Transformation of Spirit

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Sep } · { Animals, Holistic Health, My Life, Personal Growth, Spirituality }
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Wow!  I haven’t writen in the last several weeks.  I really had planned to begin being more on top of this bloging but so much has happened since I last wrote.  For one my dad  who I am very close to and love dearly was diagnosed with cancer early in September.  The last of the test are being run so it is still unknown as to how severe it is.  Something should be know within the week.  The bone scan came back negative so it is known that it hasn’t spread to the bones.  My family and I fully believe that the prognosis will be good and that he will only require to have seeds of radiation planted to eradicate the prostrate cancer at most.  The other major thing that has occured is that my beloved companion my dog Jasper transitioned on September 14th. 2007 at aproximately 2:30 pm in the afternoon.    Jasper had fullfilled one of his life’s purposes which was to lead me to work with animals.  He went with me in August to take the first level of Healing Touch with Animals.  It was through our love of each other and our phenominal connection that it brought me back to a love that I had held in my heart and soul as a very young child which is to work with animals.  I actually, think I came into this world with the love of animals.  I was very close as a baby I have been told with the family dog named Wolf.  I had health problems as a baby and l became very easily overwhelmed with life and I would withdraw within a shell.  Wolf and animals in general could really bring me out of that shell.  With them I felt safe, loved and accepted for exactly who I am.  With people I often felt like I didn’t live up their expectations.  I was told by my therapist Dana at a one day workshop she had this past Saturday that I attended called Connecting to The Source Within that our concept of ourselves is developed within the first eighteen months of our live.  At eighteen months I had a bone age study of a nine month old baby.  I had completely stopped growing.  Which as a result my self concept was that I am not enough, that I am not worthy, that I am inadequate and on and on…  I have healed a huge amount of these beliefs and I have worked hard on my personal transformation.  But here I am going to a much deeper level, clearing and healing.  It is our thoughts and beliefs that affect our physical health because we program our cells in a  way to act accordingly and as you can imagine since this is up for a healing my body has really been giving me a hard time.  But I know from experience that this to can pass and my body can heal but I must acknowledge and truly believe that I am perfect just the way I am!!!  I am also going through this process as a result or perhaps in connection with my father “What does this say about me?”  of becoming more independent financially, emotionally with both of my parents and not so dependent on them physically to make my life right.   And perhaps it is time for a man to come in to my life soon, boy it has been a very long time.  Time will tell!  I am precious and deserving of all good thing love, connection with people and animals, successful career, health, wealth, leisure, peace and joy!!!!  This is all for now,will blog again very soon. 

So many changes so little time!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Sep } · { Business Building }
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Wow!  Time flies when you are building a business and going to school full time and working part time as a pet sitter.  There is so much to do, trying to at the moment figure out the best way to sign on to a program so that clients that live out of town can pay for my services via the internet.  I was trying pay pal but I am frustrated with them because I could never figure out how to upgrade from a personal to a business account and than I couldn’t get any help through their help line was put on hold for a very long time.  I am going to look into another program.  I got my first paying client on August 30th Holly, Leahs mom.  She agreed to eight weeks of coaching.  I just need to write up the contract etc; and welcome packet to send to her and than she is to mail a check to me.  I could have done this so much more efficiently if I had something like pay pal already established and a fax machine.  I am also looking into getting a new printer (current one is shot) and a fax machine.  Boy so many expenses to starting a business.  I am also in the process of preparing for the booth at the Health Fair next weekend.  I ordered cards, postcards, magnets etc; last weekend from Vista Print.  I am frustrated with one of my peer clients because again she didn’t follow through with our scheduled session for today.  It is at the point that I am ready to drop her and get another client because this problem has been going on for awhile and I have tried addressing it and I thought and she said that she still wonted to be coached but yet again she failed to call for a schedules session this morning.  I am still really enjoying the classes learning more all the time.  I need to be more disciplined writing on this blog time moves so fast and I allow it to get away from me.  I had asked my current coach to hold me accountable for this but she isn’t following through.  She is a great coach, however, in many other ways.  Well time to go lots to do today.  Bye….. 

