So what is "Wellspring4Healing"?  It is a dream I've had for nearly 20 years.  It's a place anyone can visit anytime to find reassurance and comforting words as well as ideas and activities that will help move them forward on their healing journeys.

And just what does that mean?  "Healing journey"?  Well, the way I see it, we are all on a journey of healing at some point in our lives.  If we've done any living at all, we have been hurt in some way.  Child abuse.  Accident.  Poverty.  Rape.  Illness.  Betrayal.  Death of a loved one.  Job loss.  Whatever trauma we have experienced, the damage is real and painful.  Excruciating for many.

For some, the journey to healing is short and fairly smooth.  Others of us spend our entire lives on that journey.

I know these two things for sure:  the journey is less scary when we can connect to others who care, and we can arrive at a joy-filled place where we are healed and whole again, even if the physical injury or illness is still present.

Because "healing" and "curing" are not the same thing.  Curing is always best left to medical professionals.  You will not find any medical information here.

Healing is about finding a way through the fear, getting past the sadness, going around the OMG-what's-going-to-happen-next and getting to the "moment" that everyone keeps telling us we need to live in.  That's right.  It's about learning to live in the moment.

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer (six weeks after my husband had been diagnosed with kidney cancer - yep, that's right - six weeks - and just a few years after my brother had died of AIDS), I was inundated with advice to "keep a positive attitude" and "learn to live in the moment."  I quickly learned to hate those words because - number 1 - none of the people giving out that advice had been through what I was going through and - number 2 - none of them could tell me how to do what they were telling me to do.

Well, it took a while, but I finally figured it out.  There are a lot of people in my life that I didn't know back then.  Those who have met me in the last 15 years find it hard to believe that I was ever as sick, terrified and depressed as I describe because what they see today is someone who is generally and genuinely happy, almost always cheerful, pretty fearless and very creative.

And that's what Wellspring4Healing is about.  How to get to the joy and creativity that you know you are meant to have and be, that you deserve to have and be.  I will share with you how I did it as well as how others have done it.  I will give you creative activities as well as encouraging words.  I will share tons of quotations that I have found empowering and healing.  And I will be here for you anytime you want someone to listen.  Just e-mail me through this blog or message me on my Facebook page.

I'm still healing, and I'm still learning.  And I promise to share everything I learn with you.