Oshun Energy Medicine

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THIS!!

Don’t get fooled, folks. Texass is RIFE with problems and poor infrastructure, and bigotry, misogyny and all kinds of unfriendly.

As far as wide open for opportunity? Only if your whole family consists of straight white Christian males….women and POC have second class citizenship, and will have their voting power throttled, and women have no bodily autonomy, and w whine will have the pleasant opportunity to be Bible banged and harangued by the most hateful people on the planet…but sure…LOTS of “OPPORTUNITY” 🙄🙄🤢

America's next economic powerhouse takes shape in Texas as companies abandon the Bay Area in California.

A new report shows Texas attracted 230 corporate relocations between 2018 and 2025, with Dallas, Austin and Houston leading the charge.

Meanwhile, California suffered the nation's steepest corporate losses, with more than 160 companies moving their headquarters out of the San Francisco Bay Area, citing taxes, labor regulations and soaring costs.

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Motivation and Affirmations


“I AM grateful for everything and everyone that brings me closer to my goals” The I AM App Affirmations

I love to find practices and hacks that help me be more productive and more positive, because staying positive and grateful helps me to have a positive and productive day. The I AM app has helped me keep positive affirmations top of mind and to remind me during the day with a positive thought to focus on during the day. My days are busy and varied in a very different way with my transition out of primary anesthesia practice and into full time work in the energy, intuition and coaching world. It’s been challenging to not be overwhelmed or discouraged as I work to create a new and unique path for my life. What I have found is that if I maintain a positive and optimistic mindset, my challenges are more easily mastered, and my day shines a little bit brighter, and I make significant progress toward my daily and weekly goals.

What tools are you using to remain positive and focused on your goals?

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Phenomenal Women


“Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”
― Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama is one of my all-time favorite wise, practical working women, who served as my next role model, after my amazing groundbreaking mother. I eagerly absorbed the words and credo of Michelle Obama, who was a role model for me in addition to being America’s First African American First Lady AND a working mom of two amazing young women. The story of how she picked her areas and interests to champion as First Lady were intriguing and inspiring. Her championing of young, unsung American designers was life changing for them. But the thing that changed my life was her sharing how she rose before her family to find time to work out and take care of herself before immersing herself in the requirements of her job as First Mom to Sasha and Malia, wife and support to the President, and First Lady to the US. Years ago, that statement of her approach to making exercise an early and vital part of her day changed my approach to my new job in a new city, and a new way of being.

Who is an amazing woman who has inspired you and changed how you have done things, and thereby improved your life and overall attitude?

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Elder Wisdom


"The most powerful woman was never the youngest.” Pamela Sylvan, Elder and Author

The sad reality is that we live in a culture and country that glorifies youth, while disdaining age, and encourage masking any signs of aging. But there is a very important and true adage that says, “With age comes wisdom.” Indigenous cultures across the globe subscribe to that fact and venerate the individuals who have reached elder status in their communities. Being an Elder has not as much to do with age as it does with having lived a life of adventure and breadth of experiences. That vast wealth of experiences permits one to make decisions from a wellspring of perspective. It’s not an automatic status conferred by age, but by wisdom gained in the living. I have very recently had the experience of learning from and enjoying my experience being with some incredible women who have seen 50 years of life and experience and emerged wise and invigorated for the next chapter of their lives during my stay in Santa Fe for the Quest 2026 conference.

While in Santa Fe I also had the distinct pleasure of visiting the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. Ms. O’Keefe is a personal favorite; I’ve got four of her prints in my home from various stages in her painting periods. Her career spanned a remarkable 70 years. She was a pioneer in her career as an artist, with the originality of her approach to life as a woman, and her genius and creativeness as an artist. Her life fully typifies a plaque that is on the wall of my dining room “Well behaved women rarely make history.” She was an icon and an Elder. The women I celebrated with and learned from in Santa Fe are wise women and Elders. And they are not rarities!

Who are the Elders in your life and community that you could learn from and whose experiences could enrich your life?

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Let the Universe Drive!


“F* How! It’s the Universe’s job to figure out the how. Your job is to do what you love.”
En-May Mangels

This is a paean to the OCD micromanagers everywhere (like I used to be in my previous persona as an anesthesiologist). While thinking through all of the options, and being in control of as many of the possibilities as you can is a laudable trait in many professions ( like anesthesiology – where the credo is VIGILANCE), sometimes to get to where you are going, you have to loosen the death grip you have on the wheel and the clutch. You must surrender to a power greater than yourself for both guidance and assistance. While this is anathema to many of us OCD control freaks (I’m reformed!), sometimes it is exactly what you need to do to get to where you need to go next. Thus, that very pithy, yet accurate statement and exhortation from my amazing and prescient teacher En May.

How are you gripping the wheel of your joy ride too tight, and maybe not allowing the Universe to work your magic in your life? Sometimes, the Universe has a panoramic view that we humans will never have and a far better idea of the best course to follow than we plodders who rely on GPS to find our way.

