Wow! What a year 2025 has been. Year of the snake indeed!
So much shedding of what no longer fits into our lives...and into our world.
Onward and upward we go into the new year of the Fire Horse and 2026!
Wishing you all...my Wildhearted friends...a most wonderful and glorious New Year!
Cheers,
Rachel
For most of human history, we never saw ourselves as a whole planet in the mirror.
We looked up at the sky.
We tracked the stars.
We told
stories about the heavens and reached for gods and mysteries beyond
the clouds.
But we never saw home reflected back to us.
That changed only recently — astonishingly recently — when the first photograph of Earth from space was captured in 1946. The image was grainy and imperfect, but it stirred something in human awareness. For the first time, we glimpsed ourselves not as the center of everything, but as inhabitants of a small, luminous world moving through an endless cosmos.
A living ship.
A blue and white miracle afloat in the dark.
Since then, astronauts have given a name to the profound inner shift that often occurs when they look back at Earth from space. In the 1980s this experience was named, the Overview Effect — a cognitive and emotional transformation that arises when the mind is confronted with the whole planet at once.
Many astronauts describe it the same way.
They cry.
Because something ancient and deeply spiritual awakens inside us.
From orbit, Earth has no borders.
No flags.
No
ideologies etched into the land.
There is only a fragile sphere, wrapped in an atmosphere so thin it has been compared to the skin of an apple — a delicate membrane protecting all known life from the vast hostility of space.
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and later founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, spoke of a spontaneous spiritual awakening upon seeing Earth from space. Others, like astronaut Ron Garan, have called it a great awakening — a visceral realization that everything we argue over, consume, destroy, and defend exists within an exquisitely thin shell of life.
Earth is constantly rotating.
The space station is constantly
moving.
To be in orbit is to be in motion — flying over
continents, oceans, storms, and seasons again and again.
Astronauts describe watching lightning flash inside massive storm systems like paparazzi cameras going off in the night. They see auroras ripple like luminous curtains. They observe atmospheric gases glowing against the blackness of space. The sun rises and sets every 90 minutes, no longer backdropped by blue sky, but by infinite darkness.
Eye candy for the soul.
So mesmerizing, in fact, that astronauts have a word for it:
Earthgazing.
During moments of free time aboard
the International Space Station, many are found simply floating at
the windows, watching our planet turn beneath them.
Just witnessing.
Problems that once felt enormous suddenly shrink.
Conflicts
reveal their absurdity.
The illusion of separateness dissolves
into thin air.
Ron Garan famously said that from space it becomes clear that humanity is “living a lie” — treating the planet as a subsidiary to the global economy instead of recognizing that planetary health is the foundation upon which society and economy depend. From orbit, climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss don’t appear as isolated issues. They appear as symptoms of disconnection.
Distance, it seems, changes everything. The God-view...if you will.
Perhaps humanity’s greatest mistake isn’t moral or technological, but one of perspective.
Maybe we don’t need more progress.
Maybe we need more
distance.
More ways of seeing ourselves whole.
Which raises a quieter, more intimate question:
It doesn’t require leaving Earth.
It doesn’t require
rockets or space stations.
A spiritual experience isn’t about escaping the body or transcending the world — it’s about remembering our place within it. When we encounter something vast, beautiful, or alive beyond our ability to control, the ego softens. The mind widens. The heart instantly recognizes belonging.
The Overview Effect is not reserved for astronauts.
It is a
human capacity.
Every time we glimpse the whole instead of the fragment…
Every
time we feel ourselves as part of a living system…
Every time
awe interrupts our certainty…
Something shifts.
We remember that Earth is not a resource.
It is not a
backdrop.
It is not a possession.
It is home.
And from within the heart of the Overview Effect, something deeper
becomes clear:
we live within a unified field — one people,
sharing one planet, held by Nature’s vast and intricate
intelligence.
And when we take in the sheer depth
and vastness of the cosmos —
with our eyes, our bodies, our
hearts —
something undeniable is felt.
If you’re interested in
learning more, I invite you to watch the 19-minute short film
Overview,
which explores this phenomenon through interviews with five
astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect.
👉
Click here
to watch on YouTube.
You can also explore historical images of Earth — from the first photographs in 1946 to the present — in NASA’s archive at NASA.gov.
Photo Credit: NASA dot gov | Entire Western Hemisphere visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft (12/22/1968) | NASA ID: AS08-16-2593
Tonight, I imagine Santa opening a gift
and finding not a
material thing...but light.
Not the blinding kind.
The quiet kind.
The kind that
remembers your name
even when you’ve forgotten the power of it yourself.
May this season meet you gently.
May the light you’ve been
carrying...often invisibly, often bravely
be reflected back to
you in small, unexpected ways.
To the Wildhearted Tribe, and to all who wander here:
may you
feel less alone.
May you rest without apology.
May wonder
slip in through the cracks
and remind you that magic is still
here
in breath, in kindness, in the way light always finds its way in.
There is a gift waiting for you this Christmas.
Not something
to earn or unwrap,
but the soft remembering
that you are
already enough,
already held,
already luminous.
From my wild heart to yours
with love and light,
today,
and always.
💓 Rachel Dickson
There’s a special kind of magic when we invite the forest, mountains, rivers, and sky into our lives. When we pause, watch, and breathe… the healing begins.
About a year and a half ago, I started filming sacred spaces in the Blue Ridge Mountains of WNC. These moments have forever changed my life — and I want to share that magic with you.
