About Me

Becoming Zia is a blog by Zia Poe.  She has written a memoir about a two week experience in the desert of New Mexico that changed her life.  She blogs about her life.  Subjects include: Her upcoming book - Becoming Zia, healing autoimmune disease, weight loss, creativity, spirituality, simple living.  It's a blog about life, passion, and healing.

Hi, I am Zia Poe.  

I used to be known as Cindy Eubanks, but this past summer, in the desert of New Mexico, a series of magical and synchronistic events transpired and I became Zia Poe! 

Crazy? 
Maybe. But it's real.  It happened to me. It's a story of transformation and rebirth that includes a multitude of factors. From a tumor in my throat to a peacock talisman, a Reiki session and a labyrinth, intuitive painting and Zozobra, and a whole lot more . . .

Since the first time I stepped foot in New Mexico, over 30 years ago, I felt connected.  There was something about it that called to me.  I wasn't sure what it was, but it felt deep and meaningful.  I never lived there, only visited a few times. But, some unconscious part of me was drawn to it like a magnet.

About ten years ago I heard about an intuitive painting process called "Painting from the Wild Heart" developed by Chris Zydel. She held a week long painting retreat every year at the Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.  As soon as I read the flyer I wanted to go. I knew it was perfect match for me. But, life was busy, money was short and there was always an excuse not to go.  Until this year.  I finally made the decision to sign-up.

Little did I know, that the stars had lined up and I was about to experience New Mexico and my creative process in a way I'd never imagined.  It was a collision of energies that was destined to change my life. For two weeks in September 2013 I stepped into the unknown as Cindy Eubanks and started a journey that would forever change me.  As each day unfolded I encountered events that could only be called magical, leading me through a transformation that I couldn't even understand at the time.  With each synchronicity I shook my head in wonder and questioned my reality and my sanity.  But, it kept happening.  Day by day, event by event, I had to recognize that something beyond my control was at work.  God, the Universe, Source, had something planned for me and it was big.

What I experienced was a crash course in awakening.  By the end of the two weeks I had come to know and understand ONENESS.  Some may call it God, it has many names, but for me it was a connection with my original essence, the part of me that is part of all that is. The awakening was about recognizing what that oneness represents -- ultimate unconditional love, deep peace, unbounded joy and total acceptance --on a level that can never be adequately described in words. Miraculous!

It's a long story, with many interesting twists and turns.  The most interesting twist being given a new name  . . . Zia Poe.  Spoken to me in a whisper on my way home in the car, it was rather shocking -- the name just came out of the air and I knew it was meant to be my new name.  When I learned of it's meaning it made the hairs raise on my neck and confirmed my feelings.

After being home a few days and trying to process everything that happened, I knew I had to write about it.  I had to tell this story.  First, I had to do it for me, to get this down on paper so I could remember, and process it further.  But, then I realized what I had experienced and learned needed to be shared.  I felt it in my bones.  So, I started writing and a book began to emerge. . . "Becoming Zia! A Tale of Transformation and Rebirth."  At this moment it is nearly complete and I am getting ready to move into the editing phase. It feels so good.  I have never had writing come so easy.

Becoming Zia! is a raw, honest book about my own process of healing and the spiritual awakening that was years in the making, but only seconds in the manifesting.  In it I expose many parts of myself, and my life's journey without holding back, or covering up.  It is my truth laid out and through that process I was cracked open.

It's a story of self acceptance and opening up to big love, the kind that is bigger than this human experience.  It's about believing in magic and serendipity. It's knowing on a deep level that I am enough exactly as I am and perfect in every way. It is stepping into knowing myself on a true, authentic divine level and finally feeling whole.  It's the weird, wonderful, crazy story of how I became Zia. 

This blog will follow my transition and explore all the facets of life as I continue becoming Zia.  Although I had this awakening, and feel like a completely new person, I still came home to an unchanged life. The same people, the same circumstances, the same life, only one thing is different....me.  Learning to navigate as Zia in Cindy's world is an interesting and challenging process. Change is good, but change is also different and different sometimes isn't welcomed with open arms.  Writing is my creative outlet and a way for me to process my journey, and stay connected to the transformation. That's what this blog is all about.   

I hope you will follow my blog or Friend me on Facebook.  You can do that right on this page, at the top, on the right. Just fill in your email address and click SUBMIT, then make sure to check your email and confirm your subscription.  Or you can click on my Facebook page and click Friend.  Either way I would love to have you along with me on this journey!

You can also read the first two chapters of Becoming Zia for FREE, just fill in the form on the right or click the link above. Get a taste of the book and be one of the first to know when it's published.

Big love and many blessings,