My talk on taking care of the many layers of your needs is available to watch. This is a super important subject near and dear to my heart. Healing begins with recognizing, naming, prioritizing and tending to your needs. I hope you can find five minutes to listen to this talk at the lovely Creative Mornings Portsmouth November gathering (my portion starts at minute 8:20). If you have the time, I really recommend you to listen to the entire talk, there were some amazing speakers there that day.
I am currently working on a deeply healing online course on this subject. More info on that soon, stay tuned!
Epsom salt baths are a wonderful way to not just relax your body but also help integrate any healing work you may have done. I often recommend my clients to take the time for a salt bath right after a healing session. Here’s why:
Being in saltwater deeply relaxes your nervous system. Being in saltwater is a lot like being in the womb, you get to be held and deeply cared for. Our bodies innately know this feeling and love when we are able to reproduce it intentionally.
Epsom salts help pull impurities out of your system and deeply nourish you. Magnesium and sulfate ions seep in through your pores and deeply nourish your body. Epsom salts also help you release any energetic particles you need to release.
Being deeply relaxed enhances your system’s (body+energy field) ability to move through the transformation of receiving energy healing. It helps your body redistribute, digest and absorb any new energy you received while releasing what needs to go and catalyzing the transformation that is already happening.
Here’s how I recommend you to prepare your salt bath:
If you have a bathtub, fill it with lukewarm water to your comfort level. Add at least 2 cups of Epsom salt. People usually assume that just a little bit of salt would be enough, you need at least 1 lb. of salt to feel the benefits.
If you have a foot wash container, fill it with lukewarm water and add at least 1/2 cups of Epsom salt. While I definitely prefer a bath, I find that a foot bath can be just as effective and relaxing if you are short on time or don’t have a bathtub.
I recommend using an earplug to avoid ear infections and buying your salts in bulk. You can see some of my salt bath favorites below. You can also add a few drops of essential oils into your bath if you would like a scent element but you don’t have to. You can also consider adding your favorite crystals into the saltwater to increase the healing powers of the bath. Here are some of my crystal recommendations.
Once you are in the bath, you can listen to your favorite guided meditation or relax with some soothing music. Check out my salt bath playlist for inspiration.
Stay in the bath as long as you are comfortable, at least 15 minutes or longer. Gift this time of deep relaxation and rejuvenation to yourself if possible weekly or whenever you can.
There is a lot we expect from ourselves in a new year. How about instead of expectations or demands, you shift your focus to excitement and anticipation. Here are some intentions you can plant in your heart to open up to what the new year is able to bring to you:
I am open to all that the new year will bring into my life including all the waves I’ll need to ride. My life is a bountiful journey full of feelings, sensations, experiences and I take great joy in being with what is.
My life is a continuous flow. I don’t end or begin. With each breath, I am here. With each breath, I am taking things one step at a time.
Starting new things that ignite my soul comes easily to me. I dwell in the joy of possibility. I am constantly inviting new ways of being, becoming and creating into my life. Life flows through me as it delights, excites and enlightens me.
Becoming hopeful is worth it. Creating beauty and kindness is worth it. Being in love is worth it. This life thing, no matter what, is worth it.
I am wholeheartedly nonattached to what happens next as long as I keep staying open to all the things that bring light to my heart and soul. With an unwavering dedication to my light, I inspire others to light up and be brighter than they thought they could be.
Wishing you a beautiful, new, delightful, crisp, exciting, fun, laughter-filled, ecstatic year.
I want to know what you need the most to heal, to feel better, to thrive in your life.
What parts of your life need healing the most?
How can I better help you connect with the life in and around you?
Your needs matter, you matter.
I am deeply interested in figuring out how I can better serve you. Here’s is a brief survey all about you.Your answers will help me gear my services to meet your needs. You will need less than 15 minutes to complete this survey. You will receive a 30% off coupon for any of my single private sessions (not valid for packages, valid until Jan 22) when you complete this survey by January 15, 2020.
Here and now is your only chance to be alive. This particular moment, this particular breath. All it takes is fiercely loving it with your eyes open. Embracing its every single molecule, sound, sight, smell, sensation, and emotion. Opening yourself up to it, and then doing the same again and again.
Here and now is an invitation. You get to choose how you live it. You get to choose every single time, every single moment.
Here and now gets you closer to all life. When you embrace your ‘now’, you are embracing all there is, with compassion.
Let’s be here, right now. If you have trouble being here and staying present, reach out to me and let’s figure out together what energetic wounds might be between you and unconditional pure presence.
