Well, here we are at another year since I have written in my blog here. 2023 was a very difficult year for me and still, through it all, in my foundation, I am intrinsically happy, for which I am so very grateful. These last years of going in and being in the quiet have brought me through so many levels of being to uncover remnants of past traumas that had to be seen, felt, loved and transmuted.
Even though I had gone through many years of therapy, energy work and healing work before we began to work with dolphins and whales … and have had the amazing opportunity of allowing the cetaceans to help me heal … I discovered, in the quiet, several aspects that still needed to be unearthed to be healed. It feels like my soul unfolded for me these perfect years of quiet so that I could allow it all to come forth.
Reaching the milestone last month of being on this planet for 80 years, I cannot believe I am here at this age already! Where have the years gone? I do not feel my age at all and feel healthy and vibrant beyond even the last ten years of my life! I am so happy that I feel so good inside and out! I just know that my dedication to my inner work has contributed to this and am just so grateful for the knowledge about how to really heal on all levels.
Last year began with news of my dear son, Sean, and his cancer battle. He was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer that is very slow-moving that he may have had for many, many years before being discovered. Thank God it was not the more aggressive kind! As a mother, of course, this was deeply disturbing and brought me to my knees, as you can imagine.
I was gratefully able to be with him while during surgery and afterward for two more weeks. Thankfully, the surgery was successful and they removed a lot of the cancer (he is very healthy now and monitoring it all). While there, in the first week, when he was still in the hospital, I just could not sleep! By the time he was to come home the following day after a week in the hospital, I was so weak from no sleep, my body was able to remember a traumatic event from my childhood, once again, and I had the opportunity to feel it and release it. I just know that the universe conspired to have this happen so that I could keep clearing my body of hidden emotions held deep within. I know how to do it and afterward, I felt I had cleared and cleaned more of my body which always helps me to feel younger every time I do so!
I am a firm believer that those traumas we store in our cells lead to disease and aging and more often than not, we are not aware of them until a life experience brings them forth. Though I have done so much inner work to be clear within my physical body and emotional body, I am not sure we are ever done really … so I feel that I am “riding the wave” of life rooted in my spirituality that helps me to see the big picture and embrace it all, even the pain.
The other huge challenge last year was the passing of my dear sister, Johanna (a twin), She was ten years younger than me so I truly was like her “other mother” and did much to raise her … since the twins were the last of seven children in our family. For the last six months of the year I oversaw all the caregivers and other details that were necessary to help her to stay home and not be sent to a facility. Continue reading