From the Heart Healing

11/13/2025

Ponderings on the Northern Lights

When my mom and I were watching the northern lights last night, she asked me why I thought they were happening more frequently in the lower latitudes like Michigan and the rest of the US. I told her that maybe it was global warming, but then wondered if that was even true since the northern lights were the reaction of the atmosphere to the solar storms caused by the sun (solar flares, etc.). I am a creative not a scientist, so I could have this all wrong. Doesn’t really matter.

I was still thinking about it this morning as I looked at all the aurora pictures from around the US and the world. And I began to wonder, what if it’s not science related, what if it’s a spiritual phenomenon? What if the divine cosmos/universe is sending us more light at a time when we need it most, focusing on the United States because as a country we are so divided and need the light now more than ever?

Last night Mom and I went out to Graham Lake, which is about 10 minutes from our houses. It has the best clear views of the Northern Lights in our area (that I’ve found at least). We were not the only ones there – the dock was lined with people, all bundled up looking up at the clear night sky, taking in and trying to capture the green and red and blue pillars of light that are usually seen only in places like Alaska or Norway or Iceland. We all were pretty silent, except for the murmurs and gasps when the light became more brilliant or changed hue. I don’t know the beliefs or views of the people around me but we all came together for one thing – a moment of tranquility and peace and beauty. In that moment, we were not Republicans or Democrats or Independents or affiliations of any party, we were human beings sharing in a divine experience of beauty and color and peace. We came together as a group not for our political views or beliefs, but because the cosmos was sending us a gift.

I’ve seen pictures of the aurora in my social media from blue states and red states, from all kinds of people. What strikes me most about this is that for once my feed is flooded with light. I’m not doom scrolling, but searching for more pictures, because each one brings me joy and lifts me up.

So, here’s my take. Maybe these auroras are beacons from the universe - they are the 21st century version of the Star of Bethlehem, gently nudging us to change our perspective, to look up at all the beauty that is all around us and within us each and every day, and to recognize that in one another as human beings.

11/05/2022

And in the wise words of singer songwriter Tony Lucca, there will always be a storm but it’s always sunny on the other side of the clouds.

11/17/2021

Love this!! So true!!

Reach Out Recovery 🌞

11/15/2021

We have been led to believe that life is about "becoming" rather than simply "being"... This is a tough one to surrender because our social system is designed to make us feel that in order to be worthy we have to prove ourselves.

This makes it hard for us to relax into the flow of life, we end up swimming against our truth and our inner guidance (to fit in) and in so doing against the current of life.

It's hard to imagine in this achiever oriented world that the only perfection there is, is what is right now and what is right now may be based on pain or pleasure, stillness or action, but whatever it is, it is valuable and vital as it holds a seed for the expansion of self awareness.

Every experience has something for us... What we choose and what comes to us are our greatest teachers, our greatest awakeners...

We can actually be achieving great things with the achiever absent, these things are our dharma which includes our capacity to be loving and kind, doing what we love and what we are talented at doing...These things come to us naturally, we don't do them to please daddy or to prove that we are worthy, we do them because we love to do them, they are an energetic extension of who we are.

There is no perfection to achieve, this is the greatest myth, the whole of existence is in perfection right now but we forget that we are a part of that regardless of how lost we may feel.

No leaf falls from a tree by mistake. The Creator's hand is in everything.

© Caroline de Lisser
Art Duy Huynh.

www.raisingvibrations.com.au

09/12/2021

This speaks to me in so many ways, both as a parent and a healer and a person who has lived most of my life with the anxiety that drives me to be that 'fixer', that healer, the one who serves.

I just read a very delicious book called "The House in the Cerulean Sea," and it spoke to me as well. I loved it because it imparted so many bits of wisdom throughout. At its heart it's about a man's (subconscious) search for what home, self, and family truly are, and the difference between living a safe controlled life and living in joy with an expanded heart. One character speaks about living life in a bubble and what happens when that bubble is broken:

"We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment... But it's so easy because there's something soothing about routine. Day in and day out, it's always the same. When we're shaken from that, when that bubble bursts, it can be hard to understand all that we've missed. We might even fear it. Some of us even fight to try and get it back... I did exist in a bubble. Thank goodness you popped it."

Like so many right now, I have been living in a bubble made from fear and anxiety. This passage below is in part a message to me from my inner self, encouraging me to break free from fear and pop that bubble, begin truly living a life of joy, peace, harmony, love, and acceptance.

It's time. Who's with me?

Pop!!

"Stop Trying to Fix Me ~ Love Me Instead

Please, don't try to fix me. I am not broken. I have not asked for your solutions.

