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8/24/2018

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One of ThavinMarcobs core beliefs is that we love to support and show love to small/local businesses. It is one of our passions and one that is all five of my children joyfully posses. 

When it came to my 25th wedding anniversary of course I made sure to look into small businesses to help ring in this amazing celebration. I ended up finding two amazing women owned small entrepreneurs. 

Save The Dates

Our Save The Dates were created by an amazing designer who we have the privilege of being able to include in our twitter tribe! Ashley Girres was perfect in everyway! She was easy to work with and easy to order from. The work was above and beyond what I anticipated. Quality products made it to my mailbox in a much appreciated timely manner. 

If you're interested you can reach Ashley through her social media or through her shop. 
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Our Photographer 

Our photographer was amazing. Not only did she allow a last minute booking, she showed up on time, was professional, and took lots of great photos!

You can find her at
Instagram.com/encapturedphotography
The day as a whole was absolutely wonderful and I am so happy that in the midst of my crazy schedule I made sure to support small. I love to do it and am so happy that I could include these two fabulous business women work in my very special 25th wedding anniversary. 
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ThavinMarcob Throwback

2/3/2018

 
Hi Everyone!
​I Love when Guest Bloggers pop in to ThavinMarcob Lifestyle and share a little bit about themselves. This year was no different and we had some amazing contributors.
​So lets give them some ThavinMarcob Love and revisit there work!

Charles A Conyers

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My Top favorite was a guest blog written up by a new favorite author of mine. Charles A Conyers, popped into ThavinMarcob To share a little bit about himself with our fantastic readers. Have any of you guys read his book yet? I loved the outside of the box details to his novel 
"The Maximilian Emancipation"
​If your looking for a good winter read go ahead and pick up his book the link can be found over in his Blog Post.

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Clair Hastings

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Street Style Vibes from The London Fashion Week.​
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Fashion and Beauty Trends It-Girls Will Embrace
​ This Fall By
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The Ultimate List of New Years Resolutions
​Every Woman Should Make
I was extremely excited when Clair reached out to us!
​I not only enjoyed working with her, But I loved her work as well. I'm excited to share that Clair Hastings has contributed more then once to ThavinMarcob Lifestyle this year!
I loved all her fresh fashion sense that she shared with all of us. 
​Here are a few of my favorites by Clair.
 

Future Guest

I truly do love hosting guest on ThavinMarcob , although even I can admit I have gotten a little picker over the last year on who we publish and who we don't.
​I did write a blog post on the A few of the rules we have. There are not many and it is pretty straight forward so if your thinking you would like to guest blog on ThavinMarcob Go ahead and reach out!

Bonus Trip To Seguin Texas

1/19/2018

 

While Celebrating My Mother's 70th Birthday out in Texas. My Husband and I were able to sneak away for a few hours and travel down to Seguin Texas. We were on the Hunt for Amazing Independent Shops. Lucky for us we found two Independent Small Business that were exactly what we were looking for and amazingly more. 
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The Shop


​The Shop was the first boutique we walked into. It may have been the first store that we visited, but it really made an impact that stuck with me all the way home to Washington. 

​The Owner Jeff Koehler was more than Welcoming and Friendly to my Husband and I. The Shop as a whole was well Organized,
extremely Welcoming, and contained some truly Amazing Finds! 

​I found these adorable Wood made Tree Cutout Display Pieces. I thought that they would be perfect for Showcasing our Tassel Earrings as well as a few other Elegant Earrings found in out La Conner Boutique. 
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Find The Shop at 
10 West Nolte Street in Seguin Texas
or
Visit texasdecorators.com 

​Happy Side Note -- Jeff is also a Interior Decorator. So if you live close and are looking for some help decorating your home give Jeff a call. 
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Traveling Gypsy

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The Raveling Gypsy was also an amazing Local Business that I stopped in at while out in Seguin Texas. The Owner was absolutely amazing. She was incredibly positive and gave me an amazing burst of inspiration. Which is always helpful and welcome in my book. She was extremely kind and even chatted with me about  where she started and how she has grown into what she is today. Not only did she dazzle herself, but her shop was just as memorizing. She had a great amount of products in her store, which shows she knows exactly how to be space efficient.   

If you happen to find yourself in Seguin Texas Stop By
​or visit Travelinggypsy. 


I love Shopping Independent. I think that it is Important to Support Locally, not to mention how fun it is. If you find yourself in Seguin Texas, Stop By. 

​Even if you are not is Seguin Texas. Head out to your Downtown Area and Browse some of Your Local Shops.

