Bee Medicine

There's sweetness in doing "the work".

Whatever that healing may be physically, emotionally, spiritually, or mentally.

Trusting the process. Feeling. Faithfully showing up.
Adds up.
It becomes instinctual.

The rhythm becomes a vibrational cadence of what and how you want to feel.
These vibes resonate deeply to unstick your wounds to heal.

Here's the deal, whether you see it or not, we are a Collective hive.

What you do affects you.
What I do affects me.

What WE do affects the hive.

When we all do our healing work, the more of that sweet, sweet honey is created. For me that honey is ease, peace, and delightfully loving.

You want some? Keep making those sticky choices. <3

Attitude of Gratitude

As your personal coach, I will ask you to keep a gratitude journal or create a daily gratitude practice.

Acknowledge 3 things you feel grateful for.

At first it can feel a little odd is to actually take the time to do it. It gets easier, and will become a simple pleasure.

I encourage this as part of our work together is for good reason:

You reset your brain.
Through regular expression of what you are grateful for, you train your brain to see what you consider good.

Your brain learns to identify opportunities, and the light in the darkness.

When I went through post concussion syndrome, I had to learn to work with my brain, not struggle against it. I researched brain and mental health as a way to come to acceptance with my bicycle accident. All the new research that we know now are the raves and measurable difference mindfulness and meditation makes on brain health.

For years, this has been an instrumental practice which has made me a happier person. It's helped me confront my depression. I am much more emotionally stable and less dramatic. My practice isn't perfect. I write it down some days, and others it's talking to Karl at night when I ask him: tell me something good.

As a coach, I've seen this practice help people come back to center. Feel more appreciative of what they have so that they feel comfortable to ask for more. It's stabilizing.

It strengthens your throne, and your presence.
And it shows the Universe: GAME ON. <3

What's been on my mind and in my work: Addressing Ancestral/Inherited Wounds

I've been recently reflecting a lot on ancestral wounds and epigenetics: how our experiences are carried through us not just spiritually but encoded in our DNA.

What your mom and grandma and great-grandfather went through, traumatic or unhealed, can literally change and evolve in your own DNA structure. Crazy, right?

I think about how my grandfather must have felt coming to America. Or how my great grandmother married a much older man and lived in a tent with 12 children during the depression.

When you do you're brave enough to acknowledge what experiences have shaped you, or have shaped your kin, you start to see where there's opportunity to love and heal.

Your experiences may not have been your fault, but it is your responsibility to heal them.

How I see crystals opening people up is not exclusive for the millennial generation or younger.

I see crystals awakening older women and men, 55+ years old, reconnecting to this sense of spirituality that literally couldn't fit into older paradigms, or was dismissed, belittled, or downright heretical.

This excites me because as older generations become more open and willing to embrace the intangible, the "impossibility" they are not only healing their own experiences, but concurrently, they're healing us too.

The ebb is causing a complete smoothing, integration of all these timelines that once were into a woven tapestry of more love, kindness, compassion, empathy, and magic.

Time isn't linear -- it's holographic, folding in and tesseracting shifts.

Crystals don't merely exist in the physical dimension, they are actually vibratory and thus transcend time-- a portal of possibility to when that wound was first planted. When you do crystal work, you are tapping into all the frequencies of the Universe.

In that regard, the possibilities for healing and abundance are endless.

{Pleasure & Productivity}

Here's a sensual secret for you: pleasure increases productivity.

What? Why? How?

In this dimension, this physical plane, at this specific time here on earth, there's one thing that is VERY human: money. It doesn't exist relevantly anywhere else. You can't take it with you when you die, what good is it there?

As specifically tied to this realm, it's thus tied to physical human chakras: the root and sacral. These seats of our physical body are related to our groundedness, the foundation to feel steady and ready, as well as our human expression of emotion through creativity and human intimacy.

So how can you fuel or boost your ability to create and connect, to feel entirely worthy of abundance?

Cultivate and nourish your connection to these pleasure centers. You'll become wholly embodied. Your focus becomes present, open, and delightfully ready to receive what will bring you pleasure elsewhere.

