I believe I may have shared this story on a show or in a post, regardless if I have before, it’s a great story about how intuition helped us buy our current house.

I wrote yesterday about the house we had before this one. When we bought that house, the market was sizzling hot. We would rise each day, check the listings and then don our swords so we could go fight for a house. We lost house after house after house. One house was lost by just $500! At the time, Chance was five months old, I had a busy practice and was just entering, unbeknownst to me, post partum depression. I had zero patience and felt defeated each day we would spend five hours a day looking and putting in bids just to lose a prospective house.

One day, we found this lovely house, but there was something that just didn’t feel right about it. Unlike all of the other houses, this one had been on the market. We liked it, the price was right, but something held us back from saying yes.

I had a dream that night. In my dream, I saw a red car driving across the desert with a man with gray hair in the driver’s seat and a woman with black curly hair in the passenger’s seat. It reminded me of the Arizona desert. As I watched them crossing the desert in this red convertible, I saw the woman turn back and, when she did, she appeared like a skeleton! I awoke deeply afraid and scared.

At that time, I had always had great intuition, but wasn’t sure about how to decipher its messages and symbolism. I had always played this game of “If I can see it” then it must be meant to be. There had been many times when I would try to picture myself doing something and I couldn’t see it, so I would just change my course. That morning, with my heart pounding in my chest, I played the “If I can see it” game. I immediately saw a picture of Mark standing over the stove cooking eggs. I took that as the sign that we should get that house, and told him about it.

Now, looking back, I see the dream very differently. The family who sold us the house was moving to California (and would be driving across the Arizona desert). The black-haired woman represented our real estate agent at the time, who was in the car with the seller. Which, is probably why, even though the house had no offers, we could not negotiate on the price.

However, armed with my “I can see you in the house,” we trudged off and bought the house. When we got in it, we were amazed at how bad the house was. The previous owners literally had slapped a coat of paint on everything and it was pretty bad underneath. Mark described the experience as going out with the prom queen and waking up with someone else.

I began to think about the dream as a warning… remembering the feelings of fear, but my fear had driven me toward it rather than away from it.

We moved in and that was the beginning of three years of nearly non-stop renovations. It was like we were driven to update this house and had no choice in it. When we weren’t renovating, we were traveling or searching for our next home. I felt like I never got any rest in that house!

Oh, and that ‘feeling’ that didn’t quite feel right … well, it ended up being a ghost in the attic who was waiting for the girls who lived there before us to come back. The boy was the son of the first family who lived there (we were just the third family in 30 years). He had been a drug addict and stumbled out one day during the winter and froze to death at the park nearby. Though it may sound kind of scary, he was actually a huge gift to me because he allowed me to directly face him and address my fear of the spirits I could always feel around me every since I was little. When I finally got the courage to ask Mark if he felt it, Mark confirmed that he, too, was feeling the effects of the spirit… the cold, the depressed feelings, the malicious energy.

That led me to my first mentor and she came and helped this boy pass over. After that, the house felt so much better! I did, too! And, I realized I never had to be afraid again of these spirits.

I was actually away at Sonia Choquette’s Six Sensory Certification when Mark called me and told me that we would be moving. I was surprised since we all were feeling so much better. He told me he was thinking of wanting to move a wall and that was IT!, it’s time to move. That felt good to me, and when I arrived home, we started looking again for neighborhoods.

About a week later, we found the house we now live in, but I didn’t LOVE it like Mark did. The back of the house reminded me of the apartments I had lived in nearly my entire life. I wanted a house that felt like a HOUSE, not an apartment. We trudged on and continued looking. At the time, the numbers were staggering to me … were we really going to pay THIS MUCH for a house? I gulped at the thought even though I knew I could always make more, it just seemed like a lot to me.

Several days passed with us going to more and more houses, and they were more expensive, but didn’t have the things we liked nor many of the features we listed on our manifestation list. I wondered why it seemed so hard, and then I thought, Mark has never bought a house that he liked, if he likes that one, then I want him to have it. I had bought a house with my ex, and then we had the crazy house together, and my love for him wanted him to have what he wanted.

I no more thought that when I heard a voice say, “If you want that house, you must go now. There are buyers coming by the end of the week who are willing to pay much more for it.” I immediately told the real estate agent we wanted to go back to look at the house once more.

After we talked about it, and I asked Mark if he liked it, and he said ‘yes,’ then we decided to make an offer. The real estate agent asked what we wanted to offer. We knew the people needed to sell, but wanted to make a fair offer. Their price per square foot was higher than the average in the neighborhood, so we did not want to offer full price, but I did not want to go through all of the back and forth we had experienced with our last house.

As we stood in the kitchen, I heard a voice say, “He will not sign the paper until he sees the number he must have written down.” I immediately just ‘knew’ the number and knew we had to have that number written down. I suggested we offer that number and then back out $3,500 for the carpet, which needed to be replaced. We sent the paperwork over and it was accepted. We had 10 days to get it inspected and so other buyers could still come look at the house during that time.

