taking leaps of faith like a badass

Hello, Darling ♥

I'm in one of those moods. One of those kinds where I feel fiercely authentic and over-ready for life alignment.

Feeling seriously brave today.

Brave enough to leap into my destiny fiercely knowing that it will all work out, that no fear is worth holding back and playing life small.

I am tired of not having a hOMe. I am ready to hOMestead. I am ready to gather an intentional community of soul sisters and soul brothers. I am ready for goats and chickens and farm structure building (motivated by Pinterest pictures of repurposed materials). I am ready for an earth-grounded home. I am ready to live sustainably. I am ready to grow a business, leveraging my incredible life experiences. I am ready to open up completely to abundance. I am ready to secure myself with a savings.

I am ready. I am ready. I am ready.

So, how does one take a leap of faith like a badass?

My formula goes a little something like this:

Know that this is your undeniable destiny. Especially having tried other things that didn't light you up and didn't fulfill you because they were not your calling.

Tune in to your needs. What do you absolutely need? Make sure you have that, and be incredibly open and creative about how that can fit with your destiny. Ask yourself every moment how you need to be cared for - self-care enables you to show up ready for anything you are undertaking.

Hold a vision. Know what it looks like, feels like, tastes like, sounds like, smells like. Engage in it's vividness. Grow a vision board or alter or journal or list dedicated to every soul-delicious details of your vision. Visit it daily, carry it in your back pocket. Align your whole life energy with it.

Gather a support group. Your biggest cheerleaders. The ones who believe in you. The ones who remind you why you are doing this when you have doubts. The ones who won't let you step away because you don't think you aren't brave enough. The net you fall into every time you trip (it's a new dance, tripping happens!). The sisters and brothers who sit with you on the floor and listen to your heart and hold hands together while you stand back up, sending you off again like a father giving his most heart-felt blessing.

Face your fears and ask each of them if they can stop you. Sometimes, this requires heaps of trust that the thing will just work out in some creative way. And also trusting that what you are stepping into is better than anything you are afraid of.

Let good-intentioned folks keep their own fears. Know that their fears are their own stuff coming up for them. It really has nothing to do with you, except that you became a mirror for them. But if their fears trigger you, take a peek at them and see if they truly are a concern of yours that you want to examine, or if you were just absorbing their fear-energy ♥ Do some energy clearing and send them love and blessings, and hope that you will be a great example for them to follow their own dreams. If a dream is so precious and vulnerable, sometimes I don't even tell people until I'm in the next step (below), so they can't try to stop me. This may be a part of your self-care. And never underestimate the power of simple Ho'oponopono.

Be so ready that nothing can stop you. Grow that momentum until it cannot be stopped. Until the brakes don't even work.

Race around at the last minute to get prepared. lol This just happens to me - it's not planned, just spontaneity at it's best :) Don't let "not being completely prepared" stop you - you can check stuff off your list en route. Because the next step is more important than this one.

Leave, leap, catapult, propel. Just take a step. Just keep stepping. Just do it. Before you know it, your past is in your rearview mirror and the wind is in your sails. You freaking did it!!!!!!!

SQUEEEEEEEEE your statuses on Facebook. :) Inspire others! Let them on the ride! Maybe it's just to your support group? Or maybe this helps you get clear about who you want on your friend's list at all?

Allow the swift and powerful flow. This is the part where you would be freaking out if you tried to slam on the brakes or put a foot down in a riding down the river analogy. Just ride the ride. The longer you can ride it, the further you will get into it. And the incredible lessons you will have will blow your old self away.

Sit with your butt on the earth. And allow your head to swirl in the flow. You can be grounded AND in the flow as the same time. I highly recommend it. It's been an integral part of the processing and integration of all that has and is happening, and the continued ability to allow the swift and powerful flow.

Stay present. You are no longer who you were. You stepped into the fire, and it burned off all the old outdated stuff. You are just here, just you now. No need to try to remember who you used to be or how you used to do things. Enjoy now.

Be a lighthouse. Let your story inspire others. Speak your truth about risk-taking and faith-leaping. Encourage others to follow their dreams. Become a part of their support group. A perpetuating circle.

Rinse and repeat. Your life has been INCREDIBLE. But someday, you may feel stuck again and ready for a new adventure. Do it.



All my love,

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weaving our way to Texas one connection at a time

Hello, Love :)

I apologize for my absence.

When I started this blog, I had intentions of posting every day. I look forward to when I do.

