Tag: life

• 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

• 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

• Peeling Back The Negatives, Finding our True Childlike Joy

  I have used the tool of focusing that I explained in my blog called “Do ya ever just not wanna get outta bed?  “Focusing” will tell you why.” many times since learning the meditation in Trackerschool almost 10 years ago.  The meditation is getting easier for me and I am more quickly able to pinpoint…

  micheleballantyne

  January 23, 2017

  Emotional Health, Meditations

  anxiety, childlike, Childlike joy, depression, education, emotions, energy, feelings, focusing, focusing for mental health, focusing meditation, freedom, inspiration, joy, learning, life, life lessons, love, meditation, meditation focusing, mental health, philosophy, spirit, spirituality, stress, Tom Brown Jr., trackerschool, tracking, vision, Zen

• Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? “Focusing” Will Tell You Why.

  That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day.  There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…

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  January 16, 2017

  About Michele, Emotional Health, Meditations, Physical Health

  anxiety, communication, depression, emotions, energy, focusing, focusing meditation, Health, inspiration, joy, learning, life, life lessons, love, meditation, mental health, philosophy, spirit, spiritual communication, spirituality, stress, subconscious, subconscious communication, Tom Brown Jr., trackerschool, vision, Zen

• Do Ya Ever Just Not Wanna Get Outta Bed? "Focusing" Will Tell You Why.

  That’s how I felt this morning. I was rested but just didn’t want to face the day.  There was nothing pressing I had to do for anyone else, but I felt stressed and awful! I decided to do the focusing meditation Tom Brown Jr., my teacher at Trackerschool, taught me, to separate the individual emotions that…

  January 16, 2017

  About Michele, Emotional Health, Meditations, Physical Health

  anxiety, communication, depression, emotions, energy, focusing, focusing meditation, Health, inspiration, joy, learning, life, life lessons, love, meditation, mental health, philosophy, spirit, spiritual communication, spirituality, stress, subconscious, subconscious communication, Tom Brown Jr., trackerschool, vision, Zen

• Another Painfully Learned Horsey Lesson

  Ok, so things have evolved in the horsey world in our barn so if Honey and Bae are in stalls next to each other , they will pick at each other and cause a stir.  Usually, if Bae does not like what is happening in Honey’s stall, including us giving Honey attention, Bae will threaten Honey…

  micheleballantyne

  December 10, 2016

  About Michele, My Horses, Stories

  horse safety, horse training, horses, horses misbehaving, injuries around horses, learning, life