welcome back to ur happy place: a refuge for body, mind and soul for our first 2011 edition! i don’t know about you but it feels like i’ve lived a year’s worth of experiences just in the past month:
in the joy category there were the usual holiday family and friends gatherings, lots of festivities with annual events like my all time favorite, and high light of my holiday season a christmas celtic sojurn's concert at the majestic theater in boston. after the show, we chatted with host, brian o'donovan and met chris stout, the brilliant shetland fiddler. niko, my sister-in-law, corinne, and i all made a pact after the event to take fiddle lessons together in 2011! the d'onofrio family string quartet( steve plays the acoustic 12 string guitar) can't be far away:)
the wheel of life turned for us as a close friend and extended family member passed on dec 23rd after a very long and difficult encounter with cancer. as we heard her condition was advancing, i held her in my thoughts daily and put up prayers for her and her family. my wish for her is that the light of the season helped carry her to her next chapter in peace. i think about her 13 year old daughter and hold hope for her and her journey.
i've witnessed clients in sessions who are making brave and deep hearted choices for themselves and futures: wives no longer accepting marriages that are abusive, dangerous, unsatisfying, deadening and being willing to face the hard truths and plot new and more sovereign courses. parents fostering clear boundaries and communication styles with children, learning that stepping back and seeing their kids as adept and powerful beats smothering, meddling, and over compensating-that worrying compulsively erodes both the parent's and child's sense of well-being.
Others for the first time are saying "i deserve to be at the top of my list" and "what i want counts too". they are re-inventing their lives and re-connecting to who they truly are. they're peeling back layers of cultural programming, self-denial, family history, molds and confining patterns. more than one confessed that they visit me despite outside skepticism( ur going to see a what?? a psychic? a spiritual counselor, oh i don't believe in that stuff!) because what they get in session brings them back home to themselves and creates a bridge to a freer, more meaningful way of living.
in all of this, i am reminded that our lives are more than we might think they are - that there is a great mystery at play, and it is woven through all the things we experience - showing itself in the joys of good music, the quiet moments alone, the crazy exhilarating over the top thrills, in the moment to moment choices we make to stay or leave, to grow or stagnate, in the heart ache of losing the physical presence of someone we love. on any given day we rise, never knowing for certain what the day will bring, but nonetheless we move across another page of our lives, co-authors with this magnificent force, that lives in us and with us. i think of it more and more as simply- grace.
may 2011 be a year of remembering that we are grace-filled, grace-fed and for that may we be grate-full. here's to your new chapter of life. i'll see you on the pages!
grace-full opportunities:
what's a new year if not a time to stretch our wings, wonder what's over the mountain, challenge ourselves and risk being a fool? in addition to hosting counseling sessions and groups, and seeing what art for your heart wants to do with itself! this year i'd like to offer more chances to play, make art together, maybe do some ritual, and create some space for u to explore in interesting and creative ways. i'd like to collaborate with other healers, seers, and artists in unique and exciting ventures. and i'd like to hold space for the unfolding of some writing and video projects that have been patiently waiting for me as i take a deep breath and learn..more... technology! whooppeee!!!!!
remembrance day with me and jessica marrocco
remembrance day me and gerri shanti desimoneyou'll see some of these ideas taking shape with a collaboration that started in december 2010 with jessica marrocco and gerri shanti desimonfocus is new beginnings- "welcome in the New Year through Clearing, Closure and Confidence. Clear all old energy that is disharmonious with your dreams, find closure with old hurts and experience a new found confidence in your self." stay posted-date tbd.
and i'm hosting a new collage vision board and ritual gathering. a letting go\invitation ritual, followed by visioning and collaging onto your own imagery board. indulge in a creative and powerful practice and leave with a stunning momento that you've created to inspire you the whole year long! see one i made here.
choose either fri. 1/28 6:30-8:30 or sat. 1/29 2-4:o0pm $30 includes all.
much much more to follow...!
ur happy day haiku:
the new, the old -one
and the same- breathing, living,
grace holding our hand.
until next time....xx
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