SA-Name:// JACKIE RIOUX
Day of GRIT: #1 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Isometric Accumulation (for time) F2
CONTEXT: “StoryAthlete Finds a Way…”
I have been asked a few times how I am doing, and how I am managing to continue with doing client sessions after a such a devastating loss September 30 when I found out my soul mate died. Wellll… I definitely took a few days off and moved all my appointments to the following week. My daughter slept with me for a few nights to keep an eye on me because I just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. My appetite took the way of the dinosaur and I shed 8 lbs drinking only bone broth for a few days.
After that…. what can I possibly do other than stay curled up in the fetal position and bawl my eyes out? My family still needs me. My clients still need me. I have been through grief before, just not like this. But there is not a damn thing I can do to bring him back. I have learned one thing spiritually from previous losses. As much as my humanness is grieving deeply, that grief does not serve anyone, especially our lost loved ones. Their souls are SO much happier and free. Grief keeps them from fully transcending. For the benefit of my passed soul mate, my family, and the rest of my earthly connections, I need to keep my vibration high. How to do that? Energy balancing and spiritual prayer interventions. I thank God daily that I have an amazing network of energy healer friends and my Story Athlete community that has been an incredible support system this past month. That and writing in a blog style in his web page. I have managed to save my sanity and to move forward with renewed hope that I now have a new Spirit Guide. He no longer has any earthly ties weighing him down. He has stepped into his soul mission in a bigger way. I also have found out one detail that the accident was September 19th. My last message to him was on September 18th. Now I know why he didnt call back as he always has. Although painful in my heartache, I have to be ok in knowing that my very last message to him was an endearing message reminiscing of some of our most cherished intimate times together. I had listened to my intuition this past year in speaking my heart every time I talked to him and referencing his poem many times. He left this plane knowing without a doubt how much he meant to me.
Energy balancing disconnects the emotional charge to heartache and other painful emotions. It also opens up our hearts to remember the best memories and to find a way to move forward in some semblance of renewed hope for the future. A Story Athlete finds a way…. And new kitties help too.
Day of GRIT: #2 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Volume Sets F2 4MOD
CONTEXT: “I See Hardship As Opportunity…”
I had only just received my certification in Thought Field Tapping Techniques when my mentor approached me offering a “Master Course”. I was so new to any kind of energy work, and no confidence in my skills or in working with clients at that point. She insisted that I would greatly benefit from this course. How much? $2000. I had already had to scrape together funds from my paycheck to paycheck lifestyle to pay for the other course I had taken. I was raising four teens alone. There was just no way….
She offered a payment plan and kept on me. I managed and yes I took this 5 month course that introduced me to some other modalities, a new network on resources and course content that changed many things for me in my personal and business life.
My previous life had been a lot of hardship and I was learning to turn all that into my gift and an opportunity to empower others.
The course was about Explorations in Transformation. The final workshop weekend, we were instructed to bring some thought and opinions to discuss. I opted to put out a question on social media and turned all my findings into a web page.
That course transformed me and changed the way that I had previously viewed hardship and turned it all into opportunity for growth and gained wisdom. https://ladybugwellness.ca/how-people-change/
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux our Mess can now become our Message when we surrender often thru some sort of brokenness.
However when journey with other like minded individuals we can gain that insight which can then be shared with others.
Just like a pearl started as a small irritant and the clay changed it into something beautiful.
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger love that. Thank you
Day of GRIT: #3 of 28
METRICS: (FoF)- Hub Spoke F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP V1
CONTEXT: “My Routine Kills Indecision… ”
The idea of being an free spirit is appealing to anyone who has lived a life of being forced and or trapped into the responsibilities of life. I spent many years under my father’s thumb, then a career of 26 years of working in a corporate environment. Good job yes, but high class slavery to be honest.
Life is so much better being an entrepreneur and making my own schedule. But this is also where my problem lies in not always having self discipline. For several months after retirement, I was quite “lost” in my own sanity of feeling free yet not quite taking on my own reins quite yet.
Then I stepped into my freedom of being able to go on road trips whenever I wanted to. Notsomuch this past 2 years though with outside factors. Still, I do have my freedom in my own humble abode and thankfully able to work online with amazing clients.
Where does routine come in? Routine is actually what brings the best kind of freedom. Did I just take off randomly on road trips? Yes and no. I keep my vehicle maintained and I keep an emergency bag ready. Routine helps in running my business from home as well. I need my hot shower every morning. I do my best to keep my home tidy, and clutter at bay for when we have clients come by. I keep my client files organized so I can work with my clients effectively.
These are just simple routines of my life, yet they make a huge difference in being prepared for the unexpected events of life. Routines do kill indecision in just knowing what needs to be done to stay in a relaxed and prepared flow of life. I am always a work in progress though and while I do have some routines, I know I can always do more to improve.
I came across flylady years ago and that helped tremendously in learning that “shining your kitchen sink” is really a psychological beginning to setting up simple routines in life and having much more freedom as well.
http://www.flylady.net/d/control-journals/
Day of GRIT: #4 of 28
METRICS: Sunday-Stretch-a-Palooza
CONTEXT: “I Do It Now…”
My inner Scrat is feeling awfully picked on right now with this context. I saw a meme just yesterday that fits me perfectly. I honestly do try to get things done… then I get distracted with another seemingly more important item.
“I needed to do the laundry, but then I realized I was out of detergent, so I went to write a shopping list and realized how unorganized the junk drawer was, and started checking pens for ink. When I went to toss all the junk, I saw that the trash was full but before I took it out I wanted to get rid of old food in the fridge. That’s when I realized a juice jug had leaked so I needed to clean it up but when I went to grab a rag, I saw that the pantry closet was a nightmare so I started organizing it. And that’s how I ended up on the floor looking at my old photo albums from 1990’s and not doing laundry.”
My “do it now” is on point, it is the “disciplined follow through to finish in one swoop” that is broken. Working from home, this is a problem. I mean, it all eventually gets done, but I am more of a zigzag and enjoy the scenery type gal.
My other issue is that I like being organized but didn’t always have a “system” in place. Or, like when my hard drive crashed, everything got scrambled. I constantly feel behind in trying to achieve my previous level of organization where I can actually find things in seconds. Plus, trying to work in new information and client files etc.
Then, as what recently happened, a significant loss in my personal life threw me for one hell of a loop. All my “do it now” became more of a “f*ck it all, why bother” in my futile sense of life and a mortality check of my own life’s priorities.
I am slowly getting back to “do it now”. A few days ago I decided to get rid of an antique dresser in my bedroom. I inherited it from my great Aunt back in 1989. I have a funny memory of Darrel associated with that dresser though and now it just makes me cry so it needs to go. I also moved his pictures out of my room and into my treasure chest. Lots of tears today.
