Sally Baldwin, Medium and co-founder of The Dying to Live Again Foundation, embarks in perhaps the truest purpose and mission of the foundation: educating humankind about the spiritual nature of death and dying and in the existence of an afterlife. The next phase of the Foundation’s 10 year history is moving into a remarkable dynamic new project: A Parent-Child Reunion. This project is the first ever of its kind, and certainly a giant step in understanding the nature of death.
The Reunion’s focus is to reconnect seven Mothers selected from around the United States with their children who have transitioned. The Retreat will be held in Sun Valley Idaho, home of the Sawtooth mountains and Big Wood River Campground, a favorite camping expedition of my parents growing up, I might add! The serene energy of the mountains and the beauty of the resort make it an ideal place to dive deep into the issues surrounding grief, loss, spiritual counseling and finally acceptance and healing. It is the Foundation's belief that death is a natural part of life and should be looked at as a joyous return to our natural, spirit self and not as an end of our existence to be feared.
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Patricia on Alzheimer's
Patricia is a 90 year old woman who had died a few months earlier after having Alzheimer's for 20 years. She is speaking to her daughter. . .
"...I actually had the most unusual of lives and I wanted to speak to you about that so you would recognize that what happened to me in terms of the illness is not some misfortune or random act that was a tragic kind of turn. I want you to get that there was something about me that was very agreeable to that. I know that sounds strange to you. When you would have such an ability to live life more vibrantly and more in touch with things, why would you choose to be in such a state of dysfunction? I know that if I were looking at me the same way you are I would ask the same thing. Why would anybody get any value whatsoever out of living through what I did these last 20 years before I left? So I'm going to give you a different view - not only so you'll hear it and know it is true but so you can reach out and help others when the time comes...""You ask, "Mom, why is it you would want such an experience?" and I'm going to tell you. First of all, you have so many lives to live, honey. I can't tell you how much excitement there is with each new one you step in to. That's why you don't care how long you live. You don't really care at the soul level what's going on in your life. You just know: oh boy! I get to go to the earth and have an experience of being human. It's such a beautiful thing that you get excited about it. You love it. You jump up and down... So when we do we are not set up with a list that says, "I don't want any diseases that are bad. I don't want to have trouble. I don't want to fall into some sort of disarray with other people and on and on." We don't say that as souls. We say clearly, "Bring it on. Let's have the experience. Let's see what it is going to be about in this life." I had some beautiful experiences. I had all of you who I love so dearly. I had so much that was full and rich in my life that when I reached the age I did when the whole condition, or the illness as we call it, set in I wasn't all thrown out of whack. I didn't just say, "Oh no, what doom." "I found myself reaching out, especially when it got to that place where I didn't know anyone and the memory was so gone. It was in exactly those moments that I was travelling, my dear. I was out there in so many different dimensions, so many different fields of experiences, that there aren't even words that I could come back into my body and explain to you. I couldn't sit there and tell to you - this is where I was, this is what happened, this was unbelievable because there are no words. The travelling was amazing and, yes, it was something that was beneficial to me. I loved being able to then enter back into the flesh and blood of the body. You might ask, "Well, why? If you couldn't do anything, you couldn't remember anything, you couldn't interact in a functional way like you used to, what good was it to travel in all those dimensions and then come right back into a flesh and blood that wasn't doing anything?" Let me tell you that sometimes there are parts of your life that you live on the earth where your intention is not to do anything. Really and truly. Sometimes you are just fine with a turn of events that says, "You can stop thinking. You can stop moving. You can stop making anything have to happen according to the rules that you've been living by." So there was great value in me just laying there. I want you to see this because I want you to let go of this part of me, this part of my life - the part of your mother who existed in such a way that seemed so tragic and do difficult and depressing. I want you to see me differently. To realize that there was great value in the learning that I was having and there was a great sense of peace at being able to end up back in that body." "...I want you to know and see the different part that I was living than you could possibly understand when you would observe me. I want you to begin to absorb this into your understanding of why certain souls choose such a condition as Alzheimer's. I will also tell you that it will never be cured. It is not a condition that can be cured like a disease that has been conquered by our human interest. This is a condition of life that many souls seek, particularly when they get near the end of their lives, and it is a viable way to be. So it will not go away." I just want her to know that I miss her. I hadn't seen her for so long. I turned off to her when she was in that condition. I didn't even go visit because what was the point. I want to make sure she didn't take that personally.Oh yes, that's a whole other reason I wanted to talk to you too, dear. That whole guilt thing - it's so overrated. Just stop it, will you? There's nothing personal at all that I took or that anybody takes in that condition." "So don't, for one minute, think that just because you show up physically, or you don't, that there is something good or bad about that. There really isn't. When you get to the condition that I was in you are just as happy to have everyone go about the business of their life and just send the hellos to you. I could feel that. Every time you prayed or had a moment where you sent some thinking to me I felt it immensely - right to my heart - and I sent the love right back. That's what happens, you know, and that's why I'm so excited you are letting me through to say this."
