Beachtime

Spring fever has set in and JJ and I are sooo ready for the sun. Tennessee has had some tornado warnings and after taking shelter underground we knew we needed a get away to some sun! We took a weekend trip to Southern Carolina to a beach called "Edisto Beach." 

I have never been to S. Carolina before so I was excited to see another new state and beach. It was so interesting to see all the southern homes and plantations along the way. Neat trees with spanish moss hanging wildly down over the streets. The south is full of new surprises. 

JJ took care of everything; drove the entire way there and back, booking the sites, food, setting up camp, and a two hour massage the first night. He consistently asked me "can I get you anything" I am soooo taken care of. I went through a super low energy spell before we left and was feeling pooped everyday, it became hard to even cook and practice yoga so this get away was 'just what the doctor ordered' if I saw a doctor. 

We enjoyed walking the beach and getting some fresh vitamin D. I practiced some yoga on the beach while JJ tended to the furry children.

I am sooo blessed and incredibly thankful for this man, he is the Love of my life and he treats me like gold.

This pregnancy has been very connecting for both of us as well as for me with my body. I am carefully watching my body change and my bump grow.  I am getting much more of an appetite back and still haven't thrown up from the morning "awareness" that comes within the first few weeks. I am so excited to lay out in the sun with a large belly, it will feel so good!

Helpful Books I'm reading!

Here is a list of some wonderful and inspiring books that have changed so much of my perspective on pregnancy, childbirth and even on the first years of raising a child.
If your pregnant give yourself some time to read these and to connect to your higher self and your spiritual child for guidance.
Maybe your child wants to be brought into this world naturally. With the book "Spirit Babies" Walter Makichen will teach you some meditations to communicate with your child and get these questions answered.
SOOO COOL!

The top four are AMAZING!! The bottom who have helped with the energy work side and holistic medicine side. I also keep a journal and document all my new inspirations and insights that come to me each day.
~t

Cleaning The Pregnant Body Of Toxins

 I headed to Utah for two weeks without JJ to watch my parents dog.  They had gone to Hawaii and of course that dog is their new baby. Who better to watch a dog, then... me?

While surrounded by friends and family I found myself busy busy busy again and missing JJ so much. My energy was simply drained from the change of pace. I wanted to feel energized again to give this growing body some juice. I know that the first trimester can be exhausting but I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t because I was having a toxic overload. When I would feel sluggish and tired in the past I would do a body cleanse from my liver down to my colon. Well, thats not going to happen while being pregnant, since its not a good idea to cleanse while growing a new human body, so I thought of the next best thing, a colonic! Oh joy, how fun this will be my very first colonic. (I’m being facetious)

WHY A COLONIC?? 

I have asked myself that many times in the past but this time it came to me, it was what I needed to do to clean my body, you see the body stores a lot of its toxins in the colon, in fact most healthy people can hold up to 20 extra pounds of sludge in their colons, also the colon is where 60 varieties of microflora/bacteria that help with synthesis of folic acid(highly important in pregnant women), vitamin K and B complex. A impacted or toxic colon that leaks into the rest of the bloodstream called “leaky gut syndrome” contaminates the body with impurities and TOXINS, yuck! Not for this little body i’m growing, i’ll sacrifice my pride and stick something up my butt for the little gal. 

Now, I heard all kinds of things about colonics, good and bad. I heard all kinds of things about pregnancies and birth, good and bad. I personally hate hearing things, I learn the most from my own experiences and this was what I was suppose to do. 

I was recommended a place in S. Orem called “Whole Body Cleansing” the owner is Mia Majestro. The facility is clean and relaxing. She took me into a private room, I was alone the entire time, she gave me a heater and dimmed the lights, I sat on a fabulous thrown looking thing and yup, placed a lovely tub in the exit hole. The whole experience was comfortable and quite relaxing, to my surprise. I didn’t have any cramping or discomfort and when I was done my belly was flat, empty and I felt great, all day! A few sessions of this and I was squeaky clean and the new life I’m growing gets an opportunity to grow, without me pumping toxins into the bloodstream. Win-win for both of us!

As pregnant women we have a responsibility to give new life a fresh start, in the RAW, they are going to get enough pollution and junk once they are born into the world why not help their bodies grow in a pure environment thats squeaky clean. Its easy, its available, its your choice.

This is just another way to clean your body while your pregnant. It is a gentle natural process using nothing but water and your own system. 

~t

Loving Change

With a couple....a team of humans...a partnership of humanity, views, emotions, morals, egos, differences, likenesses, strengths, weaknesses, confidence, insecurities, talents, ideas, upbringings, life experiences, beliefs, values, standards, and most importantly, love. When combined, these things become the elements that make up the spiritual and existential union  that is the Divine and therefore, is responsible for the transformation that permeates into the spirit that we have invited into this world. The beautiful part of all this is that our LOVE, and its unconditional nature, can and will create the most comforting and peaceful foundation for our little-one's spirit to sow its roots and begin its growth.