As I was discussing this morning, visualize your grandest desires about money: goals, "the why", and the feelings you wish to have while you experience pleasure.

Take time to feel yourself, literally, and the pleasure of success.

Cement it into this density as you moan in delight.

There's magnetism when your root and sacral chakras spin, alive. It makes you entirely a force of alignment, assured that what you want "turns you on" not just sexually, but also in your sense of taking action afterward to make those dreams and feelings reality.

{let's talk about anxiety and anxiousness}

Lepidolite is great for anxiety because of it’s naturally high lithium content.

My approach to emotions is actually quite logical even if that seems illogical because they're "sensitive." I believe emotions are useful in providing information that must be considered because it's being felt, so bringing some logical mindfulness to it can help you learn the scale of your own emotions. Here's an example of how I approach emotions with clients.

Many of you have been feeling this wave of anxiety over the past month, for a variety of reasons. I believe that it's individualized as to how YOU experience anxiety, but I also observe that there's an air of anxiety effecting many of us collectively.

Have you seen the recent headlines about professional burnout? We can't continue without taking better self-care -- it's the ultimate preventative wellness you can take. I'm familiar with anxiety from mild flutters and nervousness to full-on panic attacks. It's a spectrum-- and anxiety can be contagious if it's not cared for.

Every emotion has a breadth of information in what it is communicating. For Worry and Anxiety there's an emphasis on focus and completion.

There are gifts in anxiety (adopted by Karla McLaren in Art of Empathy):

Foresight. Focus. Conscience. Procrastination warning! Task completion.

Anxiety can be experienced in a few different states:

Soft state: helps you become more aware and where your focus is needed.

Mood state: more inconsistent -- it can feel like a time crunch or you may experience hyper focus and energy. You are more activated and because of the strength of this mood you can feel snappy. Mood states are where your emotions are perceived by you and others.

Intense state: this is when anxiety gets stuck in a feedback loop, externally or internally. This is where you anxiety is supercharged where you feel dizzy or overwhelmed by what exactly needs your attention. Want to get off the ride? Want to get back to clarity?

In the mood and intense state, anxiety should be addressed. Anxiety is here to help you organize and plan, so that you can complete your tasks. Yes it is related to fear, often fear of the future, but they're here to orient you to the possibility of upcoming change.

What can you do? Anxiety needs action and acknowledgment. Trying to ignore or dismiss it will only allow it to fester.

Empathetically turning towards anxiety *works* --you can't fix a problem without knowing what the problem is. So let's face it, and give it some conscious questions:

What triggered this feeling?
What really/actually needs to get done?

Take a few minutes to calm yourself or get yourself in a calm state, and consciously probe and question this emotion from a logical perspective. The goal with anxiety is to identify what actions to take.

Is this anxiety mine or someone else's?
What upcoming tasks need my attention?
What organization would feel so much better? (this can be physical manifestation: closets, your kitchen, your car...)
What is within my control?
What action can I take to help alleviate this feeling and take power back? No matter how "small" the action.

If you're feeling like identifying anxiety or experiencing anxiety is T O O M U C H, reach out. With big emotions, requesting support from those around you can be instrumental for you moving through it, and it builds trust with who you ask.

Any action towards acknowledging what your anxiety is telling you brings you back to balance. Address anxiety on whatever level it's manifesting.

Physical: support the physical symptoms

Emotional: allow yourself time to let it all out.

Mental: prioritize the *needs* and the not so pressing.

Spiritual: get on your meditation pillow and ask the Universe what's missing

I know this is a long post, and anxiety is prickly, but even cactus blooms. I appreciate you taking care and time to read the whole thing. Tell me: how are you feeling? How can I support you?

If you've read this far because you're feeling anxiety or anxiousness, would you like a card drawn to help give you a new perspective?

What to rock: Lepidolite, Black Tourmaline, Kunzite, Aragonite, Blue Chalcedony, and Blue Calcite

Blue Chalcedony: a soothing, calming balm to find clarity and communication