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Nursing Career Transformation

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:14:50 -0700

I’ve been tapping as I listen to Joe Dispenza’s meditations on his website. Becoming a new version of the self I’ve held onto for years has been a liberating experience. Today, I had to take a U-Turn on a project I’ve been working on all year. At first, I saw the old me have a grief reaction, because I believed in the project so much. Then I saw myself transform my consciousness from despair to viewing light rays through clouds giving way to a new moment. This is known as the Life of change.

I was in the throes of developing a Private Label Canine Supplement brand, as I've been writing about here. The challenge was the dog supplements were not being presented to the world in a timely fashion. I had a conference call with members of my HoneyComm community, and we brought the problem up for oxygen.

My mentor said, who do you want your target audience to be?

I blurted out, "NURSES."

If dog supplements do become available, nurses can be included in that kaleidoscope of opportunity.

Creating a logo for my Human and Canine supplement brand has taken a U-turn into a more humorous direction. Better to laugh than to cry.

At first it was a simple label: the Club Howler logo at the top and the name of the supplement in the middle of the bottle. My emphasis is on humans taking care of themselves, so they stay strong to take care of their dogs. Nothing too funny about that.

Enter the idea of a cartoon. Naturally, the dog in the cartoon is a Boston Terrier, the biggest buffoon on the planet. He makes me laugh all day long.

As for a cartoon for seniors, who now are the baby boomers growing old, we were raised on cartoons and comics. I think we would welcome a laugh or two, as we are reminded of the old Mickey Mouse cartoons, or Looney Tunes or the Sunday comics.

I’ve been working on getting this off the ground all year. My local consciousness self gets frustrated and experiences doubt as to whether this will ever happen or not. Then I turn into my non-local more mystical, timeless self, who lets go of time, self, identity, and personality. Only then can I proceed with hope about what is in store for my business in 2024 because 2023 is fast approaching its end. It’s my choice to be frustrated or liberated. As a human, I often experience both sides of these realities, and consciously know what is best for my stability.

Spider Medicine

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:28:00 -0700

I saw a big hairy spider in my bedroom last night. She went around in circles for a while, then she wandered off. I tuned into her and discovered she has a personality and I sent her love.

This morning she is back again, closer to the door where I can set her free. But she is already free. I just don’t want to step on her accidentally plus she just disappeared again. What is the spider teaching me? I ask that of all encounters, as life goes on. Life is so quiet. Today is cold and all doors and windows are shut. I therefore commune with all that surrounds me. The books, the food, the vitamins, the flowers, the Kasino. And Pearl. And Maso.

I brought out my Ted Andrews book called Animal Speak. Tomaso and I used to refer to it often when we lived at our beautiful farmhouse where energy from wild magical nature surrounded us with the birth and rebirth of plant and animal. I was once stung by a brown recluse spider while living at the farm, and felt a sense of ebb and flow as the life force receded from my body. Strong antibiotics cured any residual effects.

Now spider medicine returns again. Ted Andrews wrote that spider is the guardian of ancient language in alphabets. Earlier cultures believed the alphabet was formed by the geometric patterns and angles found within the spider’s web. To many, this was the true alphabet. This is why spider is considered the teacher of language and magic of writing. Perhaps all writers have spider in their animal totem. I know she is in mine. Writing this blog is one part of my spiritual practice. I now imagine spider medicine teaching me how to use the written word with creative Power as my words weave a web around...Read More

Life Schedules

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 18:04:38 -0700

After a 40 year career as a full-time nurse, working nights since 2012, and juggling other ways to escape corporate medicine, I’ve come to the end of what feels like a simple clap of the hand, and then it is over. Except it ain’t over yet. Workplace employee scarcity means I can’t retire from nursing in good faith, but probably can cut back as soon as I can, as I learn and implement how to start a solopreneur business on Amazon, and more recently, a Private Label supplement brand for dogs and the humans who love them.

Suffice to say, my life is taken up with nothing but schedules whether it be work, studying the way to set up the new business, coupled with meditation, spiritual practice, walking Pearl and Maso the puppy, and other exercise, plus raining love on all my friendships and family. Not to mention the beautiful garden and fig trees calling for love and attention. But I love all of it. Taking from a motto I learned from the Waldorf school I once attended, “learn with joy.”

Overwhelm, fear of failure, self doubt and the imposter syndrome are all mindsets: victim mindsets that lower immunity and physical and spiritual strength. When or if they arise, I purposely banish them from my consciousness. Plus, during my Amazon course sign up, I was introduced to Joseph Clough who does hypnotic sessions to bring on the mindset of confidence and delight, all in the spirit of humility. More recently, my mentor Will Johnson and mind/body/brain expert Joe Dispenza have been my meditation life raft.

