Category Archives: Home and Marriage

09 Dec

LETTER BOXING

Letter boxing is awesome! I grew up in the great outdoors of the west, and I have raised my kids to be the same in the great outdoors in Arkansas. We are travelers, sojourners, tourists, and warriors.   We love exploring, in many different aspects, in many different environments.  I want to encourage you to do the same with your family. If you feel overwhelmed with this idea, then begin with LETTER-BOXING. This is a great way to begin the journey outdoors, learning about the communities around you, animal or people communities, city or rural communities.

We have found letter boxes, and some pretty creative stamps, all over Arkansas, South Dakota, New Mexico, Missouri, and other places when we think of looking while traveling. I have been out of practice for a couple years while my kids are moving into the adult world/college, etc, after being home schooled for their entire childhood (they went to college early and are doing well :))

OH! what is letter boxing, you ask?! It is a journey of clues, and detective work.  It is about journalism and being creative.  It is about stamps from all over the country and world.  You create a stamp or purchase a stamp that is unique to you, that you take with you, along with a created or purchased journal, when you go out to find a letter box. You stamp the found journal and leave a message about you and where you are from.  You can create your own boxes with stamps and journals and place them in locations also, but you have to create fun and inviting clues to find the box.  If this is not making sense, just look on LetterBoxing.org and find out all you need to know. It was all started by a person in England who wanted to encourage people to get outside and travel, and “meet” (through the journal) people from all over the country and sometimes world. We had some people from China and other places sign our journals and find our boxes here in AR. It is such fun to go check your box, and check on other boxes, to discover those who have passed by and left their stamp 🙂

I am going to begin a letter boxing blog of the boxes I find and the places I find them. I will not give away location, but I will post pictures and the things I wrote into the journals I find.

Keep up with my Letter boxing blogs to find out where I hide my next one, or where I find one.

Jeana, nature mama, Natural Helping Hands LLC, www.naturalhelpinghands.com

Get out there and EXPLORE

 

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16 Nov

LIVE to LIVE

I have found my new heroes! 🙂 I will get older, but no one will know how old 🙂 I will look as good as I feel. I will live, and just live, without world view age junk. I will serve the community. Lets see….I will… 🙂 BE ME.

  • Create a mission.
  • Create a life.
  • Create a new story.
  • Create YOU (you know, the one you should be, and are, without the outside world view of you)

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14 Nov

Anxiety, my new outlook upon it…

Anxiety. A real monster. A reality in life.

We have energy inside us, outside of us, around us, and through us.  That energy is color and describes our demeanor.

I have recently realized to ask each day, “what do I want to be free of today?”

THEN…

The thing that I wanted to be free from may be just the thing that tethers me to a higher power. I can be free from the thing binding me, but at the same time, the thing tethers me to others who have the same “thing”. I can hold space for others in this “thing”; I can say to them, “you are not the only one.”

If I had not had the anxiety attacks, and the health manifestations that came with them, maybe I would not be as sensitive and know what to do with those people.  RATHER, I can embrace the anxiety, the results of it, the worry and the results of it, the control issues and the results with them, and the abandonment issues and the issues with that (and all of this from childhood to now), and MAKE THIS MY MESSAGE. This is ME.

It is how we ride the things (the roller coasters, waves, etc.) we want to be free of, and the things we love, and all the things in between, that make the difference. The difference, as a counselor told me, is “as a piece of hair on our head; the diameter of the hair is the difference between terror and excitement.”

I hate roller coasters, and always have, and probably always will; they terrify me. I asked myself what is it about them that I hate…and that is where it all became clear, connected with the anxiety in my life, and described my relation with the anxiety.  We all ride them differently, the things that terrify us, and yet something draws us to them at the same time. REPEAT THAT, it is profound. We all ride them differently, the things that terrify us, and yet something draws us to them at the same time.

Breath and Spirit are the same word in all languages and cultures on this earth, and in the word of the Creator (the Bible’s Hebrew).

Love others as you love yourself then takes on a whole new meaning:  unselfish to yourself “as” (at the same time as) others.

Take care. Be healthy.

14 Nov

Moons

Look at the moon feel the peace. Full moons are energy; they pull up and recharge. Full moons revive gems and crystals, plants, people. Go out and be in the full moon. The next week the energy will be great, as was last week. Then it will begin to draw down, push into, and release for 14 days ish. It is a cycle, a beautiful cycle. Been doing this my entire life: looking up and around and down to retrieve the creation’s gifts to me. Outside is a great place to go when needing peace and release and The Father’s touch! (That is a daily thing, and in large doses).

11 Nov

ready for real change? want healing for your child?

I just spoke with a friend and a client. She did a hair analysis with me through the best lab (recommended in books) in the nation for this kind of test. She has been learning so much about herself, experimenting with taking things out and adding things in to her food and life and supplements. She just told about how she stopped taking her calcium this week and has felt so much better, and her heart was not hurting at all; she said is had affected her sluggishness during the mid day and other things, that are disappearing! The analysis results showed that she did not need calcium; she needed other things to absorb it (there is more detail in this if anyone wants more examples). I am just on a high for what can be done and how the body will heal anything given a chance. I had a convo with someone last night who has a daughter with tourettes, which is totally curable despite the pharma take on it. It is a disorder in the category of ADD and other things similar. It is a mineral/vitamin/nutrition deficiency/gut disorder. It can be fixed. It can be cured!! Please contact me if you want to change your life or change your child’s life. I am totally excited about having complete and total time to serve and learn. I am learning so much more than I have ever, putting pieces together I never would have put in the same puzzle. The body is AMAZING! THE CREATOR IS AMAZING. We are given the power to heal and be healers. Action friends. NOW BREATHE, just breathe. AND LISTEN. just listen.

