This December, 2025, has become a time of heartbreaking news and hopeful Holy Days...sudden grief-filled emotional events hold centerstage against a backdrop of broadly celebrated holidays of miracles and hope. Yes, it is unique, yet hauntingly familiar. Like so many, my heart is weighted with loss, shock, grief, and heartache this week with news of unexpected, violent, and tragic deaths. I pray for physical, emotional, and spiritual support to be provided to those so desperately in need--their grieving loved ones, their close community, and the greater collective so impacted by these losses. 

Whether seen or unseen, one's journey through grief is, at its foundation, a private, solo experience that shifts each of us on multiple levels. There are no words to rewind and lift it...just offerings and expressions of love, empathy, and support for those experiencing deep and profound loss.  Give Love. The need is real. Sense the power and blessing in loving and your Divine role in it.  Our connected hearts seem more tenderly in resonance this week. Thank you for being and seeking.

​Beyond and outside of these thoughts on grief and supporting those suffering such personal loss, I want to touch on some universal truths. Most strive for meaning, contentment, and love in this world of potential opportunities and heavy lessons.  I believe that finding and expressing the love and gratitude in your heart for the blessings in your life create a greater Divine Presence in our world while helping ones' healing process. Your thoughts and actions affect the larger world energetically, whether diminishing or elevating oneself. Your energetic signature, moment to moment, is becoming a part of the greater whole, reflecting what you feel and think. Hope and gratitude are felt, as are fear and despair. We build our environment in many ways and what it then attracts--literally a component of manifesting.

This Holy Season, I wish you blessings of hope, comfort, spiritual and emotional growth, and expanding love for others and self.  I believe it is through our efforts toward significant inner-self understanding, the healing, and the forgiveness for one's emotional/spiritual wounding that these wished for blessings can manifest most fully.

This overarching effort is referred to in various ways: addressing ones' shadow self or shadow side; healing the effects of childhood traumas or doing inner child work; recognizing and removing false or skewed limiting belief systems; and closing the fissures or breaks within ones' energetic, spiritual and/or bio fields. These unprotected openings can be from addictions, unhealthy or low vibrational behaviors/activities, and vulnerability from low self-esteem/self-worth--all likely rooted in unhealed emotional wounding. The goals are significant. They include profound personal healing; enabling ones' building of greater self-love and higher level life choices; and creating beneficial boundaries for oneself to achieve and protect the soul's sovereignty in this challenging world. I posit that our inner healing begets greater Light and love in our communal environment...a micro and macro spiritual win-win.

If you want to learn more about the human biofield, the role of spirituality in wellness, and many other wellness or healing topics, you will find a rich library of research, studies, and peer-reviewed publications online at PubMed. 
 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

I wish everyone more joy, love, and especially healing as we experience this Holy Season. Happy Hanukkah, Christmas, and other uplifting seasonal celebrations of Life and Spirit as we rapidly move toward 2026.  Jeannette Bondurant©2025
​Photo:  Some happy holiday inspirations. Jeannette Bondurant.

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• My fellow soul travelers, stand up against bullies. Own your power. Look with more discernment regarding who they really are and the masks they wear in certain circles to hide their character and manipulate perceptions. Become a Warrior. I welcome and honor your change, and I look forward to providing guidance on that journey. 

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I have not lived in CA for years, have no CA driver's license or residence there, and no close or active/significant personal relationships in LA since 2012-ish with the exception of a close friend, Heather, who passed away several years ago. When I moved from LA, I had no existing romantic relationships of any kind, nor any since early 2009 and no interest seeking one. BTW, he did not live in LA and a was a good friend in the healing arts. I also had no ongoing/new business affairs, partnerships, group memberships, or legal affairs in the region.  Following recovery from a life-altering health crisis in 2009, I only focused on career, service, family, and restoring optimal wellness. Due to health concerns, I officially resigned in the spring of 2009 from the Board of Directors of the nonprofit I cofounded in 2007. I did not return due to health limitations at the time. I was informed several years later that the nonprofit was closed around 2011. My healing journey dramatically altered my life perspective, spiritual development, and so much more.  Despite the health glitch, my career accomplishments speak for themselves--see About & Gallery Page. With the encouragement of another close friend (female business owner training medical professionals), I created Larimar J Communications to house my increasing freelance work after moving to San Diego with a new position--and before moving east. To date, I have never subcontracted work or hired an outside company to handle my client projects. No official partnerships or related vendor service contracts exist with Larimar J Communications.