The most important “do it now” is to speak our truth and that is my only real consolation in knowing that I did speak up all this past year to him in speaking my heart every time I talked to him.
I am always a work in progress here.
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Day of GRIT: #5 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Posterior Palooza Pyramid F2
CONTEXT: I Care…
Do I really care? Some days I wonder. I came from a small town mentality where I grew up with church potlucks and family dinners every Sunday as well. That is the good side of caring. Small towns also have bored and broke people who end up homeless and into the drug and alcohol scene with all the drama and dysfunction that goes along with it. Now I live in a small city and I have found that the more I take care of myself, raise my own energetic vibration, the less I see or experience of the lower vibration drama and dysfunction.
I care about my family, my clients and my responsibilities. I care about my friends too, of course. But I also keep my circles small with my tribes of like minded souls.
So often these days we hear people say “I care”, and then add, “I am such an empath, I feel everything”. This is where I need to draw a line and make my opinions more clear from all of my own experiences.
What I have come to learn in all my years is that the word “empath” seems to have gained popularity along with and as the opposite of “narcissist”. Basically what I understand is that there is a dysfunctional dynamic between narcissist and empath. Both are attracting their unhealed aspects. So when someone complains to me about the narc in their life, my first question is ‘what is within you that is unhealed?’. “Empaths” in this case have a serious lack of boundaries and unhealed issues. You can have empowered empaths that are compassionate healers that have overcome their challenges to the point of being able to assist others without drowning in the mire of another’s problems. It is the victim type empath that attracts narcs.
On the other hand, I have known several wonderful people who have been labeled narcs. They have a similar unhealed trauma and a bully/ power-over type of coping mechanism. I do believe that both sides of this dynamic can be healed, but they both need to recognize their side and their trauma, and take steps to heal and empower themselves.
This is where I can say that “I care” and that I prefer to define myself as a compassionate healer rather than an empath who “cares”.
These are some definitions I found online that I appreciate to explain my thoughts on caring and compassion:
PITY says I acknowledge your suffering. SYMPATHY says I care about your suffering. EMPATHY says I feel your suffering. COMPASSION says I want to relieve your suffering.
Pity says: It makes me feel bad inside to see your situation and I’m sorry you’re going through such a hard time. It’s really awful to look at your life and I can’t imagine it happening to me.
Compassion says: I see you, and I see your challenge. I have every faith that you can handle this situation. Let me know how I can assist you. I love you.
In the end, I do care. But I also have my own respectable boundaries.
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Day of GRIT: #6 of 28
METRICS: 5K Day Finisher- 4MOD- Extinction Abs
CONTEXT: “I’m My Own Hero…”
Most of the girls my age growing up had their bedroom walls plastered with Teen Beat heart throb posters. I wasn’t allowed to have any of that stuff in the house. The boys had rock concert and movie posters. I wasn’t allowed any of that stuff either. In fact, I had one Joan Jett cassette and one from Steve Millar band. I doubt my father knew about those. I had alllll the ABBA LPs though. Our other music selections consisted of country, gospel, and German classical. Yay. Not much for music heroes here.
I don’t remember having any celebrity heroes either, I didn’t really follow much of Hollywood drama, which is probably a good thing.
Some young girls think their father is their hero. Well… although my father did provide for our family, he was not my hero or my protector. In fact, if you know my back story. Ya well… that is another story. I got pregnant and married young to escape him. My husband certainly wasn’t my hero at all either. I had to learn to stand on my own two feet. Two feet and a heartbeat. I had to learn to protect myself and speak my own truth.
My grandma was someone I was close to and I thank God that I had her for some sort of religious pillar of sanity in my young life. But hero? Not really. I remember being quite pissy with her strictness in not letting me watch “I Dream of Jeannie”. Such a silly memory now. I got married at age 18 and I got to see her at my wedding. She passed away just a few months later.
So who else do I have that can be my hero? I am sure as a Christian I should say that Christ is my hero, and in many ways that would be true. But, you know that thing about asking God why I haven’t won the lottery and He says because you didn’t buy a ticket? Ya well…. God definitely has been a force in my life and the source of my inner voice and intuition. But ultimately it is ME who has to follow through and take steps to make my life anything worth living. So in that way, I am my own hero.
Brett Wininger: much like Joseph with his years in prison, Moses 40 years in the desert or Jobs “undeserved” afflictions, we don’t always see our full journey ahead of us.
Many of my friends find comfort from the “Footsteps in the Sand” poem.
They and myself realized that when our journey seemed the loneiest, it God actually carrying thru those valleys.
Like the grain of sand in a clam, with time and perspective, adversity can be transformation for empathy and change in oneself.
I know it’s been true in my journey and others that associate with.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: I have at least 4 books with the footprints poem. That’s been a standard poem in our home. Thank you for your words of wisdom. ❤
Brett Wininger: Unfortunately too many people don’t take the time to embrace the lessons in life’s journey.
They often ask for less challenges instead of asking to become more themselves to overcome the obstacles.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: I prefer to surround myself with the latter group. My gritty friends.
Day of GRIT: #7 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Upper Body Complex-a-Palooza C1 F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP
CONTEXT: “I Believe in Open-Source…”
“Be in the world but not of the world”. This was a bible concept drilled into us in Youth Group. The idea was that we were to go out into the world as an example and a light to others, yet not fall into the dark areas of life. We also joined up with other church Youth Groups. It was explained to us that if any religion or religious group cuts you off from the outside world, it is not healthy, and it is most likely a cult.
This concept has stuck with me for years in other areas of life and taught me to be open to others thoughts and opinions while being steadfast in my own. Through critical thinking and being open to others thoughts, we can influence positively our own and others opinions. I mean, what if I am wrong? Does that make someone else wrong? Or vice versa? It all boils down to perspectives and experiences.
When I first took some of my energy balancing courses, I had a lot of questions trying to make any kind of sense of Quantum Physics and the concept of shifting energy. I took more courses and learn more things. Then I learned that many courses were similar concepts but different techniques. None were “wrong”, they were just a different way of doing things. I learned to take what resonated with me and to create my own energetic toolbox of things that worked for me. I am constantly learning new things with following several different forums. In my circles, I find that the best practitioners are those who are open to a variety of techniques and modalities.
It has been said that the wisest man recognizes how much he doesn’t know. There is nothing worse than trying to have a conversation with someone close minded and fixated on limited thinking.
When we can be open minded and critical thinkers, we have a much better chance of learning something new and to progress in our own personal growth and wisdom.
This is the best way to be able to be of service to others, and in my opinion, the best way to live life to the fullest.
Brett Wininger: being in this Community has definitely expanded my thought process and given me a bigger vision of what is possible.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: exactly why I feel it’s important to make time to read every writing context every day. I get behind but feel better when i get caught up. Such valuable information from each and every person. Of course i have some faves tho and you’re one of them
Brett Wininger: appreciate that and I do enjoy your support and encouragement.
