Sherry (Kannass) Fechter

Sherry was born into a rural family, the best of the best in the farming world, as the homestead was the largest and most modern of its time. It was here that she formed the roots of a lovely connection with animals and all of Mother Nature and to this day, such a setting is where she can find a deep inner peace while connecting with Spirit. After years of devoting her life to her job, all hell broke loose internally in 1998 and thus started the inner work of clearing out all the rubbish of old, outdated religious beliefs, lack of worthiness and self esteem issues, and deeply held wounds that simply would no longer be silenced. Sherry has spent the last 11 years breaking through barriers within through study, and various healing modalities. She is a Reiki master, she is certified in Reconnective Healing and Spirit Communication, and has attended the Barbara Brennon School of Healing Science, Lionheart Institute, to name a few! Sherry has been a ferocious closet writer for most of that time and is now ready to be heard. If all goes well, you will see her book appearing on the shelves in the near future! Her intent is to assist others in self acceptance and letting go of outdated beliefs of ancestral origin by sharing her story, her insights and helping all affirm that it is okay to be who you really are. Hopefully, there will be a little humor thrown in for good measure!

Sherry can be reached at sherangel@hotmail.com

Published on 04/19/2010

I wish I had known a whole lot sooner that all I had to do was agree to go along with those inner stirrings of wanderlust of mine in order to be at peace with myself and my world. But, oh no, that would have been just too dang simple for such a complex individual as myself! I need a good swift kick in the butt sometimes in order to get moving and now was no different. I just wish I had consented sooner than I had once I discovered that it was possible to feel like a normal human being again after such a very long time.

Today I woke up feeling like my world had magically shifted to quite a lovely place filled with a thorough sense of peace with myself and my surroundings, finding this new state of being a bit foreign, but really grateful I had finally arrived here. And now, getting comfortable with my new found serenity, I find myself wondering if, after months and months of fighting myself over one very specific issue, whether I really did have to move (sell my condo) at all to get happy again or if whatever it was that was driving to make such a major decision had somehow mysteriously just drifted away!

But then the wise soul within me pointed out that this is what it feels like to be in total acceptance of taking that next step toward some major life changes and allowing them to happen. Having lived with total dissatisfaction with where I lived for quite some time now, I had finally worked through the fear of making yet another wrong choice, deciding to just go with it. The magic about this whole situation is that all angst and resistance almost instantly disappeared and I now, finally, feel normal again. At last, I have arrived at the beginning of the other side of my life and I am nothing short of delighted to find myself smack dab in the middle of this latest development! And all that had changed was that in the past few days, I had made a choice and started preparing to move. As if on cue, the doors started to open with several options for places to rent revealing themselves as I spent time cleaning and eliminating to prepare my home for sale. The only act that brought on resistance was putting the sign in the window but I took a deep breath, and did it anyway.

Though I struggled so with making that choice, I now am aware of the symbolism that leaving my home represented. I was literally choosing to step outside of my walls, physically and internally, and rejoin life instead of being a constant, miserable bystander. The main level of my condo does resemble that of a cave, only offering windows on one end of it, devoid of all visibility to the street and the outside world on the other end. It was real easy for me to hide from the world and all it has to offer, but that meant the good as well as the bad. Eventually I really resented it, thank God, often feeling claustrophic but now I understand that I was hiding all my God given potential deep within myself, having created an internal cave right along with the external. Yes, I still need to get good and miserable before making a new choice but I have hopes that some day I won’t need this tactic as a catalyst for change!

My coming out party is long overdue but I am thrilled and eager to throw one anyway as I rejoin the actively living again. Though it was so terribly lonely at times, I am grateful to myself and my home for supplying just the right atmosphere for me to deal with some serious issue’s of self distain that I had no idea were still lingering so deeply within me. It is this very physical withdrawing that woke me up and showed me the area’s within that were causing me to live a lie. It turns out that I am not an evil demon within but I would have never known that if I had not taken the risk of going within myself to find out exactly who was living in there. Once I discovered this truth, moving forward became nothing short of a long anticipated gift I am giving myself instead of something to dread.