Jackie cats close call. The fight for Life and turnaround with Love.

Over the past week I have been in full take care mode of my cat Jackie. She quickly became very ill and stopped eating and drinking and being her cheerful happy self. I took her in to the vet knowing something was very wrong with her teeth and mouth. Infact she came out diagnosed with acute kidney/renal failure to my shock and disbelief. The dramatic rush from that point to keep her alive and back on track started. So a very intense few days it has been! I am happy to say at this point Jackie is doing really well and is eating again and drinking and has just been back to the vet for top up of antibiotics and other meds. I took her to Orewa on Saturday to get natural remedies and homeopathic drops and am continuing recuperative care for and with her. Oh my little Jackie girl. She really is a huge part of my life and the connection we share is like Mother -Daughter. Those who know me will also undoubtedly also know Jackie and know how much love we share. She is very special and very loved and has been a companion of mine for 8 years. 

I wanted to say a few thank yous to all those who have helped me and Jackie through this journey and also to make recommendations for the places I took Jackie to for help getting her well. If you take any of your pets to these places please just mention the recommendation from me. They have each played an integral part in helping the situation and I thank them for the various parts different people have played. I have appreciation and gratitude for them all. See here for rest of the story, what actions I took, communication and love experienced, especially for those who have a beloved cat…

Thank you to Care vets Glen Eden for running blood tests and diagnosing Jackie’s kidney problem. Acute renal failure it was.

Thank you to West Coast vets for accurately assessing Jackie’s state and getting her on a drip and giving her meds to get her stabilized and big boost to get back on track. Thank you for the care taken over the couple of days and nights she was looked after by you.

Thank you to all the people I called on to help speed up my gathering of information and ability to get things sorted for Jackie. Sandi for recommendations of naturopaths, advice and assistance throughout, thank you Kylee for vet information and advice assistance and mentioning the West Coast clinic to me. Simon for support and help the day of discovery as well as Thank you to the rest of my Housemates Milan, Anne and Jay who have been very understanding and helpful and assisting wherever they could and helping my emotional wellbeing. Regan for being Jackie’s Dad, coming to aid quickly, helping with some financial matters and discussion for ongoing care. Thank to Stacey for continued support and James for help with holding and keeping Jackie calm for me to administer the first at home fluid under skin followed by Anne, Milan and Tracey.

Thank you to Sarndra at the Orewa Animal Health centre for Naturopathy advice and remedies and understanding of connectivity of all things in this process and health support for follow up care.

Thank you to all the Horticulture centre and staff at Unitec who helped with discussion of toxins and plants especially Ponga. Thanks to Horticulture research Mt Albert and Landcare in advance for helping me determine toxins in ponga and related ferns which had been ingested from cleaning of her fur and in the outside drinking water. Kings plant barn St Lukes too.

Thank you for the healers who sent Reiki and healing energy to Jackie from afar and the influence of that has been noticed and noted. Jackie Segers and Jason Hieb, Angela and Theo! Thank you to you all reading to continue to send best wishes and love and healing energy to Jackie for her continued improvement and cherished life.

Thank you to my beautiful Jackie cat for being so strong, courageous and pulling through this extreme event. And for the connection we share and communication and understanding that goes between the two of us. Thank you to her knowing how deep my love goes for her and knowing that all the things I was doing and wherever I was taking her was for her best interest and best intentions for her life and her health. Honestly I feel like a cat whisperer and do really believe in following my gut and instincts and intuition has proved extremely valuable and intune with her needs and rapid response action. It has taught me many more skills and solidified lessons and synchronicities in play and the overall nature of life and flow and cycle and also the reconfirmation that I am a good Mum and intune with whom I am guardian for and able to help with my instincts, knowledge , love, determination, knowing… to be able to help her with this. The road to recovery is still long as Jackies kidneys need to heal and body and overall health has to improve and she needs to continue to keep eating and drinking and taking the remedies and medicine to get her back to optimal health. Then we need to look at getting her teeth sorted. So if anyone has anymore recommendations and people to see for healing, continued stability on the positive good path forward and also for getting teeth sorted please let me know. I am very grateful for all the help and recommendations I have received and they have been very valuable in piecing together the ultimate action that I knew I needed to incorporate with my understanding, knowledge and intuition to achieve good results in short time. If anyone wants to get help from those I have mentioned or learn more details to help your pet please contact me and I will see what I can do. I can also aid you in communicating with your pet if you need or would like to learn these skills.