"...I actually had the most unusual of lives and I wanted to speak to you about that so you would recognize that what happened to me in terms of the illness is not some misfortune or random act that was a tragic kind of turn. I want you to get that there was something about me that was very agreeable to that. I know that sounds strange to you. When you would have such an ability to live life more vibrantly and more in touch with things, why would you choose to be in such a state of dysfunction? I know that if I were looking at me the same way you are I would ask the same thing. Why would anybody get any value whatsoever out of living through what I did these last 20 years before I left? So I'm going to give you a different view - not only so you'll hear it and know it is true but so you can reach out and help others when the time comes...""You ask, "Mom, why is it you would want such an experience?" and I'm going to tell you. First of all, you have so many lives to live, honey. I can't tell you how much excitement there is with each new one you step in to. That's why you don't care how long you live. You don't really care at the soul level what's going on in your life. You just know: oh boy! I get to go to the earth and have an experience of being human. It's such a beautiful thing that you get excited about it. You love it. You jump up and down... So when we do we are not set up with a list that says, "I don't want any diseases that are bad. I don't want to have trouble. I don't want to fall into some sort of disarray with other people and on and on." We don't say that as souls. We say clearly, "Bring it on. Let's have the experience. Let's see what it is going to be about in this life." I had some beautiful experiences. I had all of you who I love so dearly. I had so much that was full and rich in my life that when I reached the age I did when the whole condition, or the illness as we call it, set in I wasn't all thrown out of whack. I didn't just say, "Oh no, what doom." "I found myself reaching out, especially when it got to that place where I didn't know anyone and the memory was so gone. It was in exactly those moments that I was travelling, my dear. I was out there in so many different dimensions, so many different fields of experiences, that there aren't even words that I could come back into my body and explain to you. I couldn't sit there and tell to you - this is where I was, this is what happened, this was unbelievable because there are no words. The travelling was amazing and, yes, it was something that was beneficial to me. I loved being able to then enter back into the flesh and blood of the body. You might ask, "Well, why? If you couldn't do anything, you couldn't remember anything, you couldn't interact in a functional way like you used to, what good was it to travel in all those dimensions and then come right back into a flesh and blood that wasn't doing anything?" Let me tell you that sometimes there are parts of your life that you live on the earth where your intention is not to do anything. Really and truly. Sometimes you are just fine with a turn of events that says, "You can stop thinking. You can stop moving. You can stop making anything have to happen according to the rules that you've been living by." So there was great value in me just laying there. I want you to see this because I want you to let go of this part of me, this part of my life - the part of your mother who existed in such a way that seemed so tragic and do difficult and depressing. I want you to see me differently. To realize that there was great value in the learning that I was having and there was a great sense of peace at being able to end up back in that body." "...I want you to know and see the different part that I was living than you could possibly understand when you would observe me. I want you to begin to absorb this into your understanding of why certain souls choose such a condition as Alzheimer's. I will also tell you that it will never be cured. It is not a condition that can be cured like a disease that has been conquered by our human interest. This is a condition of life that many souls seek, particularly when they get near the end of their lives, and it is a viable way to be. So it will not go away." I just want her to know that I miss her. I hadn't seen her for so long. I turned off to her when she was in that condition. I didn't even go visit because what was the point. I want to make sure she didn't take that personally.Oh yes, that's a whole other reason I wanted to talk to you too, dear. That whole guilt thing - it's so overrated. Just stop it, will you? There's nothing personal at all that I took or that anybody takes in that condition." "So don't, for one minute, think that just because you show up physically, or you don't, that there is something good or bad about that. There really isn't. When you get to the condition that I was in you are just as happy to have everyone go about the business of their life and just send the hellos to you. I could feel that. Every time you prayed or had a moment where you sent some thinking to me I felt it immensely - right to my heart - and I sent the love right back. That's what happens, you know, and that's why I'm so excited you are letting me through to say this."
