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Difficult Women – Book Review

Roxane Gay’s title, Difficult Women, speaks to any woman who has felt difficult to love. I had long since owned that title and studied the qualities that made me “difficult” in relationships. I had searched tirelessly to identify the conditions to which I might attribute this unfortunate state of affairs. So when my sister, the day before her wedding, gifted me this book and began to explain her intention, maybe for fear that I would feel labeled or defensive, I waved her off. Thank you! I told her. I love it already. Gay’s writing pulled me in from the very first paragraph. Her voice captures all the ways women might be considered difficult in intimate relationships yet at the same time looks deeper at who they are and why. We come out of this reading experience so much richer for having explored these stories with her. They are fiction – products of Gay’s imagination. But for me, each is a window into a rich and ornate chamber of its author’s mind. This book leaves me so much richer, with a stronger sense of how a woman might be loved well, even if temporarily. It leaves me with a broader vision of how a woman can allow her difficult self to be loved and why that might add value to her life. It leaves me with a clearer personal understanding of the complexity of myself, love and relationship and the natural grit and beauty of coupling in its infinite forms.

And I feel a little less difficult after having read this book.

Other books by Roxane Gay I plan to read:

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

An Untamed State

Bad Feminist

Ayiti

& several comic books in Marvel’s Black Panther: World of Wakanda series

“I vigorously encourage women and people of color to be ambitious, to want and work for every damn thing they can dream of. We’re allowed to want, nakedly, as long as we’re willing to put in the proverbial work….I am ambitious because I love what I do, not simply for ambition’s sake. Ambition is what allows me to take creative risks and try things I never thought I could do. Ambition makes me a better thinker and writer. Ambition makes me.” — Roxane Gay

Horse Therapy – Living Without Defenses

Three weeks ago I had a Horse Therapy session with Tonya Crady in Festus MO. It took some coaxing for me to do it, but I finally agreed, having been called in many ways to find out more about this mysterious healing modality. This was my chance. I knew Tonya, and I knew she was good people. The therapy itself gave me plenty to chew on, with Tonya’s support in assigning meaning to each of her three beautiful horses and seeing what they did when they encountered me. During the session, Tonya gave me a task to complete and watched how I went about doing it, and took pictures of me throughout the session. She also instructed me to pay attention to the other animals that showed up in my life on the day of the therapy, during the therapy and afterwards. Days after the therapy we went through the pictures she had taken, which told me a whole lot about myself, what I’m up to on a social and emotional level, and a whole lot of other things I could have never learned in traditional psychotherapy. Today I am arriving at some very exciting new realizations about defenses I have used against intimacy and what the Universe is trying to tell me about it.

The therapy session itself was kind of puzzling. Trying to figure out what it all meant, trying to do it “right,” trying to do it efficiently, as my mom was kind enough to wait for me in the car while I did it, circumstances as they were. We were there anyway, she encouraged me to do it, so I did. After it was over, we all got into Tonya’s jeep and she proceeded to drive us back to her house where Mom’s car was. It had gotten quite dark and when we were about halfway to Tonya’s house we all saw the possum with his gleaming eyes staring us down, there in the middle of the road. Tonya slowed down to a crawl in her jeep, assuming that the creature would run and save itself, but when we got to where the animal was, we heard a sickening bump as the vehicle struck the animal. Or did the animal strike the vehicle? Tonya looked at me with an agonized grimace. It had not been her intention to kill the little guy. During the next several days, more dead possums showed up along with Skunk and Armadillo. Armadillo is said to represent armoring as a defense. And Skunk also showed up representing defensiveness. They all showed up as carrion, though.

What I’m coming to believe is that this phase of my life is about living without defenses. The primary defense that was put on the chopping block that night was Possum, followed by Skunk and Armadillo.

Possum freezes, plays dead. His nervous system shuts down so that his predator thinks he’s dead (or gone), and often the predator will lose interest and leave him alone long enough for him to escape. Freezing, playing dead, shutting down until the danger is gone, and then leaving when the coast is clear is exactly what I learned to do, watching my sister Tracy’s attempts at independent thought, questioning authority, or fighting for her rights in the family, which brought a whole lot of noise and resistance from our parents, and sometimes even what seemed to me like violence. It all felt like too much. Individuating seemed like something I, personally, would never be able to pull off, being 4 years younger and so much smaller, so I avoided all that and did my best to get along. I had defenses at my disposal, like stinking up the place with stinging criticism or an unflattering “truth” when the opportunity presented itself or if backed into a corner. And for sure I armored myself to the hilt.

