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Happy February!

What a month January was...



Hello everyone. I hope you are well and safe and warm. It's a brisk day here in Vermont. The sun is out and it's 30 degrees but the wind makes it colder! I haven't been outside much this winter and I am beginning to feel the effects of that. Very ungrounded. I'm craving some grounding energy and warmth. I miss having my bare feet on the Earth and in the sand and water. How about you? Anything you are craving right now? Are you getting cabin fever (if you are in the northern hemisphere)?


I bought myself a grounding sheet back in the fall and I can absolutely feel the difference between when I use it regularly and when I don't. I think taking a walk is in order soon as well. We need to take care of ourselves, even when we find it challenging. I have had low energy and some stress this past week which makes me want to hide in a hole and sleep once my cortisol comes back down. Which is why I keep Cortisol Manager on hand! It helps to lower my cortisol levels in the evening when it is supposed to naturally come down, but when I am very stressed, especially when my nerves have been shot to hell due to an incident, my cortisol levels stay elevated, and then I sleep poorly.


My 11 year old had a bad escalation at the beginning of the week this past week. While it didn't last more than maybe 10-15 minutes, the severity of it and my inability to get through to him, and this complete sense of helplessness I had, was enough to frazzle my nervous system for a couple days. I felt like a shell of a person and my adrenals are still fatigued. I'm really grateful these incidents don't happen often. When they do though, it does suck because there is nothing I can do. I also know he feels horrible for how he behaves in those situations and the things he says, and he also doesn't like feeling out of control. It's quite a thing to work with a child who struggles with emotional regulation. He has come a long way though and I'm hopeful that he will continue to develop the tools and skills he has been learning as he gets older.




I have done something exciting for myself!! I have hung up five of my paintings in a local Co-Op! It's my first time having my artwork in a store. It has taken reprogramming my subconscious beliefs about not being good enough, or having what it takes, but I did it and it feels incredible! Thank you TBM :) If you don't know what TBM is, I am referring to To Be Magnetic. It's a company founded by Lacey Phillips that helps you manifest the life you want by reprogramming your subconscious and limiting beliefs from childhood trauma, societal conditioning, etc. and connects you to your authentic, aligned self. The workshops help you remove blocks, and connect you to what you're trying to manifest. I have been doing the workshops for almost two years and it absolutely works! I have even become an affiliate of theirs just so I have an even stronger reason to share about them and my experiences with their workshops.


So, anyway. The steps I have taken through TBM have allowed me to gain the confidence I had been wanting for a long time! This has allowed me to say yes to sharing my artwork in a public setting. I have overcome a lot of the perfectionism that has kept me from feeling like what I do isn't quite good enough. I know that a lot of you deal with this, too. I have had a fear that people won't like what I create, and this has kept me frozen from taking any action towards sharing a passion of mine. But, when I hung my artwork up in the store last weekend, I was on cloud nine! It felt amazing to be doing something I had only dreamed of doing. I even received compliments on my paintings as I was hanging them up and that cracked open the shell I have kept around me even more.


Doing what lights you up is the most magnetic thing you can do. When you are living your life from this place of joy and excitement, you attract more and more of what you want. More of what lights you up. You also feel more in touch with YOU, and in your own body, instead of operating from a part of you to please others. It is your authentic self that you are tapped into when you are living your highest excitement. So go do that thing that lights you up!! Safely, of course. Love yourself enough to say yes to your dreams.



My paintings I hung up at the Co-Op.
My paintings I hung up at the Co-Op.



The other three paintings I hung up at the Co-Op.
The other three paintings I hung up at the Co-Op.

Something else I wanted to share is the crazy amount of synchronicities I have been having lately!! Whoa! I will either say something, read something, or hear/watch something, and then later on that same thing will appear in other places and by other people speaking about it. It could be a topic of discussion, an object, or idea. Or maybe someone at work asks me a question about an item we sell and then later, once I am home, I will hear the name of that item on the radio or on social media, or see it at a store. It's been wild like that for about a month. I have still been seeing repeating numbers (111.222.333.444.555, or 1212) too. When all of this is going on, I like to go down a rabbit hole about the magic that exists in this life, and what beings or spirits are with us and nudging us in one direction or another. Or just simply communicating with us. Fun, eh?


I have also been receiving signs, and maybe answers, about a personal topic that I haven't discussed with anyone. I have shared my thoughts and feelings with my guides, but that is it. When this happens I can't help but feel connected and seen and heard. Any doubts I have wash away. Another thing I have manifested is a grant to cover my Reiki Master Certification (hell yeah!), and I have also been released from a financial situation that was not my fault, but was being asked to pay back anyway. I'm grateful that worked out! You gotta count all the wins, no matter how big or small.


It has been all good things, even with my son's escalation moment. Those moments teach me a lot. I'm very excited to see this year's journey. No doubt it will be a wild ride in some aspects. Just hang on as best you can.


All for now folks. Be well. Take care of yourselves. Take the small steps instead of the giant ones. You will feel so much better for having done that instead of trying to force what isn't ready yet.


Until next time...

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