Jill Thomas Coaching

04/20/2024

Korea on film.

08/24/2023

Getting some film back from my last week in Utah. I cried when I saw this photo. These women have moved through a lot with me as I grew, changed, and transformed during my time in Utah and they stayed with me. They supported me over and over again, in new and foreign places in life. Having women in my life is so deeply important to me and after removing myself from the world for a bit, I set an intention to make women friends again. , , , I love you dearly. My heart is forever open to you!

08/17/2023

UPDATE & LIFE LATELY | We have have had a whirlwind of a last month. First, we surprised ourselves when we found a home & decided to move to Point Loma, CA. It’s Spanish home built in 1927 & it was love at first site. We had 6 weeks to move. During that time we found out we had to put our beloved Bernese down. She was nearly 10 years old & it was very hard. We created a very special time for our family as we all gathered around her for last few moments of life. We have never gotten another dog so soon but with the change of moving & loosing Bee we thought it would help our kids transition (a puppy always helps you to meet people.) Boy were we right! June, our new golden doodle has gotten us in & integrated to the neighborhood. We are now part of the Point Loma dog family. Nine days after we arrived in San Diego, we had to say good bye to Noah as he and Ben headed out to Korea. Noah will spend the next three possible years there (coming home of course) studying film at the University of Utah Asia Campus. Living abroad opened up the world for Noah & we are so proud of his courage, willing to live life, & try new things. We also left Penny in Heber, Ut and Bentley in Orem, Utah. This is the first time I have ever lived in another state from them and it’s been harder than I thought. Bentley’s energy is contagious, nurturing, and I just love being around them. It’s an adjustment being far. However, I am back home in my happy place. It was so hard for me to leave the first time and it’s been years of me trying and waiting to return. My soul feels rested, at home, grounded, and peaceful. The ocean feeds and connects me and the California air expands, yet grounds me. After many years of being away, I’m back home & there’s no one in the life I would rather share or be here with than Ben. It feels good, so good. Life is full with so many transitions & so so many goodbyes (leaving so much of my family in Utah and walking away from the gift of living nextdoor to my sister). It feels very full in this moment of moving in, getting Noah off to college, deciding what’s next for my career, a new puppy! But it’s beautiful and I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🌊☀️

06/06/2023

ENOUGH - A 2 DAY WORKSHOP WITH JILL THOMAS | For 2 years I have slowing been developing a map of our stories of enoughness. Come learn how this awareness around the stories you use to feel enough in the world will change your life and change how you are in relationship. I truly hope to see you there. Link in bio.

06/05/2023

VOW RENEWAL PART 5 | That’s a wrap. Ending with these priceless images of us with our kids. Thanks for being here with me as I shared this special event. Many of you have been here with me through it all, our family has deeply felt your love and support as you have held us up for years as we have been finding our way in this new world we found ourselves in. You’ll never know how much your words and support has meant to us and how much we have felt it. Although it was just our little family at our renewal, all of you were very present. We honored our community, thanked all of those that over the years have shared love and support and held us as we navigated new paths. We are forever grateful. Thank you. ❤️

06/05/2023

VOW RENEWAL PART 4 | Thanks for following along these past few days as I share our ceremony. This is how we ended our ceremony. Building a life mandala together. My kids love doing this together and we thought it would be beautiful after burning ti create and build. brought in her words and held us as we co-created together as a family. I keep Penny’s ponytail (if you know you know!) in this leather pouch that can hang around my neck when I participate in sacred ceremonies. A little piece of her to have with me. We put it at the center of the mandala. Everything we do as a family we make sure she is always present and represented. Each of my kids wore it at some time in the day and we ended the ceremony with Penny at the center. She was our cannon event (have you seen the new Into The Spider-verse movie?). She changed the trajectory of all of our lives that created a deeper capacity for love and intimacy within all of us. We have been on a healing journey for the past decade and it has felt rejuvenating as we create a new chapter to live into and not just heal.

I have one more post of just the most beautiful images of my kids. Thanks so much for being here with me. It was very hard for me to find vow renewal content that was just not you typical ceremony. My hopes is to share this and inspire new ideas and new ways of gathering and creating as a family. Lots of love.

