Tag: life lessons

• Learning to be Me

  I am not alone in this state of being. A presence is with me. I am being held in an unseen, unfelt medium of rest and stillness. I can rest here. –The soles of my feet are not burning here. My hands are not burning here. My skin is not burning here. My nerves do not hurt here. This is good to know.

  micheleballantyne

  September 8, 2022

  About Michele, Emotional Health, Health, Meditations, My Writing

  anxiety, burning nerves, emotions, finding peace, finding yourself, healing, Health, Health and Healing, heaven on earth, life lessons, nerve pain, neuralgia, peace, self, stress, the void

• Fear

  

  How to explore and heal the places within yourself that scare you.

  micheleballantyne

  July 22, 2022

  About Michele, Emotional Health, Meditations

  anxiety, conversation with darkness, emotions, fear, Health, Health and Healing, life lessons, overcoming darkness, overcoming fear, shine the light on dark places, stress, understanding ourselves

• Explore the Universe in You

  micheleballantyne

  July 7, 2022

  About Michele, Art : Drawing; Painting; Fiber; Etc., Emotional Health, For Sale, My Wall Art, My Writing

  felted art, Health and Healing, inner self, inner work, know thyself, know yourself, life lessons, philosophy, the universe in you, universe, what we are, what we are made of

• Snippet from my new book “Changes”!

  

  After listening intently for at least 30 minutes, I just had to look.

  micheleballantyne

  March 13, 2022

  About Michele, Emotional Health, My Writing, Stories, Survival Skills

  anxiety, camping, challenges, emotions, experiences, life, life lessons, michele ballantyne, new jersey, pine barrens, rainy camping, tom brown jr, Tom Brown Jr., trackergirl, trackerschool, wilderness, wilderness survival, woods

• Finally got all the shingles on the fancy roof.

  

  I’m so excited I can now move on to the pop out windows which will be in the open triangle spaces below the upper roof. After that I will put in the large triangle windows for the loft area on all four sides of the building. Working on construction in my life reminds me of […]

  micheleballantyne

  August 17, 2018

  About Michele, Building Cool Stuff, Cheryl’s Studio

  art studio, Building, building tiny house, learning, life, life lessons, philosophy, vision, Women Building Awesome Stuff!

• Structure and Personal Evolution

  I feel like I am in an ever shifting paradigm.  The sand underneath me is shifting, falling away, leaving me without structure to order my life around.  What once was solid is now barely there as an almost invisible outline of what once was. The song I learned as a child went, “The wise man […]

  April 8, 2018

  About Michele, Emotional Health

  art, awareness, challenges, coping with change, depression, disillusionment, dysfunction, expanding, expanding awareness, falling apart, feelings, house upon a rock, house upon the sand, how do I cope when life falls apart, learning, life, life changes, life changing, life lessons, paradigm shifts, philosophy, shifting, shifting sands of life, structure

• New Year is Here!

  New Years Eve is here and the Christmas Holiday is past.  Time to clear the decks for another wonderful year. It’s funny how, even with all the crazy and often extremely difficult experiences in my life, I always feel somewhat like a princess, spoiled with love by the Great Everything.  Maybe being brought up by […]

  micheleballantyne

  December 31, 2017

  About Michele, My Horses, On The Farm

  happy memories, happy new year, kids and ponies, kids fun, kids responsibilities, life lessons, new year, shetland, shetland pony, shetland stallion

• Finding Our True Heroic Selves!

  Healing is all about digging deeper and deeper and looking into the shadowy corners to shed light on everything and create healing.  Today I did some more digging.  What I found may resonate with someone out there. I woke feeling stressed again.  “Why do I feel stressed?” I wondered.  “Time to focus,” I sighed. “How […]

  micheleballantyne

  February 5, 2017

  About Michele, Emotional Health, Meditations, Physical Health

  anxiety, communication, depression, earth heart, education, emotions, energy, feelings, freedom, Health, inspiration, joy, learning, life, life lessons, love, malcolm ringwald, malcolm ringwalt, meditation, mental health, philosophy, spirit, spirituality, stress, Tom Brown Jr., vision, Zen

• What a perfect little paw print!  What I saw while I was organizing my garage :-)

  Today (written on Wed. Jan. 25th) I’m organizing my garage! Or I should say I’m supervising the organization of my garage! Ha ha I’m sitting in a rocking chair, in a big fluffy down jacket, telling my son and my niece what to do. My niece is a real go-getter. She has worked for me […]

  micheleballantyne

  January 26, 2017

  About Michele

  cat paw print, cat print, cat track, felting workshop, fiber art, Health, house cleaning, kids, labor, learning, life, life lessons, organizing, paw print, scarf workshop, stress, teaching children, tracking, tracks, wet felting, wet felting workshop, work ethic, work for children, workers, workshop