Being on the lookout for secret messages returns us to our own sense of astonishment, wonder, curiosity and play. Let's see what we can find.
A day that didn't go as planned and felt herky jerky was saved by my routine (which is a great resource I have developed) and by surrendering with self-compassion rather than trying harder for more. What I have going for me is beautiful and I can't mess it up. Some days are just like this.
Facebook delivered me up a post by Gary Vee right when I needed it. We find evidence for whatever we are looking for. If you want to find people who believe in what your intuition is telling you, you will find those people.
Dreams often live in Fantasy Land and they feel like they are just there to escape reality, so when you make a shift and start to really live your dreams in small ways it gets really exciting! My Spanish teacher is helping me initiate conversations with Spanish speaking acquaintances and I am seeing real progress. It feels like I am living my bilingual dream today!
Your dream doesn't happen once you get there, someday maybe. It happens everyday that you say yes to it. Your adventure is here now. I share a story about arriving late at a dinner and the adventure that ensued.
Moving towards your dream instead of away from it. I share about stepping into my power by creating business proposals that push me out of my comfort zone to ask for more of what I want in my life. One proposal was to receive help and one was to give help.
What if you can't always bloom where you're planted? What if sometimes you gotta get a little further down the road to acquire some skills or awareness or confidence in order to bloom. I share about how I followed stepping stones that took me away from what I thought my dream was to be a writer and into teaching which I had little preparation for. And then teaching taught me things I needed and gave me insight into new dreams!
What worked before may not be working anymore. How to use burnout, fatigue and unwanted feelings as an invitation to realign with your dreams.
When a new dream surfaces it helps to gather your thoughts and share it with others!
When I see the shadows the power lines cast on the road I feel as if I am driving across a giant Hope Hub. Enjoy this final episode, Lucky 113, of the Secret Message Society podcast.
I watch a girl practicing tennis and am brought to tears with remembering how hard it is to learn something new and keep going.
I find a rusted metal ring on a walk. The ring has a gap in it, and I get it in my head that I need to use pliers to close the gap. Chaos ensues and I find a sword in the stone sort of secret message that helps me laugh thru the pain.
Driving in my downtown I see so many building projects and construction. It looks chaotic unless you know what's going on with the bigger picture. This gives me secret messages about how an artist must jump dimensions if their play is to be sustainable.
What's crazier? That I got to hold a wild Hummingbird or that Alexa told me the day before it happened that I would get to? Can secret messages and imagination impact our future?
Needing some structure in my life I call in my imaginary friend Mr. Bones! Imagine my delight when he Mandy-fests in real life times 2!!!
The pause before the panic. Practicing unhurried energy in the midst of hurry.
I'm intrigued by a neighbor sitting on his sidewalk in his lawn chair, while he works on building a fence. This is about the secret message of taking breaks.
Being surprised by death and yet not surprised at all. Somehow here to be the stars in the dark. Take as long as you need. ✨
Feeling overwhelmed and like I couldn't possibly muster the energy to get out of a negative loop I was stuck in, I tried a few things and landed on a way out that utilized movement and imagination. This creative exercise feels like that show “Whose Line Is It Anyway” where they do the round with a prop and have to come up with impromptu uses for it.
A delay in my creative idea becomes an expansion of my community.
You send out the secret messages you want to see in the world and the world gives you more of them in return.
For a split second I pass a boy being pushed through a store in a cart and what he says reconnects me with self-compassion and the “Mr. Rogers' voice.”
When watering my sunflowers, holding the watering can hurts my wrist. Then I discover a different degree of grip on the handle helps the water flow with ease. Naturally I follow that secret message to the metaphor of how I approach my life. Looking for ways to change difficulty to ease.
When I hear someone retelling the same story to me, it makes me curious. What stories am I retelling and why? What are the secret messages to be found in the stories you keep telling? What fire are you centered around?
When my laptop battery gets dangerously low and plugging it in doesn't help, I follow the secret message of what am I plugging into in my life that is depleting instead of replenishing me.
Two things happen to me right in a row. One is easy and one is hard. What's the secret message to be found in opposites?
An example of what it looks like to use one of the fortunes from my Becoming a Hope Beaconess Program to pivot my story towards Hope. If you love what you hear, you can apply at Bit.ly/BecomingAHopeBeaconess
How to have interactions with a stranger that are infused with secret message play.
Drawing mockingbirds and reliving a story where I was invited to use my voice.
The parable of one woman who is willing to receive help and one woman who cannot be helped and the astonishing difference in how flow flows in each instance. In this episode I'm sharing my Full Moon secret message take away!
Conversations are the improv of our identities. We get to test out who we think we are, respond to one another and later, go-back and self-compassionately scoop up the secret messages that appear.
When the kitchen drain gets clogged will it be the straw that breaks the camels back or can I get by with an insta-flow secret message?
When the kitchen drain gets clogged will it be the straw that breaks the camels back or can I get by with an insta-flow secret message?
When my shifting cable broke on a bike ride leaving me stuck in my hardest gear, I needed to adjust my goal and my focus, but there were secret messages and ease in going with that flow. When plans or visions change how can you adapt?
On a day where I'm not in the best of moods, I hone in on “little magics” and it really makes a difference.
Learning about creative collaboration through an NFT project called the Boopieverse, I get to see firsthand the way to work with a person's energy and implement it for good.
A saying from my childhood that always caused me to groan helps me fuel the concept of the Secret Message Society.
My cat's strange behavior as me looking to the skies and reading the secret messages there-in.
Forgetting means you get to find a new secret message all the time!
My surprise love for technology and machines holds some secret messages worth exploring. I dive into the secret messages of switches and dials in this episode.
*Following a secret message trail last Fall I find myself listening to some Law of Attraction Books and feeling like I am reminiscing with an old friend. In this episode I'm sharing a resource I've been enjoying lately and why it resonates.
On a walk I find a bunch of familiar things, but feel inspired to call them by a different name. Changing the name changes the secret message potential. It taps into beginner's mind and allows something to be something brand new in the moment.
The Dr. Of Secret Messages would like to prescribe you a two-fold prescription for what ails you: Let it take 2 times as long as it used to and laugh about it the whole way.
I come across something on a walk that helps an old secret message resurface. That's exciting!
Here is the secret to finding secret messages everywhere. In a moment that could have been just an average been there, done that moment, I open up to wonder by flipping the secret message switch.
When two boxes of cheerios get left at the grocery store on accident it becomes a scavenger hunt full of secret messages.
Doing something small that makes me happy - taking a walk around my block - and finding secret messages on the way.
Thank you for listening and subscribing. It's been a delightful year and I have loved the practice of showing up with a secret message every week. Next year I go with the flow. No hard and fast commitments, except to flow. That sounds exciting to me. I hope it has me talking into my phone some more, recording podcasts like I'm Dick Tracy talking into his watch. Happy New Year! May secret messages always find YOU!
When I share on Instagram that lime green and peace have been a secret message for me, @jackrabbit_spiritual shares the exact same two secret messages showing up for her. This is a fun way to explore secret messages with another person and share your findings as they develop.