Retreating, Recuperating and Redemption
BY: Alisa Schneidman
Hi everyone,
Typically, I send out a newsletter on the 15th of the month, but I made the decision to hold off until the end of the month. I have found I love putting the newsletters together so much that I didn’t want to throw something together because a date was approaching, I want to feel connected to the content. However, I did receive content from two writers and artists, and it sparked an idea.
First, it is completely on me not having the variety of content, I didn’t give my contributors enough notice to get me content. They are incredibly thoughtful when they create the content, and they need time to come up with it, and I am grateful for it. I am going to begin sending out a Creative Expression Mini Magazine. I will be sending this out in a couple weeks, and I am so excited for this project.
Here is the other thing, I am headed to a work retreat at the end of the week for Self-Energy and Self-Like parts. I am going to have a lot more to share from what I am hoping is a different frame of mind (or from a more “Self-Led state and not an exhausted part).
Did I say the retreat is in Ireland? The retreat is in Ireland. Nothing like burying the lead. I know I sound over the moon, and I have my reason for my lack of enthusiasm, my last trip to Ireland I was the recipient of cruelty from the person who invited me there for two straight weeks, I got the VIP tour of the local hospital and an unexpected extended trip due to excruciating pain of yet to be diagnosed illness, and expenses I am still battling with the travel insurance promised to reimburse. Suffice it to say there aren’t warm, fuzzy memories attached. And before you ask-I tried to cancel it-I couldn’t so I shortened the trip.
Most of you got the email in April about the shift I made to my practice to focus on mental health services. I didn’t give much explanation then and my very talented friend who I hired to do some marketing, Beth Dombkowski, helped me with those emails (thank you Beth you are amazing-if anyone ever needs consult work done, she is incredible). I love doing the work I do, and I am expanding it into creative expression, Empath work and deepening the energy work I do; however, I have been dealing with some serious health issues. I had to abruptly change my practice because my health deteriorated quickly, so I had to transition my practice in an expedited fashion.
Arriving home found my practice room destroyed by flooding, the disappearance of two people incredibly important to me without explanation, the travel insurance denying thousands of dollars’ worth of claims they promised to pay, and my health continuing to deteriorate.
So, this will be my third time to Ireland, every time changes my life inextricably. I am sure this will be healing, but I have a part of me that knows that healing in a removed environment makes it harder to integrate into your daily life. There must be a way to bridge that gap-because it’s a bubble-perhaps that is the healing-says a quiet voice inside-the environment is something that I control not something that controls me.
With all this said I will leave you a cliff hanger until I return, you will get a good story whatever the outcome. You will be getting a new magazine. I will be sending out my newsletter with new content from the very special people who lend their gifts to make the newsletter something I am so honored to share with you every month.
I have a new Unburdened Empath Group beginning in November both in person and virtually. I will be doing both twice a month. There is a calendar on my home page, and you can link to the Event Page here. In the upcoming Newsletter you will find all the new events coming up. I am offering more integrated Sound & Energy Services blending balancing the Advanced Chakra System-you can link to the Service page here to see them all.
I will be talking to you when I am back from across the pond.
#SELF-ENERGY #IFS #SELFCARE #EMPATH #EMPATHNARCISSIST
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