What
Julie Little has learned over time is that her father is not her home,
her mother is not her home, even her spouse is not her home. Our home is within us. In Light on the Pond Scum: A Memoir,
Julie Little invites the reader on her journey of self-discovery,
growth, and healing. Readers will travel with her from Colombia to China
to Texas and beyond, meeting eccentric family members, love interests,
and even spiritual guides along the way. In Light on the Pond Scum, Julie confronts questions such as:
Who am I, and how do I fit in after a difficult upbringing?
How do I outgrow my family dynamics to become the person I want to be?
What is family, and how do families create strong identities in young people?
Though
Julie grew up in a world of change, chaos, and loss, she took it upon
herself to overcome the pain in her past. If you’re ready to get unstuck
and grow through past experiences, you might allow Julie’s story to
inspire your own.Meet Julie Little
Trying to categorize Marcela Benson’s Love, Peace and Vegetables is
nigh unto impossible…you could think of it as a beautiful coffee-table
book filled with imaginative uplifting and eye-popping art. It’s even
reminiscent of the botanical treatises of the 19th century with loving
graphic renderings of plants and vegetables. You might consider it a
spiritual meditation and inspirational guide. Maybe it’s a poetry book
with its many lovely verses. Perhaps you might see it as a manifesto for
the live food lifestyle and eating completely clean of all
disempowering influences, with all the instructions on food preparation
that implies. But mostly, there are the scrumptious, mouthwatering,
astonishing recipes for filling your table with simple, but gourmet live
food cuisine. Marcela Benson’samazing Love, Peace and Vegetables: Recipes for Conscious Living is all of those things! Meet Marcela Benson
Bernardo Moya has an
unwavering belief in social, personal, professional, and global
responsibility for helping others through his books and platforms. Bernardo is the founder of The Best You brand in 2016 and is the architect behind The Best You Expo. The Best You
is in the business of helping people achieve their dreams. They provide
customers with skills, tools, knowledge, wisdom, and experts to enhance
and improve their lives. They help people discover their true purpose. Learn MoreHe is the Executive Producer and President of The Best You TV network and author of the best-selling book, The Question: Find Your True Purpose. His
book brings together the best of what is thought and known from the
world of self-help. The author shows readers what can build a path
toward greater well-being and believes that the quality of your life
depends on the quality of the questions you ask yourself. Meet Bernardo Moya
The great sages for millennia have
taught that the answers to healing, spiritual evolution, elevation of
consciousness, and living a happy and fulfilled life are inside of us.
But where exactly are they and how do you work with them? Jonathan Goldman can answer those
questions for you. In his four decades of working with Energy Medicine,
first as an acupuncturist and then as the developer of Transformational
Energy Healing, he has mapped the multi-layered Human Energy Vehicle
(HEV). Goldman has uniquely described where
and how thought forms, emotions, energetic material, beliefs, and
spiritual qualities live and operate in the multiple energy layers that
are within and around the human body. He is the author of The Gift of the Body: A Multi-Dimensional Guide to Energy, Anatomy, Grounded Spirituality and Living Through the Heart Meet Jonathan Goldman
Leonard
Webb is a retired law enforcement professional turned life coach/youth
advocate. He is an adjunct faculty member teaching Criminal Justice at
Potomac State College of West Virginia University. Leonard
offers a unique perspective about the school-to-prison-pipeline. He has
seen young people enter prison and young people with similar
demographics enter his college classroom. He is the author of Youth C.H.A.M.P. – A Youth Guide to Striving Through your Teens He
provides coaching to young people and consults and trains educators
with strategies to help them connect with students, focus on student’s
strengths, and provide the support that improves behavior rather than
relying on discipline. Meet Leonard Webb
Are you a
visionary entrepreneur? Got an idea every minute – a BIG idea? Somehow
you never get anything done and none (or very few) of your ideas become
reality and even then you struggle? The worst thing a visionary entrepreneur can do in any given day is NOT make money! Rebecca Irey of Blue Skye Business Consulting is the Queen of Radical Accountability. She helps clients find their flow and channel their power to revolutionize their life. With her Beyond Accountability Movement, Rebecca helps you uncover a forgotten
yet incredibly powerful method used by top level entrepreneurs
to finally find their flow, ditch shiny object syndrome, and make change
stick in 30 Days or less. Meet Rebecca Irey
Our recent guests, Tahnee Woolf and Allen David Reed have spent many years researching, developing, and creating a model representing our individual journey of consciousness. They call it the Ten Terrains of Consciousness.
