The name for my substack came in the early meditative sleepy hours of one morning. Though it’s come to me recently to share about what Warrior Within means to me because it’s not the fight/battle type that the word warrior can be associated with. Here is the intro post I shared nearly a couple of years back about the truth of who I am (as spilled out of me in that moment in any case):
A visionary that everyone with a conscience should strive to be. Warrior of peace and let the doves fly freely amid the flickering fireflies on their last journey. Humanity hunts ways to hurt. What the f*** is wrong with life considered as worth taking another. Where are roots of peace to spread and support the genetic tree of ancestors?
I love that, Amber is a visionary. I also love the warrior of peace. The roots of peace is a great analogy, fits in with the analogy you used the other day Amber!
Where are the roots of peace indeed. A channelled message that I received the other day was that we haven’t yet learnt to live in peace and harmony with one another - and that is the lesson we are here to learn. We appear to have gone the long way around it.
Iroquois native Americans came up with roots of peace. Part of their confederacy to unite tribes pre Columbus landing and a women sachem made the decisions. Confederacy laws were offered to USA and base of u.s. constitution.
Your writing Shelia and photos take me over the pond to visit via the net. I just woke up in Los Angeles to read your Venturous venue. I must tell you I’m a gardener herbalist. Take the advice of skiers and sprinkle cayenne pepper in your socks to keep feet warm add a little olive oil for your circulation of your hands. Wear a hat, 90% of body heat leaves from top of head. I just gathered stinging nettle to make nutritious soup, loaded with iron and vitamins. I wake up early to get projects done. Writing stories, journal, poetry. I’ve just about finished my espresso coffee with cardamom. One cup a day does it for me. I too am Irish ☘️ and English. Ancestry goes to mayflower landscaping at Plymouth Rock 1620. Appreciate your pix and support your warmth on cold days.
Hello from over the pond, Los Angeles. How wonderful!
Cayenne pepper in the socks??? I’ve never heard of that! And olive oil on the hands, I suppose I do do that occasionally but never thought to do that regularly for warmth. Both things are very easily available here and will be trying them out.
I’ve never tried stinging nettle soup but did consider making one when one of my plant pots grew some last year.
I remember you telling me about coffee with cardamom and I must try it myself. I have some very tasty coffee at home at the moment, do you brew the cardamom in with the coffee grinds?
I’ve got cardamom pods, do you think it’d work to crush and then throw them into the grinds? I’ve not seen them already mixed here.
Haha I didn’t know that! I call artichoke the flower of the vegetable world heheh 🤭 I remember seeing them for the first time here in Spain growing in a field.
One more time reply. Cayenne pepper pinch in with olive oil for warmth of hands. Stinging nettle wear gloves when harvesting. Sid’s dried add to salt for extra nutrients. Look up a recipe for soup. I add garlic cloves, potatoes dash of cayenne and blend til smooth.
Okay, I’ll be trying that. I’ve done olive oil and ginger esencial oil and it did give a nice tingle. That’s great advice about the stinging nettles, I’ve not grown them since but I’ll be sure to harvest next time I do!
Sheila: add a pinch of cayenne pepper to the olive oil to warm the hands, not just olive oil. Stinging nettle soup look up recipe in internet. Add garlic it onions, water maybe some potatoes; put it on blender to make smooth. I like spicy and add some cayenne pepper. As for cardamom buy it in powder form and add a pinch to coffee for each cup. I don’t filter let grounds just settle to bottom of cup. Take grounds and put on plant’s soil outside.
As for the questions - my accent can be very spongy; I have never been a teacher (although my mum, brother and sister were and I had a place as a Maths teacher then I decided to follow a different path before that one began); I live in the South of England; I am riddled on and off with chronic health conditions (CFS/ME, fibro, mast cell disorder, pernicious anaemia, benign positional vertigo...), I am a world traveller through and through even when I can only do it through the pages of books; I have never used crutches, and there are too many songs to think of...
My husband is from a family of teachers, I’ve kind of inadvertently joined it in that way!
You’re really collecting a number of chronic health conditions there! Wowzer! I know with each of my diagnoses there was a period of acceptance, you must have had to do something similar.
It’s true, books can be a wonderful way of travelling when your body can’t (for whatever reasons). The mind is always free!
Oooo send me one of the songs, any that come to mind!
