Daniela Wingate - NLP Life, Leadership & Executive Coach, and Facilitator

A beautiful poem for those feeling a bit challenged today

The final good bye … this weekend we held a wake and a ‘sending-off’ service for my beloved grandmother. It was absolutely beautiful in every way. I’d never experienced seeing a coffin, with someone close to me inside it, being lowered into the ground, and slowly covered with soil (most of my family have been cremated before this). In the past, I shuddered at the thought of someone being ‘buried’. But, since my grandmother changed her mind toward the end, not wanting to add to the unbearable levels of air pollution, and chose to be buried in a simple coffin and given back to the earth, I embraced the experience. And I was blown away by how much more ‘real’ and ‘final’ it felt to actually witness the body being laid to rest. The feeling of closure was immediate … completely tangible … and, though I found it incredibly hard to walk away from the burial site afterwards, when I finally did I felt like ‘the cycle’ had been completed … her cycle; and the part of both of our cycles that overlapped. It was cathartic and helped me “lay to rest” the experience of having had to say good bye to her, too. Thank you, Granny, for having given me yet another gift. You are the lightest of all light beings I have met, thus far 🙏🏼🙏🏼✨✨✨💫⭐️

How happy does your space make you? Physical environment is often overlooked when people focus on improving happiness. Doing something you love in a space that feels good to be in is critical to overall contentment. As Marie Diamond says, “everything you see is a vision board”. Your physical space has a significant subconscious impact on the way you feel and can even embed certain beliefs about yourself, your value and your potential deeper into the psyche. Thus, it is vital to consider how everything you look at every day effects you beneath the surface … and look at ways you can change and improve it to better suit the overall feelings and goals you’d like to achieve.

As the ‘Month of Love’ begins, I’d like to focus on the topic of ‘self love’ … because, as a wise young man once said to me, “love goes where love is”. Truly understanding the meaning of that phrase and learning to genuinely love myself, changed my life. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Good bye, Dear Granny 💚💚💚 We will miss you so much. Your smile, kindness, relaxed and positive attitude to everything … you almost reached 99 and had at least 98 years of good health! You have been one of the most inspiring beings I, my children and so many other family members and friends have been blessed to have been so close to.

May you rest in peace, and dance and sing forever through the stars and Universe ✨💙💚

This couldn't be more true ... acceptance is still so underrated. Let's allow ourselves to disagree and still be kind, and happy to still connect equally on other points.

The abundant path I’m on 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼. So often we fail to see the abundance all around us. We focus only on the bank balance and when it is lower than we’d like, we are blinded by an overwhelming sense of lack … even when we are thriving in a billion other ways.