Wow! July has flown by!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Animals, My Life }
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Wow!  I can’t believe that today is the last day of July!  Time is moving by so quickly and I am so incredibly busy!  I am loving my life but it is so incredibly full!  I would actually like it to be a little less full but there is nothing that I want to let go of but I will work on the balance of all the different things.  Pet sitting is going well and beginning to  operate more smoothly the more I get use to it.  This past three weeks the three pets that stand out in my mind the most are Milo, Samson and Chipper.  An incredible very human like black and white cat, a big beige color dog Samson and a very soft black with some white named Chipper.  I really bonded with them and I will miss them! Their mother Dawn has now returned from her travels.  Milo would escort me into the bathroom to get alone time with me apart from the dogs it was so dear!  Samson and Chipper would occasionally wander into the bathroom during Milos and my time together asking for more loving from me.  They both of course got a lot of loving from me also!  I love all the animals I sit for but their are some that stick out in my mind more than others.  Layla, Beverlys dog is one of them.  This morning I curled up on her luxurious dog bed with her and gave her a tummy rub/scratch.  She loved that!  Layla previously before she came to Beverly was an abused dog so I really like to give her some extra attention.  Now on to the life coaching portion of my life.  That is going well also and I am loving it and learning a lot.  Last week with one of clients named Ed a pro bono client I was concerned that perhaps there wasn’t anything else to work with him on.  He seemed so together.  However, I now realize that perhaps and he has shared that this is true that he had some fear regarding touching on what he really wants to work on which is creating the life he wants to live.  He tends to perhaps rationalize that all is well why change anything and can he really have his dream life.  Well now we are beginning to really get down to the nuts and bolt regarding this.  The coaching journey in a way has just begun.  He perhaps is my most challenging client.  I now have four peer clients, one pro bono external client and a trial session coming up this Thursday with the mother of one of my peer clients.  I feel very complemented that my peer client recommended me to her mother.  This client will be a paying client but I will do it at a reasonable rate to be determined during the trial session.  I would venture to say between $30.00 to $50.00 a session.  However, I may also give her a package deal if she will commit to 12 sessions and be my other external client for ICA.  As far as the energy work I have a client scheduled for a Reiki session this Thursday but it has been a few weeks.  I would like to have at least one to two clients a week for energy work on a regular basis.   The classes at ICA are going well and I am learning a lot! As far as the rest of my life, I don’t have much social life right now but I am trying to make sure that I schedule an occasional journey call with my closest friends and I am scheduled to meet a friend Friday night for dinner.  Well this is it for now.  More soon….

Whats up in Cindys World!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Uncategorized }
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Wow!  What a week, life has been so busy lately that I let a week slip by without writing on my blog.  Working for Pet Pleasers is like setting up your own part time business.  I am sure it will get easier as time goes on but in the beginning it is very busy because you have the first meeting with each client since they are new to you, complying the paper work for the initial session with the brand new clients.  Sometimes I wonder if it worth it monetary wise.  I absolutely love it though and feel like I shouldn’t even get paid for it because it is such a pleasure to take care of all these wonderful animals.  I let one of my pro bono clients go this week Jennifer because I came to realize that she has some very intense psychological issues and that she needs to get stablized before she is ready for the coaching.  She took it well.  I postponed the initial session with a new client Kala because I wasn’t ready for it as far as a contract etc;  I got to get ready so that I am for whatever comes along.  It is so hard to get everything done.  I know it will go smoother once I am organized for Pet Pleasers.  This past week I also didn’t go to a couple classes because of such a busy schedule and I didn’t go to the class last night onCoaching Model 3 because I want to have time to work on my coaching model first.  Although it looks like I am letting things slip away I know I am doing the very best that I can do and that it will get better.  I have decided to cut back my classes to just 3 -4 a week so that I have time for pet sitting, coaching, reiki and my own self development and sanity.  I did coach my other life coach clients this past week and it is going great and I continue to get very positive feed back on my coaching.  I am so glad to be working with animals, I absolutely love it and I never want to have a time in my life where I am not working with them in some way.  This has been the first week working for Pet Pleasers on my own, before, it was training.  I know that there is always a period of adjustment on a new job for me and all is well.  When I coached Ed yesterday I felt like he was doing so good that there was nothing to work on and that we didn’t have anything to fill an hour of coaching with he assured me that he was getting what he needed and that he has made tremendous strides in the few sessions that we have had together.   Well, this is it for today because I need to go for a pet visit with Mop an incredible 18 y.o. dog and a cat named Leon who is loveable and majestic!  Bye for now…. 