RDicksonOutdoors is a space for anyone who loves nature, seeks peace, or wants to lift their energetic vibration. These videos are created to calm the mind, heal the body, and nourish the soul.
Come sit with the rivers, forests, and mountains. Your moment of stillness awaits.
#NatureAsMedicine
#WildheartedLife
#SitByTheRiver
#RdicksonOutdoors
#HealingVibes
Photo Credit: RdicksonOutdoors on Youtube, Sit by the River
Something perplexing arrived in a dream. In many ways it was confirmation for what I already knew in my bones. But I appeared in this dream carrying hope...that things had changed. I returned to see if repair had occurred...and it hadn’t. Please note here...what I’m about to say may be triggering.
I regularly have dreams where I find myself on the campus of a christian college I attended (Northland Baptist Bible College). Oddly, it’s not just me who has these returning dreams. I’ve had conversations with others who also have what we now call “Northland Dreams.”
Interestingly, every time I have one of these dreams it’s slightly different than before. So this tells me NBBC is simply a setting my subconscious is choosing to show me something. This one was very different that the others. It went like this.
The setting was the beginning of a semester, where attending classes...on day one...was all about syllabus and ground rules and guidelines and seating and the like. I found myself in the back of a large classroom where everyone was orienting themselves to the room and what was unfolding here.
I remember wondering about dress code...if I was going to have to wear a skirt. (And of course in this dream I was...wearing a skirt...because it’s what you did as a female at christian college). A girl approached me (as if on cue) and said...would you like one of these? In her hand was a piece of forest green fleece fabric.
And I said, “What's that for?”
And she said, “This is to go over your legs, because the boys have been looking under the desks up girls skirts.”
I was furious!! Why
are they still getting this so wrong!
Clearly...
I’d come back here to
see if the system had changed.
And they were still asking the
wrong people to carry the burden
of misplaced truth.
It’s quite a magical thing when you take your present reality knowing self into a dream setting. And from within the dream you respond based upon this knowing instead of past programming. It’s an empowering experience when you shift from what you used to do...and instead respond from your awakened knowing.
In this instance...
Survival asks: How
do I adapt?
Awakening
asks: Why the
hell should I?
We all know because we’ve experienced moments like this. Where in an instant something undignified arrives because an inner truth had been violated. And over time...this violated truth demands to be named. It starts as a whispering voice and grows into a roaring lion demanding attention.
There comes a moment when the body realizes it has been asked to do something morally backwards — to carry the consequences of someone else’s failure to be accountable. That moment is when the Sacred NO is born.
Whether we act on that Sacred No moment right then or not isn’t really the point...the point is that our inner truth heard the bell ring inside ourselves because our sacred wiring said, “NO.”
Sometimes it takes time for us to recognize what actually happened...and to embrace this awareness when something similar happens again so we can respond in line with our inner truth instead of conforming to cultural expectations.
I’ve learned within this context to offer more compassion to myself when pondering upon some of my previous experiences in life. We are all just muddling along here trying to figure it out. Humaning...a big trial and error sequence.
But...to go back to my dream for a minute...there are definitely systems like these that have not morally matured. Persistent misplacement of responsibility reveals that the issue is structural, not situational. The time has come for some “structural growing up” to show up.
I’m also anti-: “be smaller so others don’t stumble”, and anti- “cover yourself so they can behave”, and anti- “forgive without repair”, and anti- “submit without safety”, and anti- “silence as virtue”!
By
the way, covering for truth by dismissing responsibility is not
holiness.
It’s
control wearing a halo. It’s
fake. It’s fools gold.
And you can feel it in the air in and
your bones.
I didn’t leave church culture because I was bitter, weak, or
unwilling to submit.
I left because I refused a system
that protects itself by sacrificing dignity.
And
once you see that, there is no “going back for the good parts.”
I called out in that dream, “WHY ARE THEY NOT TEACHING THE BOYS... human respect and boundaries, self-control, self-regulation and just plain better humaning?”
You know these things too..in your bones. I’m very likely preaching to the choir here….because once someone sees things like this inside a culture...you can no longer unsee the structural failure.
I was taught these frameworks from a very young age. So I know them inherently...as I’m sure many of you do too...because you too were taught this same structure. When you see human-behavior that reflects these frameworks it’s recognizable from miles away...because we lived from within it for so long.
The system responded to harm by: managing appearances, controlling bodies, softening outrage, and redirecting responsibility.
Instead of doing the one thing that actually creates safety in this scenario:
Teaching boys respect, consent, self-regulation, and accountability.
Teaching girls to know and defend their physical boundaries, stand in their sovereignty and autonomy, and to refuse to be polite when they sense they’re being bullied.
I’m done accepting: spiritual frameworks that police bodies, containers that prioritize reputation over safety, systems that call control “care”, and rules that excuse harm and burden the harmed.
This isn’t about a christian college, church culture, or my dream — it’s about how harm is still mismanaged. It’s about institutions that have stalled in their moral development — still relying on control and compliance instead of accountability and repair.
In case you might be hung up on this entire writing session stemming from a dream...well, there is also a real scenario that I witnessed this past summer. While working for Green River Adventures...I was managing the riverside operations and hundreds upon hundreds of folks would tube the Green river with us each day. And one of these fateful days a church youth group arrived. Just so happens that this particular day...all the girls of this group were wearing long cotton t-shirts over their swimsuits. All the boys in this group, shirtless and swim trunks.
My heart sank...because I knew exactly what was going on here. This was an example of rules that excuse harm and burden the harmed. “Control” sheeping as “care”. “Modesty” masquerading as “safety.”
