tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23992875603637515462018-12-18T02:33:19.833-07:00tipsandtrickswithashleighbeyerAshleigh Beyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029568805782921995noreply@blogger.comBlogger49013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399287560363751546.post-9578426050124889582016-12-25T10:38:00.000-07:002016-12-25T10:50:44.774-07:00Keep it Local<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UL-P4PiMMl4/WGAD_iI-UfI/AAAAAAAACiM/-dLfrHvQyv05pxeZ6tzcwE9te-6D_R_JgCLcB/s1600/different-snowflakes-article.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UL-P4PiMMl4/WGAD_iI-UfI/AAAAAAAACiM/-dLfrHvQyv05pxeZ6tzcwE9te-6D_R_JgCLcB/s320/different-snowflakes-article.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />My relationships are the greatest gift in my life. The longer we know people, the more tempted we might be to hold them to who they once were. And the longer we know people, the more we owe it to them to let them change.<br /><br />You all have let me change, whether you like it or not, by allowing for less tipsandtricks. When tipsandtricks started, I wanted to practice my writing, and I was open about my learning and growing in this life.<br /><br />Thanks for the support in practicing writing! It has been extremely helpful to feel fluent in writing for my work in <a href="http://www.tipsandtrickswithashleighbeyer.com/2016/04/therapy-school.html">grad school</a>. My growth in <a href="http://al-anon.alateen.org/">Al Anon</a> has shifted my process tremendously. My spiritual work lately has felt too nuanced to articulate, and I trust myself and my Higher Power to work it out.<br /><br />Last night at Christmas Eve dinner, my family and I talked politics for a bit, and thanks God, the conversation was friendly and interesting. One member mentioned we have to "keep it local." The local level is where we can affect the most change and from local, the change can grow larger.<br /><br /><a href="https://thepowerpath.com/monthly-forecast/december-2016-monthly-forecast/">Lena Stevens has encouraged me to keep Kindness and Compassion as my theme</a>: to start with myself, and then offer Kindness and Compassion to those I love and those I meet along my way. From loving ourselves and each other well, we can feel good to move forward with enough energy to affect greater change.<br /><br />My life has been asking me to love others through growth; to not say anything definitive about anyone, to give them permission to change, and to see them anew. People do change. Allow yourself to, allow your loved ones to. Start local, grow through love and love through growth, trust your loved ones' growth, want it for them; don't be afraid of what it means for you. Allowing change in ourselves and each other at a local level is where it starts, loving each other well is where it is.Ashleigh Beyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029568805782921995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399287560363751546.post-63228604945921147832016-11-11T06:24:00.001-07:002016-11-11T06:32:05.292-07:00For Now and Beyond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i7l2Gr48lzc/WCXGUrDJJeI/AAAAAAAAChQ/ULMyHvqkgn0poMSwnPXCSK_IB20SwOwvQCLcB/s1600/IMG_9298.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i7l2Gr48lzc/WCXGUrDJJeI/AAAAAAAAChQ/ULMyHvqkgn0poMSwnPXCSK_IB20SwOwvQCLcB/s320/IMG_9298.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Never fear. Never accept the appearance of things. All this shall pass in this unstable universe of ours. Do not under any circumstances engage in fear. Do what empowers you. Keep your hearts open no matter how hard. Do not engage in martyrdom, resentment or hopelessness. Let us not allow our attachments to stand in the way of the work ahead of us</i>." --<a href="https://thepowerpath.com/products-events/message-support-following-election/">Jose and Lena Stevens</a></div><br />Your love is needed friends. I have felt best lately giving my prayers and my extra money to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock. <span style="text-align: center;">Thanks for these words, dearest </span><a href="http://elenabrower.com/about" style="text-align: center;">Elena Brower</a><span style="text-align: center;">:</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Across the plains of North Dakota, thousands of people have gathered with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in recent months to protest construction of a 1,172-mile oil pipeline. What <a href="https://thrivemarket.com/blog/dakota-access-pipeline-timeline-of-events">began as a legal battle</a> to halt construction has grown into an international movement headquartered on an 80-acre campground in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The community began with members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and has now grown <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protests-north-dakota-pipeline-native-land_us_57d55017e4b00642712de71f">up to 8,000 people</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The pipeline’s path through four states not only threatens Native American sacred lands and cultural sites, but also compromises food security and water access for families who call the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and neighboring communities home. Without a guarantee that the pipeline will be halted, the community plans to remain permanently, even with winter approaching." <a href="https://thrivemarket.com/blog/why-stopping-the-dakota-access-pipeline-is-important-and-how-you-can-help">Watch this</a>. