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Dancing With a Wasp!

Wendy Van de Poll
6 min readMar 15, 2019

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Dancing With A Wasp

I don’t know about you but whenever a wasp comes into my space, there is a moment of sheer terror. My heart palpates, I breathe fast and I get this desire to scream and run away. Now don’t get me wrong I love all wildlife but there is something very primal that happens when a wasp buzzes into my life!

I have to admit that I grew up with a father and mother that hated insects of any sort. I have memories of my father running around the house every spring and summer with a spray can full of toxic chemicals. Cursing under his breath and sometimes extremely loud about the wasps that set up housekeeping under his shutters.

However, let it be known with my training in advanced pest control methods by a ranting parent I knew differently even then. My heart felt that by killing them off was not a great thing to do for the environment or for growing respectful spiritual energy with nature.

Dancing With A Wasp!

Yet… with this great Spiritual wisdom, I innately had as a child I still carried with me a deep and primal instinct of fear, anxiety and a desire to flee whenever I hear, see or feel a wasp in my presence. There is good news! Last Monday through my passion of dance my relationship with wasps changed.

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Wendy Van de Poll
Wendy Van de Poll

Written by Wendy Van de Poll

Sparks compassion for animals, nature, the enneagram and magic with the premise to make the world a better place. Total dog-mom-nerd. 12x bestselling author!

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