Lady Heather's Domain: My life in a Nutshell

Green Corn Full Moon or Grain Full Moon is the 2nd moon after the Summer Solstice.  We are in full swing of getting things ready for the harvest.  We are harvesting some of our crops and seeing how good our intentions are and getting other crops ready to harvest. Not a lot of time yet to enjoy our bounty as we still have a lot to do - but we are starting to see what our hard work has given us.  For me, I am enjoying my son's maturation and independence - he moved out and yet he does come by to see us.  He is also taking a road trip with his girlfriend and I am so proud he is able to do that. I am enjoying and loving my  career and being my authentic self.  Coming up with more ideas for my practice and starting to feel better about the direction of my health.  I am try to only look at this moment and near future and not obsess about the far future.  Hopefully the harvest will be good.

Beltane is a time of Expression - it is time to express your intentions.  You have planned and created and now it is time to really work on your intentions.  This year I am seeing the possibilities of my new practice/career and need to keep working on it to make it thrive. My Seeds of Intent 1.  Continue to get healthier and try to get all blood tests into the normal range. Getting closer to doing that - my blood work is coming back closer to normal 2.  To increase my speaking and work towards becoming a speaker. Took on a speaking engagement on LGBTQ Safe Zone 3.  Continue to follow the path the Goddess has put in front of me especially when it comes to being a therapist. Following my heart, working with clients, doing more Transgender work 4.  Start figuring out how to move from Sacramento. Going to visit OR at the end of July to see clients that moved So many changes and exciting things happening, I look forward to see what the rest...

So this year my seeds of intent were: This year I had 5 seeds in my apple. So this year my seeds of intent are: 1.  To walk more After a tough start in 2015 because of a hurt foot - I went on a cruise and then got a FitBit and that is really helping me walk more.  As of this date I have walked over 500 miles since July 14th and 1,200,000 steps.  I also have lost almost 40 lbs. 2.  To make sure I do self-care I am making sure to take time when I need it - schedule clients so I am not too overwhelmed and am working to keep taking trips in nature.  I am now taking care of my diabetes and also exercising and eating really low carb.  3.  To pass my licensing exams I passed them both first time! 4.  To find a way to be supportive of my daughter and not enable her. After one last try sending her to Colorado, and then bringing her back to Bakersfield I will act as a cheerleader but no longer will enable her and tell her no and give her s...

Not what you think - I am doing a 2 day training on how to do therapy with couples.  I am enjoying learning lots of little things that can help me better work with couples but even more that every time they mention something that is helpful to a relationship - I realize my hubby and I do it.  And when they talk about harmful things that hurt a relationship - we have never done them.  It is so cool to see that you are doing what the experts say are the way to have a long, healthy, happy and loving relationship.   In less than a month we will celebrate our 7th year wedding anniversary and in December that will be 9 years since we have met.  I am so blissfully happy in our marriage.

Beltane is a time of Expression - it is time to express your intentions.  You have planned and created and now it is time to really work on your intentions.  This year I am seeing the possibilities of my new practice/career and need to keep working on it to make it thrive. My Seeds of Intent 1.  To walk more I am so very frustrated with this seed - early February I hurt my foot and my doctors are telling me to not walk on it.  I may even have surgery on it. 2.  To make sure I do self-care. I am working on this.  I am taking more time for myself and choosing to disconnect from toxic people.  I took it easy while I was studying and made sure to have fun. 3.  To pass my licensing exams ACCOMPLISHED!!!  I passed both exams, and my license was issued on April 21! 4.  To find a way to be supportive of my daughter and not enable her. After trying to help her into a sober living environment and failing - I have limited my int...

I feel like I have waited my whole life for this - For a point in time that everything seems to be getting better.  Sure I have had one thing here or there that was going right - but usually it just helped me get through something else that was going wrong. So let me take a moment and share with you things that are going right: My hubby and I - Still happily and deeply in love.  October 31st will make our 5 year anniversary!  And December 4th will make 7 years together!  The picture to my left is a little gift he gave me for no real reason.  As customary it has several meanings.  I have been reading the Mistborn series and I told him that when some of the characters burn pewter for a long time and then stop - they are really tired - it is called "pewter dragging"  so he got me a "pewter dragon".  Amethyst is my favorite stone and I love dragons and their energy.  As usual he knows me so well an...

This year has been such a challenging year.  This year I had only three of seeds of intention that I planted.  1.  To continue to support my daughter in every way I could to help her healing.  2.  To support my husband during his lower surgeries.  3.  To continue towards becoming a therapist working with families struggling with RAD. One thing that I have learned to trust although it is still really hard is that when you put an intention out there and focus on it, you have to understand that it may not come to fruition the way you planned or thought it would.  When I decided on my intentions last year and imagined what my life would be like now, I never imagined it would be this way.  I imagined that my daughter would probably have been given another 6 months to a year at the group home she was this time last year and she would be an hour away and making progress to coming home.  I imagined my hubby would be finished with his su...

