Breaking My Soul Open

2015 is already life changing.  The year started with a new job and the realization that I needed to break down some barriers in my life.   It's a good change but one that has knocked me off my feet a bit.   I have so many walls built up around me that are no longer serving me.   I want to be free of these barriers and I am working towards letting myself open up more to other people.
It's going to be a process.  I am not the most comfortable person being open to others.  I tend to love my safe little aloof cocoon but I am ready to grow and to put myself out there.  I want to let other people in and connect with them. 

It's going to be an interesting year.  After a difficult 2014, I finally have the energy to go out again.  I am able to go home at night and see friends or work on my various art/writing projects.  Life is no longer passing me by but I am living in full color again.

I am so grateful that I found Rachael Maddox and her magic group.  The magic 17 devotion group is just what I need at this time in life.  I needed a tune up and a group of ladies that could hold the space for me while I realize that it's time to let go of what is not working anymore.  It has only been a couple of weeks that the group has been together but I can already seen the changes in my life.  My intentions are stronger and manifesting at a faster rate.  My energy level is rising and I more peaceful and calm with where I am in life.

And my creativity is coming back!

I am finally making art again and I am writing on a daily basis.  It's so wonderful to be in touch with that side of myself again.  It just adds to the magical feeling I have in life right now.  Everything feels perfect and beautiful.

Peaceful Holiday

I read a quote this weekend from the Desire Map that blew me away

We create wellness or dysfunction in our lives by how we go about getting our needs met.  Pg. 58 The Desire Map

I have been turning this quote over in my mind over the last few days in Joy.   I no longer have dysfunction in my life, just wellness but it explains so much of my past.  And brings  Joy and understanding to how I navigated my youth and why.  

I spent the long weekend in peace.  I did not make many plans because I just wanted to be present with myself.  I am working on some writing projects and I wanted to spend my weekend exactly how I wanted to spend it.   It was the best weekend I have had in a long time.  I feel refreshed and centered. 

2015 marks a turning point for me in so many ways.  I can feel this big change happening and I have no idea how to explain it.  It’s like nothing I have ever felt in my life.  The only other time I felt close to this way was when I moved to NYC at 21.  Life is about to change in a very big way and I am so ready for this change.  It has already started.  The closer I get to 2015 the further away from the mess and darkness I feel.  I am excited to see what will happen.  

So far the change has included:

-          A loss of 30 pounds

-          A cozy new home

-          Blonde hair

-          A sense of peace and confidence 

Turning Over A New Leaf

After a tough year, I am finding feeling some relief!

I am so happy to be in this new energy!!!!

I am waking up happy and grateful for the first time in a long time.  My new condo is finally feeling like a home.   I love waking up in the morning to my own space and coming home in the evening to a cozy space with some of my favorite photographs on the wall.  I love my beautiful deck that is full of plants and trees.  I love how quiet and warm my new home is and how it is all me.  It smells like me.  It feels like me. 

My job is even for now.  It’s not my dream job but it is providing for me at the moment and is allowing me to get to the next level in my career and for that I am grateful.  I created a marketing piece last month that had the best results of all the campaigns my group did in the last year.  So for now, I am ok.

Most importantly, I am happy with where I am in my emotional and spiritual state.  I have had ups and downs over the last year but every time I go down, I come back in a higher place.  I am getting better about weathering the storms of life and moving forward.  I am so  happy and grateful for where I am in life.  My heart is full of love and gratitude for so much lately.  It feels really good to be right here, right now.  I know from my last astrology reading that the worst of things is over for a while and I am turning over a new life in all the areas of my life.   I have a lot of really positive changes coming up starting in 2015.   I suffered a lot from 2003 to 2014 and now it’s time to party!    I could not be more happy and ready to embrace this new side of my life.  I am ready to shine.  I am ready to step into a new life and a new way of living, one that will aligned with my authentic self. 

My heart has been having some little pains and emotional cords over all my ex’s this week.  I know these are the final cords being cut so it’s a positive thing.  It’s a mix of sadness, fondness, missing these people and the feeling of completion.   These people were important and they all taught me so many lessons.  And I loved all of them so much.  But it’s time for something new and I am ready.   The space has been made and I am no longer available for any of these people other than just a memory.   I know I will hear from all of them again at some point in my life.  But I have had all the closure with each of them I needed.   I am ready for my new and better thing.  And it’s coming!!!!