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Young mother who died of cancer: I am here. I am around.
Melissa on the wall of grief
Melissa is a young old mother who died of cancer
I know not how to proceed with this particular moment for I feel as if I’m expected to say something profound. I don’t really feel I have much profound to say and yet I experience the love and the affection you feel for me, Jennifer, and it has given me this platform and this way to move forward.
What I sense and what I’m realizing now is that as I made the journey the idea of what I was in the Melissa life and what I am now is something so removed from what I believed and what I sensed when I was there as Melissa. This is hard to reconcile and it is, in part, why I feel like I don’t have so much to say. I don’t really know the context of bringing who I am now and what I know in to what it is to be Melissa. I recognize it was wondrous to be there and to be able to bring forward the souls onto this earth that I participated with was a wondrous gift. I can’t emphasize that enough. Yet I can’t go to where everyone is thinking of me - the energy that they are putting out that it was too soon. What a shame. These children will not know their mother. All of that seems absurd to me. I don’t know another way to put it. It seems absurd. How could they not know me? I am there. I am around. They will carry in their hearts who I was for them in the flesh. They will recognize me soon enough and be totally aware, totally grateful for who we all are together.
I cannot get into the rhythm of what is left in my wake. I cannot find the bridge to those who are suffering so that I have gone. I find that my whole idea of being me is perfectly wonderful. It is everything that I would want it to be. Yet, in this moment, I can’t share it with one soul who exists in the flesh – not one will fully celebrate with me for there are those tendrils of sorrow and grief that hold me back. I want so to be able to sense and feel and relate who I am so that others can find the joy, release the sorrow, and say, “Ah, she is well. She is wondrous. She is fine.” Yet, of course, the idea of what I left or what it was meant to be me in that identity stays and lingers so strong and with such intensity that is where everyone focuses. That’s what everything is all about.
Now I know that so many recognize that the battle was one that was hard and long and arduous and that I made choices along the way that probably made it longer and harder and more arduous than it needed to be. I recognize that and I know, too, that there is relief that comes at the end of such an illness. But it is not enough to forestall or replace the grief and the sorrow and the sense that I should still be there. Well how can I come forward as I really am when I don’t know how to get through to those who think I should really be me, the Melissa in that body?
That’s the message you can give for me, Jennifer. While many around me are not prepared to hear it the idea that there is someone who is Melissa - who hangs and hovers and brings the energy of light and love but cannot find her way into the hearts of those who most need her and want her - is the message I bring. That’s the message I bring to all of you. Keep yourselves aware of how much you hold off what is best and highest in grace for you. Recognize that someone leaving is not someone who is leaving. They are simply not in the form and not in the way that you once knew. This is no news. This is no wisdom. I said this was not profound. It simply is the way it is and me being able to bring it here in this forum, in this moment, perhaps has shed light for others to take to heart and bring to those they love here on this earth.
Melissa is a young old mother who died of cancer
I know not how to proceed with this particular moment for I feel as if I’m expected to say something profound. I don’t really feel I have much profound to say and yet I experience the love and the affection you feel for me, Jennifer, and it has given me this platform and this way to move forward.
