Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing Perspectives, Connections, integration, Mind-Body, mobility training

Have you ever made Tepache? Life advice from Dolly, and Barn sketch in progress

I was shocked but not really sad about Dolly’s passing the other day, and Tim Curry’s passing. I think that’s because I simply don’t get that sad anymore about anything. So, not to worry, the rest of this post is going to be kept lighthearted. I’ll get into making a new fermented drink from Mexico, new job (that’s a joy), and show you a new sketch (in progress that I’ve been working on) the model of which, is my husband’s old pen and ink artwork. It’s an image of a barn that had been on his parent’s farm for years.

Good interview of Dolly with Reese: https://youtu.be/kuWmJjd0J7o?si=A9kzRlkv_EB3kuNY

I’ve been busy sketching, doing mobility training, checking in on our twin granddaughters during the days when both their parents are working and the eldest is over at her boyfriend’s house. Thus, I have been staying busy, though I enjoy my quiet times too–after all I am retired. Ha!

A few days ago I was asked to take part in a new venture, one that I had already been doing a lot of–sharing about the Moves Method on my YouTube channel –here’s the short from Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NZ_ihXF9sb0 so you can see what I’m doing. And this will get you started if you want to join me. I’m also posting on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok! I’m super excited about this because I will actually get paid on any sales that come through my link!!! And I get to learn a LOT more about the program for myself, as well as, how to be a REAL social media influencer on TikTok, Instagram, and so on, which is all knowledge I can use to help me promote our original music and artwork. So, it’s a win-win situation all the way around for us. And “I LOVE IT when a plan comes together” as the movie line goes! Haha!

The old barn

This is taking some time, but I am enjoying it.

My husband’s original pen and ink barn artwork under glass. I sit with it on my lap and sketch pad next to it to attempt to get my sizing correct. –Sheila Murrey
I’m a little farther along now, but this was how it looked when I began. I used a light brown pencil to rough it out. I’ll show a couple more steps in my next post. –Sheila Murrey

Tepache

My master herbalist friend is from Mexico and she makes a fermented pineapple drink called, Tepache. She did a little tutorial of how to make it (in the free group she and her husband run on the Skool platform–you can join if you want to). I’ll add the link in a moment. Anyway, I made this last week and it turned out to be delicious and very good for my gut! I have been eating a LOT more fermented foods this week too. All in an effort to heal my gut, whether I actually have “leaky gut” or not. Here’s a couple of photos and link to Christina and Michael’s Skool group: https://www.skool.com/herbalcottage/

Pineapple rinds in both a ceramic pitcher and glass jar. You have to keep it dark for it to ferment so my ceramic pitcher worked well, and I covered the glass jar. –Sheila Murrey
My bottled Tepache. –Sheila Murrey

Prayers for the people in Nepal. My qigong/dao teacher and healer, Lama Nicholas Packard used to live there for about 20 years. He’s passed now too, but I always think of him when I hear anything about Nepal. I also think of my friend Maria (in Florida) who travels to Nepal often. The people we’re connected to in this life make it special, don’t they. I don’t know what life would be like without them. But I know they would not want us to be sad.

My book, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why

Here’s the link where you can grab a copy of, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why. An analytical mind searches for answers.

See me talking about my new 5th book on YouTube –>> https://youtube.com/shorts/RKmIIucsMs4?feature=share and here’s how to get a paperback copy of, We Are All Connected: The How and The Why. https://amzn.to/4s7n3Jg or eBook version: https://amzn.to/3PAvfUK

Find me over on my YouTube channel for JIGGLE WIGGLE, mobility movement videos, video book reviews, and more at: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband and I are creators of life-enhancing spiritual and soulful information, music, and digital designs for wholly vibrant living.

We’re songwriters open to placing any of our 1,500+ original songs in TV, film, games, etc. We’re also seeking bands to play our songs. Video content creators, filmmakers, podcasters, production companies, deejays, Vloggers, YouTubers, and more can use our original music and songs in movies, TV shows, video intros, and such.

