Some of you might only know one aspect of how I share my creativity – through being a Life Coach and Mentor. It is such an important part of my life and my life purpose but, like many Creative types, it is far from my only creative path. I have many different creative interests and outlets.

Today I wanted to share a little bit more about one of those other outlets. Really, it is more of a passion — a fascination with dance and theater that I have had since I was a child growing up in Southeast Wisconsin. This week we are entering the final rehearsals for our local youth theater performances of Aladdin which I have been choreographing. Seeing the youngest little ones in that theater group reminded me of my very first performance at age 5, when I was a mushroom in Hansel and Gretel (no dancing there — my feet stayed firmly planted for that role). 

As a young girl I was constantly staging musicals in my backyard or my best friends basement. I was fortunate that my brother and my best friend humored my creative urges. They would let me dress them up and teach them my choreography. As I grew up I would keep coming back to dance, with lessons through my teenage years and in college. And then after graduating when I had my own steady income, I set aside my first raise to head back to the dance studio. I never imagined that I would own a dance studio myself, but then the opportunity arose and I took it. I owned that studio for about 9 years.

Although I no longer work with dancers on a daily basis, in the last three years I have been able to share my passion for dance with our local theater group. It is such a wonderful thing to be able to share my creativity with enthusiastic children whose excitement is infectious.  I know how excited my 5 year old self would be if she could see me now!

Over the next few days I encourage you to take some time out to imagine your younger selves. Is there something that has kept coming to you over the years? Perhaps it is a hobby or interest that you wish you had the time to fit into your life?

When you make an excuse not to do something because you are too tired, or just blob out in front of the TV at the end of a long day, take a moment. Stop and think. What could you do instead? How could you embrace your inner child – and your creativity! 

If you had the chance – What do you wish you could tell YOUR younger self?

Thank You for joining us this week.

As I sign off I wanted to remind you once again – Your soul picked this life. 

Until next time,

For so many of us, especially here in the U.S., Halloween is a time to celebrate being a little bit afraid. Whether you are settling in to watch scary movies with your family, visiting a Haunted House or telling scary stories around a fire, eating candy that was collected Trick-or-Treating.

I realized that this would be the perfect time to talk to you about the two most common fears that are holding back Creative people from living their true life purpose:  

I hope that the the ideas I have shared today have resonated with you. Especially if this has helped you to gain clarity. Perhaps you are ready to acknowledge that you have reached a point where you are tired of letting your fears stop you from achieving your full potential and finding your true happiness. 

I would like to invite all of you to take part in this weeks Spark Exploration. Being able to recognize how your fears are stopping you from moving forward brings you a huge step closer to being able to finally achieve your Creative, Purpose-filled life.

• Is there some aspect of yourself that you have always wanted to be able to accept and embrace about yourself? Perhaps it is something – like your name – that for whatever reason didn’t always resonate with you? Or maybe it’s a compliment that people seem to give you, yet you find it hard to believe about yourself? 

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Until next time,

 Have you been through a shadowy period in your own life? Did it make you see things differently or have a change in perception? 

Can you think of a time when you have cut yourself off

from your feminine energy? 

When have you leaned into your feminine energy and had it 
work in your favor? 

As always, Thank You for taking the time to click on this newsletter and taking a few minutes out of your busy day to watch and read what I had to share. The new landing page for SparkYourBeing.com is up and running – I would love for you to join our mailing list!

Baeth Davis was the Scientific Hand Analyst who would read my fingerprints and send me a Life Purpose blueprint based on her findings. Scientific hand analysis isn’t about fortune telling. Instead, it looks at your fingerprints as a unique code (almost like DNA) that can tell us our aptitudes and challenges. In other words, our Life Purpose, Life Lesson, plus our Life School/Theme.

When my report arrived, I headed out to my hammock to review it. I was stunned! There hadn’t been any communication with Baeth or anyone in her office. I’d simply sent my handprints. Now I was staring at a report telling me everything that I’d learned about myself through 20 years of personal development.

I was a life coach, and I could see how Scientific Hand Analysis could cut months or years off of my client’s growth curve. I felt compelled to learn more, so my next step was to become a Scientific Hand Analyst. I spent the next 13 months studying with Baeth Davis and Pamelah Landers.

