community – Integrating the Spirals

March 27, 2024March 28, 2024 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Mind-Body, Travel

Less than one year here and we are moving again. We are leaving Ocala, Florida

Yes sadly, we are moving again—in less than a year of living in Ocala, Florida. And this is a big move! We are leaving Florida. The state Richard and I have lived for 40 years. But we’re very excited to be going to New England and get to live next door to our family!! If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio:

Why are we moving again so soon–what’s gone wrong?

Let me know if this list is too harsh for me to post (after we move) as a review of the apartment complex. They’ve been asking for tenants to leave reviews for the complex on Google but I’ve hesitated to leave a bad review, since A) I don’t want to be THAT person, and B) I didn’t want to cast any more negativity on the community as they’ve already brought upon themselves. Thank you in advance!

Neighbors – Our upstairs neighbors are quite heavy-footed as they walk around in the upstairs apartment. I waited three months after we moved in to complain as I thought it may take them time to adjust to apartment living. Sadly, things never got any better. This has been an untenable situation. Yet apparently, due to the Federal Fair Housing Act, the apartment community cannot assign people to particular apartments based on age, working hours, or whatnot. These younger tenants work nights (or something) because they come in between 11 pm-1 am every night and then leave around 4-5 am in the mornings! They slam the door. They stomp up and down the stairs. They drop things on their floor, which sounds like a bowling ball hit our ceiling. I have literally jumped when this has happened! They have had yelling matches. They had their loud Dodge Charger car backed into the parking space in front of our bedroom window and left it running while going back upstairs to get things before leaving!
Apartment Community – We enjoyed paying our rent and sending communication to the office via an online portal, but shortly after we moved in the community closed the pool area for nearly six months (to rip up every bit of poured concrete around the pool and resurface it) with no reduction in rent. The pool has now reopened (we’ve yet to use it) and it IS beautiful, but we didn’t think anything looked wrong with it before.
Apartment Community Signage – Every time someone (either our Kroger grocery delivery or Uber/Lyft driver) tries to find us, there’s no signage anywhere within the apartment community to direct drivers to where each building is, much less where each apartment number is within a building. I had to update this post to add this to our list of negatives about living here because we just had another Kroger delivery driver lament about how he’d driven round and round and some of the building numbers are on the backside of the buildings! Granted some of the drivers are working their first delivery job, but even our very experienced Lyft driver turned the wrong way and came back by our apartment after dropping us off a week ago as there are no exit signs in this place! There are a couple of signs that point one to the leasing office, but that’s it. I imagine the office would say that each delivery driver could stop in the office to ask where the apartment is that they’re delivery to but we all know most won’t take the time to do that (until they become exasperated trying to find us). And yes, I have (each time) added details to our orders to state how the driver can find us, but often they enter from the opposite entry than the one my directions are from and there’s limited characters for me to instruct them from both directions. A few signs would certainly ease a lot of people’s frustrations, as some of the large building numbers are on the backside of the buildings. Something I didn’t realize until one of the Kroger drivers first told me and then I had to look at each building after that to confirm to myself.
Apartment Community Mail/Business Center – The office staff has changed and not for the better. The office put in a new locker room for package pick-up, so we rarely even go into the office anymore to enjoy the way they remodeled it (having completed that project just before we moved in). On one occasion, we had needed to use the business center (which was an amenity I had very much wanted that we didn’t have in Bradenton) and it was such a joke because the new printer wasn’t yet connected to either of the two computers. Purposely, I’d waited to try and print there for a month after the remodel so I wouldn’t run into these kinds of issues. The office manager had me use her computer as a workaround to print my mailing labels and lists. Also, the mail carrier won’t pick up any packages for mailing out. We had to catch him (to give him a small package) as he was delivering mail to the Italian restaurant where we happened to be dining! I have no idea why, but the apartment community office does not want people to leave packages there for the mail carrier to pick up.
Parking – We don’t have a car (so I have no idea why they put us in an apartment on the parking side of our building when we could have been in the back), at least this does help delivery drivers find us once they find our building. But about a month ago a tow truck dropped a car in front of our living room window and didn’t even park it correctly, which was a nuisance to see. When we complained about it not belonging to anyone here, as it has no community parking decal, the apartment office manager quipped it must belong to someone because they fixed the tire! She (Ms. Personality) thoroughly missed the point and could have cared less! As I finished recording this, the upstairs neighbor called a locksmith, got into the car, disconnected the battery when the car alarm went off, and has now, driven away in the car! Whether he figured out how to buy it from a finance company or whether he stole it, we don’t know and don’t care! Ha!
Overall Community Appearance – We were in the community office one day and overheard a lovely little old lady complaining (to a younger office staff lady who seemed to have cared less) about some of the things we’d witnessed too. We had not complained (about those items) because we didn’t feel the office would do anything about it. We’ve seen trash lying all around the community as we walk to the mail center, grocery store, and restaurants. We have seen overflowing dumpsters. We have seen huge piles of dog poo where people haven’t picked that up (and we could tell it was all from the same dog as it was near one apartment near the sidewalk and all three piles close together). Yuck! People still speed though the community newsletter begs people monthly to adhere to the 10mph speed limit—the community should put in speed bumps! We needed that a whole lot more than a package delivery system and pool area! I hate to complain because I know we can’t control other people, much less change their behavior. We simply model good behavior, respectful and polite, and try to inspire others (though there is some sense of control involved even in that, I realize).

