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@earthangel Yes. A sad feeling, strong and odd, onset right afterward. And I hadn’t been hugely excited, just strolled over to a hillside to view. Lasted all through that evening, a great sadness,  brought around the next day with a therapeutic massage  to my usual fairly cheerful self. Maybe it was a thought of loving our planet and sad to think of having to one day leave it? A beautiful metaphoric moment there with sun and moon, masculine/feminine appearing in balance? 

Sending light and love to you. 

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Anyone else feeling kinda clobbered by post eclipse joy into sudden doldrums? Good grief. 

My emotional mood swings peaked on Monday and I’m feeling on the other side of that last one since the eclipse ended.  My entire mental focus switched from the end of one journey to the first step down the next path and that’s helped.

But I hear and feel what you’re saying here.

And - my wife made me return to Facebook so she could post updates and tag me and reach people she may not be friends with… as I doomscrolled last night for the first time in three years, starting in just the last couple of days people are posting about being fed up with (insert name of thing we’ve been seeing as part of the Great Turning for years) and it really feels like we’re turning a corner.

K’s pre-op appointment was today.  Here’s the message I received from him.

Just met with the surgeon, very nice young man.
He wants to do my transplant robotically. I will be the third person to be operated on with the robot at HF. Only three surgeons in the United States, 2 at Ford and 1 in St Louis that are using the new technology. I will be one of the first 5 or six patients in US who will have had robotic liver transplant. There are several surgeons in Saudi Arabia who are using it.
Much smaller incision and does not require cutting the abdominal muscles.
We consented to the robotic with the option during surgery the traditional method.

I asked how this would impact his recovery in the short term and apparently it could be faster.  This tracks if they’re making a small incision and using the precision of the robot to guide it in there.  So while we’re sending light, let’s send some to a robot too :P (Have we ever sent light to a robot before?  Honestly asking!)

My pre-op is tomorrow. Not worried.  Will update you when I have an update :-) (probably late evening since it’s a day full of meetings and appointments!). Can’t wait to hear from the dietician in particular about how I can keep from gaining too much weight but keeping my liver stocked with what it needs.  

@dannyboy - my sister just had a tumor removed from her lung (stage 1 cancer). It was completed with a robotic surgery. Apparently they can make curved cuts that human surgeons have difficulty doing. Anyway it was a success. You and K may be pleased with your "robot surgeon". 😇🤖

I have a 10 year old girl who has ptsd stemming from issues w her dad. On the surface she is filled with anger but beneath that is so much sadness and pain. The anger comes out at school and her self worth is nill. I am a teacher at her school and I’m struggling with how to support her through this. She has been seeing a therapist for years and went through significant trauma last year in a custody battle that ‘she won’. She doesn’t know how to release the anger or work through her sadness and pain but it’s spilling onto her peers who think she’s ‘weird’ and avoid her. She needs friends to build her confidence and yet she has alienated most of the kids in her class. I had a similar year in 5th grade socially so I empathize completely with how she’s feeling and all I know is I found my people but that’s not much comfort to her.

@jaidy Sending your entire family loving, healing Reiki energy. May your daughter's inner beauty shine out into the world. May she see her own worth and her troubles dissolve, replaced by joy and laughter.

@jaidy I'm so sorry you and your daughter are going through this. I pray that both of you come to a place of peace.

Just an immediate reaction..what brings your daughter comfort? Are there things that she enjoys doing, like art, crafting, writing, interacting with animals, games or sports? Maybe something where she can gain a bit of self confidence on her own? 

I'm sure you have offered her a lot of different options. It's awful watching our children struggle. May a way forward soon present itself. ❤️

@dannyboy THIS!!!This!!!!!this!!!!!

Thank you for sharing this glorious Journey and Realizations and Growth along the Way!!!!

You made weep,smile and laugh and rejoice all in the space of several paragraphs 💜

We all are here, however we show up, to bring Growth,Change,Light,Love and more in this plane. I am honored to "know" ye laddie. Kindred spirits we be. Make positive changes in every little corner we can. We get affirmations from Creator/Universe along the way to support and Guide.

I just recently moved, from a home where I lived for 27 years. As a child and then a young wife,who got out of Domestic Violence and went on to raise my two children basically alone ... working in a career that I was called to ( veterinary medicine) I used to have to move "every time the rent came due" low income and rent raised beyond finances. I finally was able, with my father's help, able to buy a small brick ranch and finished raising my children there. A lot of love, creating Sanctuary there... for people, and animals,fostering, adopting and feeding ferals and wildlife .... I have definitely been uprooted to move 6 miles down the road... to keep a promise to a sister of my heart (not blood) and had to leave behind my beautiful space and some of my animals as to what is best for all concerned. 

The stress ( good and bad events cause stress) has me having a long flare of autoimmune psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis/ibs/thyroid. I was lamenting the loss of forage-able plants that help me cope with these kind of outbreaks. I decided to walk out in the sun and explore the parameters of this larger more wooded 2 acres with my senior rescue cocker (she reminds me of Dylan). Talking with the trees,her and Creator about my fears,saddness,hope and joy.

