Susan Casale, LMT

02/03/2023

I was visiting a friend earlier this week and she offered me a stone from her 2 trays of inspirational stones.
I considered the stones. Peace-always has been one of my go-to words. Somehow its power didn’t call me. Pray-honestly, I am feeling “prayed out,” as far as talking about or considering prayer. I am low-key always praying, its the hum in my background. Gratitude-I have thought too much about gratitude and I feel like gratitude and I can sit comfortably without nametags. Love-another companion. The less “special” Create called for my touch. When I picked her up I knew she was my stone. What will I create? Where will I share what is being created? Who will I share it with? For me, Create opens a gate (oooh, a rhyme) from me, myself into a wider community that may benefit. Creations and ideas become stronger when they are shared.
I am looking forward to becoming intimate with Create and sharing new plans very soon.

01/18/2023

Very quiet in the neighborhood this morning. Only the sound of a dog and their owner crunching leaves nearby, walking in the woods.
I am being more observant of audible sound and how it makes me feel these days. A lot of times we will “tune out” sounds like a ticking clock or clock that chimes on the quarter hour. I think sound is fascinating. As part of my project I may disable the sound on my appliances because I find them annoying. I would like to decrease noises that are annoying and embrace sounds that I find pleasing. Like wind chimes. Some wind chimes are pleasing, not all though.

01/02/2023

This kitten is enjoying some gemstones. What a little sweetie!

Happy 2023!!!

12/10/2022

I will celebrate the crappy weather with hot stones and hot towels, warming up the winter season in the massage studio.

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08/10/2022

05/27/2022

Good morning, ready for another day here. I have 2 afternoon openings tomorrow. Pls book online or text me to scoop them up. Starting around 1 and 3.

05/23/2022

Every day we make hundreds of tiny choices which move us toward or away from feeling our best.
I have been seeing a lot of people lately who are forgetting to breathe because they are so stressed out.
Please remember to breathe! Put your hands on your belly and feel the air rise up and fall. You take in nourishment from your environnent.
Hundreds of tiny decisions. Up to you to heal yourself, dear ones. Choose peace, choose you.

05/20/2022

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and I have been thinking lately about all of the little choices that go into "better" mental health.

This is a photo of a personal mental health project I have going on right now. I have a spot in the community garden here in town. Today is Friday, yesterday was Thursday. On Monday I bought a couple of items to put in the garden. I put them in yesterday, it was kind of foggy when I started working on it and it was raining while I was working.

I also bought a ground cover roll, it needed to be cut and I had to have scissors, had to have myself a little organized to have productive time. So, anyway I was prepared to work. And it was lovely, I was happy be puttering around getting my stuff planted.

The zucchini and yellow squash I planted a couple of weeks ago had started to come up and I put the ground cover over them, and slashed the cover with scissors to let the light and water through.

My friend, Aimee, said it looks like there are bodies under there. (Indeed.)

So, it's raining and I realize after getting all of the ground cover/weed preventing stuff down, I have put them on topside-down. And if it hadn't been raining, I never would have noticed. Because, yes, I am an experienced gardener but I don't know everything.

I could either toss up my hands and say, "screw it, enough of this," or keep going and fix the work I did backwards, or upside-down. So, I fixed it. And it was raining, just what my seedlings and seeds needed. I am not a big sun person, I would rather work in the rain.

I suppose what I am trying to say is that life is full of unexpected frustration. Places we need to keep carrying on, even when it is a little annoying for a delayed and greater good. And it feels good to work on something that will grow and change with the weather and the time. It feels good to get stuff growing early in the season. It is all a process.

At the end of the day, in these times, the garden is not about actual food. It's about community--seeing the gardeners grow stuff throughout the garden and maybe never seeing actual humans working there. Showing up and getting to know a place and those who stop by sometimes. It is a project where I can use my hands and build something that will be either good or maybe not so good at harvest time. Either way, it gets me out of the house, grounded in my body, looking away from my screens, out in the fresh air, waving at my neighbors.