Issue: 2
January 2010
Greetings!

Thank you for your amazing response to my last newsletter.  Your support, your suggestions and feedback mean so much to me. I promise I will continue to listen. Let me know what  stimulates and excites you or what you are seeking for further reflection.

nautilus shellI received many comments about the visuals in my last newsletter.

Do you have photos (your own copyright) that you wish to share here with all of us? Of course, you will receive credit for your creation. Just drop me a line.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Love and Light
Martina
Invitation to Action
The first seminars I announced in the last newsletter will be starting January 26. Others take place in February and March. Sign up now to reserve your space.

A) Transitions: Coping with Life's Changes
B) Get UnStressed and UnStuck: Practical and Simple Tools
C) Listen!  What Do You Hear?
D) Tune Up Your Intuition by Tuning In
E) Just Write: It's as Simple as Stringing Words Together

It's simple. Just send me an email with your request and contact information or call me at 519-742-4310.
One-to-One Life Coaching & Spiritual Direction

What does this photograph, shared with us through NASA, say to you?  Ask yourself what masks you are wearing and when or why?  Do they still serve their purpose?

mask What or who is hiding behind your mask?

Are you ready, willing and able to emerge from behind it?

Or, perhaps, the time has come to re-examine the masks through which you perceive life and partake in it.

The one-to-one Spiritual Life Coaching sessions and Spiritual Direction sessions I offer, both in person as well as over the telephone, are intended to provide support for you to reshape your perspectives. Through moving from from doing to being, we create an opening for the Divine to work from within us so we can present to and in the moment and learn to live and appreciate life's paradoxical nature. 

I invite you to send me an email inquiry, call me at 519-742-4310 or visit my website for further information.
Radical Shake-Up and Transition

The stellar fireworld has changed radically since I last spoke to you.  The devastating earthquake in Haiti has taken many lives and reeked havoc in a country that has struggled for many years.

For me, the unfathomable situation in Haiti has provoked deep reflection and a call for action. Monetary support and prayer have constituted my immediate response to jump into action.

I realize, however, that this quake has shaken me in the core of my being. Uncomfortable and unsettling feelings and questions have arisen for me, as they tend to do at a time of major change that initiates a period of transition in our lives. 

I wonder if you are perhaps grappling with similar issues. Have the events in Haiti heightened some of your feelings of sadness, grief, anger, helplessness and more that may already be present in your life? How are you dealing with it? Where are your finding your support?

As it tends to happen when we get shaken up, ....

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How Do We Integrate Knowledge?

"This was not a failure to collect intelligence. 
It was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had."

This statement by President Obama after meeting with national security advisers about a terror plot to bring down a commercial jetliner on Christmas Day illustrates that knowledge and intelligence alone do not suffice. It's how we integrate them into our lives, into our beingness that matters. Read more about it on my next blog.
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May you find a way to cope healthily with the paradoxes of life and loss and the transitions you are encountering.  Many blessings to you!

Love and Light
 
Martina
In This Issue
Invitation to Action
One-to-One Life Coaching
Radical Shake-up & Transition
Integrating Intelligence
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