https://www.tenterrains.com/
I found our discussion with them fascinating. They have been brought together by spirit to do this work.
Tahnee Woolf and Allen David Reed
The Ten Terrains model was developed out of their common lives, and the discovery of fields which opened between them any time they were together. Tahnee wanted to understand people and have clarity for the reasons we are all so different.
“What is underneath the differences between people?”
Tahnee Woolf
Allen had a different mission: to understand why human perspective is most often opposite from the truth. He grew up in the woods of Washington state without connection to family. The trees, earth and animals were his connection, causing Allen to ask: Who are we, and why are we doing what we are doing? He took on a study of sciences and religions.
“We are living in a universe that is conscious. Every particle is aware of itself.”
Allen David Reed
Allen and Tahnee have designed a map of consciousness that illustrates to what degree we have separated ourselves from our own consciousness. The symbols tell a story. As it emerged, the clearer the model became.
“You have Anthropology on one end and infinite consciousness on the other end. It is like we are all living in a parallel universe to each other.”
Tahnee Woolf
Allen explained consciousness using a rubber band and his index finger.
“We are electrical bundles of energy. We are at a certain terrain based on the charge we have. Our charge holds us in judgement. Through healing, learning, and understanding, our charge can be released causing us to come into our true beinghood. We come to neutrality. “
Allen David Reed
Infinite perfection of everything.
During the research of the Ten Terrains model, people were reporting greater understanding of themselves and family members through a 10-minute quiz. The same quiz is available to you. Taking it will likely offer a new perspective of who you are since aspects of your culture, family, and community may be feeling uncomfortable or nonconforming to your beliefs. It is likely caused because you are living in a parallel universe to others.
The word Terrain was carefully selected. A Terrain is the condition upon which something manifests. Deserts, jungles, forests, plains, mountains, are all different types of terrain. There are also terrains in the psyche which give way to our cultures, beliefs, and behaviors.
“Understanding the different lenses that we as individuals and others see through gives us all a better understanding.”
Allen David Reed
Tahnee clarified the Ten Terrains model does not define our personality. Many different personality types will live at the same Terrain. Allen and Tahnee’s model illustrates WHERE you are rather than WHO you are.
“You may express your personality differently based on the Terrain you are at, but your personality, character, and astrological sign stays the same.”
Tahnee Woolf
Like riding in a hot-air balloon, as we rise higher and higher, nothing changes but our perspective. We are not suddenly any smarter, wealthier, or worthier. We simply have a grander perspective the higher and higher we rise.
“No one Terrain is better than another Terrain just as being the age of 12 is no better than being the age of 50. Our experiences and perspectives are different, and each experience brings more enlightenment.”
Tahnee Woolf
“Ego only sees what is going on now. When you are an infinite being, you have awareness of the journey and you allow it to take as long as is necessary. Wherever you are, (whatever Terrain you find yourself) you have chosen to be there because of the lesson you are to learn. Do the spiritual work and be centered where you are. You are where you are for a reason.”
Allen David Reed
Todd and I took the quiz. He is at Circle, and I am at Square. We simply answered questions based on what felt true for each of us through a series of choices. A report has been provided to us which explains the meaning of our place at that Terrain. The report also clarifies challenges we are likely facing in our journey and the gift we are here to give. Like I said: fascinating!
Some people may make a Terrain shift,
while others do not. There is no goal to reach a certain terrain. We all have a
different purpose, and some people may need to stay at their current Terrain to
fulfill their purpose – like Abe Lincoln.
