Have you ever met someone who changed your life? Who made a magical impression on your life? Is this person still in your life?

We are all connected. All interlinked in some way. Destined to cross paths with certain pieces of ourselves to learn, to grow, to live. Take a second to think about this. Think about your day. All the people you come into contact with. All the hellos and the watch outs. Now think about ALL the other people that you do NOT ever come in contact with. Do you think this is coincidence? We are meant to engage and interact with one another but only certain people, not ALL people . I believe in energy. In frequency. In vibration. These things have been scientifically proven and are a very real thing. This is apart of what the law of attraction means. You attract what you are. Even the nasty things you do not think that you are. The mermaid princess encounters this lesson in this magical fairytale.

I cross paths with different kinds of people and I always try to remind myself there was some kind of purpose for the interaction. If not for me, for the other person. There are so many people out there that need a smile or a hello from a stranger and we turn our noses down to our phones and ignore one another.

I crossed paths many years ago with a young man who was friends with a friend of mine and we hit it off at a party. He was kind like me, open, we engaged, and then it happened. We went beneathe the surface and we spoke about our fears and about things that were real. By the end of our conversation I had opened my eyes to many things, and also gained tools for the things I was having alot of fear with. He had went through things too. I found out I wasn’t alone. My life changed. That magical meeting changed my life. I saw him here and there after that and we’d exchange stories and ideas and tools for life. I always felt better after we talked. What’s funny is we never purposely hung out but we would cross paths. It was the universes bigger plan. Our energy attracted one another . We now occasionally exchange a message here and there and it’s all love. I’ve vocalized to him the importance of our meeting that night to me. I am forever grateful.

How many times has this happened to you? Do you write people off immediately or hear them out. The relationship between the Mermaid and the Moon is a magical one that goes down in history. Not only does she learn from the Moon, the moon learns from her! You are the company you keep. Choose wisely. Your life legend depends on it.

When have you felt most alone in life? Is it now? Have you ever felt alone?

I felt most alone in my life when I didn’t feel heard, when I didn’t feel seen. I didn’t feel understood. I didn’t feel safe. I thought these few things were simple right.? Between human beings. Billions of us. All different in some way. Clinging to identities that are molded and shaped since birth. It should be easy for us to look into the eyes of a fellow human being and see that they too have felt alone. They too have felt the abscense of being heard and understood, or being seen and safe. And yet the opposite seems to occur and living in survival mode continues. Instead of looking into the eyes of a fellow human being and connecting to the magical idea that we are uniquely the same in many ways and have so much we could teach each other. Guards immediately go up and the inauthentic games are played .

I can say at this very moment in time in my life I will never feel alone again. I can say this confidentiality because I have done and continue to do a lot of self work and I make alone time a priority. I have went many routes, there are many roads to who you are and they are all special and the right roads! I’ve talked with counselors. I’ve read tons and tons of self help books (they are some of my favorites). I’ve researched my body and how it runs and what types of foods and spices/herbs, massages, energies, etc. are good for it and actually experimented with many these things. In science class when they would come up with a theory or hypothesis, then test it to get a solution/answer/data. Well our personal selfs, our lives are just like this idea. We are such a brilliant species. The ability to read and write and articulate. We have the world at our fingers tips for the science experiment which is YOU/ME.

We get lost and feel alone and it’s okay. It’s ok to feel/be alone. It is when you will hear the quiet whisper of your soul/spirit. We are such powerful beings and it’s diluted by the dream of the world/society. Chasing companionship and how society says life should look. We lose sight of our special power to create any life we choose by chasing a collective dream.

It eventually clicked for me that I just lacked hearing myself when my gut screamed at me and I ignored it for others. I lacked seeing myself for who I really am and compared myself endlessly to those around me. I lacked understanding in myself, and I lacked feeling safe with the life I was living and trusting the choices I was making. I was stuck in a loop of feeling like I was let down in my outside world when really I just kept recreating the same feelings through different moments.

Boom! I was awake to what I was putting myself through. I shifted. Things changed. The people around me shifted. Some stayed some went. Jobs changed. Homes. Cars. Outlooks/perspectives. And so on. It was changing because I realized I was the hypothesis and all these things were the tests. A hypothesis could never be alone because it is alive. It is the beautiful chemistry of the creation of thought/idea, dancing with creation of becoming real live matter/data, alive and tested. So I ask you again. When have you felt alone and what are you doing about it ?