Tarah is the light of my life and the star I sail my ship by. 

We, as humans, are spiritual beings. Our reality is our own choice. Whether conscious, or unconscious. Commonly, our reality is an amalgamation of our past experiences and, when unrealized and unchecked through a common misunderstanding that it simply 'is what it is' and when we pay attention to what 'they' say, we become just another 'brick in the wall'. We, as conscious humans, are aware of our role in the most monumental and natural phenomenon in the universe...change. Change. A word that most do not like. An idea that most fear. A reality that is upon us all. The most important part about change is its undeniable natural existence. To exist is to evolve. Just as day turns to night and life gives way to death, everything changes. Beauty lies within these things called change.

In this day and age many things are changing, whether it is realized or not. In all of our personal lives, things are changing. As a couple, Tarah and I, are spokespeople for change. Not because we 'occupy' or picket on the steps of congress or because we burn ourselves in protest...we speak quietly by choosing a different way of life. A simple life. In a way that we both have valued independently for most of our own lives. A way of life that has been largely forgotten, or perhaps, lost in society. We don't live on the moon or anything, we are simply making a strong effort to live consciously. Conscious of ourselves. Conscious of our planet. Conscious of the way we choose to teach the next generation. We have chosen to be responsible for our actions during our short stay here on planet Earth. And to pass on the things that we believe will play an important part in the change to come. The conscious change. 

We are two very lucky people to have found each other and to share such a similar viewpoint on life, love, and the pursuit of happiness....that is to say, if you believe in luck. Through our own experiences in this life, we are growing into the people who are capable of sharing such a wonderful life together and to foster a truly adoring and supportive environment for our little-one. We share an eternal truth...LOVE. 

We make it a reality for each other through our selfless, untiring, and unrelentless drive to find that part inside of ourselves that brings light to this, the most enigmatic but basic energy....LOVE. Through this, all things are possible.

....cue the angelic choir... ;)   

Energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It goes on in some shape, form, or fashion, forever. It is all around us. Everywhere and anywhere you may find yourself. The energy that is in me is for my Tarah. It is love...it is never destroyed but has been created for her. Wherever and whenever she may find herself...it is there for her. 

~JJ

A Natural Pregnancy

As the year has already proven to be an awakening one for most people, JJ and I have quite the adventure on our hands. We have awakened to our new role in life has examples, teachers, Lovers, and soon to be parents. We are expecting our first child this September.  We are both soooo excited and at 31 years of age, we are ready to be parents. A spark of inspiration has struck to share this life with anyone who is curious about a natural RAW life, done none other than the way it flows naturally.

JJ and I have been together for three years now and since the very beginning of our meeting we have talked about children and how we each saw ourselves as parents, not necessarily together in the beginning, but just as parents in general. Shockingly, our views were very very similar. As time continued and our relationship grew stronger and stronger we felt a strong spiritual connection between us that was undeniable. Before I moved to Tennessee we both shared our dream of having a healthy family with unconditional Love between us all. We consciously set out our intensions before we conceived on what it is we had to offer a spirit that was looking for an experience in a human body. We let the Divine know what we thought about becoming parents, what we could provide, how we would parent and what kind of birth we  desired to have and planned on having. Within a week we were pregnant! We both knew right away that our way was highly desirable by the spirit that has chosen us to be its parents.  Knowing that getting pregnant is not a easy task biologically and a miracle when it happens our emotions were full of joy and excitment for our future. We have now decided to share our method of pregnancy, birth, and parenting to all who can find some education and inspiration for a better, more natural way of living life...in the RAW, the way nature was designed, with faith, courage and unconditional Love.

Another journey has just begun for us and we can't wait to share it with anyone who is interested in the experience of a couple who has had a natural pregnancy, a natural homebirth, and is raising their child the natural RAW way. I will keep updated weekly on the wonderful and growing moments of our beautiful life.

The pregnancy begins....

~t

Inspiration and Change

Things are getting exciting here in Nashville, Tennessee. Both JJ and I feel the pace "quickening" for us.

Bobbi is finding more homes each day and has almost narrowed down on one in particular that she loves. We wish she would stay with us and enjoy life off-the-grid, she just declines. Perhaps she knows she'll be put to work again and in her soon to come retirement she is avoiding work at all costs.
JJ and I have seen many visions of what is to come for us, amazingly they are the same vision for both of us. Our direction and path is completely the same, how nice to feel the synchronicity of life.
We have spent hours upon hours talking, late into the nights, about where we see ourselves as soon as we are through with our job here. The world is changing so quickly and we feel that there is no more time for procrastination, the energy is pushing us forward, with purpose.

The weather is gloomy, and brisk so I spend many hours researching, studying, meditating, practicing yoga, and cooking with the fur babies (dogs).  Images and ideas are pouring into my head with vengeance, showing me where to look, what to do and how to do it all.
We are too excited for whats to come in all aspects of our life together and especially in the change that the world will soon feel.

