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You know the question... if a tree falls in the wo

You know the question... if a tree falls in the woods and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

You can swipe to see 2 trees from my walk along a ,new to me, trail yesterday.

One is a HUGE old tree that fell and now lays like an octopus ready to over take the trail. It begs to be truly witnessed as it rots and decays.

The other is a tree that came down but 2 of its branches are still connected to the root system and have reached up toward the sun. They are growing strong in defiance of what ever tried to take it down.

I doubt there was witness at the time either of these trees fell. Their experience however can still be seen by all who walk buy. How many more trees deeper in the woods lay fallen with no one going deep enough to find them is unknown. Those trees will decay and be rebirthed through the soil and seeds to one day rise again. But no one will see this and hold it in their memory. The question for me is why would that matter.

As humans we are not here to spend our life alone in the woods, never noticed by another. We are here to witness and be witnessed. It is why we wonder if the tree that falls alone in the woods makes noise. We are here to make a difference and have others make a difference in our lives.

Basic human needs are denied and damage is done when one is denied witness of their experience and who they are. When one focuses on seeking to be understood but not taking the time to understand we all loose because the act of witnessing and being witnessed one in the same. It is what will transform us, grow our souls in to gold, and create the catharsis we seek.

This is the trauma of lies, gas lighting, deflect, defend, and deny. They come in many forms and they don’t actually serve anything or any one, ever. These are the seeds of anger, fear, shame, and division. These are the tools that some use purposely and others in Unconscious default.

The antidote is truth. Take a walk, be witness to it, find the truth nature holds. See the sheer strength/power in its vulnerability. “The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.” Let nature heal you and learn to witness so you may be witnessed and we can all heal.

No matter what happens in life I seem to have a na

No matter what happens in life I seem to have a natural buoyancy (both in and out of the water 😉). I am drawn to beauty and I see it everywhere. I see the good in almost everyone no matter how deep it’s buried but I have learned to hold my boundaries for the sake of my own well-being.

I see a world searching for meaning, connection, soulful purpose, peace, freedom, and joy. I see some hiding, some fighting, some praying, and some blind. I see some find treasures against all odds, some feel hopeless/trapped, some in bewilderment and some just don’t bother to care.

I also see a systematic erosion of our connection to our souls. I see many wanting to know whom to blame and for what purpose this has happened. Diving in to all that tends to fortify anger, shame, division and powerlessness. Nether a perpetrator nor a messenger is the way to freedom. Only you can find your soul, retrieve your power, free yourself and it has nothing to do with any one else’s demise. Like Dorothy, you have had the power all along but you have been told otherwise in a thousand little ways.

This has been happening slowly for a very long time, even before you took your first breath. In fact a mass army of unknowing participants have colluded in your disempowerment because they too have been numbed out and slowly separated from their souls. Over time you may have become one of those soldiers willingly working towards your own demise, convinced that it was normal despite what your body, heart, sprit, and soul may have been trying to tell you. Truth has been twisted and entangled as we become lost, dependent, and addicted.

Always remember that no one can truly ever take your power from you. Their best hope is to convince you you never had power. That is a lie. “Do not go gentle into that good night... rage, rage against the dying of the light! 🙏

Each time we drive into the mountains to get our s

Each time we drive into the mountains to get our spring water I get to visit with this river. Each time I visit with her I am taken in by her beauty, her patience, and her willingness to travel into the unknown with such presence. She teaches me so much in our visits together I feel I could stand by her side for a very long time. In fact she tells me we have known each other for longer than I can possibly remember. I know from her how important the journey is as she reminds me that the end can only be known through the journey.

When I opened up my own architecture firm I remember my business partner and I discussing that we were going to be completely upfront with our clients. We were going to tell it like it is and be frank about the process of time, money and effort that goes in to renovating/building a house. That’s what people want we told ourselves. What we quickly learned was that the truth was often counter to wants, and nothing like what it looks like on HGTV. Other architects were not saying what we were and therefor maybe we didn’t know what we were taking about because their desires for what they wanted were greater then their need for truth.

We did have clients come back around after trying to work with someone else saying, boy were you right! But that’s not the important part of the story. What I learned is the journey through the process, the learning and experiencing as they go, was actually important to a successful outcome. It was not my job to take the journey away or tell them all that they might encounter along the way. My job was to support and educate along the way. Just like a child, when they are ready to hear and process information they will ask.