Just like I was told, three days later, a couple from out of state fell in love with the house and told the real estate agent that they would pay more than the asking price for the house – a whopping $10,000 more! The inspection went through and we bought the house, and I can happily say that we have not spent our lives renovating or looking for another house. We have lived here and enjoy this house so very much!

This is not us, but a great representation of how we felt!

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I’m going to recommend this movie not because it is the *best* movie in the world, but because it is special.

First, suenos in spanish means ‘dreams.’ And Sueno is all about a guy following his dream. The ups, the downs and everything else in between.

I love the stylized feel of this movie (think Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) where posters come to life and little outtakes tell the story of what is going on inside the guy’s mind. If you don’t like stylized dreams, then you probably won’t like this one.

John Leguizamo plays the lead role of Antonio and is actually very believable as an immigrant fresh off the bus in L.A. with every hope in front of him. As I looked up the links, I noticed he was born in Bogota, Columbia…maybe that is why he can relate!

The music is good, multiple storylines keep it interesting. A dazzling director’s eye (who also wrote the script) makes for a refreshing treat.

Quick note today about dreams.

I worked with two different clients this week and we talked about their dreams, and how those are manifesting in miraculous, magical ways.

We got to look at how ‘problems’ (which often are actually answers to questions) show up and spur them on.

All of this to say that when you see the problems as messengers for your greater good and your dream creation, you can relax about the messenger (the problem) itself.

When you do this, then it’s easier to roll with what comes KNOWING that your creation is well on its way. It also cuts down on RESISTING the so-called problems (see them as messengers).

This is not a head or mind exercise (although your mind can be mighty effective in looking at it!)… this is a heart KNOWING that you are on the path. Cue in to your heart and love it with all you have, then connect to your being and begin again!

Hugs to you!

I wrote about Robert A. Johnson’s book, Inner Work, a few days ago and wanted to share a little more about why I so connected with its information.

For a long time I have been deeply involved with my dreams – I have prophetic dreams, I have lucid dreams, I enjoy regular unconscious type of dreams, and I, of course, LOVE to help clients achieve their dreams.

As long as I can remember I have thought about my dreams in the morning. I lie in bed trying to pull back as much as I can about what I was dreaming. Each one has a distinct feeling to it similar to how I read energy for clients. Some of the dreams feel ‘real’ as in…you are connected to someone else. For example, I often will have dreams for my business clients or about my business clients that show me something I need to know. It is truly ‘what you see is what you get’ where the characters are telling me something about the client. Other dreams have been more like I was actually witnessing something that was actually going on in their true life. I take care to disconnect as not to invade anyone’s privacy – usually this happens when it is something I can offer to listen about. Trust me, after the experience I had with my intuition breaking open the LAST thing I want is to know anyone’s private thoughts!

All of this to say that I have always wondered if everyone perceived their dreams in this way. Do they feel like mine do? Do they work the same way? And, in this book, Johnson shares how Jung talked about the archetypes as an ‘energy’ that we, as a collective group of people, tap into. These archetypes are as old as time, and whether you know about them or not, they hold wisdom, truth, understanding for you.

As I read this, I got more and more excited because this is how I’ve lived – everything has a soul… and energy… information…wisdom. EVERYTHING…and how appropriate that even our archetypes are messengers of truth.

My mind is literally spinning with the possibilities of what this means as I recall the images that have been coming over and over the last few months…queens, goddesses, fairytale type characters that whisper… “Pssst, this way…” Mother Mary, during the Gallery at Hope House talked about everything, every day being a joy…and the image that came to mind was Snow White as this model of singing with the birds.

How joyful it is to live in this world…free to roam and free to be me. I hope you, too, will join us in this magical, sacred world of energy where EVERYTHING has a message for you.

Got this email from my mom this morning. Yesterday, we met for lunch at Cracker Barrel on her‘way’ back from Canton, where she goes to get wood crosses to make her amazing cross creations. She’s an artist at heart and I love that I grew up with that influence. We’ve been SEARCHING for MONTHS for the new magazine, Where Women Create, as we positively are ADDICTED to certain artists! Sally Jean, Mary Jane Butters, Jo Packham, and others. Not exactly sure WHY we were searching since it seems it is everywhere now that I spied the first two issues at one of my ab-fab-fav stores in McKinney – 120! I want to share my mom’s sweet, practical observation… and it is so fitting because we talked about the power of a dream on Queen of Dreams Radio last night, and in the first two issues of this AMAZING magazine, Jo Packham wrote tremendously inspiring letters about CREATING YOUR OWN DREAM.

Thank you for finding the Where Women Create books I am about to go blind reading them.  How about that Sally Jean and Mary Jane Butters….the message they all seem to have isn’t really new though is it?    Dream it and get up and do it!!    I’m going to e-mail them and ask how quick they can get K.C. Willis in this magazine….life will be perfect then. – LOVE MOM

One of the things I love most about my mom is she doesn’t ‘over think’ things. She’s simple. It’s the simple things that make her happiest. Like a magazine, full of inspirational art and musings…and seeing the truth behind it all.

Thanks Mom!