Author: Elizabeth Invictus

I have a BA with a Specialization in English Literature and Languages from Western University. I am a Level II Certified Reiki Practitioner and offer energy work and energy healing services in my home and online. I also offer Faeries' Oracle readings and Tarot, and provide holistic and metaphysical personal guidance. I began writing short stories at 9 year and poetry at 11 thanks to the encouragement of my sixth-grade teacher. Her guidance taught me the importance of mentorship, and the value of helping others discover their own self-expression. Over the years I have collected many experiences working various jobs from housekeeping and factory work to working as a travel consultant and walking and talking as a door-to-door marketer. Now a full-time student and single parent, I live with my beautiful daughter, my inspiration. I love to read, and studying literature has given me the opportunity to study the record of human thought from mythology and the Pre-Socratics to the contemporary; a discourse that includes mathematical and scientific theory, psychology, philology, and psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, political and social theory among other things. This all-round education reflects the kind of self-education I practice in my life outside of school. My other passions include friendship, photography, yoga, drawing, painting, travelling, cooking, baking, crocheting and other creative/artistic endeavours.

Demystifying Wellness: Thinking Vs. Feeling

Is thinking opposed to feeling or do they work together? How can we use our feelings to generate wellness? We look at feeling in the body, emotional mind and spirit to see how each aspect utilizes feeling to create impressions that help us in the development of holistic wellness. In order to truly practice holistic wellness a shift has to occur where we take what we have learned from our thinking selves, and through the active application, demonstrate or teach our feeling selves.

by Elizabeth Invictus

V&E Animal Omens: Cardinal

A cardinal visited me this morning outside my window & since I usually don’t catch moments like these I wondered what omens exist for Cardinals. In Alchemy, birds are symbolic for the purified soul freed from earthly constraints. 
An encounter with the Cardinal it is an omen for all things love: self-love, harmony, confidence, romance, passionate relationships, power dynamics, and monogamy.

by Elizabeth Invictus

6 Things I Learned About Empowering Myself from Sia’s Elastic Heart

Relationships end. Breakups can be awful. Whether we decide to end it or our partners do, there is always a period of adjustment and mourning.

Our logical analytical mind wants to swoop in, be the hero, and save us from our emotions so give it something to do instead of breaking down the same situations over and over again.

I have a tendency to over analyze things, which can be self-defeating; this is an example of the kind of analysis that is helpful.

Since Sia’s Elastic Heart came out I have played it (sometimes on repeat)  to bring me back to myself even when I am in the thralls of avoidance: dying my hair, remaking my bed (even if it’s clean) moving furniture, excessive baking, walking, you get the picture…

Listening to music, reading a book or watching a show can give us the inspiration we need to exercise the aspects of ourselves that left unattended can drive us crazy. We can find empowerment instead of self-defeat.

by Elizabeth Invictus