Acceptance is GREAT but have you experienced the JOY of pure surrender?

There is a lot to be said for letting go of everything we cannot control. This sounds SO simple, but in these Pandemic times, the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that I may as well let go of thinking things are supposed to be any different than they are.

FACT: None of us were prepared for the year we all just had. Not even my most psychic healer friends knew we’d be grounded for a year. Those of us on the more intuitive side had a feeling major changes were in the air, and we prepared for these changes by following our intuition to get healthy and put ourselves physically where we’d be our happiest.

For me, that meant detaching from my relatively calm, successful and pretty low-key life in San Diego and relocating to even mellower Maui with my three rescue dogs. I’d always joked that if I had to pick a place to stay “forever” it would be Maui. Little did I know that I’d been manifesting a year+ of going no where else (I haven’t been on a plane since landing here Jan. 26, 2020 and won’t even island-hop until I am vaccinated).

I’d barely had time to breathe the first six weeks on island as clients were nonstop calling/texting to put 2020 travel plans on the books. I craved peace and quiet, but it took a freaking Pandemic and a forced sabbatical to truly teach me the meaning of surrender.

This was about more than just “acceptance” of the world as we’ve never experienced it. This was “HOLY SHIT my entire business just got decimated and we have ZERO clue how long it will be before people can even travel again” level of OMFG. The first month of trying to just roll with it, stay positive and keep an optimistic mentality so as not to drive myself insane was a full-time challenge.

Thankfully, I had my three beautiful pups to quarantine with when the world and my little island locked down in a way so drastic that it required TOTAL surrender to what was…not what I wished it would be. Thinking back to nearly a year ago, I recall thinking how it would likely be back to normal by summer. And then, summer rolled into fall, holiday season and here we are, almost four seasons later into spring 2021. If you haven’t surrendered by now, there’s still time. It is never too late to graduate from just “accepting” the current scenario to embracing the opportunity to practice full-blown surrender. To be honest, I’ve LOVED not traveling and being a full-time dog mom for the first time in decades!

I’ve also learned that true peace comes when I can surrender to the higher powers guiding me not to lose my shit completely when I go down the rabbit hole (as we all do) of WTF is actually happening here? I know that it’s all part of the divine plan to teach me important things like patience, trust, hope and yes, love. More love of myself even on my worst days when I feel like I have no idea what I am doing here.

And, more love for my fellow souls, even if my messages do not resonate with them because we are operating at different frequencies. I am working on being more patient with people who do not speak my language, but I am also focused on staying calm amidst the chaos and throwing my hands up and dancing in my living room to happy music as my way of letting the universe know that I’m ready to play the game of trust and full acceptance. Who knows what’s coming next but it’s going to be FUN! That much I know.