I shared recently that my mission and vision was too big to share from the small screen of an old iphone. Well, I am uber excited to announce that I finally have my laptop back!

So, now, I am going to send out rockets of desire for mobile wifi. Having to travel to a McDonalds, a Starbucks, or a library to connect online has been my next level of challenge that I am ready to alleviate :)

So, having said all of that...

We had a huge shift in our journey.

After 3 weeks of free roaming Oregon, connecting with people, places, and experiences, we got called to speak at Rethinking Everything (a huge alternative life conference) in Texas.

I am going to speak on living nomadically, the internal journey and the physical specifics.

I know that this is an incredible opportunity to connect with my people, to reach further. But, like BurntWoodsStock, I have no idea the depths and breadths this experience will reach.

I just know I need to get there.

So, this has taken my trust journey to a whole new level.

In retrospect, I am seeing how taking off for Oregon was kinda easy. We had the gas money. We just had to show up.

This has been a different experience altogether. We didn't have the gas. We had no idea the exact "hows" to this experience, just that we were going to continue to do hair ropes wherever we could to fund our gas and conference stay (hotel room share stay).

So, so far we have made it from Newport, Oregon back down the coast to San Diego. We left there yesterday and are currently in Arizona, with enough gas to get to the Texas border.

So many times, I have felt the panic start to rise. Once or twice, I even had to accept the fact that maybe getting to the conference might not be the end result.

And then the next thing unfolded before us, paving the way.

We are almost there, and I know we will make it. However it will happen, it will.

This has been a HUGE journey of expansion. I felt it when we entered Encinitas again, and I noticed how much I had grown in our journey.

I feel deeper connected than ever.

You know what else I have been really realizing recently?

I am my hero.

All those people I looked up to for living so deeply, so authentically, so connected, so sacred. The wise women, the shamans, the earth people.

I am one of them.

This is deeply fulfilling for me.

Everywhere I go, I am reminded of this.

Everywhere we go, I speak with people. I connect deeply with people. I find my people.

And that is incredible.

But a part of my journey recently has been really being aware of how much I love myself.

I have been flushing out some bits still. There is a Pink song where she talks about feeling

Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "no way, it's all good", It didn't slow me down
Mistaken, Always second guessing
Under estimated, Look, I'm still around

Pretty, pretty please
Don't you ever, ever feel
Like your less than, less than perfect.
Pretty, pretty please
If you ever, ever feel
Like your nothing
You are perfect to me.

Wow, it triggers me every time, even just sharing the lyrics with you here.

Underestimated is the gut kicker.

I never really believed in my self, in the deeper part of me that I longed to embody but was afraid to do so and fail.

Now, I am so deeply connected, and it allows me unfold so deeply and simply with the people I connect with in our journeys.

My people. They are everywhere.

Community builders. Authentic livers. Creatives. Sacreds. Soul sisters and soul brothers.

Be still my heart.

I feel so acutely aware of the web of us that I am a part of.

I am overjoyed to travel and connect personally with people, to have new connections in communities around the country.

I feel this global community unfolding one pocket at a time. I feel myself heading in a direction to impact the world.

I feel myself being capable of this huge epic calling in life. To gather people and create spaces that reach to heal and nourish the world.

I am not longer afraid. I am not afraid of the fire. I know that I am the embodiment of the phoenix. I am that which I was afraid of.

Now, I am not afraid.

And my whole life and world (my little family, my bigger family, my tribe) are all a reflection of this.

We are all stepping into our power, more deeply connected and loving, more an expression of abundance.


So, here I am. In Sedona, Arizona. A beautiful, incredible little artsy community (like none I have ever seen!) with massive red rock plateau backdrops, inviting the mysterious, opening up the space in my life to accept the abundance that is swirling all around and accessible if we can be open enough.

That is what this journey is all about for me. Opening up. Expanding. Trusting. Connecting to Source.

I want to invite you to step into this giant hug. I want to find new ways to connect with you. I am on Facebook, and I am here, and I have a few e-mails.

How best do I connect with you, beloved reader?

How best do I enfold you in this massive, and yet deeply personal project and vision?

To what depths do you want to be involved?

I have been feeling drawn toward business. But it has not unfolded the way I was previously attempting. I think I am meant to find the ways to make this my life's work.

I know that finding ways to gather us together and stay connected feels like the best first step.