What I sense and what I’m realizing now is that as I made the journey the idea of what I was in the Melissa life and what I am now is something so removed from what I believed and what I sensed when I was there as Melissa. This is hard to reconcile and it is, in part, why I feel like I don’t have so much to say. I don’t really know the context of bringing who I am now and what I know in to what it is to be Melissa. I recognize it was wondrous to be there and to be able to bring forward the souls onto this earth that I participated with was a wondrous gift. I can’t emphasize that enough. Yet I can’t go to where everyone is thinking of me - the energy that they are putting out that it was too soon. What a shame. These children will not know their mother. All of that seems absurd to me. I don’t know another way to put it. It seems absurd. How could they not know me? I am there. I am around. They will carry in their hearts who I was for them in the flesh. They will recognize me soon enough and be totally aware, totally grateful for who we all are together.
I cannot get into the rhythm of what is left in my wake. I cannot find the bridge to those who are suffering so that I have gone. I find that my whole idea of being me is perfectly wonderful. It is everything that I would want it to be. Yet, in this moment, I can’t share it with one soul who exists in the flesh – not one will fully celebrate with me for there are those tendrils of sorrow and grief that hold me back. I want so to be able to sense and feel and relate who I am so that others can find the joy, release the sorrow, and say, “Ah, she is well. She is wondrous. She is fine.” Yet, of course, the idea of what I left or what it was meant to be me in that identity stays and lingers so strong and with such intensity that is where everyone focuses. That’s what everything is all about.
Now I know that so many recognize that the battle was one that was hard and long and arduous and that I made choices along the way that probably made it longer and harder and more arduous than it needed to be. I recognize that and I know, too, that there is relief that comes at the end of such an illness. But it is not enough to forestall or replace the grief and the sorrow and the sense that I should still be there. Well how can I come forward as I really am when I don’t know how to get through to those who think I should really be me, the Melissa in that body?
That’s the message you can give for me, Jennifer. While many around me are not prepared to hear it the idea that there is someone who is Melissa - who hangs and hovers and brings the energy of light and love but cannot find her way into the hearts of those who most need her and want her - is the message I bring. That’s the message I bring to all of you. Keep yourselves aware of how much you hold off what is best and highest in grace for you. Recognize that someone leaving is not someone who is leaving. They are simply not in the form and not in the way that you once knew. This is no news. This is no wisdom. I said this was not profound. It simply is the way it is and me being able to bring it here in this forum, in this moment, perhaps has shed light for others to take to heart and bring to those they love here on this earth.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Parent-Child Reunion
Dear Readers and Welcome,
If you have found this blog, is it not by accident. Perhaps it is you who is searching for something to help you in your sorrow and grief--or someone very close to you who is is trying to recover, understand and put meaning to "why" regarding the death of their child. Please read about a very compassionate gifted woman and her ability to reconnect parents with their child who is now in heaven or has transitioned to "the Otherside of the veil." Below, is an announcement of a very special Parent-Child Reunion--a retreat to help parents with the loss of their child.
Who?
Sally Baldwin and the Dying To Live Again Foundation extend a heartfelt welcome to parents and our supporters. We are dedicated to helping bereaved parents reconnect with the soul of their child who has crossed-over to the spirit realm. We arrange 'Reunions' based in faith, love, energetic healing, and mediumship. In this light, we announce our inaugural retreat to support parents in their journey to find an alternative means to communicate with their child. The Parent-Child Reunion is scheduled for October, 2009 in beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho. Below, please read more and learn about the art of connecting with the Otherside and its healing impact on grief and sorrow.
On behalf of all parents, respectfully,
Sally Baldwin
What? Communicating with Your Child's Soul . . .
Helping Parents with the Loss of a Child
Scope of the Problem: Children are not supposed to die! Sadly, over 50,000 families are devastated by this unfortunate reality each year in the United States. The loss of a child leaves parents in a state of profound bereavement. Parental mourning is the most intense grief known and these families are constantly plagued by pain and suffering. This tragedy can paralyze their lives for years to come.
Goal: To provide mothers who have lost a young child an opportunity to heal more deeply by connecting with the spirit of their loved-one.
Sponsor: The Dying to Live Again Foundation (Public Charity 501-C-3).
Participants: Mothers will be selected based primarily on their capacity to embrace the notion that those who have expired physically continue to exist in another realm and it is possible to connect with distinct spirits. These mothers must possess a strong motivation to communicate with their child through spirit channeling. The application process is now under way. Ten or fewer mothers will be chosen to partake in the workshop so as to keep the activities personalized and deep. Participants will receive financial support associated with the retreat.
