Lemonade, Pickles & Worms, The Many Faces of Transition is Forworded By: David Ord, Author of: Your Forgotten Self and Lessons in Loving-A Journey Into The Heart, Namaste Publishing
Well, in one sense, Lemonade, Pickles & Worms is about self-improvement in that it will certainly enable you to improve your life. But as you read what Jamie Wagner has shared of her own journey, you’ll realize there’s something crucially different between the plethora of self-help techniques currently avaailable and what Lemonade, Pickles & Worms invites us to do.
The difference lies in the fact there’s no method we have to learn and then try to put into practice. Instead of giving us a formula, what Jamie asks of us is to allow who we have always really been and what we have known from very early on in life, to surface within us.
If you’ve had the luxury of a midlife crisis or are in one now, count yourself blessed. The crisis you are experiencing isn’t something alien to you, being thrust on you unsolicited by the circumstances you find yourself in. Rather, it’s emerging from your own deepest being-a part of you that you’re perhaps not accustomed to experiencing.
Neither is what you are going through something that’s trying to destroy what happiness you may have enjoyed. Whether it takes the form of a divoice, ill health, a financial reversal, or some other seeming tragedy, such a time in our lives is in reality a moment of grace.
During this moment, an aspect of ourselves we are unacquainted with is seeking to break into our everyday reality. It’s actually the most important part of us, our authentic being. But it feels strange to us, even hostile-as if it were out to sabotage us-because although we once lived from what now seeks to arise in us, there was a time long ago when we lost touch with this core of ourselves pretty much altogether.
The author doesn’t offer us a method, because what Lemonade, Pickles & Worms asks of us isn’t about something we have to do. It’s about someone we have to be-our original, precious self. All we are asked to do is allow what is happening at any given moment in our life to be our teacher, so that it has an opportunity to bring to our attention what we have always sensed about ourselves, always really known.
When we are in touch with the aspect of ourselves Lemonade, Pickles & Worms invites us to discover, we no longer need someone to show us the way, hold our hand, and validate us. We no longer have any difficulty at all discerning the right path for our life. All the guidance we need for every situation we could ever face flows spontaneously from within us, precisely when we need it-coupled with the wisdom and strength to carry out what needs to be done.
Join Jamie as she recaptures her own original essence, hidden in the memories of childhood-and in the process of this journey, come alive to who you have really been all along.