Dearest Shawn,
You have so clearly seen and expressed your deep anxieties and fears and I thank you for sharing that knowing and expressing this as so truly needed to be done.
You have recognized just what happens as any of us faces change. Yours is multi-layered, multi-lateral and with unknown effects. Nevertheless so much is already wonderfully in place and that is amazing. Look at just how much you and your family have already gone through and done! Wow! Good for you, all of you!!
Bless you, Shawn for your bravery and for your awareness but most of all for all you do and have done for yourself and so many others.
Many of us have lived in these spaces--some of us for years, a number of us for most of this lifetime and it is an energy we know well and perhaps have even come to better understand as day by day, year by year we continue to thrive, not only within stressful circumstances but often in a strange way, because of them.
I want to share what I felt as I read here and it was all about wonderful promise.
Lovely new adventures of understandings gained, abilities increased, new friendships made, and openings in all ways.
Trust your own strength, insights and power for they are ready for this.
You have an opportunity to blossom in ways you have never imagined. Open into it. I see such lovely good things about all of this, especially that which truly matters.
Holding you in the light as your own bright light glows. You are the heart of this new home and what beautiful blessings you have and can give!
Michele, Thank you so much for your response. I had tears in my eyes reading this. You have such a generous heart to offer such a blessing to me and my family, with your thoughtful and hopeful response. I felt a bit sheepish about my posting later, and tried to take it down- but couldn't figure out how... You are so right, this is about more than just the house. My husband and I made choices to try to make things better in a difficult situation and now - without any map- and meeting some financial obstacles, I'm worried we made the wrong choices. That somehow by trying to stabilize our future, especially my kids, I made it worse. But, there is no assurance, for any of us. Just trust and hope. Thank you for reminding me. Thank you for also reminding me, that I nor any of us are really alone-we all have friends and angels by our sides, irregardless of how things turn out. So much has already gone well, I will try to stay focused on that with gratitude. I will trust and hope that any further obstacles encountered- I will be directed on how to best deal with them. Gosh, I am listening :) Thank you Michele for hearing me with kindness. <3
Hey everyone I need so support and someone understanding to talk with right now. My work has cut my hours down to 6 hours a week and its made me so depressed. My boyfriend is having trouble holding a job longer than a month do to various reasons and its my responsibility to help where he can't. I am barely making anything and I just need prayers right now. I am depressed and frustrated so badly I haven't slept to well the last few days. ? Laynara?
Layanara,
I am so sorry that you and your family are going through this difficult time. Several years ago, during the recession my husband's work became unstable and I was laid off from work. It was very stressful, especially when you have little ones who depend on you. The only thing that I can say that might be helpful, is to stay present. Look around the life you already have, the openings, opportunities and skills you have and explore if there is an opening to move forward through them. It may not help your immediate circumstances or maybe it could be a seed. It was for me. I found a new line of work and started doing projects on my own. It has not been easy, but it has led me and our family in a new direction. Sending you love and strength. Look for the guideposts, I'm am sure there are some there.
Shawn and Layanara, oh how life challenges us. Financial struggles are so difficult, yet when I look back at my (long) life and reflect on times of financial hardship, I am struck by the life lessons learned. You learn to persevere when afraid and everything appears bleak and hopeless. You learn new skills and how to step outside your comfort zone. You learn to economize and become a better money manager. Don’t let your worse fears dominate your thoughts, instead reach out like you’ve done here. There are very few people who float through life without financial challenges.
When reading your posts, my immediate thought is to start listening within. Meditate. Listen to your inner self. Listen for guidance from your spirit guides. This may come in dreams or in musical lyrics that come to mind out of the blue. It may come through reading, but however it comes, there is a message for you.
I think you’re both going to be okay. I am sending you much love and heartfelt comfort and peace.
Bluebell, Thank you so much for your kind message. I agree with you, I need to stop focusing on the problem & get quiet and listen for an answer. I am working on that- albeit it’s a bit challenging at times. But I hear the wisdom in your words & they ring true. Thank you for taking the time out to offer Layanara and I your kind and important reminder to stay present and listen. Thank you so much! ?
