🌈 The Rainbow Connection Premier Post: Of Bones & Breath Reflections on a Spiritual Awakening Journey

“Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.”

— Rumi

There comes a time on the spiritual path when what was once a beautiful idea… becomes real.

It stops being a philosophy you admire or a quote you pin to your wall, and begins to breathe inside you — it wakes you up in the morning, sings through your thoughts, and weaves itself into your relationships, your home, your work, your everything.

You no longer want to talk about it. You want to live it. Boldly. Fully. Out loud.

This is that moment for me — the moment I step out of the spiritual closet and into the light.

🔥 The Fire That Forged Me

On October 1, 2024, my husband, Tony, suffered a near-fatal stroke.He was sleeping beside me when it happened.

At first, I thought it was a bad dream. Then a seizure. Then the truth hit: he’s having a stroke.I moved. I acted. I called for help. I stayed present. I didn’t panic.

And in that still, steady presence, something ancient woke up inside me.It was as if my soul whispered, “This time, you’re ready.”

Because years earlier, I hadn’t been. I had frozen when my daughter nearly drowned. I carried that shame for years. But this time, I moved. I knew. I was different.

That day shattered me — and remade me.

🕊 A Blessing in Disguise

Even in the chaos, a quiet knowing pulsed beneath the fear. Some deeper part of me understood that this was the storm that would strip me bare.

It didn’t make it easier, but it made it holy.

That morning gave me permission to stop pretending, to stop performing, to stop building a life that looked “safe.” It asked me to trust what was real — love, presence, truth — and let everything else fall away.

It was the moment I realized:I can’t live inside the matrix anymore.I have to build what my soul came here to build.Now.

🌈 The Song That Remembered Me

A few months after the stroke, in February 2025, I received my Reiki attunements.The very next morning, I woke up with a song echoing through my mind — The Rainbow Connection.

The first song from the first movie I ever saw in a theater.Kermit the Frog, a swamp, a banjo.I was four. My aunt beside me.Something about that melody has lived in me ever since.

“Why are there so many songs about rainbows,and what’s on the other side?”

When it returned in February, I knew: Spirit was calling me home to myself.It was time to follow the rainbow back to the truth — not the glossy, spiritual-bypass version, but the messy, bone-deep one that costs you your old life.

🌬 Of Bones and Breath

This blog is my prayer, my process, my practice — a living altar where I share the raw, unfiltered, bone-and-breath reality of awakening.

It’s not a polished teaching space. It’s a sanctuary for the ones who are being undone and reborn by love — the seekers, truth-tellers, and soul-rememberers finding their way home through the beautiful chaos.

You don’t have to be perfect.You don’t have to know everything.You just have to feel the yes in your chest and let it guide you.

So, beloved…Won’t you come along with me?

With all my love,

Lis

Mama, Mystic, Memory Keeper

Founder of The House That Mama Runs and Of Bones &

Breath