This might explain why I was so shy and felt so generally unsafe to be playful or controversial or vulnerable around groups of people. Instead I was serious and hardworking. I was “the good one.” I listened carefully and did what I could to offer support.

This also might explain why I am affected the way I am when a loved one escapes injury or experiences a close call – with my daughters in particular. While talking to Tracy yesterday I was explaining how when my oldest daughter told me about a close call she’d had, and how thankful she was to be safe, I noticed that the image of the disaster she escaped was still stronger than the information I got with my eyes when I saw her, all intact and smiling afterwards (more than two weeks ago).

I don’t have much in the way of childhood memories, but I get a strong sense that when we were younger, and Tracy was being threatened with violence and when there was a lot of noise and angry discussion going on, I must have been terrified for her safety and mine, and probably dissociated, and didn’t ever quite recover from that. Unlike Tracy, who was duking her way out, knowing what she wanted, and believing that she could cause a ruckus and still have a family and a home afterwards, she moved through the normal cycles of discomfort, vocalizing her discomfort, getting various reactions from our parents; sometimes getting her way and sometimes not. In any case, she didn’t learn that resistance was futile, as I did. She could feel the rewards of her small victories, which at my age probably didn’t make much sense to me, whether it was fighting to be able to listen to a popular radio station, watch a TV program, stay out an hour later with friends or get an allowance.

Through Horse Therapy, I learned that I can get what I want and need, I am way more powerful than I ever imagined, and I have not only adoration, but also support and cooperation from those around me. What is required of me is to believe in my power and worth and ask for what I want.

Here are the other animals that showed up:

The support Tonya received to help her prepare for the session and set the foundation for the session:

Barn Swallows – sun rays and playfulness; showering home with love and protection
Frog – connects us with world of emotions; supports us in time of change
Turtle (with missing foot) – take it slow. Be gentle. Abundant wisdom.
Groundhog – Ability to watch out for danger and move to safety; family, community.

The support Tonya received during the session:

Fly – abrupt change regarding lies, gossip, dirty; impurities

The support I received to help me prepare for the session and set the foundation for the session:

Deer (in a large group with babies) – Sensitivity, intuition, gentleness; fertility

The support I received during the session:

Lightning bugs – Illumination

During the night after the session, I spent some time lying in the bathroom floor with cramps. I processed some old memories about an ongoing trauma from my late teens having to do with my first husband and how our relationship began.

The support I received after the session for processing and release:

Armadillo – helps you define your space; armoring
Skunk – defense mechanism; prudence, valor, awareness
Possum – protects itself by dissociating, playing dead, becoming immobile

My old, automatic defenses are useless to me now, they don’t really protect me. I can’t armor myself, cause a big stink or play dead anymore if I want to get what I really want, which is deep and rewarding closeness with other people. I release the need to use these defenses any longer. I allow myself to move through life in my power, using my voice to communicate with others about who I am, what I want, and what I need.

The support I received even later, for processing and release:

Pooping Hawk – awareness; sharp eyesight. Release.

The support I received even later, for processing and release:

Pooping Squirrel – Don’t be so serious; have more fun. Release.
Baby bunny – fertility, innocence.

Another important thing to note is that the session was on Saturday, two days after the full moon. Lots of planets were retrograde. We were still in the very powerful activation of release, with a need to slow down and just be where we were. All of this served to kick up what had been in the shadow, so that it could be released.

Animals that have visited since:

Groundhog – watch out for danger, boundaries, and hard work; helps us bring up stuff to work on
More squirrels – fun, playfulness
Cricket – cheerfulness, good luck
Grasshopper – good Luck. Trust your inner voice. Take a leap of faith and jump forward without fear. This has to do with change on a larger scale, and has to do with how you perceive myself. You are taking the right steps to move forward in your current situation. Go ahead and move forward, to get past what is hindering you.
Blue heron – immerse yourself in the world of feelings and look for your own truths. If you only ever look at yourself in a negative frame of mind, you never really understand your true potential or see the opportunities that come your way. Heron tells us that we need to really reflect on our feelings and get to know who we are intimately to find our true calling in life. He tells us to claim responsibility and face the enemy that lives inside us all. Sometimes he wants us to find balance with our truths inside, work on our inner weaknesses and develop the inner strengths we possess so that we really own our spirituality.
Deer – sensitivity, intuition, gentleness; fertility
Turkey (maybe) – a spirit animal closely associated with honoring nature and the Earth. Symbol of abundance, this totem animal encourages us to honor our sources of nourishment, whether they are physical, emotional or spiritual. The turkey reminds us to develop a harmonious relationship with the land and our environment and consider them as foundations to our well-being and sustenance. The Turkey totem is a powerful guide to unlocking the fullness of life and feeling content with what we have instead of accumulating material belongings to seek happiness.
Cardinal – in this case, cardinal symbolism is reminding you to be clearer with your intentions. Moreover, setting a clear and insightful goal for yourself will accomplish everything you are asking for and more. The key is to focus and set your intentions clearly to expedite matters.
Hummingbird – lightness of being, swiftness, independence, courage, sensitivity, determination, love, beauty, endurance, wisdom, vitality, hope, and enjoyment of life.
Owl – intuition, transition, wisdom, silence, observation, quick wit, independence, power, intelligence, and protection. Prophecy and wisdom.