MY ONLY SOCIAL MEDIA (two pages) is Facebook/Meta: Jeannette Bon Durant, and Larimar J Communications, along with LinkedIn. I have no other active or recently closed profiles or info/image pages on any formats, platforms, apps, or websites for any other services, dating, networking, promotion, social commentary, or chat groups. Those would be fake. If this changes, it will be announced on this website first.

LASTLY, my personal estate and health legal documents are all connected within my immediate family, who are well-informed. Any unexpected claim for control or financial gain from an outside person or group would be considered as fraudulent.

If you know about any related fraud, please report my identity theft or other criminal activities to the FBI in Los Angeles.  They offer an easy online tip form. 

Yes, I am taking on new projects. Feel free to reach out to me by email, as noted on my Contact Page header or submit the online form.
With Gratitude, Thank you.  Jeannette
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I’ve been outside grounding, barefoot in the park. My favorite location has dense woods and a large grassy amphitheater so green and close-cropped that it’s now imaginatively imprinted as the passion project of a nearby golf course groundskeeper. The charming rustling of squirrels and the tangible energy I feel in the deepest part of the woodland path signal winter's coming. Yesterday, while sitting on the green slope between dappled shadows, I filled one of my socks with acorns that peppered the space like sprinkles on a cake. After filling my sock as a childlike impromptu exercise, I hatched my newest plan...to gather them frequently, then return them to the park on Christmas morning, or maybe in the coldest days of late January to honor the little ones waiting it out in the hollows and leaves.

God, how I love Nature! It’s not just sunshine and the glory of flora but the energy these beautiful creations radiate. Yes, I’m a tree-hugger and barefoot grass-sitter. Sometimes, I just lean on the wooden railing of the footbridge and hold the leafy tips of branches with my fingers, while I tell them how beautiful they are and how much I adore them. Don’t you talk to your plants at home? On the bridge, I breathe deeply and feel the powerful energy fields.  I know I am grounding through the touch of leaves, just as I believe walking barefoot benefits my physical, mental, and emotional health.  Japanese culture promotes tree bathing, shinrin-yoku, as a popular form of preventive and restorative healthcare. You can easily find more about barefoot grass-walking and tree bathing online.  I've read that some experts say our pets help remove the stress energy they absorb from us by running outside multiple times each day, grounding with direct foot contact on the grass and earth. All these activities move energy…change energy.  I recently posted on my Facebook/Meta about an experiment with electrons that found particles behaved differently depending on whether the observer expected a certain result.
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Everything is energy.

When one initially begins spiritual studies or energy work, typically, the first lesson is to ground oneself, with imagination, connecting the soles of the feet a ways into the soil and often making an imaginary connection from the base of one’s spine down to the center of the Earth. We’re making an energetic connection to something.  Gaia in Greek mythology is the mother of all life, goddess of the Earth.  I posit that Mother Nature, Gaia, or Mother Earth,  is a live and powerful something.  This is based on the widely studied suggested benefits of grounding; the extensive scientific studies of the energy fields of living things; the improved health and longevity stats of those living outside of cities; that stressed plants emit airborne sounds that can be recorded from a distance and classified; how plants signal warnings of danger like innate immune systems in metazoans (any multicellular animal of the group Metazoa, including all animals except sponges); and the observable or measurable effects of thought energy to change things--whether by the fundamental principle of the brain's neuroplasticity and neural pathways, meditation, the mind-body connection, or the intriguing ideas of Masaru Emoto. His experiments are covered in his book, “The Hidden Messages in Water.” That book is a thought-provoking read with lots of photos to illustrate his observed water crystal changes from the application of separate and focused strong positive or negative thoughts/vibrational energy.  Trees and plants contain high percentages of water, with variations depending upon humidity, seasons, temperatures, and section studied, i.e., woody tissues (trunk) have about 50% or higher water content. The human body is comprised of 55% to 78% water depending upon age, muscle/fat ratios, and the categories of babies, women, and men, meaning that, in theory, positive or negative thought energy will affect our cells and health.  Does everything have to be scientifically measurable on some current standards to be real? It's easy to imagine the cellular and emotional benefits of spoken encouragement or the health destruction of hateful words towards a child. (See my last blogs, Captains Courageous, and But, are You Sovereign? on creating personal, energetic boundaries to avoid targeted energy attacks from lower vibrational sources/people.) All of these studies and characteristics illustrate energy emitted or reactivity to energy applied in Nature.  Our world. Her realm.
(Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1360138517301553; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37001499; https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-school/science/water-you-water-and-human-body ; https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/42180 water content of different plant parts ) 

