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  • Day One of WTF Am I Doing? Thinking About How I Got Here And How To Get Out

    Everything Is Love In Disguise

    (Disclaimer: Some names have been changed to protect their privacy. Some information may be disturbing for some readers. Read at your discretion. 18+)

    I have no idea what I am doing at this present moment in time. All I do know is I know my ego well enough to know how I ended up here. I am a fifty one year old woman living on a mattress on a hard concrete basement floor in Canada. I do have the flexibility to move around this two bedroom little basement apartment. I’m not confined to one room. With that said, I am doing my best to minimize my needs here. Three adults, two small children, and a dog, all cozied up together inside a wee little two bedroom basement apartment. That’s a bright side of life way of putting it. I never would have thought in my younger years that I would grow to become a fifty one year old being taken care of by her own daughter, or by anyone for that matter. I am suppose to be in the prime of my life, aren’t I? I am suppose to be able to take care of myself by now, right?

    I do know my soon to be twenty-nine year old daughter certainly deserves to enjoy her own family. Without having to take on my burdens as well. It’s embarrassing, and takes a hell of a lot of mental strength not to lose my mind, or, follow through with some pretty life ending thoughts that have been creeping in these past few weeks. I don’t like to swear much but, fuck me.

    I love my family. I also desire my own place to call home. It’s been eight years since I have lived in my own space, within my own comfort, alone, or, entertaining a man pretending to love me, within the safe parameters of my own space. I am starting to forget what that’s like. I prefer to assume, getting accustomed to the responsibilities associated with having my own place would be like getting back on a bike, I have long since learned how to ride, rather than let doubt creep in with thoughts of whether or not I could actually do it.

    I have been doing my damndest to create awareness about knowledge I have to share since 2006. With little to no tangible return. I have been, and if I was brutally honest, still am, tired. Not so much physically tired. It’s more the deep soul’s longing to go home because this is too much, tired. Living in faith and affirming the best during years upon years of struggle, with no real material change, is starting to take its toll on me.

    Each day I reflect on a question. If I died tomorrow, would I be at peace with myself as it relates to my character, and the way I give back to this world? So far, each day, I have answered yes. If there was a slight no, I self reflected and made changes, wherever, and whenever, possible, so that I could ultimately end the day with a yes.

    I may have been with extremely low funds since 2013. I have also made a positive difference within my family and within my quest to make a name for myself. I know that, so yes, I would be at peace with myself. Would I be at peace with the amount of loving and impactful adventures I went on in this lifetime? No. Those have been extremely limited.

    With that said, I have received the blessing of being acquainted with the “afterlife”. I am familiar in the way it works between the physical and astral realm. Love and adventures exist in the astral realm. If I died tomorrow, I would be exploring and having wonderful adventures again. Once orientation with my data file in the Akashic records was complete and accepted by me that is.

    I am aware that hindsight is a gift of knowledge shared in both realms of existence. It’s for this reason, I check in with asking myself the question “if I die tomorrow…” each day. I do my best to take full advantage of hindsight during this lifetime. I make time to reflect on my day, each night, before I sleep. I choose that time as my quiet moment to talk with my God.

    It is not like me to entertain thoughts of being the one who creates my final day on earth. I have a few times during my fifty-one years. When I do have the deep longing to go back home to spirit creeping up inside of me, I remind myself that I would have to come back to this earth again and repeat some experiences.  If I left early, and I still desired further conscious evolutionary awareness, my option would likely be to reincarnate. Earth can be hellish. With that said, only the strongest of souls come to earth to learn at such a rapid pace. In my perspective, you, and I, are in a  PhD level program with many tier levels to completion. You, my welcomed reader, are far more powerful, far more courageous, far more loving, and, far more impactful, than you may truly realize. You being here on this planet tells me, you are a special soul indeed.

    My goal is to continue to evolve within my awareness of all that is. Once I leave this vessel I am currently using, permanently, I am not planning to reincarnate. Reason being, my ultimate career goal for myself isn’t here on earth. My ultimate goal is to become an Ascended Master in spirit.

    I am a far cry from being an Ascended Master at the moment. My thoughts tell me so. It is for this reason I am writing. I am going down some rabbit holes. I suspect I am not the only one who has been challenged with difficult thoughts, so, I welcome you to join me. You and I can discover puzzle pieces of our own individual journeys. One piece at a time. Welcome to the world inside my mind.

