Feeling inspired by Jean’s idea of creating & sharing her “cozy corner”. I would like to create an “Emotional Abundance Treehouse” (and am open to co-creating with others). I love treehouses and often imagine a very large treehouse with many healing rooms - a place to explore letting go of old baggage and learning to thrive in supportive community.
Also inspired by Carol Look’s recent class on emotional abundance - after tapping with that audio I started playing with some new possibilities for healing really difficult, hard, stuck emotions (eg. anger/rage, grief/despair, resentment/revenge, resistance to healing) with abit more light-heartedness & play. Maybe. It’s all so new to me that I’m not sure yet if I can even pull this off, but will explore it, and share the experiments here.
I am so happy to know that I inspired you to create these beautiful tree houses with healing rooms, fun rooms, creative rooms and more. I love this idea. What wonderful ideas you can come up with and explore. You’re building new ideas and so much exciting ideas. I am so looking forward to what you post next
A tree house I helped build was my special place as a kid. I can remember the tree, the nails bought with snow shoveling money, boards scrounged from trash rooms all over the apartment complex.
I think if my life had more Builders in it, I’d likely have built multiple sweet treehouses as an adult. Alas, never picked up carpentry really. So I dream…
There’s a light inside you that’s always there, even on the hardest days. It’s that quiet, steady part of you that refuses to give up—the part that holds on when everything feels uncertain.
This light doesn’t need to be perfect or bright all the time; sometimes, it’s just a soft glow, but that’s enough. It’s enough to guide you forward, one small step at a time.
And here’s the beautiful thing: when you let your light shine, even a little, it can spark something in others. A kind word, a warm smile, a small gesture—it all matters more than you realize.
So, no matter how dark things might seem, trust the light inside you. It’s yours, and it’s powerful. Let it guide you, and let it remind others that they, too, carry their own light.
Here are some rooms in the Emotional Abundance Treehouse:
Emotional Healing Lounge (which includes a Grief Sanctuary, Anger/Rage Room, and Worry Room)(pretty much anything needed for emotional healing is included)
Self-Kindness Balcony
Gentle Exercise Studio (yoga, qi gong, wild soul movement, etc. - joyful movement)
Herbal Apothecary
Pleasurable Nutrition Kitchen
Joy Jiggling Cafe’
Care of the Soul Freedom Chapel
Money & Abundance Playground
Friendship Fireplace
Right Livelihood Livingroom
Good Mental Health Chair-swing
Micro-movements Sunroom/Solarium
Difficult Relationships Dance-Hall
Purple Dragon Art Studio
Blue Horse Writing Emporium
Healing Resistance Hot-tub
Avoiding Overwhelm Oasis
(lately I’ve been in the anger/rage room, and struggling with depression)
Think I will try out the Good Mental Health Chair-swing today
Today I appreciated this writing by Annie Grace: “Permission to Have a Bad Day”…
"While I haven’t checked my quirky holiday calendar in a while, November 19th caught my eye: “Have A Bad Day Day”.
In a world where we’re programmed to respond with “Fine!” when someone asks how we’re doing, it’s incredibly freeing to acknowledge when we’re simply not fine. Bad days happen. Sometimes you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, your car battery dies, and you forget your umbrella on a rainy day. It’s okay to admit it – you don’t have to sugarcoat it.
I’ve learned that it’s possible to have gratitude and still acknowledge when a day just plain sucks. Some days, the things you’re grateful for are simply that tomorrow is a new day, that bedtime is near, and that you don’t have to relive this day again.
Give yourself permission to have a bad day without the pressure to find a silver lining. Sometimes, you just need to wallow. Tomorrow can be a good day, but today might just be made for sucking".
As I was reading this I heard a song “Sucky days
are here again” and I wondered where that came from. Then I remembered an old song “Happy days are here again” LOL.
I’ve had more sucky days or parts of days lately but not all day. Sometimes I just have to say ENOUGH ALREADY and do or think something else whether it is tapping on it all, doing some deep breathing, calling in my angels or all of it. Even crying helps a lot. Even playing games helps a bit. As long as we don’t sugarcoat it with IM FINE when IM not.
Listening to an audiobook “From Triggered to Tranquil” by Susan Campbell, Ph.D - “How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts & Heal Childhood Wounds”.
I just started this book - so not sure if it will prove helpful or “not my cup of tea”, but I’ll let you know. So far it seems good, and I’m hoping it will help with my relationship with my difficult (sometimes toxic) mother.
Every time I am with her or even talk to her on the phone she triggers me, so I need to find new ways to take care of myself better in this relationship that is so frigging draining. I noticed how much better I felt this weekend when I did NOT spend time with her - it was such a relief, and I felt more rejuvenated & replenished.
But since she is getting older (83) and will require more care & support as time goes on - I’m going to have to find ways to not let her drive me quite so nutbar. (Goddess help me)…
I’ve been exploring this question - “If you were 3% willing to let this resistance go (asking different stuck parts of self that are holding anger & grief and bitterness, etc.) - what might that look like? What small action step might you take?”
Various creative answers have been coming to mind and I’ve been trying them out and it seems to help. I’ve been doing some deep breathing to open things up somatically since I tend to clench my emotions / suppress them so tightly.
And when I’m at work and start feeling angry at various people there, I do that “asking Wild Christ to take the wheel” practice which is surprisingly helpful even though it sounds kinda odd, and also sending metta:
“May you be filled with lovingkindness,
May you be well,
May you be peaceful and at ease,
May you be happy”.
I hate taking the bus, but I started doing some crochet while in transit and blending it with this metta. All very helpful practices, so I wanted to share.
Looking forward to the Thriving Anyways class on Sunday, Dec. 15th.
Thank you. Sharing our practices helps, I feel, to energize us for thriving anyway. If we’re going to ride the bus, what might we do that supports our thriving anyway?
I was considering how my family and I could have engaged and spent time during the drive if the car was driving us there instead of me? That’s coming. It would be so cool if the “car” was set up for safely co-creating together – like a mini-workshop.
And this I adore and have pasted into my journal:
“May you be filled with lovingkindness,
May you be well,
May you be peaceful and at ease,
May you be happy”.
One of the rooms I would like to add to the treehouse is an “avoiding overwhelm oasis”. Still exploring what this means and how to make it real & practical, but I just found when I was doing the Carol Look program a whole bunch of things piled up on me and I got really overwhelmed and need to find ways to avoid having that happen again.
Somehow the Carol Look abundance tapping stirred up both intense anger/rage, and intense grief. Plus I had so much toxic shit going on at my job (really unrealistic expectations from my manager, overly critical, nitpicky boss, slack coworkers, etc.) and then mom’s fiasco with her doctor not filling her prescriptions on time, plus I got a really bad cold that lasted for 4 weeks and I felt like total shite (but still needed to drag myself into work because of financial constraints).
So I ended up asking Carol Look for a refund (which she gave / no problem). But I’m trying to find ways to deal with my stuck places / resistance / overwhelm more creatively, so maybe next time I try abundance tapping it doesn’t open up pandora’s box like that. And so I can bring more gentleness and self-compassion into my process.
Will let you know what I discover as I experiment with this new “healing room”.
Rivers in the Ocean