And I am craving dialogue from you. I have a lot to say, and I have replayed and refined my ideas for years. I want to hear you, often, constantly. I would love to create a space that makes symbiotic dialogue easy.

That is what I was hoping for with this blog space. I wanted people to be able to comment. I am worried that the comment-ability is not easy. I want to adjust that.

Also, I have a Facebook group that has been as neglected as this blog, unfortunately. But it is chocked full of soulful community deliciousness. It is called Being Tribe. Please feel free to come find it if you want to be a part of community dialogue.

In addition to sharing my big heart journey here and connecting with beloveds on Facebook, my other big internet experience has been requesting donations to fund our journeys.

It has been that the big heart donations people have gifted us have catapulted us into a much further trajectory than it seemed possible.

My wish list manifestation list is shared in the sidebar, and all donations go toward whatever is most salient at the time of receiving.

I have been spending some depth time wondering over requesting donations. I have been loving weaving hair ropes for people along our journey.

And I am feeling drawn toward wanting to offer my e-book "Whole Family Learning" to people who donate.

Once I get Microsoft Office Student again, I have a plethora of e-book and e-course ideas I would love to share.

Please, please, let me know what you are interested in hearing more about from me. I would love to share more about it. I would love to offer a fair energy exchange for donations - whatever you feel called toward, be it my most sincere gratitude, an e-book, some time to connect, some listening while you process, a personalized e-mail to you about some subject you want to know more about.

Please be in touch with me if you feel inclined to donate monetarily and have room for me to connect in your life.

All my love,
V

Here We Go

Hello, Darling ♥

I am taking a moment to reconnect with you ♥ 

Our world is such a wild ride, I can barely keep up. It's incredible and awesome. 

So, we headed up to Oregon, guided only by a calling in our hearts. 

And we took it one step at a time, one miracle at a time. It has been a journey of opening up to trust and the bounty of a universe of abundance. 

We went up to connect with wild sacred souls to grow this tribe vision I have been gathering the pieces of over the last 6 years. 

As soon as we got on the road, the world opened up to us, we opened up to ourselves - just like I knew would happen. 

I knew all along. I just needed to be ready. 

And boy am I ready ♥

The timing is perfect. I had a lot to clear out during our "local nomad" journey. 

And now that we are on the road, I am the embodiment of lightness of being, of trust, of openness, of connection, of bliss, of OM, of readiness to fulfill my wildest dreams and my deepest callings. 

I needed Oregon. I needed the fresh space, and I needed the nourishing green mountains and forests, and I needed the soul-delicious and most interesting beaches with driftwood and rivers or creeks pouring out into the ocean and wind that makes the water sparkle and giant rocks and cliffs. It's magic. 

I needed the people, the connections, the openness to new communities, the small towns, the kind faces ♥

In the short amount of time here, I have met soul sistas and big heart friends and a total kid tribe ♥ I am in awe ♥

And then the wind in our sails shifted. 

No sooner had we taken a giant plunge to move to Oregon from San Diego, with only what fit in our van, than we were being called to a huge leap of faith: to get from Oregon to Texas in about 2 weeks, to speak at a conference. 

In exchange for our service, our registration to the whole 5 day event was complimentary, but we still needed to manifest the gas to get there, the hotel cost, and heaps of trust and releasing fears. 

We are on a giant trust journey of selling hair ropes on a blanket at farmers markets along the coast for donations. 

I know that the journey to the conference is a part of what we are meant to share once we get there. 

I am going to share our life in a van. 

I'm going to share the internal journey, and I'm going to share the external journey. 

I'm going to share the simplicity of being a local nomad, and the adventure of being a traveling nomad. 

I'm going to share living in abundance on a teensy income, and I'm going to share handcrafting opportunities for monetary abundance. 

I'm going to share a close-knit radical unschooling family. 

I'm going to share living in the raw. 

I'm going to share living a blissful life as a single mama and family of 4, in the uber simplicity of a minivan. 

And this whole adventure is about touching and connecting with souls - telling our story as I weave our way down the coast and then book it to Texas, and the wild beautiful families who, just as fellow rethinking everythingers, are already kindreds. 

Souls who want to hear our story. Souls whom I would love to network with on big projects and wild dreams. 

I have no idea what will happen after the Rethinking Everything conference. 

We are kind of taking life one giant leap at a time. 

Life says jump, and I say how high :))

So, my beloved, that is what is most current with me. That is a reflection of my internal journey most recently. 