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10 Nov

clean that gut :)

this is a good site: check it out. I can help you understand this stuff if needed.

“YOU ARE COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY GOOD. I BELIEVE THIS.
you are separate from your behaviors. you do not change your essence. 🙂 Know this. Think on this. Believe this. I believe this in all of you.”

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04 Nov

CALL TO ACTION

faith                                                                                                              LET’S get to moving and shaking the world around us. Let’s write a prayer, a request (the talking part), and then listen for the Voice, our core (our gut), to answer; the next step is to ACT. We have to be brave and “fall forward”. Failing is success.  Success is success.

Here is my prayer for today: a prayer of thanks. (WATCH FOR THE NEXT FEW BLOGS TO BE OUTRIGHT ACTIONS–that means you have to come back and read what I have to say next).

Thank you my Elohim, Father, for waking me up this morning, inspired and ready for the next challenge, battle, gift, you have for me. Thank you for your for being my armor, my guidance, my inspiration, my first glimpse of real Love and Life, my healer, my greatest physician (my only physician), my best counselor, my biggest pillow, my most patient listener, and my spiritual rock. You are the only voice that stays constant, that rules my heart and head, that keeps my gut (my core) the ruling part. I know that the gut is always your voice, no matter what, and the heart is the following part.  You, oh Father, are the greatest thing that every happened to me, and have blessed me with some of the greatest people, family, things on earth. Riches are not in earthly things, but rather you are in riches. Here we go Father! I want to be your advocate. I want to be your feet on this earth, creating paths for people to walk toward you; YOU want this for me (that is why I want this).  Our failings are in “I wants” except when we “want” you and your walk.  I will take no credit for myself; if I gain fame or popularity, I will keep on keep’in on, and know it is all for you to be known to the world; it is for every part and piece, before your great entrance back onto this earth comes.  If I stay low key, the same abides in me, keep on keep’in on.  Will you please lead me to take the things meant for action, off the page, out of head, and be rid of the “I don’t like the sound of my voice on video”, and the poor excuses, and the “I don’t know how” goofball statements lying to my heart and head.? Would you help me practice each day one new thing with my video camera, live feed, blogging, and other things I have issues with, and cause them to be strengths? I believe you are already working in me. I have a schedule for blogging (hate computer sit down jobs) and I have visions and ideas for great short video blogs/live streaming on Facebook, etc.  I have a written plan for creating times to speak to moms groups and home school groups, and other places to make a name out there. I know you have set me on a path the past two years, and I am ready to put it all into another gear higher (and speed scares me). I am going to do this stuff. I Love you Oh Father. In the name of the Messiah, Lord over me, I say AMEN.

 

26 May

Primary Foods: Relationships

The article is so right on…It is the most correct of any thing anyone can ever say or advise. IT is the truth. It may feel awful or we may want to deny it all, but it is the truth. Health is not just what is going on with your body, or what is on your plate. The primary foods are relationships, spirituality, career, and physical activity. This article gets to the core and makes the point that it is only in true individuality that we figure things out and make things better. It cannot be done by anyone but the two involved. Each one has to come to the individual realizations and then reconnect. Once we regain this ability to take away expectations, not only will our relationships change, but our health as well. Be healthy.

 

Three kinds of expectations

It’s still the most surprising thing Becky has ever said to me.

“OK,” she declared. “I’ve decided to lower my expectations of you.”

Becky has a theory and after two decades together I’m convinced she’s right: Most conflict and unhappiness in relationships comes from three kinds of expectations.

Unreasonable

Sometimes our expectations are unreasonable. In the early days of our marriage Becky expected a certain standard of living but also expected me to be more available to her than I could be with a full-time job. I expected us to always have sex as often as we did on our honeymoon. We both find ourselves expecting too much from our kids today – a seven year-old is going to forget his coat at school sometimes. And it will be on the coldest day of the year. It’s just going to happen.

Sometimes the expectations we have for those we love are too lofty or misplaced entirely. Becky’s taught me to change, lower, or completely do away with those expectations that can bring resentment and frustration into our marriage.

Unclear

Sometimes our expectations are reasonable but not communicated well…or at all. A friend of mine recently blew up at his wife because she never initiates sex. At the same time, it turned out, his wife had been harboring resentment against him for never taking her out on a date.

Dates and sex and compliments and a day off and flowers and…and a lot of other good things just mean more to us if we don’t have to ask for them, right? We think that if someone really loves us, really cares, really understands us, then they’ll just know what we need. And we’re wrong. Love does not give us the super power to read minds.

How many expectations could be met if we would only communicate them clearly?

Unmet

Sometimes we get it right. Our expectations are reasonable and clear. But they’re still not being met.

Man, does that hurt. I feel devalued. I take it personally. I’ve learned from Becky’s example to clearly communicate that, too.

Unexpected

“I’ve decided to lower my expectations of you,” Becky said. What a gift that was! I no longer felt like a failure. I felt lighter. But I also wanted more than ever to be a better husband. I wanted to meet her expectations, no matter how high.

It’s still surprising how being expected to do less motivated me to do more. Maybe that’s just me. But maybe not. Maybe the people in your life will exceed your expectations, too, if you take the time to adjust your expectations of them first.

Source: The Art of Simple