You can find Tonya Crady here. Drop her a line if you want to set up an appointment.

Meet Mariana

Mariana is my Spanish teacher, my friend, my translator and now my publisher. Here she describes her publishing house, Ban Pang – Casa de Harina Editorial.

Thanks to Mariana, my book is going to be available to speakers of Spanish anywhere in the world. Being In My Body (Estar en mi Cuerpo) is now available in Spanish as a PDF. Read more about the book here. You can get your copy here. By August 18 it will also be available in paperback!

Life in the Fast Lane

The past several weeks, since I left Mexico in June, have been rather intense but 100% blessed and good. Maybe I should just say that change is in the air, and I am going full steam in that direction. I have been in Kalispell Montana, re-taking EMDR 1&2. I stayed 6 days with a family who put me up in their pop-up camper, out back, took me in as family, shuttled me to and from class, and made sure I got a chance to visit Glacier National Forest and connect with their community in Kalispell. Prior to completing this course, post re-training was a big blank, because I knew not what training would be like, or how these people would feel to me, or what the next steps would be. I have a better idea of that now, and all lights seem to be green for me as I move forward. As I have time to attend to it, I plan to complete my consultant status, which will involve building more of a professional relationship with the trainer, Roy Kiessling, and then communicating with him that I am interested in becoming a trainer (which I already have, but he’s a very busy guy and the time has to be right, and there are still things I need to do before I’m ready). I absolutely love his approach, his style, and the content and organization of his training. It is as different as night and day when compared to Francine Shapiro’s approach, and I heard so many stories from the other trainers about how it had also been difficult for them to feel supported and/or taken in by the larger, overarching EMDR organization given the relative rigidity and sterile feel of Shapiro’s style.

Sooooo, I will finish out my visit in Missouri, which will include my daughter’s and granddaughter’s birthday, watching my daughter and her partner as they turn their school bus into a tiny home that they will live in this winter, and as they move equipment and raw materials into some kind of a studio space in downtown Columbia; walk through my other daughter’s house since she has already left for Cyprus, and is gallivanting around in Portugal and will soon be in Morocco and Rome before finding a place to live in Cyprus! I might squeeze some sessions in there, and some quality visits with family and people I consider friends. And then back to Mexico, where I am committed to doing at least a month of intensive Spanish lessons.

Although the printing of my book seems to be delayed, I’m not at all worried about it. There has just been so much movement in my life, all of which has been grace-filled and obviously in flow, that I know this timing is in divine order.

I envision my new life in which I am involved as a trainer in regular (maybe quarterly) trainings where I show up and teach and get paid by a well-run organization that takes care of the other myriad details. I envision myself having consultees on a regular basis, and becoming a better and even more effective EMDR therapist. I see myself feeling more and more comfortable in front of groups, knowing that I will have exactly the right words and experience, and that my clients and students will be enriched by this amazing modality, and grateful and empowered.

Whew. I gotta be honest, I will not be bored if I just have a day to sleep in, to read, and not have a single appointment. There are tons of details packed into this next three weeks, and I pledge to take it one day at a time. Grateful for the richness of life.

I received some really great EMDR therapy during training, from a young man who was attending as a student in our 5-day training. It was the most profound therapy I’ve ever had, and I’m still processing.

So at the moment I’m heading back to Columbia MO, where I will be for the next three weeks or so. My sister Tami Brunk, who was bit in the ear by a brown recluse spider is okay, but it’s been a difficult journey. She has had to postpone her travels to the Yucatan, where she is getting ready to launch a new phase of her life. My other sister, Tracy Barnett, will be headed back to Mexico about the same time I am. She’s babysitting my granddaughter while my daughter is packing all her stuff and getting out of her apartment before her lease is up in the next couple days. My daughter and granddaughter will be spending 10 days in Portland with my other sister, Trina Brunk.

