Reflecting on life
through the lens
of SoulCollage®…

I am delighted to announce the publication of my fourth book, although this is my first book-book about the powerful process of SoulCollage®.

It’s a compilation of 87 essays that I’ve written over the years for our Kindred Spirits members’ newsletter, Soul Treasures.

The essays are grouped into these categories:

• Life Lessons
• Community Suit
• Animal Companions Suit
• Spirituality
• Using Your SoulCollage® Cards

Each essay is followed by card making and journaling suggestions to deepen your own work with the process, as well as resources for further understanding.

I hope that this book inspires and encourages you on your own SoulCollage® journey!

Lots more info here.

P.S. I have autographed copies for sale and you can also purchase 10 or more copies at a discount to resell or to give as gifts.

P.P.S.  My other books are:
My Other Dad (a novel for pre-teens)(under Anne M Pacheco)
Bright Side of the Road: A Spiritual Journey Through Cancer
Sunflower Spirit Workbook for Women with Cancer

Recently I’ve been doing a lot of inner work with forgiveness- forgiving others but mostly forgiving myself.  This “work” involved journaling, art play, and EFT Tapping.  As I was nearing the end of all of this, I came across the image of the older woman looking into the younger woman’s eyes and I was immediately drawn to using it on a SoulCollage card to express visually how I was feeling inside about forgiving and being forgiven.

I am the one who looks into your eyes and only sees the best of you.  I am the one who looks with eyes of love.  I am the safe, wise, compassionate one who forgives because I love.  I am the one holding your precious head between my two hands.

I am the one standing with you against the eternal background of ocean.  We are watched over by Spirit.  I am the part of you who forgives easily.  I am the part of you who receives the blessing of forgiveness with open heart.

My gift to you is simply love.  I give you compassion.  I give you forgiveness.  I give you a vantage point from the future.  My gift to you is the freedom that comes from begin fully forgiven.

I want you to practice compassion and kindness towards yourself and others.  On a regular basis!  I want you to experience and receive kindness and compassion when it is offered to you. 

I want you to LOOK AT YOURSELF the way I am looking at you.

My wisdom for you today is this:  You are precious.  You are the one one of you that there is or ever will be.  Let go of EVERYTHING that weights you down- all fears, all guilts, all past mistakes… and look at yourself in the mirror the way that I am looking at you- with kindness, love, and true compassion.

I made this card completely intuitively and afterwards when I really LOOKED at it, I realized that I’d placed the woman in an open grave!  I felt a little uneasy about this, especially since I’ve done two rounds with Cancer.  But when I sat down and let her speak to me, I heard something surprising:

I am the one standing on an open grave.  I am the one blissfully savoring the moment. 

I am the one standing in a place marked for death but am surrounded by a multitude of growing things. 

My message for you today is this:  Everyone is marked by death.  There is a grave with everyone’s name on it.  But you’re not IN the grave yet!  Your time is NOW.  Savor THIS moment NOW. 

This moment = the only moment.

Ahh… the birth of a new card!

This past weekend I found the image of the railing/walkway at the retreat my brother John and I were leading.  I was really drawn to it so I cut it out of its background and then held it up against about 100 other backgrounds.  When I held it against this rainbow nebula image, my heart went “YES!”

But I was leading the retreat so I didn’t have time to glue it down.  When I got home on Sunday I took it out of my suitcase and laid it on my art table, noticing that the combination of the two images was still heart-stopping for me.

And guess what? I dreamed about those two images on Sunday night.  In my dream I heard a voice saying to me, “The name of this card is Into the Mystery.”  Aha!  I can’t even describe what it felt like, waking up with this image and info in my mind!

This week I’ve been combing through my other images and finally found this woman in white and voila!  My newest card is born!

So I’ve made it and it’s sitting on my altar where I see it often throughout my day.  It’s completely wondrous to me, this card.  I was sitting here today getting ready to do some journaling with it but the time doesn’t feel right for this Neter to speak so I’m holding off on that for a little while. It still feels really tender to me.

I will post some journaling with this when I feel the time is right.  In the meantime, maybe this Neter has something to say to YOU!