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Clarity Coaching Certification

2/18/2014

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Hello lovelies!
This particular blog post has taken me some time to compose.  
How does one articulate a profound and transformative 10 day learning process into a succinct and expressive summary blog post?

It sure beats me :)  I will do my best!
I have been following a lot of gut-level allurements this year; pursuing learning adventures, relationships and experiences based on an internal magnetism even when my "logical" mind resists.  This has led to a lot of magic and incredible growing in my life.

My decision to enroll in the Power of Clearing Coaching Certification Program with Sandy Levey this past December 27, 2013 to January 6, 2013 was one of these adventures
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Sandy Levey
It was an immersive 10 day training in which I learned a simple + powerful tool to gently examine negative, limiting subconscious patterns that were blocking my true expression, polluting my wants / desires and best of all, release these tapes that no longer served me.

I marvel at this work: 
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Truly, it occurred to me that I was learning an amazing and powerful tool to clear the path between the head and heart.  To me, connecting the heart + head means to open up one's heart, with its joys, desires + vulnerabilities in combination with accepting + cultivating awareness of one's mind.  To do these two things brings profound empowerment because clarity + awareness allow for free choices + authentic expression.

To illustrate this specifically, I would like to share with you my own story:

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Celebrating 2013

1/21/2014

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Hello amazing friends!
As one who loves to celebrate I could not resist taking a moment to celebrate my absolutely epic 2013.
It was a year that brought me such learning, challenge + ultimately joy in many areas of my life, personal to professional.  You have shared in much of it with me and it all started here about a year ago, after my dear friend April O'Peel taught me "everything about the internet" in exchange for me making her a beluga whale costume.
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True story. Image courtesy of Reckless Photography.
This gave me the ability to express my internal world into a digital format that has profoundly shifted my life.  This ability to share what I create seems to have unleashed a creative waterfall in me + I find myself in a constant loop of inspiration, creation + sharing.  I intend this to all be in the service of helping others
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With that in mind, I focused on creating + sharing only what truly lit me up and made me feel a whole body nummy yes.  As Danielle Laporte says in The Desire Map, 
"It's supposed to feel good." 


Using pleasure + desire as a guide post, I now present to you my top 3 squeep-worthy happenings of 2013:

ONe:

Integrating my artist self with my palliative care nurse self = 
#DIEAWESOME
in the form of a book, blog + manifesto
My intention is to inspire resonant reflections and honest, courageous conversations about experiences related to death and dying.
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Note from the Universe ... Regarding the Pursuit of Allurements

6/28/2013

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Dear friends,
A few things before I tuck myself in:
  • I love Bellingham.  This is one gloriously funky little city with beautiful land, beautiful culture and lovely people.  In fact, some of my favorite people live here :)
  •  This course is amazing.  HAND ANALYSIS.  Fingerprints!  I am just scratching the SURFACE of this way of seeing the world.  Can you imagine?  You have had the same ones since you were 4 months old in utero and they are unalterable in this lifetime.  They are an entirely unique map - your unique map.  Right in front of you, a built-in resource to companion you upon your soul's adventure in this life time.  FUCKING AWESOME.  Definitely a note from the universe - heck, it's a bloody love letter from the universe.  It's amazing.  Learning how to read this language blows my mind.
  • Speaking of love letters from the universe I'd like to show you the one I received today in class!                           Sit down, it's a doozy.
These are my notes from today's class. 
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In analyzing my one fingerprints, I have discovered that I'm a 10 whorl person.  This indicates that my school of specialization in life is service.  In fact, it appears that I'm doing some kind of a PhD in service as my life purpose and lessons are all in ... you guessed it, service. My 10-whorl pattern is a unique one that comes with an ancient Chinese name: "Lone Tree on the Plain."  Part of what makes it unique is that my particular twist on service PhD is the fact that I have to find my path to service by mastering selfishness.  This explains a lot :)

What's more is that if you examine the picture, you'll see that I actually have a tattoo on my little left pinky finger of the symbol for a whorl.
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I got this tattoo in 2011 for significant reasons. This is the alchemical symbol for the sun, chosen to represent the necessity of renewing agreements and refreshing communications in relationship.  As it turns out, I discovered just a couple weeks ago that it is also the symbol for stillpoint in cranial sacral therapy which delighted me.  Today, in class as I went to the board to transcribe my own code and realized that I had a tattoo of my code on my pinky I felt a shiver and whoop of delight wave through me.  This little symbol, for me, confirms that I am right where I need to be at this very moment, learning about my life purpose of service to others and the planet being equally as important to serving myself.  Thanks hand analysis and best of all, thank you, gorgeous and hilarious Universe for sending me this awesome love note of confirmation.  Yes, I get it:  keep pursuing my allurements, no matter how funky or "unreasonable."  Life is amazing.

Thank you for sharing this gorgeous moment with me :)
With all my love,
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Post Script Sharing

HAH!  
Funny coincidence it is, this is one of my most favorite + resonant quotes:
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If you are a illuminated wisdom (doodle style) enthusiast I invite you to check out my doodles at www.joantrinhpham.tumblr.com
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Mommy Pham + The Case of The Displaced Lobster

6/9/2013

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Mommy Pham + The Case of the Displaced Lobster 
is a story of a conversation that happened today.  