My husband of 21 years, Richard Murrey, is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (having penned over 1,500 original songs). You can view his artwork and hear original songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

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Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey Art & Music, Balancing Perspectives, Connections, Expanding Consciousness

Book chapter drop via Substack of “We Are All Connected” – Coverups Exposed

I thought I’d try something new. I dropped a whole chapter from my upcoming 5th book, We Are All Connected onto (or into?) Substack. Yes, I’m always trying new things, and this is just one of such examples. I will be curious to see what kinds of comments I get there, and whether the Substack comments will be as supportive (or divisive) as the ones all of my kind WordPress folks offer me.

Consider it my Christmas gift to you. Here’s the link:

https://open.substack.com/pub/integratingspirals/p/coverups-exposed-a-chapter-from-we?r=5g6f6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

So, the race is on. Check it out. And let me know if you use Substack too. I’m curious how many of us are publishing in both platforms. Don’t worry, I just paid for another year to be here on WordPress with my name as the URL, so I won’t be leaving anytime soon. (I’m not at all sure I like the Substack platform anyway.)

A couple of you have told me you checked out the draft of We Are All Connected and you like where it’s going. I’m nearly through the editing part now, but reading and voicing it also, to be able to cut more. I’m also highly considering publishing it as TWO books!!

This idea came to me last night while discussing “long form” vlogging and blogging. And short video clips, handbooks, cliff notes, etc. for those with short attention spans. I find it curious that Shawn Ryan and Joe Rogan can do 3-4 hour long video interviews on YouTube and have attained a massive following! Then I also get bombarded with YouTube shorts, which give us YouTubers a LOT more views and count toward quicker monetization. Anyway, suffice to say, people either love the “long format” video and books, think Harry Potter, or the millions of YouTube video “shorts”!

I do hope everyone had a lovely and merry Christmas today, for those of you who celebrate it. We had a big meal earlier with the family and we all opened presents last night. (Richard actually used the Red Light therapy device today that I’d bought months ago and put away for our shared Christmas gift to each other. Yes, because it was pricey.)

Hubby and I just finished the last two seasons of Ray Donovan (we had quit watching it years ago and had missed those, so when I noticed it was on a few weeks ago, we decided to binge watch it). I’m aggravated at how it ended though. Ugh! But apparently there’s a movie that wraps it all up. I am on the hunt for it now. Oh, and we’re in Season 2 of Justified, with Timothy Olyphant. Really enjoying that show!

Again, Merry “Murrey” Christmas everyone!

Integrating the Spirals

I’m encouraging those “over 60” to open to lifelong learning (observe and gently question their pre-conceived beliefs, aka ‘Programming’), become more aware of their thoughts and emotions, consistently move their bodies (too many are stuck in their heads and physically unhealthy), become strong, and resilient in spirit, soul, mind, body. And to question EVERYTHING!

Link to my YouTube channel where you can see the videos: https://youtube.com/@spiralsister

Yours in consciousness-expansion as we evolve and revolve during our mystical awakening. All while doing-my-egoless-best, to take you on a limitless, spiraling thought ride to better health, through doing more with ease, to help us sustain the JOY in our lives! (With lots of Gratitude throughout.)

Sheila “Spiral Sister” Murrey

The information provided is for educational purposes only and is not intended to treat, diagnose or prescribe.

About us

My husband is an award-winning illustrator, plus he’s a seasoned guitarist, bass player, and songwriter (with over 400 original songs). You can view some of his artwork and listen to many of his songs at: https://www.youtube.com/user/richardmurrey

Here’s a video of us performing on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/416711742?ref=fb-share

My books on Amazon

I have four books on Amazon. The two most recent are: Have Yourself a Wholly Vibrant Life: Reversing Asthma and Other Chronic Illness Naturally and Blue Eyes: Ethereal Messages of Connection.

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