women’s circle

Come Nourish Your Soul this Sunday!

Photo credit: Lisa Morris Miller

I’m excited to share with you a special free virtual event I’ll be taking part in this Sunday, March 28th at 1:00 pm est and the best part? You are invited to attend!

I’ll be one of the “life liver” panelists for this inspiring and uplifting event. Please also stay tuned here on my blog for another free virtual event I’m putting together as another way for us to connect and guide us through these uncertain times. Hint: It will involve connecting with the wisdom of animals and oracles, plus journaling prompts and being together in community with like-minded souls.

VIRTUAL WOMEN’S CIRCLE hosted by Lisa Morris Miller

Lisa is the author of The Heart of Leadership for Women: Cultivating a Sacred Space, a seriously good writer, with a seriously hilarious sense of humor.  She’s an expert facilitator, teacher, and guide–especially for women–who brings to life perennial wisdom that provides the compass for a life of meaning, intuition, and well-being today.

Show up, Fill up, Pass it on.

Join Lisa and experts in mind and body health, therapeutic arts, and more, on Sunday, 1:00pm EDT, for an hour of nourishment.

Using Zoom, we’ll gather again from far and wide—each of us bringing the wealth of wisdom we’ve learned and earned—to contribute to the sacred healing space created. You can remain silent, or, participate with your voice during Q&A and large group chat moments.

Details and R.S.V.P here.

Hope to see you there!

xo,

Barbara

Celebration of the Feminine Spirit

Celebration of the Feminine Spirit
Painting by Lynda Richardson

For the paths we’ve already walked and for new ones on the horizon and where we stand now… this celebration of the feminine spirit and what we can accomplish on our own and together…

It is magical. It is powerful. It is beautiful. It is graceful.

This painting, made by my dear mama, in support of my vision and expanded work in the world…which now graces my Joyful Pause Studio.

New workshop in the planning stages: connecting with your totem animal through SoulCollage® coming this April to Joyful Pause Studio. If you don’t want to miss details on this workshop be sure to sign up for my newsletter here.  

Intuitive Guiding Messages

Intuitive Guiding Images
My 2017 SoulCollage card

Last year I was introduced to using twelve images, picked at random, from twelve different magazines to intuitively help create my New Year.

Initially, I was intimidated. While I enjoyed going through the meditation process for each month that led me to choosing twelve different images, when it came time to get all those images onto one 5 x 8 card fear set in. I thought there was no way I’d be able to do it.

In the “normal” process of doing SoulCollage(r) we work with an average of 2-5 images per card. I say “normal” as there is no right or wrong way to do this process, just helpful hints and suggestions. But twelve images on a card? That really did seem impossible.

But I’m happy to report I did it!!…and was quite pleased and ecstatic that I did.

Well, then I was hooked, and repeated the process again this year, which I then also facilitated a workshop at my Joyful Pause studio this past Saturday on this very process which I learned from SoulCollage(r) facilitator, Andrea Thuler who lives in Switzerland.

Above is my card I put together for 2017, which I did a few days before I taught it to seven other wise and wonderful ladies. I have to be honest and humble here…I am in love with my card!  I look at it and I can hear and see my soul with clarity, which is such a beautiful thing.

It speaks to me of my uniqueness in who I am, how I want to continue to dance more fully into who I am, how I find strength and courage from my rituals of meditation, yoga, and listening to my inner voice, how I feel the light inside me burning bright again, how my inner compass is my true guidance, and how I want to live more and more from that wild and wise person that I know I am.

But what lit me up even more was watching the participants in my workshop, half of which were new to SoulCollage(r) as they went through this process…and the revelations that it presented for them.

To watch as many began the process of letting go of what no longer serves them and finding the strength to step into who they really want to be….well, let’s just say, it was magical, priceless, and left my heart with a very good feeling, which still vibrates within me today.

I’ve walked the journey of letting go, and continue to… as like everyone else, I am a work in progress….which is perfectly OKAY…we are unfinished women, with so much more to give, finding our way to shine in this world.

One woman said of the experience, “My soul gained a little serenity today.” I wanted to weep with joy from that statement as this is the calling I’ve felt drawn to for quite some time now…

to help and encourage others to open to their own souls whispers and wisdom.

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