Mind-Body

I am not of a mind to ‘give up’ but as I just said, there’s only so much we can do. And I must draw a line on how much Energy I expend to try to continue living here. As it’s turned out, living here has not helped my mental health much, because the people we moved here to meet up with have not been able (yet) to make time for us. I am still hopeful that we’ll meet a couple of them during April! And I’m fine with continuing to peel layers of the onion and feel better even if we don’t get to meet up. I know wherever we go we take ourselves with us! Ha! And I know everyone is fighting some kind of battle we know nothing about. Tada!

I’m incorporating lessons learned (from our move here)

I have secured a Budget rental truck for a week (no more U-Haul!)
I put our furniture on NextDoor for sale and posted an ad for local loading help
I sent our Notice to Vacate to our apartment community as soon as I knew what date we could move into the apartment next to my daughter
I’ve made a checklist of all we need to do before we move, which seems much shorter than the list I had when we left Bradenton last August.

Broyhill solid cherry wood credenza (empty) we’re selling. (TV not included.)

I’m going to give the bookcase (empty) to whoever buys the credenza if they want it.

We’re selling the computer desk too (empty–computer not included) or seeing if the consignment store in town (where we bought it and the credenza) will take it and put it up for sale.

All in all, we’re feeling a bit better and able to load the Budget rental truck and hopefully, the loading help will show up; here’s a link to my NextDoor event and I’m already getting some offers of help! Yippee! I’m certainly hoping for that. If not, we’ll take our time and load it over two days as needed. We’re going to give ourselves a lot more love and self-care this time!

I also just noticed that our apartment number equals 8. And 8 is the number for infinity but also of COMPLETION! Woo-hoo! Perhaps our run of ill karma regarding places we’ve lived has been completed. I’m certainly considering it so!

Enjoy (IN Joy) and have fun! Be Everything All the Time.

May we all soar in ’24! Here’s to loving ourselves more, expanding our consciousness, living without regrets, and living FREE!

Yours in expanding, always seeking the better-feeling thought, spiraling consciousness,

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

Integrating the Spirals to ease suffering

My online Zoom video course, Integrating the Spirals is helpful now more than ever because I know people are suffering. (Let me know if you’re interested in the Integrating the Spirals course.)

As an empath I want to help ease suffering and raise hope. I want to uplift others and raise our collective vibrations and consciousness. I teach breath work and meditation so we appreciate the value of Detachment. We till our inner soil with our breath and that offers us peace and calm. Meditation is an easy way to Connect us with spirit, higher selves, Omniscience God, and receive personal guidance.

