Month: March 2020

AUDIO – #1 Story From the Car – Devotion

March 28, 2020

Words stick with me, they grab me.

The word that grabbed me this year was devotion.

When I think about devotion, what comes up for me is a love beyond the physical space.

Words carry the energy from the person they are spoken from and they also carry the energy of the word itself.

Devotion is love of a spiritual kind.

It’s a practice of love that is beyond this human plane.

Let’s lay it down…

Give it over…

Listen to the full 20 minute recording here:

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow. 

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here. 


Blog-Education Pilgrimage

March 26, 2020

What are your thoughts on organized education? I do love me some Gary V in the morning but I can only take sound bytes of him because he swears more than I do. I happened upon a bit of his last week where he named our education system as obsolete. And I couldn’t argue against it. As far as information goes – education is irrelevant. There is absolutely NOTHING out there I can’t gather information about on my own. NO – THING.

However, in terms of LEARNING, I am an external processor. I also a physical processor. The more IN my BODY I am, and the more I can workshop, witness, bounce things on and off people – socialize as I learn, laugh as I learn, get angry and frustrated as I learn, reflect as I learn while being HELD in a sacred circle, the more I retain and embody knowledge.

For some people, organized education makes sense for that.

I’m beginning to believe – not me.

I’m about to embark on a massive path of learning. I am creating a Ministry of Story, and it is sacred to me.

Sacred, like I will never ‘fight’ for it. I will LIVE it instead, with every fibre of my being. There’s nothing to fight for, it either IS or it ISNT. And there is much knowledge to be gathered.

Myth

Religion (multiple)

Indigenous Story

Kabbalah Mysticism

Shamanic Journeying

Earth Story

I will not find this in a school.

I will not find this in ‘organized education’. I will find this information only by living it.

It’s a pilgrimage. And only I know where to place my feet when I listen.

This sounds great for me because my world is in the ‘woo woo’ world (I don’t call it that, but you probably do). But what about organized education? This morning I realized that it’s not for me, but I have three sons. One got through it, another can, but one is literally coming to pieces and losing his connection to his own wisdom in it, but the system is strong, and sometimes I don’t even know what to offer him.

Because what if I’m wrong?

Organized education isn’t right for me, and never has been, but I can’t decide that for him. He’s only 16 years old.

What I know for sure is today’s systems will not sustain tomorrow’s structures.

I’m open to your thoughts.

Xxt

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow. 

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here. 



Blog-Wig Out

March 23, 2020

I was still fresh into the new year when I had my first almost wig-out as I left the house.

You have a routine. I do too. But routine is different than rhythm. We each have a personal wave of music within us, it’s our signature of how we move. I am not a sprinter. I have always been a long distance runner, hiker and one day (help!), a swimmer too. I’m immersive. I descend. I climb. I rest and reflect on the flat parts.

When I remember that, my days are easier for me. I can find the sweet spot I am made as rather than reach for.

There is no sweet spot.

We ARE the sweet spot.

This year I’m unpacking and unpinning the habitual pattern I’ve created which is NOT my rhythm, but has been my pattern for years called: muther f*k’r panic and pandemonium as I leave the house.

I haven’t changed my timing yet, which I may, but not yet.

I am changing what I honour. This year my word is devotion. I am devoted to living.

Punctuated panic reminds me… oooops, take a breath of love Tina. Take a moment of air. Take a second… have a second of devotion. Like mini prayers of yes.

Mini prayers of yes.

I like the sound of that.

This is my hair flying down the hill as I’m almost, but not, running for the boat. I even managed to consciously chat with my son before I dropped him at school.

So much so that he hugged me (like he initiated) before he left me for the day.

Meanwhile I was rummaging through my bag and muttering… damn… where’s my wallet? Did I forget my wallet? Oh no… but I didn’t, it was on the seat.

That was a 7 out of 10 rhythm morning with just a titch of panic. Not bad.

I am devoted to living.

Nailin’ it this year..

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow. 

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here. 



Blog- Sacred Time

March 19, 2020

Normal begins today.

This is morning sacred to me. I light three flames: tea, fire, candle and then I read, and then I write. This is prayer for me.

It’s been a ten day journey of expression since my birthday, and I have to say, this might’ve been my best birthday in a long long long time. I might even say my best birthday ever, but I gotta give that a bit more of a think first.

I did nothing but follow my impulses for ten days.

I’m an expressive, so while I’m super introverted and require absolute solo-cannot-do-not-reach-me time, if I don’t have a healthy, daily dose of pouring OUT each day, my mental health will suffer and I can roll in.

If you’re in my inner circle you’ll know because those messages of pouring out via text, or voice, or messenger to you feel like falling to me and I will close my message with ‘thanks for catching me’, which is code for no need to respond’. I needed to be caught.

And thankfully, I’ve cultivated a circle of loved ones who know what that means.

The last ten days I’ve had the space, time and energy to catch myself. I took myself off ‘mom-duty’ for almost two weeks. You should see my house. And it changed me.

It wasn’t a retreat.

It wasn’t ‘time with the girls’

It wasn’t a bath, or a run, or a good book, or just chillin’… It was time to listen, and then permission to follow, and with absolute ZERO accountability to anyone but me, and another big old ZERO of explanation to anyone else either annnnnnnnd a big 100% permission to be misunderstood by everyone and anyone.

Like me

Don’t like me

Receive me

Don’t receive me

Understand me

or don’t

And you know what happened?

I could feel and hear and walk within my own rhythm again.

I came home.

Sacred time of mornings is where this permission to listen and follow began.

What is your sacred?

How do you carve out space to hear?

Xxt

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow. 

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here. 


BLOG – Story is a Blur

March 7, 2020

Story is a blur.

It’s supposed to be until you see the pieces which want to be heard.

Some of us hear.

Some see.

Some feel.

Others sense.

And still others just know.

And then there are those who can’t speak because there are no words or senses of this ‘plane’ – and they follow.

I’m serious.

And totally not crazy.

Some people hear without any communication at all.

I get you.

I get the blur.

Story speaks in our language not yours.

Listen

Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow. 

If you would like to know more about Tina’s approach to story, click here.