Don’t fixate people with the way you imagine them to be, with the way you “know” how they usually are. People change all the time. I hope they generally surprise the hell out of you. The ‘hell’ is your belief that you know how so and so is–we don’t know, because everything is changing. Fast. If you want to honor life as it is, honor the fact that people are adapting and growing faster than ever before. Besides, the unknown is fare more interesting than the known.

I wrote something like this many years ago in one of my very first newsletters. I believe the year was something like 2007, but it could have been early 2008. There’s no record of it anywhere, unless someone out there happens to be reading this and actually kept that first newsletter. I’d be mighty surprised. I was living on my own, and had to quit my job as a massage therapist.

I had worked on about 7 people in one day, and by the next day my wrist hurt so badly that I could barely put any weight on it. During this period of time of working with people, a Gift came to me. I would later call it Source Healing Energy, and much later on go on to teach this powerful healing work in workshops all across the nation. And even later on that that, I would create a first ever of a kind audio workshop with it, which you can purchase right from this website. My how times have changed!

This was back when I lived in Houston Texas. I earned my license for massage therapy in 2004. By 2007 when my wrist was damaged and I had to quit my job, with only a little bit of cushion (money-wise) to break my fall, I was left to figure it out. I was 27 years old, overweight, had an eating disorder that I was unaware of, had a sex addiction I was unaware of, and in need of a real drastic change.

I talked with the universe about it. I picked up a book I had seen once upon a time on my parents bookshelf, it was Conversations with God. Something about that book, and the timing of the loss of my job, and facing complete uncertainty as to my financial future and where I was going in this world inspired an idea in me. I needed to talk with my version of God. It was high time. So I did just that. I railed at God out loud to an empty room. Just me and the room, and my imagination of God at that time. Something about it was very cathartic and very inspiring.

The next day I got a call from someone who would change the course of my life forever, although neither of us knew that when he called. He wasn’t the reason, per-say, but he was the catalyst for me to meet with many great people, including the woman I spend my life with today. I’m still grateful for that, if not much much more. Anyway, this guy called me and had me come do a house call as he’d heard that’s what I did. I knew of him from my childhood days, and his name was familiar enough that something began happening in the back of my mind. With a bum-wrist, and not much else to go on, I went to his house the next day and worked on him. I went back several times and eventually it was suggested that I go on tour with him around the country. I did just that.

I visited places as exotic as Hawaii, and as breathtaking as Park City, Utah. I’ve even spent time in places like Columbia, SC, and Jackson Mississippi. Healing people with this profound gift of Source Healing Energy. At some point along the way I was making my own tour and earning between $90 and $100 an hour per person. Again, times change. My distance sessions are now $50, and in person ones are more expensive, but not at that level–and probably won’t be again for some time to come. The economy and my values have  helped shape those changes.

All of these great things happened because I knew the world needed me. I knew that I had to talk about it, to shout about it, to get it out of my system. I did. It may seem unconventional, but that’s the way my life has been. Unconventional. Organic, you could say. And it’s remained like that. These days I work at Whole Foods. I’m spreading my light and wisdom in little parcels to those who want and need it there. In the meantime I also write in this blog and I write my novels and other book projects I have in mind that aren’t related to fiction.

Back story: In all of 2005, while I still lived with my parents, I wrote a book and subsequently published that book. It’s doing really well these days, you can check it out by clicking here. That book launched the website, which launched the newsletter, which prompted me to write about the world needing you now.

The world still, and perhaps always will, need your gifts, your time, your talent, and your blessings of light and love. I expect that my light, love and gifts, will always be as they are, and that the outer circumstances will change. The waves on the surface of the ocean change all the time. But what’s underneath all that–the ocean–is eternally the same. Understanding this, you can give to the world all that you are and all that you have, no matter what else changes!