Rooted Life Radio Lori A Andrus > Transformational Guide

In this week's bonus episode Lori shares her four favorite crystals for tapping into your unique creative voice.
P.S. Registration is now open for the Journey Jewels Guide Certification Program. Join Lori for this 6 month program and dive deep into your work with crystals, creativity, and shamanism. Register Here: www.journeyjewelsguide.com
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In this week's episode Lori dives into Part 3 of her series on Crystals, Creativity, and Money by talking about creativity and how we can tap into our unique creative voice.
Tune in to discover 5 tips for to light your inner fires of creativity.
P.S. Registration is now open for the Journey Jewels Guide Certification Program. Join Lori for this 6 month program and dive deep into your work with crystals, creativity, and shamanism. Register Here: www.journeyjewelsguide.com

In this bonus episode, Lori shares 5 crystals and a crystalline activation to change your relationship with money!
P.S. Registration is now open for the Journey Jewels Guide Certification Program. Join Lori for this 6 month program and dive deep into your work with crystals, creativity, and shamanism. Register Here: www.journeyjewelsguide.com

In this week's episode Lori dives into Part 2 of her series on Crystals, Creativity, and Money. This week focusing on that taboo topic, money.
Tune in to discover 5 tips for changing your relationship with money today.
P.S. Registration is now open for the Journey Jewels Guide Certification Program. Join Lori for this 6 month program and dive deep into your work with crystals, creativity, and shamanism. Register Here: www.journeyjewelsguide.com

Last week Journey Jewels turned 8.
It has been 8 amazing years of creating transformational jewelry, offering programs and services, and most importantly it has been 8 amazing years of being able to connect with you! Thank you!
I love anniversaries and birthdays. They are a wonderful time to celebrate and do a little reflection. So when I saw this birthday nearing, I schedule some time for just that.
As I sank in, my thoughts wandered back to the very beginning, to the first pieces of jewelry I created (long before the name Journey Jewels came into being), and the life-changing ceremony that allowed me to create space for my work to evolve, and most importantly to moment in time when the crystals revealed that while Journey Jewels has been the name for the jewelry I create it is actually a process for working with crystals and shamanic practices to create healing talisman and transformational sacred objects . . . and most importantly, it is a process to be shared with others!
That awareness was a game changer for me! . . . and just as the name Journey Jewels showed up after a ceremony, so did the program. I LOVE how sacred practice creates space for ideas, dreams, and visions to come into form.
 
Something I don't often talk about is the rocky time after I left my career as an occupational therapist.
I struggled to find a way to create a career and make money doing what I love. 
On so many levels I felt like a failure. I was struggling, and in the midst of my struggle I even considered going back to being an OT. Now I get that going back to being an OT may have been a good option, but for me it felt like doing that would be turning my back on what I know I am truly here to do.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I had left a back door wide open 'just in case'. It was my safety net and I was scared to let it go and truly leap into the unknown.
I think many of us are coming face to face with back doors right now. 
You may be feeling this as a sense of nostalgia for something shiny in your past. Or perhaps you are seeing an old path with fresh eyes and long to return to it because you see how much you've grown and think that perhaps now you could rock out what you weren't equipped for then. 
It's great to look back at the past with fresh eyes, to recognize how much you've grown, to see what you maybe once saw as failure as instead a little detour or a journey that prepared you for this exact moment. The challenge is that all too often we look back with rose colored glasses and keep a door open just in case. 
But once we finally close our back doors, we create space for our dreams and we have the complete freedom to say YES to the Magic + Mystery that wants to be created in our lives!
At the beginning of the year you likely set an intention. 
Are you still moving towards it? Or did you find yourself getting distracted? 
If you got a bit distracted, don't worry, this is the perfect time to do a little reflection and look at the doors you've been leaving open 'just in case'. Now is the time to close them.
Over the next couple weeks I will be diving deeper into the topic of Crystals, Creativity, and Money on my podcast Rooted Life Radio​. In this week's episode I share more about that life-changing ceremony and how you can create space in your life today!
Learn more about the Journey Jewels Guide Certification Program here: www.journeyjewelsguide.com

It is very warm here today . . . like 47. It feels more like spring than mid winter.​
I even spotted some fuzzy and open pussy willows while on a walk earlier this week.​
I love midwinter days such as this. They are refreshing and filled with sunny optimism. And they leave me feeling eager for spring. 
Something about next week's full moon, blue moon, lunar eclipse feels much like spring.
Over the past couple days I've been preparing for next week's crystal ceremony.
I'm always intrigued by how preparing for a ceremony is about so much more than just simply creating a beautiful space or planning the ceremony itself.
Those are the obvious things. What's less obvious is how spirit begins to open an energetic portal, gather the unique energy of the group, and how the energy and intention behind the ceremony gains its unique momentum.
Creating space for this portal to open and for our energy to come together happens in more subtle ways . . . like listening to our dreams, doing a little reflection, and creating internal space the inspiration, ideas, and vision that want to come forward for us in ceremony. 
Ceremony is a beautiful way to create a bridge between the spiritual and physical worlds, to open a portal of connection with not only our higher self, but also with our guides, the angels, our ancestors, and the divine. 
How we prepare for ceremony is just as important as showing up and being present. 
In this week's episode I share some great tips for clarifying your ceremony intention, tuning into the wisdom and insights that are already flowing days before the ceremony, and how to shift perspective about any challenges that may be popping up.
I would LOVE for you to join me in ceremony by joining us in the Crystal Immersion FB Group. https:facebook.com/groups/crystalimmersion