I view these replies as another opportunity for me to put down thoughts and make deeper connections.
This isn’t my natural personality strength I have to discipline myself to do it, I tend to be more Task Oriented.
Day of GRIT: #8 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Isometric Accumulation (for time) F2
CONTEXT: “I Believe in the Power of 1%…”
The power of 1% otherwise known to me as baby steps. I have been running my business for several years and learning many things as I go. I had never been able to grasp technology quickly. So my early days of working with clients was a mass of email exchanges that tried desperately to organize.
In the last two years, thanks to working with other practitioners, and gleaning ideas from my Story Athlete entrepreneur community, I have figured out some better ways of organizing client files, emails, and allll of my courses, and practitioner information. Whew.
Baby steps and a long time of keeping busy hibernating while I could not go on my usual road trips and rock concerts for so long. That 1% everyday has brought me to now. I have had a few newer clients this past year that expressed that they were impressed that I remembered details of their last appointment. To be honest, not really. I just got organized enough to be able to look back on details quickly. My accountant said I have become a master at Excel with my business ledger organization. (Oh my gawd, if he only knew the stack I have backed up right now).
The point is that just a little bit every day is how this turtle swimming in frozen molasses will win the game of life eventually.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux moving forward is still moving forward no matter how seemingly slow it might appear.
Usually its stuff between our ears that creates the bottlenecks
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger too many rocks and blocks in the noggin some days… good thing I can do energy “washing ” and unblocking lol
Day of GRIT: #9 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Volume Sets F2 Finisher- 4MOD
CONTEXT: “I Want Something More…”
Years ago I did want something more. I had finally come to the realization that my 10 year marriage was completely stagnant. I wanted to grow. He didn’t. I made something of my life and was quite busy for many years raising kids, and working at a “good corporate job”. But I still wanted more so I went back to school and took a ton of other courses, read books and retired early.
Now I run my own business and I own my own home. My vehicle is 15 years old, but it runs well and it is paid off. My kids are grown up, although 2 still live with me for cheap rent that helps me out with mortgage. Son is in camp all the time and daughter works out of home office, so this arrangement works for all of us.
What more do I really want? I wanted a certain man in my life and I was leaning towards that the last several months. But we know where that ended up. My heart is raw and healing so that idea is definitely low on priority list now.
My life is comfortable right now. Ya, there is always more I could do, but do I want to right now? In time, perhaps.
Brett Wininger: its definitely good and natural to desire more otherwise society wouldn’t progress forward.
However, there are those seasons on our life where it appears that nothing is happening but circumstances are being lined up for something amazing like those weeks in later winter/ early spring before the trees start blooming again.
Embrace and buckle up during those seasons of preparation.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: thank you. I love and appreciate your wisdom and insights
Jackie Rioux: Brett: Have you read Mastery by George Leonard? About Akido, with lessons for life. And talks about the plateaus in life.
Day of GRIT: #10 of 28
METRICS: (FoF)- Hub Spoke F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP
CONTEXT: “I Cultivate Strong Relationships… ”
Having had my personal boundaries violated at a young age, I grew up with not much sense of respectable boundaries and I seemed to attract all the wrong people into my life. Fast forward through a lot of personal growth and maturity, I have let go of a lot of people in my life. Some painfully, others just fell away. As I heal my own past and raise my energetic vibration, I no longer attract detrimental people, and I am much more aligned with wonderful like minded souls. I am actually really blessed with some amazing people in my life.
How is this possible? Well, the more I raise my own vibration, the more my intuitive senses kick in and alert me with bad vibes around people I should be avoiding. That doesn’t mean I always listen to those bad vibes, considering I like to give people the benefit of doubt to prove themselves. Intuition proves right more often than not though.
Actually, a book I read years ago was the catalyst for me realizing how my intuition can sense another person’s character. That book was The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker. (Highly recommended for anyone in a hiring position, by the way).
Those people who pass my spidey senses are the ones with whom I do my best to be my authentic self, and to forge compassionate relationships.
Brett Wininger: as we strive to become our best selves we are less attracted to those not putting their best effort forward.
That’s my goal for my daughter, I’ve heard to many stories of women so desperate for male attention they grab the first boy that smiles at them.
Just striving to be a good male example for her and love her mother intensely.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: I know that background too well. I latched on to the first boy who said i was pretty, and got pregnant right away trying to escape my father. Ironically he was also a boy that picked on my in school so the 10 marriage was not good other than 4 kids.
Your daughter is lucky to have you, and lucky to have the example of you loving her mom.
Brett Wininger: thank you, is there anything that you wished your Dad would have done in those early years that he didn’t.
My daughter is now 10 years old and starting to spread her wings so any insights are appreciated.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: my father did provide for our family, but due to his own dysfunctional past, his examples were very skewed. He was totalitarian and emotionally abusive.
From what I can see, you are doing very well just being aware of your fatherly influence and by loving her mother. That is the best example right there.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: This is my father: https://ladybugwellness.ca/final-words-with-my-father/
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux amazing journey, glad you have been able to keep your heart tender thru it all.
A book I often read talks about suffering from a delusion and unfortunately it appears that your Dad had his owns delusions and he wasn’t open to anything else.
This has given me gratitude cause I’m striving to be a Dad that preparing my daughter to become an overall healthy adult.
And you keep smiling and being you, thanks.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux appreciate the kinds words. Just don’t want to miss any of the subtler areas of parenting, definitely aware with long term impact, good or bad.
Day of GRIT: #11 of 28
METRICS: Sunday-Stretch-a-Palooza
CONTEXT: “I …”
Who am I without my story? Who am I with my story, and do I want to follow that story or create another? Our past experiences and life lessons are what make us unique.
Our story is like a double edged sword though. On one side, if we are in an immature state of mind where our story is just an ongoing stream of negativity and complaining, this story can keep us stuck in the past with continued commiserating with all the wrong people. Misery loves company, you know. This story can push away and repel all the more positive people who would be the ones that encourage and support our personal growth.
On the other side, when we come to a point in life of awakening to shine a light on our past and a choice to learn life lessons, this story is the one that can build relationships with like minded souls. Our heroic self’s story of becoming our best self. The encourager. The leader. The way shower.
The human experience is a series of trials and tribulations. Do we choose to succumb and stay stagnant in misery, or do we rise above and overcome obstacles to fuel our inner drive to become our best self, to mature in our own personal growth?
I choose the latter. And I choose to share my stories with you. If even one person can say that my stories made a difference and encouraged them, then my life purpose has been a success. If I can do it, so can you!
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux I’ve learned to embrace my past cause I’m no longer that person today and my past no longer has bondage over me.