Long story short : I stumbled up a small flush of Dryads Saddle aka Pheasant back mushrooms. Quickly looked them up online to see they are a choice edible. Harvested them and took them home and prepared and ate them, delicious! Researched them some more and found they are medicinal too! In that they turn off autoimmune reactions and help bring physical bodily function back in alignment!!

I promptly told Spirit "Thank You!!!" Knowing I had been heard, acknowledged and affirmed of my Path!

We all have these "Ordinary Miracles" happening more and more in our lives, every day!!! We each have the chance to spread our Love,Light and Joy to all we can.

I was amazed and surprised to hear myself ask a client if I could do reiki on her sick dog. She gave me a surprised look and said sure! I looked at him and "asked " him mind to mind... to come closer in a certain position if he wanted me to do this for him. He did and assumed the position I showed him with my minds eye. He leaned in to me and sighed as the "treatment" was given. His Mom said "Wow... he is liking that!!" 

Even us shy people are stepping up and showing and sharing the Light!

Soooo... thank you Danny Boy!!! From the bottom of my heart ( and the sides and top too 😉) for being the amazing,wonderful Light Being that you are!!!! I am so grateful we "met" here!!!!

@journeywithme2 Bless you for sharing these stories.  I pictured that brick ranch clearly when I read what you wrote and saw a strong light surrounding it very clearly.  I’m a little more intuitive right now than I’ve been in a long while.  The memories came with you but spaces have memory as well and I feel you left some light there for the new owner to build from.

I want to learn more on reiki so if you have some places I can go to read and learn more I’d appreciate it greatly - I have a lot of time to read coming up 😉.  

The mushroom piece is wonderful - exactly what you needed when you needed it.  The universe has sent me a few of those recently too.  (Yours was medicinal - I’m eating today and tomorrow anything I want and then clearing my system.  Part of pre-op next Sunday is two bottles of magnesium citrate to clear me out and I want that process to be smooth and not… how magnesium citrate can really go, so mostly protein shakes and light things from Monday on.)

I wanted to share one more piece here. I got to meet my transplant coordinator at my pre-op appointment for the first time.  We’ve only ever conversed via email and phone.  I was overwhelmed the entire time we were together because of the incredible amount of light that came out of every pore from this tiny woman.  This is her and I together.  The light coming off of her is almost blinding.  She does the work of angels on this earth managing a team of specialists who do also do the work of angels on this earth.  I’m in great hands across the board but my god this woman has a light I can’t even imagine walking around with every day.  She’s been bringing light to the world far longer than I have.

@dannyboy This book is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Reiki-Complete-Ancient-Healing/dp/0895947366/ref=asc_df_0895947366?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676783691812&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276309500283&psc=1

@dannyboy You both are surrounded with Light here!!! I call what I do reiki but I was doing a form of Energy Healing that I came back from NDE just "knowing" what to do. A friend who is Certified Reiki Master "attuned" me saying she was only enhancing what I was instinctively already doing and I read the books she recommended to me. This was one of them. Do you have a Kindle? They are great to download books to and if you are an Amazon Prime member there are many you can download for free with Prime membership.

I am having my son added to my deed at the brick ranch. He and his wife will have home ownership now and this will save us having to probate a will and when I pass its all his. They will continue to feed the ferals and my goats there. He has strong ties to the land there too .

unnghhh ... yeah I hear ya about that wire scrub brush for intestines called magnesium citrate *sigh* definitely eat now and ease in the "clear liquids" stage to make things ... erm...smoother... well .. as smooth as they can be anyways 🙏🏻💜🙌💜🙏🏻

Hi, newbie here. 😎  Please send prayers and healing for my feline fur boy Teddi. He's been sick with a possible ear infection, possibly something more serious. He'll turn 17 on June 14 and until fairly recently was healthy and full of energy. Three weeks ago he suddenly lost power in his back legs and fell down the stairs. Rushed him to the ER vet only to drop a small fortune to learn what he didn't have: kidney disease or diabetes (big relief there). Since his regular vet has been treating him for a possible inner ear infection, he's become steadier on his back legs, but is still wobbly. He's also been losing weight, has muscle wasting, and has begun eating double his normal daily diet. He's my sweetheart senior fur baby. Thanks for listening. 

@dannyboy 

https://www.webmd.com/diet/benefits-of-pheasant-back-mushroom

@obiwan sending 🙏🏻💜💚💜🙏🏻  Has he been checked for hyperthyroidism? The 3 major dis-eases of senior felines are renal disease, diabetes and thyroid disease. As diabetes has been ruled out as well as kidney disease ... the weight loss and increased appetite would seem to point to hyperthyroid. If a senior bloodwork panel was done it should show that. Increased white blood cell values would indicate infection. Senior cats and dogs both can get a condition called vestibular syndrome that affects them as well. My senior feline has diabetes as well as thyroid disease. It can be managed with medication and improve quality of life. Thank goodness not diabetes ... my baby's insulin is 157.00 a bottle which is only good for two months... so a good bit of waste there ... wish I could get in smaller vials. Then there is the syringes and glucose testing supplies. So I understand your concerns. Sending Healing Energy and prayers for the Highest Good for all concerned.... and may correct diagnosis be found expediently.

