A Water Guided Visualization

September 17, 2024Leave a comment

Recently, I was out for a walk. Near my house is a path beside a stream and I had the inspiration to record a short guided visualization, incorporating the flow of water. It begins with an invitation to see yourself beside a stream or relaxing in the water – the water gently flowing by. As it does, it cleanses and releases all that does not serve. As that is released, there is room to receive – to be nourished, revitalized, resourced or to welcome gifts into your being. You are then invited to notice what is different, embrace all that has shown up and know you can access it at any time.

Got 5 minutes. Take a listen – the link to the audio is here.

A few people have already listened and this is what they had to say:

“I’m currently healing from an injury and this visualization was just what I needed “

“I received a big hit 🎯. Gifts from the water: a diamond inside a treasure box, a Trident with immense energy, an apple, a cannonball bursting with energy.”

Remember that each person who listens to guided visualizations are offered imagery and symbolism that is specific to you. Here is a link to the one on Energy Renewal. Enjoy. Love hearing the feedback.

A Little Offering – A Guided Visualization for Energy Renewal

August 15, 2024Leave a comment

For fun, I am going to offer a few short guided visualizations on topics that could interest anyone. This one is for energy renewal. Unlike the one-on-one or group visualizations, they are not specific to you, but the topic may resonate for you and you will experience the benefit. You will also have a taste of what the visualizations can be like and if you are interested in learning more you can check out this page or reach out to me.

This audio is 7 minutes long. It begins with an invitation to get comfortably seated and ends with an invitation to bask in the new energy for a moment and/or to journal about it.

The link to the audio is here. One of my cats was attracted to session and adds his voice and his purring. I hope it doesn’t distract from your experience.

A picture of these two rascals since one of them came to the visualization.

What are Group Visualizations and How Do They Work?

August 13, 2024Leave a comment

What are group visualizations and how do they work? Take a listen here or read below.

Group visualizations work pretty much the same way as the one-on-one visualizations with one key difference – the one-in-one visualizations offer more of a collaborative and tailored experience between you and me. With a group, the guided visualization is provided and the participants embark on their own individual journey without speaking during it. There is enough fluidity in the guidance offered that each person will have their own unique experience.

When the visualization is complete, there will be a few minutes for participants to silently journal their experience. If it is a small group, people will be invited to share what they wish of their experience with the group. If it is a larger group, break out rooms will be set up and participants can share with their smaller group.

The sharing is part of making sense of the experience as well as allowing the imagery and gifts to sink deeper into your consciousness. As with the one-on-one visualizations, many people find this informs their day-to-day experiences as well as their access to their own intuition and inner guidance on an on-going basis.

If you and a few friends would like to participate in a group guided visualization, send me a note and we’ll work out the details.

One-on-One Guided Visualizations – What They Are and How They Work

August 13, 2024August 13, 2024Leave a comment

How do one-on-one guided visualizations work? Listen here or read below.

One-on-one guided visualizations start with your question or inquiry and, again, offers a story for you to connect to. With the one-on-one sessions, you are invited to share what imagery is coming up for you. As you do so, this creates the opportunity to influence the direction of the story and the questions offered to you – making your journey very specific to you. It means, you can go to a greater depth.

Once you have the symbols and the imagery, you will be able to connect to them long after the guided visualization is complete, continuing to tap into the gifts and inner wisdom that emerged for you during the guided journey. For many people this informs their day-to-day experiences as well as their access to their own intuition and inner guidance.

I am offering guided one-on-one visualizations – if you want to schedule a session with me you can find the link on this page. I would love to collaborate with you on a guided visualization that will help you access your inner wisdom and your inner healing power.

What are Guided Visualizations?

August 13, 2024August 13, 2024Leave a comment

A voice recording answering the question: What is a Guided Visualization? Listen here.

Essentially, the person doing the guiding offers imagery – a story, if you will – that your mind, spirit, imagination can connect to – and offers suggestions that invite you to fill in the blanks with imagery or symbols that come to you. These symbols will have meaning to you and you are invited to interpret them to your specific question or circumstance.

I wrote a blog post once – here is the link – on Is this Real or am I Making it Up? The mind doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what is imagined, so it doesn’t matter. What matters is learning to trust yourself and the images that emerge for you – and that is what guided visualizations offer.