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger exactly ❤. Not a heck of a lot scares me or shocks me these days. A few raised eyebrows maybe lol
Day of GRIT: #12 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Posterior Palooza Pyramid F2
CONTEXT: I Calculate Return on Risk…
I don’t know about this one. For most things I prefer to keep it low key and safe. Then again, I have been known to take off on road trips alone. What is risk anyway? I mean, some of my friends freak out when I say I have gone on these road trips alone. In the past, others tried to encourage me to drink all night. No thank you. I was always the DD and got everyone home safe instead.
Risk can be considered crazy, or it can mean taking a bold chance on an opportunity with the option of stretching the limits of personal growth and abundance. In my opinion, and from my own experiences, I think people avoid risk due to past bad experiences.
Example: Today, November 15 2021, is the anniversary of me being in my home. This is one purchase that I was so hesitant to go ahead and purchase that it almost didn’t happen. I am happy to say that this house is probably the best investment I have ever made for myself and my family.
Background: My first marriage was already stagnant, but I was a good little wife and just went along with buying a home when we were so freaking broke. He couldn’t hold any kind of decent job. We got my parents to guarantor the purchase of a shack of a home that was an unloaded estate sell off. There is a long long story behind all this but for now, just a few points. My father was the type to fix anything and even try to remake this dump into a home. My husband was a perfectionist. You can guess how the house renovations went. In the midst of this, I had enough and got a divorce so we sold the shack to the first guy who made an offer. He tore it down and turned it into a parking lot. Yes it was that bad.
Long story short, I got screwed over on a lot of things financially with that home, with the divorce, and even with the carpet cleaning business we had. My ex was NOT business minded at all!
I took my share of the sale and used it for a down payment on a townhouse. Long story again, but my ex was part of the reason I got screwed over selling that place at a loss after a year.
I had four kids and a “good job” that kept me in the class of the working poor. Made too much to qualify for any benefits, but not enough to pay for benefits myself. I managed to find a few decent places to rent, at least until I moved to the city. The housing market went crazy and the houses we rented sold and we had to move again and again.
With all this as my background on owning property, you can only imagine my hesitancy to purchase a home in my own name. I couldn’t even qualify for a while, I just didn’t have any good credit or any money.
I have always said that Someone upstairs is looking after us because at work, we lost some benefits in our contract and had to be paid out at my 13 year mark. It was because of this blessing in disguise that I qualified with a small down payment to finally buy a home. YAY!! I went house shopping with a realtor. She showed me home in my meager price range. I was in tears most of the time trying to comprehend how some people live like that and the decrepit state of these homes that were the only ones in my range.
At the point of almost giving up, we looked at this home. Apparently it had been on the market for almost 2 months, yet this was the first I knew of it. I took one walk through, asked a few questions and signed papers in the driveway.
Every one of my friends who came to visit after I moved in were so impressed that this place is so ME. Good energy, clean, well laid out and perfect for my family. It is only listed as 918 square feet, but it was above average on the inspection, and the property is a little bigger and nicer than other duplexes on the street. This home has doubled in value since I bought it, and has served me very well.
I had been so scared to take the risk of buying, and I am not sure how well I calculated that risk, but I am pretty proud of myself all these years later.
Happy Anniversary my humble abode!
Glenn Forman: Jackie Rioux Home sweet Home…Good for You.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux life is just an accumulation of attempts, some mistakes, some readjustment and then some more attempts. That why we comfort our kids letting them know this “devastating” thing in grade school will one day just get a casual mention cause life keeps unfolding.
Cool thing is we in here take more time to document the incidents and glean lessons from them.
Day of GRIT: #13 of 28
METRICS: 5K Day Finisher- 4MOD- Extinction Abs
CONTEXT: “I Opt for Integration…”
This is a super interesting context for me today. I do understand the whole Story Athlete philosophy of work – life integration rather than trying to juggle work – life balance. But right now “integration” has had a whole new concept for me lately.
Back in August 2021, one of our Body Code practitioners discovered a new technique that has been absolutely incredible in creating shifts for our most “stuck” clients. Energy balancing is all about asking the right questions to trigger the trapped energies to come to the surface to be released. Now, we know that the body loves to hide everything. This is a trauma survival response to keep us in the familiar safe zone, even when the energetic bomb shelters of the past are no longer needed.
Our imagination is limitless, and our subconscious mind is quite literal, like a toddler. All this adds up to quite a puzzle to solve in finding, releasing and balancing energy so we can disconnect the emotional charge associated with past upsets.
So, back in August, this practitioner simply got a bright idea to ask “can a person have more than one subconscious mind?”. The answer was YES! We know that trauma can “split” the psyche, but this appears to be a different kind of split. We have been working through all sorts of ideas and discoveries in using this new protocol to integrate the subconscious mind. The results so far are spectacular in that many clients are feeling a difference right away and noticing huge energetic shifts. For myself, I felt “hyper focused” for several days after the first time I used this technique. Of course I have still have some life upsets recently out of my control, but overall, thanks to this technique, life is getting better and better!
I definitely opt for integration in this context!
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux this just reminds me that as much as we know about the human body, it’s still just scratching the surface of what’s still to be discovered. It’s like God has hid “Easter eggs” and He delights when we find them.
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger He gives us alllll the tools. But the keys are hidden inside us. It is only when we truly tune in to Him in our heart space that the door and floodgates open
Day of GRIT: #14 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Upper Body Complex-a-Palooza C1 F2
CONTEXT: “I Depend on Me…”
Thank God I depend on me. Thank God I grew up learning how to be resourceful and how to use basic survival skills. Today I am so ashamed that I have let myself scroll Crackbook for our local and regional news. This past summer there were some forest fires in the Southern part of our province. On a road trip in August, we saw some of the devastation of a small community completely wiped out. Those forest fires destroyed much of the undergrowth of tree root systems. Now with fall rains, there is nothing to hold up the mountainsides of dirt and rocks. This has created mudslides. The past two days there are some really devastating pictures of the 3 main highways connecting Vancouver metropolis to the Northern part of the province where we are. I have travelled those highways many times. The pictures I have seen are atrocious.
Now, being the resourceful person I am, I have always been ready for emergencies as best I can. We keep a reasonable amount of food stocked up so we can depend on ourselves and not have to go out for dinner every night.
Common sense has gone out the dark ages here in the north. Now people are posting all sorts of victim type and shaming type posts. People are panic buying and the store shelves have been picked clean everywhere.
Then there are posts shaming others to leave enough for the social assistance, mental health and pensioners that are too broke and or immobile to buy anything until their government cheques are received.
The energy of all this mad panic is draining and, stupid me, I allowed myself to read some of these posts. We went to Costco today just to grab some work pants for my son. Looking around, the produce cooler room was the emptiest I have ever seen.