This is why truth often needs to be experienced. No one can tell us because we need to not just see it with our own eyes. We must feel, taste, and smell it to know and process it. It’s never our job to take the journey away from another. As hard as that may seem, the end game requires patience and compassion.

The best way to hold and impart truth is to live it, be lovingly patient, and be ready when they ask. Their’s is not your journey to take.

I was driving to an appointment this morning and I

I was driving to an appointment this morning and I turned on my radio. A song was just starting and in literally one note I knew exactly what song it was. I find that fascinating. When I try to recall most songs I can not bring forth the words or even hum the melody properly... I just can’t, it’s not my skill. Yet, when I dream at night I hear songs completely intact, word for word, every note correct as though I was listening to it on the radio. This means that it’s all in my being somewhere.

There is way more magic in us than we know and we constantly ignore and throw it away. It’s a huge part of how we were meant to be whole, survive and thrive in this world and we have been duped from a very early age in to thinking that’s all bunk.

I know I heard this as a child... when I would share something so real to me that I could feel it in my bones and I would hear...

That’s just your imagination

You have such a rich imagination

You will grow out of that

These words are not meant to be harmful. They are meant to have us “grow up” as they have. They also break our trust in ourselves.

Then we become teens, we head into the stage of life where we are looking to others to see where we fit in. Except we have lost site of who we are because we have been told that our truth was a lie and our intuition is not to be trusted.

Then when we are all grown up we walk around dismissing each other and at the same time trying to fit in lol. Except when we lose ourselves as adults the stakes are high. There are no safety nets or soft places to fall. We pay dearly for heading down paths that were not meant for us because it is where we think we should go.

It’s time to claim your soul back. It’s time to find and trust your magic. It’s imperative actually not just for you but for all of us. Within your magic is what this world needs right now. It was a gift you were meant to bring to the world because we need you.

For those of you who are going down a very difficult road to reclaim your body, heart, spirit, and soul... you are a mighty and brave warrior and love you for that.

Turn the radio on, play your favorite music, and dream big. We can do this!!!

My husband came home in the dark from running erra

My husband came home in the dark from running errands. Both kids were asleep and he asked me to come outside to see something. At first I didn’t want to, I thought it was a ploy to help bring in the groceries lol. He assured me it was something way better than that.

The air was early fall crisp and the sky crystal clear. I breathed deep and walked out into the yard. The planets and stars were so bright and beautiful and everything was very still and quiet. It is really one of my favorite things to stare in to a clear night sky.

As I watched the brightest planet (Mars) the space station glided by. My mind and body found some space with my breathing. I felt a shift as hours, days, weeks, months, and years of events came together in my mind faster then I could hold on to them. They lined up to give me a glimpse of the past and the future and a moment of peace with it all. This is what looking in to the starry night often does for me.

As @medicalmedium tells us... “The majority of your soul is here, within you, on earth. Far up in the ether, though, beyond the stars, God has safeguarded the essence of your soul. The angels protect it there in the heavens so that no matter what happens down here, your soul will be secure.” I think this is the connection, protection, and peace I connect to when I watch the stars on such a clear night.

I suspect that we are on the edge of some very big changes in this world. I know that everyone is going through something right now. And I am grateful to god and those angels so compassionately holding and protecting the essence of our true selves. It very easy to loose connection with our soul here. It easier then we know to forget who we really are. Every time you get a chance to look in to the clear night sky remember to connect with that part of you way up in the ether. Remember just how special and loved you are no matter what happens here on earth. Remember that someone’s got your back and fear does not need to rule over you.

Your body is of this earth, your soul of the heavens and you are loved.

There are inherent ways humans mature and grow and

There are inherent ways humans mature and grow and there are unseen traumas readily stealing those moments from us. This is nothing new but the ways in which they have been exponentially growing are so sneaky that we don’t see it happening. We line up and participate willingly not seeing the true price we pay.

This is not just an issue of children as we are meant to continue to grow our entire lives. We are meant to gain strength from our experiences. We are meant to become the wise mentors of each next generation so they can bring humans to a place in life the exceeds anything ever done before.

All this happens for reasons beyond life on this planet because what we are doing is growing our souls. What that brings to us beyond this life is something we can only imagine. At a minimum our souls must be sufficiently in tact to make that journey when it is our time to leave this plain let alone to have grown our soul along the way.

