Ginny's Blog

Did you know that painful experiences such as betrayal, abandonment, depression and an inability to cope are just some of the emotions that directly affect the heart? A few years ago I went through something that left me feeling so cut and betrayed I seriously drove home with my hand on my chest. My heart literally hurt so much, I couldn't breathe unless my palm was pressed to my chest. That was my first conscious experience with literal "heart break!" I sincerely hope that you can't relate to being hurt this much, but I realize that most of you probably have.. :/
Since Chinese Medicine teaches that each of our emotions will have a different effect on each of our organs, here's some more information and a simple exercise to help send healing energy to your heart.

Are you on Facebook? If so, click here to join my new private group and join the conversation. We talk lots more about emotional healing and just life. :)

Happy Mother's Day (A few days late.)

How was your Mother's Day? I hope you had a wonderful day. For me, Mother's Day has always been kind of a bitter sweet day.

Are you going through something in your life that has changed you? Are you facing something that has really made the following quote hit home??

It was a miserable day. I was feeling exhausted and burned out.
Do you ever have days like this? Where you just feel like an invisible work horse? Like everything you do is vitally important but only noticed when it’s not done??

I found myself grabbing handfuls of jelly beans and chocolate Easter eggs which I think was my own desperate attempt to give myself a boost so I could keep going. The laundry, dishes, and bills weren’t going to do themselves right?.... (This is significant, if you’re a part of my closed group on Facebook, we have been discussing the emotional contributors that cause cravings for all kinds of different foods. It’s fascinating how much you can find out about your inner life simply from examining the types of food you crave. To find out more, if you haven’t already click here to join the group!)

Do you ever wonder what's up with the days you just seem to wake up agitated and in a bad mood?

Today I knew it was going to be one of those days. For some reason, I just woke up with a chip on my shoulder. All morning long it felt like I was battling with the thoughts in my head. I was thinking about the state of the world, then politics, just one nasty cynical thought after another. It seemed like no matter what I tried, even looking for a positive subject...the negative tone stayed. What really bothered me was I could tell that this cynical agitation was zapping my energy and my ambition to do anything.

I just found some really great information about guilt and how best to heal and work through it. I wanted to share because guilt is one of the most difficult emotions we all will deal with, especially us moms! Louise Hay, author of “You Can Heal Your Life” cited guilt to be one of the most useless emotions we feel.  Can you believe that? In her book she says that guilt actually creates the most pain and suffering in our bodies and is a big contributor to illness and disease.

Yet.. a part of me cringes when I hear it said that “guilt is useless” because there’s a part of me that believes that we need the guilt, like if we don’t have it, we’ll be terrible people. After all doesn’t it seem like the most cold blooded criminals have little or no remorse and that’s what makes them terrifying?

"A new beginning is often disguised as a painful ending."
-Lao-tzu

Does something in your life feel like it's coming to a close and you're really wishing it wouldn't? (Or maybe you kind of wish it would but it scares you that it might? As weird as that sounds..)
• Is it a relationship?
• A painful destructive pattern within that relationship like... the part of you that constantly needs a certain person's approval to feel whole?
• A job that feels draining and just wrong for who you want to be?
• A love affair with a food that's hurting your body?
• Putting off what your heart most wants you to do?

***Make sure you read this article to the end, I've included a special energy clearing that will relieve the worry and fear so you can embrace your hard-earned "new beginning."

Sometimes these are the kinds of things that are cluttering up our lives and blocking the inspiration and guidance we so desperately need and want.
Caroline Myss, New York Times Best Selling Author and Medical Intuitive, says that receiving guidance is easy, the first step to connecting to it is acknowledging, "I'm not happy in these areas of my life."

Lately I've been thinking a lot about a few of my close friends. Two of them have suffered the loss of their child, one of them their sibling, and the two others.. their spouse. (All in the last 4 years) The process of grief is always excruciatingly difficult but it can be extra sharp during the Holiday Season.

There are no adequate words when it comes to this kind of profound sadness and there are really no shortcuts. Grief is simply an intense emotion, an experience that we just have to move through the best way we can.

Don’t you just love it when you find that perfect quote that sticks with you all day?

Here are a few I just saw from Hugh MacLeod. (He’s a writer that expresses universal truths with comedy and doodles. I think he’s a fun read because he’s a little bit controversial. J)

Do you struggle with feelings of depression? Since it can be such a difficult and mind numbing experience, I wanted to share a few different possibilities. As you'll soon notice, I don't see depression the same way most people do. After struggling with it for years and reacting horribly to all of the medications, I was forced to find another way which has blessed and enriched my life in ways I could have never imagined! So, I hope if for nothing else, the following ideas will offer some different insights...
Thanks so much for reading my blog! I love being able to share ideas and the journey of healing with others who are on the same path. So.....

What if the experience of Depression is not a road block or a crisis but more of a turning point?
What if you could change the way you see it and interpret it?