Tracy, my mom and I went to visit my brother, and we stayed at his home from Thursday through Sunday morning right before I left for Montana. It was a priceless though intense several days, and we’re all glad, of course, to have had that opportunity to connect with him and his family. He’s great, as he tells it. His family is struggling. And there is a lot of grace and love in that home as he navigates these last days/weeks/months/years? of his life, living it all to the fullest with a Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis (as of 3 years ago). We played some pinochle, we told some stories. Mom asked him for his advice on some things she needs to handle on the farm that my dad would have helped her with if he were still around. My step-nephew forged a blade out of a huge nail, and my brother was working on a vest of chain mail he was crafting with his step-son. Our being there, obviously, kept their family from having their normal intimate moments, and taxed my sister-in-law, and a big part of this visit was her coming to us for support in telling the rest of the family that overnights were not going to be possible anymore. Since we have such an enormous family, and lots of little ones, they have decided to protect their remaining days together “as if they were running a hospital,” as their pastor advised. The rest of the family will have to observe visiting hours and restrict their visits to day trips, and/or find accommodations nearby. The time they have left is truly precious, and should not be stressed by the work involved in hosting guests. We are all so grateful for her willingness to approach this in her own way, and to give us this opportunity to see Scott as he faces this stage of his life.

So it has been truly intense, with the son of my youngest sister having a coming of age ceremony and my youngest daughter having a going-away camping Kaboodle at my mother’s farm, a niece adjusting to life with a newly adopted infant and navigating all those legal processes, etc, etc, etc.

I am still a bit dizzy from all that. But absolutely grateful. This is what having a close-knit big family looks like. ? It can be exhausting at times, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I am wishing you a fun and fulfilling rest of your summer.

Te amo mucho,

Toni

Photo Shoot – Being In My Body (Estar En Mi Cuerpo)

This is what emotional work can look like!

This past couple days has been so interesting, as I wrestle with my body’s terror about being the center of attention and knee-jerk reactions to staying present in situations where resources are coming from others to me, specifically. It’s really stretching my mind and my understanding and challenges the wiring of my brain. Not always fun, and not always comfortable, but always held in love and gentleness and so much kindness and creativity.

Hope you like my photo collection! Watch for more photos from the shoot which will be appearing on Facebook and other forms of social media over the next couple months. They will make up the launch for Estar En Mi Cuerpo, but they will be professional photographs by Kitzia, who I am sure you are going to love. For those of you who don’t know, Estar En Mi Cuerpo is the Spanish title for Being In My Body, What You Might Not Have Known About Trauma, Dissociation, & The Brain. The other women in the photos are so dear to my heart – my translator, Mariana and her sister, Margarita.

Margarita, setting the tone for Day 1

Mariana, Shoot Director, Translator and Publisher

Kitzia, Photographer

Kitzia, Mariana, Margarita, at Bicycle Snack Station

Bicycle wheel table and reading the coffee grounds

Juice and coffee stop

Kitzia loves this pup

Photograph the photographer – What a love

It just doesn’t get any sweeter than this.

Aren’t I photogenic?

The Crew – Day 2

Spring Pop-Up Clinic 2018 – Announcement

Direct questions about this event to me at [email protected]. Register here. If this is your first time to a Pop-Up Clinic you will want to be briefed before joining. For more information, read about the event and how it got started here.

Righteous Indignation

Righteous Indignation was one of the earliest forms of anger I could give myself permission to feel. It was a “safe” anger. Anger, after all, was an emotion we were told good people didn’t have. But somehow, righteous indignation was different. With it came a “knowing” that I was above the person who had wronged or offended me. I could be indignant because “I would never do a thing like that”; I was protected by being on the “right” side of things. Over the years I’ve dug in and learned more about the function of healthy anger and I have grown in other ways as well. Judging oneself as better than another, however unconscious, has a natural consequence. And judging another person as wrong for doing what they do is another bad habit that locks us into a certain rigid position and out of our own full humanness. Many of my memories of having felt righteous indignation were in response to others having limits with me. Not recognizing what I had just experienced as another person’s expression of a personal limit, I would feel awash with anger, with which I did not have the slightest idea what to do. I would judge the person as off base and assure myself that I would never, ever do anything to anyone else that was so selfish or inconsiderate. I can see that now. All of us are different. We each have our own motivations to do things, our own priorities, and our own ways of seeing the world.

