Let’s Create Together
a More Beautiful World
our Hearts Know is Possible*

Are you disturbed by current events?  Are there days you feel outraged, fearful or burned out? These workshops are designed to nourish you and transform the life force energy driving your emotions into activism that honors your heart’s guidance.

Does the national dialogue leave you feeling paralyzed? Do you sometimes feel powerless and unsure that you can make a difference?

What do people following a path of kindness, compassion and equanimity do when confronted by injustice, abuse of power, hate-mongering and aggression? How do we stand our ground and take right action grounded in higher consciousness?

Current events are affecting millions of people. Before we can act, we need to shift internal states of shock, hopelessness, resignation, anger and despair to feeling supported, clear and empowered. From a full cup, you can help others ethically and more effectively. Regardless of short term outcome, you can persevere in alignment with your values. However long it takes, we will carry on promoting peace, justice and sustainable living.

You may have strong feelings about what is going on, yet feel unsure how you can help. To create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible, we need a collective shift in values. Your intense emotions are the raw fuel that once digested, can lead to clarity, wisdom and insight.

Right action–ethical conduct grounded in dignity and the wisdom of your heart–is the way through. Spiritual Activism Circles are designed to metabolize emotional stress and open you to receive guidance in alignment with your Being.

When emotions get too heavy, they can make it hard to access inner guidance. These workshops are designed to help you overcome inertia and identify ethical actions you can take to help create a world that honors life and honors the feminine in balance with a healthy masculine.

Spiritual activism is a call to action for ordinary people who value kindness.

We care about others’ needs as well as our own. We want to create lives of peace for ourselves and others. We want an end to misogyny, racism, mass incarceration, wealth imbalance, war mongering, weapons proliferation and the desecration of our Earth. The list goes on. We know that in order for this change to happen, we need a collective shift in consciousness.  We know in our hearts that we can be change agents.

Addressing these concerns involves how we live in the world–how we take our inner work of mindfulness and kindness and take it into the world. It involves creating a vision for the kind of world we want the generations to come to inherit.

At each circle, we will explore and discover what we need to receive. We will get distinctions between what we want and what we need. We will call on All Helpful Beings—our Ancestors, healing Earth energies, our guardians and keepers in the Light of the Akashic Records and our personal guides to strengthen us with these qualities.

What will you bring to the world?
From a steady heart, grounded in spiritual strength,
With support on levels seen and unseen,
We call on All Helpful Beings—our Ancestors, Earth energies,
Our Guardians in the Akashic Records
To work through us as spiritual activists
To have a positive impact in the world.

Spiritual Activism Circles will clarify your heart’s vision and
help you be a source of strength, tenacity and perseverance.

Together, we will not be stopped. We will continue for the long haul. In community we are stronger than any one of us is alone.

In truth, we are never alone, no matter what we may think in our down times. We have each other, and we have our spiritual support teams.

Each workshop includes elements from the following menu:

• Invocation–calling in all Helpful Beings from all realms
• Distinguishing wants from needs
• Sharing your needs in the circle
• Movement–to shake out fear, stagnation and anger and activate clarity
• Grounding and centering
• Building community–supporting each other on our parallel paths of creating a more beautiful world
• Emotional intelligence through somatic connection
• EFT tapping on topics chosen by the group, such as: #MeToo, Family Separation, Environmental concerns, Racism, Gender rights, misogyny…
• identifying the common ground shared by our diverse concerns
• each Sacred Activism Circle will set specific group focus according to what we need
• Self-soothing practices to get grounded and centered when you’ve been triggered
• Recommended flower essences (note: flower essences are $15 each or you can buy them online.

Dates of Sacred Activism Circles

3 Saturday
August 11
1-4:30 pm
stay tuned for more dates to come…..

Spiritual Activism Circles will be held at Lightflower Studios in the Heights. The address and how to pay will be emailed to you with your registration below.

contact me if you would like to organize one in your home.

Cost: $35 advance registration
$45 the day of

To Register, Click Here 

Sacred Activism circles are designed to help us take action to create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible*. Some people call this New Earth.

*For more about this inspired idea, read Charles Eisenstein’s book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

A wonderful group of women came together and transformed pain into peace and healing. If you missed the workshop, take heart: there are more in the works.

The more I hear from survivors, the more it hits home to me that sexual harassment and abuse is incredibly widespread. Of course, I know this from statistics. I know that I’ve experienced abuse that affected me deeply.

When survivors reach out and connect with each other, we find we all have something to teach. We support and strengthen each other by listening without judgment, sharing victories, grieving our losses in community.

We begin to see how deep and profound recovery is—and the meaning and ramifications of recovering sovereignty over our bodies and souls.

Sexual abuse can be seen as a shamanic initiation. Renowned shaman Sandra Ingermann speaks of this: in shamanic cultures, adolescents moving into adulthood are taken through life threatening shamanic initiations. This is not meant to be cruel—it is meant to give every person the experience of surviving extreme situations of physical and soul level hardship. When the person survives and learns from their ordeal with the help of their medicine teachers, they emerge knowing their own resilience.

