Minding my body, emotions and mind and a gift from my dog.

A human being has three parts that need to learn or be trained to work together. I have chosen to dump the junk of the past so to speak. Seriously, I have. There is no reason for me to carry another’s baggage with me everywhere I go every day.

                Just like anyone else I have had happy times and sad times, unfortunately the bad times seem to haunt me (Ooh October is coming, great time to talk about haunting.) and the happy times like to hide from my memory. So as I journey through this process of change, I decided to allow you to join me for some of it. This journey is one of those super personal things a person can choose to experience.

                So here’s the plan. Yes, I do have a plan. Go ahead giggle, many of you know I have a friend whose name is Procrastination. Those who know me best will wonder if my friend Procrastination will be a huge distraction for me. I hope not but you know that’s one of those habit things I need to change. Changing habits oh man that takes some serious work. I am ready to break a sweat. How about you?

                Here is tool number one of the tools I will be using to break these habits of mine. Ah yeah I did say habits plural. It was suggested to me by Dr. Laura Hall LCSW to listen to Kirk Duncan’s Building a Mind of Steel. I have and it makes so much sense to me. Practicing it on the other hand is just that right now practice. You know when a baby is first learning to walk they fall down and then try again. Let’s just say I am doing that.

 I am also trying to figure out how to make this journey funny, fun and well enjoyable for both myself and you my dear reader. Yes this time it’s me first for a while. I need to fix me before I can help someone else.

                Tool number two is that I discovered essential oils and I love them. I found a book at a convention I attended a few years ago and I have just really started to use this book. The name of this book is “A Modern Resource for Healing Emotions and Essential Oils” (Emotional Reference Guide 3^rd Edition). I have chosen some emotions and the oils to diffuse for those emotions. Does it work? I guess we’ll see. Is this an FDA approved and researched method? Nope. Do I feel the oils are safe? Yes, most definitely. I have complete confidence in the brand I use. If you’re interested let me know and I’ll hook you up with the best on the market.

   You on the other hand can make that decision for yourself. I just have a few words of advice when it comes to choosing essential oils. Please, please, please make sure you are using quality, certified and third party tested oils. Yes they cost more but they have been scrutinized for impurities and flaws.

If an oil says not for internal use don’t use it internally that would be pretty dumb. Would you eat a Tide Pod? I hope not! Those are so concentrated and such nasty chemicals you or a child thinking its candy could get severe chemical burns internally and have problems for a long time. In my honest opinion oils are a million times safer than synthetic anything. They in my opinion are an amazing blessing in my life.

 I used to think people were crazy when they talked about using essential oils. I would say things like “Haha funny. There is no way I am touching that.” I was creeped out a lot by this whole essential oil idea.

This whole FAITH thing and the Proclamation deal I am working on is not separate from this. Weird I know. My childhood was rough and my teens were rough, there’s a lot of baggage I get to drop off and stop carrying.

The essential oils don’t work unless you do with emotional anything which is why I use the airomatic scent during relaxation hypnotherapy meditation practices.  My favorite mediations are on an app I put on my phone and ipad.

OH MAN!!! I am gagging on the smell that just assaulted my nasal passages!!! Are you kidding? My dog, yes my dog just dropped a loaded stink bomb on my carpet while I was typing this. My dogs are house trained and part of our family but sometimes they make my house reek!  Thank heavens for carpet shampooers and rolls and rolls of paper towels and plastic grocery bags to tie the stink up in after you clean it up. Remind me to tell you how I clean my carpets. You might find it funny.

Meet Bo the stink bomb dropper!

So now that the stink bomb has been cleaned up and I have essential oil (Peppermint) in my diffuser the nasty smell is gone. Totally off topic so let’s get back to my healing my mind and making it a mind of steel thing….

So I start and end my day with my vision board (a work in progress) then I put thoughts that need to go to prison in my prison book, and then read my happy thought journal followed by reading a very special document referred to as my Patriarchal Blessing.

 I chose a few emotions I want to work on, used the emotions and oils guide book to pick the oils I will use in my diffuser and the Heal Your Body meditation app by Glenn Harold. At bedtime I start my diffuser with the oils suggested, put my headphones on while listening to Glenn Harold.  Again I am not too great at the whole new habit thing so it’s a hit and miss right now. However, the first time I did do this it was one of the most eye opening experiences I’ve had in a very long time.

When I wake up one of the most important parts of this is to write down or describe any dreams I may or may not have had. I then pick through what I remember about my dream and put the bad thoughts in prison and then read my happy journal. Kirk Duncan does a much better job of describing what to do with the journals and how they work.

So here I am hopeful that I can get all three of the important parts of me to work together my soul, mind and body. This being such a personal thing I may only share bits and pieces of my journey but if you dive into the same tools I mentioned above you can take your own personal journey and do the same.

Best wishes,

Mommacrae

An Angel Story

Driven by my dedication to my husband and five children, their spouses and children I have been very involved in my community and local schools for the past twenty years.

 

My husband and children often tease me about not being able to watch TV or a movie without knitting or crocheting at the same time.



 




 
I have completed more than one extra-large afghan watching Colorado Avalanche Hockey. 

Making the afghan gives me a good excuse to sit under a warm cozy blanket.





 
I am most often found hard at work on my computer, on the phone with clients, in the field researching a story, or reading a good book with an ice cold Pepsi nearby.

A bad habit that will die a slow but sure death, because I have decided to do the Slim and Sassy program with doTERRA. I have begun changing my diet to include more diabetic and heart disease friendly foods. It will be more of a lifestyle change than just a diet.