Oh Shelia!! WELCOME!! I love this so much, for so many reasons I almost can't get the words out fast enough. I am English Irish (in that both my parents are Irish but I was born in England), I'm fascinated by language and I have so many blended words and sayings, and although I have a very Southern English accent, when I'm around people I absorb and take on their accents like layers of light clothing that I delight in wrapping myself in. I'm so sorry for your health journey and the grief you are now experiencing. When our bodies turn on us it can be brutal and unforgiving. You are not alone, although I can only imagine your heartbreak. Oh and the wanderlust...there is so much I want to do that haven't yet been able to - to learn other languages, to live in other countries. I am so delighted to see you writing here, what a superstar you are x Oh and I almost can't believe you titled this with Dia dhuit!!! I wrote a short story about the Irish language the other day with that in it!! x
I love the word wanderlust though I’m definitely feeling the energy of the word vibrant this year. The personal Vision I have for myself is to embody full health & vibrant energy. After finding myself completely disabled by illness 6 years ago I’m, surprisingly, the wellest I’ve ever been in my entire adult life! It took me 20 years to be diagnosed with migraine disease so I didn’t bother going back for diagnosis with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, tinnitus, anxiety and depression - it doesn’t change my lived experience and saved many more years of gaslighting, dismissal and misdiagnosis. All freeing up space to let my body lead the way instead. Appears to have taken me further so a big hoorah for me. Teachings I go on to share with many as my way of giving back. I have many go to healing songs but here’s one I’m connecting to atm:
Here you go - I was thinking after sharing how wonderful this would be for you to lie on your bed, breathing gently as you allow the words to shower over your body:
Thank you so much for this beautiful introduction! I think you've put together a really wonderful summary of "the person Sheila" :)
Thank you Sydney, I’m glad you liked it. Have you done one yourself? How did you find it?
I haven’t! I will one day, but it’s still mulling in the background of my mind for now :)
When you do, I look forward to reading it!
The name for my substack came in the early meditative sleepy hours of one morning. Though it’s come to me recently to share about what Warrior Within means to me because it’s not the fight/battle type that the word warrior can be associated with. Here is the intro post I shared nearly a couple of years back about the truth of who I am (as spilled out of me in that moment in any case):
https://warriorwithin.substack.com/p/best-introduce-myself
This is great and you’ve highlighted an important thing, I’ve introduced myself but I’ve not said WHO I am but WHAT I am! Interesting.
Thanks for sharing 💚
Warrior of peace. Glad you sought within your answers to the wanderlust waves that you and me have been juggling on in a rowboat that will not sink.
Warrior of peace - I love that, thank you☺️
Warrior of peace, I love that too.
A visionary that everyone with a conscience should strive to be. Warrior of peace and let the doves fly freely amid the flickering fireflies on their last journey. Humanity hunts ways to hurt. What the f*** is wrong with life considered as worth taking another. Where are roots of peace to spread and support the genetic tree of ancestors?
I love that, Amber is a visionary. I also love the warrior of peace. The roots of peace is a great analogy, fits in with the analogy you used the other day Amber!
Where are the roots of peace indeed. A channelled message that I received the other day was that we haven’t yet learnt to live in peace and harmony with one another - and that is the lesson we are here to learn. We appear to have gone the long way around it.
Iroquois native Americans came up with roots of peace. Part of their confederacy to unite tribes pre Columbus landing and a women sachem made the decisions. Confederacy laws were offered to USA and base of u.s. constitution.
Your writing Shelia and photos take me over the pond to visit via the net. I just woke up in Los Angeles to read your Venturous venue. I must tell you I’m a gardener herbalist. Take the advice of skiers and sprinkle cayenne pepper in your socks to keep feet warm add a little olive oil for your circulation of your hands. Wear a hat, 90% of body heat leaves from top of head. I just gathered stinging nettle to make nutritious soup, loaded with iron and vitamins. I wake up early to get projects done. Writing stories, journal, poetry. I’ve just about finished my espresso coffee with cardamom. One cup a day does it for me. I too am Irish ☘️ and English. Ancestry goes to mayflower landscaping at Plymouth Rock 1620. Appreciate your pix and support your warmth on cold days.
Hello from over the pond, Los Angeles. How wonderful!
Cayenne pepper in the socks??? I’ve never heard of that! And olive oil on the hands, I suppose I do do that occasionally but never thought to do that regularly for warmth. Both things are very easily available here and will be trying them out.
I’ve never tried stinging nettle soup but did consider making one when one of my plant pots grew some last year.
I remember you telling me about coffee with cardamom and I must try it myself. I have some very tasty coffee at home at the moment, do you brew the cardamom in with the coffee grinds?
Thank you for your lovely reply 💚
Cardamom buy it powered or already mixed in coffee. Looks like a giant artichoke if you want to grow yourself a plant.