I was deeply disappointed. Because this is exactly the church culture I grew up in 30 years ago. Where rules excused harm and instead burdened the harmed.
I view this as the continued sacrifice of dignity in plain sight. My heart ached for the boys who were clearly not being taught the deeply true values of respect, consent, self-regulation, accountability and just simple good humaning skills. And for the girls who weren’t being taught sovereignty, autonomy and to stand up and demand self-respect.
Repair begins when everyone is honest about what’s really going on. And considerations are made in honor of human dignity and truth. Repair means acknowledgment without defensiveness, consistent behavioral change, courageous teaching from heart versus silencing out of fear, and responsibility held by those with influence. Real change becomes tangible.
It’s in my blood to call a spade a spade. And many of you also are truth-tellers in this same way. We can’t help it...and it’s probably why we’re here. To wave the flags of “Hey...not here. Not this!”
And shine the light back onto our human right to declare the Sacred No!
We can do better. We must...for our hearts, for our souls, for our truth.
This is the way.
A message has been waiting… one that wants to be worn, carried, and felt:
“Love holds.
Wildness moves.
Truth shapes.”
A little mantra you can step into — a reminder of what grounds you, what moves you, and what shapes your life every day.
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Whether you wear it as a private mantra, a gentle reminder, or a companion for your everyday adventures, this shirt carries the Wildhearted energy wherever you go.
Step into your own mantra. Step into your own wildness.
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Tomorrow morning (12/12/25) at 10:00 AM, a new edition of Field Notes for the Soul arrives — a quiet landing place in your inbox.
If you’ve ever felt the urge to send love out into the world, or sensed the subtle energy of connection around you… this one’s for you.
This week’s note includes:
🌿 Reflections on showing up
and sharing your heart — even in unexpected places
🎤
Stories from a year of open mic nights and what it taught me about
human connection
💛 A special gift: Love on the Wind: A
Heartstream Meditation — to tune into your heart and project
love-light to someone you care about
🌟 A Wild-Hearted
Practice of the Week: Send Love Like Light on the Wind — a
simple, powerful way to activate heart energy and notice the ripples
it creates
Sign up before 10:00 AM tomorrow to receive it in your
inbox.
After signing up, be sure to click the confirmation email
so it finds you.
For the hearts willing to soar — listen closely, the wind is carrying your love. 💛
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Photo Credit: Image by Enrique from Pixabay
Every now and then, a creative idea lands that just makes me grin from ear to ear.
Today was one of those days.
I spent the afternoon creating four brand-new products in my merch store — coffee mugs featuring images from my own abstract paintings! Each one is 15 oz., bold, colorful, and (of course) completely one-of-a-kind.
Many years ago, I came across a set of the coolest mugs — each printed with artwork from the Masters like Monet, Renoir, and van Gogh. Those mugs quickly became my favorites, and their paintings became favorites too. Starry Night by van Gogh and Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir still make my heart light up every time I see them.
So today, while remembering those beloved mugs, I thought:
And voilà — Rachel Dickson Original Art Mugs were born.
Each one carries a little spark of my creative world — brushstrokes, color, and wildhearted energy — all wrapped up in a mug that’s perfect for your morning coffee, afternoon tea, or a cozy cup of cocoa.
They’re only $12.99 each and available exclusively through my shop.
One of a kind. Made with love. Designed to brighten your day.
There
are moments when the noise quiets.
When the world pauses just
long enough for something deeper to speak.
Meet the Angels was created for those moments.
This new 15-minute guided meditation is a journey — not away from yourself, but deeper into the parts of you that already know, already listen, already receive.
In this meditation, you’ll be guided through breath and golden light, into a higher realm of peace and presence. A space where Archangel Michael walks beside you. Where you step onto a colored platform chosen by your own intuition. Where a radiant angelic being meets you — not to hand you something new, but to help you remember your ancient knowing.
This is a practice for:
Those seeking clarity
Those
moving through uncertainty
Those longing for guidance,
reassurance, or quiet companionship on the path
It’s an invitation to ask your questions.
And just as
importantly… to listen.
There is a moment in the meditation where the elevator door opens
on the number 444 — a symbol of angelic presence,
protection, and divine support.
Because of this, I chose to
price the meditation at $14.44, allowing that number
to subtly echo the energetic spirit of the journey.
This offering is for anyone who has been feeling the pull to
reconnect with something greater.
Something gentler.
Something
already here.
You can explore the meditation and listen here:
👉 [Click
here to explore]
May it bring you clarity.
May it bring you comfort.
May
it remind you that you are never walking alone.
With love and light,
Rachel
Photo Credit: Image by NoName_13 from Pixabay
Tomorrow morning (12/03/25) at 09:45 AM, a new edition of Field Notes for the Soul arrives — a quiet landing place in your inbox.
If you’ve ever felt like the “black sheep” or the one who senses truth before anyone else… this one’s for you.
This week’s note includes:
🌿 Reflections on trusting
your inner-knower and listening to the body’s truth signals
🐏
A celebration of the black sheep — those brave enough to name what
isn’t working
🌲 A special guided meditation: A Walk in
the Woods (from Wherever You Are) — for tuning into your inner
bell and feeling what’s real
🌟 A Wild-Hearted Practice of
the Week: The Black Sheep Blessing — to honor the part of
you that never fit the mold
Field Notes is a pause in the noise.
A soft
place to land.
A way back to what’s real.
Sign up before 09:45 AM tomorrow to receive it in your
inbox.