“Abraham Lincoln had to live at SQUARE his whole life to end slavery.”
Tahnee Woolf
Your journey is different than mine. You may or may not have an awakening. When a shift does happen, it can create conflicts in relationships. During a shift we might find ourselves reading different books than before, seeking out new friendships with people we hadn’t been interested in before, or simply feel uncomfortable with our current situation as if we are dying to break free from something.
Allen would likely tell us to relax, trust the process, and patiently wait.
“We all have amazing potential. We constrain ourselves, and often undermine our own progress.”
Allen David Reed
Go to TenTerrains.com find their book, and take the quiz!
Your life force is your juice. Life force is the vital energy within you responsible for maintaining your life and your health, and it plays a major role in how your physical body, mind, and emotional and energetic systems feel and operate. If your life force wanes too far, you get sick.
Nourishing your life force begins the moment you rise each morning.
“The first hour of your day sets the stage for rest of your day. What are you ingesting? What are you doing? What are you allowing into your field? Connect with yourself first.”
At the age of 30 Christine realized life is more than she ever thought it could be. She began to seek out more wisdom and found it while studying different and varied cultures from her own. Intuition guided her to write her fourth book, and trusting divine timing, the result is a new way of thinking which completely connected with me.
Overwhelmed and Over It has caused me to consider personal change and defy societal rules not in harmony with my natural self. Her book invites the reader to open up to self-awareness. Do any of the following behaviors describe you?
I take on other people’s feelings and problems or make it my job to fix them or better things for them.
I try to do too much at one time and then feel scattered, fragmented, and overwhelmed.
I overstretch my financial resources and then feel like I do not have what I need.
I run my inner batteries and body down.
Christine encouraged us to “find your fierce voice and make different choices. You’ll influence others while doing so.”
She describes “imprints” which we might call experiences that shaped our self-descriptions, beliefs, and values. Imprints in our hearts cause fear, shame, and judgment. We then create coping mechanisms which undermine us.
“We have the power to create new realities through our choices, which means we have the power to redefine success and the systems that say what it is.”
Christine Arylo
Work/life balance has become like a marker of nirvanic success all of us overwhelmed women strive for yet never seem to reach. It’s not for lack of trying, focus, or diligence that we fail. The truth is, we have been missing that there is a fundamental flaw inherent in work/life balance as a goal for personal and professional success: Work/life balance is the wrong equation.
Christine described work/life balance like a tug of war. I recall in that activity someone always ends up muddy.
“Our lives are dynamic, not static. Diverse, not divisible into two parts. Cyclical, not linear. Which is why we need a new constellation — a configuration — for how to think about, organize, interact with, meet, and design the interconnected parts of our lives.”
Christine Arylo
Christine provides this new configuration in her book, and she invites us to make more empowering choices while engaging with it. It includes simple, yet significant steps.
Have you ever been highly dissatisfied with your situation but unable to change it?
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard calls this quandary the final eighth (and refers to everything going before it as the first 7/8).
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
“When you are stuck in the final stages of achieving a goal, you’ve probably done everything pretty much right. You took the initiative, followed a plan, and moved toward your goal. This is the first 7/8.”
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
Bridgit described the problem many of us experience – despite the nearness to the goal, hard work, access to resources, and commitment, we find ourselves unable to take the final steps to success.
If you are like me, you have been in this position more than once. Ugh!
“The truth is, not every part of you wants what you think you want! Some of your inner selves are opposed to your goal.”
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
What?! Thank goodness Bridgit explained:
“When you identify and learn to speak with your inner selves, you’ll uncover their secret intentions and figure out which of them support your goal and which are impeding it.”
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
Bridgit calls this process VOICE DIALOGUE.
Throughout her book you are guided to discover the following truths about yourself:
The final eighth process
How your inner self is formed
How to communicate with your primary selves through voice dialogue
The hidden inner selves who are determined to stop you from succeeding
How to communicate directly with your hidden inner selves
Discover your own false negative beliefs
Find the invisible, unresolved dilemmas called double binds that reside in you
Your choice – abandon your goal or go for it
Do you need failure?