It is a good lesson to me and to us all and a key thing that is coming through now is the need to have good, fresh drinking water and keeping up intake of water and keeping hydrated and also making sure everything is eaten/taken, consumed in moderation and with understanding and love as base constant. It really has shown me again how deeply I love. How we all should love, listen, communicate well and understand so that we can help in so many more ways than ever thought possible. I truely believe that the underlying love I have shown and given to Jackie throughout this has been as beneficial as all the treatments she has been given. They all go hand in hand and were all needed in order that Jackie should be able to stay with us here in this life. Love to Jackie from me for further recovery and healing and future good health and happiness. I am looking forward to Sunday for Mothers day and to spend some nice time with Jackie on that day. I have also been working on making her a new 4^th leg (she has only had 3 legs for the past 4 years) and so she can learn to walk on 4 again. And be the cool cat with the bionic leg! I hope Jackies health will return to full splendor so that we are able to carry on with the making of it which has been in process, planning and trial for the past few years. Any help you can give and funds to contribute to any of this as well as to help the huge vets bills of late will be greatly appreciated and welcome. Also any support by ordering now of garments and items and gift vouchers for partners or family and friends or for yourself will be very helpful right now. I would love the support of you all for whatever income producing work you can give me such as garments or consultations or help you need from me in inspirational motivating, transformation and expression, being guided by intuition advice, style and Being You strategies and any of the other varied and many skills I have. I am keen to support myself, Jackie and my friends and family better and create a sustainable life and lifestyle. So to you I offer my gifts and skills and talent and expert knowledge and understanding for what it means to be dressing well and dressed to enhance, embrace and celebrate the best of you. Thank you for sharing and being part of my journey and making me part of yours. So see you soon then.

A Bright New Year!

To me this is a year for Expansion and Self Empowerment, Potential, fulfillment, greatness And understanding the need to be, and then being Self Responsible.

This 2012 year I continue to endeavor to Guide and Inspire, Help and Love…to show it is necessary to keep going .. it is your/our way through this interesting pathway of life. I speak and listen to my inner voice with a full and open heart, sometimes I sing, sometimes I dance, sometimes I cry, tho I always know the deeper truth is that we are here to experience and in that the merging of human and divine selves and the greater connection to the creation of life.

I remind myself that Safety exists within me, in my calm centre. Here within me is the creation of the outer reality of which I experience… (I create the reality outside of me to experience)

Here is How all this ties in to me and what I do as my passion, career, journey for myself and for helping others: Life experiences shape who you are, I create clothes that fit your shape or are shaped to fit the expression of who you are, who you want to Be and in turn shape and create your experiences, and these experiences shape your life… cycle of Life and Fashion and You and Me.

My entire body of consciousness is here communicating…spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, and I am receiving the messages. This is who I am… I have been asking that question all my life… Who am I, Where do I fit in, What is my background, history, culture, place, importance in this world… Why Be? (Y Be?) Why exist? It is to find the self and connect to the divine presence within us all and hence be connected to each other and to God and eternal existence… the universe… the presence, the now. To persist with my purpose, dreams and desires.

Within that persistence to also have consistent Compassion for self… choose again if need be… choose freedom. Free yourself from any stifling chains…one day I will share the whole version of my YBe song! It has this previous sentence as one of its lines. So… trust all of you, me & all of life.

Make the loving choice to be here now…fully open to receive… What do you want to bring to yourself and others in 2012? What can I create for you to help with your evolution and experiences? 2012… the year that anything is possible!!!

SEPTEMBER SELF- “Self Reflection - Be Your Best Mirror of Your True Self!”

“Self Reflection - Be Your Best Mirror of Your True Self!” - Jenny Lyn Walker.

A dedication to my Cat Jackie, since the time of losing her leg she has made vast bounds forward, a very capable, smart, focused and determined cat is my beautiful little Jackie cat. Some of you may have met her in  the Gallery or here in my studio. I wrote these words for her but realised also they apply to everyone so felt to share them… see If some of it is reflective of your life, you, you feelings and see how you may be able to apply the thoughts here to your life. I wish you all well and wish only the very best for you all.

