My home life revolves around my lovely kitties and boyfriend, tending my garden and caring for the wildlife in the garden, and home renovations. I've been doing a fair amount of redecorating and replacing things that have worn out.
As I expand my spiritual horizons, I've discovered my gifts as a healer and empath. I currently run a forum for empaths on MSN called Skilled Empaths.
As a healer, I'm a Reiki Master (Usui, Usui/Tibetan, Sekhem-Seichim Reiki (SSR)), Healing Touch student, and an intuitive healer. I love working with crystals. My healing business site is Amethyst Rose Healing Arts and I regularly teach healing and crystal classes as well as work on clients.
My other job is my healing business Amethyst Rose Healing Arts which is my weekend and evening job. It also requires me to exercise my graphics design and marketing skills!
I really enjoy what I do at both jobs and have found that my healing background has a significant positive impact on my day job. I have a new perspective and able to see challenges and life lessons for what they are, rather than to complain about them and fight it. It is also good to realize that sometimes those life lessons are meant for others as well and we need to allow them to learn. That change in perspective has made all the difference and reduces stress.
I'm an energy healer (Amethyst Rose Healing
Arts) and teach empathy skills. I also run an empaths
forum,
Skilled
Empaths.
I play the French horn in the
City of Fairfax
Band. I am leaving my Board of Directors position in
Publicity so I have more weekend time for my business, and thank the
Band for providing me the opportunity to grow my marketing and
graphics design skills, which have helped me enormously with other endeavors.
Enjoy listening to classical
music, new age, and soft rock. I guess my tastes are a bit eclectic,
although I am not a fan of country music.
Gardening and lots of it! I have lots of plants inside and
outside the house. One of these days, I may actually try to get a
Master Gardener certification... In the meantime, I want to improve my
back garden so it can be certified as a wildlife sanctuary.
Playing with and caring for my
darling furry children: Isis and Jasper. Unfortunately, Amanda
crossed the rainbow bridge on 8 May 2007. Those who have crossed the
rainbow bridge, Sandy (19 May 2001), Trepak (May 2004), and Amanda (8
May 2007) have their memorial
page. Isis has her
own site. Jasper will get his own site if he wants one.
Arts and crafts: for craft shows
(non-juried), I make jewelry (from sculpy beads or glass), wreaths,
knitted/crocheted dish cloths/hot plates/coasters, and be part of the
cutting/sewing/finishing assembly line for making coasters, placemats
and napkins. I have a cool embroidery sewing machine that I really
want to find time to play with. Crafting also finds its way into
making unique items that are auctioned to benefit charities, such as
borgifying beanie babies, creating a Klingon Barbie, etc.
Reading: anything from sci-fi,
fantasy, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, energy healing, gardening,
home improvement, etc.
Science fiction stuff: I'm one
of the founding members of the
USS
Athena. It is a friendly group that likes to get
together and eat and watch movies about once a month. In addition,
one of our members runs the local Star Trek and Science Fiction meetups.
Helping chronically and
terminally ill children through the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund. I am the Treasurer
for this 501(c)(3) public charity that raises money to provide
one-time grants for families with critially or terminally ill
children.
Although I have several relatives, not many have websites.
Other web pages of family members (blood relatives, in-laws, out-laws, what-have-you) will be added as they become available.
While I have other friends, I do not have website information for them.
Contact Lisa