Hello, I will be the calm side of this blog site. As you probably already know I am Luke’s mom. We both love writing and thus this website was born. Unlike my son, as I was growing up in my small town in the Midwest, I did not particularly follow pop culture, trends, or movies. Hard to believe for someone from the 80’s. Many of you who know me may find it hard to believe I rarely saw M-TV growing up. I listened to the popular music but could not pick out many singers by sight. I did follow a few of the movie genres, but surprisingly did not see many cult classics, such as Ghost, Dirty Dancing, or The Breakfast Club until I was much older. And truthfully I still have never watched most of them to their conclusions.
So why am I here? Well as I am now 50+ in age, I have come a long way and my journey has been an interesting one. In my youth I thought I would always want to be “in the fast lane”, seeing the latest, greatest things and striving to climb the ladder of success both personally and professionally. But time is a strange phenomenon indeed, as we find ourselves taking paths we never imagined we would be on, and amazingly find ourselves in places we needed to be. And I am no different. These posts will serve to share how I came to be the calm, content, simple person I am today.
The experiences I pull from are many. I was a normal girl from a normal home. We lived in a rural area, we rode horses, motorcycles, fished, gardened, joined 4-H. I was in the Girl Scouts, even earning my Gold Award. Overall good student, planned to go to college in Biology to work in forensics. And I started that college, and remain only a senior in that degree to this day. My twenties were a whirlwind of living in that fast lane I thought so interesting. A few quick failed marriages, with my address changing sometimes monthly. Much of that time a blur now, it is amazing I earned my nursing degree and had such a wonderful career that has lasted me 27+ years.
Somewhere amidst all this, I met my husband. He too had a path comparable to mine in the sense he had been flying along so quickly he hardly stopped to think. With the birth of our son Luke, we were brought to face what was important, as I promptly changed career direction as he needed frequent therapy due to physical disabilities. Through the coming years I learned the importance of taking care of myself, and learned it the hard way-by not doing that. As he grew, my husband Gregg and I also grew. We grew and started a path to our self awareness and I especially sought the solution from within for my own healing and found myself on an enlightened journey that continues even today.
I have been a student, factory worker, gas station attendant, waitress, nanny, cook, ER nurse, med-surg nurse, home care nurse, hospice nurse, ICU nurse, OR nurse, Endo nurse, and so many things in between. I love reading, I love maps, I love nature, and I love being with my family or friends. And currently I have almost shed my nursing title, as I only work a few days each month as my journey takes me into my newest career as a hypnotherapist. And this my friends is partly how the calmness has persevered. Along with my studies of Reiki, meditation, I find myself seeking out the quiet times, seeing the things most often over looked. And I am in such a better place than ever before.
I hope you’ll join me, as I share my thoughts and feelings about how I got to such a serene place, and how you can too. For each and every one of you I wish your hearts to be filled with love and peace.
Calm and Cultured 