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so it finds you.
For the truth-teller in you — listen closely, your inner bell is ringing. 💛
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This
week in America is called Thanksgiving Week.
And while I honor
the tradition behind it, I’ve started calling it Gratitude
Week instead.
Not because of the holiday dinners or the timelines or the
expectations —
but because gratitude isn’t meant to live
only on one day.
Gratitude is a practice.
A spiritual muscle.
A way of
choosing where your attention rests.
It isn’t just listing blessings or checking boxes.
It’s
the act of turning toward what is good, what is true, what is still
holding you when the world feels uncertain or loud.
When you practice gratitude, something small yet powerful
happens:
You start to notice what was already there.
You
feel supported instead of lacking.
You shift from scarcity into
presence.
It anchors abundance.
It builds resilience.
And it
reminds you that you already hold the keys to transform your world.
Even a few intentional moments each day can create ripples of change — in your nervous system, your relationships, your outlook, your breath.
For our Full Harvest Moon Gathering in October, we created a 10-page Gratitude Journal as a space for reflection, noticing, and remembering what sustains you.
This week, I’m sharing it again as a gentle offering, as a
gift.
A place for you to pause.
To write.
To
breathe.
To practice gratitude not as an obligation — but as a
devotion.
May this week be less about perfection,
and more about
presence.
With love,
Rach
Photo Credit: Image by ELLE RITTER from Pixabay
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As hope-dealers and light-bringers and bridge-builders, we all want to experience purpose, inspiration and meaningful connection in our lives. Drawing from the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Oriah Mountain Dreamer, Julie Tallard Johnson, Gregg Braden, Dr. Joe Dispenza and many others, this Wildhearted gathering will focus upon re-introducing a practice called the “zero point.”
We will intentionally create a sacred space by applying resonance of vibration principles, integration of the power of color, intuitive selection, and guided inner journeying. This gathering opens a doorway for you to reconnect the ancient knowing of your soul with the grounded, human wisdom of your lived experience.
When: Sunday,
January 25th | 2–4 PM
Location:
Wellness and Movement Center, 1171 Spartanburg
Highway, Hendersonville, NC
Hosts:
Rachel Dickson & Jaci Daley
Reserved
seats: $25
*After reserving your spot, you will receive a confirmation email with details such as what to expect, contact info for questions, and the link to your FREE 12 page Mindful Meditation Guide and Journal PDF.
**This gathering is designed to be supportive, accessible, and
nervous-system friendly.
No prior meditation or spiritual
experience required.
You were never meant to forget the intelligence of your own
awareness.
So many of us were taught to fear our own instincts, mistrust our inner voice, or exile the parts of ourselves that once protected us. But restoration begins not by rejecting these parts — but by welcoming them home.
This gathering is a gentle, sensory-rich return to awareness.
Guided by the significance of Colour Mirror Bottle 12 –
Heaven on Earth and held under the leadership of the Orange
Dragons—elemental beings who support soul families, community,
belonging, and unity—we will explore what it means to live from the
Zero Point: the quiet inner meeting place where soul-self and
earth-self work as one.
Zero Point is not about changing
or fixing your inner world...it is about learning to rest in
awareness, where the body is felt, the mind is witnessed, and wisdom
and mindful presence naturally emerge.
Using the powerful Colour Mirror Wisdom Bottles—a proven system founded in South Africa in 2001 and used worldwide by complementary health and professional therapists for personal and spiritual transformation—participants will intuitively select a bottle from a table of 36, guided by color and number, allowing a uniquely encoded message to reveal itself as a mirror for inner awareness and reflection.
After settling into presence, the chosen Colour Bottle becomes a quiet companion for the experience. Its colour, energy, and wisdom will serve as an ally, mirror-to-self, and teacher throughout the guided meditation and inner journey.
Through sound, color, intuitive selection, and guided inner journeying, this gathering opens a doorway for you to reconnect with your own inner guidance system.
In this deeply held sacred circle, we will:
🎶 Sound Weaving — Arrive through a layered soundscape of grounding tones and expanding frequencies, designed to open the body-mind, soften the inner field and re-calibrate our body’s cells.
🔥 Zero Point Teaching — Rachel will introduce the Zero Point: the living bridge between instinct and insight, body and soul, human self and holy mind.
🌈 Colour Mirror Wisdom Bottle Selection — Jaci will introduce Colour Mirrors Wisdom Bottles. You’ll be invited to intuitively select the bottle calling to you; its color wisdom and zero point mirroring will serve as your companion and guide during the gathering.
🌀 Guided Inner Awareness — Rachel will lead a gentle guided meditation to remind of us our connection between body and earth. A grounding through body awareness exercise.
💬 Integration & Reflection — A space to share insights, ask questions, and root the experience into your everyday life.
🌟 Orange Dragon Blessing — We will close
with an invocation of the Orange Dragons to support unity, community,
belonging, and reconnection.
We are
living in a collective moment of remembering —
remembering our
instincts are not our enemy,
remembering our inner knowing and
guidance is trustworthy,
remembering that
awareness arises not from self-judgment,
but
from the simple act of witnessing with mindfulness and trust.
Bottle 12’s energy — Heaven on Earth — is the exact
medicine for this time:
the merging of above and below, the
ancient and the present, soul and human.
