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A Time of Transition...

Transitions can bring up many emotions as our systems begin to shift and change. It’s as if the change is already taking place before it occurs.

We know change is part of our natural evolution; it is how we evolve. Transitions are also a clearing of sorts, both known and unknown. Like a shedding of skin, to make room for new energies and growth.

We know that the heart meridian runs along the palm of your hand, so opening ourselves up to the sun can open and clear parts of our emotional and physical hearts. The image of myself being like a tree, extending my branches to receive the sun, is a practice I have started again to assist me during this time.

If you think about it, a tree never stops the sun from showering it with its incredible energies. The tree remains open to graciously receive the sun's nourishing rays to continue its life journey. It's all about remaining open! This is in order to receive all the abundant life-affirming energies that are here for each of us!

A tree doesn’t allow rotten fruit or leaves to hang on; they all just fall away. No effort, just letting go of what has lived a life. Allowing the process of change to take place without grabbing hold or attempting to fix or control things allows life to move and flow with more ease and grace. A tree doesn’t think about providing the Earth's soil with beautiful nutrients to feed the plants and animals, it just does. Living, dying, and birthing is one of the most life-affirming processes we can be part of- if we so choose.

I am currently in a time of transition, as my NorCal chapter is ending. I recently gazed up at Mount Tamalpais, it was as if she was waving goodbye to me. I instantly began to well up, knowing I would miss our time together. I have also started to gift and sell some of my belongings. And just before I gave my bike away, I took it for one last spin. As I was handing it over, tears started to fall. A letting go, allowing another to receive the joy it gifted me, providing more room in me to receive the joys I will be gifted. I am feeling into the life I have lived here that is now readying to be set free, as I also prepare to be born anew. A stripping down to my bare bones, to be hollowed out, to breathe in the fresh new energies of change.

I have so many wonderful memories and am so very grateful for my time here. This poem from author Azar Nafisi feels quite fitting. ~ " You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you will miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way again."

Balance and Blessings,

— Regina

A Time of Transition...

Transitions can bring up many emotions as our systems begin to shift and change. It’s as if the change is already taking place before it occurs. We know change is part of our natural evolution; it is how we evolve. Transitions are also a clearing of sorts, both known and unknown. Like a shedding of skin, to make room for new energies and growth.

We know that the heart meridian runs along the palm of your hand, so opening ourselves up to the sun can open and clear parts of our emotional and physical hearts. The image of myself being like a tree, extending my branches to receive the sun, is a practice I have started again to assist me during this time.

If you think about it, a tree never stops the sun from showering it with its incredible energies. The tree remains open to graciously receive the sun's nourishing rays to continue its life journey. It's all about remaining open! This is in order to receive all the abundant life-affirming energies that are here for each of us!

A tree doesn’t allow rotten fruit or leaves to hang on; they all just fall away. No effort, just letting go of what has lived a life. Allowing the process of change to take place without grabbing hold or attempting to fix or control things allows life to move and flow with more ease and grace. A tree doesn’t think about providing the Earth's soil with beautiful nutrients to feed the plants and animals, it just does. Living, dying, and birthing is one of the most life-affirming processes we can be part of- if we so choose.

I am currently in a time of transition, as my NorCal chapter is ending. I recently gazed up at Mount Tamalpais, it was as if she was waving goodbye to me. I instantly began to well up, knowing I would miss our time together. I have also started to gift and sell some of my belongings. And just before I gave my bike away, I took it for one last spin. As I was handing it over, tears started to fall. A letting go, allowing another to receive the joy it gifted me, providing more room in me to receive the joys I will be gifted. I am feeling into the life I have lived here that is now readying to be set free, as I also prepare to be born anew. A stripping down to my bare bones, to be hollowed out, to breathe in the fresh new energies of change.

I have so many wonderful memories and am so very grateful for my time here. This poem from author Azar Nafisi feels quite fitting. ~ " You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you will miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way again."

Balance and Blessings,

Regina

Coming home, whole

After the completion of my first book, I was asked about how I would publish the book. A few people associated with publishing companies offered to assist me in getting the book out. I listened to what they were offering but by and large, they would be the ones in charge of my manuscript, my layout, my design, and the cover. So I essentially would lose ownership of the book. I sat with it for a bit although I kept going back to the message in my book which is about coming home to myself—whole!

I ended up going to our local farmers market one night. A much needed time out to enjoy some local produce, sit upon our dear earth, and listen to some music. I ended up making my way next to a couple I had never met. Low and behold she was a seasoned author of many books. She shared she had made it on the New York Times bestsellers list, three times! I shared my recent achievement and disclosing how the book came through me in a fairly short period of time. She was intently drawn into my story as she shared most writers await the time to have a book write them, as did mine. I also shared I was in the midst of figuring out where to go with this "publishing thing". I was getting up to leave and she said, could I offer you a bit of advice? Yes, please I replied. She said if I were you I would open your own publishing house. She shared she had done it many years ago and it was the best thing she ever did! She shared she now has an entire team who knows and understands her, and her work with all the ins and outs of her genre. I left chuckling, thinking okay here I am having never written a book before, let alone opening my own publishing house! Okay, universe is this some kind of joke? What is happening here:)

So, of course, I went home and googled Powers Publishing, and it was taken. Off to bed I went and let it go—well not really.

I awoke thinking about what she had said, and then googled— Powers Publishing House.

Powers Publishing House, LLC was opened as part of my own journey of awakening, a coming home to myself, whole. "What Color is Your Medicine?" came through as I entered into "the arena" of my own life. A recipe I took from Brene' Brown's- "The Call to Courage". My taking ownership of my souls evolution to this point meant me having the courage to share with others how I see a way of bringing others home to their body, mind, and spirit. This had me open and "publish" the book without giving away any part of myself, or the book. A writing that has meant to bring all of me in and owning all parts of myself.

My intent is to continue to write and add more books on these shelves of Powers Publishing House, from both myself and other writers who are called to enter "the arena". A place they can bring their gift forward to assist others along the way.

A place to align to your highest truth. A place that assists in bringing together "Our World" as we gather more peace and harmony inside and out. We are all looking to find our way home, whole. I intend for Powers Publishing House to be a spot you can come to find a little piece of your puzzle on your journey home.

Undivided, in unity for the sake of the WHOLE —ALL ARE WELCOME!

Balance and blessings,

Regina

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