@journeywithme2, thank you! This is so helpful!! Teddi hasn't been checked for hyperthyroidism. He has another visit scheduled for tomorrow (Monday), so I will be sure to discuss this with his vet, especially given his increased appetite and night vocalization, along with voluminous peeing. The blood work was done at the ER facility, which for several reasons won't be on my 'return' or 'recommend' list 😕, so I'll be sure to probe my regular vet for what those results revealed beyond what the ER vet told me.

Very sorry to hear about your fur baby--and the hit to your wallet. 🤑  Holding you both in my thoughts to punch more sweet, mellow time on your dance card.

@dannyboy Grateful to you for your mentoring gift to new teachers. When I began my teaching career, my mentor headed the English Dept and she wasn’t helpful at all. A cruel and vindictive person, she collected addtl salary but left me on my own. Often, she targeted me and withheld funds for books I’d requested. Mentorship is vital to learning and growth. Bravo to you! We can turn the harshest tides sometimes if we stay true to the life-giving values we hold close to our hearts. Be well and resilient. xo

@jaidy 

I really feel for your daughter. And you.

My advice, be her people. Hug her a lot. Tell her you are proud. Remind her she is precious. healing, and declare that you are survivors. Together.

See if she will voice her anger to you, knowing nothing she says or does will ever stop the flow of love between you and she doesn't need to protect you.

You can't control his terribleness but you can throw love at her, and help the healing, 

Also helpful to work on staying in the moment. I am recovering from PTSD myself. My loved one helps me stay in the moment through the sheer force of his deep love for me. When I begin to flashback and panic he talks to me quietly,, makes and hold eye contact and holds me or holds my hand, physically pulling me into the present. It helps.

It is hard to come out of the trauma. It feels like the past is also the present. The body and heart remember. The spirit reacts in fear,, anger, grief over and over. Fight or flight kicks in. It can feel hopeless, disorienting,  making it hard to connect with anyone, even yourself.

Someone said to me, that is over now. You are safe in this moment. That helped.

There are times when I just need to cry. That I feel unstuck in time and panic. Being hugged tightly calms down the nervous system. Focusing on what you hear, see, smell ,touch, taste, grounds you in the present.

Some days are a slow slog, others a bit better. You can recover. LOVE LEADS THE WAY.

And Jaidy, my tablet opened right at your post.,I was meant to bring you this message and I offer it with love for your daughter. I know the pain of not being able to help my struggling daughter.

Know this, things can get better. Weave a web of love to sustain her. Your mothers love is a powerful force. 

@ghandigirl 

my daughter and I are v close, we had the same abuser but I was an adult and could get out. I am her person and she tells me everything, we do grounding activities , showers help her, i tell her she is safe, I give her reiki, I am a mama bear. But the thing that you said about the past feels like the present; I guess the only thing I can offer her is just what I have been- she feels she can’t control how ‘bad her class is’  and it doesn’t feel safe so having to ask her to go every day is wrenching me. 

besides your support, I so appreciate your articulation of what it feels like to experience PTSD. She is incredibly mature and intelligent but her amygdala gets flooded and she is far too overwhelmed to express anything but anger and sadness; sometimes she too just needs to cry. She feels overwhelming responsibility to fight bc her little sister is a freezer and now at school that is a well worn path and it’s just too much to ask right now of her to break ground on a new path. I wish she had more adults in her life that offered a safe haven. She does feel disoriented and she is struggling to connect with others and probably herself- I needed to understand that. I’m having a mtg with the team at school Thursday- I have no doubt it was no accident, there are none anyway:) gratitude to you and the others who offered their support- this community is a blessing. 

@earthangel I had a good mentor - I'm so sorry you did not.  When I was completing my Ed.S. degree this past fall one of my final projects was revamping our own new staff mentoring process here at my org because it was a worthless set of checklist items.  Prior to this I had built a mentoring program specifically for that work in our local districts.  Now my boss wants me to add a new component of it - mentoring the mentors.  It's a lot to fit into a very small sliver of my time here but I make it work in my calendar because as you put it - mentorship is vital to learning and growth.  I couldn't do this well if I hadn't had the mentor I had, who asked probing reflective questions rooted in coaching.  Can't wait to develop that next puzzle piece next year.

@dannyboy, your post touched me deeply, in a beautiful, life-affirming way.    

You shine your light with courage, purpose and passion, and are a constant source of hope and inspiration to me.   Thank you for sharing the gift of your presence with us, @dannyboy.  Thank you for reminding us what really matters in life.  May the light you generously give to others reflect back to you a hundredfold.