I can now see that anger has such a powerful and useful function in our relationships, and I have learned that it can help us get clear on our own position, that it is temporary and that our relationships can and will survive it. That is, if we know what to do when others let us down and/or we experience anger and disappointment with them.

First, it’s important to know that not being allowed to express anger as young ones was damaging to us, and made us develop alternative strategies that end up being disastrous in adult relationships.

Once we realize this, we can begin to get curious about the feelings we might have felt, explored, and learned about as children if our anger had been treated as acceptable, and our other feelings acknowledged – if we’d had the support we needed to move past the anger. For instance, to feel the disappointment, grief, vulnerability, fear, or embarrassment underneath. And with this knowledge as children, we could have moved forward into adult relationships much differently.

Instead of leaping to judge others as wrong and feeling righteously indignant, we could have considered the possibility that we might be feeling hurt or frightened, and we might have risked sharing our experience with someone who could validate our feelings and help us work through them. Often that is all that is needed to get the full benefit of our emotions. Through this process, we deepen our understanding of ourselves, allow ourselves to be seen, and work past the uncomfortable feelings without responding in immature ways and damaging our relationships.

The flip side, of course, is trying, ever harder, to be blameless so that we can somehow “earn” the status of “righteous enough” to be angry at those who have wronged us.

Breaking Free

I was at Unity Center in Portland on New Year’s Eve – The last day of 2017. These two weeks I have been visiting my sister Trina and her family has been such a blessing, and stepping into the Unity Center here I immediately felt the warmth, beauty, inspiration, and safety that I’ve always felt at the Unity Center back in Columbia Missouri. I jotted down some notes that the speaker was sharing, and I’ll record them here, for you to see if you’re interested…and for my own future reference.

Moving into this new year, I am being asked to expand. Do I believe that real change is possible? This year is about breaking free of the prison of my old programming, my beliefs, my limitations. I am being supported in living as if the chains that have held me are breaking and falling away.

I am so much larger than my doubts and fears.

There is so much more for me to do.

I am at the very brink of finding a larger picture of myself and my world.

What would I like to feel in 2018?

Here I am. Move through me, Spirit.

Since that service on Sunday, I have been writing short paragraphs in my journal that begin like this: I am thinking about how it will feel when/to…..

And each paragraph gives a sweet, detailed snapshot into an aspect of my new life. Spend some time doing this. Take time to savor and review and revise your writings for the next week or so, noticing how it feels when you imagine your new, desired life.

Give it a try! Take a chance; get clear on what you want more of and ask for it!

I am thinking about how it will feel when/to…..

Too Much On Your To-Do List?

You work your tail off to get things done. You find ways to do things efficiently (you have actually gotten really good at this) and you still have to put the sweat, blood, tears and hours in, and often it takes longer than you planned. You end up feeling lousy because it “takes you so long to do things,” thinking that your aunt or your sister-in-law could have done it in half the time – right? If you’re not criticizing yourself for not doing enough, then you disparage yourself for taking on too much – though you can’t imagine what you could possibly leave undone. Especially during certain times of the year, or even certain years, or in certain phases there is just so much to do it can feel truly overwhelming. Holiday time and extra travel can certainly leave me feeling this way. Here is a secret trick I have learned that ALWAYS helps:

Remind yourself that this phase is temporary. Though it’s hard to see the end of it, there are certain things you can do that will help in the short run.
Make a list of AAAAALLLLLL the things that have to be done right now.
Re-write the list so that it is actually 2 lists:

A. The things I can and will do today (or tomorrow)

B. The rest

Ask your spiritual helpers, your higher self and the Universe to help you with everything on the B list while you are working as hard as you can on the A list (some call this God). They can, will, and are already, but you have to take these items off the A list and ask your helpers for this to work really well.
Focus your attention on what you have decided that you can do today.
Each day, appreciate yourself for the items that you were able to get off the A list, reassess what you will commit to completing during the next day or two (or hour or two), and in the process notice how some of the things on the B list are taking care of themselves or progressing in some way that you did not have to be involved in.
Thank yourself for remembering that getting things done is actually of secondary importance. Being a decent person and staying connected to yourself and your loved ones is of primary importance – always.
Notice and appreciate the help you are receiving from the Universe and from others and marvel at the magic you can do when you let go and focus only on what you can control.
Go easy on yourself. It never helps to chastise yourself for not having the help you need.
There are things on that list that only you can and should do. There are other things on the list that will take care of themselves on their own. Over time you may see things that you’d love to ask others to help you with. But when you solicit the help of others remember that they may also be feeling the stress of their own responsibilities, regardless of how it appears.
Ask your helpers to send you someone who would benefit from helping you (truly helping, truly capable, bringing positivity into your life).
Putting items in your B list is trusting that you can be truly and abundantly supported, and letting go of rigid ideas about how things will turn out. If you can loosen your grip on them, you may be surprised at how they turn out even better than you expected!

