What a beautiful, beautiful day I had!
First of all, it’s been gorgeous outside. I love the spring, which is appropriate for someone whose name means ‘spring’, isn’t it? 🙂
Secondly, I went on a guided herbal walk in the afternoon. Just me, no kids. It was the perfect weather for something like this – to do something that I love, outdoors, in the season that I love – ahhh. I literally feel my soul being nourished when I’m outside surrounded by natural beauty. I had a wonderful Passover but there was a lot of work leading up to it and throughout, and this herbal walk was the perfect balance to help me shift mental and energetic gears before getting back to our regular schedule. It was led by an experienced herbalist at an institute that offers graduate level studies in herbalism.
Not only did I enjoy the walk and the weather and learn some new and interesting things (eg that I should be using much larger measurements of herbs for medicinal purposes than I currently am), I also met a couple of women there who were had a similar perspective to me regarding health and wellness. Have you ever had an uncanny feeling that things are being orchestrated just for you? That was how I felt today. The timing in meeting them was really incredible, and I was taken aback that out of the three people I ‘happened’ to chat with, two provided me exactly what I needed right now.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking for a while now about becoming certified in some way to offer nutritional/health/wellness services. Nutrition and wellness are topics that I love learning about, and have been using my spare time to continually build on my knowledge base for years. I was researching a particular graduate program last night that had a strong appeal because of its rigorous science based foundation, and this morning was feeling particularly frustrated and despairing, not seeing how it was possible for at all for me for the next few years. And I was sent these two people just hours later to encourage me!
The first person I spoke to mentioned that she’s beginning exactly the program I was considering in the fall! I’ve never met anyone who attended that university at all, let alone this exact program (it’s in another state, but they have distance learning options combined with the requirement to travel there at one point towards the end). She gave me a lot of helpful information about it and other alternatives.
The second woman is already offering the kind of services I’d be most interested in providing, and she gave me some very helpful feedback on certification. I love learning new things, but I’m resistant (to put it mildly) to the idea that I’d have to sit through years of classes where information is given over that I believe to be inaccurate and even harmful just to get a piece of paper stating that I know something (which is what would be involved if I pursued certification as a registered dietician). Her perspective was very valuable and encouraging to me, since it helped me reframe my expectations and beliefs surrounding this.
There was so much synchronicity involved in the short time I was speaking with these women that it was like a direct message from G-d. I really, really needed some outside perspective from people who ‘get’ where I’m coming from. I haven’t come to any conclusions but I’m feeling a lot less pressured to squeeze more hours into the day than I have, and more optimistic and relaxed about the possibilities! And I brought home some mugwort seeds to plant in my garden. 🙂
Avivah
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