✨ Thank you 2020 🌙

Thank you for the growth you created.

Thank you for allowing me to learn the relationships that are worth fighting for and the ones that I need to walk away from.

I have become a better mother, friend, and partner through the chaos.

Thank you guides for showing me the path I am on is the one I should be following.

Thank you to all the earth angels that have surrounded me and continue to support me and show up for me.

Thank you 2020 for teaching me the power of slowing down and saying no.

I look forward to time with friends.

I look forward to family dinners and celebrations.

I look forward to hugs and gatherings again.

I look forward to seeing the smiles I energetically feel behind the masks.

As I move into 2021, there are no goals. Only actions I want to take to continue to heal.

I release any fear I carry and I open myself up to receive.

I will continue to learn, grow, and live in abundance.

“Living in abundance means giving to others because you know it will return to you.”

I will continue to love and show gratitude with every cell of my body.

I will continue to meditate, raise my vibration, and vibe off the energy of my crystals.

I will continue to believe in magic and teach others to do the same.

With Love - ❤️ Amanda (@luxhealingarts) 

I want to talk about “abundance” today. I have always struggled with that word. I think it (actually, I know it) stems from my childhood. I grew up coming from a place of scarcity rather than abundance, so I never learned the word and it became this unattainable reality to me.  

The definition of abundance is as follows:

1. a·bun·dance: 1.

a very large quantity of something.

• the state or condition of having a copious quantity of something; plentifulness.

"vines and figs grew in abundance"

• plentifulness of the good things of life; prosperity.

"the growth of industry promised wealth and abundance"

When I read the meaning of abundance, it leaves me not connecting to it in a spiritual sense. I have realized that I feel like some people in our world of spirituality do their followers a disservice by throwing it around so freely. I am confused by the point of, I am so abundant…I just had a 10k month! So, your abundance is only around money? And what were your bills to achieve that 10k month? Did you actually walk away with financial abundance or did you make $1? And are you spiritually abundant by claiming you are???? 

I also see a lot of  “my life is so abundant right now”, but behind the scenes their life is a shit show. When you peel back the layers, they are actually living from a scarcity mindset. This creates a smoke and mirrors effect in a world where we are supposed to be transparent and real. I mean how can you truly raise your vibration and heal others when you are representing a false reality. (Sorry if I am triggering anyone, but if I am, you probably need to dive into why it is.)

I wish I could remember who said it so I could give them credit, but I heard a coach say recently “Living in abundance means giving to others because you know it will return to you.” THIS RESONATED WITH EVERY CELL OF MY BEING!

I don’t ever try to live in a place of scarcity although financially I have gotten sucked into that pattern the last few years. I have my moments of questioning “how the fuck am I going to make this work??” and I throw myself a mini pity party.  Then I do the work to make the finances show up.

A few months ago, I started working with a coach (Haley Calderwood, I highly recommend her to anyone!) and she pushed me through so many limiting beliefs. I started doing birth charts for friends and she pushed me to offer them to the public. I was scared to put myself out there and they sold out in a day. She saw that I had an amazing product and that the story I was telling myself around not offering them was holding me back. Why do we hold ourselves back? Those damn limiting beliefs sneak in.

Then I got a call to be on the local Good Morning Utah broadcast to talk about them! Okay guides, I am listening. I am accepting the abundance.

When it comes to living in abundance in a non-financial way, ­but in an energetic way, I definitely always practice this. I truly believe what I give out to those around me will return. I believe there is enough out there to support all of us. I try to always make sure I am honoring my energetic contracts with people and give what I can in return to what they give me. I have been so blessed to have so many people continually show up for me and I know this is why.

I am so excited to continue my healing and growth in 2021. I am excited to learn more about my own journey of abundance and step into allowing it to flow more. The Tribe and community I am creating around me comes from that abundant mindset and know this in my heart.