Every day, in hundreds of incessant ways, our bodies and souls are manipulated and weakened. I know I am not the only one who sees this but it does feel like a very lonely vision to have. It’s lonely because when one decides to live in a way that would safe guard ones soul and even work at growing it, it means you are moving against a tittle wave of opposition. It means you are choosing that which to many seems odd, weird, and even wrong. It means you feel very much alone at best and for some it means you loose family and friends from your life.

I often laugh at what I see, it’s funny actually to see it. I know that others would see the humor too if they were not mired in the lies that create the fear that create the need to feed the addictions. I am not free from all the distraction this world has offered up. The humor is what allows me compassion and self forgiveness.

My vision and choices are my soul’s freedom and the cost is my human prison. The prison made from the silence I choose to keep to live in a world that sees my choices as an affront. I will never stop fighting for the right of our souls to be safe and grow. I see all of you who see it too. 😉

Last night my kids were laughing and saying they p

Last night my kids were laughing and saying they pulled a “ruby.” That could mean any number of things but the common theme is that they did something that my mother Ruby would have done. It’s one of the ways we keep alive in our lives those who are gone and whom we miss in a way that keeps our hearts light.

Ruby was very petite, almost fairy like:). But her presence was big and solid, a force to be reckoned with at times. In her later years she knitted herself long sweaters with big pockets and she always had one on. Given her stature this meant that her hands and her pockets were right about the level of our chocolate lab’s head and nose.

She loved nut butter sandwiches and always had Kleenex’s in those pockets. If you can imagine that dirty Kleenexes and nut butter sandwiches are considered delicacies to some dogs, I suspect you can picture what would happen multiple times a day!

Our lab was rather like Eeyore, sweet, slow and sad looking most of the time. He had been a rescue from a kill shelter and he was old too. There was one exception to this. He had unparalleled stealth when it came to taking advantage of delicious delicacies that might be about. He would keep a sleepy close eye on my mother. If she got close he would nonchalantly walk by her, stick his nose in her pocket, grab the prize and keep on walking. When she had her sandwiches she would walk around with it in her hand by her side. Our lab would casually walk by her, oh so gently take the sandwich from her hand, and keep going, the goods swallowed whole lol.

What I loved most about their symbiotic relationship was that every time it happened she would laugh so hard at herself and the dog. She would lovingly pat him on the head and then go make herself a new sandwich:) she had a fire in her about right and wrong but she felt no need to be angry when one can laugh at life.

This is a gift I got from my family and love that is living on in my children... the ability to laugh at life. I was reminded recently how much I laughed with my family growing up. Remember to keep your heart light today. It’s ok to laugh at the dumb stuff we do and cary on.

We all walk on this earth because of all who came

We all walk on this earth because of all who came before us. Every good and bad choice paving the road for our journey here. I feel on holidays and celebrations I find myself in a palempest of rites of passages, rituals, beliefs, and experiences. Holidays and celebrations have become strange entanglements of ghosts of the past, habitual dogma and attempts at corrective positioning. The entanglement creating confusion and division among us.

This odd and sometimes explosive landscape is why I have always reached for the core truths in life. Those things so true that they have no expiration date. Those things that seem to be in our DNA and our soul that are undeniable.

In the untangling of my own life I have found a deep connection to ancient ways. Not with the lens of dogma though. I have found the pieces that are living, have been living in us always. However forgotten and unrecognized, they have been there with our souls forever.

On this day that is found through history to mark the thinning of the vale between worlds I think of this...

“The birthing woman is the original shaman. She brings the ancestral spirit being into this realm while risking her life doing so. No wonder that the most ancient temples were the sacred birth places and that the priestesses of the Mother were also midwives, healers, astrologers and guides to the souls of the dying. Women bridge the borderline realms between life and death and in the past have therefore always been the oracles, sibyls, mediums and wise women… “ #monicasjoo

Today I honor all the amazing women who come to me ready to be their true selves and become the shamans they were meant to be in this life. Your work here at this time is imperative. Remember who you are and free your wild self into this world. She needs you, we need you. Into the light we go together to untangle the web of darkness and free the souls they bind.

Last call for our Rites Of Passage course. It sta

Last call for our Rites Of Passage course.

It starts in just hours!

@amiejoneshealing and I are so excited for this class. These are some of our favorite subjects and if you have been with us on the journey you are ready!

It’s all live every Friday. We will guid you to go deep into discovering your strength, your purpose, your soul.

Link is in my bio!

I am getting so excited and can’t wait to see you there...

Peace

Eileen

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