    My first attempt at kicking-the-bucket was at fifteen. I walked out in front of an oncoming Mack truck. It was a late summer night in 1989. A group of my brother’s friends got together to party at an abandoned barn on the outskirts of Kanata, Ontario. Kanata was a small town back then. The area mostly hosted farmlands and residential communities. I was at the party because I was friendly with my brother’s friends,  who consisted of mostly guys and some girls, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. I was fifteen, I believe. There were somewhere between eight to ten of us teens all hanging out. We sat on the hoods, or backs of our vehicles, drinking a mix of beer and rum coolers, whilst hauling off of each other’s cigarettes.

    My brother Craig is two years older than me. I was my brother’s little sister, the tag along. My parents were in our new home that my parents had bought in Ajax, Ontario, a few hours highways drive away from where Craig and I were. We had moved into that house a few months prior to the barn party. My brother Craig and I were in Kanata whilst my parents were blissfully unaware in Ajax.

    I can’t seem to remember how my brother and I got there. I wasn’t old enough for a license. My brother didn’t get his until he was twenty-one or twenty-two years old. I know he didn’t drive us. Details of that timeline are foggy to be honest. The details of what specifically happened are burned into my mind though. I can still see many of the details of that night clearly. It doesn’t affect me nearly like it use to. Today I can talk about it in a soft and matter of fact way. Without needing to cry or cower in a corner of a room somewhere in private. 

    During that fateful night of the barn party, one of the boys tried to make out with me. I said no. He wouldn’t stop his sexual advances. Grabbing for my ass and forcing himself on me. It was a huge trigger and, admittedly, I had been drinking, so my reaction to his advances were exacerbated by a couple of bottles of rum based coolers. I wasn’t thinking straight. I was trapped in my head. I was experiencing flash after flash of images of different men who had hurt me over the years. Inside the confines of my emotional, frightened, and incredibly tormented mind I was lost in grief. I must have reacted horribly because two of the girls ganged up on me. They yelled profanities, and threw a few punches, kicks, and false accusations my way. They believed I had been leading Mick on.

    All three of my aggressors, Mick, Shannon, and some other girl I didn’t know, were under the impression that because Mick gave me a roof to sleep under after my mother kicked me out, he earned his right to get into my pants. He held no right in my mind. No matter how much I was physically and mentally torturing myself. I stand on principle, even when drunk. Fun times. 

    My brother didn’t stop the fight. That was the second time two girls ganged up on me whilst my brother watched. My brother, in my mind, seemed to have gotten a kick out of seeing me in pain. It was a rough moment in my life, that’s for sure.

    In my distress, I headed for the main road several yards away through tall grass. Perhaps it was wheat, or corn, can’t remember. I ran on foot. I ran for a good few minutes. Someone was chasing me and calling my name to get me to stop running. I don’t remember who it was. It may have been my brother. I didn’t look back. I just kept on running until I couldn’t run anymore. I eventually came to a stop on the gravel at the side of the road. I stared, dead eyed, like a zombie, into space, and waited. I didn’t feel any physical pain from being hit by those girls. I was pretty numb from feeling anything at all at that point.

    I waited for the first vehicle to approach. Then walked out in front of it when I saw its headlights closing in on me through my peripheral vision. I had a plan without knowing I had a plan. I was trapped inside my mind whilst taking unconscious-conscious action. I walked in front of a massive semi truck, or Mack truck I like to call it. The driver of the truck was on his game that night. He obviously missed me, or you would be reading a ghost’s blog. Well you still could be I suppose. If you were reading this after I was dead and gone.

    I wasn’t in a good state that night in any sense of way. The driver of the truck that I walked out in front of called the police. Rightfully so. The truck driver, whomever the other teenager was that was with me, and myself all stayed on the side of the highway to wait for the police to arrive. I didn’t say much. I may have muttered a word here and there. That’s about it. The other teenager did most, if not all of the talking, in order to smooth things over. When the police arrived, they were briefed by the truck driver before they directed myself and my young “friend?” to get into the back of their cruiser. They asked questions, to which I wasn’t paying attention, nor had any interest in answering. Whilst they were driving us to the friend’s house my brother and I were staying at, I stared aimlessly into the starry night. I prayed to be anywhere but there, alone.