​If You Do, Let Us know some of your Favorites.
​Through any of our Social Medias --
​ThavinMarcob or in the Comments Section. 
​We are Always Looking To Explore and Support. 

Happy Friday,
Raquel 

Browse Our Valentines Day Specials 

4 of My Favorite Twitter Influencers

1/12/2018

 
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Twitter is my Favorite Platform for Connecting with our customers on social media. We also use Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and of course Google Plus. Even with all of these other amazing mediums, Twitter remains my favorite. Over the last few years I have made some really great connections and bonds with quite a few people within Our Twitter Community. So much so that I thought I would share a short list of those who have influenced and really impacted us over here at ThavinMarcob. 
Meghan is Fantastic at Sharing Tips on Blogging. Her twitter page is My Go-To whenever I'm looking for some New Ideas. I also find her website Smart Bird Social to be full of amazing information. In fact I am truly lucky that I found her when I did. I truly believe her Tips have helped me focus Our Blog Posts in a way that if I had not discovered her I probably would still be all over the place!
Justine is the Best! She's one of the few that seems to remind me to look up from whatever I'm working on and enjoy Life. I love the Simple Sophistication of her tweets. She shares bits of her Personal Life while still being Professional and she makes it look so easy! Which we all know is not really all that easy. Her webpage Justhaves is full of Everyday Lifestyle Tips. Go ahead and check her out! 
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Tim is this Amazingly Outstanding Innovator! If your looking for Inspiration Tim is the guy to follow. His follow through and motivation to keep hustling is truly inspiring. I was lucky to connect with him early on in my twitter journey and I can say there is a lot to learn from someone like him. He  specializes in coins and I find that his passion flows through the screen. Take me for instance I have never been into coins, but his passion helped open up new avenues of conversation with my boys. They even ordered Wheat Pennies on eBay and tried out Tim's New App! As a mom, I always get excited when I find something to connect/bond over with the kids. Especially because they are young adults and teenagers! So bonding and connecting can at times be rather difficult.

​*The link for Tim's app can be found on his twitter page or you can check out his website The Stamp And Coin Place
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Kanika is new to our twitter community. She  still however Stands Out with her Passion. The majority of the time when someone follows I receive an automated DM. There are times when I will send an message and receive nothing back. However my interaction with Kanika was different, we actually had a real conversation! I'm truly enjoying her Lifestyle Blog-LST Blog.
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We have lots of Great Members in Our Twitter Community! As I am writing this, I think that it would be fun to Post a Blog like this once a season.

​What do you guys think?
Did you Follow or Check out anyone's site? 

Leave your remarks in our comment section or let us know on Twitter!
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Have a Wonderful Weekend,
Raquel 

HANDCRAFTEDD IN DENMARK

11/13/2017

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One of my Favorite parts of my job is Finding, Procuring, and Supplying Handcrafted Fashions to you guys! I love Meeting the Artist who put so much love and thought into each piece. I also love seeing each and everyone of you enjoy these Special pieces of Fashion.
Today I'm excited to introduce a New Product that we will be carrying in both our La Conner Boutique as well as on our Online Boutique.

These earrings imaged below are Astonishing Handcrafted Tassel Earrings from Denmark! They are Trendy Sophisticated Jewelry Pieces will help to add a Chic and Stunning look to any Outfit. 

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​MANY COLORS

The artistes' who Handcrafts these Beautiful Tassel Earrings offers them in a Variety of Colors. Giving you the opportunity to add a Pop of Color to an outfit or to help you tie all of your accessories together. 
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They are over all a Great product. They are Chic and Trendy enough to be worn on Messy Hair Monday, Friday Night Drinks with the Girls, or on a Sunday Adventure. These Tassel Earring seamlessly fit into anyone's wardrobe and with any outfit for any occasion. 

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​Have Fun With Them

Be a Trendsetter!
​Every pair is Handcrafted! Leaving each pair different than the next, which also means every set is Unique! 
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BEHIND THE SCEANS LOOK

Our Danish Artist allowed us a sneak peak into her Work Space.
​It was fun and interesting to hear her explain how she Crafts each set.
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I WANT ONE

You want one right!
Know someone who would love these as a gift?
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​We do only have a Limited amount in our possession.
So Order or Pick your up ASAP!
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​These Gems are once again Handcrafted.
​Which is why we only have a limited quantity available. 

​These Tassel Earrings are Special One of a Kind pieces. The artist and I worked really hard together to keep the Cost Down for you. 
​Here it is these Beautifully Handcrafted Tassel Earing from Denmark are only $39.99 each  That's it!
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​These Earrings are Amazing and the Perfect Gift for any Loved one this coming Holiday Season. I in fact pick up Several as Gifts.

