OMG!!! Where did the time go?

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I am sitting here trying to figure out where the time has gone. I would like to say the addition of the 2 new accommodation units are complete and that business is booming, but that didn’t happen…yet.

Are they on the property? Yes. However, stuff happens and life and choices change leading you down other avenues. What changed for me? …ME! I have spent the winter having a long dialogue with myself about my life. What do I want and need. What do my relationships look like? Who do I want to be in my life and why? What and who creates energy and joy in my life. All the people and things that do not contribute to my life, are no longer a part of it. I realized I have spent too long trying to make other people happy and that is not my job, it’s theirs!

I read this quote a year ago and it took a long time to get the full impact of it.

“Your mind can only define what you already know. It can’t go beyond the limitations of what it has already determined is so. Can your mind give you awareness? No. Awareness goes beyond the limitations of what your mind can define. A mind is designed to take in information, and categorize it for use, now or in the future. But it can only do that, dependent on its reference point to the past. It cannot create a future or a possibility.” ~Gary Douglas

I have taken a long look at where I have created my life from conclusions that I bought from others, that have never actually benefited me in anyway. I have found the places where I have made myself smaller than I am, to create comfort in their worlds. I have hidden the weird, wacky, wonderful, compassionate, creative and fun loving being that I can be. I concluded that is what was required to be all of the things, to all of the people that I decided were more than me. I examined all the parts of myself I cut off to be that and have since discovered that was not true for me and have since chosen to be me.

So, that being said, I am opening a small store/shop out of our barn. It will help to feed my never ending hunger to learn more and be more. I will have things created by other beings who are creating magical items, crafts and art of different forms. I will continue to teach soap and bath product classes, as well as adding other fun and creative classes. I sense that  I will be doing more energy work and classes. I will also continue to nourish myself through my gardens and learn to expand out instead of shrinking when I sense others discomfort in my world. I am grateful to have found myself. 483411_428899000509231_1300431347_n

I invite you to come along with me on this fantastical, beautiful journey to creating more in and of life. I will leave you with this question,”When was the last time you have given yourself permission to just be…?”

Joy, Love & Awareness,

Wanda

 

What happens when you make a different choice?

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The question that has come up more often in coaching and energy sessions in the past month. “What if everything falls apart?”

What if it does? Is that really a bad thing?

In my life, I know I have felt as though everything was most deffinatly falling apart with no hope of working out. This feeling has come about more than once and let me tell you I am not going there again. Bold statement, right….?

You are probably wondering how I can make such a statement. Well I have discovered that although it might seem as though everything is falling apart, the universe is conspiring to allow me the space in which to create a different possibility. Just because I decided my life should be _____ or it should look like ______, how am I to know that is the best choice for me. I have intuition and an astute awareness of where my life is going and when I make a choice that hasn’t worked out in the best way, the fix is simple…. I make another choice.

I know… I hear you… “Well if you were wrong and made a bad choice the first time, how do you know you will make a better choice this time?” Well, you don’t know unless you try and follow your intuition, your built in guidance system. I am not talking about forcing what you want to happen. It’s that light feeling you get, the bubbly, tingly, sparkling joy you get, that makes you want to lunge forward in the direction of that choice. When you get “that” feeling, it’s different for everyone, move in that direction.

If on the other hand the feeling you get is heavy, sticky, icky, opposite of the lightness, walk, no run away from that choice. Unless of course you want to create a big pile of poo to clean up, and some people enjoy that kind of thing.

I can tell you from experience that it isn’t comfortable to change what you’ve always done, and perhaps that is why your world has imploded or exploded. You’ve resisted change for so long. Thinking that by not choosing, you could just stay where you are nice and comfortable, but alas you find yourself at some point in hip waders, possibly in disbelief and sheer panic, frantically shovelling away at that pile of s**t that now lays at your feet. If you are there, your first step is to breathe, a nice deep breath and then ask a question and feel the energy around that question.

Is it light or heavy?

So now I ask you…, “What happens when you make a different choice?

Joy, Love & Awareness,

Wanda

Hello and Welcome from Garden Gate Life…

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My first blog post for Garden Gate Life, how cool is that?

I started Garden Gate Life because I had a longing to create something bigger than myself. Something that would help others find the answers they were looking for. You know the ones, maybe you have even asked them yourself, all the W’s.

Who am I?
Why am I here?
What is my purpose?
Where do I go from here?
I would love to be able to sit here and tell you that I have the answers you are seeking, alas I cannot. Then why should you come to me? What do I have to offer you and what makes me any different than any other business claiming to be able to help you?

To answer that I would have to tell you a story. The story begins with a young girl who struggled to fit in this world. She was liked by everyone she met, but never really felt connected to anyone. She struggled greatly in her primary school days to fit in, but never really did.

Feeling lost she turned to church for comfort, for while there she felt a strange sense of home and belonging. That came to an end one beautiful sunny day, when she went to the church during her lunch break from school. You see she went there often to light a candle, say a prayer and on this particular day she was moved to sing. Oh did she sing, loud and strong, she felt so warm, so connected. Unfortunately the priest at the time didn’t share her enthusiasm and he didn’t ask the girl why she was there. Instead he cast her out of the church, believing I am sure that there was no good to be had by a child in a church by herself. Surely she had to be up to no good. Confused the girl left the church that day, never to return to the only place she felt warm, understood and at home.

I was the girl, now a woman. I have spent the last 45 years looking for something to fill that void and I have created a life that involved many challenges and learning experiences. I have been tested in my relationships, my finances and in my faith and I am joyful when I tell you I that although I may not have all the answers, I have a good life. I have found an awareness that allows me to work with people every day to help them maneuver through their lives and create a life that brings them much more joy and abundance.

So if you are struggling in your life and desire to change it, I would be glad to discuss it and perhaps put a plan together to help you with doing just that. Your life is waiting….

I look forward to serving you.

Joy, love & awareness,

Wanda