I suggest that truth is often revealed in jest and that underlying truths can unconsciously form intellectual and creative developments. Our 1960s Mad Men revolutionized advertising from fact-listing to compelling copy, catchy images, and jingles that targeted consumer desires. In the 1970s, the scene changed again to reflect dramatic social and cultural changes, which often targeted the growing youth culture of the huge Baby Boomer demographic. A long-running and popular campaign of Chiffon Margarine in the ‘70s featured actor Dena Dietrich portraying Mother Nature who thought the product was butter after tasting. Upon finding out the truth, she angrily stormed, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!” and rained down lightning and thunder…30 seconds of charming, scary, and exactly my point. 
(Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena_Dietrich; Chiffon Margarine commercials can be found online.)

Enjoy your 2025 autumn! I'm looking forward to the love of gathered family at Thanksgiving. I wish you an abundance of health, creativity, peace, and love. Your conscious actions and how you react to everything on an energetic level, consciously and unconsciously, i.e., your emotions, your thoughts, and your nervous system, can make or break that manifestation. Understanding and healing your inner emotional wounds make this process better, softer, faster–and the healing effect of being in Nature's energy can be a surprising asset on your journey to wholeness, health, and sovereignty of self.  You can strive to become a role model of wellness for your tribe and increase the life force and abundance in our world. You can. Aspire higher. Your growing authentic self-love makes a difference beyond your own field, and your energy is radiant. You are seen, and you are deeply loved. Jeannette Bondurant©2025
​Photo:  Jeannette Bondurant, my cloisonne pot from Beijing with acorns 10/2025.​  Featured in my post on China.​
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I am in exceptional health and spirits and have been all year. I am happily engaged with clients and friends. The game is afoot. Question the integrity of your sources, or simply reach out to me. 

​COPYCAT / FRAUD: I deeply appreciate my clients and potential client inquiries. The only way to reach me is through my website's CONTACT form (my email address provided there) or call 310-953-4318 (voice message, no text). Regardless of my residential location, I have not had a post office box or mailing address in the Los Angeles region for more than 10 years, nor someone ever representing me formally or informally. 

I was asked to give some details.  I have not lived in CA for years, have no CA driver's license or residence there, and no close or active/significant personal relationships in LA since 2012-ish. With the encouragement of a close friend (female business owner training medical professionals), I created Larimar J Communications to house my increasing freelance work while in San Diego before moving east.  Any business correspondence going elsewhere than my contact information on this website will not reach me, and the resultant replies, supplied emails or phone numbers, business contracts, or creative work from "me" (or plagiarized/stolen) should be considered as fraudulent, as well as theft, and mail fraud.  
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If you know about any of this fraud/crime, please report my identity theft to the FBI in Los Angeles. 
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Yes, I am taking on new projects.
With Gratitude, Thank you.  Jeannette

