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How “Accidentally” going to a bead show changed my life Subtitle: Saying "Yes" to Joy It’s not every day that going to a bead show can change your life. I must have been ready for a drastic change. I didn’t know how drastic. Quite by chance, I went to the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee. The show is an entire convention center filled with beads, baubles, and semi-precious stones. At the end of the first day, I looked over my purchases and realized I didn’t have enough of the “Happy Beads” for earrings. (they were hand made African Clay beads...

Green tiger's eye brings deep healing and balance to surround you as if you’re in a deep forest.

Green tiger's-eye is deeply healing on a physical level, going to the areas most in need of balance first and moving out from there. Tigers-eye also helps to bring balance and grounding to your entire system, allowing you to be energized and strong.

Are You Fabulous Over Fifty or even Sixty and Beyond?

Our perception of age has changed, we are now often fabulous well into our eighties.

One of my favorite stones for stepping into your wisdom and power is Lapis Lazuli. Lapis Lazuli is a stone of self-knowledge, truth, and reflection. When you put on Lapis, your spine straightens, your eyes get bright, and I can feel your soul announcing that YOU ARE HERE. You stand regal in the glory of your true being.

Rhodochrosite – Love and Compassion starting with Yourself The most important love you can have is love and compassion for yourself. If we cannot accept and love ourselves then we can’t be truly open and loving with anyone else. We know both our vices and our virtues. Unfortunately, in our culture we’ve often been taught to focus on what’s wrong with us rather than what’s right. We can’t seem to look in a mirror without seeing every flaw, completely missing all that is beautiful. It’s this same critical eye and thought process that continually brings us down. When we can’t...

Chaos? What Chaos? What are you talking about?  If you have to ask that, then you’ve been sleeping somewhere in a cave for a while or have reached a state of enlightenment way above the rest of us. Almost everyone I talk to is experiencing chaos in their lives or watching the lives of those around them spin off into a dozen directions. If it’s just the lives around you, you’re probably lucky, but the consensus from most people I’ve been talking to is that most of us are feeling extremely challenged, overwhelmed and having a very difficult time keeping...