Our priorities change when we realize how precious life is. We become more devoted to contributing to the well being of others, caring for our planet, protecting one another in times of challenge.

We live in challenging times. Ingermann says that survivors are in a unique position to help others through these challenging times.

I wholeheartedly agree. I see survivors becoming sources of strength, vision and leadership for healing our planet and ushering a new era of living with Sacred Feminine and Masculine in balance.

Our recovery and being included in the collective dialog is key to moving forward, making the changes so needed to heal our relationship to life itself, and live in balance with nature.

Next week, I will publish a blog on self-soothing practices.

Healing Arts from Lightflower Studios: New Painting on Exhibit at Jung Center Houston opens Sat. June 16, 5-7 pm. Show up thru July 14, 2018

Eternal Flame of Great Mother

Even though I can be quite verbal, I paint from a space beyond words. A felt sense of form and color guides me. For me, painting is a way to access a primordial knowing of the mystery that we carry deep in our souls. I feel kinship with my ancestral cave painters.

I intend my art to be healing for people and the spaces where it hangs.

Here are some ideas about how to receive healing from art:

Engage with soft eyes

• Sense or imagine the backside of your eyes, the soft tissue where your eyes share a border with your brain.
• Gaze at the painting with “infant eyes,” sensing forms and discovering color as if for the first time.
• Feel the sensations in your body as the painting enters your nervous system.
• Soften your focus, not trying to name what you see or create a story.
• Let the image imprint on your felt sense.
• Share your impressions in the comments below.

I start with a felt sense of prayer. I am on a journey into the unknown.   I am not illustrating an idea. I don’t start with a finished picture and try to create it. As I let what wants to be painted through me emerge, I feel a sense of discovery.

For years before I had a name for the Akashic Field, I tapped into it while painting, as if an unseen hand was guiding my hand to mix colors and apply them to canvas, wood or paper.

When a painting is complete, I often have no words. At that point, I turn to friends and patrons to ask for their reflections. From their sharing, I learn more about the paintings.

Naming my paintings helps integrate and ground the felt sense, making what has been unconscious become conscious.

Jung Center of Houston – 5200 Montrose Blvd                  713-524-8253
Show opens Sat. June 16, from 5-7 pm. Show will be up thru July 14
Gallery hours: Mon-Thursday 9-7
Friday 9-4
Saturday 10-4

To receive Love from Living Spirit, your heart needs to be open. It takes practice and skill to be able to set firm, clear boundaries with an open heart.

While we sense that an open heart is soft, we may think our boundaries need to be hard. At times, impenetrable boundaries are what we need.

It would be exhausting—and shut us down to receiving love—to have hard, impenetrable boundaries all the time. The good news is that boundaries don’t always need to be hard. With practice, you can adjust your boundaries to serve your well-being according to situations as they arise.

In relationships where both people have healthy boundaries, there is a balanced give and take that can be fluid and elastic. Boundaries expand and contract in a dance of mutual respect. Misunderstandings are easily and conscientiously corrected. Both people feel safe to be honest about their needs and feelings. Both people honor their friend’s boundaries when she says ‘no’—and ‘no’ is received without loss of connection.

As an empathic person, I used to soak up peoples’ emotions like a sponge. I couldn’t tell where they began and I ended. My boundaries were weak to non-existent. I thought love was a boundary-less state of merging with another. This resembles the formless realms of pure consciousness, where our souls originate. Our bodies remember being boundaryless in our mothers’ wombs.

Ideally, we begin to develop boundaries at age 2. By age 7, our energy body is distinct from our mother’s and we are on our way to developing a sense of our own identity.

Love—incarnated in the form of a human being—needs boundaries to thrive.

Highly sensitive people with high vibrations have a strong memory of merging. Boundaries help ground our sensitivity so we function in the world better. People who have not learned to separate their energy body from their mother’s will repeat this enmeshment in other relationships.

A well-placed “no” is more loving than a false, inauthentic “yes”—or a mumbled, indecipherable answer that is not an answer. When we avoid saying no, we create confusion. We become ungrounded and lose our center. ‘No’ is a clear answer. “I want to say no, but I don’t want to make you mad/inconvenience you/lose your friendship” does not build healthy, supportive relationships.

If you have trouble saying no to family, friends or co-workers—check in with your body. Is it tense or tight in your heart, your gut, your throat? What is your level of safety in this relationship? Do you feel free to be true to yourself? Or do you feel you have to perform, wear a mask or pretend to agree? Are you afraid you will lose connection if you say no?

If you feel unsafe to say no, it’s time to take a deeper look. People who love and respect you will welcome your authentic, heart centered ‘no,’ even if they feel disappointed or have to make a different plan.

Have you ever pressured someone to say yes to you, then found you didn’t really enjoy the outing/or collaboration together? Or that they didn’t do a good job doing the task they said yes to but secretly resented? Have you ever been that person?

Some of us grow up in families where saying no is not an option. Power is confused with control. Power over others is not power—it is control. In some religions, there are deep seated beliefs that human beings are inherently “sinful” and must be controlled, bullied and intimidated into acting responsibly.

