Heal Addiction with Cacao Medicine

Plant medicine is as old as humanity, it’s not woo, I promise. There are powerful codes in the DNA of plants, fungi, and other natural medicines that work like magic. I’ll give you a recipe that makes it a truly blessed and tasty ceremony. 

I invite you to explore Cacao to heal your relationship with yourself and how you relate with the world, not just people relationships. Getting into “right relationship” with things matters too because the way we relate to one thing usually mirrors how we relate to everything else!

 

I use one of three brands, Keith’s, Ora, and Four Visions. All of these are harvested sustainably from the Amazon Rainforests and processed by ethical means, which means the entire process of using this beautiful medicine is a blessing for the planet, not just yourself. Supporting these businesses helps to protect and heal our amazing home base, Mama Gaia. 

Here’s the recipe:

Daily Dose is less than a regular dose (about 30grams), you can play with the dosage according to your weight and sensitivity to caffeine, theobromine, and cacao. Some people are sensitive to all.

Using 10-15grams, 1cup boiling water, 1/8th to 1/4th cup organic or sustainably processed milk of any variety, a dash of sweetener (I recommend honey, stevia, or maple syrup), froth or blend. 

Be sure to sit with the cacao before taking your first sip! Give thanks for the ancestors and keepers of cacao, the cultivators and all those who made it available to you! Set your (powerful and potent) intention asking for healing, wholeness, and resolution. Then offer the prayer to whatever benevolent presence, honoring the divine timeline and lessons the process will bring. Sip and enjoy!

Much Love,

LB

What if not everyone wins?

life transformation health coach

With all that is preached in the New Age community that the Law of Attraction is the key to manifesting the life you truly prefer, where does divine order come in? Or is everyone meant to accept their lot in life and proverbially “turn the other cheek” leaning into their lot in life?

Someplace in between?

God knows…

Right?

The current paradigm is obsessed with the duality of good and bad, right and wrong, darkness and light and yes, these patterns run through the history of humankind, but what exactly is good or bad? Who makes that call? You? Me? Our notion of divinity? Can we get some answers please!

What constitutes winning or losing? Who’s game is this, anyway?

Maybe it merely comes down to defining what is success and failure for ourselves. Make your own determination what being a loser is, not culture, not your parents, not your peers or the latest status symbols. Just you, your ego, and the Great I Am.

Let the Universe be your guide. Maybe it’s really all in our heads when it comes down to it. No one’s perspective but our own is really relevant, unless we choose that as our standard. In the final analysis, I think it simply comes down to two small words.

Harm or help.

Do I like this way of being and is it helpful or harmful to me, others and the world at large? Oh no, how do “we” define what is helpful or harmful to others? That’s a toughie. Falling into the category of my favorite Rolling Stone’s song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

People may not like the outcome of what is helping you, but if it’s helpful, truly for you, they get what they need, and if they don’t like it, maybe it’s their business to find ways to do what is helpful to them. Ah, wellness leveling the playing field again. Relations makes or breaks winning, choose your connections wisely.

In Wellness and with Reverence,

-LB

Shedding skins.

mental health advocate ct
Thinking a lot about how our perceptions are dictated by our subconscious root beliefs. 
The power of the unconscious is immense. It really runs the show and wins all inner battles.
Unless we slow down enough to notice them. Not an easy feat in this fast-forward, factory-line productivity obsessed, post-industrial paradigm.
It is ESSENTIAL to question beliefs that keep us from growth and progress because if we don’t, we simply won’t.
No deep questions about our root thought systems, no expansion upward and outward.
Now, there are those who have the compulsion to challenge their beliefs, driven by the desire to grow, but then there are some who don’t seem to need to challenge themselves with a comfort of things as they are. Some call this the difference between the a “growth” mindset and a “fixed” mindset. Most of us are fixed until necessity abruptly nudges the need for development. Maybe it’s just the definition of maturity.
Maturity is optional.
I’m having yet another growth spurt and it’s the most fascinating pain I’ve ever experienced. This refinement, this maturation is exquisite. This death of old beliefs brings grief, like any other death. There is grieving from the process of rebirth. This time, this shedding of skins brings a surrender; a whole new skill I’ve yet to experience, let alone master.
At my age, with all I’ve grown from, you’d think I’d be used to the phenomenon of growth and expansion.
Nah, in spite of my original mission in my 20’s to get “used to” change, and I can honestly say, it’s impossible, at least from my vantage point. That desire to “get used to it” probably stems from the lack of stability from Day One. The only thing I am used to is uncertainty and that, my friends, brings quite an interesting point of view that many don’t get the opportunity to lean into. Still, I’d love to learn stability based in faith and trust.
Praying for that being in the proverbial cards in the chapters to come.
Aging is certain. Expansion and the shedding of skins is not. Many live in skins too tight for their souls and live with the discomfort. Ultimately, the final expansion is not optional, the final shedding of this particular ego-lifetime. 
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