Pop-Up Wrap-Up 2017

Hello Pop-Up Clinic Healers and Care Seekers,

This e-mail will serve as a newsletter to wrap up the 2017 Pop-Up Clinic Year and to share my deep gratitude for your friendship and participation. I also have four big requests for you, so if you want the quick version, just skip down to my “asks” at the very end! Here is the long version:

The Pop-Up Clinic Movement began as a seed of an idea, and has grown beyond what I could have possibly imagined. Thank you for the part you played. The momentum that began in my head and heart in the spring continued in Ajijic Mexico, where we had clinics in July, August, September and October, and then in Missouri, where we had 3 events: 2 Pop-Up Clinics and 1 Alternative Healing Fair. The Pop-Up Community in Mexico kept the flame burning while I was in Missouri by having a clinic in October, and continues to strengthen the lakeside healing network by benefitting from the connections and enjoying the friendships that were established through our movement.

Each fabulous clinic in Missouri had a flavor of its own. The first one in Centralia was very connected to nature with some of our practitioners taking advantage of out-of-doors spaces to do their therapies. What came out of this clinic was nothing short of magic. People met each other who had been destined to meet for years. They have since collaborated through other healing endeavors and have struck up friendships and begun talking about other possible cooperative connections.

The Marshall event was intimate but powerful. Since there were only four care seekers and four organizers and healers/providers, the clinic divided itself into stages in which individual “readings” were offered during the first stage, followed by three groups: Guided Sentient Movement, Vipassina Meditaion and Basic Nonviolent Communication. Again, pure magic.

The last Columbia event was hosted and facilitated by Judi Fullerton and Paula Curry at Parkade Center. The ample space and organizational efforts of our hosts allowed us to offer individual sessions, casual consults and lectures. I have a feeling this is just the beginning of something that wants to keep growing and evolving. Our community is so rich in healers and truly gifted therapists.

I couldn’t be more pleased. I see signs of growth, abundance and prosperity everywhere I look. I am resting and regrouping in December. In January I will be back in Missouri and in the following months I’ll be scoping out the possibility of bringing the Pop-Up idea to some completely new places. I have learned so much in this process. My takeaway this year is that we all benefit when we are willing to care for ourselves and when we allow ourselves to connect with and take advantage of the gifts of our fellow healers.

I will be in Mexico for the rest of December, but in Columbia and Jefferson County MO in January 2018. Pop-Up Care Providers, I’d love to hear from any of you to better know how you are doing or to arrange a trade of services or have lunch, dessert or a yummy beverage somewhere. As we move into the winter season I encourage you to continue the seed idea that began with the very first clinic: In order to balance giving and receiving we really do have to be willing to receive. Reach out to a healer whose work you admire or yearn for. Gift yourself with a session or a series of sessions to fill your well. As you heal and grow, the quality of what you have to offer will unavoidably improve, and your world will be transformed in yet unimagined ways. Reach for what you want more of.

On my Christmas wish list are more connections! Do you have healer friends or family or know of amazing, gifted healers in any of the following places? If so, could you tell me a little about them and put us in touch?

Portland
Seattle
Tucson
Chicago
Guadalajara
Other

Enjoy your winter holidays. Let me know if you’d like to get together in January or just message me so we can stay in touch that way. I appreciate you so much and am so proud of the network we are building.

My Christmas Requests:

ASK #1 Keep talking about Pop-Up Clinics and keep a list of people you will inform next time we schedule a clinic, whether you plan to attend or not.

ASK #2 Let me know if you have healer friends who are interested in building networks in their communities, and put me in touch with them.

ASK #3 Pass my name along if you come into contact with people who might benefit from my work or products.

ASK #4 (Pop-Up Healers and Prospective Healers) If you want me to give you a copy of our master Pop-Up Plan or any of our contact lists, please let me know.

Enjoy your winter holidays.

Let me know if you’d like to get together

or just message me so we can stay in touch.

I appreciate you so much and am so proud of the network we are building.

Namaste!