Clearing Out Unwanted Energy

I am in the process of deleting my relationship history from social media.  It’s time and it’s the right thing to do.   I have been holding onto these virtual memories for too long and I know it’s been part of what’s keeping me stuck in emotional pain.   It feels weird to be able to erase history like deleting a facebook email chain that lasts years and that shows a love grow and then die. But you know what?  In the end, it doesn’t really mean anything more than, I experience something that I no longer wish to remember.   I have my journals if I want to remember my side. I have some memories but I have already started deleting his photographs.   And I am just now starting to realize how truly bad this person was for me.   Narcissist does not even begin to describe this person.

I feel free to look towards the future.  I feel free to dream again.   I feel free to be me and change.

I did have a couple of new people come into my life recently.  It’s like the universe is testing me big time.  One is someone I have known for years, am wildly attracted too but is also very different than myself and slightly living on the edge.   The other person is quiet, funny and someone I work near.  He is younger but also fun and fairly conservative.   With him it would be a real relationship.  With the person I have known for a long time it would be a good time.  I don’t know what to do with either of these men.   

Frankly, I don’t think I will do anything with either of them because right now I am just enjoying where I am at.  I am living alone in this amazing condo.   I finally figured out what was wrong with me health wise and my body is responding wonderfully to treatment.  I am down 3 clothing sizes and starting to look like myself again.   I am looking for a job that is in better alignment with who I am and I am not worried about finding one.   I am feeling secure for the first time in many years.   And I am doing it all on my own.    

The wild man came over to my apartment a few weeks ago and it was nice but he also made a few weird moves that in the end were just not the right moves if he wants to be with someone like me.  It’s sad but true.  I suspect what he did works for the kind of women he is used to dealing with but that’s just not how I do thing.  There is a magic to my life.   And it’s not something that I want to share with just anyone anymore.  He nicely taught me this over the last week or so.  

It feels good to be so protective over myself and my heart.   I don’t want to be closed down, I just want to be selective.  Wild men can exit out the door.  Nice men are allowed as long as they prove themselves and take it slow.   No more rushing into things anymore.  It’s all about intention and living the life I want and sharing it with people that I adore.

Moving!

I am moving on Friday to my new place!

I can't wait!!!!!

So Grateful

This morning I woke up grateful. 

I have so much to be thankful for in my current life and I need to take the time to remember this.  My health is in good shape thanks to the years of dedication I have spent taking care of myself.   My job is hard but so important to my growth.   I am growing every day in this job.  Sometimes growth is hard and I am pushed to my limits but overall, this is a great place for me to be at the moment.

I am also grateful for all the growth and change that has happened over the few years as I have learn to love myself and accept who I am.  I am living at a level of peace I never knew possible.  No one told me as I was growing up that at some point in my life I would be able to create my dreams and that I would be able to love myself for exactly who I am.  Yet these are exactly the lesson I have learned over the last few years of my life.   These lessons have come with some level of pain and sadness but overall I am so grateful for getting to this place of comfort and ease. 

The other thing I am grateful for is my level of faith.  This level has grown as I have let go of trying to control, understand or dictate what should be happening in my life.  I am now just letting go and letting the universe show me what is next in this journey.   This single action has helped me to become more grateful because I am starting to see the divine work in real time.  People are coming into my life for a reason and leaving for a reason and I am no longer beating myself up for these goodbyes.   I am grateful for these goodbyes because I have also learned that better things are on their way.  

One thing I am super excited for is that I move into my new apartment in less than 1 month.   I am excited, fearful, nervous and relieved.   I can’t wait to get into my own space and just settle into this new phase in my life.   I am excited to see how my life changes by this single action.   I am starting to see how stale my energy has been in the last few years because the Universe has been waiting for me to make this move but I was fighting it this whole time.  Not anymore.  It’s now time for me to change and grow even more.   2014 has been this huge growth year for me.  It has not been gentle but has come suddenly and swiftly.  It is truly the year of the horse for me!  Swift, powerful but also majestic.

Soon I will be hosting dinner parties in my new space, sitting on my comfy new furniture and sitting on my large deck enjoying an evening drink with a good friend.  I will be making candles and potions in my kitchen and really returning to myself in the comfort of my own space.