Date: Sunday, January 25
Time:
2:00p-4:00p
Location: Wellness and Movement Center, 1171 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, NC
Hosts:
Rachel Dickson & Jaci Daley
Exchange: $25 |
Space limited to 30 guests
Age: 12+
recommended
Accessibility: Fully accessible
parking, entrance, and restrooms
*After reserving your spot, you will receive a confirmation email with details such as what to expect, contact info for questions, and the link to your FREE 12 page Mindful Meditation Guide and Journal PDF.
**This gathering is designed to be supportive, accessible, and
nervous-system friendly.
No prior meditation or spiritual
experience required.
There used to be a lot more time in between the point “A’s” and the point “B’s” in the world. I can remember (and I know you can too) when you’d go the mail box in anticipation of receiving a mail-order catalog that was fun to peruse through. Then...if you ordered something...it would usually take 14 days to receive.
No immediate gratification.
Instead..patience was required and then anticipation was the result.
There’s a part of me that thinks...this space of time...in between...promoted a certain "good humaning" skill set. The Pause.
The ability to sit with time...and let it be. And well...the item ordered...arrived when it arrived. I think this also created a greater appreciation in us for when this fulfillment did come around.
I can’t help but wonder if the current level of immediate gratification we experience on the daily... is eroding in essence...a calming human skill set. (What we used to experience in “the pause”.) It’s as if being able to order something online and receive it the next day, or googling a question and receiving an immediate answer, or sending a text to a friend or family member and receiving an immediate reply…has created a restlessness amongst us.
An insatiable need for everything to happen “right now”.
What happened to our ability to sit on a bench and wait for a ride and do so with absolutely no stimulus other than maybe a book or simply observing our present surroundings? We could travel in a car or on a plane and at best we’d look out the window or read a magazine or listen to the radio. And be perfectly content with this.
Could it be that our "good humaning" skills are being eroded by reacting to our own mind’s
demand for entertainment, input, distraction and constant need to
“feed a false nervous tick,” simply because countless ways to entertain ourselves are now available?
I’ve caught myself doing
this...feeling this sense of urgency but not knowing exactly where it
was coming from. That I’ve got to check my facebook feed for the
latest updates, or see what the latest posts on IG contain. Until I
stopped myself and said...”Why?”
“Why this false need to surrender my time to what amounts to mindless banter?”
Because when I sit with this feeling...at the end of spending 30-45 minutes mindlessly scrolling social media...I recognize that nothing I found there was truly fulfilling. It was empty. And I was duped.
My sense of groundedness and self-discipline and control over how I use time has been called into question. These things have been eroding...until I recognized that it’s my responsibility to maintain my own autonomy. A renewed set of human skill sets are being called forth.
The modern world of 2025 continues to pitch fast balls at our faces...almost like we’re being water-boarded by mindless banter from every direction.
Every human has 24 hours in a day. And it’s up to us just how we utilize these hours.
Shall we let ourselves be controlled by a system that’s barraging us?
How do we turn off the screaming fits that our addicted human minds are battering us with to be entertained and “feed the beast?”
First...we must recognize that this is happening. Second...limit. Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes.
Self-Discipline is a key step towards becoming grounded and unshakable.
Over-stimulus is feeding over-thinking. It never stops. It never sleeps.
And is a daily practice to turn it off.
Silence the “current hot topic of the day.” Because tomorrow it won’t even matter. And if it doesn’t matter tomorrow...why should it matter today?
Instead...let’s return to listening to our hearts..the deeper parts of ourselves that have been silently sitting there waiting to be heard. The what-truly-matters-the-most-to-us parts of ourselves.
Let’s return to feeling our souls and strengthening our skills to discern what truly matters again.
And then mute everything else.
And stand in the strength of this daily action!
I don’t want to allow myself to be eroded away by mindlessness and fools gold.
Yet I am challenged by this nearly every day.
It helps that I live in the mountains where cell-signal and internet connection isn’t always available. So I get the blessing of being reminded that it’s even possible to turn it off...because sometimes it just goes out. Little to no warning.
But then I hear the silence again. Because the screaming stopped.
And there’s peace again.
Photo Credit: myself...pic of a leaf skeleton
An invitation to reconnect with your heart’s natural
coherence.
Through sound healing, intuitive exercises, and
guided meditation, explore what it means to live from your peaceful
center.
Sunday, November 16th | 2–4 PM
Pisgah
Forest, NC (Private home – address shared upon Reserved Seat)
Reserved seats: $20 | Space limited to 15
participants
As we step into November’s potent 11 Gateway—a time of deep intuition and awakening—this gathering invites you to reconnect with the quiet intelligence of your own heart.
Join us for an intimate afternoon circle devoted to learning how to live, feel, and move from your heart space—where emotion, intuition, and higher knowing align. Through guided exercises, sound, scent, and shared reflection, we’ll explore the subtle language of the heart and how to cultivate harmony between heart and mind.
In this sacred, invitation-only home gathering, we will:
🌬️
Open the Circle — Jaci will invite the elements of
earth, air, fire, and water to guide and ground our space.
🎶
Attune with Sound — Soften into the moment through
the vibration of crystal bowls.
💗 Heart Language
Practice — Rach will guide an exercise to tune into your
“heart energy” and release old emotional imprints that block your
natural coherence.
🤲 Partner Connection —
Through a back-to-back awareness exercise, Jaci will help you feel
into the heart energy of another and recognize how emotion moves
through and between us.
💬 Circle Sharing —
A time to reflect and integrate what you’ve experienced.
✨
Angel Spritzer Experience — Jaci will introduce
the Coloured Mirror Angel Spritzers; each participant will receive an
intuitive message through scent and color.
🌟 Guided
Meditation — Rach will lead a meditation to meet one of the Angels, inviting messages of healing and clarity.
