Tina ThrussellHow did it get to be May 2026 already!?! The rate at which time is slipping by is unbelievable!
It’s moving particularly fast for me because I basically lost most of 2025 and the first quarter of this year. I don’t think I started to come back to life until my birthday in early April this year!
It’s a long story, but I did my best to capture it in a talk titled “Bringing hope to life” that I delivered at Unity of Calgary on April 19th. I share it with you today for two reasons:
1) to explain my absence for most of the last year and why you saw so few issues of “Heart and Mind Matters;”
2) to offer you pause to consider what roles hope and faith play in your life.
Here is the 22-minute talk: https://youtu.be/FdiEttb0Ry8?si=kadhtvcFATBVhWZd
There is so much more I could have shared, but I only had a 20-minute time slot. I could have talked about the incredible sense of betrayal that kept growing after the scam incident: betrayal by my investment mentor, betrayal of my trust and faith in the goodness of humankind. I believe humans are basically good, but there was a huge team of people that were conducting themselves in a way that I could not see as ‘good’ and I felt betrayed in my belief. I felt I betrayed myself by ignoring my intuition and falling for the scam. Then there was the guilt, blame, shame and embarrassment that permeated my year on so many levels. So many complex thoughts and feelings!
These thoughts and feelings were what made recovery so difficult. The need to forgive was so great and so difficult under the depressed nervous system.
When I listened to my talk again to decide whether or not I wanted to share it, I was surprised that I did not mention amongst those ‘packages’ – the gifts that led me back to hope – my mom who instantly forgave me for losing so much of her savings, offering her unconditional love and assurance that it wasn’t my fault. “It’s only money,” she said. Neil said that, too. The gift of the many friends and colleagues who held me in love and supported me the best way they could. Their love carried me when I could not love myself. I am deeply grateful for their presence in my life.
I’ve come out the other side, deeply grateful for the whole experience. And I was so grateful to the Higher Power for speaking so clearly through me to create the powerful 3:33-minute meditation that followed that talk (Spirit was speaking through me – I did not premeditate this!): https://youtu.be/WqQqaCZoUhY?si=2g9jhlA8-Y6wphFn
I thank you for your patience in waiting for me to show up in life again…. to show up for you here in this publication, and however else I may show up for you. As I return to living life from a place of love and joy rather than fear, of once again living the #ShinDao – the Way of the Heart -I would love to reconnect with you. Feel free to call me at 403-860-7311.
I would also love to open up my healing room once again and start facilitation healing sessions for those who are willing to put their faith in me… contact me at 403-860-7311 if you’d like to book a session sometimes after the May long weekend.