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​I see and applaud your courage! It's mid-August, and you are not the same. You think it's secret...hard won...only a fragile fearlessness quietly catalogued in your head. But, it's in your big, beautiful heart, and your new steps have empowered and strengthened your soul on this journey. Like the communication amongst all the trees in the woods--through their roots, energy fields, and released chemicals--your collective tribe senses your growing Light. It may be a bumpy journey, but your movement is forward and grounded...grounded in a new sense of self-love; a deepening trust and belief in the love and overarching power of the Divine, the One Source, the Creator; and your stepping away from people and circumstances that you now see with clarity as toxic or limiting. Bravo! You are finding your inner strength and taking a deep breath after breaking free from co-dependency, fear of being alone, or other embedded skewed beliefs.  Hold that feeling of success. Recognize it as a powerful step and know others are on the same journey. You will begin to see them. Build your inner strength with one private, secret success stacked upon another. You are meant to glow in your individual sovereign strength. That term is simply renaming the power of Love. This is not a willy-nilly unconditional love for all...it is the powerful flame of universal love that can empower and increase our sovereignty. Hold firm. Continue setting boundaries that inform others of your self-respect and self-love.  Will this cause friction? Of course. Some have called my cut off game lethal as a butcher knife. Thank you. I see those name-callers as a toxic crew of manipulators often supported by flying monkeys that I don't want in my life.  They choose to live in lack/take-from-others mentality. It seems they may be too blinded by greed or jealousy to see that kind hearts are not weak souls. I wish them healing and enlightenment, but it is not my (or your) responsibility to individually heal any of these people. For abundance and "luck" that stays in your life, the foundation must be built with a strong and understanding heart, taking action toward goals, and perseverance. Gifts taken from others will always be temporary gains. So, yes, I see your Light and salute you. I love your new boundaries and your beautiful tentative steps into a more joy-filled, sovereign life. You have always been the Captain.  Jeannette Bondurant©2025
Photo:  Tobias Bjørkli, Pixabay
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I am in exceptional health and spirits and have been all year. I am happily engaged with clients and friends. The game is afoot. Question the integrity of your sources or simply reach out to me. 
COPYCAT / FRAUD: I deeply appreciate my clients and potential client inquiries. The only way to reach me is through my website's CONTACT form or call 310-953-4318 (voice only, no text). Regardless of my residential location, I have not had a post office box or mailing address in the Los Angeles region for more than 10 years, nor someone ever representing me formally or informally.  Please reach out to me if you have been given other information. Any business correspondence going elsewhere will not reach me, and the resultant replies, supplied emails or phone numbers, business contracts, or creative work from "me" (or plagiarized/stolen) should be considered as fraudulent, as well as theft, and mail fraud.  If you know about this, please report my identity theft to the FBI in Los Angeles.
My ONLY active social media is Facebook/Meta: Jeannette Bon Durant and Larimar J Communications. I do not currently have a YouTube Channel, podcast, or other website. If this changes, it will be announced on this website.
With Gratitude, Thank you.  Jeannette

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​Springtime means rebirth, new growth, and a new slate. It's really just a state of mind, but that's everything. Your life can be altered and manifested with intentions. You are a sovereign being. Pull back your energy and sense of self from anyone and any circumstances that do not serve your higher mission, help build, or love you. Cut any cords with draining people. Literally envision cords going into your heart or other area of your torso that seem to disappear a foot or so into the space in front of you. Feel within to whom or what these cords are connected. Take scissors, your two fingers, or other implement and make the motions of cutting them.  Acknowledge that you have cut this connection. You may ascertain that it needs to be done multiple times to completely sever the link, but know with a couple of actions that it is done without question. With intention and visualization, stick the cut ends coming toward you into the ground so they are anchored elsewhere, and pull golden healing Light of Love into your body to seal and heal the damage.

This first step helps lead you to begin your understanding and self-forgiveness for the reasons you were vulnerable to all that in the past.  This is addressing your shadows--we all have them.  This shadow work and healing will elevate your vibration, your sovereignty, and your self-love. This will make it harder for others to intentionally or unintentionally cord with you and drain your life force energy. That energy is the essence of you. It's currency. It's extremely valuable. Others feel it and can steal it for themselves--sometimes through dark energetic practices--increasing their own vibrancy and life abundance, while depleting yours. Once you've realized this realm exists, addressed your vulnerabilities, and put up shielding around your emotional and energetic fields,  you are moving back to the sovereign being you were when your entered this world as an infant.  Those seeking to destroy lives, destiny swap, and energy harvest are breaking Spiritual Law.  Ask God, the Divine realm, or whatever you call the One Source for support and loving protection. FYI: There are additional ways to strengthen oneself.

The stronger your inner Light shines and the more loving and compassionate life you live,  the more magnetic and attracting you become to these weaker, greedy, or insecure souls. Some of these draining people may be affected by darker entities, which connect easily to lower vibrational, emotionally unhealed, or afflicted humans--and life force energy fuels them. Dangerously incognito, many of these manipulative people have polished their nice person masks over many years....actually, haters undercover. Do not be hard on yourself for initially falling for these charming chameleons who seem helpful, innocent, or mirroring you as a soul mate. We all have experiences with narcissistic, jealous, and dark individuals who seemed nice at first. I've experienced a couple of masked charmers who made relentless efforts to destroy my world with lies, illusions, and other darker machinations...how exhausting and empty their lives must be. A clue to identify early those lacking character is that often they do not live up to what they've promised--only a weak version to keep you hanging onto the relationship, or they express chronic victim status and want your buy-in. They typically seek targets with kind hearts, special gifts, and emotional or spiritual vulnerability. Emotional outbursts by you make your energy even more enticing to them--so, work on being grounded, living with integrity and love, and trusting in your Divine protection. Live with the daily feeling of gratitude, and express it. Strengthening your faith in the highest realm helps to block their low vibrational energetic practices--yes, I mean dark spell work, often done with the support of a group. Keep your intentions pure. Develop emotional disengagement, and uncover your inner strength to stay out of their drama. Their magnetic attraction toward your bright energy is your catalyst for significant spiritual and emotional lessons, growing your Light, and protecting your sovereignty. Remember, everyone reaps what they sow.  Their cruel and irrational obsessions to control, steal, or drain you ultimately become public and expose their truth. Dark practices of this type drain the practitioner a little each time, and without recharging their own life force from others, their health is continually affected. Often, one can observe their lives crumbling from spell blowback and Divine Justice (karma) when they attack a powerful target standing in their truth and faith. You will keep getting stronger and more aware; more able to quickly see and cut these people out of your circle; and more able to attract and allow in those who genuinely want you to thrive. I suggest your reading of my blog post, Arrows of the Damaged, to gain greater insights.

