What are colored bottles that we'll be using on Sept 7th at the Mirror of the Soul event?

 

I need to clarify something.
Our Sept 7th gathering—Mirror of the Soul: Full Corn Moon Experience—isn’t just another sound bath. (See post below)

Yes, you’ll hear the crystal bowls under the peak of Full Corn Moon.
But this gathering is about much more than sound.
It’s about meeting yourself in color, vibration, and truth.

Here’s how the color portion of the event works:
✨ Choose a Colour Mirrors bottle (from rows and rows of vibrant colors) that calls to you.
✨ That bottle becomes your companion during the sound bath—amplifying the vibration of the bowls and aligning you with its unique energy.
✨ Hold it close during the guided meditation, receive a written description of its meaning, and even ask it questions during the meditation.
✨ Together, everyone will place their bottles in a central area—forming a symbol that Jaci Daley will interpret as the group’s collective message.

🚫 This is not decoration.
Colour Mirrors is a global system of colored oil-and-water bottles, created in South Africa in 2001 and used around the world for self-awareness and transformation. Each color carries a vibration that reflects back your strengths, your growth, and the next step your soul is asking for.

This is part personal journey, part collective tapestry.
And it will be unforgettable under the Full Corn Moon. 🌕

 

✨ Please join us for this two-hour experience of sound, meditation, and intention—aligned with the moon’s peak energy.
💫 Choose your Colour Mirrors bottle, tune into the crystal bowls, and discover the messages waiting for your soul.
💞 Connect, align, and share in the energy of community.

📍 Elk Haven Wellness Center (community room), Brevard, NC
🕑 Sunday, Sept 7 | 2–4 pm
🎟️ Tickets: $25

👉 click here to reserve your spot (seating is limited to 20).

Photo credit: Colour Mirrors FB page

Mirror of the Soul: A Full Corn Moon Experience 🌕 (Sept 7, 2-4p)

 

Announcing Our First Ever in-person Resonance Circle!

📍 Elk Haven Wellness Center, Brevard, NC
🕑 Sunday, September 7 | 2–4 pm
🎟️ Tickets: $25 | Limited to 20 seats

Step into a two-hour gathering designed to awaken inner wisdom, attune your energy, and connect with kindred spirits under the Full Corn Moon.

You’ll experience:
✨ Color Mirror Bottle Work with Jaci Dayley — intentions + a living mandala of resonance
✨ Crystal Bowl Sound Bath with Elise Burrows — healing solfeggio frequencies
✨ Guided Meditation with Rachel Dickson — receiving messages from your higher self

👉 [Reserve Your Spot Here] with Paypal.

Seats are limited and expected to sell out. 
After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with full details (address, what to bring, and contact info).

Come with an open heart. Leave aligned, inspired, and connected.

Can't wait to see you there! 

 

Photo Credit: Image by Susana Cipriano from Pixabay

 

Growing Up in the Shadow of Focus on the Family

When I heard today’s headline, “James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died,” I felt relief. For me, it marked the end of an era that caused deep harm in my life and in the lives of so many others.

Why relief?

Because it is finished.

Dobson’s voice was one of the loudest in shaping my parents’ worldview and, by extension, my upbringing. His books, his radio program, his version of “family values”...all of it wove its way into our household. If you’ve watched my TEDxBrevard talk, you’ll recognize echoes of this influence in my story.

One memory in particular rose to the surface today. It was 1999. I had just come out to my parents, and we were locked in a painful back-and-forth of emails where scripture was wielded like a weapon. In those days, my parents often turned to Christian organizations like Focus on the Family for “biblical guidance” about how to handle their daughter being gay.

That week, I tuned into a Focus on the Family broadcast that was devoted entirely to “the problem of homosexuality.” It was gut-wrenching to hear, but I felt I had to keep listening…because I knew my parents were listening, too. I needed to be ready for the next barrage of questions and accusations, many of which I knew would come straight from Dobson’s script.

That’s the kind of impact James Dobson had...not just ideas, but real ripple effects in families like mine, shaping conversations that cut deeply into already fragile relationships.

And yet, I will give credit where it’s due. A sad and horrifying truth buried in the history of many church families is the very real devastation that pornography inflicted—especially when husbands and fathers chose to hide it and refused to take the steps that could have brought healing to themselves and their families. I witnessed firsthand the indignity and damage it caused. Dobson named that reality and attempted to do something about it. For that, I tip my hat. He got this one right—a battle still being waged in many evangelical circles today.

But alongside that, Dobson’s legacy is heavy with words that were hateful, divisive, and dehumanizing...about women, about marriage, about LGBTQ people, about reproductive rights, and more. Those words caused real harm.

So yes, today I feel relief. An era has ended.

It is finished.

 

Photo Credit: Image by riyan hidayat from Pixabay

 

 

 

What if the headline read: “Wild-hearted rebel seen talking to trees again?"

What if you got to write the news of your own life?
That’s where this week’s Field Notes for the Soul begins.

Every Wednesday, I send out a quiet little ripple...part reflection, part remembering, part nudge to stay wild-hearted and true.
Sometimes it’s a story. Sometimes it’s a practice.
Always, it’s an invitation to come back to your own knowing.

This week’s note is all about rewriting the inner headlines…
and remembering we get to shape the story.

