Be U: Mini-Vacation Time !!

Coming for the Real You.

I'm hoping to share thoughts, fun and insightful information and aha moments with all to better serve ourselves and the universe.

My background is that of Executive Secretary for the local Electric company (11 years).

Certified Personal Trainer (since 1991) and Fitness Consultant for my own company, Beachin Bodies (6 years) and certified in Reiki and Nutrition with training in Cranial Sacral work, Tai Chi, and Meditation. Certified as a Professional Life Coach (2015); Minister at Universal Life Church (2016);

and, possibly, most important,

my own journey through illness and avenues, roads and roadblocks that I have taken to find the real me. (35 plus years).

The me that I was born as. The me that is the all-knowing. I believe the search is endless and we are here to learn and to love and to share it all.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Mini-Vacation Time !!

On my social sites, I like to offer one-minute videos, usually of a waterfall, a fountain and/or the beach/ocean. I call it a mini-vacation time.

I have been doing this for a couple of years as where I live there are many fountains, lakes and the ocean. I seem to love being around water. The flow, the sound, the beauty, the mystery and the everlastingness of it.

It used to be that when I walked the beach, I would look at the horizon and think out there along the horizon are all the answers to life. I now believe that inside of me are the best answers for my own life. I think within you are your best answers for your own life.

May you look within for answers; if it feels right to you.

I learned and first heard of mini-vacations in one's mind from when I took hospice volunteer classes. The instructor had us all close our eyes and she took us to places that she made up and supported each person's ability to create their own 'mini-vacation'.

I had gone on mini-vacations before with my aerobic classes [back in the day] when cool down would include closing one's eyes and I'd talk them through a relaxation and helping to create a safe place within my clients own mind.

I now do this with myself often. I remember being at the dentist once and he said to me 'it sounds like you are leaving' and I said in my mind I was!; while he worked on my teeth. Hoot.

Our lives all pull together from where we've been, what we have experienced, who we are and where we are and where we would like to go and what is inside of us.

I think my previous professions of being a secretary and personal trainer prepared me to be a professional life coach, especially with social media and computers; socially within my own open mindedness/open heartedness and gathered knowledge. Having scleroderma brought strength, lessons and a depth of an ableness that I would not know if not for scleroderma. To follow one's intuition and dreams and watch them become reality is definitely some of the coolest coolness I have experienced.

May you follow your own intuition, dreams and abilities into a place of your own desired reality.

May you find yourself stopping when getting overwhelmed, overstimulated or frustrated (or just because) and breathe in and breathe out and take yourself on your own mini-vacation(s) from time to time. It is my hope that in doing so, you will be stronger, more relaxed and most productive going forward.

Mini-Vacation on!

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My Past Story

The first thing I would always tell a new doctor was 'my dad left me when I was 10'. He just disappeared, ran away. It was pretty awful for me. I thought it was my fault as most kids sometimes do. I thought I was unlovable. Years later, 20 maybe, I realized it wasn't just that my dad left me that affected my life, but also that my mom stayed. She stayed and I'll be forever grateful. However, her staying wasn't all peaches and creme. She was so hurt, so distraught, so frightened to raise three kids on her own and find a job that it was very hard for her to be there for me and my needs. I chose to shutdown, be quiet and try not to make it any harder on her as to not ask for much, or voice much, or need much.

Years later, in 11/12th grade, I noticed my fingers being really cold and hurting all the time. I noticed them turning purple and the pain was very 'loud'. Humorously enough, I had chosen to be a secretary and typing was a big part of my everyday. I loved it even. Fingers flying across the keyboard with as little mistakes as possible was the goal. I was pretty good at it. While in typing class, I remember putting my hands on my neck to try to warm them and make them feel better. I was naive enough then to think this must be happening to everyone.

Anyway, years went by and nobody was able to tell me why this was happening or what to do to make it better. Then, approximately 4 years later, I remember (what I felt) was little me sitting across from a really big doctor at his really big desk and him telling me I was allergic to myself. Of course, this was him describing to me what auto-immune meant. I had a disease called scleroderma and it could kill me (sometimes in as little as five years) and I would most likely be on medicine and have it for the rest of my life and there was nothing to change it.

Anyway, almost 30 years later, I've had my share of pain and I'm alive. I've had ulcerations on my fingers and I have lost most of my nails on both hands from lack of circulation and producing too much collagen. My hands are somewhat not a pretty sight and to hit something with one of my fingers by accident (well, I refer to the feeling as 'going to the moon).

When I was about 30, I started looking at alternative medicine and I tried anything that came across my path to try to stop the pain. I have tried many normal and not so normal 'ideas'. I sometimes do not believe at what lengths I went to try to ease my pain and suffering!

This is what has brought me here to this point in my life.

I'm grateful to be able to learn so much about myself and life and I wouldn't take it back (well, some days I might want to).

Something was telling me to blog. I really didn't know much about blogging - I am still a novice at best. Approximately 5 weeks ago, I sat at my computer and started typing.

I am surprised at where my blogs have led me. I thought I was trying to help others and that still is a big goal of mine. However, what I am finding out is that this is a great outlet for me.

A way to feel like I'm doing something. I told a friend this morning about my blog and I said that it's draining because I put everything out there and do not hold back as I post each individual blog; its fun because it does give me an outlet and I feel a little purpose in my life; and it's scary because I don't want anyone laughing at me or telling me that I am completely 'off my rocker'!