    My teenage escort and I kept the party and it’s location a secret from the police. It wasn’t that hard. The barn was situated in an area with no lighting to see for several yards. The barn was two stories tall with grey weathered wood. One side of the barn was open which exposed its inside to the elements. The barn’s two massive doors were missing from their rightful spot. It was good that way. It made it easier to park some of the cars inside. With all our headlights off, the area remained perfectly dark.

    Surrounding the barn were fields of tall grass, corn, or wheat, not entirely sure. It was far enough back from the road that the cops didn’t suspect a thing. As I mentioned, I can’t remember the friend who was in the police car with me. It may have been my brother, Craig? I do know I did have someone I knew in the police car with me. The sexual advancements and beating overshadowed any other important details of that night. That’s likely the reason the rest of the details are foggy.

    The second time in my life when I thought of leaving my body, I wasn’t necessarily interested in ending my life. My thoughts were more towards a very strong ponder.

    I was standing at the edge of a cliff. I would estimate the height of the cliff to the ground and water below to be about four stories tall. I was off the beaten path from people. I didn’t want anyone to see me standing there, contemplating life. I had just turned eighteen years old. I was on my own reflecting on my boyfriend’s affair that I had just learned about. Albert, my then boyfriend, lived two townships over from where I lived in Ajax.

    I also learned at the same time that my parents were planning to move two provinces away for my dad’s work.  Albert eventually came to be my first husband. He is also the biological father of both my children.

    I stood at the edge of this cliff with rugged rocks and small crashing waves below, feeling rejected by life. I was feeling sorry for myself. I was eighteen years old and in the last year of high school in 1992. I had exams, a cheating boyfriend, parents leaving some time after their house sold, waiting for me to decide if I was going to go with them. Plus a rush of old traumatic memories smacking me right left and center. It was a tad stressful back then.

    The third time I contemplated ending my journey here, it was after having a horrible experience with the last man I was in a relationship with. That relationship, or should I say, situation ship, was the hardest, most gut wrenching experience of my life. Even after what I have told you thus far. A large portion of my writing to come in these blogs will revolve around my experience being with him. Him being Rosie. 

    Recently, I started to imagine different ways I could end my life again. A long rope and a full grown tree with a strong branch? Nope. I have no rope and little physical strength to climb a tree, situate the rope, and take the last few minutes to think about my loved ones, before I took the plunge to pull that off. Walk in front of a bus? No, that would traumatize people. Walk deep in the woods and get lost so that the Canadian winter could get me? No, that would be excruciatingly painful. Pain free preferably please. I have had enough pain in one lifetime. Hence the bloody thoughts in the first place.

    A pharmaceutical cocktail maybe? That didn’t work when I attempted that before when I was crashing from being with my boyfriend, Rosie. Would I know how much to take and what?, nope. That solution is also a weak one at best.

    With no real answers, I decided to start writing my journey here because my goal is to conquer those thoughts and continue to make a positive difference in my little part of this world. I don’t have a clue if I am doing this correct to be honest. Am I writing a blog, a memoir, or a book based upon a toxic love story? Time will tell. What I do know in this present moment is, I love myself and my babies enough to remain resilient in my faith, and belief, that all works out better than I could have ever even imagined. I am here to stay. I can do this.

    How the fuck did I get here? To answer that question I would have to take you back in time to when I came to learn I was a child with a moniker, “It”. The child called “It” in my world created tumultuous, and toxic love for many years. My mother gave me the name “It” before we immigrated to Canada. I was two years old. She also told anyone who would listen that I deserved to be drowned. It all ties in with living on a mattress at fifty-one years old. It’s an excellent place to start.

  • Touched By An Angel To Deliver An Angel

    Everything is love in disguise

    (Disclaimer: Some names have been changed to protect their privacy. Some information may be disturbing for some readers. Reader discretion is advised 18+)

    Miracles do happen. They occur everyday. My youngest daughter is a miracle for me. I forever hold this experience I am about to share with you, inside my soul, let alone my heart and mind.

    Laura had a rough start. There were complications during her delivery into this world. She fought inside me for over four hours to breathe in, exhale out, and ingest blood. Laura was slowly drowning whilst inside me. I hold great respect for Laura knowing how incredibly strong, resilient, and tenacious she truly is, not to mention highly insightful and incredibly loving.

    The medical staff whisked Laura away with a tube in between her rib cage, and an oxygen mask on her tiny little face. I was taken to the semi-private room to recover.