How to assign your inner critic a new role
Cross your finish line
Learn to apply safe-success guidelines
“One workshop participant who’d been stuck professionally for a long time jumped into the voice dialogue process and soon afterward found herself having to choose between two career-boosting job offers. She marveled, “What? Do your dreams just start coming true when you start doing voice dialogue?”
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
Bridgit claims she’s seen such things happen. The final eighth process frees people to develop courage, strength, creativity, and to access the resources needed to break through any impasse and reach a goal. It might feel magical!
“The goal is not to eliminate any self, but to learn from it. Trying to get rid of an inner self does not work and cannot be done. It is a fool’s errand. Anyone who has tried to eradicate their Inner Critic knows that. What I’m helping you do is become intimate with your inner selves, so you have a direct relationship with them and stop wasting time and energy running away from parts of yourself you don’t like or are frightening.”
Bridgit Dengel Gaspard
It sounds like Bridgit’s book can benefit all of us – no matter what your inner selves might say to talk you out of getting it.
I met one of my admired heroes on Tuesday! Dr. Bernie Siegel was our guest, and I was thrilled to finally meet him in person.
It was in the late 1980’s when I began the painful, suicide-thought-inducing work of healing from childhood sexual abuse. Dr. Seigel’s 1st book (he just wrote #19) was recommended to me, and I obediently began to read it.
Love, Medicine, and Miracles was my first foray into the self-help book genre. In the chapter titled “The Will to Live” about a patient diagnosed with cancer I read:
We cannot change the past -our parents and our exposure to carcinogens—but we can change ourselves and thus our future. As one of my patient’s said, “Cancer isn’t a sentence, it’s just a word”.
His message captured me. Sexual abuse is a carcinogen. It was up to me to change myself because I could not change the past. Dr. Siegel’s book set me on the path of forgiveness and full healing.
Tuesday’s show with him as guest was full of wonderful stories. What a wonderful storyteller Dr. Siegel is. In fact, his 19th book is a story with real characters.
Three Men Six Lives is the title of Dr. Siegel’s new book. You can expect by reading it to be filled with inspiration, hope, and love. In fact, Dr. Siegel is the poster child for those outcomes.
Before we went on air live, Dr. Siegel shared a very personal story which confirms to me his purpose, which is to guide us all to self-healing.
Bernie was the first born of his parents. His mother had an extremely underactive thyroid, which meant that throughout her pregnancy with Bernie, she had very little energy. When it came time to deliver Bernie, she lacked the strength to complete the process on her own.
After being in labor for about a week forceps were finally engaged. Bernie was pulled into the world red and bruised, and anything but a beautiful baby. His mother was embarrassed to take him out in public.
His grandmother stepped in and massaged Bernie’s face and head constantly to push his natural features back in place. The touch she provided was the catalyst for Bernie’s ability to love life and love others.
The story does not end there. Years later Bernie and his wife were getting massages in different rooms of the same clinic. The masseuse Bernie was assigned was a woman. She began to massage Bernie’s head and face.
What seemed like moments later, yet was 10-15 minutes of time passed, Bernie awoke to 20 people standing around him. They were delighted when he regained consciousness. Evidently, the touch of the massage therapist caused Bernie to become so entranced and relaxed he was completely unresponsive to all the people who tried to revive him.
Bernie explains that the internal memory of his first several weeks of life caused his body to relax in such a way he reverted to babyhood. What a delightful example of how our past experiences, memories, and attitudes still shape and affect us today.
In Love, Medicine and Miracles, Dr. Siegel asks us to consider 4 questions:
Do you want to live to be a hundred? (In other words, do you love yourself enough to take care of your body and mind?)
2. What happened to you in the year or two before your illness? (Your past experiences may indicate why this illness is plaguing you)
3. What does the illness mean to you? (Does it represent death, embarrassment, or a challenge)
4. Why did you need the illness? (Sickness gives people “permission” to do what one has always wanted to do but has always been too busy to start)
The lessons of Bernie’s life, medical practice, and career as an author/speaker is this: Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. Love heals. Miracles happen.
