Meryl Cook MSc, PD Hom (UK)

I was driving back from a workshop with Deanne Fitzpatrick yesterday, looking at the clouds and thinking about rug hooking. I spotted a cloud that was an unusual colour and when I got closer I realized it was a patch of blue sky! You know we’ve had a cloudy/rainy spring when it is difficult to recognize the patches of blue.

I always come away from Deanne’s inspired and re-charged on every level. While driving I was thinking about various women in my life whose qualities I aspire to. (I don’t need their lives, just their qualities.) This includes Deanne and also homeopath Miranda Castro. I concluded that some of the qualities which they have and which I aspire to are generosity of spirit, absolute integrity to learn their craft and a strong sense of who they are in the world.

My decision to move to my own office space is part of my process to having my practice reflect more about who I am as a person as well as a homeopath and Bowen therapist. When I arrived home and was looking at the pillow I had started hooking for my new office, along with the wool I had purchased to work with other projects I was struck by two things.

The first was the inscription to me that Deanne had put in her new book Inspired Rug Hooking. It said every loop is healing, and it is true that pulling loops in rug hooking is very healing for me. I hope that the work I do can be healing for others in the way that rug hooking is healing for me.

The second was the bookmark she had enclosed, which was written from her Dear Diary section of her website. It was a little story about how sometimes she reveals too much of herself, which can make her vulnerable, but also opens up the cracks of her imagination. She goes on to say that while doing this sometimes causes her to lose sleep, she does “not let it stop me from being myself and using my blessings to show the world who I am”.

So this is my other hope, that by moving to my new office and bringing more of myself into my work that I can also be “using my blessings to show the world who I am” and through this can help others.

Warmly,
Meryl