Happy Thanksgiving! This time of year always brings back memories from a thirty-year period when I got together with extended family for an annual family reunion. My mom is from a family of ten kids. We met in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina as that was the half-way point…

We often think that our emotions and/or grief are solely connected to the people in our lives – that is a huge part of it. Yet there is energy in the physical structure of a home, in the things we fill it with, the reasons we hold onto certain items, even the paperwork reflects the status of our emotions and our mind.

Changing patterns that we have done all our life can be extremely challenging, however doing new things can start to pull in the new. Even something as simple as taking a new route to work or a new path for your morning walk can help shift the muscle memory attached to the known.

New experiences with the pet friends are always a unique endeavor. They rarely act the same way as when you or their parents see them and those that tend to be skittish around strangers or a bit insecure with new situations it can take time for them to warm up to the idea of someone new being in their space.

Certain unknowns cannot be defined ahead of time, but we can put in place secondary options in the event obstacles decide to land on our path. When visiting pets, one comes across many unusual opportunities when a second or even third option is necessary. Most often these occur with various access points which lead us to further learning, compassion, and communication.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a dream about a construction crew of sorts on a road and how it connected to energy and the fixing of the road. The week before I made the decision to investigate whether a treatment would have any bearing on the tremors that I have been dealing with at various levels since my early 20s. Sometimes what incidents we thought of at the time as insignificant, today have a heightened degree of question surrounding them as to the impact literally and figuratively on the body.

Often when one goes through experiences of massive change and grief whether from a loved one’s death, a loss of job or house, the loss of a pet, the loss of our child-like spirit or even loss on a much greater scale, there is a stage at which we may think it’s been going on too long or it is unsafe to be that vulnerable for ourselves or with others. We can look for ways to close the valve, detach, freeze it, or even unknowing be avoiding the response of emotions.