🍲
Afterglow — Stay for casual conversation and a
shared bowl of soup.
November’s cosmic and numerological energies favor spiritual alignment, learning, and expansion. It’s a powerful time to reconnect with your intuitive wisdom and explore practices that nurture inner peace and coherence between heart and mind.
In the words of the HeartMath Institute, coherence is when “the
heart, mind, and emotions are energetically aligned and working
together.”
That’s the essence of this gathering—to
experience that harmony within yourself, and with others.
Date: Sunday, November 16th, 2025
Time:
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pisgah Forest, NC
(Private home — address shared upon confirmed reservation)
Hosts:
Rachel Dickson & Jaci Daley
Exchange:
$20 reserved seat | Limited to 10–15 guests
🕊️ Come as you are. Leave lighter, clearer, and more attuned to the quiet wisdom that lives within your heart.
Photo Credit: Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay
This week’s “Field Notes for the Soul” arrives Thursday morning at 9:30 AM — a soft landing place in your inbox.
If you’ve been feeling unsettled… resisting change… or holding on a little too tightly — you’re not alone. This issue is a gentle invitation to loosen your grip and listen to what the season is whispering.
Field Notes is a compass.
A
warm mug between your hands.
A reminder that you don’t have to
force what’s meant to flow.
This week’s email includes:
🍂 A
reflection on what the trees can teach us about letting go
🍁
A wild-hearted practice for releasing what’s ready to fall away
🎶
A soulful song to carry you through the transition
💌 Sign up to receive it in
your inbox.
*After signing up, be sure to click the confirmation email so it finds you.
You don’t have to face change alone.
Let’s walk this
season together.
Photo Credit: Image by Kanenori from Pixabay
There was a moment, just a few days before our Transforming
Our World: A Full Harvest Moon Gathering, when I almost
canceled.
Ticket sales were slow. Only two names were on the
list. And I’ll be honest—it was discouraging.
But something deep within whispered, no… hold the space
anyway.
So I did.
People began to walk in. One by one.
By the time we gathered
in circle on Sunday afternoon, there were eight radiant guests and
five incredible practitioners—all together, thirteen souls held in
a room filled with golden light, tears, laughter, flowers, and
frequency.
It was nothing short of transformative magic.
The tears, the connection, the love, the uplifting, the hugs, the flowers, the sharing, the support given and received, the learning, the unfolding of it all… absolutely, undeniably incredible.
I’ve been flying on that energetic high ever since.
And tonight—under the light of the actual Full Harvest
Moon—I’m reflecting on just how powerful it is when we choose to
show up anyway.
Even when it’s uncertain.
Even when the
numbers don’t look “successful.”
Even when doubt whispers
that maybe it’s not worth it.
Because it always is.
When hearts gather with intention, the
medicine always arrives.
✨ Patty Young — For bringing the wisdom of the ages and welcoming our grandmothers, grandfathers, and ancestors from all directions into the sacred space. The depth of your wisdom was felt by all.
🌈 Jaci Dayley — For guiding us through the Colour Mirrors and helping us see the messages our souls were calling forth. The clarity and truth that surfaced were breathtaking.
🎶 Elise Burrows — For being the maestro with the singing bowls, blessing us with solfeggio frequencies and the high vibration of fresh-cut flowers. (My kitchen counter still hums with color and light thanks to you!)
🎤 Keturah Allgood — For opening hearts through song and story, and reminding us how deeply we are connected through sound and courage.
The Full Harvest Moon energy pulses strong. A new phase begins—and with it, an invitation to keep letting go of what no longer serves, while welcoming in what’s new… with hearts full of gratitude.
This, my friends, is the way.
And I believe we truly did
transform our world—one circle, one moment, one open heart at a
time.
May we continue to gather, to grow, and to remember that
even the smallest circles can hold the greatest light.
With
love and gratitude,
Rachel Dickson
Photo Credit: Harvest Moon Over the Blue Ridge by Bob Peterson
Just over a year ago, Hurricane Helene swept through Western North Carolina and left her mark on the land and in our hearts. So much changed forever — forests reshaped, rivers rerouted, lives altered in ways big and small and lives lost.
Today, while riding along the newly reopened Blue Ridge Parkway, I was reminded of just how Blessed we all are to be able to experience the majesty found along the BRP again. At one of the pull-off overlooks, among the rugged edges of autumn, I saw them again — tiny clusters of Smooth Aster, their violet petals swaying in the wind. Just like last year, when they caught my eye in the middle of grief, they whispered the same message:
“We are here to remind you of resilience. Even after the storm, beauty finds a way.”
As the Full Harvest Moon rises tomorrow night, I feel the weight of memory mixed with the promise of renewal. The moon has always been a mirror — illuminating what is ready to be released, and what longs to be welcomed in. And in times like these, ceremony matters.
That’s why I created Transforming Your World: A Full Harvest Moon Gathering — a space for us to gather, to pause, and to reconnect with what is sacred and steady within us.
Together we will:
✨ Open sacred space with Cherokee descendant Patty Young
✨ Receive color-inspired guidance
through the Colour Mirrors Bottles with Jaci Dayley
✨ Soak in
the healing vibrations of a live crystal bowl sound bath by Elise
Burrows
✨ Journey inward with a guided meditation led by me,
Rachel Dickson
✨ Carry it home with a downloadable Gratitude
Journal for ongoing reflection
This is more than an event. It is ceremony — a circle of remembering, healing, and transformation under the light of the Harvest Moon. Please join us!
