The Blog of "No Blog This Week"

Dear Sweet Listeners,

We've just recently returned from a vacation in the redwoods near the ocean.  I came back replenished, resourced, and happy to be alive.   It's been as if the redwood trees now live inside me.  What a pleasure to spend this holy time in nature with members of my tribe.

Then this last week, I've returned to a place I know well – I'm behaving like Sisyphus trying to roll the rock up the mountain, then falling down over and over again.  A little glimpse at my inside  story - “I have to get the video clip done for the virtual retreat.  I have to get the newsletter done.  I have to rewrite a sales page for the web page to promote the on-line retreat.  I have to find images on- line.  I have to get it all done by Friday and I have to learn the technology for these offers NOW.  LASTLY, I have to do this ALONE and it all has to be PERFECT!

Maybe you are hearing all the “have tos”.  This is the way I've gotten things done in the past, by pushing myself relentlessly.  Since my intention for these retreats is to come from a place of “spacious quiet knowingness,”  it's time to pause – the healing always has to start with me.  So, I've extended the date for the retreat and the newsletter and asked for way more support.  I'm slowing down.  I'm heading over to get a massage this evening.  This is my shortest blog.

I'm asking the Great Mystery to work with me and through me from here...

Thanks for listening,

Patricia

One of my favorite spiritual teachers, Susan Rush, says “Hurry hinders Holiness”-
and I'm stepping back into the sacred pause!