Joy is at the Forefront of my June
I read somewhere that friendship is essential to the soul. You can live your life without your mother or father. You can live your life without your brother or sister. But, you can’t live in this world without a friend. Friends are the lifeblood of our connections to humanity, to our human-ness and to our very core, our hearts.
This morning I got an unexpected call from a dear friend I hadn’t talked to in a month. It was so very good to hear her voice and to catch up. She reminded me of something so precious, friendship. In the past couple of years, it has become increasingly difficult to maintain friendships when we haven’t been able to gather and to go out to lunch or to a movie. Virtual friendships are forming along the luminous threads of our world wide web, and we are clinging to our screens for connections. That is all well and most wonderful, but what about when the screen goes black and the computer is shut down, then what?
I think I am going to begin to write letters. These weekly messages that I have been writing have become connections for me to people, many of whom I have never met, and their notes back to me feed my soul and make my heart sing. Just yesterday, a carpenter came to put a set of shelves together for me and asked, “Where do you get your inspiration, how do you know what to write?” I didn’t even know he was on my little list. We chatted for about twenty minutes, and he shared how sometimes he felt like I was writing just to him.
I think that as I share my world, feelings, emotions, real and raw, funny or sober, with you all, perhaps you can see, feel, understand that we are all walking down different paths sharing similar experiences and feeling many of the same thoughts. We are not in this game of life, alone.
If there is something I can help you with or you just need to chat with someone who can listen, I am here for you. If you want to gather in community, in person or virtually, let’s do it! That’s a REAL invitation folks.
June is going to be a wonderful, exciting, scary as hell and amazing month. My grandson will become a teenager (yikes, where did the time go)? I will be doing interviews and summits around my new book – June 4th with Beyond Being Human, discussing Shamanism and things beyond our human world. June 14th I’ll join Heidi Esther as we talk about happiness and joy, taking ours seriously and letting us be our own, first, priority.
My next book GET OFF THE SHELF, Choose You First, You Have a Right To Be Happy is making its debut on JUNE 21 – yep, a Solstice Celebration launching this dream into the world on a day when we celebrate the Light. This journey has taken five years to make its way into the world. I have to admit, You First, born from Get Off the Shelf, did jump out in front and take up a year of unexpected, but joy-filled and much needed learning time.
Stay tuned for our celebration news, a launch party or more, and who knows what all fun things will come to be in this month of, yes, another birthday, mine.
June also carries a heavy burden for me as it is the anniversary month of the passing of our son Ryan. His joy and his wisdom shared from the other side, remind me that I can either be defined by his loss or live fully, joyfully (he was full of laughter) and share the wisdom he shares with me (another book someday – Wisdom Heaven Sent).
But Joy is at the forefront of my June (it was even the celebration month of my parents’ anniversary – I got here three days before their special day). And this June will be a humdinger. Thank you for going along for the ride and please know, that our connections are real, that your friendship in this virtual space, means the world to me, and I am so very grateful for your part in my journey.
Let’s start calling and writing and reaching out and connecting and playing together and laughing and loving and creating. Let JUNE be the month we all look beyond the heavy, the tragic and the terrible that is happening all around us and find each other – SMILE, I’m smiling back at ya!
May your journey into summer and all the bounty that it holds be filled with fun, food, faith, family, fitness and FRIENDS!
May the FORCE be with you
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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