The sense of being stared at.

 

 I woke up last night (as I usually do) and got up to let my pups outside. I think it was around 4:30a.

As soon as I opened the door, I felt that feeling and looked up into the forest.

There they were...alert and very attentive to what I and my Chi and Toy Fox terrier were up to.

Laying pristinely on the ground no more than 40 feet away from where I was standing were three very small deer. Necks all stretched and those giant ears radaring the air.

Is funny how we can feel when we’re being stared at. There’s a whole science to this...see the book titled “The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Unexplained Powers of the Human Mind” by Rupert Sheldrake. This fascinating world of invisible connections is explained in full detail here.

But back to my story, I didn’t want these deer to run off. After all I was only going to be a few minutes then lights out and back to bed...I wished the same for the deer.

So I didn’t stare at them since I knew they’d feel the energy this would direct at them and they’d surely bolt. Instead, I took quick glances and wondered what they were thinking as they intently watched Pieces and Willis move about before they came back inside.

Both my pups have lost most of their hearing...so I suspected they wouldn’t even notice these three little deer laying on the ground nearby. But I wasn’t sure if they might smell them or if they too would feel the sense of being stared at and glance back in their direction.

None of that happened. We went back inside...the larger of the three deer stood up so silently...but none ran off at least before I closed the door and turned off the light.

I was kind of hoping they’d still be laying there when I went back outside this morning...but I knew better. I knew they most likely bolted as soon as we were out of sight.

I wonder so many things about the wild. Like how quick movement can be a threat..as is the sense of being stared at. I would imagine if you’re seen running off by a potential predator you’re more likely to be chased than if you sit still in the hopes that you’re not seen to begin with.

What a blessing it was to experience this last night...and to be reminded that we live in the wild. We’re surrounded by it. And somehow that’s very comforting to me.


Carry on.




#wildhearted

Photo Credit: Image by Jeanine from Pixabay

 

 

 

 

The Field We Created

 

 

 

Yesterday we gathered.

And a beautiful circle of open hearts willing to slow down, listen deeply, and explore what lives beneath the noise and chaos of daily life came together in our first Wildhearted Gathering of 2026.

There are moments in community when something subtle yet unmistakable shifts. You can feel it in the room...in the stillness between breaths, in the honesty of what’s spoken, in the way strangers begin to soften toward one another.

That happened.

We explored color.
We listened to and felt the vibration.
We practiced witnessing our thoughts rather than becoming entangled in them.
We remembered that awareness itself is powerful medicine.

And perhaps most importantly — we remembered that we are not alone in this work.

To everyone who showed up so fully: thank you. Your willingness created the field. Your openness shaped the experience. What unfolded was because of many people participating.

These gatherings are about subtle recalibration. About returning to zero point. About coming home to something steady and wise within ourselves. About remembering our deep inner knowing.

The high vibration lingers because truth resonates.

More circles will come. More space will open.

For now, I’m simply grateful.

With love and respect to every soul who stepped into that room.

Much more to come. 

Namaste.

 

Something in You Is Ready to Come Back Together: March 1st

 

A Wildhearted Spiritual Gathering | Sunday, March 1

ReWeaving: Mending the Divide Between Soul-Self and Earth-Self

📅   Sunday, March 1 | 2 PM– 4 PM
📍     Wellness and Movement Center, 1171 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, NC
🎟    $25 | Limited to 30 guests

Guides: Rachel Dickson & Jaci Daley

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Reserve Your Spot

Seating is limited to keep this gathering intimate.

👉This event has passed.

After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with event details and a link to your FREE 12-page Mindful Meditation Guide & Journal PDF.

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Why Gather Now

We’ve been taught to fear our instincts, doubt our inner voice, or exile the parts of ourselves that once protected us.

Restoration doesn’t come from rejecting these parts—it comes from safely exploring the spiritual intelligence we were born with, honoring why we set parts of it aside, and inviting it back into daily life.

This Wildhearted gathering is a gentle, sensory-rich return to awareness. It’s an invitation to reconnect your ancient soul wisdom with the grounded, human intelligence of lived experience.

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What We’ll Explore

• Sound Weaving: Layered soundscapes of crystal bowls and songs of the Blue Whale and carefully crafted frequencies to open the body-mind, soften the inner field, and recalibrate your cells.

• Zero Point Teaching: Discover the quiet inner meeting place where our body-mind and heart-mind can work as one. Learn to rest in awareness without needing to fix or change anything.

• Colour Mirror Wisdom Bottles: Select a bottle intuitively from a table of 36. Its energy and color will guide your reflection, insight, and inner journey. (You’ll be amazed!)

• Guided Inner Awareness: Gentle meditation and grounding exercises to reconnect body, mind, and earth.

• Integration & Reflection: A safe space to share insights and root the experience into daily life.

• Orange Dragon Blessing: An invocation of elemental energy to support unity, community, and belonging.

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A Transformational Experience

The orchestrated soundscape created for this gathering, including the enchanting songs of Blue and Humpback whales blended with crystal bowls, is designed to guide healing, reflection, and deep presence. Every time this experience is shared in a Wildhearted Gathering, the results are astonishing: calm, clarity, insight, and a renewed sense of inner guidance.

This is accessible, nervous-system friendly, and requires no prior meditation or spiritual experience.

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Who This Is For

• Anyone craving connection, insight, and presence

• Ages 12+

• Fully accessible location with parking, entrance, and restrooms

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💡 Why this matters now:
The Colour Mirror Bottle 12’s energy—Heaven on Earth—merges the above and below, the ancient and present, soul and human. This gathering is a safe doorway to experience it firsthand. As this will be our theme.

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See you there!

Photo Credit: Image by Thomas Martin from Pixabay

 

 

 

 

It's hot tea, hot coffee and hot soup season ya'll!