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Water protectors and activists from across the country sleep in tents and teepees beneath flags from 300 tribal nations, gather around campfires, and cook meals in open-air kitchens. There’s even a day care center for children. <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/donate/project/support-standing-rock/CleanWaters/0">Our contributions</a> will help keep them warm and fed as they block further construction."</i></div><br />Also, <a href="http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078">these organizations</a> and organizations like them in your community, give them your time and your extra money if you have it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"Keep your hearts open no matter how hard."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Ashleigh Beyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029568805782921995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399287560363751546.post-41816772312873322812016-09-07T06:12:00.000-07:002016-11-07T07:58:33.642-07:00"How to Love and Also be Free"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ToDXeUduZcs/V9Ao8Km3k5I/AAAAAAAACgY/Wi-rNihRqDQzEZpMKe49BTUj5FrzHjdjQCLcB/s1600/IMG_7215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ToDXeUduZcs/V9Ao8Km3k5I/AAAAAAAACgY/Wi-rNihRqDQzEZpMKe49BTUj5FrzHjdjQCLcB/s320/IMG_7215.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Tipsandtricks' birthday came and went without a peep from me regarding the usual celebration of Greatest Hits.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">It has been an honor and a privilege to learn we all need to find our own way in terms of discipline and self-rules by way of writing less tipsandtricks this year, and I thank you, dear readers, for the opportunity.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In the name of freedom, a Prayer for "Honoring Freedom" (it's long; I promise it's worth it) from the inspired <a href="http://www.pixielighthorse.com/about-pixie-lighthorse/">Pixie Lighthorse</a>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>"Thank you for this beautiful day of growth, of separation and individuation. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Thank you for showing us how to love and also be free. </i></div><i><br /></i><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Thank you for the water, the grass, the simple things we need to live and tend to take for granted. Thank you for wide, open-range thinking and for the ability to create our own realities with your help. Thank you for the courage to step off of the well-traveled thoroughfare to seek our own fortunes of the spirit. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Bless our paths as we leave a season of our lives behind and declare new footsteps, once again, as you have blessed us so many times before now. Bless the Wheel that keeps us turning and learning. Guide us to autonomy as we learn to make spirit-stuff our first priority and the closest matter to our hearts. Let us allow this in others, honoring their way-knowing that we each have our own sweet language with you.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Guide us to true freedom by showing us your part in everything-everything beautiful and of creation, as well as that which is unseemly and destructive. Both are of you. Allow us to sit on the edge of the cliff for as long as we need to before we can move forward. Keep us from hurrying the process, knowing that it is in our readiness for leaping that we gain our sovereignty. Remind us that it is in ownership of the role we've played which will release us and forgiveness of ourselves which sets us free.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Humble us by removing our disclaimers, our qualifiers and our blame of others for putting us in this place. Find us sitting on the mountain waiting for the visions to come from you, disrobed of our arrogance, stripped of our expectations, devoid of impatience. Surround us with your magical animals, vegetables and minerals which support our earth-walk toward full flexibility. Show us that it isn't others who hold us back, only ourselves and our very good reasons. Show us another way. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Hold us tenderly when we suffer and amplify our radiance when we shine. Heal us with right medicine which opens us all the way up, in full support of our sensitive natures. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teach us to nurture ourselves deeply and leave tracks for others on path to find us and their freedom, too." </i></div><i><br /></i><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you and bless you all. </div><br /><br /><br /><br />Ashleigh Beyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029568805782921995noreply@blogger.com0