If you want to stay more up-to-date on our adventure, please feel free to visit our modest blog:

www.wherethewildthingslove.blogspot.com

My laptop is officially off to get repaired, and when it returns, I will leap at the opportunity to access all of my Internet needs easier, including some more complexity to the blog's web page :))

Magic, I tell you. 

I make a list of what I am ready to manifest, and it happens. So fast. So deliciously in divine time. 

Speaking of divine time, I am off to prepare for another farmers market tomorrow ♥

All my love,

V

BurntWoodsStock 2013

We kept hearing about this awesome family festival, and when we learned that my whole family could get in for free if I volunteered, we could camp for free (!!!!), AND that it was just outside of Newport, I knew it was meant to be.

And I was right. 

The whole festival is about music and family fun. 

Three days of kids pavilion with crafts galore and things like face painting (by Kassidy)

and mustache glasses (also by Kassidy)

Toys 

hooping

A chalkboard wall 

A tractor train that Kass kept driving through the sprinkler to cool the kids off :))

Fire spinners!!!!!!!!! All 3 nights!

The tooth fairy was there

I took our last $30 and bought supplies to do hair ropes :)

Hippies love colorful hair bangles. 

I had planned to use my mad thread skills to barter for food and such at the festival, but the festival actually provided food for the volunteers, so we all ate anyway :))

I ended up setting up on a blanket with a sign that said I was doing hair ropes for donation. I did 20-30 hair ropes over the course of a day and a half, and I manifested a beautiful hoop for Kass

a pair of tie dye pants for Jaja

an Eco Womb shirt for Noble 

The most delicious vanilla chai tea I have ever had for me

And I finished the festival with $3 more than I started with!

I connected with so many incredible people. One thing we have noticed since being in Oregon is that the people are so quick to share what is great about a certain area. 

And we heard about other festivals, fairs, and pow wows happening in the area. 

And I met an incredible mama who has been avidly trying to start an intentional community for years (seeking out land and such). We are going to connect more later :))

And I met up with a beautiful mama who I have been connecting with on Facebook, to connect in person and talk intentions :)

I knew I was called here for all the right reasons <3

During the festival, we found a cozy little space in the forest to stretch out on in a tent (donated by the Salvation Army in Newport) 

We stayed camping for the rest of the week, and someone gave us a bigger tent!!!! And we moved to a spot that felt a lot like an island. We could hear the creek running by at night <3

One of the best parts of the festival was reconnecting with our beloved Eco Womb family, and making new lasting friendships with fun families who also live on the road. 

Our kids had the time of their life together, over the festival and during the rest of the week when we all had the whole field and forest to ourselves :))

This BurntWoodsStock experience has been exactly why we came to Oregon and very close to what we want for our intentional community. 

Soaking it in here 

and currently rejuvenating in the forest

We are being called toward the mountains and Portland next. I am hoping to get our laptops fixed and connect with other unschoolers to soak them in and put my feelers out for kindreds who may want to grow this vision with us. 

We still have a wish list, and if you want to donate monetarily to meet those needs, my PayPal email is wildsacredsoul(at)live(dot)com. 

We were blessed with $60, and look what all we manifested with it! Can you imagine what we could do with a donation from you?

Thank you for taking this journey with us <3

More pictures from Newport

So, we had an awesome adventure before we left Newport, and I wanted to share it with you...

We went to the 

Remember those tickets we won at Bingo? Well, our beloved MB and Quinn happen to be members, and they gifted us with 2 more and the pleasure of their company :))

We plan to head back into town Saturday and go to the science center that is attached to the aquarium :)

Pictures of Newport

So, tomorrow is likely our last full day in Newport, and we will be preparing to head east into a few possibilities :)

For now, let me serenade you with pictures from our time in Newport ♥

The beach...

The park...

The hike with my beloved MB and her son Quinn (more about their fabulousness later)...

The library and library park (a few blips over the time there)... 

The Farmers Market (and more MB and Quinn)...

The chili cook-off at the senior center that we stumbled upon quite serendipitously...

 

Our BINGO bounty!

The kids got new-to-them shoes shortly upon arriving...

And Noble got to practice the ancient art of shoe-tying...

And he is now a master. 

Jaja took a selfie...

And Kass spent a lot of personal time catching up with her "back-up best friend", manga... 

Me? Well, besides being the "mamarazzi", I have been deep in the early work of growing this tribe. Which mainly consisted of online connections with kindreds, research, and reflection. 

More on that in my next post :))