I am offering guided visualizations, both one-on-one (you can book online) and for groups (reach out to me to inquire) – the link is here: Embracing Your Inner Healing Power – Guided Visualizations . I would love to collaborate with you on a guided visualization that will help you access your inner wisdom and your inner healing power.

When the Human Story is Tragic – What Then?

September 24, 20164 Comments

The human tragedy story can be so overwhelming that it obliterates the soul journey story that is also present and far more powerful. Discovering it through my mother’s journey with dementia makes my own spirit more joyful.

screen-shot-2016-09-24-at-8-23-34-am On Sunday, September 18, 2016 I had the distinct honour of attending the Gift of the Hit book launch and, invited by Peter Davison, reading an excerpt from my Chapter in the book. The video is 5 minutes. There is the version that Peter Davison recorded and edited here and the one my son took, which is less steady, here. My voice stays remarkably strong as I relay the minute we left my mother behind in long term care, her confusion, what it was like to walk the corridors to get to her room, the tragedy of rapid deterioration and the soul story that began to fully show up when I reached her consciousness in a meditative state.

Dementia and Death Illuminates Choice to Tell Stories Through Soul Journey Lens

April 12, 2015April 14, 20158 Comments

My mother with the beauty of youth.

My mother with her mother in 1990 (the year my first son was born)

We make meaning of our lives through the stories we tell. We can tell those stories through the lens of human tragedy or the lens of soul journey. I learned what this means through my mother’s journey with dementia and in long term care. I share a bit about that in this 2014 interview with Terry Choyce:

Compelling Journey: Responding to the Call of Life

February 21, 20159 Comments

Gold Lake, Colorado

Sometimes, things are so compelling we have no choice but to respond, for not responding is akin to crazy making. In 2009, I had my most convincing experience of acting on my intuitive knowing when I decided to go to Gold Lake, Colorado, ostensibly for an Art of Hosting training, hosted by beloved colleagues, but really to deepen into my journey to openheartedness in ways I couldn’t possibly have comprehended.

In this interview clip I connect the dots between several points in my journey, including a period of intense conflict that was also a time of healing, a compelling urge to travel to Gold Lake, Colorado for reasons beyond rational sense and a growing awareness of the power of storytelling to make sense of our lives.

The clip is about seven minutes. Enjoy.

Drumming and the Soul

February 11, 20159 Comments

In 2000, I experienced my first drumming circle. At the time, it was a brief, but profound experience and even then I couldn’t imagine how profound it was, would be, as it reverberated through the next decade of my journey and beyond. It was so profound that my book, Embracing the Stranger in Me: A Journey to Openheartedness, begins with a description of the drumming circle.

I did not deliberately seek out the depth of spiritual journey that showed up – at least not all the time – although the spiritual journey was persistent in seeking me out. At times it felt like I had no choice but to respond, to follow the nudges and to give in to what kept wanting to show up. This journey for me was an opening to gifts and talents I did not think possible for me or available to me. I had imagined only “special”, “deeply gifted” and “powerful” people would have access to these kinds of gifts. The realization over time is that we all have access, we all have gifts. Most of us just need to find our way through the persistent story telling that tells us otherwise, that tells us that these experiences are not real, that we are making them up. The mind does not know the difference between what we imagine and what is real – which is why visualization is so powerful.

In this audio clip from an interview I did with Terry Paul Choyce, she asks great questions about my soul journey and I share snippets of my experiences and understandings that have emerged through this part of my life journey.

My favourite picture from when my son and I made our own drums in 2009.

The Revelation of a Family Secret

February 7, 20155 Comments

In 2008, at the age of 46, I found out I had been adopted. Other than when I was a teenager and wished from time to time that I had been adopted (didn’t most of us have fantasies about that?), I had no idea. It was one of the most incomprehensible moments in my life and a glimpse into the stranger in me. In this 5 minute interview clip with Terry Paul Choyce, I share what it was like to have this family secret revealed to me.

Gratitudes to Spencer Dwyer who created the musical intro especially for the interview clips and who also edited the original interview to produce bite size chunks. Gratitude also to Terry Paul Choyce for the interview itself on her Interconnections radio show ast CKDU.