​Pick yours up Today! 

​Happy Monday!
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Charles A. Conyers, Jr. Guest Blogs For #NATIONALAUTHORDAY

10/31/2017

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In Honor of National Author Day I thought it would be a Great Idea to have the Wonderful Novelist Charles Conyers write a Guest Blog Post.   
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If you were to tell me 10 years ago that I would be a novelist, I would have laughed in your face and called you insane. 10 years ago, I had no intention of writing a novel. I was a screenwriter above all else-- that’s where my heart was...writing for the screen. ​

FILMMAKING

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​I fell in love with filmmaking when I was 10 years old, when my dad brought home a black and white video camera. From those early first attempts, making kung-fu movies with my brother Preston and our friends, and animated adventures with clay and action figures, it was clear to me that I connected more with filmmaking than anything else. At that time, I was known as an illustrator and painter-- that’s what my parents were expecting of me, that I’d go off to art school and be an animator at Disney Studios, or something like that. After seeing Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” that was the end of drawing for me. After that,  all I wanted to do was make films.

OVER THE YEARS

Over the years I made several attempts to break through as a screenwriter. I wrote over a dozen screenplays, went to screenwriting conferences in LA, pitched stories ideas to agents, all that stuff. Unfortunately, the only feedback that I was getting was, “You’re a good writer, but this is unfilmable.” Which is B.S., I mean if you have the imagination for it,  NOTHING is “unfilmable.” I also heard “I wouldn’t know how to sell this,” and that pushed me into taking a 10-year stint in the advertising industry to learn about “selling” creativity. ​
​Ten years ago, after over a decade in the ad industry, then moving over to broadcast, I still wasn’t thinking about writing a novel. At that point, I had built up a library of intellectual property but had absolutely nothing to do with it. Filmmaking had become less expensive, but ten years ago I was a single father with a 2-year-old daughter. I had rent and bills to pay, and a little baby to love-- I didn’t have the time OR the energy to produce an indie film. At that point, I hadn’t been writing on my own for a couple of years (again, no time). Every once-in-a-while though, I thought about a story that I had first developed in high school and over the years would take swipes at, and add to it. It was a story that over time got bigger and more involved. It was a story that I tried to write a screenplay but got 34 pages in before I realized that there’s no way I was going to be able to sell OR make a 6-hour movie (this was pre-Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/etc). Even though I had no outlet at the time, I kept developing what I was calling “The Maximilian Emancipation.”
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​Nine years ago, I was sitting in my Brooklyn apartment. I had just put my daughter to bed (it was our weekend), and I was sitting on the couch watching my VHS copy of the BBC TV version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for the 100000th time. I can’t remember exactly what triggered this, I just remember the thought hitting me: “What if it was a novel? What if I wrote ‘The Maximilian Emancipation’ as a novel?” At this point, I was sure I was NEVER going to get it made as a movie. I just knew I had all this writing, all this work, this big story...and it was just collecting dust. After that internal dialogue, two words came out of my mouth: “F*ck it.” That’s when I decided that I would write my first novel.

​“The Maximilian Emancipation”

As I write this, “The Maximilian Emancipation” has been out for 4 months (released in June). There’s a part of me that still can’t believe that I actually got this book done-- years of writing, draft after draft, saving and shelling out money to get it edited, and using my skills as a fine artist, I was able to design the cover, layout, and design of the book. It’s an amazing feeling to work on something so hard, and to have people respond positively to it-- ask any artist, you can get high off of those fumes for WEEKS! It’s motivated and inspired me to continue writing. I have two more books to follow up the story started in “MaxEman” (my shorthand name), the next of which will be out in June of 2018. On top of that, I can announce that this year I am entering the National Novel Writing Month event-- which means that on the 2nd week of December, I will be releasing my 2nd novel called “Shifters,” based on a sci-fi vampire story I wrote back in the 90s. ​
​A lot will be said about the year 2017 (mostly bad, for obvious reasons), but I will see this year as a new beginning for me as a storyteller. 2017 is the year that Charles A. Conyers, Jr. became a novelist. This journey has been a long time coming, no matter how long I’ve deferred and ignored it. I’m glad I took the chance, and I’m excited to continue.