This is the weekend we celebrate this amazing country and the freedoms we all enjoy.
With that in mind, I wondered if you would be willing to reflect on another question… “Are you emotionally free or are you constantly held hostage by your emotional stuff?” Does the pain of the past, hurt, trauma, divorce, etc. weigh you down with fear, regret, heartache, and anxiety? Or… do you avoid certain events or dread them due to unresolved feelings or issues with a person who might be there?

Our emotional stuff keeps us limited, drained, and unable to fully enjoy the amazing lives that we live.

Today’s message is for women! If you’re a man receiving this, please share it with the women in your life.  Thank you!

Hi Everyone,
I realize this is a strange article starting off with a quote about how a woman is just like a wolf… but please bear with me, I have a point, I promise!

Lately, I’ve been noticing that more and more women are losing their sparkle and I’m upset about it! It’s not that they aren’t beautiful, strong, and loving people, because they  are! It’s more like the overall energy of their being seems dull and tarnished. Instead of sparkling with radiance, their eyes show that they are feeling beat down, overwhelmed, and worried. There’s a heaviness on their shoulders that you can actually see (if you’re looking.)

Being a parent is a rewarding and amazing experience. Yet, there are moments when you feel so exhausted and consumed with worry you can barely breathe right?! This is something that only gets harder as our children age and their problems and life choices become bigger and more far reaching!

Last week my husband was out of town and I was really struggling to keep up. It was 9:00 P.M. on a school night and I was trying to help one of my 4 boys to finish his homework. He was frustrated and right on the verge of falling apart when one of my teenage sons started acting up and stomping around the house. I was trying my best to stay calm and handle the situation as quickly as I could because my other two boys were still waiting for my undivided attention so we could celebrate and talk about their day. With it being time for bed and everything happening at once, I had to hurry them all off to bed. As the house became quieter I felt a crushing wave of guilt, inadequacy, and worry because I hadn't been able to give them all the focus, patience, and attention they really needed!
Can you relate?

I was reading a forum today that was alive and buzzing with stressed out moms. They were worried about everything from their kid getting a bad grade to what to make for dinner and it struck me once again how challenging it is to raise children.

It's amazing how many things we have to deal with every day as parents, I mean, what an emotional roller coaster we're all on the moment our first child is born! We can go from fulfilled and gratified after a hug in the morning to heartbroken anguish when someone at school tells them they're stupid and can't be a part of the friend group.

Frustration is an interesting emotion. It isn't necessarily a call for doing more of whatever you have been doing, more often, it's a demand that you do something else! If you have a rubber band stretched on two fingers, it's much easier to take off when you stop pulling! To learn the secret language of emotions and how to get the message and dissolve them in minutes get the Quick and Dirty Guide to Healing Negative Emotions. http://ginnywalker.com/quick-and-dirty-guide-to-cle…/product

Sadness, is a deep emotion that we all will experience at some point in our lives. For most people it's a heavy feeling in the chest that's always there in varying degrees. What's discouraging is emotional healing and coping techniques weren't really taught to the vast majority of us in school or at home so we've had to develop other methods to cope such as staying extra busy, eating comforting foods, or drowning ourselves in T.V., movies, etc.

Sometimes it's just too overwhelming and scary to look at. Even if we were to look at it, what then? What do we do with it? What's the point of even bringing it up?

Hi Everyone,
Don't you just love it when you see a quote on Facebook and it stays with you all day? Here's the one I saw today.

"Time isn't precious at all because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time; the Now. The more you are focused on time –past and future- the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is." –Eckart Tolle

Our bodies are a great tool to help us set and maintain healthy boundaries.

If you're body is feeling drained and full of aches and pains, its important to pay attention. I'm not talking about paying attention on the physical level (most of us are pretty on top of that) I'm talking about getting silent and evaluating what's going on in your emotional life and your body's energy field.

It's Time to Take Your Power Back and End it!   

Are you struggling with something in your life that’s driving you crazy? You know what I mean? It’s that person at work that drives you nuts, or one of your children that you constantly worry about yet feel powerless to help, or it’s the steady stream of health issues that no one seems to have the answer for, or the endless pile of bills and problems in your finances you just can’t seem to get a hold of?
These are the kinds of issues that keep us up at night, the very ones that cause us to feel hopeless, powerless, and constantly drained and stressed out.
So what’s a person to do? How do we unplug from the problem so we can finally move on?

What is it that makes people give up on their dreams? Most of us don't consciously want to settle into a mundane life so what it is that keeps us from being who we really want to be?

As human beings, not only do we have to deal with all kinds of stressful feelings such as fear, insecurity, discouragement, overwhelm, etc. we are all hit at some point in our lives with huge challenges we didn't count on such as a divorce, a bitter betrayal, the death of a loved one, a debilitating illness, job loss, or even a bankruptcy.