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My Skin Cancer Experience

I consider myself a pretty healthy person — I do my best to eat right and exercise. My body is my temple and I try to treat it that way. So I was surprised when I got a phone call from my dermatologist telling me I had skin cancer. As far as I know, there is not much I could have done to keep from getting skin cancer other than stay out of the sun or protect my skin with sunscreen, so, having a healthy lifestyle, really didn’t help me in this case. Around the spring of 2017, I noticed a spot on the top of my nose. It was very small and I really didn’t think much about it other than I had noticed it was there. I really didn’t want to go to the doctor because I was leaving my job (and therefore my health insurance) so I let it go and tried…
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A Perfect Vision for 2020

Last year at this time I gave 5 tips to make 2019 the healthiest year ever. These tips still ring true and if you missed it last year, CLICK HERE to read these tips. For 2020 I wanted to do something a little different. Since the year is 2020 which is perfect vision, I thought I would share some of the visions of how I would like to make 2020 a great year. Look around…everything you see was a vision in someone’s mind before it ever became reality. I see 2020 as a year of vision and following through on that vision so that it becomes a reality. 1. LISTEN TO MORE MUSIC For whatever reason, I have gotten out of the habit of listening to music regularly. Music is and always has been a passion of mine, but recently I have been listening to other things like podcasts or books on tape or…
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My Intention Group Experience

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead I have always loved this quote and now it means so much more to me. That’s because of my work with an intention group. If you have no idea what an intention group is, please read my earlier blog by CLICKING HERE. I mentioned in my blog that I would follow up with what I have been doing with intention work. That is what this blog is all about. I had no idea I wrote that blog a year ago. Better late than never! After I read the book The Power of Eight and wrote my blog, I decided I wanted to start my own group. I was unsuccessful in getting at least 8 people together and schedules were tough to work around, so I put that on hold…
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How I Healed From Grief (Part 4)

Drumming, becoming more spiritual, and Reiki all helped me heal from the grief of losing my husband. The last thing I will share that helped me is journaling. It’s a very simple, yet powerful way to get the pent up anger, frustrations, and sadness onto paper and out of your system. Way back in my childhood I learned about the power of journaling. When I started (probably around the age of 11 or 12) I was going through a loss too — this time of a good friend. I felt very betrayed at this time. We were best friends and then we weren’t. I had no idea what I did or didn’t do to cause this friendship to end. I began writing about it and it really helped. I went through many pages and lots of tissues, but it helped me get out all the gunk floating around in my head. I still have those…
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How I healed from grief (Part 2)

Throughout most of my life — until about 40 or so — I was not religious or spiritual in any way shape or form. When I was somewhere between 10-12 years old, my mom and dad would take me to church and I would pout and refuse to go in. Eventually they gave up and let me stay home. As a high schooler, I was told about being born again and was basically frightened into joining my parent’s Lutheran church. I went to a presentation that told me rock lyrics were evil. I loved music and was now afraid to listen to it. I attended a movie whose premise is that if you don’t become born again, you will have your head cut off. I am not kidding! All these many years later, those images are still fresh in my mind. As a teen, I caved under the pressure and I attended classes at my…
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Life is Short — Follow Your Dreams

There are some things that just move you — that stick in your brain and you cannot let them go. This happened to me recently. I had finished my morning chores and decided to chill out and see what was on TV. I stumbled upon a movie called “Into the Wild.” I had missed the first 20 minutes, but I decided to keep watching as it looked interesting. I realized later that I had actually seen this movie way back around the time it came out in 2007, but, for whatever reason, it did not resonate with me. This time it did in a big way. I watched and re-watched the movie, read two books, and watched numerous You Tube videos about it. I was (and still am) a bit obsessed with this story. It’s about a man named Chris McCandless who left his cushy life to set out on the road to find adventure,…
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Energy Work for Better Health

My life has taken many paths and they are all paths of purpose. While things have happened in my life that have been tragic, I have tried to see them as learning experiences. There was a reason why I met my husband who left this Earth much too soon. He brought me laughter and music and dancing that I would have never experienced otherwise. And, of course, he brought me true love. After his passing, I spent many years trying to figure out what my next path would be. I stumbled around a lot, but eventually found energy work, mainly though Reiki. This has really helped with my healing and sadness. Reiki then led me to learning more about energy work (there is so much to learn). This is my current path and I plan to stay on it for awhile. It has helped me live a healthier life as I have gotten older. I…
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Let’s set an intention for a wonderful 2019

Intentions are everything, if you really think about it. An online dictionary defines intention as: a thing intended; an aim or plan. If you intend to feel better, you make a plan to feel better or you aim to feel better. In other words, if you think it you can become it. You almost will it to happen. Buddha was right when he said you become what you think. When I do a Reiki treatment with a client, I set an intention that the beautiful Reiki energy enter the body to coat and heal all the pains, trauma, and stress inside the body. I feel it is so important to start a session in this way. Saying it aloud makes the energy more powerful so that it can heal and reduce pain or release trauma “stuck” in the body. So intention is not something new to me. However, I don’t think it is something…
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Nonconformity is hard but necessary for me

I would have to say that I have always been a nonconformist. I just never quite fit in with any particular group or place and I never considered myself “mainstream.” I often say I was born under the wrong moon. I was born around 11:30 pm and wonder if my life would have been different if I had been born 30 minutes later — on a different day. I love numerology. I am a 3 life path — the great communicator. I don’t feel I fit that label because I am a pretty introverted person and often choose solitude over being in a group. Maybe that’s why I enjoy my blog. I can communicate, but in my own time and place. Needless to say, I have never quite fit in on this Earth, but am making the best of this life. I know I am here to learn many lessons and, apparently, to teach…
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