Yes this is an atrocious situation for some people in the southern part of the province. I called some family and friends. My SIL’s home is on higher ground. He is fine and still working. Another friend, where he lives is cut off on both sides of the community. Their home is beside a creek that is rising the banks, but again, they are higher ground, resourceful and just fine. Some other family friends are all on higher ground and stocked up sufficiently. Other than losing power for a few hours, they are fine as well.
So why all the panic in the northern part of the province where I live? People seem to think that Vancouver is our only supply option. We still get supply trucks from Alberta. We still have supplies right here locally with farms and industries.
I posted a meme today “You’re about to see many highly intuitive people go into hermit mode or just not willing to be as open as we used to be. Spirit is calling for us to be very selective with whom we share our gifts and visions. Something big is happening”.
Many of my friends loved this meme and commented in agreement. One, however suggested this creates division instead of unity. I do not agree. I think we need to look after ourselves FIRST before we can be of any service or assistance to others. We cannot reasonably create with or align with lower frequency imbalanced individuals that are hell bent on letting themselves get caught up in the amplified drama of the media.
Time to get a cup of tea and settle down this evening without Crackbook drama, secure in knowing that my family and friends are safe. There are emergency crews out there taking care of things where they are needed. All is good in my world. Because I depend on ME.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux one rule I have always remembered from my Soil Judging days in High School FFA class, “If potential homesite is judged to be in a floodplain, do not build,” (and stop evaluating it as one)
Many of the people in flooded areas shouldn’t have homes in those areas.
Look at the older generations and their homes were always on some sort of hill or at least a rise.
It’s unfortunate when people are involved in those bad decisions.
Jackie Rioux: Brett: it says right in the Bible to build your home on a rock.
Ironically the flooded area is the Bible belt area of Vancouver suburbs
Day of GRIT: #15 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Isometric Accumulation F2
CONTEXT: “I Never Stop Learning…”
The wisest man readily admits that he really doesn’t know everything, yet a fool proclaims to know it all. The more I learn, the more I realize that I don’t know much.
That is why I can say that I am a Jackie of all trades but a master of none.
The human body is so complex and so fascinating. The human mind is limitless in its imagination. When you combine these concepts, the possibilities are endless. I have been an energy balancing practitioner for many years. Sure I received my certifications in many courses, but the learning continues through years of experiences.
Just this morning, I signed up for yet another workshop that had a specific focus on resistances to healing and moving forward. Fascinating, and I look forward to playing with another technique and a round of new questions that can uncover more of our true selves for myself, my family and my clients.
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux I’m sure the opportunity to learn in your field is limitless. Energy work always fascinated me!
Jackie Rioux: Joe Tedesco In Matrix Energetics, the idea is to drop into heart space and let go. Laughter is a high vibration state where miracles happen, so they call it “playing”. I integrate this into all I do and love to “play” with energy. 😃
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux that’s so cool!
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux its remarkable how limitless our mind and body truly is.
People can be active way into there 80s and 90s plus stay mentally sharp as a tack.
Unfortunately I’ve seen people way younger that get around like they are old men and women.
The human body is an amazing machine.
Mallory Antonello: Jackie Rioux this is beautiful, thank you for sharing. I’ve recently started to read more about energies and our impact on them too, any good books to recommend?
Jackie Rioux: Mallory Antonello power vs force David Hawkins.
Day of GRIT: #16 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Volume Sets F2 Finisher- 4MOD
CONTEXT: “I Am a Chameleon…”
Years ago a lady read my birth chart and told me that I don’t have a “mask”. This isn’t the current definition of a face covering. What she meant is that most people have a face they put on for different situations. We tend to act one way around our family and act differently around friends or formal social gatherings.
She had told me “What you see is what you get”, and that I treat everyone the same. At the time, I quite agreed with her. For the most part I am still like that. I tend to treat a homeless person with the same dignity and respect as I would a famous person. After all, we’re still human.
I do seem to have an issue with a lack of brain to mouth filter though. And this issue tends to make for some interesting situations sometimes.
Chameleon takes a different connotation with me, in meaning adaptability. I grew up learning to be very resourceful and that skill came in handy raising four kids for many years.
I learned to be adaptable in stretching a dollar to keep my kids fed nutritiously. Then I learned to be adaptable in juggling family, full time work, a part time job, and going back to school while taking outside courses as well. All this while keeping myself and my kids in extracurricular activities. (oh my gawd, I get tired just thinking of those days!).
Out in public, people would recognize me and I would have to figure out if I knew them from my mail route, from fashion show modeling, from the nightclub where I was the beer girl, or from kids activities. I wore many hats back in those days.
Of course, these days I always need to tie something to my current passion as an energy healing practitioner. I have changed and adapted to a much higher vibration than in days past making way for a much brighter future. A chameleon changes colors to adapt to their environment. I have changed my chakra colors to a balanced beautiful rainbow.
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux Love this. You were a chameleon out of necessity. Shifting and changing to meet the challenge at hand! Sound like it served you well!!
Brett Wininger
Jackie Rioux I agree, its more about the adaptability and making adjustments. Since the Chameleon has no physical defenses against predators it has to use other resources.
Day of GRIT: #17 of 28
METRICS: (FoF)- Hub Spoke F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP V1
CONTEXT: “I Seek Clarity, Not Perfection… ”
Through all I have learned so far, I have realized that procrastination is a form of perfectionism. It is an energetic block that quite often has its roots in some sort of past event where we didn’t live up to expectations and now feel like we’ll never get there, so we’re not even going to try and face failure yet again.
These energetic blocks are no match for an experienced practitioner though. The human body loves to hide these blocks to keep us in the safety of the familiar, even if that familiar is detrimental to our future of inner peace and a happy life.
I think of a quote I have had in my website for years from Michael J. Fox: “I strive for excellence. Perfection is God’s business”.
I am not even going to try to be perfect because that is a next to impossible feat. Instead, I find clarity through finding and releasing energetic blocks and then get busy with the task at hand. Energy balancing is a form of spiritual laxative. Remove the blocks and the Energizer Bunny comes alive.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux I’ve read somewhere that the mind preferably the path of least resistance.
So in general to learning something new or doing what it already knows, it tends to pick the familiar.
Just as Fletch so wonderfully describes as the Lesser-Self.
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger
Day of GRIT: #18 of 28
METRICS: Sunday-Stretch-a-Palooza
CONTEXT: “I Am Fueled By Purpose…”
I was a teen mom and got married before I was even done high school. Then I got a “good government job” because, you know, that was the thing to do. Family, career, marriage, etc. That life purpose can work for some people, but when you have trauma in your past, it can rear its ugly head in the midst of life and throw everything to the wind.
