It’s ALL medicine
Wow, it's been a spell since I've popped into your inbox. I'm not sure how the days and months have flown by, but here we are approaching the final stretch of another wild year. Perhaps like me, you've found this year to have a different quality of activity to it. There's a lot happening, a lot accomplished, and there's a quietness to it all as we navigate surprises, challenges, and the day to day rhythms of life.
I've been prepped and ready to connect with you, a missive in my heart, so many times this year. Each time I declared "today is the day!" some plot twist or other immediate need took over. I can't tell you how delighted I am to find myself on this Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse morning with an unexpectedly open schedule and plenty of spaciousness to finally reach out. Today IS the day.
Perhaps that's the underlying theme of all the messages I've wanted to share with you over the months. Amidst all the chaos of change and challenge, there will always come a moment of spaciousness, order, clarity. When the dust settles, the water clears, the winds calm, and there is a connection to the flow, the movement, the rhythm of life that soothes, grounds, and resources at the deepest level.
As I write this, I'm watching storm clouds and blue sky dance together outside my window. It feels a lot like this year has been. In early July my household had our dance with COVID. While we moved through the initial period of illness well, the aftermath for me has been an initiation. I'm in what's being called the medium COVID group, which I learned is actually the bulk of people. It's not a quick recovery, and in my case the virus triggered an underlying health condition I wasn't aware I had. As I learned more, I discovered that this condition, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, is likely the root cause of various bouts of auto-immune like symptoms I've experienced throughout my life that doctors could never quite figure out. I was down for the count with deep fatigue for about six weeks before this diagnosis came to light and the right medication created what felt like a miraculous turnaround that brought me back to life.
These days I've never felt more like an energy witch in all my life, and that's saying something! It's been an opportunity to put all my skills to use, to refine my intuition and tracking abilities in relationship to the physical body, and to expand my knowledge around the mysteries and art of tuning and attuning to the human bioenergetic field. I've connected with amazing practitioners who are helping me heal and teaching me to use new resources, like photobiomodulation (light therapy) patches working with the meridian system in the body. My son says it's like Star Trek healing, and it is. It's also ancient wisdom manifesting in modern times. It's channeling light to heal in palpable and profound ways that will be essential in our increasingly toxic and stressed out environments.
As I've felt better, I've had capacity to engage in continuing education with a teacher in Peru to deepen and evolve my understanding of the indigenous Andean, multi-dimensional healing practices. I also felt a clear call to dive into a certification course in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy practices. So while I've been quiet in your inbox, there's been a deep flow of movement and I look forward to sharing the fruits of these teachings with you in private sessions, classes, and newsletters going forward. You can get a taste of all this goodness through an Energy Tune-up as a special offering for you through the end of the year.
We're all on this wild ride together. I'm sharing with you this small part of my journey this year to affirm that you are not alone in your challenges. As I work with clients, I see reflected back the invitation we're each receiving to step up and into the medicine. During a weekend intensive with my Peruvian teacher, he repeated over and over, It's ALL medicine. Sometimes that medicine desperately needs a spoon full of sugar to help it go down. My focus of this coming year will be to share teachings and practices that will help you access the sweetness of the medicine within you, make use of the medicine you encounter, and skillfully weave the energies of healing so you can experience and live your most brilliant, beautiful life.
