“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.” ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Have you ever experienced being nearly finished with a project when another one comes along and takes your focus away from the finish line? That was me last weekend. I have been working for months on a new course based on my book, You First, until this last week. Out of the blue a new short and powerful book comes roaring into my vision demanding to be seen and written. Talk about déjà vu.
I was well on my way to the publisher with Get Off the Shelf when You First blew into my world and demanded center stage. It’s happening all over again but this time with a book to go with the course that will perhaps, need a companion journal, it tells me. I’m listening… who am I to question the wisdom of whispers?
I spent last weekend immersed in another of Donna Kozik’s “In a Weekend” programs. I gotta tell ya, if you think you want to write, or you are writing, and you need encouragement and inspiration, just join her for an “in a weekend” journey and you will be exhausted and exhilarated at the end of it. That is if you are wanting to write, 😊a lot. (writewithdonna@gmail.com)
Another adventure into the journey with words has begun, and I am stoked, petrified, excited, and anxious. I spent hours cleaning up the piles of papers in my office so I could see the beautiful wood top of my desk. Lots of newly labeled folders sitting quietly on the corner in their white-tiered rack.
I spent most of last Friday compiling my own research for this new adventure; what will it say, what will it model, teach, what problem might it solve? And now the journey begins, one word at a time.
The easy part is laying it all out. I spent last weekend in class doing just that. The front matter is pretty much complete, a table of contents, acknowledgments, a dedication, and testimonials. The back pages are close to finished and the chapters are laid out, each with a tentative title and a sentence or two to spark content. Chapter one is underway and growing towards Chapter two.
Sidelined – oh no, it’s time to get the next edition of these weekly tidbits of wisdom on to paper and off to my virtual assistant because I don’t have a clue how to put it all into the format you see in your emails and on social media. Thank heavens for Marsha and if anyone needs a good VA, let me tell you, I found her first, but I’ll share.
All that written to remind me that my heart is in my writing, that my soul soars when my fingers run at mach speeds across the keyboards as my pages fill with words spilling out of who knows where?
- What is your heart whispering in your ear?
- Are you listening?
- Do you know the path ahead?
- Are you taking steps in the direction your heart is leading?
Interesting food for thought, eh?
It was a busy, fulfilling, fun, crazy, puppy to the vet again, and I want a horse here week.
May you all hear the quiet whispers of your hearts and follow the path they point out.
Happy Trails.
Last Sunday the new video celebration for Lynn was launched on YouTube. It is a wonderful tribute to our friend and kicks off Diane Broussard’s new podcast Gateways, with the immeasurable production assistance from Michael Ney and Beyond Being Human. Here is the link if you would like to watch it: https://youtu.be/_XutaJJvgpA
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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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