Beyond the Garden Gate

If I could give my younger self advise it would be: "its ok to be different, dare to be an original, be secure in who God made you to be and be the best you can be. Don't let people pressure you, convince you to put aside your values, or make you feel bad about yourself because you don't fit in their mold or image of who they think you should be. You don't have to look or act like everyone else. God has given each person different gifts, talents, and personalities on purpose and for a purpose. You were created to be YOU and be confident in who you are. It's OK to be YOU! God made you that way on purpose"  Ufff that would have saved me a lot of trouble, heart aches, and mistakes/bruises a long the way. BUT I would not be where I am today mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and fiscally if I hadn't learned from those lessons... I Don't regret my past, I see it with compassion and appreciation as the great teacher it was and is. We all have a path to walk...

When you remain alert of your thought and question all the stressful ones - those that cause all the anger, sadness, frustration-  they loose all their power over us and our lives! Our thoughts affect our emotions, we will feel exactly as we think and how we feel dictates our actions. Just because a stressful or negative thoughts pops up doesn't mean we have to hang on to it, water it, nurture it, coddle it, and help it grow. You get to choose what you think of and focus on. It takes hard work at the beginning, it's like a muscle we have to grow, and it will feel unconfortable because our body gets used- addicted- to the chemicals those thoughts cause our brain to release, but remember the only person that has the power to improve your life, feelings, and behaviours is you!  Obviously we can't live in denial, ignore our problems, or act like nothing bad ever happens to us, that is unrealistic. Tough times come to all of us, there's nothing we can do about that, but we c...

I make it a point to have my little one see me journaling, specially in the mornings, she gets to learn a powerful life skill, one that helped her mommy get off a high dose of heart medicine that doctors were sure she would need and in higher doses for her rest of her life, a tool that gave mommy her peace, joy, freedom and life back. When you journal you write what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important, what you want to create, how you want to show up in your day/life, the future, and your gratitudes.  It helps organize your thoughts, it allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see, zoom out and see different angles of the situation, you realize what is important and what it's not.  It's an amazing tool to re-center/ re-calibrate, to get out of fear and back into love, to unburden our brains,  release layers that need to be healed, to grow, to connect back to that higher power and that inner guiding system we ha...