    Whilst I was recovering, I was an emotional wreck. I was devastated by what had occurred. I kept praying over and over again “please don’t take my baby. Take me instead. My baby girl has much to do. Please take me instead. I can’t bear the pain of losing her. God please help her!”.

    After a few hours of sleep, I got up and made my way to the neonatal intensive care unit within the labour and delivery ward. I had to see my baby. I wanted to feed her. I had no milk flow whatsoever. The stress was too great to produce her milk. Laura wasn’t about to eat anyway. She was hooked up to IVs and a breathing pump was encased around her head. The rest of Laura’s body was exposed to heat lamps. They were unable to place her inside an incubator because she was at extreme risk of leaving this world. The barrier of an incubator to get to her in an emergency was too high of a risk to take.

    I remember entering the NICU. Laura was on the opposite side of the room, straight ahead of me. I could hear her fighting for breath from the doorway.

    “Huhh…Hu….hhh”

    Laura’s breathing was strained and intermittent. She sounded like she had smoked a hundred packs of cigarettes the moment she came out. Hearing her breathe like that instantly crushed me and also placed me in a loving state that simply has no comparison. I was fully and completely absorbing Laura’s energy, whilst equally giving her as much of mine as I could. The love I felt for her was, and still is, profound. Laura had to stay in this world in my mind. She deserved to live.

    I hadn’t decided on Laura’s name when I first entered the NICU. I had two names bouncing back and forth in my mind. My baby girl was going to be named Rachel Laura, or, Laura Rachel. I decided that she would tell me her name. I knew that when I looked at her beautiful little face that I would know her name.

    I wasn’t able to hold my baby. I was able to sit beside her and watch her lay there. I did my best to ignore the IV in her arm and the medical tape on her side where the tube was inserted into her. Laura also had a tube coming out of her mouth with bandage tape holding it in place. I still knew. I knew my baby’s name

    “Hi Laura. My beautiful little girl. Yes, you are definitely Laura”.

    “Mrs S, the doctor would like to come and speak with you. Would you prefer to go back to your room, or, would you prefer here?”, the NICU nurse asked.

    “Here please. I don’t want to leave my baby.”

    I was alone at the time. Albert had to go home to organize care for our eldest daughter Liv. Liv was only thirteen months old when Laura was born. Albert also had to rearrange is schedule at his work. It was also late or very early in the morning at the time. Honestly, many of the details are vivid whilst other details are a complete blur. My timing may be off. What happened is a lasting imprint though.

    The doctor came in to explain what was happening with my daughter. It was extremely challenging to hear.

    “Laura had inhaled blood into her lungs. Tests show that she has one lung full of fluid and the other lung is a little over half filled with fluid.

    We were able to drain the blood from her abdomen. Unfortunately we cannot extract the fluid from her lungs. Your baby has to fight it. Time will tell. There is little more we can do with the exception of monitoring her and keep her comfortable.

    This machine here helps Laura to breathe. The box provides oxygen. The bed she is laying on is exposed for quick access to her. These heat lamps help to keep her body temperature up as she is unable to sustain her own temperature at this time. Laura is also fighting jaundice therefore these lamps help her with this”.

    The doctor’s words above are not verbatim. It’s my layman’s way to explain what was explained to me whilst I was an emotional, mental, and physiological mess. The gravity of the situation hit when the doctor asked me a question that I didn’t even consider.

    “Do you have a particular religious denomination? We can have a priest come in the event they are required”.

    “No. I have no particular religion”.

    The rest of the night and the next day was basically a continuation of the day before until it got worse.

    I don’t really remember how much medical attention I received. What I do remember is going to the ward desk to inquire as to when I would be released from the hospital and that I still hadn’t received the paperwork for Laura to obtain her birth certificate.

    “You had a natural birth dear. You are discharged now. Natural births only require a twenty-four hour stay”, the nurse explained.

    I pleaded with the nurse. “My baby, she is in the NICU. I can’t leave her. Can I stay?”

    “No. You can certainly visit your baby during visiting hours and can consult your doctor for updates”.

    With that, I went into the NICU and sat with my baby until eight pm that night. As visiting hours were coming to an end, the nurse said to me, “go home and get some rest. Your baby is safe. No news is good news. Come back in the morning”.