Had some fun today creating two new mugs in the wildhearted collection. 

So proud of this lil blue bird painting "mugged" on the left and the abstract painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the right.

Songbirders...Mr. Blue Bird here is for you.

Wildhearted wanderers...this coolio abstract of the Blue Ridge mountains is for you nature loving souls.

Original art by Rach on your morning coffee mug...feel that wild vibe in every drop. 
(Is the most fun if you read that in a British accent).

 

Click here to check em out these new mugs in the Wildhearted Shop. 

 

 

 

#wildhearted

 

Belief!

 

“We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.

In the instant of our first breath, we are infused with the single greatest force in the universe the power to translate the possibilities of our minds into the reality of our world.  To fully awaken our power, however, requires a subtle change in the way we think of ourselves in life, a shift in belief.

Just the way sound creates visible waves as it travels through a droplet of water, our “belief waves” ripple through the quantum fabric of the universe to become our bodies and the healing, abundance, and peace—or disease, lack, and suffering—that we experience in life.  And just the way we tune our beliefs to preserve or destroy all that we cherish, including life itself.

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match out beliefs, we’re limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

...we are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.”

Excerpt from the most profound and life-altering book by Gregg Braden.

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief—Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits.

I experienced one of those record screech moments this morning while reading this and the text below from page 116 of this very book.  But here’s the big reveal!

“There’s a central belief that guides our lives, and it does so in ways that we may not even be aware of or think about. 

You can discover what that belief is for yourself by answering a single question— the Great Question—below. 

The way that you do so reveals the truth of a powerful subconscious belief that lies at the heart of your existence.  The question is this:

Do you believe that there is one source for everything that happens in the world, or do you believe that there are two opposite and opposing forces—good and evil—one that ‘likes’ you and one that doesn’t?”

ooooooh! Much to ponder here with this question.  If you know me...you’ll know I love a great question. This one though...this one is a game-changer!

Gregg goes into much more detail in the book as to reasons why the answer to this question plays out in our experience of life, health, relationships, and abundance.  And please know...this isn’t a question about faith...this is a question about belief!

Indeed shattering the paradigm of false limits. Thank you Gregg Braden for challenging what we believe!

#wildhearted

 

 

Photo Credit: highonleconte.com and winter caretaker Wildcat/Bert

 

Writing as Ritual: 40 min Live Zoom Guided Practice, Tue, Feb 17, 6:30p

 

Writing as Ritual: Turning Up the Volume of Your Inner Voice

5 Gentle Ways Through Writer's Block
A 40-minute guided writing practice (live on Zoom) with Rachel Dickson
Tuesday, February 17 at 6:30pm EST | Live on Zoom | $10

Writing isn’t always about producing something.

Sometimes… it’s about listening.

In this gentle gathering, we’ll explore writing as ritual — a practice of quieting the noise, softening into presence, and reconnecting with the inner voice beneath the surface.

This is not a traditional writing class.
It’s a soul-centered reset.

Together, we’ll move through simple ways to:

• make space for what’s true

• settle the body and mind

• turn up the volume of your inner knowing

• follow the words that are waiting for you

No writing experience is needed.
Just bring something to write with… and your honest presence.

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What You’ll Receive

✨ A guided writing ritual you can return to anytime
🌿 Gentle prompts to move through creative stuckness
💛 A quiet, supportive space to hear yourself again

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Details

Date: Tuesday, February 17
Time: 6:30pm EST
Length: 40 minutes
Location: Live on Zoom
Cost: $10

Reserve your spot and receive your Zoom link + passcode after payment.

 

“Registration closed — see you next time”

 

 

 

 

 

After the Ice, the Exhale: Notes from Icepocalypse 2026

We survived Icepocalypse 2026...Phase I.
(freezing rain, sleet, ice, snow)

Now here we go into Phase II.
(wind and frigid temps)

What a day it was yesterday...the days before being full of preparedness.  
Yesterday felt like a siege was happening all around us.  
Our places of safety and rest...our homes being tested...trees being pushed to their limits by layer-upon-layer of freezing rain.

The feeling returned from my memories of Helene… “when will this end?” Come on!

Well...it did finally end.  As all things do.  
And then oddly the air warmed up here right after the end of the storm. And then it sounded as if it was raining again. But it was all the ice melting from the trees and from every surface it had frozen to.

Like a shedding.  

It’s such an odd feeling that it seemed the elements were voluntold to engage in warfare with one another. Like there was fury and anger in the air (um yes) and the elements had no choice but to respond to the energy of it.

I did in fact recognize this in the late hours of Saturday and into the morning on Sunday. The thought occurred to me...”If we can send love energy to one another...and into water...then why can’t we send love energy into the air?”

So I did.  
(If you’re not familiar with the “sling-shot love out into the world meditation” learn more here)

There’s no way to really know whether or not my intention had any effect whatsoever. But...I’m choosing to believe it did...and the severity and intensity of this storm lessened.

It was indeed one way that I was able to stay present and aware...working with the energies in the sky and the water in the atmosphere before things intensified.  I had never worked with the air in this way before...and well...what a magical experience to send love into these two elements...air and water.

This morning...the trees look like they’ve been thoroughly cleaned. Washed. Renewed.
The pines are so green and vibrant. And the sun is shining beautifully!

There’s a relief in the air today.  An out-breath.  I can feel it and I know you can too.
Cheers to everyone for checking on your people and remembering to stay present and mindful and aware.

Continue to stay warm. Love and light especially to those of you who are still without power.
Here in WNC we still have wind and cold temps to contend with.

Hmmm, I hadn’t thought about sending love into the wind until this moment.  
I know what I’ll be doing next.
Stay safe. Stay warm.
Namaste.


#wildhearted




Photo Credit: highonleconte dot com