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Ah-Ha Moment, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Wins }
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My unique gifts as a coach!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Business Building, My Gifts as a Coach! }
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 My current coach who is holding me accountable for blogging at least weekly on my blog has suggested that I explore this topic.  Wow!  What a loaded question, so much to write about, I could easily write a book!  What are my unique gifts as a coach?  I have given a lot of thought to my unique gifts as a coach and they continue to be revealed to me almost on a daily or at least weekly basis.  In the past couple of weeks it has become clearer that I am gifted in the area of relationship coaching.  I have done some family counseling in the past and this has always been an interest to me.  I think in working with this population I will need to do it in person because body language tells you a lot about how the individuals are interacting with each other.  I can still do occasional supportive phone calls during the coaching arrangement but the bulk of it needs to be done in person.  I had a journey call with Narcy who was my first peer coach at ICA and she told me today that she difinitely considers me the poster child of trust.  Wow!  What a complement!  I really can understand why she says that about me and I have had at least a couple other people who happen to be my clients currently that they really admire the faith I have in living in  my life authentically and answering Gods call for me to be all that I can be.  It has taken a long time to get here but I think by experiencing not having the trusut / faith and than establishing and living by it will be a strong gift that I will be able to coach others in desiring to take the same risks in their life to live their lives to the fullest.  Some of my other gifts as a coach are my honesty, personal strength, being a warrior, being authentic and true to myself, compassion, being intuitive, my persoal warmth and being able to build a relationship with people from many walks of life that may differ financially,  ethnically, spiritually but their is usually one common denominator and that is that they are real people no pretense.  I have faced a lot of different struggles in my life from being an alcoholic ( now in recovery 20 yrs this August), a recovering codependent ( and boy could I tell you stories of how I hit my bottom with codependency), I have attention deficit disorder and have learned much in learning to live a manageable life with that and with my learning disabilities.  I also have been on disability worked hard on improving my health and got off the disabilities so from this knowing what it is like to live with a chronic health condition and going beyond the limitations placed on me both by society and myself, my educational background and work experience in both mental health, geriactrics and substance abuse and correctional populations are all gifts that I have to bring to my coaching experience.   Additionally, my own spiritual journey. I know I could go on and on but I am going to stop for now.  I have an upcoming class at ICA on building my coaching model.  I will continue to reflect on this question and will further blog as I have more to add. 

Wins for the week!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Wins }
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I had a couple wins this week.  One was that I had a new client Kathy for a Reiki session.  She reported that she was very pleased and received a lot of relief with her back pain.  We did an exchange.  She is making me some very nice jewlry in exchange for the session.  She also is interested in me coaching her 19 y.o daughter who is very small like I am.  She is 4′7″ and I am 4′9 1/2.  I am really looking forward to the trial session, I feel that I can share my wisdom and insights of living a life as a small adult.  She also has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome a connective tissue disorder like I do and so I can coach her with that as well.  The bulk of the coaching will be focused on self esteem, self empowerment/ self acceptance, independence and separation from her mom and maybe driving a car for the first time in her life.  Another win is that I took cards to the store the Alchemist to add to their rack of business cards that they have for their  various businessess.  I took both the Reiki practitioner and the Life Coach cards.  It felt so good to be able to display them.  I look forward to being able to take my brochures also.  Well this is it for now, more to come as I progress along my journey!

