PeaceWalker Blog

  After this last week it was more than a little ironic going to my mailbox and getting this shirt today (pic above). I remember ordering it a while back, but just as quickly forgot about it in the thick of things… Especially of recent, because my days got incrementally harder all of a sudden… If You don’t have Your Health… I rarely get sick and typically even when I do, I can muddle though. Even the couple times I got Covid, it didn’t hit me hard… But, whatever industrial, military grade bug I got last week took me OUT for a solid week!  It was not good.  Luckily not quite hospitalized bad, but sick in bed, don’t leave the house, barely eat, have my instructors cover classes for over a week bad… I’m not used to that mojo, I’ll tell ya.  Everything except for sleep, and bathroom duties, was on hold. No teaching, no emails, no phone calls, no visitors, no tv, no nothing for days…  I cancelled EVERYTHING and just laid there, sleeping 16+ hours per day for the good part of 5 days. If I ha

  Funny pic (and movie) about a not so funny situation… In training as in Life, it’s better to treat people with dignity and respect. However… What does that look like in the moment? Being that I’m teaching a Women’s Assault Prevention and Response Workshop this weekend - it’s probably a good time to talk about… Uncomfortable Situations Let’s talk about training at the academy for a minute… We run open co-ed classes at the local academy. What does that mean? Men and women train together, but we don’t stop there. People of different skill levels, backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientations, careers, religious beliefs, political affiliations, ages, injuries, pre-existing conditions, life experience, training expectations etc. etc. train together! We ALL work together! Overall, I think it’s better this way. Of course sometimes there’s static, you know, conflicts, and misunderstanding. When something happens, most of the time it’s just that, a misunderstanding… Sometimes people simply do

  It’s been a heck of a week! Good, Bad & some Ugly… Much of it I had little control over happening… However, I was the one who was in charge of dealing with things. I know you have a lot of life shennanaga’s going on in your own world, so I won’t share ALL of the incidents  (and there were an abnormal amount of them this week!). Here’s just one of the highlights": I found out I got my identity hacked (again)… This dude out of California opened an AT & T account under my name and apparently hasn’t been paying his bill… I got a letter from a collection agency and I filed a fraud incident claim and trying to ensure this  (and quite possibly others)  is removed from my credit history (if they are on there). This has opened up some deeper actions of going through process to sure I don’t have more fraudulent activity! I’m taking greater measures to protect my data and get alerted on any sketchy activity.  (You might want to check on that for yourself and family too!) This one’s

  Windy day today. Feels like the winds of change are a blow’n too! Winds of new seasons in many, many ways... You feeling it too?! With change comes drama and as we know, there are plenty of Karen’s and Wayne’s  (the male equivalent of the ‘Karen’)  out there to suck you into their dumpster fires. There really is a simple solution and it involves… Two Simple Letters Drama is often about control. A person will attempt to control a conversation by stirring emotions into a frenzy, to get their way or to fill some emotional need they have.    Whether drama is intentionally or unconscious, it best to avoid it. Negative drama can ruin relationships, destroy careers and create chronic stress that leads to all sorts of health problems… Not to mention, I don’t know about you, but I just don’t have the time or patience for it.   If you are sick and tired of dealing with drama daily, start using the two-letter word drama queens, (and kings) hate to hear.     “No!”   Sometimes we just forget that