Stay tuned…
​Learn more about Charles A. Conyers, Jr., his books “The Maximilian Emancipation,” and “Shifters” (coming December 2017), and blog at: https://www.stopslaverywithtimetravel.com/

​Have a Wonderful Wednesday!
Share your Thoughts and Comments through any of our
​Social Medias or down below in our Comments Section. 
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Gail Rognan Series Part Five

9/2/2016

 
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This week Thavin & Marcob has teamed up with author Gail Rognan.
Gail created the amazing content for this week's guest blog series and we couldn't be happier that she chosen to share it through us.
Throughout the week Gail has opened herself up and shared her personal journey with breast cancer, her struggles as well as her triumphant moments.
Today Gail has provide a poem for her last segment with Thavin & Marcob. I truly hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
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Natures story
Sometimes I stand on a bank of a stream
and feel the water take away my pain,
allowing my wistful reflection a reprieve.
The water flows south,
constantly redrafting its story,
which is my story
rising and falling with new meanings
​around every bend

​~Gail Rognan
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I find Gail to be an amazingly strong, independent, thoughtful person. To learn more about her journey Thavin & Marcob is offering autographed copies of her book right now!
​Please remember to share so that others can find us!
Sincerly,
Raquel
Owner of
​Thavin & Marcob

Gail Rognan Series Part Four

9/1/2016

 
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Along the way on my journey of healing myself from cancer, I have used 9 strategies.

Diet

           I radically changed my diet and physical activity. Years before my diagnosis, I had taken away gluten, wheat, dairy and soy.  seven years before my diagnosis. After being diagnosed, I cut out all sugar and mostly ate as a flexitarian (eat some organic, free-range chicken and fish) and I try to eat more organic foods and very little processed foods.
Physical - I started walking a bit
​              each day with my dog a few weeks after surgery. I increased walking distance after about three months. About six months after my surgery, I started taking Razzl Dance class, then started training for a flash mob about three months before the actual mob. I continued with the individual yoga sessions I had started before I was diagnosed but I soon found a group of other cancer survivors to do yoga with. To date, I am now walking 30-60 minutes a day.
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Taking Control

            I took control of my health and I got in touch with my inner healer. After I stopped panicking and made a decision to start listening to my body, I was able to relax and not be afraid of the cancer in my body. I began to take an active role in dealing with my health. I used critical thinking and did research. I re-activated my rebel nature and started “bucking the system” and used my medical professionals more as consultants. I wrote my own self-prescription for health living. I quit my stressful sales job and my new job became healing myself.
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Intuition

          I followed my intuition. I call my intuition my “god self” It told me I needed to slow down and listen and then doing what I was led to do. I started doing meditation and I learned reiki which I started doing every day on myself. Whenever I tuned into my body, it let me know what it needed in order to heal, and it would always direct to just the next right step, resource and person. For me this meant getting grid of most of my possessions and renting a small cabin on a farm in the woods-getting back to nature and living simply. All through my journey with cancer, I was lead to just the right person or resource in my path to healing. The body is a channel to the soul. Rather than using the illness to beat ourselves up, or set off on a new crusade to figure out why bad things happen to good people, we can use the illness to get our attention. Our bodies have a deep desire to live. They have an incredible tolerance for damage and destruction. I believe that we live as long as our soul needs our bodies and live well because of the care we give to our bodies. The care we give to our bodies determines the quality of life we will have, but not the length of life. Getting ill is what woke me up to my body and made me pay attention to it. Bernie Siegel says “Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires-disruptions in our lives that seem to be disastrous at the time but end by re-directing our lives in a meaningful way.” I could no longer view my body as a machine to be driven and manipulated. Now I needed to see it as my companion who needed to be loved and listened to. A sanctuary to be worshipped. I started asking my body what it needed to tell me. At the beginning, I decided on a double mastectomy after discovering that often the cancer travels from one breast to the other. I could not see getting a lumpectomy in my right breast followed by seven weeks of radiation (while trying to also work) and then having to go through the same thing with the left breast later. The surgery gave me peace of mind and I wanted the foreign substance out of my body as soon as possible. I am now convinced that the surgery caused errant cancer cells not removed to travel throughout my body but I can’t worry about it. I still feel that the surgeries were the right treatment for me as I could not live with the thought of a foreign substance growing inside me. I needed to get it out. At this point, I have decided what was the best way for me to do is build my immune system up and manage the cancer as best I can the rest of my life using the tools I have learned to possibly reverse the cancer and stop it from coming back. Right from the start, I knew I would never agree to chemotherapy as I knew it also killed healthy cells and can cause many problems in one’s body. I knew I would not withstand being sick from poisons put into my   body. It went against everything I believed in. I chose quality of life even if it meant a shorter life. I may have agreed to radiation if it had not been for seven weeks off-  island. I could not have kept my job taking that much time off. But after I   researched radiation more, I would not even do that if given the option in the future, as it is a direct cause of cancer. Even the x-rays the dentist does can cause cancer so I now refuse to get them. Unfortunately, two years after my   mastectomy, the cancer came back and I had more surgery to remove the tumor.    It came back two months later. At that point, I faced my mortality. I quit my part-   time job I had at the time, without knowing how I would pay my bills. I knew that I needed to take time off to either heal or prepare for my death. I had seen my cancer as a dark hole which kept pulling me in. The pull was so strong that it too all my strength to resist it. I got tired of struggling and fighting. So I gave in. I gave up. I let myself surrender to the force of the pull and be drawn into the darkness. I   found a healing so profound there that it changed me forever. I had been living in a way that was running away from death and trying everything I could to stop the  cancer. I was able to relax and let the cancer teach me what it came to teach me   I then made a decision to heal myself without using conventional medicine again.