Personal growth is about unlearning everything we have ever learned through our upbringing, and through all other environmental exposure through our lives. Our parents raise us in the best way they know how, but if you look back at history of the world overall, you can see all the dysfunction they grew up with as well. Then we have our societal and cultural programmings.
Back to my early days of being “bare foot and pregnant” for so many years. I found meager ways of bringing in some extra cash through product rebates, coupon use, and entering contests. My then husband could not hold a decent job for any length of time and the business venture we took on fell apart since neither of us were business minded.
I particularly remember winning a Dr. Mario video game while I was on maternity leave. It is like a version of Tetris. This is the time when I realized that maybe I have some traits of ADHD and addictive qualities. I spent too many hours on that game, forgoing my own responsibilities and even decent sleep when I had small children to take care of.
Thankfully, at some point around this time, I realized my life was not going anywhere. My marriage was stagnant, I struggled to juggle my responsibilities of this “good career” while raising my children, and life was just blah and boring.
I broke away from that life and started to life MY life in making friends and socializing. There were a lot of harsh lessons then in figuring out my own respectable boundaries, but once I started facing my past and shining a light on those old wounds, I found my footing and my purpose. You see, our worst trauma is often the key to our life purpose. Why the heck would I take those walks through hell otherwise?
I started taking courses, and building my book knowledge since I already had plenty of life experience. My previously wonderful became toxic. I would work on myself energetically, and that job would become more and more uncomfortable. I would have a wonderful restful sleep, wake up in the morning and look at the ceiling thinking “Ah, F*UCK, I gotta go to work”. It wasn’t long before I left that career to venture out on my own with Ladybug Wellness as an energy balancing practitioner. My life is now fueled by purpose in knowing that my previous experiences are now put to good use as my gift in being compassionate in assisting others to find their own life purpose by overcoming their past traumas.
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux well done, thats quite an amazing journey and I know you just hit some of the highlights, I’m sure there is alot more details to the journey
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger My published story is here on YouTube. I have tons of notes and stories piled up to put into a memoir of some sort. Thanks to my time in SA this is becoming more of a priority now to get that all organized into a book.
Jackie Rioux’s Published Story: Transforming Pain into Freedom | Ladybug Wellness Ep. #6
Joe Tedesco: Powerful story, Jackie. Makes me want to give you a hug! Last week I was thinking about asking you if you’ve ever heard of the Emotion Code. Sounds like ya have
Jackie Rioux: Joe Tedesco I’m certified in EC. I have the BC app. Several other emotion and trauma release certifications plus an associate of arts in psych concentration. Then I have plenty of personal life experience too.
Ladybug hugs!!
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux That’s awesome! I’ll keep that in mind as I move forward in my journey. I think I could use some EC work.
Jackie Rioux: Joe: I have a free Sunday rest and receive session that has been wonderful for energetic maintenance until you decide to book in.
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux perfect. I’ll check out your site!
Day of GRIT: #19 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Posterior Palooza Pyramid F2
CONTEXT: I Prioritize Asset Creation…
I am so grateful to the Story Athlete community for all I have learned in my time here since April 2020. Asset creation and leveraging was not something I really understood previously but now I have learned that it is of utmost importance in my professional and personal growth journey.
I have always collected my stories with the intention of creating a proper memoir some day. I share a lot in my website so far, and I did published a short version of my story a few years ago.
Thanks to SA and all the encouragement and insights I glean here, I am much further ahead in my goals than I was 18 months ago.
I am still working on turning it all into actual leverageable assets, but as a work in progress, I will get there.
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SA-Name:// JACKIE RIOUX
Day of GRIT: #20 of 28
METRICS: 5K Finisher- 4MOD- Extinction Abs
CONTEXT: “I Light the Wick of Possibility for Others…”
I was two years ahead of my peers with life experiences. While most people graduate, get married, then have children, I did that process completely backwards.
I had been in Christian private school and got kicked out being a teen mom. Not a good example there so I transferred over to public school and graduated there.
While in private school, we worked out of booklets. Many had Bible verses and quotes in them, similar idea to the old famous Reader’s Digest magazines.
Many of these little sayings were inspirational to me so I collected them in a hand written duo tang binder.
When my peers started to go through life experiences, I was the shoulder they turned to. I would just lend them my binder… but then I would have a hard time getting it back. Thankfully when the internet came along, I painstakingly typed out everything at the local library on my lunch breaks and transferred it all to a website.
That is how my website came to be back in 1998. And I have been sharing Jackie’s Compilations and my own stories and experiences ever since. It is my corner of the World Wide Web and my way to light up someone else’s path. If just one person out there finds the inspiration to progress in their lives, then I have succeeded.
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux That’s so cool!
Day of GRIT: #21 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Upper Body Complex-a-Palooza C1 F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP
CONTEXT: “I Set Public Deadlines…”
Last week I listened in on an energy balancing workshop on resistance. Today’s context has given me a new focus for my own resistance. Public deadlines? Oh hellllll no. Not this chickie. I spent 26 years on an employer’s clock with deadlines through the day and the stress of pressures to meet those deadlines. Then I went back to school and had deadlines for essays and exams. I loved learning. I hated deadlines and essays, often cramming on the last night to try to assemble something worthy of a meager marking system.
Nope, I hate deadlines. LOTS of resistance there. Sure, I will make a to do list and cross off my accomplishments for a sense of being productive. I will “put it out there” in the form of vision boards and manifesting methods to achieve my goals.
But public deadlines right now are a no go in my world. I think I must like my own method of surprising myself when something gets done or something happens in my favor.
I am putting on my to do list “work on releasing resistance to public deadlines. I’ll get back to you on that one. Soon.
Sean Tjia: I’d start small, like instead of a deadline, start with “this amount of time for this task, then move on, task finished or not.” next, private time to complete, just for yourself. finally, you could share to just 1 or 2 people a deadline. then an official public deadline. start with something you’d have less resistance against, instead of challenging the 900 lb gorilla.
Jackie Rioux: Sean: That is kinda what I do already, for myself. PUBLIC is the real issue lol
Sean Tjia: share it with your cat first!
Day of GRIT: #22 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Isometric Accumulation (for time) F2
CONTEXT: “I Am Thankful…”
As in CJ’s context today, I too have lost loved ones. Holidays are never the same without them. My grandma was Christmas to me. She passed when I was 18, 3 days after Christmas. I still have a handwritten letter from her saying “see you at Christmas”. Christmas ended up being a juggle between families each wanting their celebration on the specific day.
My dear friend Andy passed December 13 2014. I was such a wreck that I barely made it through Christmas.
My son in law passed away on our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend 3 years ago. That is never the same now. Recently, my soul mate passed Sept 30 2021. Close enough to our Thanksgiving too.
