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Live Your Essence | Career & Life Coach, PCC, CPCC | Healer, Intuitive Strategist | Empowering people do what they love I can teach you how to do this as well.

I've overcome some major challenges in life and bring insight and expertise as a healer and coach. Here are the main ways I work with people. Intuitive healing: Using visioning, Reiki to lighten the body and connect people to their inner child, higher self, the Divine. Psychological astrology: Revealing inner dynamics, challenges, and gifts within, discerning what the universe is asking of you when you were born. In a new birth year, we explore themes that can arise. Life coaching: Holding safe space for you to explore/deepen life experiences, build new neural pathways and champion your actions and transformation. Included is experience from a 25+ year stint in higher education and career services. Get to know me: www.Connect2Self.com/about

04/03/2026

Hope y’all had a lovely full moon! It was illuminating for me - like how far can I go to help my mother and how much is too much.

In the sign of Libra this energy is about how we relate and balance - take the next two weeks to reflect and tie off old unhelpful habits. I feel we are all being pushed and asked to step up, to anchor the light, as Katie is saying. (Listen to her message).

Love isn’t all puppies and roses. How do you love yourself and others when you are pushed in a corner or exhausted? In the moment, we are not so mindful about it but we need to.

Much love to you -Sue

04/01/2026

First clear night after a rainy morning. The double fish lights 💜 I’m hoping things will clear up from here - the logistics and administrative steps of moving an elderly parent back to homeland.

We both realize that the Taiwan we remembered has moved on. There are a tons of new terms and tech - we are at the mercy of taxi drivers, 7-11 clerks, ticket counters, bank officials, senior community admins… Oh and the computer store tech person who patiently waited on us from finally selecting a laptop then setting up Windows and membership etc over like two hours.

He said he used to live with his Amah (grandmother) when he was growing up. Thankful for people like him.

The Pisces energy - elderly, confused, and attracting compassion - we definitely embody this for now.

What do you do when you feel vulnerable?

I research like crazy (opposite of Pisces, Virgo) and take action - until I’m forced to surrender 😂

03/30/2026

Transitions of all sorts happening. Having gotten used to dry, sunny Colorado, the always foggy and humid northeast Taiwan is something. My mother says it’s like western Washington where she’d live for seven years.

For a fire person like me, the fog has been oppressive. While it’s good to be quiet and get in touch with oneself while nursing a sensitive gut (because I excitedly ate large bamboo shoots without cooking them, I didn’t know), today I’m SOAKING up the sun🌞. It’s my battery.

Are you a sun person or fog person?

🌞🌞 personalgrowth

03/28/2026

It was like yesterday 😉 we reminisced and connected. We talked about life, work, kids, and asked how each other are. There is always a quiet, observant one in the room. Why we love her all these years.

03/27/2026

There are four of us gathering tonight. All same class - I ride the rapid transit for the first time to Taipei sans my mother. I can’t get over the lushness and humidity - it rained earlier and everything is dank. 😂

03/26/2026

Going south to get Ma’s paperwork done. On the high speed rail which moves super fast. A four hour ride is now 1.5 hours, enabling this a day trip.

I walked to the super market in Linkuo several times already, caught glimpse of colorful glass tree and what’s left of cherry blossoms.

I had Ma call the taxi for the train station and that didn’t work - ended up ordering one with an app and a huge rush in rush hour traffic to the train station, then literally dragged Ma along to the line for her car.

Then I run like a quarter mile to mine. Why separate cars? I made a mistake in the app ordering tickets thinking a round trip ticket is one ticket not two. 😂😂 then I had to get another ticket that came with totally different seat assignments.

Yeah the stress is in my third chakra. I’m only eating bananas and boiled eggs. This is a growing experience. 🙌
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03/22/2026

Fog or smog in the morning and evening. Jet lag is a bit like that. We happen to stay in the backside of a ginormous, modern mall, where three+ levels of restaurants and shops, multiple food courts, play spaces vie for attention.

Amid the street noises and unclarity, I realized I can get around but not totally understanding what the cashiers say, often behind face masks. Are you a member of something? Do you need parking validation (I think), do you want the receipt - the biz and newer terms are lost to me.

