{"id":2569,"date":"2016-04-04T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2016-04-04T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T20:23:23","slug":"my-new-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"My New Home, CO – Distilling a 3rd Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

I moved to Colorado last year. \u00a0These are my new (yellow) walls. \u00a0My office is in our beautiful basement. \u00a0I moved 10 months ago. \u00a0I spent 10 months setting up life for the collective. \u00a0This is how I am organized, and this is how I begin. \u00a0Its been a massive project, not done, but most\/enough underway or settled, to feel into here.<\/p>\n

This space combines 3 former physical spaces I used before the move:<\/p>\n

i)\u00a0My studio at Activ Space – coaching and earlier self devt\/art\/blogging.<\/p>\n

ii) My backroom at my former house – the place I looked for jobs, listened to my daughter being cared for by her nanny as a baby, where I initiated\u00a0focusing inward, manifesting changes, and pursing a different way.<\/p>\n

iii) My small group work – which took place at the agency I volunteered bi-monthly in grief support and at\u00a0the spiritual center where I led contemplative groups\u00a0and came to be trained by a spiritual direction teacher in group facilitation.<\/p>\n

iv) Also, really a 4th space – my PhD office where I had my materials, my research, my books, my ethnographic materials, my first attempt at a role of bringing my\u00a0professional and personal gifts\u00a0forward.<\/p>\n

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Five years ago, I said “I feel like Mma Ramotswe”. \u00a0Today I feel a younger sense of quiet and possibility that I haven’t felt in a long time. The feeling “no one is looking or listening.” \u00a0“There is\u00a0space for me to be quietly creating”.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0last two months, I step into focusing my myself. \u00a0Its been hard. \u00a0Its been my work to build and manifest a deep floor. \u00a0Hold back my expansive side until there is simplicity inside and outside. \u00a0That work underway, I focus on ‘my infrastructure’. \u00a0Terrifying really, moving into my own and trusting the foundations.<\/p>\n

I was\u00a0shaky setting it up: sketching, engaging the store where I got the materials, the trips and liaising to get the order placed (correctly), finding an installer, navigating the workmanship, and calibrating if it is right. \u00a0Trust, analysis, organization, spatial analysis, diligence, and interpersonal management. \u00a0Infrastructure\u00a0helps me make\u00a0me the inside come out to begin to manifest new things. \u00a0I was\u00a0shaky and vulnerable trying to create this these months.<\/p>\n

I have a beautiful guest room for my hospitality next store. \u00a0My art closet across the way. \u00a0My family’s family\u00a0room with lots of things for all of us to do is nearby, down the hallway. \u00a0No more driving. \u00a0No more rent. \u00a0No more landlord. \u00a0No more partial set up, to be torn down as an interim step. \u00a0Now,\u00a0I have\u00a0all of this in one place! \u00a0In my home.\u00a0 It\u00a0is beautiful to have my special bookcase alongside of my PhD diploma and my coaching certification. Quiet\u00a0and connected place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I moved to Colorado last year. \u00a0These are my new (yellow) walls. \u00a0My office is in our beautiful basement. \u00a0I moved 10 months ago. \u00a0I spent 10 months setting up life for the collective. \u00a0This is how I am organized, and this is how I begin. \u00a0Its been a massive project, not done, but most\/enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolamienne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}