What the hell do I have to be thankful for now? Lots. First, even though it has been downright painful to lose these loved ones, especially close to holiday dates, I have the consolation that my last words to each of them were kind and loving. They knew beyond a doubt what they meant to me.
Next, who cares about holidays and specific dates? Seriously. Everything is way too commercialized and marketed these days. Family is important, the first priority actually. Yes we have lost loved ones, but we still have other family and reasons to live for. Nothing will ever replace the ones lost, yet those losses sure give us a mortality check in cherishing the time we have with those still here.
In times of loss and tragedy, you find out who your real friends are, and you find out who has been there only because of certain people. When those certain people are lost, sometimes others are inadvertently lost as well. The real friends and true soul family are the ones who step up and support us though our grief process to find some renewed hope in life.
I am thankful for my home that provides for our family. I am thankful for being resourceful enough that we always have food in our home to sustain us and to share as well. I am thankful for all the basic comforts I have in my life that keep me feeling safe.
I am thankful for my chosen career in following my passion to serve others as an energy balancing practitioner.
I am thankful for my family still here with me, and for my faith and spirituality in knowing that our loved ones passed are just beyond the veil and always still with us in heart.
Wayne Purser: Jackie Rioux “I have the consolation that my last words to each of them were kind and loving. They knew beyond a doubt what they meant to me.” As they should know. Death hurts, but knowing that they knew how you felt about them…Priceless.
Day of GRIT: #23 of 28
METRICS: (FoF) – Volume Sets F2 Finisher- 4MOD
CONTEXT: “I Optimize the Process…”
If you have known me for any length of time, you have probably heard me bitch about my disorganized computer files, particularly since a hard drive crashed years ago. And the last two years I have been spending time cleaning out and organizing files.
One reason is all our family pictures and loved ones lost and cherishing those memories with keeping those files accessible, duplicated, and safe.
The bigger reason is that being more organized helps me to work more efficiently, and to serve my clients in a much better way as well.
I have taken many courses. I have many practitioner forums where we share information, charts, and experiences etc. I have tons of files in my computer all related to energy healing. Some charts I have printed off. Some information is printed off. I have a huge binder that I can reference during client sessions. Body parts and regions, metaphysical relationships, hormone lists, brain parts and regions. Some of this is in an app. A lot of what I use is in random and similar charts. Frustrating and inefficient when much is duplicated and scattered.
Since I have figured out how to use Excel to my advantage (Thank you to Ulrich by the way!!), this past week I went down the rabbit hole of my computer files and starting clearing out stuff. I started an Excel Master list for all these files and charts. I actually found a bunch of old files that would be super beneficial to use and implement in my work now.
Even though I have taken so many courses, I don’t often follow one protocol from any modality. I take what works for me and my clients and run with it in my own way. This way, I do not need any details from my clients. They do not have to answer any questions or re-live and experiences. Their energy tells me all I need to know to find and release past upsets so they can raise their vibration to happiness and inner peace.
I have optimized my client session process and already I am seeing wonderful shifts with my clients because I have been able to find information and descriptions and words much more efficiently.
Bonus: Since everything is energy, having those files cleaned up and having my computer that much more organized, just feels clean and fresh with renewed enthusiasm for all I do.
Day of GRIT: #24 of 28
METRICS: (FoF)- Hub Spoke F2 Finisher- 4MOD- AMRAP V1
CONTEXT: “I Create My Future… ”
I am pretty sure that years ago I lived on blind faith. I sure prayed a lot and somehow things worked out for me. I do remember a time when I checked my bank account on payday, after all the auto payments went through. I had 37 cents left to last me 2 more weeks and to feed 4 children. Thankfully I had been resourceful enough to stock up on case lot deals and bulk purchases so I managed through those times when the paycheck didn’t quite stretch enough.
Yes I had plenty of poor experiences and dysfunctional relationships back then too, but still we always had basic food and shelter. I managed to secure a good job that lasted a while in supporting my family. I managed to find rental homes that lasted a while for us as well.
Once I started taking control of my own life rather than just coasting along the whims of external circumstances, things began to change drastically in a much better way.
I started to learn about energy and how everything, absolutely everything, has an energetic vibration. Now I can create the future I want because I can figure out the energetic vibration of whatever I want in my life, remove the energetic blocks in my field and align with the miracles of possibility.
I have a home that is just so ME. I love it so much that I have been here 16 years. I implemented plan B many years ago in a plan for retirement from that previously great job and love live out my passion in assisting others as an energy balancing practitioner. My bills are paid, my family is healthy, we have plenty of food in our home. Our needs are met because I create my future. </End-of-GRIT-Post>
Day of GRIT: #25 of 28
METRICS: Sunday-Stretch-a-Palooza
CONTEXT: “I Work to Predict Trends…”
Having lived most of my life on a wing and a prayer, I am not sure I qualify on “predicting trends”. Sure I was a local fashion show model, but I was a walking clothes hanger. I don’t even have much fashion sense.
Business? All of that stock market stuff I leave to my accountant or my brain will glitch endlessly or my head will start spinning.
In my world, I focus on energy and vibration. If the vibration is a match, things will magnetize. If not, no amount of super glue or duct tape will bring it all together.
As for predicting trends in energy balancing, I have noticed that most of everything I have been doing with clients the past two years has been ancestral healing. Our DNA has been scientifically proven to carry memories. In energy work, this translates to ancestral trauma issues.
It is absolutely fascinating to realize that we now have the tools to heal the energetic patterns passed down to us through our lineages so we can create our best life now.
With all this in mind, the “trend” I see out in the world right now is a whole lot of turmoil and upheaval. But I have a lot of hope in knowing that we can individually and collectively heal these traumas and to create a previously elusive sense of World Peace.
Jackie Rioux: On another note… I figured out Canva today!!!! Lil miss non techie is on a roll and pretty proud of herself making a few social media promo memes. Ya ya.. Its not a big deal to techies, but to me it is.
Joe Tedesco: Jackie Rioux Canva is fun! Glad you are figuring it out. It’s a great platform to create!
Jackie Rioux: Joe Tedesco did i mention I hate shopping? Same with having too much selection. Omg fonts are frustrating!! Just want simple and nice but there’s millions in there
Day of GRIT: #26 of 28
METRICS: 12 MOD (FoF) Finisher- Posterior Palooza Pyramid F2
CONTEXT: I Know Fear Is an Illusion…
Years ago I took a Master course to enhance my skills and to introduce me to some other energy healing modalities. The course was called Explorations in Transformation: How People Change. I put out a question on social media to glean some public insights for our final weekend class. A young fellow who had been through a detox counseling program told me about the acronyms for fear. Either Face Everything and Rise, or F*ck Everything And Run. That was the first time I hear those acronyms. I have since learned a lot from my own experiences, and from training courses, and from extended reading as well.
