Hi y'all! Thanks for sticking with me through all this crap, first of all. It's been a pretty difficult last couple weeks & I know a lot of people have been awaiting orders & answers. This is to help with the answers part of that.
Let's start with the divorce hearing on April 20th, I was notified about a week in advance about the hearing that was about an 8hour drive away, so, not great. The hearing itself went absolutely awful & we were ordered to get an amicus. An amicus, from my understanding, is a 3rd party & objective lawyer to advocate for the best interest of, in this case, my children. So since then, that's been what's been going on, getting an amicus & the payment for her. That's honestly the short version of events, and I don't think we need to get into the nitty-gritty details on such a public forum.
This has definitely been a very rough time for me, I can't even front about it. I have taken a lot of time away from the shop and I've been trying to do a lot of shadow-work during these periods so that when I come back, I come back strong and ready to work.
This has lead to a small creation of the resources I am making myself- a PDF workbook for some Shadow-Work.. A Shadow-Work-Book, if you will. No? I'm not as clever as I think? I'm still running with that name, though. Anyway, it has about 10 tarot spreads (I am testing each one out currently) & several journaling prompts, along with different types of journal prompts- e.g., draw a self-portrait for the start & end of the journey. They aren't all written journaling prompts, is the point. I haven't made the PDF pages because I am still working on content, but when I do I plan on putting in extra pages that are blank with just the border for the drawn prompts. I also plan on making a members-only (Arcanites-Only) post that shows how I worked through the tarot spreads, prompts, and what I specifically used on this journey, just in case people want to see what I did for guidance on how they can use this resource set. The reason I want to do it members-only (Arcanites-Only) is because I haven't done a lot for that aspect of things, and I also want it to be a bit more private and not just out there for the public to consume my inner troubles.
I truly cannot thank y'all enough for sticking with me through this, it means a lot and I really appreciate all the kindness and support y'all offer to me. I used to try and keep all this under wraps because I didn't want the people I was helping, people already burdened in their own lives, to feel burdened by me. I am slowly understanding that we all- including me- are human, and deserve to be human with one another no matter our positions in regards to the others around us; it's okay to just be honest about where life is right now, and that knowledge isn't essentially a burden. It's been a hard-learned lesson.
Much love,
♥Mad