Be the best version of who you want to be–because if you’re reading my words your soul is probably beckoning you to align with it and live up to your highest ideals. Not perfect because who is perfect? Most stagnate or ‘get stuck’ while on their way to being whatever they think perfection is. Making progress is enough. Carrying your Karma lightly is enough. Be kind to yourself while living responsibly. Who you ARE affects us ALL. We Are All Connected.

Omniscience knows ALL. Omniscience is always with you. You are never alone.

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October 14, 2022August 13, 2023 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Mind-Body, Reviews

Disappointed in FPL Response to Hurricane Ian

First, for a bit more background read my previous article: https://sheilamurrey.net/2022/09/30/aftermath-from-hurricane-ian/

On 9/28/2022 we lost our electric power at 11AM in the morning, just a few hours after hurricane Ian brought the first bands of wind into Bradenton, Florida.

Our 55+ community in Bradenton, Florida has underground utilities (no power poles or lines) and sustained no building damages from Hurricane Ian, except some broken tree limbs and a few trees downed from high winds.

Closest down palm tree to our parking area

Only half of the tree cleanup pile from around our building

Closeup of the tree cleanup pile to show size of branches

We are high and dry here; we were not in an evacuation zone (we are in the black circle the black box was calling out to)

Would you think we would be out of electricity for 8 days by looking at these images???

Instead of merely complaining, I offer some questions and potential solutions to improve Florida Power & Light (FPL) customer relations.

55+ Communities deserve priority

Why FPL should prioritize 55+ communities

One reason people buy into 55+ communities is so we have LESS WORRIES about exterior building maintenance, lawn care, utilities, and so on. The people who bought houses and condos in our 55+ community in Bradenton, Florida did so in part because the neighborhood is a half mile away from a trauma center hospital and is supposed to be on the hospital power grid, as well as because the community has underground utilities, no power poles and lines to detract from the beauty of nature we all enjoy while walking, swimming, playing tennis, and such. Most of us have worked our butts off to enjoy a few twilight years!

FPL has a monopoly on providing electricity in our county and many other Florida counties. Free country, right? Believe that if you want, but it sure doesn’t seem to be. And free speech? LOL Oh, that’ll have to be another post. I went on the Facebook FPL page to express, not just our disappointment but to offer potential solutions and more people called me names than supported my statements. What kind of world do we live in now? I’m trying to raise awareness and fight for what’s fair and right! Where’s FPL’s honor to its elder customers? My husband says he will NOT be paying our bill the day it comes out anymore. We will wait until the DUE DATE from now on. (That’s one way to get FPL’s attention, I guess). They sure don’t prioritize power restoration based on who pays their bills first!

FPL must improve their communications to customers

FPL must improve their communications so people can learn when their power (within 2-3 hours) will be restored. Don’t fail us by taking FIVE DAYS to tell us anything and then overestimate by five MORE days! Come on!!

It’s only a numbers game to FPL – On 9/29/2022 FPL had 125,940 customers without electricity per phone app

On 9/29/2022 FPL had 125,450 customers without electricity – website information

On 9/30/2022 FPL had 88,220 customers without electricity

On 10/01/2022 FPL had 71,820 customers without electricity

Bad design; there were no “triangles” to click on

We saw this same message for FIVE DAYS (first five days of hurricane Ian)

FPL must improve on restoring power to those with underground utilities

Speaking of those underground utilities, how can a community with underground electricity lines lose power? And for 8 days? I’d love FPL to answer that question. Did they turn it off intentionally??? Did a power station have an issue that fed electricity into our grid? And why is only a small part of our community on the hospital grid and not our WHOLE community?

Did FPL “harden” their equipment to help prevent power outages, as they were supposed to after the hurricane Irma lawsuit? FPL was charged with providing their customers continuous service even during foreseeable wind events by implementing storm hardening improvements. Are underground lines considered part of that plan?

The four bulleted list action plan on the FPL website is sorely lacking. And we all know, even if a company has a plan and processes, it doesn’t mean employees and staff are following them!