Death

The one thing we ALL for sure have in common.

The ultimate inevitable truth for everyone. What does death mean to you? Do you fear it? Have you been forced to face it? Do you think of death and only think of human life and animals, or do you think of the death of the Earth and ecosystems? The death of sacred values and belief systems etc. What is death? Is it the end? Or is it the beginning ?

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Dr Seuss.

I appreciate this quote. We are so go, go, go always moving to the next thing, the next desire, that we tend to miss out on life itself. Death is a game changer. It moves us. It forces us to face different truths. It humbles us.

There are many rituals surrounding death and we as humans beings have come up with different answers and solutions to try and prolong it for centuries. We have questioned what happens after death and ideas of what that looks like. Some cultures celebrate death. There are those that believe that we do not die. That energy is infinite and it just takes on a new form somewhere in the universe. Some believe good hearted go to heaven and bad hearted go to hell. Some believe nothing happens, that you’re just gone. Some believe you’re reborn. This is barely touching on all the beliefs surrounding death. What do you believe?

I used to fear death. I used to be so scared of what could happen and what would happen when I die. These fears were gripping, paralyzing. Then I began to shed programming I received as I grew in life. I began to take care of myself and what I was feeding my mind. Alot of my fears about death came from television, movies, and society itself.

I began to read and explore different perspectives. I induldged in knowledge and I continue to do so. I began to realize that across the board, really everything was hearsay. All we really have is testimony/word of mouth and our own experience.

There are billions of perspectives in life and we try and get people to all think the same way. Why!? So what if someone believes in heaven and hell and someone else believes in ascending and returning to source energy. Ultimately it all has the same feel and that is we really do not know anything but what we experience. Some have beautiful near death experiences some have horrifying ones. There is no way to tell what it will be like for you or me until we are there experiencing it. All we truly have is our life. The life we live and those we engage and build with. This I believe is a solid truth and a truth that echos throughout The Magical Mermaid and the Moon.

Fear can stifle life, make it become stagnent. I woke up to my life and how much I was living in fear. I embraced my life and I continue to embrace it daily as much as I can. ( We all have dense moments) Doing so, along with aligning myself, mind, body, and soul, intutituevly I knew that there is no need to fear death. Just as my life energy magically and beautifully gained this body, it will also magically and beautifully shed this body. So I ask again. What is death to you? Is it the end, or a new beginning ?

Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever betrayed someone? This is something that we all have to face, or have already faced over time. Betrayals can be as little as your friend telling everyone a secret of yours, to something so big it could destroy a life or multiple lives. The darkness betrayal brings to life is a major part of this fairytale. There are different facets of it throughout the story and the characters are left to deal with all the change and emotion in their own ways.

What happens when the biggest betrayal you ever experience comes from YOU? Can you relate to this? So many of us for so long, myself included, lived our lives for someone else’s approval. We put our happiness and success in someone else’s hands/eyes.

As I grew into myself as a human being I realized more and more that I was just a ball of learned behaviors, traditions, and reactions that I had soaked up my entire life and I had to start over. I had to sift through all that I thought was me and throw away the things that didn’t align/feel right anymore. The more and more I discarded the more I felt I had betrayed who I really was all those years. I felt sadness and anger mostly. It made me sad and mad that I was so flexible with so many peoples needs in my life, and yet so rigid and neglectful of my own. I was sad it took me so long to explore myself, to learn myself, to hear myself.

Yet, I was aware now and that was all I needed to forgive myself. Forgiveness is important. If you’ve ever been betrayed, or if you’ve betrayed yourself take time to forgive. Forgiveness does not mean excusing or accepting the betrayal. Forgiveness is the act of freeing yourself of the anguish and anger that you’ve felt towards the person who betrayed you, including yourself.

The feelings betrayal brings about are meant to be felt. They are meant to move us. To make us wake up to what we have in our lives and make changes, or be grateful and accept where we are at. The Magical Mermaid is faced with this challenge and has to find a way to let it all go. In December 2019 find out how she does it! I challenge you to forgive a betrayal. To let go of any posion you are holding on to and to find the light in the darkness. You got this. You are not alone. You are love. You are light.

Who is family to you? Is it your blood relatives? Is it your college alumni, or your co workers? Is it a best friend/s? What makes someone family? There are so many different ideas surrounding what family really is and how it’s truly supposed to look. Only you ultimately know who or what you consider family? In this fairy tale the magical mermaids mother and father embrace their entire kingdom as their family. To them everyone is equal, everyone deserves the same level of love and life.