Buffalo Bones

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:28:58 -0700

When my friend Samantha turned 80 years of age, she taught me an important lesson: no one is too old to get a dog! She has taught me many more valuable lessons over the years, but this one is the most recent. When Tomaso drew his last breath, and as I near my 73rd birthday, I feel the ageism belief system of American culture permeate my consciousness. My dog Pearl turn will turn 12 in a few days. I worry about her death. I worry about all the people who have died of CV19. Clearly, I have much clearing out to do to bring death out of my own closet.

Pearl the dog was my greatest gift coming out of Tomaso‘s passing. I’ve discovered ways to make sure her health is promoted every step, every breath we take together. The buffalo bones are step number one: we used to buy marrow bones for Pearl but she gained too much weight. We kept the bones and now I stuff them with: organic ground beef, organic carrots, Chia Seeds, olive oil, Brewers Yeast, organic kelp powder and kale from my garden. Then I mix together and freeze them. I will soon be adding organic Spiralina powder to the mix.

Now Maso the pup gets a bone when I have to go to work.

Step number two: I also add organic liquid collagen plus a tablet of immune support for senior dogs to her breakfast kibbles.

Step number three: We walk 5 to 8 miles a day, and we break up the day with interesting but simple activities such as me...Read More

Aging Canines

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:24:09 -0700

Dogs don’t live as long a life as most of us, depending on size, weight, diet and exercise of any given dog, also taking into account their daily routine.

Dogs love routine. They also love harmony and laughter in their home, music, dancing, and singing. If the animal was abused and beaten, creating harmony provides the safest and shortened route to true healing.

Dogs teach patience. My 4 1/2 months old Maso has just discovered shoes, and now I have decorated every surface in my home with shoes. This too shall pass. Dogs teach unconditional love. Holding the dog to the heart amplifies synchronization of heart and brain. Then can we better navigate the world that can feel cruel and heartless. A dog will soften the blow of the thinking of the world.

Dogs teach forgiveness. Whenever temptation arises to hold grievances and resentments, gazing into the loving and trusting eyes of a dog smooths the rough edges. And they know.

Dogs teach us to heal from the inside out. When I sit with Pearl and Maso, a profound sense of peace over takes my consciousness. All the bitter pills I take wasting time towards the world and other human beings is negated by the juicy love hits from my dogs.

We take care of them as they in turn are healers for us.

Doggy Dolphins to Club Howlers

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:52:37 -0700

Doggy Dolphins to Club Howlers

My husband, Tomaso, and I always wanted to start a business with dogs as the brand. Once we came up with making healthy treats in the form of a dolphin, but at the time, we couldn’t find suitable molds for the treats. Plus, it was too labor-intensive.

After Tomaso’s death, I opened an Etsy store, but ideas for that were not panning out. I bought a domain for that called ”Healing 4 Dog Lovers.” My thinking at the time revolved around a counseling service for those who lost their dog in addition to selling portraits of the dog who died or more appropriately traveled the rainbow bridge. Again, nothing so far has come of it.

I took a course on how to tie in with Amazon brands to become a reseller on their platform. That is a work in progress.

Now I have developed a Private Label supplement brand for dogs, and the people who love them, perhaps targeting older folks who love to raise dogs well into their 80s. After all, I am in that age bracket, or soon to be. We all know how time flies when you’re having fun.

We want our dogs to be ultimately healthy and to give them the physical exercise to remain strong, even as we keep up with them. Walking several miles a day comes to mind. Ball throwing and good old fashion playing are up there on the list of fun activities with your dogs. I recently got a Boston Terrier puppy, named Maso for my late husband. He will be a mascot for my new business.

GET A DOG AT 80

Wed, 31 May 2023 07:31:43 -0700

Creating a love story from every memory makes going forward a love story, too.

The human condition is complicated. We’ve made a mess of things in almost every way - personally due to poor communication with resultant abandonment, or globally with war and climate change as prime examples of planetary collapse. We all can learn to be better communicators and take steps to end all war. Those are love stories waiting to happen.

Ultimately, the love story we are seeking to find is the one found in our inner, spiritual guiding wisdom. As we befriend our inner resilience and create a partnership simultaneously with the divine, which is love in drag, we retain a passionate interest in life. We throw ourselves wholeheartedly into creative projects. We can be bright, vibrant and alive.

We can get a puppy when we turn 80. OM

CLUB HOWLERS

Mon, 29 May 2023 13:14:40 -0700