About the owner:

Hey! I am Rev. A. Rose N. McHale.

I am a reverend, veteran, holistic TCM practitioner, photographer, community leader & volunteer, and owner of My Beloved Rose and Mysty Mountain Eclectic.

I am married to a great guy (from England) with one daughter born 2010, and another daughter, born 2012.

I am AuHD, I have PTSD, CPTSD, and PTSD enduced GERD. This past year I was hospitalised for acute renal failure and tubular necrosis.

I have been caring for children from the age of twelve and am still continuing in this field.

I have recently nannied and still oftentimes go to another state to assist when needed.

I feel much like my grandmother who was known as ‘Mommy Lanny‘ (pronouned Lawnee) she always watched children.

At the age of twelve, my parents started foster-parenting. With my father working second shift, I was not only my mother’s helper, but another mother and encouraging adult that these children looked up to.

I would cook dinner, feed, bathe, put to bed, and clean up after them while my mother would be out taking other foster children to visits.

For six years, we had seven groups of children stay with us, totalling up to fourteen children. Six of those children were special needs.

In 2003, my family adopted 3 of those special needs children, and in 2005, adopted two more children.

Apart from helping raise those children, while being homeschooled, at the age of seventeen, I was a nanny for four boys in the age range of 8 months to 12 years old.

After two years, that family moved for military obligations, and my mother and I started babysitting for three children (on top of foster parenting). I would also, occasionally babysit for a child who had Down Syndrome.

Although sometimes I regret not going to be a live-in nanny with the military family. Would have been a neat experience.

In 2006 I went to China on a mission trip with United Methodist Church. I was there instructing the teachers there how to better teach their students on how to speak English. Providing them with books and skills. We held different classes teaching them English grammar and sentence structure.

In 2008 I went to Basic Combat Training for the United States Army Reserves, where I learned about the Seven Core Army Values and how to work together as a team and what it takes to succeed as a Soldier in the U.S. Army.

[Most are simps.. sorry/not sorry]

I received training and qualification in First Aid, CPR, and IV application and graduated top female.

I graduated from Advanced Individual Training (AIT); where, over the course of nineteen weeks, I learned the skills to perform my military occupational specialty as a Human Intelligence Collector. I maintained a 3.71 GPA from Cochise College during my AIT training. I served from 2008-2016- No IRR; a full 8.

What do I get for being a veteran? Not much. But I oftentimes feel bad for the many who chose that path because of debt or a way away from abusive family- in the end, you are a pawn and a number to dictate for political-wartime theatrics over tantrums from those in power. True service is sacrifice to those who are vulnerable and in need. Protection not greed.

For many years past that, I worked in the direct support field at Indiana Mentor as a Night Shift Coordinator in a group home of 8 clients where I was supporting individuals who have disabilities. Working directly with people with developmental disabilities with the aim of assisting the individuals to become integrated into his/her community or the least restrictive environment.

Assisting with activities of daily living and encouraging attitudes and behaviors in accordance with an Individual Plan that enhances community inclusion, which includes but is not limited to aiding with personal hygiene, medication administration, meal preparation, and providing a clean house and safe living environment.

Providing transportation for individuals receiving services to planned and/or necessary activities and appointments.

I was CPR, First Aid, Universal Precautions, MAR Charting, Medication Administration, BBP, Physical Intervention Alternative, Insulin Administration via injection, Core A and Core B certified.

I then moved on to teaching for the Lafayette School Corporation for FOCUS as an art & art history teacher.

I miss it sometimes – but glad to be homeschooling my own children, so it’s teaching just on a much smaller scale.

For the past 3 years my family and I have been custodians of a local grassroots chapter in Fayetteville, NC- assisting Internationally to record data, table at events, and connect and network together other aligned groups, orgs, non-profits etc.

We often assist with highway and beach litter abatement and are assisting a non-profit and a CBO in Uganda with putting in a well.

Shoutout to #TheAllyFoundation and #NantambaDavid w/ #FFFMakindyeKampalaUganda and #TosiyoHelpingHandsFoundation.

We do a lot of environmental and climate endeavours~

I have been a coordinator for a few workgroups within an international movement- I love my colleagues.

My hobbies include, but are not limited to: Arts-n-Crafts, Photography, Filming, Swimming, Camping, Hiking, Biking, Gardening and Reading.

I like cleaning and organizing. Clean and organized environments aid in developing positive habits for the future.

I am very fond of animals and assist with wildlife rehab and transfer – especially during hurricane season.

I am an artist at heart.

I have this small, family-owned art business where I sell my art online or gift to auctions, to collect money to donate towards wells for water in Africa, supporting Tosiyo Helping Hands Foundation and orphanage in Uganda and more, plus several different charities like World Vision.

And of course, my holistic TCM and cupping~trade/barter website, Mysty Mountain Eclectic.

I am also into that of filming, photography, and website; webpage development and management. I help create websites for those in MAPA areas like Uganda.

#TosiyoHelpingHands

#FFFMapSolidarity

Here is a snapshot of two weddings I officiated and reception I photographed and some extras, enjoy;