Labor Day

Happy Labor Day peeps.  Another one of those holidays we all love to celebrate but know little/nothing about, or seem to care.  So many people sacrificed so much for all these holidays we enjoy, and very few people acknowledge those sacrifices, makes me sad.

It has been a very busy, productive week and will be again this next week.  I feel like I'm getting back into the fullness of life, and it doesn't make me feel overwhelmed like it did not long ago.   I don't have that feeling of needing to psych myself up, or prepare, to be busy and have a lot going on in my day or week.  I think that's due to a lot of things - 20 months of sobriety, feeling better physically, having some good solid help in finding my place in life again and getting my hormones more in balance again.

On that last note, I'm so excited to report that I seem to be getting my menopausal symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats, absent libido, mood swings, poor sleep) under control with my essential oil products.  What a wild ride this has been!!  They removed my ovaries in my first cancer surgery, April 2011, then chemotherapy comes along and makes menopausal symptoms a living hell.  I finally get things under control in Spring '12 with compounded, bio-identical hormones and then my physician passes away.  I switch practices, everything gets re-adjusted (it was like starting all over again, kind of frustrating) and fine tuned, and while bliss had returned, I realized I was spending a fortune on that stuff.  And all along my goal had been to achieve balance and harmony in my body with the essential oil products, so in May/June of this year I quit taking my prescribed hormones and started tinkering with the oils.  It's taken a while to get balance again, but I can feel it coming back.  No hot flashes at all yesterday or yet today, no sweating last night, sleeping well and even beginning to feel my libido returning, which goes a long way towards a feeling of well-being with me.

This week I've got my Storytelling workshop, and then a 3-day seminar titled "12 Months to Six Figures" that I'm really excited about!  I've extended my work with my life coach Kami for another 9 weeks and have started working with a web designer to get a new website up and running.  My virtual assistant is working on a newsletter that will be going out the first week in November, and the Feminine Rising virtual retreat has been cancelled for September (thank God) and will start in October, giving me more time to pull my workshop together.  Things are falling into place, and I'm full of gratitude and a knowing that this will continue as long as I continue doing what's in front of me and staying authentic to who I am.  What a ride!!!

Have a fabulous week!