With so much division in our world today it can be hard to imagine a place where everyone embraces one another and cares for each others well being, but it can be done. We could all wake up tomorrow and decide that no matter what differences we have that ultimately we are all human beings, and all just trying to survive a world/planet we continue to learn more and more about each day.

I was lucky enough in this life to be the second oldest out of six kids and have two parents who cared. They were my family growing up and they remain my family but I have also added people that I have connected with in my life journey along the way. I also can say I have a greater appreciation for work family where I have met some spectacular people. We spend a lot of time at our work places, sometimes more than with your actual family or friends. This is a reason why I feel it is crucial for you to find a job that you love or at least enjoy 75 percent of the time. The people you work with, or work out with, or do common things together with can become your family. Family is about feeling safe and secure to be who you really are. Family is about building, about growing, about thriving. Family to me is giving and receiving kindness, support, trust, respect, love. We all have to power to choose who we call family. Who or what is family to you?

What drives you? Motivates you? Is it money, power, respect, family, friends, love, hatred? Power is an interesting thing. One of the definitions of power is “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.” In this day and age, in my opinion, news media outlets have this type of power because they can direct where viewer attention flows for those tuning in. We can think the world is ending because they(news) have us looking that way. Internet search engines such as google are very similiar. They direct you in a way that all the information the system has built up about you thinks you should go. Ultimately we all have the power of choice, just like the characters in The Magical Mermaid and the Moon, the choice to either believe everything we hear and see in the newspapers and on television. Or the choice to go with the first thing that pops up your google search engine. These are just a couple of the thousands of choices we make everyday. Just like the characters in this unique story, we are given the choice to live our lives the best ways we feel fit. Where does your power come from? Does it come from something outside of yourself, such as wealth, status, approval? This was a question I pondered for years until I learned that my real power comes from within. I feel it is very important to align with who you are as a human being. We are thrown into a huge world of rules and values that already exist outside of ourselves when we are born. We try and survive the younger years and are taught to do good in school, get a job, work hard, make a family, and work until you can retire and then begin really living, but by then we are too tired. Then we judge anyone doing something outside of this societal norm. Power comes in choosing to live a life unique to ourselves, but in order to do that we must tear down all the walls and shed all of the things that are not who we are. This is a powerful process because it involves letting go of certain people, places, and things that do not fit your personal energy. This is where I regained my power. This is an important lesson throughout this entire story. I challenge all of my readers to tune in to who you really are. To listen to what drives you and if you actually feel good about it. I challenge you to find the power inside that has always been there. You won’t regret it!

One of the definitions for mythology is “a set of stories or beliefs about a particular person, institution, or situation, especially when exaggerated or fictitious.” It is also defined as a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religion or cultural tradition. A fairytale is “a made up story about magical and imaginary beings and lands.” When I created The Magical Mermaid and the Moon I wanted to create a fairytale/myth as to why the ocean water moves the way it does today with all of the tides and waves. There are so many myths about how the Earth was hundreds of thousands of years ago, so I posed the question, what if there WAS a time when the entire ocean was still? Yes, completely still and also occupied by different life forms that acted just as we do today! Well, the magical mermaid and the moon paints a picture of what this time could have possibly looked like on Earth. I remember growing up and being enamored with Jack and the Beanstalk. The fairytale was beautiful to me. It opened my imagination up to a world where giants could have possibly existed. (It is still up for debate, there are many people who believe giants did exist). Was there a fairytale that you loved as a child or perhaps even as an adult? Fairytales and myths are fun and inspire hope, wonder, and curiosity. It is my hope that this magical story forever changes the way you look at the moon and the ocean and that it becomes a fairytale passed down for years to come!

When I decided to write a story over two years ago I did not realize how it would change my life! The Magical Mermaid and the Moon came to me during what many would call “rock bottom” as many things were shifting in my life. I am happy to say today that this magical story is being published by Indigo River Publishing company and will be coming soon. My plan is to keep you all updated on the launch date as well as stimulate your mind with magical mermaid and the moon themed questions to get you a little more familiar with the type of book this will be! It is a unique story for all ages. It is my hope that you connect with this story and realize that you are love and light, and that you have the power to create a life you can appreciate no matter what your circumstance. With that said please stay tuned and remember “No matter how dark it may seem, light finds a way to shine through.”