When you try to fix me, you unintentionally activate deep feelings of unworthiness, shame and failure within me. I can't help it. I feel like I have to change to please you, transform myself just to take away your anxiety, mend myself to end your resistance to the way I am. And I know I can't do that, not on your urgent timeline anyway. You put me in an impossible bind. I feel so powerless.
I know your intentions are loving! I know you really want to help. You want to serve. You want to take away people's pain when you see it. You want to uplift, awaken, caretake, educate, inspire. You truly believe that you are a positive, compassionate, unselfish, nice, good, kind, pure, spiritual person.

But I want you to know, honestly, friend, I feel like a steaming pile of s**t when you try to 'love' me in this old way. It doesn't feel loving to me at all. Quite the opposite. It feels like you're trying to relieve your own tension by controlling me. Under the guise of you being 'kind' and 'helpful' and 'spiritual', I feel suffocated, smothered, rejected, shamed, and completely unloved. I feel abandoned in your love! Do you get that? I feel like you don't actually care about ME, even though on the surface it sure looks like you care! But deep down it feels like you are holding an image of how I should be. Your image. Not mine!

It looks like your love but it feels like your violence. Do you understand?
Yet as soon as you stop trying to 'help' me, you are of the greatest help to me !

I stop trying to change to please you !
I feel safe, respected, seen, honored for what I am.
I can fall back into my own power.
I can trust myself again, the way you are trusting me.
I can relax deeply.

Without your pressure, your demand for me to abandon myself and be different, healed, transformed, enlightened, awakened, mended, 'better', I can better see myself.
I can discover my own inner resources.
I can touch my own powerful presence.
I feel safe enough to allow and express my true feelings, thoughts, desires, hold my own perceptions. I no longer feel smothered, a victim, a little child to your expert adult.

The courageous adult in me rises.
I breathe more deeply.
I feel my feet on the ground.
Loving attention drenches my experience, even the uncomfortable parts.

My senses feel less dull. Healing energies emerge from deep within.
I feel light, free, liberated from your fear.
I feel respected, not shamed.
Seen, not compared to an image.

You help me so much when you stop trying to help me, friend !
I need my own answers, my own truth, not yours. I want a friend, present and real, not an expert or a savior.

And do you see, when you are trying to save me, you are actually abandoning yourself ?
You are running from your own discomfort, your own unlived potential, and focusing on mine ?

I become your ultimate distraction.
I don't want to be that for you anymore.
Let's break this cycle together !
Let's stop trying to fix or save each other.
Let's love each other instead.
Bow to each other.
Bless each other.
Hold each other.
As we are.
As we actually, actually, actually are."
~Jeff Foster ~

Photo: Art by Freya Visual

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

02/02/2021

I woke up this morning feeling a lightness of being I haven't felt for a long time, for I've been stuck in my shadow side. My spirit urged me to take a walk and I'm so glad I did, for I was treated to an amazing sight, one I've never seen before - this rainbow aura around the sun. Such a great portent. It urged me to let go of all the darkness and give it up to the light, let all the corners be cleansed. And I did. And I feel cleansed and free.

Today's affirmation: I absorb all the light and let go of the dark, knowing that good things are coming my way!

11/29/2020

Did you miss my Vision Board Presentation? Don't fret, it is now live on YouTube!! Follow the link below to watch it. Don't forget to tell me what you think in the comments below!!

11/18/2020

When I went on my walk last week, this tree had been mowed down by a driver who maybe wasn't paying attention. Its branches were flush with the grass and its roots were sticking up out of the ground.

Today on my walk I saw a different picture. Someone had uprighted the tree and staked it to the ground to give it support so that it can continue to grow.

Sometimes we are like the tree. Sometimes life knocks us down and we feel helpless to get back up. But then someone comes along, gives us a helping hand, helps us to our feet, lends us their strength, and stands beside us until we are able to stand on our own again.

There's no shame in accepting help when we are knocked down. We cannot do it all on our own, even though we often think we can. We all need support to survive, just like this tree. We need someone to help lift us up when we are down and can't get up by ourselves.

Likewise, there's no shame in allowing ourselves to fall apart if and when we need to. I think there's a common fallacy that we have to be strong all the time, and if we are not we are weak. There's nothing wrong with not being able to handle what life throws at us, because sometimes it's a lot. It just means that we have to lean on others until we can stand on our own again.

We cannot give kindness unless we know what kindness feels like. We cannot be truly supportive unless we know what it feels like to be supported. This is how we learn. And then we can do it for others.

Sometimes we are the tree.
Sometimes we are the stake.
Always we are growing.

Today as we continue to live in these challenging times we need more support than ever, whether that be from a friend, a family member, or even a therapist. We all have to come to each other's rescue. We don't have to have a huge support network, although that would be wonderful if we did. All we need is one person to stand tall beside us, hold our hand, and tell us "You've got this!!"

I encourage you to take some time and think about this: Who is your support system? Who do you turn to when you're feeling low or knocked down? Who are your stakes? If you don't have anyone, or want to add another person to your network, please reach out to me. I'd be happy to be your stake! ♥️💕