📍 Elk Haven Wellness Center | Brevard, NC
🕑 Sunday,
October 5 | 2–4 PM
🎟 Tickets: $35 (includes Gratitude
Journal PDF)
Come as you are. Leave with renewed energy, clarity, and connection.
Photo credit: Dan Mullen CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
“Wherever we insist on pushing our differences on others we feel the separation. We name this separation resistance, laziness, loneliness, depression, anxiety, or some kind of lack in ourselves. Then we claim these as ‘who we are’—I am resistant, I am lazy, I am lonely, I am anxious, I am stupid, I am unappreciated, I am unworthy, I am alone, and so forth.
Meaning makers understand that everything and everyone is part of ‘the field,’ as Einstein said. We are always part of the ocean. The invitation is to become conscious of what we say ‘I am that’ to—because that is what expands our reality. When we align our ‘I am’s’ with something uplifting and meaningful, we widen the field of what’s possible. Our actions follow suit. We become more receptive, more open, more connected. We discover that we belong everywhere, rather than confining ourselves to one small group. Everyone and everything becomes part of the field to explore.
When we recognize that everything is sacred—that tat tvam
asi (“thou art that”)—we begin to behave as if we are
walking among the holy on sacred ground. We make eye contact with our
holiness and recognize it as such.”
(Excerpt from The Zero
Point Agreement by Julie Tallard Johnson)
A few weeks ago, I made eye contact with the knowing that tender emotions would soon be rising up from within us all as the one-year anniversary of Helene arrived. I sensed the importance of meeting this with gentleness and grace, and surrounding myself with others who get it. I chose to walk among the holy, on sacred ground.
For me, this practice began with attending the healing Rising Appalachia gathering in Black Mountain, NC last weekend. With dear friends, I felt the deep connection, collective love, and intentional grounding that reminded us we are not alone in navigating all that last year brought to WNC.
The next step was creating a very intentional gathering of my own—one that would give us all a space to meet these emotions with light, connection, and transformation.
We’ll open with blessings offered to—and received from—the Full Harvest Moon, followed by a resonant sound bath led by Elise Burrows. We’ll then explore soul-nourishing messages revealed through the Colour Mirror bottles with Jaci Dayley, and close with a guided meditation for reflection and renewal. To support your journey beyond the gathering, each ticket also includes a downloadable Gratitude Journal.
This two-hour event is about transforming sorrow and grief into joy, resilience, and hope.
📍 Elk Haven Wellness Center, Brevard, NC
🕑 Sunday,
October 5 | 2–4 PM
🎟 Tickets: $35 (includes Gratitude
Journal PDF)
Seating is limited to keep this gathering intimate, and I do expect it to sell out.
Because now, more than ever—
we need togetherness.
I
need togetherness.
And I do hope you’ll join us.
Photo Credit: Image by Joe from Pixabay
Sunday,
October 5th, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM
Elk Haven Wellness,
Brevard, NC
The October Harvest Moon is a time of completion, release, and transformation. It illuminates what we’ve grown through, invites us to let go of what no longer serves, and opens space for our deepest wishes to take root.
This gathering, Transforming Your World, is an afternoon of sacred reflection, sound, and intention. Together we will call in the directions, connect with Colour Mirrors, raise vibration with crystal bowls, and claim the golden wisdom available when the masculine and feminine energies come back into balance.
This is your chance to pause, reflect, and boldly step into your next chapter.
During our two hours together, you’ll be guided through:
✨ Sacred Space & Directions – an
intentional opening to ground and arrive fully.
✨ Colour
Mirrors Connection – select a coloured bottle or spritzer
as your mirror of transformation.
✨ Crystal Bowl Sound
Bath – relax into resonance, allowing vibration to clear
and uplift.
✨ Guided Meditation – journey
inward with visualization to unlock balance, clarity, and courage.
✨
Harvest & Release Ritual – journal and let go
of what no longer belongs in your world.
✨ Wishes &
Transformation – write, visualize, and embody your wishes
for the new season.
✨ Closing Gratitude –
anchor your experience in appreciation and carry it forward with your
downloadable Gratitude Journal (PDF included with reserved seat).
The October full moon shines a bright light on what we truly want. It helps us see hidden dreams, release old patterns, and set goals that align with our heart. It reminds us that we already hold the keys to transform our world—one brave wish, one grounded step, one grateful breath at a time.
📍 Elk Haven Wellness Center (Community Room)
100
Elks Club Rd, Brevard, NC 28712
🕑 Sunday, Oct 5 | 2–4
pm
🎟️ Tickets: $35 (includes
downloadable Gratitude Journal)
Seating is limited to keep this gathering intimate, so please reserve quickly.
We expect this event to sell out.
(After reserving your spot, you will receive a confirmation email with details such as what to expect, the venue address, contact info for questions, and the link to your Gratitude Journal PDF.)
Photo Credit: pixabay dot com
That’s
just one of the candid truths I share in my brand new conversation
with Leslie Nease on the Honoring the Journey Podcast.
We talked about what it was like growing up in a strict religious environment, being dismissed from Northland Baptist Bible College as a Summer Camp Sports Clinician because of my short haircut , and the long, messy process of moving from denial to self-acceptance.
This episode is real, unfiltered, and full of the courage it takes to live audaciously and claim wholeness as a birthright.
If you’ve ever wrestled with identity, faith, or the pressure to fit someone else’s mold, I think you’ll find pieces of your own story in this conversation.