Such inspiration has struck me again on getting things in order for the change we are going to feel. Mostly in positive ways. I don't have a fear of the world's change, I actually am looking forward to it, it is much needed and completely predicted from every culture that exists on this planet (even some that no longer exist). When the world changes it will stem from our economic collapse that will carry over to our food collapse and lead to our government collapse and then there will be us, the few who will rebuild it all again, in goodness, in unity, together with the earth.
I have felt it for many many years and wasn't really sure what I was meant to do about the upcoming change, until now. I have had so many ideas but didn't see them all coming together, I am seeing so much clearer now what my role is in it all. I see the big picture so clear and am being driven hard, JJ feels it too, we both laugh at how in tune we are with each other.

We know that our path together is one where we work side by side with nature in EVERY action. We will harvest the true spirit of our land (wherever it may be) and raise our family there in simplicity. I know that this is the example we are to be for the world or smaller, our families and loved ones.


I am sooo ready for the adventure and to live with nature and play with nature's rules, this is how I work best, this is what I understand most, this is who I am.  I am preparing myself here in Nashville getting more experience with my personal role in our life practicing;

new cooking tricks,

pressure cooking for speedy results, blending everything in my new Blend Tec Blender (making my own nut butters and sauces even),

stocking up on bulk grains and beans.










Trying to eat mostly raw to preserve the life force in our bodies, JJ even likes most of it. We have green smoothies every morning.











 I have even ordered all my organic garden seeds for this year and next year...just in case, these will be worth more than gold someday since we are having such a hard time stopping Monsanto from destroying our food (topic for another day),

and planning our methods for our garden; organic, aquaponics, biodynamics yada yada yada. You'll all ask us when you see its magic in action.




 I have been studing up on holistic health and therapies to use from nature that heal both mind (the ultimate hardest to control but the truest way to heal, completely) and spirit (balancing of energies), which both heal body, mixed with nourishing food, of course.




 I could go on and on and as things happen I will break down more and more detail for any who want to follow and learn. JJ and I live a life very close to nature and we will move closer and closer to that lifestyle the longer we share this life on the earth. The adventure is beginning, the knowledge has been acquired and now the action gets to take full-pace-ahead!

~t

The New Year Is Here!

2012 A new year is here, we are given another new beginning.

I have found myself pondering the newness of my current life and the beauty that surrounds me. I am so very much in Love with a wonderful, respectful man who sees me for my true self. What a magnificent experience this is. True Love is the access to the Divinity of life and the universe. I am here...finally!

So, what should I work on in this new year, what kind of resolutions should I set for myself? I already try to not think to far into the future that I lose track of the moment I'm in, but I still like to have intent and goals without any attachment to those outcomes.
I sat,
I closed my eyes,
I looked within,
I saw...

all the different personalities I have been in my lifetime. All the stages of life have offered such awakenings to me and such moments of unconsciousness. I reflected on last year specifically, the year of 2011. I saw the Tarah of 2011 and all her accomplishments and her struggles. I must say that I am proud of her. She did many things that were challenging and it wasn't easy. She lived most of it alone, solo, as an independent woman. She expanded her business, she started teaching meditation to a valley that doesn't practice it much trained many people how to work with their animals and...
 she left all of that behind, including her dear family, friends and comforts of the mountains for her True Love.  She picked up enough belongings to fit in a small trailer, grabbed her dog and drove 3 days across the country to start on another chapter of life not knowing where this would lead her.
Also,

She also had many emotional struggles with her ego, her self worth, and what she truly deserves in this life. Sometimes even indulging in self destructive behaviors to overcome these moments of doubt. It wasn't the easiest road, she has a pattern of picking roads that are more challenging and more risky, perhaps this is the best way she learns and grows.

 Ok, I will stop talking in the third person now, but stepping outside myself to look back and see the "old" me that roamed the planet in 2011 has helped me see the last year for what it was, for who I was without holding any judgements about myself.
This way I can fully see what I needed to work on and who I want to be NOW and for the rest of 2012, the year of awakening. I truly believe that I have released any attachment to how the "old" Tarah functions. I know that I want to be very conscious of my each and every moment in this new year. I want to slow down my actions so that I am fully aware of how I speak, and to whom I am speaking. I want to see my movements become graceful and full of intent. I want to listen deeply to others and feel their emotions...not hold on to them, just to feel them, with them while we are in conversation, then to let go.  I want to live each day with Love filtering out of my body. I want to think the most positive thoughts and have all my actions and my lifestyle be nothing more than an example of how life could be lived, since we have endless options for life.
and....
I want to wake up every morning next to the man of my dreams and feel utter gratitude for his presence and companionship in my life. I want to stay present and connected to him in every possible moment.

The year of awakening is here, I am ready and I am willing to be guided by the force of Divine Love!

 ~t