Finding a Place for Healing: The Journey of Remembering our Wholeness

I’m excited to announce the launch of Season 5 of Connecting with Joy! This season, we will be exploring the theme of “Attuning with Joy – 5 Practices for Enjoying Life!”

When the idea of launching Connecting with Joy first came to mind, I wasn’t sure if managing the membership area and podcast would be feasible for me. I had many doubts about technology, platforms, and how to connect with my audience – what content to share and how to format it. However, after a couple of seasons, as I delved into Season 3, I discovered what CWJ truly wanted to evolve into:

• A community for fellow seekers, mystics, dreamers, and teachers who are on a journey of healing, providing a sacred space for them to discover their own wholeness within.
• An offering that guides our members through the various stages of healing via a series of journeys in awakening, befriending, and embodying more of who they truly are.
• I also recognized that not everyone can participate in our smaller group immersion and mentoring programs, so I aimed to create a means to share the value of the longer journeys in a manner that is accessible and supportive to anyone seeking it.

Starting with Season 3, I began offering year-long sacred journeys that blend various wisdom teachings and contemplative practices to help us develop a deep connection to our True Self, enabling us to access the inherent Joy within every being.

Each season, we focus on a different primary "stage" of healing work, during which I share the healing tools and wisdom I have gathered on my personal and professional healing journey. My intention is to gather together and cultivate the Medicines of the Soul, which can aid us in recalling and reconnecting with our inner states such as joy, laughter, love, compassion, and enjoyment, which exist within us regardless of life's circumstances.

To initiate our journey, in Season 3, we embarked on the path of awakening to and embodying the healing power of the Sacred Witness Within. Throughout this season, we explored:

• An inner bridge of connection to the Sacred Witness within.
• Learned how to connect with our own system – body, mind, heart, and soul beings.
• Cultivated the skills of clean compassion.
• And empowered ourselves with the ability to witness and tend to ourselves, our lives, and the parts of us that we have gathered along our life's path.

From there, we delved into Season 4 – Awakening to the Mystic Within. Once again, we embarked on the journey of awakening and befriending our true selves. During Season 4, we:

• Explored how to cultivate the inner space we needed to illuminate and unwind some of the primary ways we all attempt to separate and shut down the support of our Soul, or Wise One Self and Team.
• Released our hidden attachments to the various survival and protective adaptations that were keeping us separate from true union with these aspects of ourselves.
• And developed the willingness and freedom within ourselves to sense, hear, see, feel, and know the invitations of our Heart and Soul Beings guiding us to befriend and honor the wisdom of our True Self – Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul.

These stages are now coming together to create the next step in healing – remembering our wholeness - a willingness to fully live, love, and lead our authentic life!

In Season 5, Attuning with Joy!, we are responding to the inner call of true embodiment! There comes a point in every healing journey where we have developed enough faith in ourselves that we feel an inner tug, inner pulls to shift into conscious motion with our lives from a different internal state of being. We realize that we are no longer just trying to survive or put the pieces of ourselves back together again. We awaken to the truth that somehow along this journey we have truly developed a felt sense of more wholeness. We have actually started to be able to love ourselves! We finally can open to a deep yearning and desire to BE and engage fully with our lives as they are right now in this moment without them having to magically change for us to WANT to be in union with our life.

We want to learn how to:

• Breathe with our lives,
• Partner with the connections that we experience in and through our lives,
• And Unbridle ourselves to BE with and cultivate deep creation and enjoyment with the simple everyday moments that make up our lives.

We want to turn toward our life with faith in our ability to lead our life as we meet Life on life’s terms with a true inner calm center that helps hold us both in times of joy AND in the gritty moments of life. 

We want a true felt sense and knowing that no matter what meets us in our life, we believe in our ability to resource ourselves to meet Life on Life’s terms and not just survive that moment, but be able to dance with it in a way that stays connected to our True Self and not the protective mechanisms we developed to survive. To me, that is inner JOY!

Throughout Season 5 of Connecting with Joy, we will be bringing our classroom for developing these desires into engagement with our life through cultivating 5 daily practices for enjoying our life!

We will be meeting our lives just as they are right now in each moment and asking for guidance and support around the beautiful prayer:

“How can I engage my life right now with more joy, balance, and wellbeing?”

This is not a future question. These are present moment real-time questions and prayers of:

• How can I support myself in attuning to the Medicines of the Soul to be with me throughout the day?
• How would having a present-time companion with these Medicines help me find balance in moments of fear, overwhelm, or worry?
• What would it feel like to be able to take an exit ramp and re-attune my system from having a default allegiance to Inner States like disappointment, disillusionment, war, or apathy to cultivating Inner States like Joy, Love, and Compassion?
• How would that change my thoughts, my postures, my movements, my actions, and attitudes?
• How would that internal shift ripple and flow out to every interaction I have and connect with throughout the day, both ones I can see and the ripples I can’t see?

Can you envision the healing that would be created?

When I look at the possibilities of the ripples, my vision lights up with the mystical truth, “What is in one is the whole.”

• Soul-level truth - when we bring balance and wellbeing to our own inner world, that truly does infuse and offer balance and wellbeing to the whole.

WOW, do we need that now more than ever. That is the journey we will be traveling this season with Connecting with Joy – Attuning with Joy! If you would like to join us in this beautiful community, I would love to welcome you! 

There are two levels to Connecting with Joy! 

• Free Level – Grants you free monthly access to excerpts of the larger wisdom teachings I share on the Unlimited side.

• Each month, you gain access to excerpts of various guided practices and reflections.
• This is the perfect sampler of different practices you can work with throughout the month to help support you.
• Plus, there is always something new to try as they rotate out each month.

• Unlimited Level – Gains you complete access to all that this community has to offer! Each month, you can get access to a new Episode of: 

• Full-length audio wisdom teachings,
• Companion PDF workbook that highlights the key wisdom teachings, and written versions of the guided practices and reflection practices I share each month,
• Recordings of meditations and guided journeys to match each month’s themes
• ***90-minute LIVE monthly Coaching and Healing call (recordings of the calls are available in the membership site area)***
• Plus – Access to ALL past seasons, extra special bonus calls, and previous coaching/healing calls for each season.
• Total benefit of a healing library with over 300 hours of wisdom teachings, meditations, guided journeys, and healing tools for $22 a month or $222 a year.

To learn more about this community and to join us in Season 5, click here!