I’m deeply grateful to Leslie for holding such a beautiful space for this conversation. 💜
I had the honor and privilege of being interviewed recently on Leslie Nease's podcast called "Honoring the Journey" and I'm excited to announce the full episode (Season 5 episode 34) drops tomorrow! Monday, September 22nd on Spotify.
Haven't heard of Leslie Nease or the Honoring the Journey podcast? No worries...here's the scoop:
About Honoring the Journey:
"Life is a journey, and we’re all walking our own unique path. But every
now and then, we get the chance to step onto someone else’s path, to see
the world from their perspective, and to learn from their experiences.
That’s what we do here on Honoring the Journey. We walk alongside
others, explore their stories, and then step back onto our own
path—hopefully with new insights, deeper understanding, and a broader
perspective for the journey ahead.
Honoring the Journey is hosted by Leslie Nease, a former Christian Radio Host, Speaker & Writer and Contestant on Survivor China known as "Sister Christian". Leslie has since deconstructed her Evangelical beliefs, but is still deeply connected to God and is seeking to understand faith from every perspective. Let's journey together!"
Listen now on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FV6ND9EJdrO9OaIUhOKWj?si=WLFtT5DQTjafEAyItKI6RQ
This interview and podcast episode comes after my standing on the Tedx Stage and sharing my story.
You can view the full Tedx Talk by clicking here.
More to come.
Until then,,,,DARE to be YOU!
For those who may not know: in pickleball, you can only
score a point when you’re the server. But here’s the catch—if
your serve doesn’t land cross-court inside the correct boundary,
it’s a fault.
Translation: no point, no chance, game moves on. You
sabotage your own ability to score before the rally even begins.
So you can imagine the importance of a “good” serve.
I LOVE playing this game! But lately, my conundrum has been just this...getting my serves in. Sounds small, but in doubles, when most of your serves drift out of bounds? Not great.
Enter the Jedi practice of visualization.
This isn’t new, and I can’t take credit for it—I first came across the power of mental imagery in a college sports psychology class. But here’s the magic:
If, right before serving, I pause and see the ball going exactly where I want it to go—in detail, in my mind’s eye—and then I serve? My success rate skyrockets! All of this takes less than five seconds.
The takeaway: when we’re doing something familiar, our brains love to go on autopilot. We think about other things, we drift. And when we’re not fully present, mistakes happen. (Lost keys, flubbed serves—you know the drill.) Visualization snaps me back into the moment. It’s a way of saying: I’m here. I’m focused. Let’s do this!
This is one reason I love pickleball—the way it challenges both body and mind toward a clear intention.
Have any of you
struggled with focusing on the task at hand...and come up with ways
to bring your mind back into focus?
I’d love to hear about your
“Jedi practice.”
Do tell!
Photo Credit: from pickleballunion dot com
This past Sunday (Sept 7th), we gathered for the very first Mirror of the Soul in-person resonance circle. Fourteen of us sat together at Elk Haven Wellness Center in Brevard under the energy of the Full Corn Moon—a moon of harvest, gratitude, and release.
And what unfolded was nothing short of magical.
The afternoon began with anticipation—a gentle nervousness as each person entered the space, curious about what might unfold. Very quickly, that energy softened as the vibration of Elise Burrows’ playing the crystal bowls carried us into resonance. Those who were present will remember the solfeggio tones weaving through the air—those “wah-wah-wah” waves that seemed to vibrate through bone and breath alike.
Alongside the sound, each participant chose a Colour Mirror bottle—a companion of light, shape, and vibration. These bottles are more than decoration. Each is a mirror, reflecting your strengths, your growth, and the next step your soul is asking for.
To watch the faces light up as the written meanings were read, as messages aligned so precisely with what each heart needed—it was extraordinary. The bottles spoke, and you listened.
During our guided meditation, each person found themselves seated on a symbolic bench, visited by just the right presence: a guide, an ancestor, a future self, or another messenger entirely. Some wondered if they should have met themselves—yet the truth of meditation is that whoever arrives in that sacred inner space is exactly who you need at that time.
If you return to that inner bench again, you may find someone new waiting for you. The messages change as we do. Meditation is like a galactic telephone booth—you step in, tune your ear, and the wisdom you most need comes through.
We gathered in a powerful threshold—the moment when the moon shifted from waxing to full to waning. These liminal phases are where transformation ripens:
🌒 Waxing: growth, expansion, abundance
🌕
Full: gratitude, clarity, harvest
🌘 Waning:
release, surrender, rest
The Corn Moon has long been associated with harvest, not only of crops but of our inner lives. It invites us to:
Celebrate what we’ve achieved and learned
Give thanks, even for difficult experiences
Let go of what no longer serves
That invitation was alive in the room, woven into sound, color, and community.
If the energy of Sunday is still moving in you, here are ways to carry it forward:
🌈 Colour Mirrors bottles
To go deeper
with the message of your bottle, connect with Jaci Daley
on Facebook
🎧 Guided Meditations
I’m releasing new
guided meditations each week. You can purchase and download them
here:
👉 racheldickson.com/meditations.htm
🔔 Crystal Bowl Recordings
I’ve
published several recordings from Elise Burrows’ public
gatherings on my YouTube channel (rdicksonoutdoors).
Listen anytime for meditation or rest:
To everyone who joined us: thank you! You made this gathering
divine.
This first event has confirmed for me that Mirror
of the Soul is only just beginning.
Much more to come! Stay tuned.
With love and resonance,
Rachel Dickson
Photo Credit: Image by Florian Kurz from Pixabay
