Posts in category Land of Archuleta

Alive … barely

May 6, 2017 Written by Lisa

Oh hello there …. I am here, mostly. (I think.) You know when I go on a trek to Utah, it takes me a bit to come home and reintegrate back into my life. Finally, I think I have done that.

It was a great trip and once again, I got to speak on stage which gives me joy beyond measure. I am so thankful to Angella for giving me space and time to do that. Now I just have to shove myself off her wings and go speak locally. My talk was on #unwaveringtrust and I even had a little power point show to go with it so I think I can take that talk out into non-Angella world and see what happens.

I should be used to the exhaustive pace of an event (even as a participant, much less a team person) but it still takes me out every time. I was running and moving from 6am to 9pm every day with barely a breath in between. For someone who sits her ass on the couch most days who mostly thinks and writes for a living, that’s a near-death experience. But truth be told, I love it. It just takes me time to recuperate afterwards.

And fortunately, I had many people sign up for a free call that I offered so I came home to client calls, free calls and group meetings. That’s one reason it took me longer than usual to come back to myself.

Anyway, it was a great experience as Ignite always is. The month before it was filled with lots and lots of ah-ha’s and plans for what’s next. I have a lot of irons in the fire and need to pull a few out and work on them as I’m guided to do. There’s a part of me that wants to take more on but right now, I just don’t have room for it.

Next time around: find out how I was guided to create “Channeling for Wizards” and to join a Mystery School so that I can build my own. No clue what it’s leading to but I know and have #unwaveringtrust that I will find out.

BTW, Prince made a big showing at the event for one person who had a lot of judgement about channeling (because she’s been called to do that and was fighting it). She’s clairvoyant (which means she can see) and as I was talking on stage, he came right behind her and whispered in her ear “Now do you believe her?” (meaning me and that I channel Prince). Then he pulled a chair up right in front of her and turned to face her and said “Better take note of what she’s saying. You’re going to be doing that same thing soon.”, smiled and then POOFED! She said she kept turning around to see if anyone else saw it but no one did. :) We’re going to do a little video chat on Zoom about that experience and channeling in general. How funny, though. Best story of the event.

(You know he likes to make a big splash, right?)

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Step away from the keyboard, yo!

January 24, 2017 Written by Lisa

I cannot keep up with the cyclone of news coming at me these days. And what’s interesting to me is that I really can take in a lot of information, almost like a sponge. So when I’m completely full up, you know there’s a lot swirling.

Since I was in Utah over the last week (during the Inauguration, thankfully), I was involved all day, every day in client stuff and didn’t have time to sit in front of my laptop lapping up every morsel.

(And really, don’t I have better uses of my time? Yes, I do. Do I do them? No, I do not.)

It was during this time I realized how damn addicted I am to my news/analysis shows (The Young Turks) and online commentary since I was jonesin’ for them by the end of the day.

I suspect all of this is – for me – a distraction. It engages my mind, I can easily go into outrage and then I don’t “have time” to do stuff on my business. So convenient. Especially when I’m in SPIN mode where I don’t know what I’m doing or how I want to do it.

Also, I have entirely TOO MUCH information coming at me from various courses I keep signing up for. It feels like I am drowning and I just can’t keep up.

I think it’s time for an online sabbatical. (Even ONE day would be difficult for me. Sadly.)

What I might have to do is pare down the number of political pages I follow where the outrage is amped up (warranted because of insanity/corruption/fuckery in the White House).

I follow a few that talk about taking daily action and I have called my asshat Teabagger congressman’s office on the regular, written letters and done what I can. I have connected with the Queen Anne’s County Democratic Party and will attend their next meeting. (They are slow as molasses addressing comments on social media. Maybe I can help with that part.)

But me drowning in every minute detail of what Trump is doing is not helping me or anyone else. I am not effective from that place of constant “Look! Squirrel!” energy.

It’s time for me to focus on what I need to do, do what I can on issues that are important to me and ways I can best offer my services and get back into my business.
Speaking of which, how did I lose my way? (I listened outside myself is what happened.) I want to fold the Prince work into my site (I suppose I’ll keep the Purple Saturation site still separate for now) and get my damn self out there. The Be Who You Are stuff came flowing out so naturally and the LisaMW stuff is just stuck. (I know. I know.)

