Personal Challenges

Most of you know I've taken a long sabbatical as a Reiki Master/Life Coach/Yogini since I was struck down by a mystery illness that left me nearly bedridden for most of a year. I felt it was not only destroying my body but my ability to heal others and teach... since I couldn't even heal myself. Talk about feeling like a failure! So, I closed my doors... But what was really happening? Now, in hindsight since fighting the battle and winning, Im stronger mentally, physically, and spiritually than I ever was before. I was/am still healing deep spiritual wounds that caused internal illness that was finally diagnosed as Psoriatic Arthritis. I would have never faced the mental, emotional, and physical traumas that I allowed to manifest in my refusal to face the shit I'd turned my back on , ran from, and buried. Without the manifestation of serious illness, I wouldn't have become as strong as I currently am...I would never become as strong as I am yet to become. Aside from tarot reading at Ohio Rennaisance Festval and reiki for some longstanding clients who have accepted and understood my struggles and believed in me anyway, I'm not quite ready to again don the Healer Cloak professionally but looking over the last few years, I know I never really ever took it off :) Thank you dear friends who have continued to come to my door... 🙌 "....people do not reali(z)e how much self and internal training a healer has to go through to become an effective healer. And most of the time the training becomes part of the lifestyle of the healer, because the healer understands what it takes to become whole on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. " -SHAMALA

Every Single Day

I am a Reiki Practitioner every day ... don't ever question my faith ... I have witnessed more miracles in this lifetime than a person may have a right to but I am sacredly thankful for each and every one ... and sometimes the only thing standing between me and the dark, the despair, the overpowering... is the flickering flame of my prayer candle and my faith the intention will hold back all evil.

Reiki Crystal Power Grids

Ive been creating personal reiki crystal power grids since I was first attuned to and became a reiki master. Typically, fourteen crystals are used but I've used as many as fidty-six! I'm an overachiever lol Once charged with Reiki energy they will continuously send Reiki in the direction its been directed to go. Its a great option for sending healing energy and/or protection to myself and others... even long distance. There have even been World Healing Grids created by myself and others as part of a joint effort! I'll be teaching a class in January for anyone interested in learning (who has already completed a beginner session from either myself or others as long as you have a certification of completion! For more information email me. reikidojo at gmail

Making Decisions... Being Authentic

I've decided to start giving tarot readings in addition to the reiki healing and classes Ive been teaching from my home. With the economy the way it is, I just can't manage rent for storefronts anymore. I've been blessed during my years at Eagle Family Martial Arts inside which I not only taught karate but also ran the Akashic Mind Body Spirit Center, where I sold my bonsai, practiced and taught reiki, and read tarot. Moving from their was painful after spending 20 years of my life there, but divorce happens and sadly I lost my business access along with my marriage. Of course I started again, opening Main Street Yoga, Reiki, and Tarot which was only a few blocks away so not really too far to keep in touch, right? You'd think... lsn't it funny how we can be a person for 20years and everyone thinks they know who we are and become so disillusioned when we sop living the roles for their reality of who they created us to be? Especially if we're still hiding parts of ourselves. My ex used to call me creepy, morbid, too much, too woowoo, too too much. And a whole bunch of people accepted that narrative because the alternative was having to rediscover who I was. Thankfully, I had six fabulous years living and building Main Street Yoga, Reiki, and Tarot, were I rebuilt myself from the soul out and I will always always consider those years my personal best because I became an authentic being and started owning who I was as a person. If you can't embrace your own fabulous and freaky, sometimes morbid and creepy, no one else will... right? So just own it. if you see dead people... if you have a personal relationship to those beyond the veil... if you talk to animals and they talk back... if you know things about people that you definitely should not know... Own that shit!

Countdown to Thanksgiving...

It is only eleven days until Thanksgiving. Where has the time gone? I love that there is a time set aside that as a country we can take a day, regardless of our religion or ideologies, and just be thankful.

What a wonderful time of year...

For the next few days I will be reflecting on ways we can show our gratitude. Today, I started a reflection on my facebook page of what I am thankful for and will list each day a diferent note of gratitude. If you have a facebook page, join me? We can spread a wave of gratitude. In your first post just announce your intention...

Make me your friend on Facebook: Find me as Reiki Dojo

Some Days It's All About Making People Happy

I'd like to remember how easy it is ... every day ... just to share a laugh, a smile... even with a total stranger. It makes the day so much better, doesn't it?

This is Matt, I found him on youtube but you can follow him around the world in this video...and read more about him at wherethehellismatt.com



This all led me to another thought...I need a crazy way to travel the world and get paid to do it...

Ohio Drama

I've never given much thought to the Ohio Department of Agriculture...I mean, how would they affect my life? I'm almost certain that John and Jacquiline Stowers wouldn't have thought that the ODA would affect their lives either prior to December 1, 2008 when 12-13 SWAT team agents swarmed their home. The reason? According to the court, search warrant and affidavits, county health department officials and an ODA enforcement agent said, "they believed the Stowerses were operating a retail food establishment without a license.."

The Stowers maintain that they were running a private members only food co-op.The public could not buy food there.



Food, cell phones, the children's computer and the family's entire year's worth of stored food, including meat that they'd raised and slaughtered to sustain them, was confiscated. The Stowers children who are home schooled have lost their lessons that were on the computer. And while that may not sound like a big deal, trust me, having experienced home-schooling three children...the computer is the school. Another issue I have with the computer being taken was that the children's father is currently serving in Iraq and that is their main mode of communication with them. The children and their mother are actually living with their grandparents while he is out of the country.

I read about this horror at Granny Miller's blog...and kept thinking...a decade ago, that could have been our home, our family. There are so many similarities...I home-schooled, co-oped, and stored a years worth of food... and no, I don't live that life any more...I garden and Kroger instead of co-oping, my daughter is in a public school... but I could still feel the horror that I know those people felt.

This really shouldn't be happening in our country...
Really.

I shudder to think that this could have ended like Ruby Ridge...thankfully, it didn't.