Even though I could see the great benefits to this system, aligning with it was scary. I’d have to openly embrace this mystical stuff publicly instead of keeping it hidden in the closet. There’s a scientific side to this modality that can be demonstrated and verified, and there is also talk about souls, sacred contracts, and God’s blueprint. I was worried that I’d sound flaky and lose my credibility.

Yet I had made the commitment to myself and God that I would get out of my own way. I decided to continue down the path that started on my hammock and led into my future.

Yep, that’s my Life Purpose. Gulp! And it’s still hard for me to wrap my head around it. Yet, like I said, it really does make sense if I look at my entire life and my decades of personal development. Remember, we are ALWAYS living our life purpose.

The analytical side of me was still kicking and screaming about the whole Life Purpose process and telling people that I could now read their hands. But now I saw that this was exactly how I’d been getting in my own way — by rejecting myself and playing small. It was time to end to this self-imposed struggle by accepting myself fully. It meant bringing all parts of me out of the darkness and into the light.

There could be no more worrying about other people judging me. No more minimizing my gifts or letting fear get in the way of my vision and purpose. I couldn’t let self-doubt, feelings, and opinions sway me. Instead of letting my analytical mind and mystical side do battle, I chose to put them both in service to my soul.

Thank you once again for reading another long installment of my newsletter. I really wanted to catch you up on what’s been happening in my life, because I want to invite you to continue this journey with me as I announce the next phase of my business.

And of course I want to help you on your journey, helping you ignite your inner spark and turn it into a flame. I’m working on my new program right now, and I’m looking forward to giving you the very first sneak peek at what’s to come.

Until next time,

My story starts by flashing back to what should have been the happiest time of my life and instead was the beginning of a period of darkness. A dimming of myself that had been taking place for about 10 years. It all started in my early 30s — I had a gynecological issue, including a miscarriage. Happily I was able to become pregnant again, giving birth to my daughter.

After my daughter was born I  just never felt completely right. I was exhausted, with no focus,  and a “foggy” brain. At first I simply chalked it up to the stress of being a new parent, but things didn’t get better as my daughter grew. They got worse year by year.

• Waking up
• Breakfast, get daughter ready for school, nap
• Lunch, nap
• Waking up and having a fully sugared and caffeinated Coke just to feel alert enough to drive and pick up my daughter from school
• I would drag myself through the rest of the day, waiting for the moment I could get back in bed

I felt like I couldn’t enjoy my daughter’s childhood. If we did a special activity like going to the beach or the fair, it would take me 2-3 days to recover afterward. As for the relationship with my husband — I had nothing left for him.

Not only was I constantly exhausted with a scrambled brain, I was always sick with infections and colds. I became apathetic, and nothing seemed to matter anymore.I did everything I could to try to  fix myself. I tried to exercise it away. Different diets — more carbs, less carbs. Different vitamins. Nothing worked.

The Doctors didn’t have an answer for me. They said it was perimenopause, but I didn’t believe them. I knew other women are able to function during perimenopause — to hold down jobs, continue to live their lives. I couldn’t.

Then out of the darkness came a spark of light…  

My health was my #1 priority. As it improved, I regained my mental focus, my creativity, my VITALITY. The JJ who had been in hibernation was waking up. I was getting my life back in a new and spectacular way.

Being in this world depends on my body. The body is in service to my spirit. Taking care of my body means that my spirit can be who it came here to be.

As I cleansed my body, I also cleansed myself of the “shoulds” that I’d carried around for so long. I’d discovered that I couldn’t rely on traditional, conventional wisdom such as exercise to boost my metabolism or eating healthy whole grains. This advice had ended up being the opposite of what my body needed. Instead, I learned to listen to my inner self to guide and direct me in my healing and in my life.

The body has a wisdom, and if we take the time to tune in, it will guide us in our purpose.

This is what I’ve been doing for the past few years, and why you haven’t heard much from me lately. I’ve been on a journey that has not only given me back my life but also given me back my JOY. I know that was a lot to talk about after being gone so long, and I want to thank you for reading. I am so happy to be able to share this with you. 

And there’s still more that I want to share, so you’re going to be hearing more from me very soon! In the coming weeks I will be: 

• Sharing with you about what happened once I started feeling better — when I sent up a prayer to know what my purpose was and things really started to spark
• And I want you to be the first to see how this whole journey has shifted my business — in a way that supports me and my health, AND in a whole new way that supports you in being who you came to be, expressing yourself fully in the world, and finding your joy.

Thank you for being a part of this journey with me!

Until next time,