​I believe you will develop deeper discernment about others as you heal and grow in self-love. I believe this healing makes one's life brighter and opportunities more abundant.  You are an amazing and unique being with Divine support, many gifts, and a deep well of love within. Feel your strength. Protect your currency. Consciously endeavor to develop your spiritual knowing. It is the Age of Aquarius, my fellow travelers, and through the reclaiming of your sovereignty, darkness will not prevail.  I know you are meant to shine...I truly see you.  Jeannette Bondurant©2025
Photo: Pixabay

COPYCAT / FRAUD: I deeply appreciate my clients and potential client inquiries. The only way to reach me is through my website's CONTACT form or call 310-953-4318 (voice only, no text). Regardless of my residential location, I have not had a post office box or mailing address in the Los Angeles region for more than 10 years, nor someone ever representing me formally or informally.  Please reach out to me if you have been given other information. Any business correspondence going elsewhere will not reach me, and the resultant replies, supplied emails or phone numbers, business contracts, or creative work from "me" should be considered as fraudulent, as well as theft, and mail fraud.  If you know about this, please report my identity theft to the FBI in Los Angeles.
My ONLY active social media is Facebook/Meta: Jeannette Bon Durant and Larimar J Communications. I do not currently have a YouTube Channel, podcast, or other website. If this changes, it will be announced on this website.
​With Gratitude, Thank you.  Jeannette

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​Love...the most powerful force there is. 

Happy Mother's Day 2025! I turn on my spotlight to illuminate all those of loving, nurturing hearts. I especially honor all the unsung kindness and countless private experiences these burnished warriors of love manifest, endure, relish, heal, teach, comfort, protect, and guide with hope in every kind of circumstance. 

With wry and knowing smiles, loving grandparents often watch from the background as a first grandchild alters their child's life.  New parenting seems to bring a mind-bending revelation--an unexpected deeper respect for their own parents' loving commitment to nurture and care; a spark of knowing that rises in the gut milliseconds before being named in the head; a transcendent gift dropped into the heart.  Clouded by a new world of joy, self-doubt, round-the-clock child care, and health concerns, that transformational awareness almost seems to circumvent the typical cycle of life lessons.  Love changes everything, and it is glorious.  Jeannette Bondurant©2025
Photo: The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt, 1893

COPYCAT / FRAUD: I deeply appreciate my clients and potential client inquiries. The only way to reach me is through my website's CONTACT form. Regardless of my residential location, I have not had a post office box or mailing address in the Los Angeles region for more than 10 years, nor someone ever representing me formally or informally.  Please reach out to me by the CONTACT form [update: 310-953-4318, voice only, no text] if you have been given other information. Any business correspondence going elsewhere will not reach me, and the resultant replies, provided email and phone, contracts, or creative work from "me" should be considered as fraudulent, as well as theft, and mail fraud. If you know about this, please report my identity theft to the FBI in Los Angeles.
​With Gratitude, Thank you.  Jeannette

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Glancing over my shoulder, I see my trail of iridescent golden disks along the graveled path. Did I value them enough as they marked the days?  With unflinching regularity they fall, whether I loved them or tried to delay their offerings. Time passed either way this year. With only a couple of spins around the pole, my pockets will, again, be bursting with shiny new opportunities, refreshed dreams, and hopes for delicious adventures in 2025. Our revered and symbolic January First inexplicably touches a special nerve—a visceral reaction within the gut; a mind-body conjunction that seemingly dares us to believe in new beginnings and, perhaps, forgiveness of things left undone, unhealed, unmet, unclear. Yes, a chance for forgiveness in wanting everything we experience to be absolute, controlled, and making sense to us and for the anger, shame, or other related emotions when control never manifested.