My personal perspective of living in abundance is about supporting others and creating a community where we can all reach our goals and create a space of healing. When we are abundant, what we give out will come back to us. When we are happy and growing, everyone around us has the opportunity to be happy and grow. We are moving into a year that is all about community and creativity.

What does abundance mean to you in 2021?

✨ From the darkness shines the brightest light. 🌙

This is a statement I say a lot and it resonates so deeply today as we celebrate the darkest and longest day of the year. The darkness allows us to work through old trauma and release past wounds. The light comes to nourish us and allow us to grow again.

The energy has been so heavy the last few weeks for reasons I don’t need to start rattling off. I know this year has been so hard on so many. We have had to recreate systems and, in some cases, completely overhaul our identities. The light is coming.

This Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn not only means these planets are aligned but the planets also switch signs this year. This is where all the excitement about today’s energy comes from. For the last two hundred years or so the great conjunctions have taken place only in earth signs. Today is switches to Aquarius, an air sign.

While the earth signs are practical and grounded, the air signs are intellectual and creative. We are changing the old paradigms and we are moving into new territory. I love seeing all of the energy workers and intuitives stepping into the light and sharing their messages. We need you! Keep going!

It has also been amazing to see so many people create beautiful new paths this year when theirs was taken away with no warning. As you feel this energy today, see where you are guided. You what is your intuition telling you? Can you let go of an “old idea” and turn it into something exciting and new?

Be gentle has things flow in and out of your life this week. Recognize the thoughts and let them flow around you asking yourself what you truly need. How can you be of service to yourself and others? We are stepping into a period of change where we need to support each other.

Take some time today to reflect on what you want in 2021. Then take some time to show gratitude for the lessons you have learned in 2020.

Happy Winter Solstice! - Amanda (@luxhealingarts ❤️ )

Fuck guys. Talk about having to stare my own lessons I teach people directly in the face right now.

This week has sucked. We found out late Tuesday night that we may have been exposed to COVID. Seth and I made the call to leave the kids at his house until we knew for sure. Testing was behind but my stepson felt sick on Thanksgiving morning, so Billy and I tested Friday. I have never missed a holiday with my kids. I feel like I got sucker-punched in the gut. They were at their dad's for 5 days prior to all this happening so it has been already over a week and I have not seen them.

It was a week of not knowing what the answers are. My brain spinning in confusion of what the plan should be and cleaning everything in the house­­. Focusing on work has been impossible although I have to figure it out somehow because, I again, am the only in the household who can work from home. Billy’s test came back positive, mine was negative.

I was so sad when I realized I can’t see my kids for two more weeks. Through everything I have gone through these last few years, they are always my light at the end of the tunnel when they come home. They always take my mind off things and remind me why I work so hard to keep myself healthy.

Now we are in this weird space where they can’t come home and Billy is quarantined to a room. After two years of being his caretaker, this feels so wrong on so many levels. I want to be next to him. I want to hold him. I want him to comfort me and remind me everything will be okay. Last night I went to bring him food and he said, “Babe it could be worse”. I immediately answered “You’re right. I watched you almost die twice last year. It could be worse.”

I decided to look at my journal entries from last year and I found one I forgot about. It was a letter to myself written on my 40^th birthday, May 3^rd, 2019, the year before COVID. To give you a picture of what life was like that day, Billy had been in the hospital for 35 days since the end of January. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He came home with a feeding tube where I had to track his calories in hopes of getting even 600 calories a day in him. He had been deemed to unhealthy for chemo (the actual words were, you will die if you start chemo now). Finally started chemo the month before my birthday, but it was making him incredibly sick, because we hadn’t figured out how to keep his nausea under control yet.  

A letter to myself:

Dear Amanda,

Take the time today to appreciate what a caring, loving person you are. You have fought through so much and this is just a little bit more. Remember that the chaos will come to an end. This will all feel like a nightmare in the future.

This may not be what you planned. You may have thought your 40th would have been different but it is what it is. You are healthy, your kids are healthy, and Billy is still here. Celebrate that and leave the rest behind today.