Read any one of Dr. Siegel’s books and you will be transformed. I think he will become your hero just like he is mine.
Live! Tomorrow at 10:00 AM pst on #LifeMasteryRadio is Joel Salomon. He is a prosperity coach who helps others overcome obstacles standing in the way of their financial freedom.
In 2021, Joel published Infinite Love and Money with Mollie Singh. In 2019, he published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Ones, which was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance.
Joel is an award-winning speaker and has led over 20 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs.
In 2012, Joel achieved a decades-long dream with the launch of his own hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital (named after his two daughters, Lauren and Morgan).
Salomon’s financial experience includes managing a $700 million long/short equity and credit portfolio for Citi. Salomon generated positive returns every full year during his time at Citi, including 2008, when the market suffered 40 percent losses and financial stocks—the only ones he was managing—collapsed 57%.
Our next amazing guest On Air with Life Mastery Radio Tune in Every Tuesday at 10:00 AM PST Greetings! Cancer has probably affected all of us at one time or another, through our own experience or that
Tuesday's live guest on #LifeMasteryRadio is Joel Salomon. He is a prosperity coach who helps others overcome obstacles standing in the way of their financial freedom.
In 2021, Joel published Infinite Love and Money with Mollie Singh. In 2019, he published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Ones, which was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance.
Joel is an award-winning speaker and has led over 20 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs.
In 2012, Joel achieved a decades-long dream with the launch of his own hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital (named after his two daughters, Lauren and Morgan).
Salomon’s financial experience includes managing a $700 million long/short equity and credit portfolio for Citi. Salomon generated positive returns every full year during his time at Citi, including 2008, when the market suffered 40 percent losses and financial stocks—the only ones he was managing—collapsed 57%.
Our next amazing guest On Air with Life Mastery Radio Tune in Every Tuesday at 10:00 AM PST Greetings! Cancer has probably affected all of us at one time or another, through our own experience or that
Our next guest on #LifeMasteryRadio is Joel Salomon. He is a prosperity coach who helps others overcome obstacles standing in the way of their financial freedom.
In 2021, Joel published Infinite Love and Money with Mollie Singh. In 2019, he published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Ones, which was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance.
Joel is an award-winning speaker and has led over 20 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs.
In 2012, Joel achieved a decades-long dream with the launch of his own hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital (named after his two daughters, Lauren and Morgan).
Salomon’s financial experience includes managing a $700 million long/short equity and credit portfolio for Citi. Salomon generated positive returns every full year during his time at Citi, including 2008, when the market suffered 40 percent losses and financial stocks—the only ones he was managing—collapsed 57%.
Our next amazing guest On Air with Life Mastery Radio Tune in Every Tuesday at 10:00 AM PST Greetings! Cancer has probably affected all of us at one time or another, through our own experience or that
Our next guest on #LifeMasteryRadio is Joel Salomon. He is a prosperity coach who helps others overcome obstacles standing in the way of their financial freedom.
In 2021, Joel published Infinite Love and Money with Mollie Singh. In 2019, he published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Ones, which was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance.
Joel is an award-winning speaker and has led over 20 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs.
In 2012, Joel achieved a decades-long dream with the launch of his own hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital (named after his two daughters, Lauren and Morgan).
Salomon’s financial experience includes managing a $700 million long/short equity and credit portfolio for Citi. Salomon generated positive returns every full year during his time at Citi, including 2008, when the market suffered 40 percent losses and financial stocks—the only ones he was managing—collapsed 57%.
Our next amazing guest On Air with Life Mastery Radio Tune in Every Tuesday at 10:00 AM PST Greetings! Cancer has probably affected all of us at one time or another, through our own experience or that
“You have stage IV accelerated T-Cell Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,” the doctor said. All Howard heard next was “blah, blah, blah, blah.” “My mom is sobbing, and my dad was a statue. I had no idea what was going on.”
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