This is a guest post from our Parrot: A couple years ago we moved into this great house with single pane windows - Now I can chatter all day with my friends outside. I am constantly asked how I train my humans so well.  So as I sat in the long-nailed human's office watching her blog, I told her I wanted a guest spot - so she agreed (one you train them you can get them to do anything!) How to Train Your Human 1.  Get the human's attention:  Humans are not very observant, just being cute or doing a trick will not work until you get them to look at you.  I find that a loud call often will get their attention.  If they still do not look your way often pretending to be freaked out will really draw their attention. 2.   Remind and Repeat:   Sadly despite the size of a human's head they have small brains and even smaller memories.  One of our jobs is to remind these humans of the very basic things.  You will have to constantly repea...

I am tired and stressed due to not even knowing where my daughter is. When things get like this I like to find things to laugh at.  Laughing helps heal. So I got to some of my favorite sites that make me laugh or give me something that is amusing to think about. Now this is where I show my geekiness. My all time favorite blog for humor is CakeWrecks . This blog is written by Jen and her husband.  They are geeks and big on puns.  So this blog on Sundays has Sunday Sweets which is really well done cakes.  The rest of the time the blog is about cakes created by "professionals" that have gone horribly wrong.  The cakes are only part of the humor - Jen and her husband's puns crack me up. Jen's personal girl blog is EPBOT.   In this blog she constantly puts up her crafts and unique things that she likes.  She loves steampunk and always seems to show some interesting stuff. I also often look at some of my favorite comics at Go Comics. And ...

I was reading a blog today by a very inspiring woman .  It made me realize how much I mask what goes on in my own head and life.  The reason I stopped writing this blog for the last several months is, well honestly I didn't want to admit that my life did not go where I wanted it to go.  I had turned my blog into just really a diary but it got less and less about really what I was feeling and dealing with and more and more about my schedule. I hide from what I cannot deal with.  I suck it up and stuff it somewhere.  Over the next few days I will fill in what really was happening within and without and now I have to really honestly start dealing with things. This used to be called Lady Heather's domain but I have now added : My life in a nutshell.  The reason is I really have to deal with my internal issues and part of that is to remind me that I do have "nutty" thoughts constantly running through my head that I have to deal with. So lets restart with t...

I got up totally unrested and anxious and went to work.  Back to watching videos all day.  I did get to sit in on a couple of call by the guy training me.  Kind of scary since all of the jargon they are throwing around is so foreign to me.  I at least like listening to the guys banter around they seem really nice. I am also helping label and put stamps on envelopes - at least something I feel like I am helpful with. I know somehow I will start to understand all of this but for now I feel so overwhelmed I cannot even imagine that all of this will be routine someday. I got off work and called my son right away to remind him to be ready for me to take him to choir.  I am now checking in with my mom on my way home now but they are usually about to have dinner or having dinner so the timing isn't working as much as I want it to be - but I am talking to her more often than when I was unemployed or working from home. I rushed home, picked up my son and rushed to...

So exhausted, I got up at 7am and baked a cake.  I got my son up since he had a doctor's appointment to get his prescriptions under the new health plan.  We went to the doctor's appointment and the doctor was great and did all of his prescriptions with no problem.  I took him to school with him being silly all the way and trying to get me to take him home.  I then got home and asked my hubby what he wanted to eat as it was around 11am.  He decided Taco Bell so I went and got it. We were both so hungry it tasted so good.  It was so nice to relax with him and now that he has decided on the surgery he is in an amazing mood for it being his birthday which he hates.  He then took the parrot into the bedroom to play computer games (the parrot loves to watch the computer while he is playing games) and I decorated his birthday cake.  Which of course was a CakeWrecks style cake. He really was amused.  My son got home and I checked his homework...

Easter morning... we are not religious so we do not do church.  I do however do Easter Baskets.  I was excited to see what my hubby thought of his - he calls me his Acorn and he is my Scratt - I had gotten stuffed Scratt and Scratte (female Scratt) stuffed animals - Scratt has an Acorn.  He thought it was cute and like it a lot.  My son was pleased that the Easter Bunny gave him a gift certificate to Amazon to buy some stuff he wanted.  Plus candy galore.  We had a nice ham lunch with mashed potatoes, biscuits and veggies.  It was nice and yet sad as we could tell his grandfather was not doing well.  We watched some more television and I read more of my book and then we drove home (or I should say my hubby drove us home).  I had moments that it just felt good during the drive.  The weather wasn't bad, neither was the traffic and I felt relaxed.  There are perfect moments like that - I wish I could just keep them forever.  We go...