Happy New Year everyone! 2021 has arrived! A huge part of me is shocked at how fast last year went by even though it felt slow most of the time. I suppose that’s because it was a year mostly spent in lockdown. We have all lost so much in 2020 but I would like to think that we have all at least gained something from last year even of it’s just a lesson learned.
Going into a new year is exciting, it’s a fresh start. I hope that we can all leave the negative feelings about 2020 in the past. We must live in the moment and look forward to a brighter future. The universe is still there, we are all still loved and we have so much to be grateful for. The sun rises each day and the earth keeps spinning. The birds still sings for us, flowers still bloom for us, the trees still dance for us and the stars still wink at us each night. Let us all be grateful for this wondrous planet that we call home.
Today I am grateful for the new beginnings on the way. I am grateful for the sun shining brightly. I am grateful for my animals. I am grateful for my home and I am grateful for my family.
What are you grateful for today?
I have few new posts brewing in my mind and I look forward to a year of sharing thoughts, creating new memories and flourishing growth.
Hello everyone! Can you believe it? This year is almost over! I am looking forward to a new year, and a fresh start. I will be writing a post to wish everyone a happy new year but I wanted to share my affirmations that I am planning on using for this fresh start.
THE UNIVERSE LOVES AND SUPPORTS ME. I AM SAFE AND SECURE. I AM INSPIRED. I AM ENOUGH. I DESERVE LOVE AND HAPPINESS. I WELCOME CHANGE. I AM SURROUNDED BY LOVE. I AM PROSPEROUS. I AM FLOURISHING. I AM SURROUNDED BY PEACE. I ATTRACT KIND PEOPLE INTO MY LIFE. I MAKE NEW CONNECTIONS WITH EASE. I ATTRACT NEW OPPURTUNITIES. I LOVE MYSELF. I AM BLESSED. I AM HEALTHY. I AM STRONG. I AM CAPABLE. I LOVE WHAT I DO. I LOVE MY LIFE. I AM SAFE. ALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
Are you guys setting intentions and affirmations for the new year? I think setting intentions, making goals and working with affirmations can really propel you forward. I know it helps me so much. I hope you all have a safe and blessed new year. I’ll post again on the 1st.
Hey everyone, I don’t know about you but it has been a crazy month so far! My body feels like… well, it doesn’t feel energized and good. I know I have spoken about the breath before, I can’t really stop talking about it, but that’s just because it is so important to come home to yourself.
Lately I’ve been gravitating towards my mat more and more, which I am very happy about. In times when we feel horrible, it’s important to feed the soul and take care of the body. I do yoga twice a day and I make sure to add some cardio in the mix every day. I do three meditation sessions each day too. One of the meditations will always be a visualization of some kind. All of these practices keep me sane and grounded. When I feel lost I get on the mat and I find my breath. Once I have arrived home, I can then focus my intensions, I feel the gratitude on a deeper level. I visualize my goals being achieved.
One of the things I have noticed with my mental health and the trauma related issues I have, is that it’s imperative that I keep bringing myself back to the present. I need to remind myself what is real and what is not. What is current and what is in the past. The best way to do that for me, is practicing coming home to myself. I breathe. It doesn’t always work but like anything in life the more you do it the easier it becomes.
I am grateful for my breath, I am grateful for my body and I am grateful for life.
I hope you’re all keeping safe and healthy out there and I am sending love to the entire world.
Hello everyone, I have been trying to write for the past few days but the words are not forth coming, being blocked is never fun, no matter what kind of art you make. When I have a creative block it gives me immense stress and guilt. So I try to find comfort in the small things while I get my brain back in order. I try to remind myself often that no matter how broken I feel, or how sad and lonely I may be, that I can still find comfort and a moment of happiness in some things. That in itself, is a comfort.
Here are some things that bring me those good cozy feelings. Night, I feel worse during the day. Sometimes I think it’s because in the brightness of the day I can clearly make out the difficulties in my life, but at night, it’s softer, blurred out in a way. Rain, I love the rain. It makes me feel like me and the earth is being cleansed. All the bad stuff is being washed away when it rains and that brings me so much joy. It helps me breathe easier. The moon. The moon and I don’t always get along and that’s my fault. Sometimes the moon intimidates me but in the moments when I feel blocked and stuck, the moon actually inspires me. Don’t even get me going on the stars (not that I can see many at night). I think I’ll just say that the night sky is a huge comfort. Flowers, I get lost in the beauty of flowers. Flowers not only bring me comfort but they make me feel hopeful and protected.
I feel like I should mention one other thing that kicks my creative block where the sun don’t shine and that’s Television. I know that sounds awful after all the wonderful natural remedies I turn to for comfort but I’d be lying if I said that I only get comfort from the beautiful nature around me. There’s nothing like a good story and since I’m a very visual person, television inspires me to write amazing stories. Getting lost in a good movie or series also brings me comfort, blocked or not… it helps my brain.
Oh and don’t forget the huge amounts of chocolate!
What brings you guys comfort? I hope that everyone is happy and healthy out there!
Hey everyone! I put some mood boards together today and I thought I would share them here. I’m a very visual person, so creating boards like these really give me a boost of creativity and inspiration which I then channel into my writing.
For me this month is all about trying to find some kind of balance and self care. My mental health is crumbling to pieces but I’m trying to do things that bring me joy, to kind of combat the negative. I want to give myself the best possible start to the new year, so its important to me that I get my ducks in a row this month. I have lots of goals for next month but nothing will happen if I don’t put the work in, starting right now.