Keep doing it, that’s life, you can adapt and adjust, fear not, its just like learning to climb trees again as you have successfully done, I want you to LOVE it like you always used to, enjoy doing everything you want, have done, would do, could do anything. I want you to LOVE and LIVE LIFE. Embrace this new part or different experience as a fun, growing, challenging, living, being opportunity, to understand all things, enjoy all things, love all things, do and BE YOU, BE who you are, what does it matter YOU are different now? YOU are still YOU and YOU are a new YOU and YOU are experiencing new things, new times, new days, new journeys, new everything. That is JOY that is Life that is the Be all and end all of Life – Love, live, enjoy, discover, learn, grow, BE, experience, unreservedly love, BE, YBE? Just Be!. To everybody, everybeing, everypart of this world… Each and every day you get to make your own decisions about who you are, who you want to be, how you want to be, Where you want to Be in this world or without (in this world or on another plane) Whether you really want to be here, really want to experience it. Let’s want to live it. It’s all your choice and all Your life to live, Your decision/ understanding, choice, determine how loving, compassionate, understanding, supportive, helpful, willing to also experience, what LIFE is! Can you just keep on having fun, experiences, joy, love and the ripples of it will just fill the world. Let’s all Be! And Be Who each of us would like to Be. Express Yourself and put your best foot forward whether on one leg or two, you will make your way down, up or along your path and be connected to Your spirit of your inner and present (NOW) and deliver that without (outside) to the world. The world will tell you who You are, until You tell the world!

Everyone is determined, judged on their appearance as it is a mirror or self reflection to all others. ‘Be Your Best Mirror – of Your True Self!” Jenny Lyn Walker.

JULY- Finding Yourself!

Suddenly You Find Yourself alone, moved, changed, in a different situation… and You Find Yourself! - Jenny Lyn Walker.

Unique styles reflective of the Love for Life, Clothes, Self and for Feeling Good! Helping You Be Your best and true self. Finding Yourself & Expression through Your clothes!

YBe & JLW inspiration & journey page… change of state, movement, finding Yourself, manifesting a state of BE-ing: I Am Here, Find Me, Find Yourself, Be found! YBe a spectator when You can just join in, participate in Your life! Y Me?! Y Be?! Your Beat! Be yourself, Be unique, Be individual, Re-find Yourself…Re-connect to your inner core…

This month of July has been about RE… for me… Re-Generation, Re-Jeneration… finding the Jennergy! Energy Within Jenny! Re-naissance, Re-birth, Re-newal, Re-structure, Re-order, Re-fresh, Re-do, Re-turn to self, Re-store, Re-plenish… all with the intent to Re-find myself and get back to who I truly Am and how I want to truly Be. In order to do this I wanted to Re-locate and Re-establish myself at my Home. Which I have successfully done through June and July. I wanted to Re-set my goals and desires for the coming years and Re-assess how to go about it. It was a bold move to make sure I was operating with the best of my own strength, inner knowing, desires, wants, needs, understanding what is best for me. I have the answers inside and I wanted to make my path clear and defined and right for me. I feel I can only do the best for others when I am doing the best for myself. I felt I had to Re-build up my energy in order to really focus on the things I wanted to get done and achieve for the benefit of myself and all people around me and carry that with me to the future. I am really enjoying the perfect timing to Re-balance and time to have a homelife balanced with business life. I had to exert a lot of effort and energy to do the move and change how things would be but with determination, strength and help of a few good friends I have been able to do it and remain on track. Thank you to all those who have helped with the Re-setup.

So as I was saying at the beginning, I found myself alone, moved, changed and then I found myself and found that indeed I was not alone and never have been. Although I really enjoy the lone time out from any contact in order to really connect back with my inner self and to have my own space to be doing that from. However I must say, it hasn’t been a quiet time, it has been as busy as ever, and time alone is far and few between, however it is nice to know that I can choose the time for me only. Really to be honest not much has changed except the location and not having a shop front persay. Work continues as it ever did and the list of things is still just as long and also over the past month it has been longer as there has been more to do since the move…. But it has been very enjoyable to get my Home environment to the way I wanted it to be. It is very pleasing and enjoyable and a huge sense of satisfaction to know that I have done it and really made it work just as well as the Gallery, if not better. I can get all things done here! Work and Home stuff. Only one lot of dishes to do now! Yay! Only one power bill and one lot of rent! For me it has been a time for consolidating and balancing but also expanding at the same time! I have been able to get out more and go to more events than I did before, I have met many new people and been invited to all sorts of great things. Although I still had that but in a different way in the Gallery, although it’s a new wave of energy, it is dynamic, it is changing it is connecting, can you feel it? Life continues and changes and stays the same all at once hehe.

