January Gift for Paid Subscribers

A blessing of compassion...plus the perils of cross country skiing ⛷

I meant to write earlier, but a broken wrist has set me back 🙁

Yep…just a week ago I broke my wrist while skiing. 

And no, I was not downhill skiing. I was cross country skiing. Cross country!

I did not expect a broken bone out of that adventure…

I'm very sorry if this offends someone, but I really thought cross country was what we graduated to when we got old and didn't want to destroy our knees anymore. When I picked up my skis at the cross country shop in town, it was filled with only gray-haired people who looked ridiculously fit and very happy.

I wanted to be them when I grew up.

gramps kicking ass on main street, not a broken bone in sight!

Of course in the week since my injury, whenever I’ve told someone what happened to my wrist, they always reply with another terrifying cross country skiing story — dislocated shoulders, broken thumbs, cut up faces…

(To be fair though, the dudes with the cut up faces had never been on cross country skis before and were racing each other though the mountains as only the ridiculously athletic and competitive would attempt…)

Who knew gently gliding along powdery tails could be such a perilous ride?

At least I got the joyous experience of being wrapped up like a burrito and strapped to the back of a snow patrol sled to be taken to Urgent Care on the mountain.

The doctors were very nice and didn't treat me like an idiot at all for breaking my wrist on the green circle. 🟢

(Hey, we all have our gifts. Skiing is not one of mine.)

Anyway, I broke my right wrist and I'm right handed and the whole thing has been very painful and annoying. 😣

I'm fine and healing well —  as far as breaks go mine really wasn't too bad. But it has made writing a bit of a slower process.

(Thank goodness for modern technology and voice dictation… and the growing capabilities of my left hand to go back and slowly edit everything.)

So, though a few days late, I do want to give all of my paid subscribers your January gift!

Those of you who have been around here a while know that I share paid subscriber perks at the end of each month — so you get your January gift either at the very end of January or the beginning of February.

Since you'll be accessing your paid subscriber gift during February this month, I wanted to share a gift that I think will be perfect for the month of love. 

Regardless of what you might think about the Valentine's Day vibes of this month, it is a holiday that inspires a lot of reflection around giving and receiving love.

And who better to help us come into right relationship with love — for ourselves, our loved ones, and humanity as a whole — than the great goddess and Bodhisattva of compassion, Kuan Yin. 

even kuan yin honors kuan yin, according to AI

So, your paid subscriber gift this month is 50% off my online workshop with Kuan Yin.

This is a fabulous mini course. In it, you’ll receive:

• Access to the full video recording of the Kuan Yin Activation (1 hour and 15 minutes)

• A beautiful 20+ page full-color workbook with written instructions for our meditations, journal prompts, and much more (PDF download)

• Instruction and practice in the art of conscious mediumship

• Tonglen and metta meditations for strengthening your own capacity to maintain a loving heart in the presence of pain

• Flower essences, gemstones, essential oils, herbs, and more for opening and strengthening your heart

• A guided ritual to attune to Kuan Yin’s energy

• 10% off your next apothecary purchase, so you can stock up on botanical allies to support your connection with Kuan Yin

You can learn more about Kuan Yin and the workshop here.