06/05/2023

06/04/2023

VOW RENEWAL PART 3 | After we exchanged vows and commitments we had a burning ritual with the family. That morning in our beautiful Sundance cabin we wrote our individual and family beliefs we did not want to take into this next chapter of our lives. Together we lit a fire (that also contained sage, juniper, and rose petals) and together we ceremonially let go of anything and everything that no longer served us. We held each other as we spoke from our heart, or as we silently tossed our papers into the fire. This is a practice you don’t have to save for special moments like this. You can do it with the seasons, in New Year’s Eve, or create a special day with your family. The ritual of watching that that no longer serves you go up in flames and turn to ashes is beautiful and creates a more dramatic mindset shift. There is so much power in letting go. Read the beautiful words written and spoken by in this post.

06/04/2023

VOW RENEWAL PART 1 | I am going to have to break this up to share it in a few posts. Here is part 1. Ben and I started talking about a vow renewal last year when we celebrated our 20th anniversary. We got married when we were 19 and 23 and I was pregnant 3 months later. Our lives started before we knew it. We are not the same people we were. It’s been a hard lesson at times but we have had to learn and trust who each other is becoming and not who we married, or the idea of the person we married. In our roller coaster of a story, the constant has been our unspoken commitment to always find one another again, to always come back to love. Last year we talked about how much things have changed, how we have changed, and the surprises life has thrown us and every step along the way we choose each other. “I still choose you.” So the idea was born, a ritual, ceremony, to not only choose each other again but to make new commitments and vows that evolve with us, that allow for expansion, growth, and becoming. So together with our dear friend we planned a ceremony. We wanted it to just be our little family and to have the kids very involved, to give them the opportunity to be co-creation with us. It felt important to have family rituals that represented letting go, recreation, and that represented our family’s capacity to hold each other and each of our own becoming. In the posts to follow I will share parts of the ceremony and what we created together. For now, here are some pictures that I will cherish forever.

05/15/2023

In the 20 years I have been a mother it has looked different every step of the way. I’ve even documented it through 10 different mediums, films, and 100 different filters. It hasn’t been what I expected, what I dreamed, or met all my expectations. As a mother who has lost a child, Mother’s Day feels different. This day opens up space to look at all the aspects of motherhood and some of those come with deep deep grief. So this post is for all of you out there that feel very mixed or hard emotions on this day. For those that have birthed and lost, those that haven’t birthed, those that haven’t had the loss, those having a hard time, and those who have lost mother’s in whatever that looks like for you. I see you. I love you. You are not alone. Motherhood is the most sacred part of me and it’s okay that it also comes with the most sacred joy and deep sacred sorrow. As mothers we hold the gift of scared life; life, death, joy, sorrow, love, compassion, grief, and acceptance. Happy Mother’s Day! Sending my love out to you today. ❤️

04/14/2023

Happy birthday to the man that owns my heart and always has. You have no idea how lucky I am! #44 🎂🎈

04/09/2023

My thoughts on Easter have changed, evolved, and just have continued to represent whatever perspective and projections I have at the time.

So I don’t see this Easter as any different. I continue to embrace change as such a natural part of life and in that, my Easter thoughts. Change.

Being with Penny at her “place” on Easter has been essential for my healing. Every year I have organized an Easter egg hunt with friends and family. Today I am far away from her, no Easter egg hunt, and I am looking for new places to live. My attachment to her place is dying. There can be an immense amount of guilt associated with this. My attachment to these days, how we celebrated and have healed is changing. I’m growing, evolving, and healing. I feeling the impermanence of, everything.

If you are on a new path and you don’t know what to do with this day, I see you. This day is now so meaningful for me, it represents my “reconnection to Christ and his cosmic origin.”

Thought by Richard Rohr:

Understanding the Universal or Cosmic Christ can change the way we relate to creation, to other religions, to other people, to ourselves, and to God. Knowing and experiencing this Christ can bring about a major shift in consciousness.
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In the historical Jesus, this eternal omnipresence had a precise, concrete, and personal referent. God’s presence became more obvious and believable in the world. The formless took on form in someone we could “hear, see, and touch.”making God easier to love.  
But it seems we so fell in love with this personal interface in Jesus that we forgot about the Eternal Christ, the Body of God, which is all of creation, which is really the First Incarnation. Jesus and Christ are not exactly the same. In the early Christian era, a few Eastern Fathers mystically saw that Jesus is the union of human and divine in space and time; and Christ is the eternal union of matter and Spirit from the beginning of time.  

When we believe in Jesus Christ, we’re believing in something much bigger than the historical incarnation that we call Jesus. Jesus is the visible map. The entire sweep of the meaning of Christ includes us and all of creation since the beginning of time.