Bluebelle -- your advice to Shawn resonated with me as well. Thank you for that! Listening within and meditating and trying to get a sense of what message might be conveyed. I agree - many times in my life I have "noticed" things and found meaning in them at the time. Our family is facing some difficult things re: our kids and school right now (ongoing issues) and I have felt like I am searching for guidance/signposts/things to "notice", but am not seeing them! I may be too preoccupied with finding a solution, instead of just listening. So I will try to listen more :) Asking for good thoughts and guidance from anyone reading this that I/my family recognizes the guidance being given so that we can find the best path for us all. Thank you!
Reading through this thread I feel incredibly lucky and honored to be a part of this group. My love and support goes out to everyone writing and following along silently. Jeanne I watched both of your Youtube videos and whenever you mentioned this group, I felt so comforted. My physical health is very very bad at the moment and I work everyday at Healing. I am in a rebuilding stage with my daughter as our relationship has been strained and damage has been done all around. today I was dizzy and I missed my dog who I let go of in December. My new little girl dog is a comfort but he used to be vigilant and never leave my side during the occasional vertigo spells from an inner ear malady/weird condition.
I find being in a body to be constraining. I have been careless, and haven't gotten the medical advice/info I needed which has put me in a ditch and in constant pain. I know I am more than this pain and this body, and I also know a survivor of trauma I must keep my emotional wits about me and not wallow in grief and despair.
So I am tired , very tired, and as I give readings sometimes for others I find that I am now depleted and struggling with balance, finding it, having it, keeping it. I ask you, my friends, to send me Reiki, healing, and continued strength and courage to turn it around and not become triggered. My computer is broken so if anyone responds don't think me antisocial. and you are right Jeanne, I do have a problem with boundaries and empath issues, and psychic medium acceptance of myself. I have a gift, yet I am not at acceptance with it. Not yet at least.
Thank you all for these amazing posts. Thank you Shawn, Laynara, Ghandigirl for reaching out. My God, thank you Michele and Bluebelle for your compassionate and healing responses. You two have many gifts. But your gift of loving and listening and sharing wisdom is supreme. I felt lifted up by you and also by the love coming through from all the readers. I also send my love to Shawn, Laynara, and Ghandigirl, and all who have reached out here. When I read your distress my heart wells up for you and I believe others react the same way. We send healing light to you.
I remember well a time when we didn't have enough money coming in to cover food and mortgage. We had only been married a few years, had just had two babies, close together, and I'd long before quit my mainstream easy money job and was working at home as a freelance writer.
I wasn't making enough as a writer to even cover the cost of the babysitter I needed in order to work. I was using my MasterCard to cover food, and worrying constantly about how I'd pay it off. A friend who came by said, "Jeanne, the money worry in this house is palpable!" At my husband's job there was the constant worry about layoffs due to a change in ownership.
Finding an affordable babysitter was the biggest challenge. Organized day care was too expensive so I shared a babysitter with a neighbor, but she kept raising her rates.
After weeks of worrying, trying new sitters with bad outcomes, I calmed myself down and began visualizing the solutions.
In my mind I pictured a wonderful after-school teenager who would be affordable and good with my children. The next day I drove to the high school and sat in the car with my two toddlers. Within an instant, a girl appeared on the front steps who I vaguely knew and I asked her if she babysat. Yes, she said, but only limited hours. I knew I could not use two different sitters because my sensitive 2 year old wouldn't tolerate different people.
No problem, she said, she had an identical twin sister who could make up for the remaining hours I needed! My boy didn't noticed the difference when the girls took over each other's shifts. For a long time, he thought they were one person! Those girls saved my kids with their loving kindness and they saved me. Not only did they get me through a rough time, we've become lifelong friends.
I also learned to economize from the experience. But mostly this rough patch was why I started giving readings to make ends meet. It burgeoned into a true calling in which every day I look forward to working.
Visualizing has always guided me and still does.
Jeanne, I am so sorry for the hardship your family experienced in the past. But, I am equally grateful that, with a silver lining it led you to all of us. Your example shows us that experience isn’t always the way you are first perceiving it. The tough times are tough - true enough. No one enjoys them, but with support & resilience, often there is a kernel of opportunity or good ❤️ Thank you Jeanne for finding a way to turn your struggles to opportunity that led you here- and creating this amazing site for all of us. I am so grateful for it, you, and the community of light workers you have brought together.