One of the magical parts of growing older is we discover more about who we are as a person.
Like many writers, my thoughts pop into my mind at what might be a bizarre time, but more often than not are delivered just at the right moment.
I was at a bar on the weekend after sharing a lovely meal with a group of friends. As I was there looking around, I noticed a few people I knew, some said hi, while others kept to themselves.
Read MoreSeasons are not just reserved for a calendar year.
While today marks September 1, the beginning of spring, a moment to rebirth, a time to shake off the chills that have been haunting us.
I feel that we go through so many seasons of our life, and they remind us that we can do hard things and that beautiful things will find us.
Read MoreChoice.
Easy to be taken away even harder to be guaranteed.
Choice.
It is her option.
Her preference.
A woman’s voice.
Where is the freedom? Hidden in the dark; muffled by his master’s voice.
Read MoreIt is funny how there are still those people in the world who believe kindness is a weakness.
The ones who take advantage of it.
Who believe they are entitled to kindness, despite never leading with or using it.
When you try to be someone with a kind heart, a considerate heart, a shared heart- your heart becomes a beating target.
Read MoreThe other F word.
Frustrated. Frustrating.
And no, I am not talking about “oh how you vex me,” kind of frustrated.
The feeling you get, when you keep showing up, trying to do your best and most of the time taking on a heavy load.
Read MoreI have never been one for drama.
It makes my skin itch just thinking about it. For years I avoided confrontation, until I did the work, to be able to handle it in a mature way. Don’t get me wrong, my first thought is to hide, or just sweep it under the living room mat, but today I am not afraid of it.
Read MoreJSP is celebrating seven years today. I decided to pen seven lessons I have learned in that time.
It only seems like yesterday I decided to create JSP and now thanks to so many women in our community it continues to grow and thrive.
Thank you to all the women and collaborators who have helped tell the JSP story while sharing theirs.
Read MoreWe don’t always know people’s stories.
Especially when it comes to their bodies, how they feel about them and their relationship with it.
For many years I have written about body image, even created projects based on the power and beauty of our bodies. I have built a community of building up women, it is one of my favourite things in the world.
We know that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. How our bodies morph over time, how they can change with the seasons of our lives.
Our bodies won’t always look the same.
Read MoreWhile we won’t solve all our problems at once, there is power in having a good cry, for me a cry is one of the most undervalued acts of self-love.
We have to give ourselves the time to break down, to acknowledge the pain, disappointment, hurt and stress. To feel uncomfortable in not being together.
Read MoreEVER had those days. Where you feel out of your body?
Like you are pretending to be yourself?
Maybe you are playing the role of yourself, because you are struggling, maybe your mental or physical health is not doing so well, or you feel like your life is at a crossroads?
Your mind and heart are hurting, and you are trying to be the best version of yourself? Trying to convince yourself and others everything is fine and dandy.
Read MoreOh, for FOX sake.
Some days you just need to say fox.
Fox to how you are feeling. Fox to what life throws at us.
Maybe you are saying fox, because you forgot to put your mask on for the hundredth time or perhaps you say fox to things out of your control.
There are days when you have no other word to describe the day, month or year.
What the fox are you to do?
Read More“Let today be the day you give up who you’ve been for who you can become”- Hal Elrod.
As I read this quote, I thought easier said than done, right?
The path of self -discovery can be a tricky one. It is a path that is filled with signposts, detours, greenlights and wrong way go back signs, it has the ability to play tricks on even the most robust minds.
Read MoreShe is too much. I am too much.
Days are too fast and too furious.
Too much of a good thing and we are in too deep.
One too many and we will carry it too far.
Too close for comfort and it’s a little too hot to handle.
Too much information and we go too far.
Read MoreDo you ever just get sick of yourself?
I do.
Lately I have been so sick of my own sh*%t.
Some days feel as if I am filled to brim with the same old toxic thoughts.
Read MoreDo you believe you have a guardian angel?
Perhaps its a loved one who has left this world but protecting you from another?
Maybe you have a feeling or a sense of warmth around you, in times when you feel you need it the most?
There is something to be said for finding or listening to our spirituality. I feel our spirituality finds us when we are open to the idea that there is more in the universe waiting for us.
Read MoreDear gorgeous ones,
You are a bright and sparkly human.
Today is the day to use your energy for good, to create, heal, maybe even manifest.
We all can glow. Not everything is gloom.
How do we surface from all the chaos, opinions, doom, white noise, beliefs, he said, she said, news, of late, that many of us feel like we are drowning in?
Where is balance hiding? Where is the sacred ground of balance?
Read MoreAretha Franklin spelled it out for us.
R E S P E CT.
Mums and Dads told us they matter.
M A N N E R S.
Maroon 5 sang about how to get sugar.
“You sugar, yes P L E A SE.”
Alannis Morissette wrote about it
“T H A N K Y O U, thank you silence.”
Well, sorry Alannis, I can’t be silent any longer. While I appreciate the clarity silence can bring.
I have had enough.
I was raised that manners mattered. I was taught that they are the cornerstone of being a good, successful person. In short, they always matter. Period.
Can we continued to blame whether Mercury is rising or if a bad moon is rising for people’s flat out behaviour?
Read MoreEver had those days where you feel overwhelmed and sick of giving your best?
I do.
Ever wonder if what you are giving to the world and others is actually appreciated?
I do.
Ever wonder if people love you for who you are or for what you can do for them?
I do.
I don’t like it when the little lady on my shoulder makes me second guess who I am.
Why do we always go back to the same stories we have written about who we are that are fiction?
Read MoreTime is of the essence.
Time has a magical way of showing us what really matters.
This week I read a very poignant post; it was about being careful not to loan what you may need back.
It wasn’t money, but our time., our energy and vibrations.
Lately I have been thinking of time and how I and others can sometimes see it as a negative, a chore, something we will always have.
I often say that time is our most valuable commodity, it is worth more than all the gold, more beautiful than any diamond and is fleeting, making it more precious.
Read MoreI have often spoken about whether it is real life or reel highlight, during some of my speaking engagements
And it something I need reminding of from time-to-time.
Like most people, when I am scrolling, I can find myself a bit like Alice falling down a rabbit hole.
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