​We all know “it’s the journey, not the destination,” and we naturally strive for understanding and management of our unfolding story. Astute observation and the wisdom of experience enable many of us to effectively steer our ship on calmer seas, but in storms, no single human is truly in control. Fear often can take over if our focus is on controlling rather than embracing and riding out the lesson.  Hopefully we gain insight, greater depth of character, and profound new experiences.  I suggest letting fear only be a momentary catalyst for reassessment of your perception. Stop your brain chatter. Take a deep breath. Pivot. Go deeper. What is the POV of others in my story and why? What is my treasured life lesson here? I believe that experiencing life through a heart perspective rather than holding on for absolute control will soften and shorten lessons. I’ve discovered new emotional awareness more quickly in that state. Some of those disks behind me do not shine as brightly as the others, and I want to work on that.
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My goals in 2025 are to keep my heart open to more consistently manifest my dreams; to love and understand as deeply as possible the people and events around me; to remind myself and others that we benefit by embracing our lessons; and, finally, to be grateful for everything--Divine Gifts, loved ones, my experiences, and the opportunity to shape outcomes. Wishing everyone a marvelous New Year. --Jeannette Bondurant ​© 2024
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It was a typically hot Beijing summer.  I felt an undeniable thrill of danger and an absolute fascination as I wandered through a cloisonné sweatshop. Watching out for bits of copper slivers everywhere--and winding through twisty passages, unavoidably brushing hips and shoulders with running machinery--I marveled at women placing those curvy bits of copper onto metal pots and vases with tweezers, then blowing colored enamels through gorgeous silver airbrush tubes. Flowers and figures were magically brought to life within a crazy quilt of textured copper. Insanely fast. Minutely detailed. Remarkably perfect. It was sheer artistry in a space of cluttered chaos. My small VIP contingent from a U.S. university was given remarkable access in China. Organized for a formal signing ceremony of collaborative exchange with a university there, we received highest honors as guests because education and teachers are highly revered in their culture. This day, I felt compelled to bring back not only a beautiful piece of cloisonné but also the elegant, breath-controlled airbrush equipment that so mesmerized me...that stopped me cold in the middle of a crowded, loud, and dangerous room of exquisite artists. Now, I look at complex hand-crafted art with even deeper appreciation after seeing firsthand the manual dexterity, artistic skills, pride of work, and time required for each piece. I see the artists' faces.

My still life grouping has the silver airbrush set on the left with its mouthpiece and spray tube, decoratively etched base reservoir for enamel, and tiny brushes tucked into slots. Other items include a silver and wood decorative hair comb from the museum shop of a school dedicated to the education and cultural preservation of Chinese ethnic minorities;  my small photo album;  a cloisonné pot;  and a custom carved soapstone chop gifted to me, which has my name transformed into Chinese characters to imprint onto the sealant wax of my personal correspondence--just like all the top literati. --Jeannette Bondurant © 2024
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Become the true master of your life. Sometimes we do so much for others that our vision can become skewed or ideas get lost. Sometimes we focus entirely on one aspect of life, like earning money or public acknowledgement, and then trust other life aspects to be decided by others. On first glance, that singular focus can look like the easy or justified important choice for your life energy. But, like many easy choices, it actually becomes a much harder and complicated situation from which to escape when you realize the rest of your life is out of your control. Along this path, you may have lost your instincts for keen observation, intuitive knowing, safety, and self-actualization.

Are you with your soul family, or are you with friends and family who may not want to support your life decisions that could disturb them? Have you allowed or enabled another to redact content from your life-plan pages? Are you feeling bound by highly restrictive cultural and societal expectations--or a desire for positive public perception and approval resulting from your own ego and pride? It can be hard to balance yourself when you are surrounded by demanding people. It can be even harder to search inside oneself to understand what emotional wounds may be causing prideful ego to drive decision-making. If you are unfamiliar with unhealed childhood wounds, or traumas, these experiences such as neglect, emotionally distant parents/caregivers, or worse, can result in adult behaviors of co-dependency, trying to fix others, the fear of abandonment, a need for external validations or to prove oneself, and people pleasing/deprioritizing one's own needs, amongst other behaviors. Look closely at the type of people with whom you've surrounded yourself and attract.