In this Conversations With Healers episode, my guest is Belinda Farrell, energy healer, author, Huna teacher, Ho’oponopono practitioner, hypnotherapist, stunt car driver, wild dolphin swim guide and fire walker. It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Belinda and hear all about her extraordinary life experiences from deciding to be a stunt car driver to having an impulse to learn to swim so that she could swim with the dolphins. She had a lot to say about following your gut instinct and taking the leap into the unknown. We also talked about:
Belinda’s extraordinary story of how she healed her spinal injuries by using ancient Hawaiian chants and rituals of forgiveness,
the need for clearing the cords that weigh us down and don’t allow us to be fully ourselves,
taking responsibility for all that you are and all that you are experiencing,
listening to and trusting inner guidance, as well as following it with all your being,
how her first job as Snow White at Disneyland was the perfect metaphor for her spiritual awakening journey through the seven chakras,
and your ability to awaken your inner healer with four simple phrases ‘I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.”
My favorite healing nugget from Belinda is “(Self-healers and healers) I just love you. I admire anybody who takes it upon themselves to do healing, to make themselves and their lives better. I just think it is such a worthy endeavor to do that. And it is not easy, it’s really not easy but it’s so worth it in the end. If I can help in any way just to give you the confidence to know that everything works out for the best. Even if you made a choice and you think that it is bad, you always have another choice. So there are no bad choices because you always learn from whatever you’ve done. Hallelujah and keep moving forward!”
You can find out more about Belinda and her work at her website http://www.hunahealing.com. Belinda currently offers Huna Trainings and Reconnection healing sessions in her home in Santa Cruz, CA. Her Hawaiian Healing Chant CDs, as well as her book Find Your Friggin’ Joy is available for purchase at her website.
If this conversation touched you in any way, inspired you or spoke to you, please share it. You can share it in a conversation, post about it on Facebook or Instagram, or email or text it to your friends and family. We truly appreciate your support in spreading the love and light that we hope to create with these conversations.
This is my 7 year old daughter, also known as my guru. Yesterday we were talking about Thanksgiving. I told her I was looking forward to being invited to a friend’s home and that I really didn’t enjoy cooking and hosting it. She looked at me and said ‘Mom, you need to say that differently. You are closing yourself up to the possibility that you might enjoy it when you host’ and I looked at her thinking ‘Which alien planet do you come from and how did you manage to come to Earth through my body and turn into a living, breathing, talking small person with opinions and teachings?’ ?
I am humbled everyday by the amount of practice, learning, transformation and digestion that needs and continues to happen in my own life. I am so grateful for the opportunities for growing and evolving every single day including nudges from divine beings (like my daughter and cat) that I live with.
What are you learning today? What is making you feel humble? How has 2019 been for you? What have you learned that brought you to your knees? What do you want to take with you to 2020 and what do you want to leave behind?
As a thank you for your continuing support and loving presence, I am hosting a completely free year-end clearing meditation and healing on December 22, you can join in live or download the recording. Make sure to register below to receive the connection details.
In this Conversations With Healers episode, my guest is Shelly Grande, yoga teacher, Reiki master, mantra lover, and mala creator. Shelly has found deep healing in her beloved practices of yoga, Reiki, and mantras, and shares them in her classes and workshops. We talked about the endurance it takes to be on a healing journey, as well as tiny self-healing moments that can make all the difference.
My favorite healing nugget from Shelly is “Healing is a transformational experience that is forever ongoing. You have to be compassionate towards yourself. You have to allow yourself to be vulnerable and endure whatever comes up.”
You can find out more about Shelly and her work at her website including information about her monthly healing women’s circles called ‘Swamping’. For first-time Reiki clients, she offers a 20% off discount with the coupon code FIRSTTIME20OFF.
If this conversation touched you in any way, inspired you or spoke to you, please share it. You can share it in a conversation, post about it on Facebook or Instagram, or email or text it to your friends and family. We truly appreciate your support in spreading the love and light that we hope to create with these conversations.
Today as I closed my eyes and surrendered in child’s pose to life and all that I don’t know, I saw the image of a person walking down a path in a beautiful forest. It just so happens that the person is climbing up a small hill and looking down at their feet to make sure they don’t trip. They don’t see what is a few steps ahead of them over the hill, they just see the immediate few steps they are about to take.
So often as we move through life, our gaze is at our immediate hurdles that we are trying to navigate and we don’t look up to see what lies ahead and even if we do, the steps further down the road may be blocked for us to see.
What I got from this is keep going even when the path doesn’t give you immediate results. Keep taking one step after the other and keep breathing and believing that you are going in the right direction. The few steps ahead of you are all you ever need to take action on. In the meantime, don’t forget to look up to take in and breathe with the scenery and the beauty that already surrounds you.
In this Conversations With Healers episode, my guest is Diane Murphy, the founder of the Big Fish Learning Community, English teacher, educator, poetry-geek, self-healer and creator of educational programs for teens that allow them to be themselves. Diane was incredibly honest about her own healing and growing journey, and her willingness to be open to learning from her body’s clues and adjusting her self-healing activities. We also talked about:
her leap of faith in creating a safe place for young teens to express who they are,
the importance of creating and nurturing a community,
