Peace

Ready or not, here comes life.

This card represents all the fire and unpredictability that life throws at you. Breathing through the good news is never a problem. It is the bad news. It sets your life on fire and sends your pulse racing, or at least it did mine. Who am I kidding it still does. I still struggle with the initial panic button alarms that my inner little girl feels. She is comparable to Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling. She is well versed too in all forms of disaster awareness and able to predict the upcoming events with great detail and vision, except that she is generally never right.

Calming your own Chicken Little and finding your way to a peaceful place during the worst of it is not easy for many of us. I am learning to soothe my panic buttons and reach for support when they are overwhelming. As I practice breathing through the panic, looking for the real problem, and soothing Chicken Little I am finding that I am better able to handle the bad and enjoy the good with much greater love than ever before.

Jumping In

Jumping in or starting something new is a struggle for most of us so it is appropriate for me to start with this card. I am jumping into sharing these cards and talking to you about them.

Remembering to ask for support during new adventures is also important. Of course, you must first be able to speak out loud to ask for support, even if you are not sure what that support should look like. This has always been my struggle.

I am going to ask for your support here. Suggestions, comments (please be kind), anything to help me with this undefined journey into blog world.

Someone told me that I should publish my cards--make them into a book, that they may help someone else on their journey. This is my attempt to tell my story and to hopefully hear yours.

Peace~

Here I go...

There must always be a beginning and this is my beginning. Today is my beginning here but my soul collage cards beginning was over a year ago. This is a shaky beginning because it is new and very open, just like the beginning of my soul collage cards. The cards got better so we'll hope that the blogging will get better. The cards have taught me much about myself and I hope that by sharing my cards and journal, they might help you explore too.

If you are not familiar with soul collage, there is much to learn by visiting the Soul Collage website by Seena Frost at soulcollage.com.