Of course, assess your responsibilities, then step back and become clear on what will give you a deeper and more fulfilling life. I suggest practicing self-care to rebalance and begin to heal from life traumas. Professional guidance is available to assist in healing. Your life is about YOU--your journey, your lessons, your development, your expression. Follow your heart, and make positive changes. And, seek supporters who genuinely want you to thrive.
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Some of you may relish the wisdom in the book, Women Who Run With The Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés...myths and stories of the wild woman archetype. Perhaps about 20 years ago, I discovered her insight to better understand how we make decisions and fall into traps.--Jeannette Bondurant​© 2024
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A few friends have called out in the night in the past week. I think it's worth saying publicly... Sometimes we need to be babies. Sometimes we need to hear someone say it's going to be OK and that we are valued and are seen and truly loved by others. We are not alone on this journey. We all have different versions of it. Sometimes we make it messier before we clear it--that's just how some of us need to learn. Lessons and loss can be extraordinarily difficult to process and swim through.

Gentle reminders...You are loved and valued more than you know. There are kind and seeing hearts around all of us. Often our self-doubts--or feelings that we are unworthy of love unless producing work or service--and the causal wounds of childhood, like neglect or coldness or unenlightened parenting or worse, can affect our ability to find our footing when things seem to crumble.

If you don't feel strong, I suggest the following: Pretend you have more self-love. Feel it. Absorb it. Live in that imagining, and make it manifest. Pray for courage, insight, and support, or whatever is in your heart. Then, call a friend. Take care that you don't give your power away to destablizing circumstances and fear, or controlling persons whom you deem as authority figures. It is really and only about you. Your life. Your perception. Your love. Your free will.
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Find your strength, integrity, and voice. Friends and professionals are within reach if the journey seems too much. You are loved and valued by many. People just forget to say it enough. --Jeannette Bondurant© 2024
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October Tuesday, just about bedtime. Took a late night drive in inky black central NC country. My soundtrack was the sole option offered...Def Lepard, Police, Rush, Frampton, and Foreigner. No street lights. No highway signs. No embedded road reflectors. Just me and my headlights in an arc, pacing along the dashed white lines to rock music. My soft black leather jacket seemed just right. There was no demarcation where the thick black corridor of woods would have silhouetted against the sky. Passed through a pungent cloud that in Cali would be colitus but here was a reminder of natural wildlife. Began praying no deer would launch out. It's primetime buck rutting season--they're crazed. And then, I turned off on my exit. There it was...a sole street light illuminating the deserted local Outlaws biker headquarters. Almost to my place, now.   What decade is it?   
​Welcome home, city girl. -- Jeannette Bondurant© 2024
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​We've all experienced dark times, whether it's financial, environmental, or personal loss/disappointment. I apply the hard-to-believe adage of there's a light at the end of the tunnel, especially from an emotional and spiritual perspective. Through soul-searching experiences that usually last uniquely for as long as we individually need to grow and understand things from a new perspective, it seems we can emerge in a brighter light of self-awareness, new understanding of others, and greater self-love. I've experienced these epiphanies after situational distress. Yes, it can be damned hard and could last for years. You are not alone in these journeys. They are universal. I've been there. My friends have been there. And, stories abound from history in all cultures about these journeys. It seems this is the way toward a more enlightened, compassionate, and balanced life. At least for me, it is the proverbial blessing in disguise. No one said life would or should be easy--although living with more joy and manifesting the life you desire appear to be easier when lessons are embraced rather than fought. A very wise friend once said to me, "When you keep hitting your head against a wall, that's not your path, and when the 'Universe' rolls out a red carpet, don't hesitate, because you are being shown the new way to turn."  I embrace that philosophy with eternal hope and expectation. My joy of life is partially rooted in this belief. --Jeannette Bondurant© 2024
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I remember Beijing was dusty. ​​Unrelenting winds blowing from the west brought dust...tiny particles from eons past rushing across the plains, the mountains, and The Wall.  While facing out to the mountains with my back to all signs and sounds of the present, I felt a spiritual connection with those before me who lived and died building this incredible structure.  -- Jeannette Bondurant© 2024
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It takes more strength to love than not to love. Being vulnerable and revealing emotions are not signs of weakness but of strength. When you release the need to control, which is "of the mind," you then begin to exist more through your heart, which is the only way to feel true, deep, resonating happiness in life.  Everything else is mostly assuaging the ego, often rooted in childhood wounds, and those fleeting satisfactions are only band-aids. Take a breath and reassess your motivations. An open and loving heart with a mindset of positive expectations that you tell yourself--and believe--are already part of your life are keys to manifesting exceptional things in your life.  That's expressing gratitude in the present for gifts coming in the future. Call it trust in prayer, vibrational alignment, or whatever you want.  Lower your defenses and open your heart a little more. We all are worthy of love.  It begins with self-love at the core. --Jeannette Bondurant© 2024
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Let's take a look at your perspective about your work and mission, whether you call it manifesting your future, the power of positive thinking, or being Spirit-led.

