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I’m celebrating a milestone and today I want to share it with you.

I’ve just been ordained as an interfaith minister.

This journey began thirteen years ago when I graduated from Divinity School. Back then, I hadn’t encountered a spiritual movement I could picture joining (though I did resonate with elements of many.)

But five years later, after charting my own course for a while, I did find that right match.

Dr. Isa Gucciardi is a teacher based out of Berkeley, California. She has an unassuming manner, a disarming sense of humor, and is one of the wisest and most empowered people I’ve ever met.

And… She turned out to be just the right teacher for me - the one I’d been searching for, even without knowing that I was looking.

Over the seven years I’ve studied with her, Isa helped me get internally organized - to learn how to bring all my natural proclivities into form. With her guidance, I learned to interact with the world from a place of internal groundedness - in safety and with respect.

My ministerial ordination is a culmination of that journey.

The certificate is just a piece of paper, of course… But it means so much to me.

It feels like coming full circle - from that time, thirteen years ago, when I enrolled in Divinity School, through the later joys and challenges of marriage, motherhood, and my return to my creative calling as a harp based singer songwriter…

All those soul deepening things that are part of why I feel called to serve and support others on their healing path.

I've never been a "diploma on the wall" kind of a person. But for this one, I might just make an exception.

Thank you for marking this moment with me!

@Susan Tutt

Have you ever had trouble letting go of a relationship?  

This is one of the things that spiritual counseling can really help with. Here's what this might look like in a Depth Hypnosis session.  

(For client confidentiality, basic identifying details have been changed. )

A young man came to see me because he was having trouble getting over a breakup.  It had been more than three years, but he still thought of his former lover constantly.  

He knew it was over...  Why couldn't he let go?

I suggested that it might be worth looking into whether his partner had given him anything (energetically speaking) that he might still be holding onto.  

He was game to explore this, so with his consent, I guided him into a light hypnotic trance.  I then guided him through a process of scanning his inner landscape to see whether he was carrying anything that the other person had given him.  

It turned out that he was - it took the form of a black fishhook in his heart. 

I guided him through a process of returning the fishhook to his former partner, who was reticent to accept it at first, but did ultimately acquiesce when we appealed to his higher self.

I then guided him through a process of replacing that energy that had belonged to his former partner with his own life energy, which he experienced as a rain of golden light.

This process can be powerful for breaking down the bonds that no longer serve us.  

For those familiar with energy work, this method tends to be more thorough and final than cord cutting, because instead of just severing the energetic connection, it also roots out the intermingling that led to the cords forming in the first place. 

This is one of the tools that we work with in Depth Hypnosis, the healing modality I practice, which was created by Isa Gucciardi, PhD.  

Have you ever had an attachment that no longer served you?  What helped you let go?

Song:  “Sorrow’s Ending” from my album Cascadia

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A biz friend who prides herself on making connections between people has thrown me a golden opportunity to well and truly get out of my comfort zone. 

A few months ago, I would have panicked and said no. Too busy. Too tired. Too something...

But this time I said yes, no hesitation. I had a WWGD moment (what would George do?) Instantly, "take it lightly" came to my head. 

A last minute drop-out made space for ME to speak at this summit for women's empowerment. I'm not exactly sure it's a good fit. I'm not even exactly sure what I'm going to say, for a 30 minute chat about websites...or rather, I know what I want to talk about, it's more just in which order do I generate the ranting. 

And I need to get on with it- no more waiting around- no more worrying about which Canva template to use for my slides- time is short, it needs to be done, recorded, and sent to the UK organizer by 2 pm tomorrow afternoon....so I'd best get on with it! 

Join me if it's something that interests you! 

@Winnie Sher @Anastasia Salichou 

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There's a saying "Energy flows where attention goes."  

Here's how that plays out for us.

Imagination can put you in prison.  “I can’t do it.  I’ll never be able to do it.  They’ll never accept me.  Who am I to even try?”

OR Imagination can set you free.  “It’s funny, but I just think I’m going to be able to do this.  I feel my wings growing.  I feel hope blossoming in my chest.  The more I imagine it, the stronger it gets.”

How do you relate to your imagination?

Do you respect it?  Do you hone it, like a tool to be sharpened and mindfully used, in service of your self actualization and healing?

Or do you find yourself more often imagining painful things?  Things that lead to anxiety and hurt?

Have you found that your imagination has kept you stuck in any ways?

Have you clung onto outdated thoughts as a way to escape from reality?  Have you cleaved to an untrue story, because you were afraid of change, of loss?  (And if so, you’re not alone!  We’ve all done this in one way or another!)

Here’s what I’ve found - how imagination will serve you in your life depends a lot on how you relate to it.

I see imagination as one of the most precious resources in a life.  Train it, develop it, and it can be the knife that helps you cut through the veil of illusion - to help you see past the limited patterns of belief that mire you, and find your way to get free.

Use it, train it, and your imagination can become a friend to trust and rely on.  A tool that helps you love, change and see.

@Susan Tutt Thanks for being the inspiration for this post with the quote you shared with me!