Destiny Jaimes Carachure, the director of the short film I was in last year, shared the rough cut with me. You can watch it on YouTube.
I’m thankful for this opportunity to explore my hidden side. This was my first time acting, as you can probably tell by my acting (oh well!). I recently wrote about the significance of my involvement in this project. It turned out to be such a fun and healing experience for my ever-so-curious inner child. She needed to come out. It’s funny how an unexpected event can impact my life so tremendously. I love it when dots connect. I’m so grateful to be alive and re-learning about myself through these random creative happenings.
I am an empath and an eternal optimist. I am a lover and a hopeful romantic. I’m a third-culture kid. I speak multiple languages and resonate with various cultures. I am the oldest sibling and a black sheep of the family. I am here to break the generational cycle. I practice holistic wellness and approach food as medicine. I used to be married to a wonderful man from a very different upbringing and cultural background. I am a creative professional with 15 years of experience in branding and design. I co-founded a startup and built the brand from scratch. I am an artist at heart, and in life. I am a yogi. I am an old soul. I am everything my ancestors wished me to be.
I love the sun. I love the color orange. I love the trees. I love the red rocks. I love the American Southwest. I love baths, saunas, and steam rooms. I love the hot springs that I grew up with. I love the smell of tropical humidity. I love being at an airport. I love asking a server to surprise me with a dish of their choice. I love surprises. I love pineapples and watermelon. I love pho. I love cats. I’ve never been to Egypt but I feel nostalgic about it. I love slow train travel. I love going on a walk with no plan. I love driving for hours by myself. I love good conversations with my close friends. I love making love. I love to cook for myself and others. I love writing as I get lost in time, and I have so much to share. I love me.
I want to share with you what I’ve been up to. As the lunar new year approaches, I am looking back at 2024. It was a year of discoveries.
I modeled for a national insurance company. They hired me to model for their media library of stock photos. I came, posed, and made a month-worth of money in 30 minutes. At the set, I shook hands with a man, who I only later learned was a Hall of Fame baseball player from the New York Yankees. He was the brand ambassador. It was interesting to be on the other side of business. As an Art Director, I used to create marketing campaigns by accessing clients’ media libraries.
I was cast for the lead role in a short film. After the shoot, I told the young film director that I had never acted in my life. She was shocked and told me I was natural. I, too, was surprised at how relaxed I was. I enjoyed being the center of attention and was able to make everyone around me comfortable. I overheard someone saying “Acting is responding,” which still lingers in my head.
I volunteered as an energy healer at my yoga studio. There’s a class where healers with various expertise go around and offer healing during a yin yoga class. The opportunity to work as a healer came to me just when I was starting to feel like myself. Over the past year, I worked on so many people, from all kinds of backgrounds. My method of healing involves hands-on touch. The more I practiced, the more in tune I was able to connect. It feels like a silent energetic conversation.
I worked as a sales consultant at a fine art gallery. This opportunity felt fated. Last summer, I went into the gallery as a visitor and had an amazing conversation with an unassuming man who I later found out was the owner and curator. He then offered me the job. On the first day of that job, I worked 9 hours straight. There was an event nearby, and we had more visitors than usual. Well-spoken elders. Quiet collectors in Patagonia jackets. Passionate art lovers with pungent coffee breath. Newly-wed couples looking for the perfect painting for their bedroom. Influencer-type women in fits that slayed. I conversed with all of these people. And I was very good at it.
So why am I sharing this? Because all these experiences led me to realize my gift of connection through listening and talking. Most importantly, being my authentic self brought me all of these opportunities.
It’s cool to be able to do something I was too scared to even try. Back in August 2023, I wrote about my headstand progress and how fear was getting in the way of me going up vertically, rather than lack of strength or balance. Now that I’ve made friends with fear, I’m also realizing the importance of upper body strength in being able to hold the posture. I love new discoveries like this through a new challenge. I love that part about myself.
Hey beautiful souls, I’m now offering private healing sessions in my home in Highland Park, Los Angeles.
You’ll receive a combination of intuitive energy work and sensory touch therapy.
When I work on you, I scan your body, tap into my energy, and connect with yours through my touch. From there, I’ll intuitively know what to do with you. I will be there to hold a safe space for you, so you can come home to yourself. Maybe light a little fire in your heart, if you are open.
Since November, I’ve been volunteering as a healer in my friend and amazing yoga teacher Meg Shoemaker’s Healing Collective class at Kinship Yoga working on multiple people in each class a couple of times a week.
It’s been rewarding to have a direct impact on many people in front of my eyes. Some of them told me they felt seen for the first time in a while and the effect and feeling I brought to them were very special.
This is undoubtedly the most fulfilling work I’ve ever done in my life. It puts me in my element like nothing else. It comes in so naturally and almost effortlessly because it relies on my intuition. The culmination of my energy, my being, my gifts, and my love.
So take a journey with me. Here’s a link to book a session if you are interested. You will be in good hands with me.
It’s 9:30 pm on December 31, 2023. I’m so done with 2023. It was not a fun year for me. It was rather a year of restoration, rediscovery, and preparation.
I still wanted to reflect on and list all the good things I did for myself before the year ends.
strength training and hot yoga
improved headstand and other inversion poses
improved flexibility and mobility
stretching rituals every morning
more meditation
more walks
more time alone
daily and nightly journaling
dream journaling
painting as a way of visual journaling
framed and hung my art
started offering intuitive healing
shared my writing more openly
started acting on intuition
spoke kindly to myself and others
spoke honestly with my parents
spoke less and listened more
better boundaries to protect my energy and peace
stopped talking to flaky friends
went to bed earlier
slept more
quit alcohol
quit coffee
quit cannabis
quit refined sugar
quit heavily processed foods
quit seed oils
ate mostly organic
ate more red and organ meats to rebuild the foundation
intuitive eating
stopped buying paper towels and cleaning products
got rid of toxic nonstick cooking pots and pans
parchment paper instead of foil
glass instead of plastic
read and listened to books and talks relevant to where i am in life
was selective about what sources of entertainment to consume
sold my tv
took better care of plants
fixed basic home repairs on my own
got sun on me during the day
simplified skin/body care routine and products
stopped wearing makeup regularly
wore more cotton and natural fabric for underwear and clothes
got rid of lots of physical clutter at home
got rid of most of my fashion jewelry and only kept what i love