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Be Your Authentic Self


The vibration of being who you are and doing what you love is magnetic. You will align everything you need in your life with that energy”
Gregg Braden

Authenticity has a frequency and vibration. Like many things, it’s all about the energy and vibration. It turns out that being true to who you are, and living from that place is both magnetic and powerful. You tend to attract more of what you want by simply being who you are. Profound and simple! And exquisitely uncomplicated since you can be who you are and be happy, and benefit in the process of living. Cue my theme song for this, “Be Who You Are (Real Magic)” by Jon Batiste.

Are you living in a way that is true to who you are?

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Native American Women Protecting the Environment
I want to highlight the work of Native American and Indigenous women for their tireless work in conservation and protection of the environment. In my research, I discovered the work and names of numerous women who have undertaken this work. I am highlighting two of many notable activists and advocates carrying on this essential work to preserve and protect the only planet we have. One of the best known recent strong advocates of both preservation of the environment and native culture is Secretary Deb Haaland.

Secretary Haaland was the first Native American to serve as the US secretary of Interior, and second to serve in the Cabinet. She is a 35th generation New Mexican, who has been a working mother, a small businesswoman, and served in the US Congress. Her struggles and resilience are mirrors of the challenges facing many women, of many ethnic identities and origins, as they strive to support themselves and their families, complete necessary education, and triumph over challenges like homelessness and addiction. Her family also was impacted by the boarding schools enforced on so many Native tribal nations by the government to fragment the community and strip culture. Not only did she work to address these wrongs, and the derogatory messaging around native peoples, but she spearheaded many initiatives around conservation, and honoring native land and animal management practices. 1

Indigenous and First Nations peoples are the original OG environmentalists, because their varied cultures were focused on learning from and living in harmony with the environment, taking only what was needed with the awareness that there must be resources and animals to sustain their communities and numbers so that there was in turn food for the human communities to harvest in the future. Reverence for the earth as the provider of all that was needed for life was in some form an element of First Nations, and, indeed most indigenous cultures.

As North America was colonized, and “developed” these cultural mores, which were focused on being a good steward of the resources and environment, were abandoned in favor of consumption and extraction. Fast forward to now and focusing on the effects of climate change on indigenous communities and cultures worldwide, we see them bearing an undue burden of climate change and extremes in weather.

“Indigenous peoples are on the front lines of climate change. Government-forced relocation has made Native tribes more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Tribes were forced onto the least desirable lands by settlers — in the US, they’ve lost 99% of their historical lands — and now they’re watching as those lands succumb to climate change from extreme heat to reduced rainfall to flooding. Forty percent of federally recognized tribes live in Alaska, where warming temperatures and melting sea ice threaten their way of life.”2

Secretary Haaland and notable Native American Activist such as Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation) have been vocal advocates for protection of Indigenous culture and lands. Notably, Houska was a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a nonprofit committed to educating the public about the harms of stereotyping and promoting positive representation of Native Americans in the public sphere. 3

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Haaland
2) https://www.arcadia.com/blog/indigenous-climate-activists
3) https://www.ted.com/speakers/tara_houska

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In addition to being one of my favorite poets and writers, Maya Angelou lived a life both varied and tragic, with personal trauma and tragedies, and triumphs as varied as becoming the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco, to becoming a professional dancer to singer, actor, civil rights activist. She worked as a composer, writing for singer Roberta Flack,[note 11, Wikipedia]] and composing movie scores. She wrote articles, short stories, TV scripts, documentaries, autobiographies, and poetry. She produced plays and was named a visiting professor at several colleges and universities, where
she taught a variety of subjects that reflected her interests, including philosophy, ethics, theology, science, theater, and writing.1)

For me, Maya Angelou is an ever-growing discovery because the more I know about her, her life and work, the more I find to admire and emulate. She is my inspiration during the low times, and her words always encourage me to view challenging times with perspective and balance and never allow the tough times to defeat me. Her Wikipedia page, and bibliography are truly astounding!

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou -78

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Where can you be more courageous in your life?

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"Well behaved women rarely make history "

Wangari Maathi was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which she founded in 1977, on the premise that village women could improve the environment by planting trees to serve both as a fuel source , and slow the process of deforestation. By the early 2000’s, the organization had planted more than 30 million trees, and inspired similar movements in Tanzania Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe. 1

The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Dr. Maathi was the Chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and the University of Nairobi and won the Nobel Prize for her environmental and democratic activism in 2004. Her work was often considered both unwelcome and subversive in Kenya, where her advocacy and activism work was frowned on for stepping far outside traditional gender roles. 2

Her life and accomplishments, like those of many other women pioneers, activists and leaders, more than lives up to the quote at the beginning of this post, which is also on a plaque that hangs on a wall in my dining room, both as a reminder and credo.

1) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wangari-Maathai

2) https://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai/

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