In the garden you can hear your inner voice.

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Nature }
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It is in the garden that wonders are revealed…. A garden is one place where you can hear your inner voice, in the quiet.  We all have the power within us, just like the seed, to make change.”

                                                          Tieraona Low Dog, MD

I came across this quote several years ago in an Oprah magazine and I have had it hanging on the side of my refrigerator ever since.  How true it is and how I love the garden and the times I share with god and nature the quiet and the whispers of my spirit and God conversing.  We all do have the power within us, just like the seed, to make change.  It all begins with the seed.  Enjoy your journey of growth and renewal and the many seasons that we travel through life.

I’m back and going strong!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Jul } · { Dreams, Holistic Health, Nature, Wins }
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Hello World!  I am back and going strong.  Since I faded out of the blogging zone since my last post my world has been moving on and at times I feel at a fairly rapid pace.  I now have a wonderful new peer coach to keep me accountable for my blogging.  I requested that the universe send me a coach to keep me accountable for writing on the blog.  Keeping a journal of any type has always been a great challenge for me.  I have previously taken classes or internships in college where I was required to maintain a journal and had a hard time disciplining myself in maintaining one.  I truely see, acknowledge and understand the value of a journal.  I have recommended journaling to prior clients and I believe strongly in the importance of it and the benifits that you can receive.  I need to begin walking my talk.  So here I am once again and it feels good to be back.  I will blog more tomorrow, I have a lot to say but I am tired now as I have been tired all day as an after effect of a very intense workshop that I attended this past weekend as a part of the Healing the Mind, Empowering the Spirit workshop series that I have been attending several times a year for the past 31/2 years.  Good night for now….

Hello world!

{ 04-25-07 @ 5:59 +00:00Apr } · { The creation of my blog! Whew what a process!, Uncategorized }
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Here I am working hard on setting up this blog.  This is a totally new procedure for me.  Until a week ago I didn’t even know what the word blog meant.  And I have been very hesitant in taking on the process of developing it.  I sat down today to reflect on what I wanted my blog to be about and who I am and what I can bring to the world as a life/spiritual coach.  I discussed it with my mother who isn’t just my mother she is my best friend and soul friend.  She knows me the best, at times even better than I know myself.  I asked her to describe me in five adjectives.  She named determined, creative, dedicated, authentic, survivor and loving.  Well thats six but who is counting.  She than gave me a summary of my life what she feels it has been about and what I can give as a coach to the world.  All of which I agree with and acknowledge.  I than contemplated on what I wanted my blog to be about, what would be the prevalent theme. Out of this came the title of my blog Illuminating Spirit.  Yes that is what I am doing.  In writing down my reflections of classes, life, thoughts, relationships, coaching, change, transformation I will bring light to my spirit and see myself more clearly and my purpose here on earth.  Other names I considered using were 1) spirit evolving (my favorite but already taken as a website by someone else on the Internet so I didn’t want to be a copy cat)  However, I will say that I am in very good company with wanting that name because she looked like a like minded thinker and another soul bringing light to the universe.  Other names included 2) contemplating spirit, 3) spirit emerging (not right because my soul is already emerged it is just making a few minor adjustments because I have worked very hard to bring my soul to the place it is today, which if I may say so it is fairly enlightened, but of course it is a non ending forever process that goes on and on and on….) 4)Spirit Evolution (too much like Spirit Evolving which is already taken, 5)Evolution of Spirit (naagh still too similar), another favorite was 6) Metamorphosis – but already taken, 7)Clarity of Spirit, 8) Clear Vision, and finally the one I have decided on 9) Illuminating Spirit.  Well there you have it the saga of finding a title of my blog.  More tomorrow and more to update and design on my website.  It is still a work in progress.