Happy Birthday! You are beautiful.

What a profound journal entry to read, considering where we are now. All things I need to remember.

Today, I am tired. Mentally, physically and everything in between. The stresses of this year piled on top of last make me feel like I am suffocating sometimes. I was hoping I could cry yesterday, and I would wake up today ready to work and focus but I didn’t sleep so here I am still just bailing my eyes out.

I am writing this because it is okay to cry. It is okay to say you feel like shit. It is okay to reach out to friends and let them know how you are feeling. You can be surrounded by the most amazing support system and still feel completely alone at times. Isolation from your loved ones is an unnatural feeling. I miss my kids. I am not sure what will unravel the next couple of weeks.... I have never gone this long without seeing them. 

I am going to try to remember this will all just be a nightmare soon. For now, all I can do is acknowledge my sadness. Acknowledge that my heart hurts. Acknowledge that I am tired.  Use my tools and hope it this time passes quickly. Life has kicked my ass these last few years and all of these feelings are valid.

- Amanda ( @luxhealingarts ❤️ )

Good morning beautiful people!

Do you ever just sit with your coffee and think holy shit has this been a wild and crazy few years? I do daily. This last year, I have really been settling into the uncomfort and unknown so that I can find peace within it all. Things don’t always go as planned and unfortunately the support you think you have sometimes isn't always there. I have had to work really hard to not be overwhelmed by how I am going to make it all work and just allowing things to fall into place.

When I started Crystalline Tribe, I truly wanted it to be a community of practitioners and a resource for people looking for healing. The shop was supposed to be the fun, extra part filled with the tools and magic we all love. When Billy (my fiancé, for those new to my blog) was diagnosed with Cancer, my world was sidetracked. I allowed Crystalline Tribe to become something I didn’t envision. The positives that came out of that year from hell, are far greater than the setbacks. I went on an incredible healing journey with him, learning more modalities along the way. I stepped into my own power as a healer, while holding my partner's hand and he won his battle for life.

Now I am back, and I am going to be taking Crystalline Tribe back to what it was originally supposed to be. I am now doing this business 100% on my own, so that means every detail is solely done by one person. This means this will be a slow growing project (this is not my main income…yet!) and the change will not happen overnight. That is reality!  I do know the vision is there and it will happen.

This will be a community of healers and resources. It will be fun tools, kits and jewelry to bring mindfulness and magic into your life. It will be re-created from my energy. My heart and soul that builds things based on my desire to support and give to others.

Thank you to all of you that have supported me along the way! You make it happen. I hope you love the changes that are coming!

Website update with new products coming on Monday, November 23^rd!

Love you guys! - Amanda ( @luxhealingarts ❤️ )

Last night was pure magic! Thank you to everyone who attended!

This week was another one for the books in my world. Packed with so much emotion and drama. I am so excited about the future and my accomplishments, but I also have a shadow of negativity that I have to deal with, or it will swallow me up. I am very thankful for all the people in my life that help me process it all. Including teaching me tips, like being a beautiful little ball of sunshine behind a block of ice slowly melting the negativity and hate away. I am currently obsessed with this analogy (lol). So, if you see me smiling and doing a little dance with my arms, I am just pretending to be a happy little ball of sunshine!  

One year since I did my first new moon event. Two years since I launched Crystalline Tribe. Three years since I made the best decision of my life and got sober. Sobriety has given me so much clarity, strength, and perspective on the human I want to be and how I want to show up in this world.

I needed last night. I needed to step into my power. I needed to live by the words that I teach people every day. I needed to believe in myself and put aside the judgment, fear, and misunderstanding that I feel because that is all a false narrative and a “story I tell myself”.

Last night we talked about our shadow self and a lot about how our thoughts are NOT REALITY. We have so many narratives that play in our brain that are not true. The Super New Moon in Scorpio brings an intense energy with it. Scorpio’s emotions run very deep. That is the energy this moon brings with it. People born under this moon are usually thought to be very secretive, but they are brought here to help all of us unearth the truth.