Herbs

           I used herbs and supplements Toxins- I started doing cleanses on every major organ every six months for clearing toxins and parasites out of my body Supplements- I take supplements in order to build up my immune system detoxify and keep disease away. I also do a Vitamin C flush once a month. I did Vitamin C IV treatments once a week for over 4 months. I have created my own topical treatment that seeps into my body and has reduced the size of my bump to almost nothing.

Emotions

          I released suppressed emotions. A few years before my diagnosis, I had worked with an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) therapist to release trauma left in my body from past issues. My therapist was a breast cancer survivor, so she was one of the first people I called when I was diagnosed. We set up an appointment about two weeks after my surgery when I still had my drains. It was exhausting as I had to drive about one and one half hours plus take a ferry ride to get there, but it was worth it. It immediately helped me feel less anxious. Facing death was my greatest   challenge as I dealt with a reoccurrence of my cancer at the same time as my best friend, Janice, was dying of cancer. Janice was an example to me of what it was to   live well and die well. She taught me that dying is a natural progression of life. We just aren’t part of a body anymore but our spirit or soul continues to live on I knew intuitively that if I were to be fully present for her in her dying, I had to face my own fears of dying in order to talk openly to her about how she was feeling about death. Whether it is a fear of increasing pain, suffering indignity, dependence, a fear of having unfinished business, that the life we have led has been meaningless, fear of separation from those we love, of losing control, losing​ respect or the fear of fear itself, we are all afraid of some aspect of death was Watching her journey to death, I was confronted with my own death. I didn’t know when it would happen, just that it would at some point, so I might as well face the truth and prepare for it. Around this time, I wrote one of my soul poems to express how I was feeling.​

Releasing The Negative

           I increased positive emotion I learned to love my cancer and felt gratitude for all it had given me. I started seeing it as my message center rather than a tumor and experimented with my diet, etc to see what caused to diminish or grow. I started laughing and feeling joy and enjoying life again.

Social Support

           I embraced social support When I worked at my sales job, I had some wonderful co-workers and friends who supported me and provided help with physical duties I could not do on my own. But I yearned for support from other women who had experienced breast   cancer who were proactive in their approach to cancer. I could not find that kind   of support of person where I lived. It wasn’t until a year after my surgery that I attended a free retreat for breast cancer survivors called Harmony Hill. It was only 3 days but it changed my life. I met a woman who became a dear friend and   support system. I then started my own women’s circle as a way to ask for help and   support. I have made some good friends from a local meet up called “Wild Women of Whidbey”.

Spiritual Connection

           I deepened my spiritual connection.  I learned that it is about surrendering. I had always been a driven person who strove for ambitious goals. Besides living a stressful life, like many women, I tended to put others before myself. I forgot that I wasn’t the one in control. I thought I knew better. This was my wake up call to live differently. To live a life of total faith. What it all comes down to is I finally stopped to listen to the wake-up    calls I had ignored before and come to my senses in all areas of my life so I could stay there. This is what cancer did for me- it woke me up. I know now that if I forget      what can happen and go back to my old ways. In the face of death, I found the   strength to forgive myself for violating my body and for being mindless. I found deep energy, deep breathing and meditation to give me the strength, stretching and stillness I needed to heal.

Reasons For Living

          I connected with my strong reasons for living.  I knew I was not done with my work on the physical plane and that my experience with cancer was what I was to use as a way to help others use their intuition to heal. I now do reiki and coaching to help others re-connect with their divine self and their own unique path of healing whether from cancer or any other traumatic     life challenge. My message is don’t wait until you get sick like I did or experience some other traumatic wake-up call. Take my story and learn from it. Live your life well now and don’t put it off until tomorrow. Put God first. Surrender control daily.  And then everything in your life will be right and good.
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