I say the opposite is true. Our inherent nature as human beings is to love and be loved. We want to help others and connect with community. We see in small children this desire to help. When we nurture this part of ourselves, we grow up with knowing how to connect. We pay attention to other people’s needs as well as our own.

Boundaries allow you to say no with love in your heart, and free you to say yes to what you love. You will attract more of what inspires you into your life. Law of attraction says that if you say ‘yes’ when you mean ‘no’, you will attract mushy, uninspiring opportunities to do things you don’t enjoy with people you don’t enjoy.

Do you want to have a heart that is soft and open, and also have healthy, conscious boundaries?

Consider scheduling a series of 3 sessions to focus on boundaries specific to your current life situation and how you intend to create your life going forward. Skills for creating healthy boundaries will include:

• Learning to clear your aura or energy field of other peoples’ energies and keep it clear
• Tools to develop authentic emotional connection with yourself, based on somatic signals from your Inner Healer
• Flower essences that catalyze awareness of boundaries and help you know you deserve to have what you want—and that you have the power to teach people how you want them to treat you
• Akashic Records when indicated, for deep clearing of family patterns of boundary violations that result in enmeshment or confusion

Note: a 3-session series will give you basic skills. Creating healthy boundaries that honor your worthiness is a lifelong practice, for me and for you.

New to my work? Contact me to set up a free 30 minute phone consultation to see if my work is a match for you.

From my heart to yours: a workshop for women overcoming sexual harassment or abuse.

During my personal journey to overcome sexual abuse, I’ve longed to create safe community for women walking the path of self-love and claiming wholeness. Now begins a new era, new Earth, restoring the Sacred Feminine. Women and men are called to unearth and reveal—and transform collective beliefs that perpetuate abuse.

These past six months, who I am and how to embody my soul has come clearer. Astrologically, the wheel of karma is turning. In my natal chart, every single planet is moving into a new house. I’m being remade in alignment with my soul’s purpose. Standing up, speaking out and supporting survivors is my next step.

I’m devoted to creating health and well-being on all levels for myself and empowering you to do so for yourself. My whole life, I had trouble believing in myself. As a sexual abuse survivor, I didn’t want the facts of the abuse to be true. Family members denied it. It confounded me to be at a gathering where an older cousin was making slimy comments toward a young woman. No one stopped him or even seemed to notice. Even I said nothing. I was frozen, as if I was 7 or 9 again.

At other family gatherings, I did speak up—and was accused of being delusional. The fact that I both did and received body work raised eyebrows. Meditation elicited suspicion. Mindfulness, embodiment practices, energy healing, painting and making art, using flower essences—the very practices that increased my well-being were deemed untrustworthy.

The things that nourished and healed me—were criticized and belittled by the people I most wanted to support me. I felt hurt, unsafe and confused. The child in me wanted my family’s validation and empathy. I felt unsafe around them because their denial literally made me physically ill.

I choose to listen to my body. I set strong boundaries with toxic people. I do not share anything personal or socialize with them. To read my blog on boundaries, click here.

No more will I be silenced.

Speaking out has cost me. I lost the fantasy I held onto for years of having a loving, supportive family that could be emotionally present, authentic and mutually supportive. That said, I have gained inner peace and the satisfaction of being true to myself by speaking.

In teaching this course, I am coming out as a sexual abuse survivor. My stomach got tense when my bio in the Jung Center course catalog was published. As I stayed present to the anxiety and fears that arose—breathing, noticing sensation and allowing myself the space to feel—my wise body, in its own good time, relaxed. From a calm, centered place, I knew that being true to myself I attract the perfect people into my life, my soul tribe.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is following your heart even when you feel fear.

‘Sexual abuse survivor’ is not who I am. It is an experience I’ve had. Our souls are vast, beyond human identity. I am devoted to embodying my soul, living from the wiser, deeper and unconditionally loving part of me. My soul does not fear darkness. Darkness is pregnant with possibilities for transformation. It is from darkness that light arises. Without darkness, we would have no form, no creation.

Experiencing sexual abuse shaped my sense of purpose in the world. It awakened an undeniable hunger for spiritual connection. It ignited a fierce determination to embody my soul—especially since in traumatic situations, I left my body to protect my soul. The resilience I’ve needed to survive and thrive gives me the inner resources and perspective to support survivors. I feel honored to offer this workshop.

You Too? Healing Together in the Era of #MeToo*

Saturday, June 9
1-4:30 pm

Connect with other women in a compassionate, safe environment, and learn valuable tools for self-love and self-care. This workshop will begin with the opportunity for sharing brief personal narratives. There will be no cross-talk or advice giving; rather, anyone who chooses to share will be met with presence and deep listening. We will then engage in somatic practices of emotional connection and emotional freedom technique. We will attend to the connection between bodily sensation and emotion, which helps us to recognize healing messages from our body’s innate intelligence. We will also practice a guided self-kindness meditation and extend these positive feelings into the world for the benefit of all beings.

To register  click here.
Or register by phone 713.524.8253

*No one will be turned away due to financial need. The Jung Center offers scholarships for partial or full tuition, according to circumstances. Call the Jung Center 713-524-8253