Right now, we are in a continuous cycle of being triggered and having to process our emotions and relationships. This energy can sometimes feel uncomfortable, but we need to sit with our feelings to move forward. That is where the depth of healing will come from…. actually, feeling all of it. We need to sit and feel.

Our mind likes to play tricks on us.  Some are patterns we have carried here from past generations. Some stories we have developed as a response to trauma. A LOT of stories we have been socially conditioned to believe.

Our thoughts are not reality, but emotion is a human condition that we cannot escape.

Did you know that emotions trigger your brain just like pain does? It is the same response. So, imagine what happens if we just continue to carry these emotions without releasing them. It just creates layers and layers of pain. None of us are perfect but when we heal, we heal everyone around us. Including those past generations and the future generations.

What deep emotions can you address in your body? What can you consciously start to let go of?  This New Moon and the planet alignments of Jupiter and Pluto create a chance to look at the path in front of us. Which path do you want to take?

When you do the healing, you can start to manifest your future. I hope you join me next month for the New Moon on Monday, December 14^th and The Full Moon on December 29th to process, heal and create paths before us that lead us to the future of our dreams.

If you want to dive deeper into your personal journey of healing, I offer in person Reiki + Soul Sessions at Hearten House or via zoom. Send me a message at amanda@crystallinetribe.com and lets connect!

Love all of you and thank you all for being a part of my path to healing! ✨ - Amanda ( @luxhealingarts ❤️ )

Full Moon on Halloween this Saturday! Not only is it completely intriguing to me because it is in Taurus (hello, fellow bulls, time to activate!) but the fact it falls on Halloween, is an added bonus! It is called a blue moon because it is the second full moon of the month which only happens every few years. Having a full moon on Halloween hasn’t happened in 76 years and won’t happen again until 2039. Hello rare, energetic energy on one of the best nights of the year!

Let’s talk energy. We are still in Mercury retrograde until November 3^rd and this moon is conjunct with Uranus. The forecast is saying to expect breakdowns of things that don’t serve us anymore which will create space for breakthroughs and new possibilities. This year has cracked the path of life that we were accustomed to and has really made us look at what we want and need in our environments. If we can navigate these unconventional times and look outside the box, we will find abundance.

This Taurus full moon creates a space to release what isn’t working or serving you and move forward with a new plan. One of our famous Taurus traits is arising right now, and that is the element of stubbornness. Remember this as things unexpectedly shake things up and try to navigate the situation with ease and problem solving.

We can all tap into the energy of the moon. Our ancestors have done it for centuries before us. What can you focus on the release to create space for beautiful magic to come?

I will be offering New Moon + Full Moon Soul Sessions starting in November. Follow me @luxhealingarts to learn more.

- Amanda (@luxhealingarts ) 

Where in history did the American dream turn into never being able to say no and always having to show up? Why are we a culture of doing something until it breaks us? We have been socially conditioned to show up to school, sports, work when we are sick and we were not given the opportunity to be okay with needing a day off.

This is something I have written about before but after two conversations yesterday on this topic I decide to write about it again. This thought pattern is a poison that feeds us and deteriorates our bodies and energetic levels in ways we usually don’t realize until it is too late. It is a poison we were taught to drink over and over again over the years. You are not throwing up….you need to go to school. Unless you are dying, you need to be at work. Yes, you can do hard things, but make sure you are doing them for the right reasons. Pushing through and being in-denial and feeling like you have to do something or you will lose something are two different things. 

This is the extreme that shows up when we are sick, but do we realize how conditioned we are and that we are doing it on a daily basis? We poison ourselves, when we get into the rhythm of thinking we have to overload ourselves with work because it may not be there tomorrow. Or the idea that things cannot wait.

