This month, I become a published columnist! This is a dream come true upon a dream come true upon a dream come true. The work I am finding to do and doors and paths opening have been in my heart all my life. These didn’t drop in my lap. It’s been a rough and winding road, especially once I chose to step out of my “comfort zone”, which is really a place of paralyzing fear, and become someone who can share their heart and soul and move and be free. There is still debilitating disease in my body, there is still challenging people in my life, there is still complications providing for myself and others, and yet, there is now evidence that there is a light to move toward and be surrounded by, there are helpful people and processes, there is beauty where I live. I am not alone and I am not lost. The way for me may not be for everyone, or anyone else. Each person has to seek and find their path and the tools that fit their needs. Self Awareness is not Selfish. The only one who can discover what it takes to truly care for one’s body, mind and spirit is one’s self. It’s not always what you think, and yet it’s usually ideas and actions that are rooted deep in childhood and your ancestry. Obvious even!

Recently, yet another aspect of a cache of genetic disorders I kindly passed on to my children (and did not know anything about) came up for me. A pretty serious heart issue in addition to what is already known to be going on. I can respond in many ways. Mostly, I’m going to do what I always do. Use the knowledge I have gained in deeply studying WHOLE – istic health methods, listen to my body, and do the work required to keep me standing and helping others. There is no pill, no surgery, no hope given by Allopathic medicine for most of what I have going on. What there is seems to risk leading to more and more damage, and less function for my body. I choose to turn to the Wisdom of the Grandmothers and long standing ways and my body’s intelligence. Again, not for everyone! My priority is not to fix this body, this brain, myself or my people. My priority is to be available in some way to give love and support to those who call for it. To continue to grow into a mindset (and heartset and spiritset) of community and mutual benefit. To make a small pocket of peace and unity that can ripple out and be an example. There is always some suffering in life, what we do with and about it is the important thing.

Find those little whispers in your consciousness that come from your heart. Follow your intuition, let love lead, not fear. Find practices that promote and ground your highest good. Share your good. Connect regularly with those that will cheer you on and GET the frequency you are working on. Pick up one thing you want to be doing, and put down one you don’t. Repeat. One day, you’ll look around and realize that not only you, the entire environment has shifted. And life, is good.

Love!