Bender Healing

01/19/2025

Unprecedented cold snap next few days... Temps in frostbite range so try to limit outdoor activities to 20-30 minutes at a time. When you come inside give 5 minutes for heart to warm up before doing major activity. Remember your tires will be squishy in lower temps... drive with more caution, watch for black ice.

01/02/2023

For those who started their diets today... hold on Girl Scout Cookies only a month away!

12/27/2022

Think it is going to be a long winter! Water is key in this cold. Humidity is about 19 in my home with these single digit temps...

Trying to raise it...I put water in my sponge glasses(pictured)... got my water fountain working yesterday and a humidifier started... leaving wet towels around rooms... just did a couple pieces of laundry by hand to air dry... watered plants twice this week and got a spray bottle to spray water on my colorfast curtains... humidity up to 22 percent- hope to get it into the 30s- the higher humidity is healthier and makes the room feel warmer...

This is the time to lock moisture into skin using a lotion right after your shower.. air dry a minute then use your lotion while skin still retaining water... also try to use as cold water as possible with your shower. Very important for you to drink enough water to keep your skin healthy...

11/28/2022

Giving Tuesday... donate button at BenderHealing.com - help others in our community 501(c)3.

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11/02/2022

Twenty years ago today, on All Saints Day I had my most tangible spirit encounter. Many years before I became a Spiritual Healer.

I was driving to night school thinking I must remember to ask my mother if she would crochet me some dish clothes if I bought some of the special yarn. The ones my best friend made me had seen their day. By the time school was done three hours later I had a fried brain and forgot all about it.

The Bible College I was attending was near my parents and that year I made a habit to staying over after night school to do any special projects they needed thee next day before going home.

I was so exhausted after school, I declined my parents offer to join them for a drink. They were enjoying their traditional nightcap before bed. I thanked them and told them I'd see them in the morning as I climbed the stairs. As I reached the bedroom, I was so tired I just peeled my clothes off on the way to bed letting each piece and the shoes fall wherever. Very unusual for me but I created a path of clothes from door to bed and I flopped into bed.

You know that moment when you debating with yourself about what needs to be done before you can go to sleep...I thought for a moment I should pick up my clothes but decided it would wait for the morning. And since I was the only one using that area of the house it would make no difference. I fell asleep a minute later leaving my clothes all over the floor.

I woke up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and noticed my shoes were on the computer chair with the clothes folded in a neat pile on top and then two crocheted dish clothes. I know I didn't do that and was amazed because I am usually a light sleeper. I was exhausted and must have slept through it. I normally wake up when I hear my father on the bottom stair there is a squeek to the railing as he starts his climb. I usually yell I'm up so he doesn't have to bother to climb the stairs... Or when I hear the click of the hall light switch... yes even with my door shut, that is how light a sleeper I am. But I was definitely tired and heard no one.

I thought I must have asked my mother about the dish clothes and was too tired to remember. My mother must have came in the room and tidied up even though she hadn't come up to our children's room level for at least a dozen years. When we were ten she declared us as adults making responsible to care for our own rooms. I didn't think until writing this account how was she able to cross the room to turn on the light without tripping over things? When I thanked my mother in the morning, she had no clue what I was talking about.

A month earlier my childhood Sunday school teacher Mrs. Market died of old age, leaving behind her old dog. My parents took the dog in but she had such grief over lost of her master she wouldn't eat and joined her master two weeks later. My parents were devastated at the death of the dog.

In the morning when I thanked my mother, she had no clue what I was talking about. I detailed what was done with a key of the crocheted dish clothes. Apparently I never asked my mother to make me some. My mother forgot she had ones in the house, they were way in the back of the linen closet, made by my old Sunday school teacher, Mrs. Market.

I thought maybe I sleep-walked in my exhausted state but I think your personality doesn't change. I would have never put shoes on furniture, would have put my clothes over the other chair to air out, not fold them and I had no clue about dish clothes in the house. I also woke up in the same position I fell asleep so it didn't seem feasible that I walked in my sleep.