Six days a week I will be adding a low impact exercise program. I'll be starting with Walk Away the Pounds and then moving to T25. I am looking forward to reaching my goal of 135-145 lbs. I have a long journey ahead of me but making the right choices with exercise and food will make a huge difference in reaching those goals.

My daughter is an awesome striker on the soccer field.

Service to others in my local community is very important to me. I have served as PTA president for the elementary school, coached AYSO soccer, served as AYSO's Area Coach Administrator for ten regions, as well as served in various capacities at my local church.

Lessons Learned from Facebook

I am really happy with the decision made to leave Facebook. I didn’t think I would be. It’s interesting to go back to living life outside of the blue screen, full of memes (Many of which contain inappropriate language.) It’s like I have stepped out of a crowd of people all trying to talk over one another.

Facebook has become for me a very negative and depressing source of information and misinformation. I have found that so much of what is being read on Facebook is hearsay; it doesn’t have the roots of truth to the news articles and information I prefer reading or listening to in order to stay informed. Even watching the TV news or reading the newspaper lacks the roots or true information I seek to make better decisions.

I have also recognized that so many of my friends and family (me included in this big time) have turned Facebook into this ad service of all the many products and services. The personal connections have been lost because so many of us are hiding behind our computer screens.

My personal connections will actually have to interact with me and I with them. You know face time and I am not saying Facetime. I mean the getting together and doing something kind of time. It’s pretty stupid that it took a major family blow-up that caused enough marital strife my husband and I decided to eliminate Facebook from our home. We decided staying married was more important.

 Extended family relations still really stink but I don’t know that will ever change. You know how in the cartoon Robin Hood there a phrase at the end about Robin is having outlaws for in-laws, that’s pretty much how I feel with very few exceptions.

Now I am taking The Family a Proclamation to the World and going over the principles to base good family life and homes on. I am still on FAITH. I have questions that I will be answering about relationships of FAITH with and in myself, God, Jesus Christ, Glenn, Brennan and Courtney along with their children (my grandbabies), Glenn Jr., Allen and Rhondelle, Barbie, and of course our little caboose Carroll. If I am honest Carroll isn’t so little anymore and neither are my other children.

So watch for them. This will actually be kind of a tough thing for me. I have come to the conclusion that faith=assurance. So what assurance do I have with all those I just mentioned above? Maybe you'll want to do your own discovery and decide what assurance you have with each of your peeps.

 

 Best Wishes,

Mommacrae

Protect the First Amendment

As promised on my Uintah Basin Informer page

Before deleting my Facebook page I promised to cover the Presidential run for 2016 in a very different manner than you have seen on national TV or in the newspapers. Well, here is the beginning of what is to come.

Uintah Basin Informer

I am excited to take this journey with you through The Constitution and what our current situation is. If you are not liking what you see in our current government there are things that can be done. I am not a fan of what is currently happening in each level of government.

I will do my very best to keep my personal bias out of my writings on the Uintah Basin Informer blog. I don't think I should air them here either but me being me have no problem voicing how I feel about things. My family and friends know this about me.

Have fun reading and learning and yes getting a butt chewing. As a people we have not done our job very well. Just sayin...

Until next time
Mommacrae

Family Faith in one another.

     So due to the crazy stuff on Facebook that was going on in my life, here is what I have decided to do. You'll find family updates here as well as tips, tricks and resources to improve life. 

     Now I am only Mommacrae and aka Grannycrae so who knows what the rest of my family will or will not decide to participate in. 

     I believe that The Family A Proclamation to the World is divine inspired instruction from God. So I am going to take the principles that sustain a happy family and break them down one by one. 

This is a copy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or (the Mormon's) Proclamation on the family. You can find more info at www.mormon.org or on www.lds.org

     Here's my first principle; faith. Just what exactly does it mean to have a family who's lives are based on faith? Truth be told I all ready know I am supposed to have faith in God and Jesus Christ. 

     Does this whole having a family whose principles on faith mean we as a family need to have faith in each other?

     Well, if faith in my family is anything like when I was a kid, we are all in trouble. Seriously, just ask my 8 brothers and 7 sisters. 

     Now how many of you just said holy crap why so many kids? Just hang on a sec and read the next sentence.

     Now don't kill over just yet based on the number of siblings. I am the oldest of the "Original Seven", which consisted of 5 boys and 2 girls. See, don't you feel better now? 

     My husband's family, well that's a yours, mine and ours situation with 10 kids total.

     It truly is amazing my husband and I survived childhood! We were also from the Latchkey or Generation X. It was big hair (I know you've seen the yearbook pictures), sex, drugs, and rock n roll. 

     So faith back then was nothing like what it means to me today. So let's get started on the updated more mature thinking on what faith in family means. Let's start with a graphic if you will. 

     Next post will be tackling the content on the graphic. The first will be meeting my family. Say hi. 

Just to be clear this graphic is copyrighted 2016 by Mommacrae as are all the photos used to create it. 

     We will go into how faith is applied to God, Jesus Christ, our spouse, our children, and our family as a whole. 

     Did you notice I only said spouse instead of spouses? Good, because the more than one wife thing called poligamy isn't something we do. If you have questions about that topic just go to Mormon.org and they can help you out with that one. 

     I honestly think my husband would go insane if he had to deal with another woman in addition to me. Besides poligamy is against the law. 

     Now back to what we are going to talk about. FAITH in family. Start by reading the snippets on my graphic. You will notice I use the 1828 Noah Webster dictionary definitions. Well, that's the one they used when King James had the Bible translated into English. 

May God Bless You and Your Family, 

Mommacrae

aka Grannycrae