Lessons from Life's Highways

Welcoming Change

I’ll admit that fall is not my favorite season. I’ve always had a hard time with the loss of seemingly endless days in nature’s beauty, digging in the dirt, planting seeds, and the manifestation of possibilities that spring and summer bring. To be truthful this year there is full-throttle resistance inside me as the season […]

Healing Hearts with Horses: Veterans & PTSD. |elephant journal

Today’s Bliss: My elephant journal story has been published. In light of the state of our world today, this story was written from my heart and soul. Today I invite you to look up. Look a stranger in the eye. They may have a story to share with you…. If you like the story, please share. […]

Healing Hearts with Horses – PTSD and Veterans

I found the video in this post today and it brought me to tears. This week I had what can only be described as a Spirit driven encounter with a veteran. In my work with the horses, I have had the great privilege and honor to work with Veterans at two of the therapeutic riding […]

The Coat of Many Colors…A Short Story for Your Day…

He glides through the town with the greatest of ease, an urban bedouin, a bull dog bedecked in a jesters collar, his faithful companion. His bi-wheel chariot, both abode and transport, a mystical delight, draped in royal purple, pinks, flowers, glitter and anything he might find, that shimmers in the days sun. He is Joseph […]

Mindfulness as practice…not perfection

Last night after writing this post on FB, I received a call from the barn manager where Dreamweaver Sunday lives: Today’s Awakening: As my relationship with Dreamweaver Sunday continues to deepen, I am in awe of her ability as a healing partner. Her ability to hold space, while at the same time being completely authentic, is […]

Dancing With Our Shadows

“Embracing shadow aspects (the parts of self that remain largely hidden from our conscious mind) can be one of the most healing experiences of your life journey….When light shines on the shadow, a golden gem is revealed. Like the lotus that grows out of moist dark mud, nothing can grow without a bit of darkness, […]

Happy Holidays

My Town…The Giving Tree Each year this beautiful tree magically appears on the corner of 3rd and Main St in my town. It is a reminder to me, of the true spirit-often forgotten-of the Holiday Season. This week, I watched a little girl pluck a baggie of marshmallows and graham crackers off one of the […]

Initiation and Rites of Passage…

This letter was broadcast to the Creative Awakenings NING community today. It shares changes in the way postings and information for Sheri Gaynor and Creative Awakenings will now be consolidated for our beloved online community… Hello to my Beloved Creative Awakenings Community, I am writing to let you know that I will be closing the […]

The Morning After…

Sheri on left dressed to the 9's, in an AWESOME outfit from Corky Woods. You girls made me look good! The Super Model is coming down to earth and re-entering her Mountain Gal persona. WOW fellow Feisty Females, I have to tell you, this might have been the best thing I have ever done for my […]

Balancing Act

I hit the wall yesterday and right in the middle of a friend helping me with Cash Flow Projections, I burst into tears. It's been WEEKS of crunching numbers, looking at the BIG picture and growing programs. In between all this, there were clients, an online class, studio classes and home life to tend. So, […]