I try to think about when I conditioned myself with this behavior and it was in my 20’s. My ex and I wanted to own a nightclub. I worked three jobs to make all of the ends meet and he could save his paycheck to make this happen. Then when we did get the nightclub it was constant 24 hour working. I had two cell phones. One was the clubs and one was mine. I wasn’t allowed to miss a call from the club phone. What if that was a potential booking? The tables needed to be sold out every time we opened the doors to make money.

And that is when it happened. This idea that if someone left a message, we could lose the sale. So, I was at the mercy of a club phone for the next 8 years of my life. When I was breast feeding my babies, at dinner with friends, even during holidays… a slave to the phone and the potential money that could be lost if I didn’t answer it.

I didn’t realize what a pattern I had created until I was a single mom. When I first separated from my ex, I still had responsibilities at the nightclub. One of my responsibilities was to answer the phone. I had asked him to give the phones to someone else since I wasn’t even working in the club, unless I was djing at the time, but that unfortunately didn’t happen until the divorce was finalized.

So here I am, for seven months always answering the phone like usual and my son gets upset with me one day. Remember, I have just separated from their dad and all of the sudden I am only with them half the time. He says to me “daddy is never on the phone all the time when he is with us”. My heart is crushed. If I don’t answer this phone, then I am failing my job (remember I was conditioned to feel this way) and at this point I am scared this can be used against me in my divorce. Plus, I am trying to build my own graphic design business so I can support myself, because the nightclub is not going to be there to support me in the future. What am I supposed to do?

I always felt like I couldn’t miss an email or phone call. What if I lost that sale? Then I had one those conversations that you never forget because it was so pivotal in your life. My cousin’s wife, Brianna, gave me the best advice that I have ever gotten. She suggested I set up a system with my kids. She said you need to do "Red, Green, and Yellow time" with your phone. She said you tell your kids that green time means I can always answer. Yellow time means I sometimes have to answer. Red time means I absolutely will not answer. She said. “When it is red time, you have to honor this though and allow the kids to say to you it is red time.”

This was so hard for me! But I did it. And I listened when they said, “Red Time”. I honored and respected them and in turn they honored and respected me when it was green time and I had to answer. This also allowed me the space to realize I wasn’t going to miss anything; I can be unavailable sometimes. We still use this today in our household. I now have gotten to a point where my phone is nowhere near me during red time. This is a big step for a girl who was at mercy of two phones for years. We need to un-train ourselves from the poison of thinking we have to work all the time!

I do love working for myself. Two weeks ago, my son was home sick, then my daughter was sick and then of course it hit me. It is impossible to have a sick child cuddling with you night and day and not get the germs. I am totally okay with that though! That is what is important! Those cuddles and crawling into their bed when they want comfort when they are sick. I will do that forever if they let me.

So here I am already behind on work and now my head feels like it is going to explode. Trying to put together a rational text message feels like running a marathon. Rather than just sinking into the fact I am sick and message my clients this, I fight through the bare minimum, trying to work because I “need” to. I do need to financially, don’t get me wrong, if I am not working there is no money coming in and there are no reserves left at this point in my family’s life. But I am not allowing myself to heal by keeping my body in constant stress and distress.

Yesterday was day 3 of being sick and I finally succumbed to lying in bed, watching bad tv and not trying to make my brain work. Being self-employed is hard and it becomes even harder when suddenly two weeks of work have been lost in a blink of an eye. All I can do is be honest and do my best. Being honest also means being honest with my body and mind, and paying attention when I need a break. I have gotten much better at this in the last year but there is still a lot of work to be done.

I do love being self-employed so that does mean more work hours at times. That also means more freedom most of the time. I do think we need to teach our kids it’s okay to be sick and miss school, sports, or other engagements to just rest. This also relates to mental stress and not just physical sickness. If you or your child needs a break, teach them it is okay to take it! They do not need to push through. Let’s break this cycle of not knowing how to rest. It is okay if they don’t show up once in a while. We call it a MENTAL HEALTH Day in our household. This is by design on my part because I want my children to know mental health is just as important as physical health. 