I’ve got cardamom pods, do you think it’d work to crush and then throw them into the grinds? I’ve not seen them already mixed here.
Haha I didn’t know that! I call artichoke the flower of the vegetable world heheh 🤭 I remember seeing them for the first time here in Spain growing in a field.
Pods crushed and dried , powdered and use powder in ground coffee.
☕️ I shall give it a go!
One more time reply. Cayenne pepper pinch in with olive oil for warmth of hands. Stinging nettle wear gloves when harvesting. Sid’s dried add to salt for extra nutrients. Look up a recipe for soup. I add garlic cloves, potatoes dash of cayenne and blend til smooth.
Okay, I’ll be trying that. I’ve done olive oil and ginger esencial oil and it did give a nice tingle. That’s great advice about the stinging nettles, I’ve not grown them since but I’ll be sure to harvest next time I do!
Sheila: add a pinch of cayenne pepper to the olive oil to warm the hands, not just olive oil. Stinging nettle soup look up recipe in internet. Add garlic it onions, water maybe some potatoes; put it on blender to make smooth. I like spicy and add some cayenne pepper. As for cardamom buy it in powder form and add a pinch to coffee for each cup. I don’t filter let grounds just settle to bottom of cup. Take grounds and put on plant’s soil outside.
As for the questions - my accent can be very spongy; I have never been a teacher (although my mum, brother and sister were and I had a place as a Maths teacher then I decided to follow a different path before that one began); I live in the South of England; I am riddled on and off with chronic health conditions (CFS/ME, fibro, mast cell disorder, pernicious anaemia, benign positional vertigo...), I am a world traveller through and through even when I can only do it through the pages of books; I have never used crutches, and there are too many songs to think of...
My husband is from a family of teachers, I’ve kind of inadvertently joined it in that way!
You’re really collecting a number of chronic health conditions there! Wowzer! I know with each of my diagnoses there was a period of acceptance, you must have had to do something similar.
It’s true, books can be a wonderful way of travelling when your body can’t (for whatever reasons). The mind is always free!
Oooo send me one of the songs, any that come to mind!
Oh Shelia!! WELCOME!! I love this so much, for so many reasons I almost can't get the words out fast enough. I am English Irish (in that both my parents are Irish but I was born in England), I'm fascinated by language and I have so many blended words and sayings, and although I have a very Southern English accent, when I'm around people I absorb and take on their accents like layers of light clothing that I delight in wrapping myself in. I'm so sorry for your health journey and the grief you are now experiencing. When our bodies turn on us it can be brutal and unforgiving. You are not alone, although I can only imagine your heartbreak. Oh and the wanderlust...there is so much I want to do that haven't yet been able to - to learn other languages, to live in other countries. I am so delighted to see you writing here, what a superstar you are x Oh and I almost can't believe you titled this with Dia dhuit!!! I wrote a short story about the Irish language the other day with that in it!! x
I remember we talked a while ago about the Irish English identity. Took me to go travelling before I owned the Irish identity ☘️
Oooo you’re an accent sponge too! It’s weird! I feel like an accent chameleon!
It’s tough when the body doesn’t do what we want it to, a lot of grief to process with that.
Oh really?? Did you share the short story here?
I love the word wanderlust though I’m definitely feeling the energy of the word vibrant this year. The personal Vision I have for myself is to embody full health & vibrant energy. After finding myself completely disabled by illness 6 years ago I’m, surprisingly, the wellest I’ve ever been in my entire adult life! It took me 20 years to be diagnosed with migraine disease so I didn’t bother going back for diagnosis with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, tinnitus, anxiety and depression - it doesn’t change my lived experience and saved many more years of gaslighting, dismissal and misdiagnosis. All freeing up space to let my body lead the way instead. Appears to have taken me further so a big hoorah for me. Teachings I go on to share with many as my way of giving back. I have many go to healing songs but here’s one I’m connecting to atm:
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/allowing/1436932440?i=1436932443
Oh no this link doesn’t work for me as I’ve not got Apple Music, can you send me a name or a screen shot so I can search it on Spotify?
You are the definition of vibrant! You glow and have an electric energy!
Here you go - I was thinking after sharing how wonderful this would be for you to lie on your bed, breathing gently as you allow the words to shower over your body:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2vh1DAAuax2Tl3v6LM42LK?si=cq6GITQnTRempbSUQYzwng
I’m playing it now, is this the same one that you played when you were here? 💚
It was the track following the one I sent you in your treatment funnily enough 💆🏼♀️
Oooo!!!
Sheila: put pinch of cayenne pepper in with olive oil to warm up hands.