Bottom line: Get your head out of your ass and back in the game. Ignore the Trump outrage, do your part and get off line for parts of the day. (Ugh, I love and hate routine.)

How are you all doing? Gal? Kwiz? Jody? Fill me in!

Blah blah blah, General Blatherings, Political, True Fax

Things I’m just gonna say

September 19, 2016 Written by Lisa

* I am way too pinged by my own body to be in the body positivity movement. I admire those who don’t give one damn about how they look and wear what they want, etc. and live and let live but there’s too much junk in my head? trunk? for me to embrace it. This is one of those ‘you know it intellectually but feel it personally’ kind of things.

* The Crisis Text line is a bit more challenging than I thought and in a very different way. I spend the bulk of my time in a group of friends who are very motivated to grow and change and take risks. I thought most people were that way and I’m learning that is so not the case. The people who text in are often lost, have some mental health challenges that makes moving forward difficult, and without hope or a feeling that they can change their situation in any way. Hopelessness is especially hard for me because it’s the energy my mom lived in most of her life and it weighs on me like a heavy, suffocating blanket. I get all spazzy like I have to ‘fix’ their situation and that’s not my place/role at all. But that energy is so uncomfortable to me that I want to make it change right away. Acknowledging that I’m triggered by it helps and I work hard to stay with the texter where they are but …. yeah. Challenging on lots of levels.

* The Prince work keeps speeding up, like a train I once had control of and now has just gone off the tracks and is zooming a mile a minute. (Whoa, Nellie!) There’s a FB page set up for it, I’ve been ‘chatting’ with people at the Prince.org site (where I’ve run into a lot of skeptics, as usual. All good. I’m learning.) and people are waiting for me to put out the Saturation Session offers. I’ve been dragging my feet for a bunch of reasons (scared to offer for money, maybe? P has his own rules for things and I so want to say “I didn’t come up with the price” (because it’s higher than I am comfortable with) but he’s all about “put it out there and move on”. This whole thing has called me even more into the bigness of who I’m willing to be and how I claim (or don’t!) it.

* Trip to Salt Lake City a couple weeks ago was great. I love working with Angella’s clients and have really found my own space in doing so. It was really nice to sleep in a damn bed after couch surfing all summer.

I’ve started 4 posts in the last month and nothing’s coming out the way I want, hence this “Imma just say it” thing.

Hope you all are having a lovely September.

Blah blah blah, Pretty Sure Ive gone insane, Prince

A Whirlwind Tour of Event Management!

November 15, 2015 Written by Lisa

Hello folks,

Holy shitballs! I got to see the back end of running a small (40 person) 2-day event and it was exhausting!

I didn’t even do most of the work and just helping from the sidelines wore my ass out.

Angella and her sister Rochelle (who is the event manager and a damn good one at that) do more in one day than I do in a month.

(I only wish I were exaggerating.)

Here are some new awarenesses I garnered during the course of my travels:

❤ Spending 4 days on the GO GO GO was fun but it’s not a way I’d want to live every day.

❤ I am enormously happy being in the background as a supporter. Like, too happy. Like, I can fall into that very easily if I don’t keep an eye on myself.

❤TSA pre-check FTW! I applied on Wednesday and it was already on my return ticket on Saturday. No more feeling violated and felt up at the security checkpoint. (I will have to find another way for the feel-ups, sadly!)

❤ Allowing myself to be vulnerable in a group of people is fuckin’ hard. I cried a lot. And got called out (lovingly) for hiding. Am I willing to shine this light big big big? Especially when I am more than happy (or so it seems) to fade into the woodwork. Thirty-three years in a support position is deeply ingrained in me. It will likely have to be a conscious effort of mine to stay in the foreground, especially when I most want to hide. (dammit)

❤ Having a room to myself is non-negotiable at things like this. Quietude is one of the major keys to my sanity.

❤ I was happy to come home. Even though all but one of my friends lives in Utah now, my family is here and I was so happy to be back with PJ, Brogan, Zippy and of course, Duty.

More shall follow as it often takes time for whatever gets stirred up in the land of Archuleta* to integrate in a deeper way.

BTW, my thyroid meds seem to be working this time. I feel much clearer and generally happier which is a nice shift from where I was a month ago, eh?

*David Archuleta, who lost to my beloved in 2008 on American Idol, hails from SLC, Utah so that’s why I call it the “land of Archuleta” – I’m the only dork in on this joke.

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