Heather

Hello dear one — I am so glad that you found us! Whether you were raised in meta­phys­i­cal thought or it’s some­thing that you came to later in life, I’m delighted that you have learned of our com­mu­nity. It feels sooo good to me to con­nect with other like-minded souls — and espe­cially like-minded mamas!

A bit about my fam­ily his­tory so that you know where I’m com­ing from… We almost never talked about God or reli­gion while I was grow­ing up. Some­where along the line I picked up the idea that I should be going to church, and would feel twinges of guilt when my neigh­bors would head out on Sun­days and we wouldn’t. The few times that I did attend Sun­day School sure never left me want­ing more though.

I became aware of the meta­phys­i­cal world in my early teens. When my dad’s mom vis­ited, she started telling me of how she used hyp­no­sis for her third labor — pretty out-there for the 1950s. She also tried a few psy­chic exper­i­ments with us to see how we’d do. The one that became part of our fam­ily story was when I was try­ing to pick up the shape that my mom was imag­in­ing, but instead I kept see­ing an image of old flow­ers. I was frus­trated by my lack of psy­chic abil­ity until my mom con­fessed that it was hard for her to hold an image of a shape because she kept think­ing of “that old flower exper­i­ment that we tried”. An early les­son that even if the ener­get­ics come through clearly, there can be some bumps in the translations!

Around that same time, my mom’s mom was mak­ing the switch from being a Methodist preacher’s daugh­ter to an ener­getic healer. She was hav­ing spir­i­tual expe­ri­ences that she wasn’t quite sure how to process, and was fig­ur­ing out what to do with the intense energy that would flood her body and hands when some­one nearby needed heal­ing. My vis­its to her house became increas­ingly fun as she would share her new skills and heal­ing abil­i­ties with me. For the first time, I started hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions about God as Spirit/Energy/Love.

She became my first spir­i­tual teacher. From my beloved Grandma Waynette I learned about the divine energy that con­nects us all and about the absolute Per­fec­tion that resides within us. In col­lege I joined the med­i­ta­tion group that she and my grand­fa­ther were inte­gral parts of.

One of the best, and most influ­en­tial, moves that I’ve made in my life was going to the grad school that she intro­duced me to — the Uni­ver­sity of Santa Mon­ica — to earn my MA in Spir­i­tual Psy­chol­ogy. The really cool part though was that my mom and grand­mother decided to go too. It is truly a modern-day wis­dom school, and I felt divinely blessed both to attend the pro­gram and to do it with the two women in my life who meant the most to me. An added bonus was meet­ing Angelina, my dear soul-sister and fel­low Meta­phys­i­cal Mama.

Fol­low­ing our MA in Spir­i­tual Psych, Mom & I went on to com­plete the course­work nec­es­sary to become licensed Mar­riage & Fam­ily Ther­a­pists. We served as USM Read­ers for two years (grad­u­ates who read stu­dents’ papers and lov­ingly coach them through­out the year) and were then both in the inagural year of USM’s Soul-Centered Lead­er­ship program.

Through­out this jour­ney, I met and mar­ried my kind, funny, cre­ative, com­pas­sion­ate hubby, and we’ve been blessed with two light-of-our-lives daugh­ters. As any mama knows, there are no words yet cre­ated that can come close to describ­ing how we feel about our dear chil­dren. Suf­fice it to say that when I look at them, I see God’s spirit look­ing back at me and I am hum­bled with the priv­eledge of being entrusted to raise them.

Some paths that I’ve walked: Spir­i­tual Coun­selor (Ses­sions avail­able through “About the Mamas” > “Pri­vate Ses­sions”), Inde­pen­dant Film Maker (along with my hus­band) with one film fea­tured by the Spir­i­tual Cin­ema Cir­cle, Human Resources Man­ager, Office Man­ager, Domes­tic Vio­lence Ther­a­pist, Child and Fam­ily Ther­a­pist, Girl Scout Leader and Stay-at-Home Mom.

We are all beau­ti­ful, incred­i­ble, divine beings, and we mag­inify our glory when we join together to learn, grow, cel­e­brate and reflect. My heart sings to have you join the Mamas. Wel­come aboard!

Namaste,

Heather (Pinkney) King