Distractions

I find that I have so many things I want to do and that the choices sometimes seem overwhelming. Where do I place my focus. Lately I see it in the area of work-I am a Licensed Mental Health counselor as well as a Creativity Coach and Spiritual Director. I really would love to develop my Creativity Coaching practice but I have been focused on finding work as a counselor. Money is the main reason. Security is another. But is there ever any real security in work?Perhaps the real security is in trusting one'a ability to create a livelihood. With so many people out of work -it can be scary. For me fear,worry,doubt are distractions from creating joy,love and play. Luckily I have a positive attitude,positive people and faith that snaps me out of the distractions. Today I am intending play as I do things related to career. As I make phone calls,work on website and send emails. Have a blessed day.

June 14,2010

Happy Flag Day

This morning I awoke with a sense of fear. I knew what it was about. Last week the agency where I had been developing my counseling practice sent a fax that of June 21 there would be no more counseling at the agency just medication management. So I am having to find another location or start my own practice.Last week I was working on getting a very part time position which I did get contigent on my passing my drug test. I don't do drugs so I am just waiting to hear about the start date. But today is Monday and this will be my last week at the agency so the fear was about who to I contact,what do I do. Trying to figure it out myself. I wasn't in panic mode just a sense of fear. I told myself I would journal about it and decided to get up,pee and have breakfast. When I went back to journal I remembered something I had seen in Jill Badonski's book Awe-manac yesterday(I peeked at the days to come) about Flag day and a suggestio to make a flag for yourself. That caught my interest yesterday. So when I was journaling I started to draw my flag. It didn't take long but I liked it. It has seven stars,a chakra pinwheel with ribbons flying in the wind,my cat Graycie,sunshine and myself open to the universe with my hands outstretched and my face lifted up to the sun. I have been taking a landmark course called Living Passionately and my purpose is to dance with the Divine and celebrate life in all its Glory. After drawing my flag-I felt peaceful-no longer in fear. I didn't feel the need to journal about it. I continued to do my prayers,quiet time and some journaling. When I was finished I had a list of things to do-that filled my heart and made sense to my as what I needed to do today. This morning I saw how creativity can shift me whether it is drawing,dancing or singing,that I have within me divine guidance and I am always led to the next step.

April 14,2010
Ok Well so much for keeping my blog up-to-date. Creative types often have many things going on and get distracted. I have been busy creating my counseling career. I have been doing paperwork to get on insurance panels-the paperwork is not fun for me.But I am getting there. I have about ten clients-well I guess its really 8 as two clients are possibly finishing up. I have offered 5 free coaching opportunites (of 4 sessions) on 29gifts.org and I have 4 people working on the paperwork for that. Alot of projects-next are talks on grief and loss after losing a job,parallel play dates,play therapy training(I am taking it) and I am taking training in May to be a Sandtray therapist-more tools in my toolbox, Life is a magical adventure-aint it swell.

Happy St. Patrick's day

Remember in school if you didn't wear green you would get pinched. I wonder if that still goes on in schools. I am a volunteer for Rolling Readers and I read a St. Patrick's day story to the class of first graders. I don't know if they liked it or not -they were so wild today. I even wore a shamrock headpiece. The best part is all the hugs I get after the reading. I also went to a networking luncheon today and gave out alot of business cards for my counseling work. I am trying to build two businesses-a counseling practice and a creativity coaching practice. Eventually I will also work on my Spiritual Director's practice. I haven't figured out a way to combine all three. Perhaps they all flow together naturally. In a few minutes I will leave for my toastmasters club. My duty for tonight is Word of the day and ah counter/grammarian. The word I am bringing is Blarney-flattery or a bunch of hooey. It has been a good day. Oh I also am planning on going to workshops on Sandplay therapy in April. THat is another tool I plan on attending to my tool chest. That and SoulCollage.I Love creative experiences.

Starting Blog again

Hi
My blog is back up now. I will try to maintain it on a regular basis. I recently was certified as a Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach(R). I have a website and so I thought I would start blogging and twittering again. My twitter accoung is awaiting customer support though as I can not seem to sign on. Oh well I am sure it will be taken care of soon. I work also as a counselor at Berkmire Behavioral health. I have seven clients and one more that will start in April. I am excited about this new direction in my life. Oh I also completed my Spiritual Direction Program and so I will be looking for Directees. All kinds of wonderful things going on. Wooohoo.

New Beginnings

I was laid off from my job last Friday. I was okay. I even went to wisdom weekend 4 in Ft. Lauderdale. Yesterday though I was wiped out. I guess it hit me. Grief can be draining. I realize though it is a good thing. I wanted to do something different. Lately though I had been more positive about my job. I really don't know where to start looking. I am in the brainstorming phase. I realize this is a time for gathering information and letting others contribute to me by their care,suggestions etc. I will be gentle with myself. I am still very tired today. I also have a sore throat coming on. I know this is how my body reacts after upsetting news. How do I transform that and make that a thing of the past. Declare it I guess. IN the past I would get sore throats when I had upsetting things happen.Now I know I am healthy. I at least get six weeks severance pay so I will get a paycheck until Dec. Also no more on call YAY. I will be working more on my creativity coaching program and perhaps writing books. There are endless possibilities
WOOOHOOO

Happy Labor Day

It is a sunny day so I probably will spend some time in the pool.
A new month has begun. I feel like a new month is a chance for new beginnings.I am starting to reviw the chakra's. I went to a chakra dance on Saturday. It was alot of fun. It got me thinking about the chakrs's.I decided to focus on one a day. I even found a website that gives me an email lesson a day on the chakra and it has links to other sites that have meditations etc. Today is root chakra-grounding,belonging,survival. Red. base of the the spine. Meditation to do-feel self rooted-imagine roots running from feet to the earth,imagine red. Can also wear red.
Tonight I am going to help out with the Obama campaign. I am a little nervous as I have never done that before. It should be interesting
Happy September-Happy Labor Day
Debbie