Rose Coaching and Healing

Happy Solstice!

Happy Juneteenth!

New post on the Ms. Wonderful Film club about the meaning and understanding of "daddy" in our culture, through the new film by Christy Hall. This post also explores the power of acting as an art form.

Daddio premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. I loved it!

Link in bio and please subscribe to this film club blog about bringing consciousness to film--to the creation and the lens with which we view it.

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Years ago I was reading a book from Thich Nhat Hanh about the Buddha, and he said not to watch television shows or movies that were disturbing and violent. I remember thinking that if I stopped watching entertainment or art like that, I would not be "on the pulse" and I thought it important to be "on the pulse" of what was being watched so I could discuss it with peers and form opinions about culture.

I don't think it is important anymore to be "on the pulse." I look at trees and flowers a lot. (I actually stop and gaze at them adoringly!) I am careful what I let into my brain. "In tune" is different than "on the pulse."

Life is much more peaceful this way. 🙏🏿🙏🏼🙏🏻🙏🏿

What about you?

Spiritual message for this Saturday (and the coming week):

🗡8 of knives: you have been through some hardships. Haven't we all? Let them make you someone you want to be around.

⚔️Six of knives: Sometimes you make life harder than it has to be. Why do you do that? Consider that and take it easy.

🧺Ace of baskets: It is great to have a mentor, but just ensure that mentor isn't secretly planning his or her own hostile takeover. Watch carefully. How do you feel when you are around this person? Is it a little too close?

♟️Stone: Obsidian. Obsidian helps repel bad vibes. You can do this with prayer and intention every day, with conscious decision-making.

👟👟Sylvan Esso is a great accompaniment to summer dancing and hot sun and the recognition of cosmic forces all around you. Feel that. 🎵

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Beauty is beauty. There are all kinds of misconceptions about who is closer to "God" or divine understanding, but sometimes a situation speaks for itself. Is it creating greater ease over time? Does it bring peace, or continue to feel like a blessing? Sense into your own inner knowing more often and you will quickly be able to trust what you know. Live according to your own blessings.

Peace be with you! 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🏽🫶🏽🫶🏻🙌🏼🙌🏾🙌🏾




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Love that Ray. He's got it all and humble, too!





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Please check out the new Ms. Wonderful Film Club podcast on Spotify.

The first episode is two female best friends, Rose and McGraw, from the mean, gritty mid-Atlantic sharing opinions about film and masculinity--this week, Fight Club (1999). We keep it tough enough.

This summer will be Hawke Summer, where we discuss the intersection of films with literature and Ethan Hawke. Dead Poets Society and beyond!

(We were both English majors in college, and one of us still teaches literature. Our 10-page papers were due at the same time. 🙄 📃📃📃)

Link is in bio or find us on . Have fun, learn a little, and get refreshed with this double-Virgo loving analysis. 😘 Original short alternate script at the end of every episode! 🤔

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June

New art, "The Calm Before the Storm."

Painting is fun.

What music are you listening to that feels in synch with where you are in your life right now?

I am listening a lot to this Tori Amos album from 2007. I feel like she captures something about the various shape-shifting of women, the hats we need to wear or roles we play as we change and grow, feeding off of how we are viewed by the outside world.

In general I have always found this artist, Tori, to be a priestess who took me to church--the church that spoke of human truths and deceptions and lies, and shared the feminine experience with love and wisdom and sass. And I could access this church any time through her music.

I honestly cannot imagine my life without this artist. She has been foundational to my understanding, my seeking, and ways of creating.

She inspires healers. I even met at her show in LA a couple of years ago. 😉

Who is your priestess? 🥰




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I loved this Wiser Than Me ( )podcast episode with Debbie Allen . She says kids need tough love and talks about a time she had to stand up to a hierarchy that was not respecting workers, which was a woman rather than a man.

I grew up watching television shows with a lot of black families--shows like Webster and The Jeffersons and A Different World and 227 and The Cosby Show. Those shows comforted me and showed me strong, funny, vibrant families and people. I also loooved Fame. These shows were significant because they helped me know that family and love and success didn't have a particular color, and I was shown the humanity of people with all different shades of skin.

I wonder if the algorithms we are subject to now in our entertainment and media outlets are ensuring young people have access to a diversity of thought and understanding from similarly good, strong stories. Seeing real people from all walks of life is a blessing we need in education, entertainment, and elsewhere. Yet algorithms may limit what someone sees or continues to watch and experience.

Wisdom has always been sought and appreciated, but it is usually not very popular--because it is not gained through any quick fix.

If you are not already listening to Wiser than Me and talking to women older than yourself about their life journeys and experiences, I hope this will inspire you to do so. Sometimes we take the dynamic and powerful women in our lives or in industries for granted and they remain overlooked--yet they are utter magicians (like Debbie Allen).

So glad this podcast exists.

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