Program: The retreat will be conducted in Sun Valley, Idaho at a local hotel and conference center. The workshop program will be scheduled during mid October 2009 and conducted over a 3.5-day period. Experiences will include personal counseling on grief and loss issues, seminars in stress management, energy work, and spiritual channeling with the soul of their child. Special emphasis will be placed on the phenomena of ‘yearning’ and ‘acceptance’.
Faculty: Sally Baldwin and Steve Baldwin will be the primary educators and counselors. Sally and Steve each earned a master’s degree in the field of healthcare and have extensive experience as healing arts professionals. Debbie Grossman and Nancy LeMaster will function as facilitators during the program to provide the mothers with guidance and comfort as needed. Debbie and Nancy are highly involved with the DTLA Foundation and have been comprehensively trained in grief and loss education. Channeling with the Otherside is to be conducted by Sally Baldwin.
For more information: Please see www.parentchildreunion.com
info@parentchildreunion.com
954-788-3430
If you have found this blog, is it not by accident. Perhaps it is you who is searching for something to help you in your sorrow and grief--or someone very close to you who is is trying to recover, understand and put meaning to "why" regarding the death of their child. Please read about a very compassionate gifted woman and her ability to reconnect parents with their child who is now in heaven or has transitioned to "the Otherside of the veil." Below, is an announcement of a very special Parent-Child Reunion--a retreat to help parents with the loss of their child.
Who?
Sally Baldwin and the Dying To Live Again Foundation extend a heartfelt welcome to parents and our supporters. We are dedicated to helping bereaved parents reconnect with the soul of their child who has crossed-over to the spirit realm. We arrange 'Reunions' based in faith, love, energetic healing, and mediumship. In this light, we announce our inaugural retreat to support parents in their journey to find an alternative means to communicate with their child. The Parent-Child Reunion is scheduled for October, 2009 in beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho. Below, please read more and learn about the art of connecting with the Otherside and its healing impact on grief and sorrow.
On behalf of all parents, respectfully,
Sally Baldwin
What? Communicating with Your Child's Soul . . .
Helping Parents with the Loss of a Child
Scope of the Problem: Children are not supposed to die! Sadly, over 50,000 families are devastated by this unfortunate reality each year in the United States. The loss of a child leaves parents in a state of profound bereavement. Parental mourning is the most intense grief known and these families are constantly plagued by pain and suffering. This tragedy can paralyze their lives for years to come.
Goal: To provide mothers who have lost a young child an opportunity to heal more deeply by connecting with the spirit of their loved-one.
Sponsor: The Dying to Live Again Foundation (Public Charity 501-C-3).
Participants: Mothers will be selected based primarily on their capacity to embrace the notion that those who have expired physically continue to exist in another realm and it is possible to connect with distinct spirits. These mothers must possess a strong motivation to communicate with their child through spirit channeling. The application process is now under way. Ten or fewer mothers will be chosen to partake in the workshop so as to keep the activities personalized and deep. Participants will receive financial support associated with the retreat.
Program: The retreat will be conducted in Sun Valley, Idaho at a local hotel and conference center. The workshop program will be scheduled during mid October 2009 and conducted over a 3.5-day period. Experiences will include personal counseling on grief and loss issues, seminars in stress management, energy work, and spiritual channeling with the soul of their child. Special emphasis will be placed on the phenomena of ‘yearning’ and ‘acceptance’.
Faculty: Sally Baldwin and Steve Baldwin will be the primary educators and counselors. Sally and Steve each earned a master’s degree in the field of healthcare and have extensive experience as healing arts professionals. Debbie Grossman and Nancy LeMaster will function as facilitators during the program to provide the mothers with guidance and comfort as needed. Debbie and Nancy are highly involved with the DTLA Foundation and have been comprehensively trained in grief and loss education. Channeling with the Otherside is to be conducted by Sally Baldwin.
For more information: Please see www.parentchildreunion.com
info@parentchildreunion.com
954-788-3430
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