numerology that is about uniting the spiritual world with the material world in a four year in numerology – a number holding true to its energy as a “work” year balancing the egoic mind with the spirit – in a ninth month on the sixth day.
How Does It All Tie In Together?
ALL SIGNS if read like a sentence that says to continue to build and work on the relationship with spirit side of you. That all those things that have been surfacing for you this year from either a past trauma, generational link, karmic tie, past life experience will be closing this chapter soon.
As the eagle showed us this morning, there are no obstacles, only opportunities. The eagle does not need to fly into the storm. It can fly above the storm.
As we move forward, we need to be in conscious partnership with spirit on equal footing as things continue to amp up. The veils are thin right now which is giving us a prime opportunity to co-create with the divine.
These so called signs are an indication and invitation from spiritual world to embrace the courage that will help us choose the kind of freedom we are actually seeking.
I get it …. of coarse we do not have time, enough sleep or enough money …. we never will. If the time is NOT now with the earth literally burning, the waters polluted, nature poisoned by humans, the masses of folks enraged … then when?
Remember turkey is the the earth eagle that helps us stay grounded in the material world reminding us of the abundance that is coming. The eagle can soar the skies while seeing the smallest detail with precision without losing track of the larger picture.
This new moon was a doozy, but with the pause and silencing the mind, I got a clearer direction and validation that the choices made so far were the correct ones.
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As for me, regulating these services will prevent folks in vulnerable communities I serve from gaining access to these therapies which in turn would harm my mission to break the cycle of abuse through healing the unrecognized unhealed epidemic of unresolved trauma that plagues our communities and over burdens our broken health care system.
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A deep healing needed to happen. The kind I was blinded from seeing at the time due to the protective mother hypervigilance of fight/flee/freeze that resulted in complex post traumatic stress disorder or CPTSD. So I improved my skill sets. Addressed and healed the wounds and continue to do still today. I don’t believe we are ever done. We just get better at addressing and healing them is all.
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