06/01/2024
Here’s what I’ve learned, it’s not the feelings we experience that we are trying to control or eliminate, it’s our CHOSEN behavioral response to those feelings that we want to master and consciously choose. It’s how we want to show up in those challenging moments. We want to show up in a way that is most in alignment with who we want to be, a better version of ourselves perhaps even in a moment of frustration or anger, we get to decide how we show up even with those challenging emotions being present!
And just as equally important, we need to give ourselves appropriate ways and times to still experience what truly comes up for us emotionally, love and honor those feelings, hear what they’re trying to communicate to us, so that we can move through them. I once heard someone say emotions are energy, and that energy needs to be expressed in some way or else it gets stuck within our bodies and later comes out in other unhealthier ways like anxiety or depression. Emotions will always find ways to be heard, they bubble to the surface and hijack the system so they can no longer be ignored! We have to expel that energy so that it doesn’t get stuck within our bodies and keep us dysregulated.
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11/29/2023
🌱 🪶✨equivocal transformations
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.
Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
Author: Alice Walker
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10/13/2023
🧦 🧺 Every laundry day is a chance to solve mysteries 🕵🏻♀️
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10/10/2023
Loss of freedom in Motherhood is challenging, right? 😩🤱🏻 I used to feel so frustrated when people would tell me to "surrender." 🙅♀️ It seemed like they were implying I should give up, even though there were still dishes and laundry to be done. ✔️
But over time, my understanding of surrender evolved. Motherhood taught me about the delicate balance between surrender and resistance. 🌸 Surrendering doesn't mean giving up or failing; it means embracing the unpredictable, finding strength in vulnerability, and trusting the journey. It's about letting go of the desire to control while never letting go of love. ❤️
There's a certain personal grace needed when finding equilibrium between these opposing forces in motherhood. 🌟 The more fluid you become in transitioning between these states, the more peace you will cultivate. ✨
09/21/2023
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How does this make you feel?
09/14/2023
Snake chasers remain perpetual victims 🐍the best gift 🎁 you can give to yourself is to focus on you, nourish yourself in the ways you needed to be nourished, love yourself in ways you needed to be loved, do the work to peel back the complex layers for healing
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