Fear can be an illusion, but it often results from some sort of trauma and develops into triggers. I wrote about my own fears and triggers a while ago (referenced below). A red sleeper is a silly thing to be scared of. I know that now because I have overcome those previous fears. But years ago, the associations and triggers were debilitating and seemingly very real.
Fear can also be a gift. How so? I highly recommend a book called The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker. It is all about our innate intuition that alerts us when bad things are about to happen. You know, that “gut feeling” when vibes and energy feel wrong and you need to get away from whatever is causing your spidey senses to go off. There is even a chapter in there about hiring employees and a reference to a postal incident years ago just 5 hours from where I live. Fear in this case activates our natural “fight, flight, freeze, or fawn” response so we can protect ourselves sufficiently. Fear can be a good thing.
Back to fear being an illusion though, as this is the focus of this context. When we have those unresolved past traumas that create delusional fears, we can disengage the emotional charge behind the upsets and therefore resolve the illusionary fears as well.
I lived with nightmares and irrational fears for many years of my life. There is not much these days that scares me unreasonably. I choose to rise up and face fears head on rather than run.
Day of GRIT: #27 of 28
METRICS: 5K Day Finisher- 4MOD- Extinction Abs
CONTEXT: I reflect on my results…
Mind Body Business Relationships… The four wheels of my pace car.
Through all the years of my life, I hadn’t really thought of reflecting on my progress much. I mean ya, I could look back over my life and see the changes up to where I was at an given point. I kinda referenced this as the “tapestry of life”. When we go through crap and upsets in life, it really sucks. There is a analogy though that the tapestry is woven together with the good times bright threads with the bleaker times or dark thread accentuating the picture of our lives. The sucky part is that you can’t really “see” the beauty of the picture until you’ve come a ways through life’s ups and downs.
It wasn’t until I joined GRIT that I understood the benefit of reflecting on the past months progress and how much the 1% journey can make a difference in 28 days. It is encouraging and inspiring especially when I can see how far my team mates have come as well.
Drum roll….then in no particular order, the good and the bad…
Business: I have been on a purging spree! Last week I went down the rabbit hole of my computer files, particularly all the courses with energy healing stuff. It is not very efficient to have a million files with only a tidbit of wisdom in each. So I have been revisiting all sorts of stuff, gleaning what I need and can use, to file and organize into something useable that I can actually use. This project has already shown its benefits this past week in a few client sessions. YAY!! I have been reorganizing my website and those files as well, realizing that these are my “assets”. Not to mention that “clutter” is energy as well, so everything is just feeling cleaner and more efficient. Win win on all fronts there. Oh, and last night I got in a fukidal mood and did some more videos for my YouTube channel. No worrying about “ums” and “ahs” or edits, just get it done and uploaded.
Mind: well, all my energy balancing stuff is my passion. Having my files more organized and making things efficient is affecting my mind as well in more inspiration. I did learn a lesson (again) this past month reiterating my own needs to listen to my intuition on who to work with in my network of practitioner friends. I had had a problem with this person in the past and against my better judgement I gave this person another chance and paid for it. This connection has now been severed for good, and I feel much better for it now. Not all healers are as reputable as they seem. Thankfully much more energy balancing with trusted friends has got me back on track from being so blocked.
Body: Ugh…. This tire is still a little off kilter. Still keeping to an F2 workout each day, sometimes modified. Not really putting my full attention here as needed, BUT… with my mind doing better, the body naturally follows along and I really feel a NEED to move each day. Vitamin M.
Relationships: Taking a moment for more tears here. Today is now 2 months since I found out my soul mate passed away. I wrote a long heartfelt letter to his parents, including the poem I had written for him years ago. His mother sent me a sarcastic message and blocked me on social media. No, I am not the least bit surprised, she has not changed from all I knew about her in years past. She was the reason things didn’t work out between us years ago, and no different now apparently. I have continued to write in his page in my own website as my personal tribute to him. I have been stunted again on continuing with the Akashic records course, but I am hopeful for more spiritual connections soon. I still have my days where I find myself in tears, triggered by a song or a memory. Getting better though.
My purging spree started when I needed to get all my lingerie out of my bedroom and also get rid of a dresser that held his memories. I have not gone through my prayer intentions box. Not ready for that yet. But I have cleared out my bedroom of some memories that just make me cry now, and moved some things to a treasure box instead.
All of those things aside, another relationship I am quite proud of right now is my daughter Melissa. Three years ago she started taking training in yoga, then teaching yoga, then reflexology and Reiki and Ayurvedic head massage. She has grown personally and has taken some flying leaps in her progress as a holistic practitioner and launched her marketing in ways that have inspired me as well. Remember I figured out Canva the other day? That was influence from her. She is operating her business out of our home as well. Ladybug Wellness and Honeybee Inspirations.
I kinda had a thought for a tagline for our front fence: “If you have issues in your tissues, we’ll get the bugs out”.
It’s getting late here.. my brain must be fried by now…
Another 27 days of GRIT in the books. Thankful to my team for all sticking through to the end. OORAH!!
Day of GRIT: #28 of 28
Smackdown- (AMRAP- As Many Rounds As Possible) F2 Finisher F2 modified some elevated
CONTEXT: “I Expect the Unexpected…”
Sometimes I just keep bumping along and doing my thing and then something just floors me. Sometimes in a good way. I guess most of the time we think of being prepared for the unexpected as being something horrible or inconvenient. I have my share of those unexpected events and have managed my way through it well enough.
I have been posting in Darrel’s page, sort of like a blog of my feelings and thoughts, while I process through grieving these last two months. I have referenced these writings in my newsletters. I have been through deep loss a few times, each uniquely different. I finally decided to put all my suggested resources for managing grief into a separate page in my site. I have long promoted my website as my little corner of the world wide web where I share Jackie’s Compilations and Resources, along with all my energy healing services.
I sent out my December newsletter today. I wasn’t quite expecting the feedback I received today. Apparently my heartfelt words in my last 3 newsletters have elicited some bittersweet tears for my readers and I few wrote in with some really nice comments that got me all choked up too.
Just before sending out my newsletter today, I was on a call with a dear friend who is an intuitive angel reader and has helped me through the loss of my son in law 3 years ago. During our chat, she told me that Darrel came through with a message for me. He sent flowers and thanked me for loving him unconditionally, and for setting him free. He kept saying he is so thankful to be free. I had a whole lot of tears in realizing he will always be nearer to me now that he ever could be in physical form.
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Creating a Delightful December
Brett Wininger: Jackie Rioux it’s been quite a journey reading your items this month. I’ve not been able to read them and reply, so I attempting to catch up during the In Between time. Keep staying GRITty
Jackie Rioux: Brett Wininger thank you. Yes I try to catch up reading everyone’s contexts as well. I really appreciate you and your comments. Thank you so much.