55+ communities should be prioritized along with hospitals, care facilities, police, and fire stations

Why we took action

We wrote to FPL, many state legislators, our community association (because they were inept!), and other civic leaders to express our sincere disappointment and frustration with FPL, as well as our community association (who could have done more, in the ways of notifications, buy a deep freezer just for these occasions so residents can freeze food, etc. have a hotline to FPL, or such). And I’ll be sending this to the Florida Public Service Commission.

Our homeowners association didn’t notify residents that power was on in the community clubhouse building–we had to learn that by stopping in to the office to ask if THEY may have had an update from FPL (more than the nothing kind of messages on the FPL website and app) or put in calls to them because FPL gave NO INFORMATION on when our power might be restored for FIVE DAYS!!!

Facebook was no help. Even while I had internet in the hotel, it would not let me post messages such as this.

Our Florida state governor stated multiple times in Live videos we saw prior to the hurricane, Florida was getting 20,000 additional linemen. However, we didn’t see ONE power truck in our neighborhood for FIVE DAYS! Nor do we know when they arrived because once we finally got the news from the FPL website that we wouldn’t have power for an additional five days, we left and went to a hotel that had power in St. Petersburg, FL! We had to wonder if they drove right by because all our utilities are underground! We’re also disappointed because this was our FOURTH power outage within a year of living here (and we were somehow led to believe when we rented this condo that we were on the power grid with the hospital), which we’re NOT!

Someone isn’t doing their job at FPL (and at our community office). And yes, many of the 600+ residents here aren’t happy about it.

Facebook was no help. I tried to post a video using hotspot to my iPhone and while my laptop was charged. It never posted.

When we went to our 55+ community clubhouse building to charge medical devices and other necessities, every available power outlet was in use (many elderly ladies were charing their phones, iPads, tablets, and more because their whole building had the power out). But here’s the thing. Every month someone comes around to hand deliver a community calendar to us, and each resident, but NO ONE came around to see if residents were okay, or tell us that the clubhouse had power! I can understand they only have one fridge and it was full (so they put a note on it to tell people not to cram in more–imagine!) BUY ANOTHER FRIDGE or DEEP FREEZE!!!

Charging my laptop in the rec room of the community building.

We are certainly glad we didn’t experience the horrific damage that cities and areas south of us, or all the way across the state over to Daytona Beach where they had flooding (friends of ours house flooded in Port Orange), and of course, we’re sad that more than one hundred people have lost their lives to hurricane Ian. It’s all tragic. All we can do is learn from this experience.

Thankfully we had cooler weather after the hurricane because otherwise many more could have died

Potential for Lawsuits

After reading this: https://www.wlrn.org/news/2022-01-04/judge-says-hurricane-irma-outages-qualify-for-class-action-lawsuit-against-fpl

I believe there will potentially be lawsuits surrounding the poor communication and length of power outages after hurricane Ian. FPL makes millions of dollars off the backs of the people. Had Edison not beat out Tesla back in the day, we ALL would have had FREE POWER a hundred years ago! So, the people are mad. The people are frustrated. And especially us Boomers (Baby Boomers) who have a memory of past hurricanes and did our best, we pay attention, and we take ACTION when we know we’re being taken advantage of. I’m quite sure our neighbors will be voting in new board members soon in our 55+ community association. Unfortunately we can’t vote on who runs FPL.

Do you agree? If you don’t, call me what you will, but I am not simply complaining, I’m taking action because I can, for our elder neighbors. I believe in education and sharing.

There was really no excuse for FPL’s lack of communication and getting it so wrong, telling us five days after the hurricane we’d have to wait another five days, then surprisingly turning our power back on in a couple more days, which caused us to have to leave a hotel a day and a half after checking in and carrying belongings in/out etc. And THAT stress and over exertion brought on my husband’s stroke on 10/6/2022 (more in next article about that).