I hope you guys are having a good December so far, wherever you are in the world! It’s hot here, I wish it was cold though. The sun and I have a love hate relationship going on. Stay safe and healthy out there! As always I am sending loads of good vibes your way! 🙂
Hey everyone! I hope you’re all keeping safe and healthy. I can’t believe it’s the end of the year! I’m looking forward to 2021. I am in no way expecting all our problems to disappear but there is something so hopeful about a fresh new year. 2020 has taken so much away from us. It’s hard to think that this is my first Christmas without my mom, without my wonderful Godmother and without the others we have lost. As a family, this festive season is probably going to be the saddest time. I know for me, it will be the hardest Christmas I will ever face. That said, I do welcome 2021, I have hope that it will be a year of growth and success for me. I am looking forward to achieving some goals and I really look forward to change.
My momma wanted the best for me, she wanted me to thrive and I’m going to make the next year of my life a thriving one.
I have been painting a lot, I have been doodling, I have been sketching and I’ve been doing a lot of yoga. My go to comforts have been helping me immensely. Music has been a saving grace for me too. I have been focusing most of my time on my writing. I did not win Nanowrimo this year but I am proud of what I achieved. My current projects are coming along nicely. The fantasy novel I’m working on is more of a closure project for me (if that makes sense) and I’m going in with my second round of edits for my Contemporary. All in all creatively, I’ve forced myself through the pain.
I am grateful for all the practices that bring me comfort. I crave people and physical comfort, I miss the act of holding someone’s hand. I miss having face to face conversations but I know, in my heart that we just need to give this situation time and grace. We will be okay.
This is a book I keep coming back to. I was a teenager the first time I read it. My mom was a big fan and she encouraged me to read it and I am so glad that she did. It isn’t complicated, it is encouraging and gentle in it’s teaching. I found it very easy to latch onto the idea of the Law Of Attraction and I started practicing it immediately. The stories told and examples in this book are heart warming and very encouraging.
“MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH – Creation is always happening. Every time an individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they’re in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts. What you are thinking now is creating your future life. You create your life with your thoughts. Because you are always thinking, you are always creating. What you think about the most or focus on the most, is what will appear as your life. Like all the laws of nature, there is utter perfection in this law. You create your life. Whatever you sow, you reap! Your thoughts are seeds, and the harvest you reap will depend on the seeds you plant. If you are complaining, the law of attraction will powerfully bring into your life more situations for you to complain about. If you are listening to someone else complain and focusing on that, sympathizing with them, agreeing with them, in that moment, you are attracting more situations to yourself to complain about. The law is simply reflecting and giving back to you exactly what you are focusing on with your thoughts. With this powerful knowledge, you can completely change every circumstance and event in your entire life, by changing the way you think.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret
The Magic
It’s all about gratitude! I know I have spoken about gratitude before, it is such an important part of manifestation. If we are not grateful for what we already have, how will we receive more? I fall in and out of my practices as I am sure you know by now but when I try to get back into it, this is the first book I pick up. I always start on day one and then everyday after that I just open the book to a random page and do the exercise for that day in the book. This book teaches you a way of constant gratitude. Wake up thankful, go to sleep thankful. See a photo of someone you love- be thankful for them. It teaches you to set gratitude routines that you can easily apply to your life. I personally love gratitude, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to think about how blessed I am.
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” ― Rhonda Byrne, The Magic
Five Wishes
Another simple and friendly book. I enjoy the way it was written and the message is beautiful. Turn your wishes into goals. This book also brings something to attention that my mother always taught me and that is to put my affirmations and goals in present tense. She would tell me to say it out loud. That way you are affirming it to yourself. This book was also one of her favorites.
“Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.” ― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes
I’m going to write a separate post on my favorite spiritual books. I hope you are all safe and healthy out there! Count your blessings and keep smiling. You are loved! YOU ARE ENOUGH!
Hey everyone. How quirky are you? Do you have weird nervous ticks? Do you do strange things? I do… So I thought I would write down those things. 🙂
When I am nervous or feeling awkward/shy, these are some of the things I catch myself doing.
I talk to myself. I wave my hands around a lot. I blush…. it’s not cute. I shake my head. I blink fast. I dance randomly and then feel embarrassed. I speak in accents (badly). If I am writing, I spell things wrong or more specifically, I add in double letters. Sooo…. Foood… skinnny…. feelinngs… laugghter… (I find this embarrassing too.) My dyslexia gets worse. I wriggle my nose. I rub my hair against my lips. I play with my hair. I swear a lot. A lot. I become a sailor. I giggle. Just to name a few.
I find it so interesting to observe myself and watch how I react to different emotions in different situations. The more negative situations bring on a whole different set of quirks. The ones I have listed here are the good ones. I watch myself. I stay present in all my discomfort because I find it crucial to healing. If I know how something makes me feel and I don’t enjoy that feeling, I then have the power to change it. I can change how I perceive whatever it may be. If I like how it’s making me feel, then I just sit and enjoy it. Even if it’s embarrassing.
I hope everyone is doing well, staying safe and healthy! As always I am sending out loads of love to the entire world!
Hey everyone, how are you? I hope you’ve all had a beautiful week.
I thought I would write about grief today. I think at this point you all know what I have been through this year and I was just talking to one of my cousins, she lives overseas and I haven’t seen her since I was a kid but we have always stayed in touch. She messaged to check in on me and my dad. While we spoke I got to thinking about how I really feel. What my grief feels like and I explained it to her like this… We all grieve differently and life tends to carry on. I can’t blame people for not standing still with me. So, it’s me and my dad, we’re alone, we’ve only got each other and we’re standing still for the moment. It’s tough but it’s better than forcing ourselves to walk before we’re ready. That is what grief feels like for me. It feels like I am standing still while the rest of the world keeps moving on. I am in my own pain, standing still.
I hope you guys are okay and managing during these tough times. The world is a little crazy right now and I am sure we are all experiencing many emotions. I am sending out loads of love to everyone. Stay safe out there.
Paint and My Mat 