A True Miracle Happened For Val in Nov 2006...

Meet Valerie Stillman... As a Cincinnati Ohio native and a recent Boulder Colorado transplant, I spent the better part of my youth seeking validation for something I felt inside of me but didn’t seem to have words for or a vocabulary to support. I watched the world of traditional medicine unfold all around me, family members accepting surgery and prescription medications, without question, for that which ailed them. I was not excluded.

From the age of 15 or so I was getting, on a regular basis, very debilitating migraine headaches. And around the age of 20 I was prescribed a miracle drug that gave me some temporary relief from the headaches. As thrilled as I was to have some sense of relief from the headaches I was not happy about my dependency on this “magic pill” to make the pain go away. I knew there was more to healing than what traditional medicine was giving me.

When I moved to Colorado in 2003 I found myself surrounded by a community that finally put words to everything I knew in my heart to be true.  I was validated in the truth that we can heal ourselves! This began my quest... learning many different modalities including Reiki, intuitive healing and energy work finally leading me to The Journey.  In one process I was able to uncover the cellular memory that stored the cause of the migraine headaches.

A true miracle happened that day in November of 2006…haven’t had a migraine since then!  Feeling so empowered by this work I dedicated myself to sharing this process.  I completed the entire Practitioner’s Program earning my accreditation in December 2008 and have been working at the North American Journey Office since July of 2007.

In my free time I have indulged in all that the Colorado lifestyle has to offer.  My husband, Scott, and I enjoy hiking, kayaking, riding bikes and backpacking in the summer and in the winter we live for backcountry skiing and cozy nights by the fire with a good book and a cuddle with our kitty.

As my personal journey continues to unfold, I am blown away every day at the Truth and Grace that gifts my life by gently connecting with people just like YOU.  There is immense Gratitude here for everything YOU have contributed to my growth!

Namaste

I've been asked to share my experience of hosting the New Beginnings Cleanse call and any awarenesses that came to light during the week. And when I start to recall the evening of my call, "cleansing the energetic body", what I remember first was my frantic state of mind in which I entered the call. What none of you know is that up until seconds before we went live on the call we were having major technical difficulties. So much that we weren't sure how I was going to participate and co-host the call. So needless to say, Skip and I didn't have much of a chance to discuss the particulars of the call before we went live. I went into the evening with an expectation (first mistake : ) ) that there would be some amount of interaction and a conversation that would take place allowing me to naturally "tell my story". I would be looking to him to ask the questions of what brought me to the Journey and my experience with it thus far.

Well, because things weren't going perfectly smoothly when the evening started he gave me full reign of the call almost immediately, "turning the call over to Val now". And in retrospect, when I was speaking of the call afterwards, I found myself in judgment of the call and blaming Skip for not engaging me in a conversation which had been the plan, according to my understanding. And when I found myself sort of "alone" on the call I panicked. I knew the meditation that I wanted to share – that was the easy part. The difficult part for me was convincing myself in that moment that anyone would even want to hear my story. Without Skip's probing and asking me to share about myself it was easier to by-pass that part and dive right into the process planned for the evening's call. And yet afterwards I sat in judgment of the call not being substantial enough, long enough, good enough, etc and wanting to blame Skip for his lack of participation as the reason that I wasn't my best! How interesting.

And so, this week I've been sitting with and noticing how else I play this game. When else have I tried to blame others for me not living up to my potential? And how have I played small by belittling myself, my story, my ability to reach out and touch others? And then I notice how everything shifts when I look at this from another perspective. What if Skip handed the call over to me so quickly because he had complete confidence in me? What if things worked out the way they did because on some level the call needed to be a shorter and more direct one for those listening in that night? What if I just let it all go and trusted that Grace was working through me in exactly the way in which was the highest and best? And what I find is that there are lessons and awakenings in both perspectives. The gifts of this week have been immense. The biggest gift has been the ongoing consciousness of it all... staying awake to what's here for me in this moment, and the next and the next...