We suffered mental duress and physical strain, again culminating in my having to call 911 two days after returning home from the hotel, because my husband couldn’t walk or talk properly. At the hospital we learned he suffered an ischemic brain stem stroke. I maintain that happened due to the stress and extra physical exertion lugging stuff in/out of the community clubhouse to recharge things, and then to a hotel with a day and a half (we would have stayed at home had FPL told us they would restore our power by Monday evening instead of 11:45PM on the Wednesday following the storm. I think a class action suit should ask for pain and suffering damages as well as lost profits (I had to take vacation time when the power went off, as well as to be in the hospital after my husband’s stroke), loss of perishable foods, hotel cost, gas, and more. FPL has collected money from customers to strengthen power systems, I’d sure like to know if that happened because it didn’t help us.

55+ communities need power restored first with care facilities and hospitals!!! It was unacceptable for our neighbors to be without power 8 days (FPL had said it would be 10 days)! These folks paid more for their condos because they have underground utilities! That and the fact that someone said or inferred we were on the hospital grid is why we moved to this particular community. One thing is for sure, we’ll be moving to another town, probably in the northern Florida area by August of 2023. I’ve already got a couple of realtors looking for something small for us.

Book progress

I have a NEW metaphysical book coming out SOON! Stay tuned. I’m in the final formatting process of the book, but was slowed due to my “love of my life” husband’s stroke and needing to be with him at the hospital because I love him and to be an advocate for him since it affected his speech. But I’ll post another article when it’s ready, be sure of it.

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Sheila feels a profound empathic Connection with people and what they’re going through by merely sharing her own truth, speaking freely about her personal struggles, and shares authentically about the challenges she continues to overcome. Sheila strives to ease lonelines, strengthen the will of those exiting toxic relationships, remind us all that we are stronger than we think we are, and that eventually, Everything Resolves to Gratitude.

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September 2, 2020August 12, 2023 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Mind-Body, Soul

Mom, why did you bite your fingernails?

For as long as I can remember my mom bit her nails. And I always wondered why. She used to tell me it was “just a habit.”

My mother was a woman of strong faith, having been raised in a devoutly Christian home. She was also a deep thinker, earnest student, and hard worker. Mom’s parents never argued in front of their children either. So, what caused my mom to feel inferior (which can be a cause for such types of habits)?

As an aside: I picked up the habit from my mom and bit my nails for over 20 years. I had low self esteem as a teen, and often thought I had an inferiority complex!

Asking the question

Now, in my fifties, one morning (three years after my mom’s death), I sat in meditation and silently asked, “Mom, why did you bite your nails?”

The answer: “It was a way of hiding.”

And I got an image of how one hides a smile behind a hand, and when a man twists his mustache hair. I never had the thought before that one can hide behind their hand while biting one’s fingernails.

Hmmm, hiding? Hiding from what? I quickly retorted in thought.

Almost as soon as the first answer came, the second came. Hiding her soul.

How does one hide their soul?

Then, I was on a quest.

Why and how do we hide our soul? And is this a fight with our inner-being?

Are we reserved in behavior because we are afraid to let our innermost thoughts out?

Do we feel we will be judged?

Why would my mom have felt she would be judged? As especially in her youth, when presumably her nail biting started, she would have had no reason to fear judgment.

But, my mom was painfully shy. Always preferring to stay in the background. My mom preferred solitude to group gatherings—unless the gathering was in church (but even there, she didn’t like the spotlight).

Do we question our power?

One of the only times I saw my mom speak publicly, was when the church congregation was asked to share an individual testimony (of God showed up or intervened in their life).

I would listen to my mom’s personal testimony with awe, each and every time. And I had often wished my dad could have been there, at the prayer meeting, to hear mom’s words. Mom spoke with a gentle tone, but at the same time, a commanding authority. To me, this meant mom was speaking from a profound knowing. From a place of truth.

Are we afraid we can’t live up to the expectation of our soul?

As I searched the Internet on the subject of our soul, I found a series of quotes by author, Parker J. Palm. One of his quotes that caught my attention follows:

As soon as I read Parkers quote, I realized he had also touched on the soul phrase given to me in the early 2000s that set me on my Awakening journey. The phrase, which became my mantra, We Are All Connected.