Anyway what I like now is because I am the source, I am the only one responsible for me, for what I do and when and how, who I spend time with and what I do and where I go… I am the central theme for me but of course everything else is connected as it always is and the external or outer world is still there and still doing their thing and still part of a bigger whole… anyway here I find myself… changed, but not, here I am still me, I find the things I want to sort, the things I want to work on, the things to let go of and the things to persue. Everything is in its place and everything has a home… in my Home here you will Find me and here I am, here is my expression, I am finding my balance, and I can help you find yours. This is what I do, this is who I am, I can help you express yourself through your clothes, that is my artform, that is how I express me, through helping you express your story, a combination. I am you, you are me, we are all a reflection of each other and all connected in this dynamic energy that continually flows, moves, changes, yet stays the same and just gets us to Re-look at aspects of our lives that need assessing or Re-turning or sorting through. Then that is where You find yourself and find the balance that is right for You.

As part of my Re-launch I think I will go back to the saying I had on my very original website and YBe business cards… which clearly said – Helping You find the Balance… with the logo being Libra scales (I am a Libran, if you hadn’t guessed) with arms raised… an interpretation of someone sitting meditating finding their balance and inner knowing and self. That is what YBe and this journey I am sharing with you is all about and has been since its inception…YBe? Why are we here and what is this life all about for each of us and as a whole. It is to make you ponder and reconnect with your inner self and to Find that balance in life that best suits You and Your needs and wants so that You may Be the best You can Be. I am sure many of you can resonate with this. So maybe my Re-launch is just a Re-turn to where it all started and a Re-surrection of all the things that define me and my brand and what it is I offer to You my wonderful friends and compatriots on this journey we are all on. Any suggestions to do with my Re-launch and Re-branding of my YBe and Jenny Lyn Walker business are very welcome… Thanks heaps!!! Happy finding Yourself! Remember You can find Me here at Home whenever you need me. I have a lovely consultation area and a studio/workroom/display space for you to see all the goings on... the work I do and what I can do for You. See you soon!

Jenny Lyn Walker*

MAY you be the calm in the centre of the storm!

“Being the calm in the centre of the storm” … Tornado ripped through Pt Chevalier the other day as I was outside bringing the small table in. My account of the tornado continues…follows...

It was raining with a gentle wind, but then suddenly a strong wall of rain thundered down… I quickly rushed outside (duh!) to get the small table in to make sure it didn’t blow away into a parked car or get wet and just as I turned to come back in from picking up the table I literally could not move forward!! The table and its contents were thrown up against me and as I struggled to keep hold of that and reached with my right hand to the window surround to hold on for dear life… it took all my strength to pull myself back into the Gallery. I could not move forward for at least 15 secs or so and then had to muster up strength to keep pushing to pull myself around the corner into the doorway, I had to launch the table into the shop and then use my left hand to grab the door frame itself to get myself back inside. I had to muster up all my strength to be here in the Gallery… being here in the Gallery doing this work and running the business sometimes it feels like I am in the middle of a tornado and I have to remain calm and centred and gather back my strength and carry on. I guess it is about not giving up as just like with getting back inside from the actual tornado outside, if I had let it the tornado would have thrown me off down the street, although If I had my umbrella out I could have flown off down the street like Mary Poppins!!! Determination saw me through pulling myself back inside when at first I was absolutely unable to move forward at all. The energy surrounding it and the sheer force I felt was so strong and like no other. It was like a wall pushing at me and not allowing me to go anywhere, except pushing me the way it wanted me to go. I pushed against it and was finally able to get myself back inside. Wow what power. The strength of that wind was so amazing! My little heart was beating so fast. What an experience!!! Jenny against the Tornado! Hope everyone is ok, so sad to hear about Albany and everyone who was hurt. I feel for them al as I felt it too and know the force of it. Love to all, I am still here! Working on remaining calm and centred with all the turmoil surrounding me, it reinvigorates me to say hey don’t give up and keep on pushing through and eventually you will be able to get through those doors that you want to! Even though I may lose my way sometimes and get thrown off track, and feel like sometimes I am in the middle of a storm or tornado!, I can always muster up the strength to bring myself back and learn to continue on with even more determination, compassion and wisdom in any situation. ” – Jenny Lyn Walker.