How do you pronounce Suage? It’s a restaurant 😂

Also a couple of taxi drivers chided me for taking too long (Ma forgot her glasses when we got down from 12 floors and I had to run back getting thru four gates basically), or gave the wrong address for pick up. I didn’t know exactly where I was and apparently the gps on the app isn’t accurate 🤔.

This reminds me of the negative energy what I left behind 40+ years ago. The patriarchal BS, presumptive, unkind dumping of their unhappiness and needing to control.

I do love the small park-like island in the middle of an older street. The lushness in Taiwan is something to love, especially coming from brownish Colorado.

03/21/2026

Jet lag can be a joy 😂😂 - it’s quiet for the most part in Linkuo district, Taipei. Cars do whiz by, reminding me that I’m no longer in the idyllic Niwot. Our Airbnb is next to construction site while they build another extension to a suer modern mall. I got my ear plugs ready but woke before the hubbub.

Transitions are like this - the chaos letting us know our world is no longer the same, we worry and prepare for it, face it the best way we can, and if nothing else we WILL learn something.

For now I’m adjusting and learning my surroundings, that my Chinese understanding is somewhat limited when ppl use new terms I don’t understand. But I can definitely get by.

My mother says that’s how she feels in America as she gets older. Except she doesn’t think she can get by anymore.

What transitions are you getting thru and what are you learning about yourself?

03/20/2026

Willing and able now. There were a lot of crazy things that needed to be done - the new moon squares my sun exact). Tech issues, finding the right items for being away… I got confused and went to the wrong line to check in. Their app couldn’t scan my ID, the gate says the wrong destination… Mercury def in retro 😂

But I’m here, after all the planning and intentions (I wanted to haul a backpack for three weeks of stuff - vitamins are heavy!) This morning I gave in and am so happy to use my rolling suitcase.

Many decisions - each brings consequences. When I meet up with Ma at the next leg, things will be different 🙌😍

Wish all a happy Spring Equinox. New beginning as I start my trip! What are you starting??

03/17/2026

T minus 2. I am finally getting to the important stuff 😂 — taxes and plant watering schedule — before I leave. Of course late at night I felt compelled to double check a 1099 and found an error.

Then it’s rectifying it and ignoring AI’s repeated suggestion to just accept it 😜 and trouble getting a digit copy. Can we say mercury in retrograde??

Details and routines aren’t the strong suit in this Pisces new moon/sun season. Nor Aries lol - I just want to go go go and the details (thankfully I have good amount of Virgo energy) hold us back.

So being outside is my self care - birds are chirping in the sun and it’s dry and warm. Taiwan will be warm and humid. I’m taking this in 😍😍😍

03/14/2026

The eclipses recently plus all that’s going on astrologically and life resulted a huge trip to Asia. It’s not just the long travel, uncertainty for a wheat free diet, adulting in a place that I left when 13. Last time I was there was when my father passed in 2019.

I’ve gone back a handful times in my 46 years in the US, usually with relatives showing us around. This time I’m escorting my 84 year old mother who hopes to join a senior community in a part of the island I’ve never been to.

Talk about Aries energy - being called to be courageous, independent, doing things that I’ve never done before. And a role reversal. I’m looking out for my Ma.

My moon is in Aries. It reflects the energy of my mother (moon = mother, homeland) - whose Mars (action) is in Aries. She is mentally clear and determined (Sun in Capricorn).

Stay tuned here on my adventures as I return to a place that holds hard and sweet memories. Perhaps another memoir in the making. 💜

02/19/2026

Whoa. The solar eclipse revealed some big things to me about my relationship to my siblings. The eclipse landed in my 3rd house of sibs, communication, and short distance travel. There is a sense of how I need to consciously act while I deal with my and their emotional tones.

It’s a truckload and it strengthens one’s character. IT IS BETTER TO LOVE. 💜💜💜

How has this eclipse affected you? What has it revealed for you?

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Getting to know ourselves from different perspectives helps us heal and live in full power. Embody your essence, who you are, so you can create the life you want.

A seasoned career coach who’s worked at top universities, and a life coach who has a versatile tool box, I use guided imagery and energy healing to change how one sees herself. Intuitive Reiki gifts healing insight on energetic blocks. Astrology gives understanding on inner dynamics and life purpose. All together, it’s powerful alchemy.

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