The only solution my parents and I could come up with is Mrs. Market visited and left the dish clothes. We loved her and she loved us. Her spirit may have followed her dog to my parents home. And I realized it was All Saints Day so thought maybe the stories were true about the saints transitioning to heaven that day.

Traditional catholic teachings are that souls are held in purgatory until enough prayers are said to move them to heaven. The original Halloween was for those who had a loved one pass to go house to house collecting cookies that represented a prayer for their loved one to get into heaven November 1st, All Saints day. Some how it transition to the modern commercial candy holiday, but in the past 20 years I sense the veil the thinnest in Oct 31/Nov 1st time frame and I think Mrs. Market may have come to collect up her pup's spirit on her way to heaven.

09/16/2022

Beautiful Day for an outdoor session. My client loves warmth of sun on her face and breezes on her skin... I think she went deeper into relaxation than usual. Hope you're enjoying this amazing weather.

09/07/2022

World Love Meditation

Asked how to send love to world... get into your meditation mode... image world in your hands and cover it with your positive energy from your hands... send love from your heart to your hands and let the goodness flow.

Ask what you will but things like for all ready, to be healed; all loosed negative energies to be removed; for people's hearts and minds to come into unity and community. Experiment with things laid on your heart... I sometimes request people to wake up to realities of what is going this life and have a thirst to live in the truth.

Also play with what is in your hands... maybe only your city or block or your country or your family. Of course if you want to send world love then use the world.

Blessings-
Linda

07/29/2022

After 11 years servicing Phoenixville saying goodbye to Church Street office... photos for client who loved the stone walls and other decor! Will be serving local folks in their homes and via remote for a bit... possibly a new office in a few months...

07/24/2022

Some ideas for honoring those who pass...

There are many things you can do Ceremony/Ritual wise before & After that will include her energy.

☆COOK/BAKE - Cook/Bake their favorite foods. Our senses are our strongest triggers & links to our emotions & Energies.

☆WRITE LETTERS - By writing a letter, your emotions, energies, intentions, wishes & more get transferred onto paper. You can then burn them out of doors in fireplace or heatproof dish. Smoke carries your messages to heaven.

☆CREATE A SACRED REMEMBRANCE SPACE- Place a framed image of the person, some personal items, a candle (Led lights if children present), for 7 days where anyone can go to just be, talk, share, express, grieve. Once the days are finished, Cleanse the space & remove the items.

☆ BURN SWEETGRASS BRAID - In Remembrance of our Ancestors & Loved ones who have passed, Folklore & some Cultures burn Sweetgrass Braids. Sweetgrass also invites good, pure, calming energies into the home.

☆CREATE A PIECE OF ART - This helps with self expression & release of emotions, Grief.

☆ SOUND THERAPY- Outside in nature or at home. Blast their favorite music, Sing & dance to celebrate her life!
You can also use singing bowls or bells. The higher frequency vibrations assist in clearing & cleansing.

☆LIGHTING A CANDLE- at a certain time everyday for seven days or during celebration times like their birthday or death day... holiday times...

☆ WRITING MESSAGES - on recyclable luggage tags & tying to a tree.

☆ BOTANICALS FOR REMEMBERANCE / IMMORTANILITY:
* SweetGrass
* Apple Blossom
* Linden
* Sage

☆ REMEMBRANCE/FIRE CIRCLE - A gathering, small intimate circle, in a neutral place outside. A bonfire or camp fire. Their favorite snacks/food. A stick is given to first person & only the person with the stick can talk & share their feelings. You then each take a turn.

☆ A TRIP OUT - To their favorite place, ice cream shop, book store, picnic area...

☆ WATER - Write messages on stones or talk to the stones & throw into the sea/river. Letting the water carry messages to her. Or for kids write them on paper and then fold into sailboats

06/23/2022

Hmmm- Enjoy!

06/22/2022

AUGUST 2022
New office to be determined...

06/11/2022

I write messages on small business cards and have them all around the house...this one I found today. Been getting lots of messages and images about fire and explosions this last week so been wondering what is happening to put those images in the universal slip stream... this message soothes my soul.