The last decade of business advice rode a wave promoting the benefits of "doing good while doing well" -- finding ways to do good works through one's company to see a rise in profits and public appeal, while effecting positive changes on the planet. The trend caught on, and, now, some PR agencies make it a requirement for new clients. Many businesses have departments or foundations to research and manage their philanthropy.  A benefit of the do good/do well strategy can include feeling a greater personal happiness for employees' work/energy/time investment, in addition to scoring increased public approval for brands and seeing an improved bottom line. 

​My deeper dive into business strategies that improve an entrepreneur's happiness, along with the longevity and success of a company, is about the heart connection between a company's mission and the passion of its leader and crew.  Yes, by all means, charitably donate time, funding, and/or leadership through your business. But, if the core mission and purpose of your business endeavors are not driven by legitimate personal passion, then I suggest taking a closer look at that disconnection, even if you have hidden it well. 

​Not all successes in business are equal, especially when viewed through a holistic lens.  For simplicity, I will focus on the entrepreneurs and small business owners. That friction or disconnect with one's heart ultimately can be a source of stress, discontent, employee attrition, and the frustration of plateaued or dropping sales, clients and outside funding. A key belief in the study of mind-body medicine is that feelings affect one's physical and emotional levels of wellness.  Doing good works for others, as part of a company strategy, can support the human need to help others and to feel like part of a beneficial organization. However, when a company's mission is truly aligned with the passion of its leadership and team, everything can be positively elevated.  It may take a slight shift in approach or a full re-evaluation of skills, talents, and priorities to re-direct toward a path that is aligned with the heart. Imagine the clarity and brightness of spirit you could have daily when what you do aligns with your true self. For me, it is happiness and knowing that I am building something on my own terms that truly helps others. Whether viewed from the point of being Spirit-led, or "the power of positive thinking," ​or taking steps to manifest one's future, that elated feeling and personal vibrancy seem to attract success like magic.  
 
If you feel a sense of struggle with your work or have a portfolio of talents and skills that are not well-prioritized, combined, or utilized, you may benefit by a professional assessment, especially to launch or rebrand a business.  Take the time and care needed to find your investment of self in your career or business that is aligned with your passion. On the extreme end, burn-out in business or a career can happen for many practical reasons, such as a chronic lack of support, but, I believe, on a higher scale, it is always the heart’s cry for long-overdue change.

At Larimar J Communications, we can help create with you the brand and direction that are driven by your passion. Often, our clients have so many credentials and such a range of training that they need our help with assessment and language to define their unique leadership and to clarify their mission.  --Jeannette Bondurant© 2022
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​ Well, please answer these first:

1. Are you wishing your website was a better or more persuasive and appealing representation of you and your company?
2. Is the uniqueness and value you know in your heart not translating well through your website?
3. Do you wish you were positioned as a leader?
4. Are you fearful a website re-do will cost too much?

A media kit is a foundational tool that should beautifully create your personal/professional image, and it becomes the resource for your website content. Not only do interviewers ask for your media kit, it also is an essential tool in the process of improving your branding materials and website messaging.

The name is somewhat of a misnomer, because it goes far beyond media outreach.  That's why I tell my clients it is a "branding kit." A polished, professionally created media kit is perfect for those looking to hone their message and better understand how to position themselves and their skills, talents, services or products.  A good media kit is a tool for website editing that you and your web master will love.  At its best, it includes a long bio that beautifully weaves your most significant experiences, passions, services/product, and branding language into a stand-alone piece that is suitable as a published article. I’ve found that media kits often become the backbone of my clients' website language. In addition to your bio, it should build your brand with a page about your business services or products that ties directly to the language in your bio. Additional components are included in a full five to seven-page media kit. This powerful representation about you and your company can make the difference between an open and closed door.   

If you answered YES to any of my four questions, then seek out a recommended pro for a free consultation. You may not need a full website re-do. An in-depth media kit may be the answer.

We can help at Larimar J Communications.
--Jeannette Bondurant© 2021
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