Brummet's Conscious Blog

Our New Place Yes - we found a fantastic "tiny-home"! Thank you - by the way -  for your patience during this transition of moving our home and studio to new locations :) We fully expected to easily find a smaller home, but found that in reality it was a more difficult task. It seems even the retirement communities cater to people with larger tastes and vast wallets. The places that had 55+ community living outlets were either out of our price range, had nothing available or didn't allow dogs. Well, our dogs are precious and they are coming with us. There's no debate about that. So we started to get real anxious...  Will we find a place in time?  What if we cannot find a community that accepts dogs? Luckily one of our former neighbours went through a similar life-event - they sold their house that was across from us and moved into a 55+ adult only mobile home park. Ironically the park owner was rebuilding an older trailer located right across from our friend's. Wh...

Oh, The Stress Of It All Well - we found a buyer for our home and had less than 5 weeks to both find a suitable home and move into it. Once we signed that contract it was weeks of sleepless nights, restless tummy, fretful mind, sweaty palms and frazzled hair. Was I stressed? ...You bet I was !!!  Many of you already know that I suffer from an anxiety disorder; stress affects me physically causing rashes and vomiting, and I easily fall into depression. With moving being one of the most stressful things a person can go through, I knew I would have to use more than a few tranquilizers to get through the storm to come.  By using calming, meditative music and occasionally some blues or 70's music during the day I was able to greatly reduce the stress I was feeling, and the dogs love to nap to music. To quiet the mind at night I've begun listening to short audio books via YouTube - these are especially helpful on those sleepless nights.  Long showers helped ease the physical ac...

-- Conscious Living Event -- April 16 - 21  Intermat 2012 - expo for construction materials, innovations, end-of-life management, deconstruction and more Location : Paris, France Info : www.intermat.fr  -- Brummet's In the Media -- Ami Blackwelder interviews Lillian Brummet -  published today:  http://amiblackwelder.blogspot.com  -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio -- Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144    It is time for another installment of the Best of Conscious Discussions series... today we'll focus on two fantastic interviews on Sustainable Communities.  Jim Bell ( JimBell.com ) shares his ideas on how we as individuals can “create life-support sustaining economies” in our communities.  - and - Marty Metro, Chief Executive officer of Used Cardboard Boxes, ( UsedCardboardBoxes.com ) explains the importa...