“I am willing. Lead me.”

In the fall of 2004, I opened BLISS Healing Arts after about a decade of doing healing work both formally and informally with individuals and groups while still maintaining a more separate career as an educational consultant and grantwriter.  Now, fourteen years later, it is time for a new vision and a new look. Time to integrate all aspects of my being and work and to offer it more broadly to the public.

Many blessings have been bestowed on me these last several years – abundance, joy, peace, health, friendship, relationship to name just a few. I am grateful. Challenges have also been present on the path – the death of family members and close friends, loss of important relationships, ending of work opportunities, new health challenges, and a chronic illness.  I am not alone in either the abundance of blessings or challenges that have been placed on my path; you, too, have your share of each, I know.  

What has remained throughout both types of experiences, however, is my belief that Spirit and the Universe continue to support me, to communicate with me, to ask of me.  So it is with this in mind and heart that I continue to commit myself to service, to the work I feel called to do wherever I am called to do it.

When I first launched BLISS and this website, I spoke to you about the mantra I used to help me through all sorts of difficulties and offered it to you for your use as well.  It was “I am willing.  I am willing.  I am willing.”  In 2010 and for several years thereafter, the mantra was amended to “I am willing. Help me trust.  I am willing. Help me trust.”

Now in 2018, it has changed once again, and I offer for your consideration, "I am willing. Lead me." 

While grace, ease, and abundance are available to us always, perceived obstacles and limitations often keep us from experiencing them fully. Varying degrees of tragedy in our lives and on the planet may make us question the point of it all.  I say to you, seek joy and love and right action in all that you do for Spirit, for self, and for others.  Seek to balance, to live in the center of your life so that no matter what is happening around you, you can respond from a place of peace and strength. Allow your life to unfold. Let go of the resistance. Get into the silence and listen to what it is trying to tell you. And finally, be willing, trust, and allow a force greater than you to guide.

As always, I wish you moments of grace descending,

Carolyn

About Carolyn

Carolyn Romano holds a B.A. from Drew University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Trained as an attorney with expertise in both special education, elder law, and estate planning, Carolyn has spent much of the last 25 years as an educational consultant, grant writer, and director of both national and state education projects. She is currently Vice President of Product at Torchlight.care, a technology startup in Burlington, Massachusetts that addresses the caregiving needs of the millions of people in the workforce who are also caring for a child with a disability or aging loved one. More info at Carolyn's LinkedIn Profile.

Carolyn is also a shamanic practitioner and medicine woman with particular expertise in native American healing ritual and ceremony, energy medicine, mind-body skill building, the emotional roots of disease, stored trauma/cellular memory, and other alternative healing practices focused on self-care and empowerment. She is a canumpa (sacred pipe) carrier trained in the Lakota tradition.  Carolyn founded Bliss Healing Arts to pursue her passion of helping individuals and groups achieve lives of balance, abundance, and joy. She expands her work now to include emerging women leaders who need support to remember, cultivate, and share their personal medicine with the world.

Carolyn hosts a monthly radio program called Living on Purpose with Carolyn Romano, that is part of the Dreamvisions 7 Radio Network streaming online at Dreamvisions7radio.com and has a listenership of over 180,000 people.

From 2002 to 2005, Carolyn was Program Director of the Theosophical Society in Boston, an organization dedicated to exploring Ageless Wisdom. In October 2005, she became the TS President. Along with her three sisters, Carolyn created The Frank J. Romano Foundation in 2008 to honor the memory of her father who passed away in 2007 from pancreatic cancer and to continue his life-long legacy of service. 
 
In 2016, Carolyn moved to a small farm in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, to create Charlie's Place, a Healing Sanctuary for Animals and Their People. Charlie's Place is home to Carolyn and her husband Curt along with nearly 60 rescue animals -- dogs, cats, sheep, goats, mini horses, a mini donkey, ducks, chickens, and a turtle named Arthur.