In summary

So far, the way I commune with my soul, and share what I find, (that aligns with the lessons I have learned by sitting with these questions), is the way I speak and share about the mantra, We Are All Connected. We Are Not Alone. And that we are more powerful than we can imagine.

Community means never losing the awareness that We Are All Connected.

Whether we feel less than, insecure, are shy, fearful, or that we may not express our truth in a clear way, we CAN speak and share from our soul, from our innermost truth. We simply need a courageous push or willingness to do so.

Perhaps we are old souls. But that is a question for another meditation. OM

About me

I’m an Amazon bestselling author of two co-authored books: “Transform Your Life Book 2 Inspirational Stories and Expert Advice” and “Energy of Receiving”, available on Amazon. Plus, I’ve written a health book (in the making for 13 years), Take It Upon Yourself to Live a Wholly Vibrant Life, that’s available here.

Observations about the author

Conversations surrounding emotional balance, moral ambiguities, and deep spiritual truths (such as We Are All Connected, and Put Your Hands Together When You Pray), are what Sheila is most passionate about. She feels a profound empathic Connection with people and what they’re going through by merely sharing her own truth, by speaking freely about her personal struggles and the challenges she continues to overcome. Sheila strives to ease lonelines, help those exiting toxic relationships, and to remind us all that we are stronger than we think we are, and that Everything Resolves to Gratitude in the end.

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My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he is a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (of over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to all of his songs at: http://listen4music.com

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Be the person your soul beckons you to be and let us promote you!

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Be the best version of who you want to be.

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November 10, 2019August 12, 2023 Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Connections, Expanding Consciousness, Holism

With no thought of gain

I offer my blog articles free to the world for raising awareness, expanding consciousness, and uplifting the vibration of our magnificent planet.

In ALL ways, I thank Omniscience that people can feel better, it is their right and choice, no matter their circumstance.

I uplift others vis my words, tone, and social media sharing.

Pure consciousness

My intention is pure, to communicate to ALL with no thought of gain.

I am motivated to share from my heart and soul—as a human BEing on this planet, and to leave a legacy to our granddaughters.

Yes, everyday I ponder how my easy footsteps on the earth, simple and sustainable living, and what I write will leave a trail of loving breadcrumbs to our beautifully soul-connected granddaughter, Jennifer, and two adorable identical twin granddaughters, Jaclyn and Jewel. And I believe, it is also my public and commUnity service and blessing to you ALL.

For the bountiful blessings I have received, it is the least I feel I can do. Give, receive, receive, give.

The flip side

If all you see is darkness, that is all you think exists in the world. War is hell. Both the internal and the external manifested version. We have the power to stop that. We can choose to focus on the positive, Light. But, I know that is difficult to do when one is mired in the muck.

If you could find a little light, a little relief from your pain, that can begin to ease your mind and lift you up and out. Reach for that light, please. The peace for all humanity aches for you to grasp the better feeling thought!

Ego is like a pair of pants. You can take them off, but our culture demands we wear something, so perhaps compromise and wear shorts. 😘

Which witch?

What is a witch? I pondered this my last night in Sedona (during their Day of the Dead celebration time.)

At Halloween time, I love watching Hocus Pocus, but there’s a lot more (or less, depending on your varietal), to being a witch, or as some would say, natural medicine woman, than knowing where to obtain eye of Newt! 🤦‍♀️🤣

When I was a child, my best friend and I used to watch scary movies, dress up as witches for Halloween and put on haunted houses for the other neighborhood children. 👻

As Christians too, our moms were not thrilled at our choice of costumes. But we were having fun. Year to year we were ugly witches, but always of good intent. Think of Glenda, the good witch of the north (in Wizard of Oz). She would pop in and out. Always protected in her bubble. Always focused on love. And we didn’t think the other witches were evil, but that they were GREEDY!

So, I don’t know where greed emanates from, but I still think as long as you intentions are pure, and you set your mind to begin your work with no thought of gain, the Universe will have your back, and you’ll be supported—in more ways than you know.

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Many blessings to you in ALL ways.

Amen. Namaste. A’ho. OM

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