Want it in your inbox? 
👉 [click here to sign-up]

After signing up, be sure to click the confirmation email so it finds you.

 

 

Photo Credit: Image by Nature Nomad from Pixabay

 

New: Guided Meditations for Coming Home to Yourself

 

In a world that moves fast, pushes hard, and rarely pauses, the most radical thing we can do is come back to ourselves.

I’m thrilled to share a new offering that’s been quietly growing behind the scenes...
a collection of 5-minute guided meditations created with care and intention to help you reconnect with your breath, your body, and your truth.

Each meditation is just $5.55, downloadable, and yours to keep...so you can return to them anytime you need a reset.

Whether you're feeling scattered, overstretched, or simply longing for a moment of stillness...these meditations are little anchors. Invitations to listen inward. To soften. To return.

Here’s what’s available now:

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🌿 Let the River Reconnect You

A 5-minute guided meditation for softening, releasing, and remembering your natural rhythm.
Let the sound of river water and gentle guidance bring you back to center — perfect for quiet mornings, barefoot walks, or when life feels loud.
🎧 Includes river sounds + closing affirmation.
👉 Get the meditation »

 

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🌀 Return to the Wisdom Within

Your body holds an ancient knowing. This 5-minute practice helps you tune back in.
Through breath, sensation, and gentle prompts, you’ll remember: You have a compass. You were born with it.
🎧 Best with headphones and a quiet moment.
👉 Download here »

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🔒 The Sacred “No”

A 5-minute guided meditation to reclaim your boundaries and your energy.
Your No is not selfish. It’s sacred. This meditation is a soft but clear reminder that honoring your limits is a form of love...for yourself and the world around you.
🎧 Includes reflection + breathwork.
👉 Access now »

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🏡 Coming Home to Yourself (Free)

This one’s for everyone.
Even if you’ve felt too far gone, too tired, or too disconnected — there’s a place inside you that never left.
This short meditation is a gentle doorway back to the part of you that remembers how to come home.
✨ Completely free. No strings. Just presence.
👉 Listen for free»

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If you're new to meditation or unsure where to begin — start here.
You don’t need to be perfect or practiced.
You just need a few quiet minutes and a willingness to feel what’s real.

Because sometimes, the next step in your healing isn’t a big one.
It’s a breath.
It’s a pause.
It’s five minutes of remembering you belong to yourself.

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💛 More coming soon. But for now, may these meditations meet you where you are — and gently bring you home.

With heart,
Rachel

Photo Credit: Image by Rene Tittmann from Pixabay

 

 

 

07/31/25: What makes you feel?

 

I was asked this question some time ago...and it’s been in the back of my mind every since. This is a heart-opening question. One that makes you pause and think about things that brought you instant joy or instantly caused tears to well up in your eyes without explanation.

Feelings like these are uncontrollable. They just happen.

It’s a “this” happens...then “that” response instantaneously arrives. Like riding a roller coaster...you’re being thrashed about...up...then down...then up...then down...and the whole time your body is responding in realtime.

You walk into an art museum...and at the end of the hall is hanging one of Claude Monet’s original water lily paintings. It’s big. Something like 4 feet by 6 feet. And it takes your breath away because you realize the colors are different than what you’d seen depicted in pictures. Which then of course means...you’re looking at...and in the presence of...an original water lily painting by Monet

You get emotional...tears well up in your eyes...and you can’t explain why.

This is what it means to feel. And these are examples of things that make you feel.

When it comes to listening to your body’s conversations with you...what I mean to say here is...when your body is speaking from a soul level to you...these are the things that carry the most meaning in life on earth. The unexplainable...yet SO FULL of knowing that you wouldn’t think of questioning the truths that lay deep within that experience. You just know somewhere deep inside you that this experience was filled to overflowing with meaning and truth and infallibility.

These moments...cannot be described with simple words. There are layers upon layers upon layers of truth and knowing that a simple word cannot contain. And the emotion these moments cultivates is impalpable.

Some more examples...witnessing the birth of a child, the arrival of someone you dearly love at the airport after being absent for too long, a sunrise over the Blue Ridge Mountains, the sound of thousands of gallons of water pouring over a waterfall where you can feel it in the air...and can feel it in your bones.

Maybe now you understand what I’m speaking of here. The deep deep deeply meaningful experiences of being human with a soul. Those moments when something outside of you...where something almost celestial transcends into your personal spaces and touches your heart.

So I’ll ask you again.

What makes you feel?

Photo Credit: Henry Mowry from mowryjournal dot com Sunrise over the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 

 

 

Wholeness is my Rebellion!

 

Not hustle. Not burnout. Not overexertion to prove I’m enough.
Wholeness.

The kind that comes from listening to my body.
From telling the truth to myself.
From choosing rest, peace, and clarity…even when the world rewards the opposite.
And from showing up...with every part of myself.

I made a shirt to wear this reminder out loud.
Because in a world that feeds on disconnection, choosing to be whole is radical.

This is for the wild hearts, the soft souls, the everyday rebels who know that coming home to yourself is the most powerful move you can make.

Shirt samples just arrived, and I finally got to put it on.
And guess what? They’re officially available now just $16.07.

If “Wholeness is my rebellion” speaks to something true in you…
you can wear it too.

Click here to grab yours.

and...I Love this Forest Green color!