Tag: healing journey

  • Experiment #1001 – Starting Where I Am

    {artwork from Melissa Kerry’s “I am” visual poetry series }

    Conceptually, this website is a way for me to invite you into my heart-centered universe. I see each post as a brick I am laying to bridge the vision that lives inside to something more concrete to share with others.

    Until recently, I was allowing the bigness of my vision to hold me hostage and to hold me back from starting. Where do I start? Which ideas do I nurture? How do I do things I don’t know how to do? What if what I develop isn’t perfect? What if it doesn’t turn out the way I see it in my head? What if people don’t think it is good? What about all the things I want to do, but can’t for one reason or another?

    Then there are all the business questions I have been indoctrinated to ask such as – Who is my audience? How will I copywrite my work? How can it be monetized? What is my business plan? The list of questions are as infinite as my creative cup is overflowing.

    Well, my single answer to all of this – I don’t know.

    The only thing I know with certainty is that there is this quiet, persistent, patient voice inside of me calling me to create and share those creations.

    The more I create, the more creative I am. Tell me this is not a gift from the creator! Impeding this flow is like trying not to breathe. Not sharing what moves me and wants to move through me seems like a big middle finger I rather not give the Devine.

    Pushing publish on this very page, is not my first experiment in my spirit learning how to be human (hence Experiments #1001 ). Those previous experiments will be shared in time. However, this experiment – starting this particular website is the hallmark of me learning how to integrate all those previous successes and failures that have come before.

    So, let’s start with a proper breakup…

  • Experiment #999 – Extreme Experimenting

    Undoubtedly, I have lived extremely experimentally. 

    Now approaching 45, I am fully aware of the answer to “What’s the worst that can happen? To say that I am someone who has had to “learn the hard way” is an understatement. Calling me a “hands on learner”, albeit very true, could also be a gentle way of describing my inner ass hole – the part of me that always thought I knew better than anyone else.

    It took going from “I am the shit”, to eating shit enough times, to then believing I was a piece of shit and acting on this belief before I could graduate from the School of Hard Knocks and move on to spiritual kindergarten where I am being fed humble pie instead. 

    The great thing about entering spiritual kindergarten is that I  GET to show up just as I am, scraped up knees and all. I get to learn or rather remember what it is like to be a spirit being in human form. From this perspective my enthusiasm for life is renewed on a daily basis, there are so many experiments to be had, so are soooooo many unexplored frontiers of self discovery. 

    By offering my authentic self to the world- in reflective writing, artwork, fashion mockups, poetry, floral design, movements, music; and share the resources and wisdom that has been shared with me….Perhaps, you friend, will see my offering as an invitation to show up just as you are, onto the playground called life. 

    Let’s learn to be present in each other’s presence however we show up, as a gift to ourselves, as an offering to each other, and for the benefit of all beings. This is the legacy I wish to leave for my children.

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    There is another side of living experimentally that can not be denied. I have also been able to discover the answer to “What is the best that can happen?”

  • Welcome…

    Have a seat. I am here for you.
    {Melissa Kerry’s Art- Part of “I AM” series}

    Welcome…Come as you are. Stay as long as you would like.

    Here I hope you will find the medicine you are looking for as I share the medicine that has worked for me. Perhaps you will leave a little more at peace, a little more inspired, a little more encouraged than you came in – as I share my art, writing, and resources.

    Experiment #1001- Starting Where I am

    WHAT HAPPENS IF WE START WHERE WE ARE

    TO GET TO WHERE TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE GOING?

    A quick read for anyone with big dreams paralyzed by feeling overwhelmed.