Actually, it is still an unsolved mystery.  My story is an attempt to share and capture a conversation I had with Mommy this morning, sprinkled with comments from my sister via text through out the day.  

Before I jump into the story, I have to introduce you, dear blog readers, to two women of central importance in my life:  my dear mother, also known as Mommy Pham and my dear sister Janine Pham.

Here they are:
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My mother is one of the most important people in the world to me.  She is equal parts bad-ass-does-what-she-wants mischevious mofo and tenderhearted muffin.  She's got a sharp wit and she can be obstinately stubborn / infuriating.  She also is one of the most generous and good-hearted people that has ever walked God's good green earth.  She is the most important, dearly valued teacher in my life.  One of my biggest and most beautiful personal challenges is to love her as well as she loves me.

There is a Vietnamese saying, one of her many favorites, that my mom chirps off at choice teachable moments that goes something like "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."  In my case that is so true:  she's given me all the best parts of myself.  I am sweet fruit because my mom is one hell of a tree.  I love our relationship and how it continues to grow.  I will likely write about her repeatedly, sharing short anecdotes of tenderness and hilarity.  I will do this because my mom is awesome.  Mommy Pham can also be shy about meeting new people (yet contrarily has no qualms about mouthing off strangers who have sassed her) so many of you will not likely ever get to meet her.  This is a great travesty so I will attempt to make amends by sharing her awesome :)

Mommy Pham 
+ The Case of the Displaced Lobster 

Background:
My mom keeps pet blue crayfish, (procamabrus alleni or orconectes immunis). She calls them her "lobsters" and she is fascinated by their behaviour.  Lobster tank politics and updates on the cycle of births and deaths are regular topics of conversation.

Here are a few pictures of Mommy's tank:
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Here is a gorgeous up-close picture of a blue crayfish from http://www.coronadogringo.blogspot.com.
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Here is my dear Mommy's hand, holding a recently deceased long-time member of the tank.
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When the "lobsters" die, none of us can really bear to just throw the little creatures out, least of all Mommy.  As a result, the freezer becomes a kind of morgue / sacred holding tomb.  Mommy tosses them out / flushes them when she is ready to, which is any where from days to weeks after the fact.  
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Today's Morning Conversation

Me:  Hello Mommy, how's it going?
Mommy:  Oh I'm glad you called.  I was going to call you, I have to ask you something.  Do you have a moment?

[At this point I'm a little alarmed and on guard; Mommy always tells me how something is going to roll out, she never asks permission.]

Me:   Sure Mommy ...
Mommy:  Did you take one of my lobsters out of the tank and bring it downstairs to the laundry room sink the other day?
Me:  [Aghast] No Mommy!  Why would I do that?
Mommy:  [Sounding relieved] Oh good, I'm sure it wasn't you.  Now to ask John ... but I bet it's that Ni ... (short for Janine)
Me:  [Confused] Wait wait, hold on a second Mommy.  What happened?
Mommy:  [Excitedly] Well I went down to the laundry room the other day and I found one of my lobsters in the laundry room sink!  Thank goodness he was still moving around so I brought him back upstairs and put him back in the tank.  [Now voice escalates in wonder with a note of disbelief / anger] Who would do such a thing?  Bring lobster downstairs and leave him like that?
Me:  Oh my gosh Mommy I have NO idea.  That sounds bizarre!  Do you think you did some sleep walking and moved the lobster downstairs by accident?
Mommy:  [Firm exasperation] NO!  Why would I do a thing like that?
Me:  Well I dunno Mommy, why would anyone move your lobster???
Mommy:  That's what I was thinking.  Your dad definitely didn't.
Me:  What do you think happened then Mommy?
Mommy:  [Suspicious]  Well I asked your sister and she said she didn't.  But I don't know. Who else in the house would do it?
Me:  [Aghast and in shock, again]  Why in the world would Janine do it Mommy?
Mommy:  [Defensive and conspiratorial]  Why would any one do such a thing?? Take a helpless lobster out of its tank and just put it in the sink.  Why would anyone do that??
Me: I have no idea Mommy.
Mommy:  Okay, well I didn't think you did it.  

...and then we changed gears in our topic of conversation and continued to discuss wonderfully mundane and normal things, like borrowing the car.  In utter mystification (and a lot of tickle) I texted my sister:

Me:  << Did you relocate Mommy's prawn to the downstairs laundry sink? >>
Sister:  << NO. She's been accusing me of it for the last couple of days! >>

Hilarious.
Tonight I hung out with Janine and asked her about it again.  My sister finds the situation mildly exasperating, rather than amusing as my mom has singled her out to be the primary suspect in lobster relocation.  

Sister:  You know what she said to me when I told her I didn't do it?  She backed off, looked at me coolly and said "Okay okay!  Alright, you can say what you want to me but really, it's between you, that lobster and God."

I love my Mommy.
With chuckling love,
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Post script sharing

A couple days ago my sister made a Game of Thrones style coat of arms on the HBO show site.  It is funny because it is true.  
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My family is full of the polite and intelligent-think-for-yourself shit-disturbers. They are incredibly brave, migrating twice over a couple of generations to uphold their values, save their own lives and seek better futures.  The first time was from North to South within their own country; the second migration was from Vietnam to Canada.  Both were fraught with danger.  I would love to write about my family and introduce them to you all.  There are a lot of stories to be shared and a lot more to be listened to.  I am full of gratitude :)
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