We are a society of people conditioned to feel like we always have to show up.  I was a survivor, I always showed up. That was how I got here today. That doesn’t mean that was always healthy.  There comes a time where you have to LIVE. In this moment that means I curl up in my lover’s large t-shirt, grab a cup of tea and watch bad tv (my brain can’t even handle reading right now!). I check the mom guilt at the door. I realize another paycheck or sale will come and I do NOTHING.

This is me telling my body and mind I give you permission to do nothing.

- Amanda @luxhealingarts 💕

There’s a stigma with mental illness, but I’m definitely not ashamed of my past. If had never dealt with this stuff, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.  I wouldn’t have figured out who I am or the person I want to be. I wouldn’t be able to help people the way I do in my life coaching sessions. 

Everybody says there’s help, get help. What does that mean? The hardest times were always when I was alone. When someone else was in the house, the pain was still there but I didn’t feel completely alone.  I received no information when I was discharged from the hospital after attempting suicide the first time when I was 19. I remember the Doctor telling me how lucky I was that my grandparents came home when they did. I remember thinking at that moment, “how is that lucky?”  They didn’t even hold me over in the psych ward [for attempting suicide] they just said “don’t do it again, find help next time.”  That’s a joke. I walked into my house and found two of my family members standing in front of me with a suitcase packed telling me to leave the house.  What help?!

That was over 30 years ago. Today there have been strides made in suicide prevention, in talking about it, hotlines have been set up to call. Though it still has a stigma attached to it, it is getting better. The only way it will continue to get better is through us. Use your voice, find services, know that you are not alone. 

I cycled in and out of deep depressions over the next 25 years. I can’t tell you how many times I tried to plan another suicide attempt. The only thing that stopped me was my 4 beautiful children and the small feeling I had that THEY, at least needed me. That’s until my youngest was a junior in high school and my life fell apart. I had what I refer to as my year from hell. Six major surgeries in eight months that left me immobile and in more pain than I had ever experienced in my entire life. Physical, mental, and on a profound soul level. I couldn’t work, I saw absolutely no way out from under the rock that was holding me down, and I could only see myself becoming an immense burden on my children, whom I was supposed to care for. 

For almost two years my life was trying to manage pain and figure a way out of the darkness. I was on so many pain killers I couldn’t think straight. I just went deeper and deeper into the dark abyss.

At times, I struggled with suicidal thoughts on a weekly basis. Sometimes I was able to ignore them. I might be driving to meet a friend or run an errand and briefly think about driving my car off the road. The thought would catch me off-guard, but it would quickly pass through my mind and I would go about my day.

But other times, these thoughts would stick around. It’s like a huge weight was dropped onto me, and I was struggling to get out from underneath it. I would suddenly get an intense urge and desire to end it all, and the thoughts would start to overwhelm me.

In those moments, I was convinced I would do anything to get out from under that weight, even if it meant ending my life. It’s like there was a glitch in my brain that was triggered and my mind would go completely haywire.  Even if that glitch were temporary, it felt like it would last forever. 

Then one day, for the first time in my life, I spoke the words out loud to a friend. I want to die... I sat and waited, holding my breath, wishing I could take the words back. I didn’t want her to think I was crazy or look down on me. She didn’t, she just hugged me and said, “life is hard right now huh”.

I just started balling and began telling her all the things that were going through my head and all the different ways I had tried to plan it. For the next couple of weeks, she checked in on me and came to visit me. Sometimes we would just sit in silence for hours, but I wasn’t alone. Then one day she showed up and said, “you need to get out of here, I have a friend in San Diego and he’s looking for a personal chef and I’ve eaten many of your home-cooked meals, it’s perfect!”  I fought her tooth and nail, I couldn’t just leave my kids. To which she responded, “you’re spending your days making a plan to leave them permanently. Think of this as a vacation. Stay a week, a month however long you need to feel better and not leave them.” I was on a plane in 3 days. 