    Albert and I drove the forty-five minutes home to Oshawa, Ontario from Markham in silence. I was lost in thought. I didn’t want to leave my baby. Albert didn’t know what to say or think.

    About an hour into being home the telephone rang. It was the hospital. Albert answered the cordless phone.

    “Yes, this is Albert. Yes, okay. Okay. When are they taking her? Okay we are on our way”.

    Albert then looked at me and said “They have placed Laura on life support. She can no longer breathe on her own. They are taking her to Toronto Sick Kids hospital by air ambulance. They said there was nothing more they could do and that it would be best for us to return to the hospital. We gotta go. I will get Aunt Char to continue watching Liv for us”.

    I buckled. I didn’t say a word. As my knees hit the floor I let out the most gut wrenching scream cry of my life. I think I got a couple of instant grey hairs that day. After recollecting myself and Albert’s loving support, we made our way back to the hospital. When we arrived, Laura was being seen by a doctor, a nurse, and two ambulance crew. They had prepped her for transport. The female paramedic came over to me. She handed me a couple of pictures she had taken of Laura to give to me.

    “Here, these are for you. Your baby is beautiful. She is in good hands”.

    “Can I come with you please”, I asked.

    “No. Unfortunately you can’t. You and your husband can drive there though. You are welcome to be with your baby at any hour and at any time. You can head there now. We will likely be there already with Laura being taken care of”.

    With that, Albert and I got into our car and headed for Toronto. Laura flew to Toronto Sick Kids hospital on December, 14, 1997. Albert and I drove back and forth between Oshawa and Toronto for nine consecutive days. During that time I was unable to produce milk. During that time, we were in a sterile room with no windows to be opened, and scrubs on within the hospital. This NICU was for the sick of the sickest babies. Any bacteria or slight chill in that room could be devastating for any of the babies in there. Albert and I had to scrub up and sterilize our hands before entering the room each and every time.

    I’m not entirely sure which day it was when a doctor from that hospital asked me the same question about my religious favor. I was also informed of the chapel to which I could attend. The message I was receiving from the medical staff was to prepare for the worst. I prayed and prayed for God to take me instead.

    On about the third day of Laura being in a somewhat stable, yet no real improvement condition, I, along with Albert were seated by Laura’s bed. Albert was by her head and I was seated to Laura’s side. I began to pray once again in my mind. As I prayed I felt a squeeze on my left shoulder and an ice cold sensation down my arm. I panicked. I looked around the room to see if there were any windows open. Then I looked at Albert and asked “do you feel that?”

    Albert looked at me confused and asked for clarification. “Feel what?”

    “Do you feel that cold?”, I replied.

    “Clair it is hotter than hell in here. Laura is baking. No I don’t feel cold”.

    That’s when I knew what I experienced was divine and not of this earthly world. With that, in my mind I said, “if that was you and you are telling me Laura will be okay, do it again. Please, do it again!”.

    Again, I felt a loving squeeze of my left shoulder. At that same moment, Laura took a breath. Laura started breathing on her own. The machine made a sound and stopped so that Laura could take a breath. It was miraculous. She wasn’t breathing on her own before then. The medical staff were able to ween Laura off of life support. The machine only kicked in if Laura forgot to breathe.

    From that moment on Laura made incredible improvements. My milk flowed like Niagra Falls. I pumped an abundance of milk in little containers for Laura. The medical staff then fed Laura my milk through a feeding tube. Laura became so well within such a short period of time that Albert and I were able to take her home on December, 23rd, 1997. I had my miracle Christmas baby with me. Laura is a beautiful person today and is also a mum herself. What a fighting spirit she has. I am proud to be  Laura’s mum.

    You see, there is so much to our existence that most are aware of. Spirit hears us. Spirit loves us. Spirit helps us when free will is honored. It’s just more often than not people, through external conditioning, tend to believe the universe talks outside of them only. This is only a part of the picture. The divine communicates in a plethora of ways and may not necessarily appear as a bolt of lightning or a winged angelic being. The divine speak with you through your feelings, your thoughts, and your external conscious awareness. The more you know yourself the easier it is to build a language and relationship with your divine team.

    I wanted to share this true story to help highlight the fact that you are not alone. You merely have to remain present, open minded, and observant to the messages and sensation you are experiencing. Then trust it is real for you. You are loved. You are a miracle. You have a purpose. You are here for a reason, just like my beautiful, late twenties, baby girl.