The next year was by no means a vacation. The feelings didn’t go away, but now I had this disabled man relying on me so I pushed through. That was one smart friend I had and I am forever grateful to her. 

It wasn’t until I attempted sobriety that I first learned the idea of having a toolbox of coping mechanisms and then started to shift my thinking. I didn’t know there were other ways to cope with these feelings that I had. I had spent since the age of 9 burying all of my feelings and discomfort under a smorgasbord of alcohol and drugs. Yes, you read that right, age 9 I started my alcohol abuse. When you bury them under that, you never give yourself the opportunity to truly feel and work thru them. 

With time and a clear head though, I became more aware of these thoughts and found ways to manage them when things got tough. It’s taken a lot of hard work and practice, but simply being aware of the lies my brain would tell me when I was suicidal helped to combat them. 

Having an alternative to feeling suicidal was a whole new world, it was a game-changer. Even if I was too depressed to get off the floor, I had a mental health toolbox and a language to talk to myself that I’d never had before.

I had to learn that too, that I had become one of my own abusers. That was a revelation. I was just following in the footsteps of everyone else… Yet I wanted to escape from the cycle. Making those connections made me feel like my body was a worthy vessel and that I was worthy to live in it and stay on this planet.  That I was enough. 

I’ve done the work and each and every day, I promise you, I try to do something to better myself. Not because there is anything wrong with me, I am perfect as I am, but because I deserve to make myself the best possible version of myself. 

I know life can be really hard sometimes. I know it can feel like the walls are closing in on you or you are stuck under a boulder.  There is a mental toolbox that you can learn to use. I know it can feel like a real lonely place and that NO ONE could possibly understand. But there are people, I promise!  I know it’s scary to say the words of how you are feeling but do it anyway. Not for me, not for your family, but for you, because you deserve to experience joy and to live!  

Sept 6th through the 12th is National Suicide Prevention Week, For those experiencing suicidality, you’re not alone, and there is always hope, even if it doesn’t feel like it now.

If you or a loved one are experiencing thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or call me day or night. I will hear the words that are so tough for many to hear. I don’t care if your thousands of miles away, I will sit on the phone with you for as long as it takes for you to feel better. I love you!  You are enough!

- Celeste (@motheringhealing 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻)

Do you take care of your crystals?

Are you attracted to the designs?  Do you feel a pull towards them and maybe unsure why?  Many people tell me that they have bought a bracelet or crystal in the past, but they are unsure why.  They share that initially it is like no other jewelry or style they have purchased before, they just knew they had to have it. Many people start their crystal journey this way. It is a beautiful journey to begin!

Each crystal carries with it its own energy, it is a living thing. Crystals in nature, will actually “grow” and often heal themselves over time when broken or damaged. 

Some crystals like, obsidian, onyx, lava stone are great for grounding, helping one to feel more connected to the earth and more centered in their own body. While others like Elestial quartz, moonstone, kyanite, help you to connect with your higher self. Most people tend to be very attracted to rose quartz, this stone is all about the heart and self love. We can all use more of that!  

I always challenge people to “feel” through their heart center, which stone they are pulled or attracted to without reading any descriptions or even the name of the stone. It is fascinating to watch them pick a stone, then read the properties to discover that it is exactly what they need right now. 

When we use or wear crystals, they support us in different ways. Some will help you with focus or speaking your truth, some are great to calm a hot temper or aid in depression. Many stones out there will even absorb or repel negative energies. These beautiful stones work hard to balance and protect our energies. 

Do you in turn take care of your crystals?  Many people are not aware that they need to cleanse their crystals so that they can continue working for us. The reason crystals work so well in energy work is because they pick up energy. At the end of every day, I take whatever crystals I used that day and place them on my selenite slabs. This resets the crystals from any energies that they transformed for me throughout the day, essentially allowing you to start everyday with an energetically clean slate. I also place many of my crystals outside when we have a full moon so that they can be  recharged through the moons energy. 

- Celeste ( 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻 @motheringhealing )