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🌎🕊️ World Peace Meditation – You’re Invited 🕊️🌎

In a world that often feels divided and uncertain, choosing to pause, breathe, and send love into the world is a powerful act.

This Sunday at 8:00 PM (ET), I invite you to join me for a World Peace Meditation presented through the Alliance of Divine Love. Together, we’ll spend time in stillness, setting an intention for peace within ourselves, our communities, and our world.

You don’t need any meditation experience—just an open heart.

📅 Sunday
🕗 8:00 PM Eastern
💻 Via Zoom

Join here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83065821865?pwd=QHT0VEaWJOUyYbL4mP6XDSL945Tp7I.1

Whether you’re joining from across town or across the globe, your presence matters. Every peaceful heart adds to the collective intention.

Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and family. The more hearts we gather, the stronger our intention for peace becomes.

With love,
Rev. Stacey Turknett
Alliance of Divine Love 💙

Please join us Sunday.

A link to a simple self-compassion meditation.

Cultivating Self-Compassion: Meditation for Self-Love The Quiet Mind · SOUL JOURNEY: Lessons For Enlightened Living · Song · 2024

Midweek check-in. 🌿

Have you noticed your inner voice this week?

Not to judge it.
Just to hear it.

Awareness isn’t about discovering everything that’s “wrong.”

It’s about becoming so familiar with yourself that you can finally respond with compassion instead of criticism.

Ask yourself today:

✨ What emotion have I been avoiding?
✨ What do I need in this moment?

Small moments of awareness become lifelong transformation.

Awareness

Years ago, I thought healing meant finding all the answers.

I read the books. I took the classes. I meditated. I searched for the magic breakthrough that would suddenly make me feel whole.

Instead, something much quieter happened.

One morning, I caught myself saying, “Of course you messed that up.”

I stopped.

Not because I had a better thought to replace it with, but because I had finally noticed it.

That moment changed everything.

Awareness isn’t flashy. It doesn’t always feel transformative.

Sometimes it’s simply catching the story you’ve been telling yourself for years.

Before you can change your story, you have to hear it.

Today, pay attention to the voice in your mind. Not to judge it—but to understand it.

Awareness is where healing begins. 🌿

✨ Week One: Awareness

Welcome to six weeks of choosing yourself.

Self-love doesn’t begin with confidence.
It begins with awareness.

Most of us spend our lives reacting on autopilot—criticizing ourselves, saying yes when we mean no, carrying emotions we never stop to name.

This week, don’t try to fix yourself.

Simply notice.

Notice your thoughts.
Notice how you speak to yourself.
Notice when your body feels tense or peaceful.

Awareness is the doorway to every lasting change.

💛 Reflection:
“What have I been carrying that I haven’t stopped to acknowledge?”

Share your thoughts below if you’d like. This is a judgment-free space.

🌿 You’re Invited: A Free 6-Week Journey Back to Yourself 🌿

There was a time when I believed self-love was something that happened after I lost the weight, fixed my flaws, healed every wound, or became “better.”

I kept moving the finish line.

But something beautiful has happened over the past few years.

At 49 years old, I can honestly say that I feel more confident than I ever have—not because my life is perfect or because I’ve become someone new, but because I’ve finally come home to myself.

I’ve learned to embrace all of me.

The woman who has survived.
The woman who is still healing.
The woman who laughs loudly, cries deeply, carries scars, makes mistakes, keeps growing, and is worthy of love through every season.

For the first time in my life, I don’t feel like I’m waiting to become enough.

I already am.

That doesn’t mean I have it all figured out. It means I’ve discovered that self-love isn’t a destination—it’s a daily practice of choosing compassion over criticism, presence over perfection, and authenticity over approval.

Because this journey has changed my life, I’d love to share it with you.

✨ Starting tomorrow, Soul Talk is offering a FREE 6-week online self-love workshop right here on this page.

Each week we’ll explore simple, meaningful practices to help you reconnect with yourself, quiet your inner critic, and build a more compassionate relationship with the person you see in the mirror.

Here’s what you can expect:

🌿 Mondays: A new lesson with reflection prompts to guide your week.

💛 Wednesdays: A gentle follow-up with encouragement, deeper reflection, and a chance to check in with yourself.

There are no Zoom meetings.
No registration.
No cost.
No pressure.

Just show up when you can, read the posts, reflect on the prompts, and take one small step toward loving yourself a little more each week.

Whether you’re struggling to see your own worth or want to deepen the relationship you have with yourself, I hope you’ll join us.

💚 If you’re ready, comment “I’m in!” or leave a 🌿 below. Feel free to invite a friend who could use this journey too. Sometimes healing feels a little easier when we know we’re not walking alone.

I can’t wait to begin this journey with you tomorrow.

With love,

Stacey
Soul Talk

📷The image was enhanced with photo editing. I wish that background were mine 😉

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Below is my "official" review of the book. I'll post it on Amazon once the book goes live.

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Guys... go read this book!!!!

I knew by the end of chapter one that I was going to love it. I literally said “YES!” out loud more than once. Two quotes hit me right in the heart:

“It could not do the work that belonged to me.”

and

“Joy and grief can share a room.”

From that point on, I was hooked.

This isn’t really a book about China. It’s about how we keep waiting to live our lives—waiting for the right time, the right house, the right circumstances—when life is happening right now. Val has a way of taking everyday moments and making you see them differently. His writing is honest, funny, vulnerable, and so relatable.

One line that I’ll carry with me is: “You don’t need a special occasion to live a beautiful life. You are the occasion.” That alone is worth reading the book.

This book made me laugh, made me tear up, and made me stop and think about all the ways I’ve been saving parts of my life for “someday.” By the time I finished, I wanted to start living a little differently.

If you love memoirs that make you feel seen while gently nudging you to look at your own life in a new way, pick this one up.

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It's about time!

Soiritual care isn’t reserved for Sundays or moments of crisis.
It’s meant for the everyday holy ground of your life:
• When you feel spiritually weary or uncertain
• When your mind won’t quiet and your heart feels heavy
• When you sense a gentle nudge whispering, “There is more for you.”

Beginning February 14, I have ONE opening available for spiritual care (ages 13+) that honors both faith and lived experience:
✝️ Spiritual Counseling — compassionate, grounded, and heart-centered
🧠 Mindfulness-Based CBT — thoughtful guidance rooted in awareness and grace
🌅 Life Coaching — discernment, clarity, and faithful next steps

Sessions are held via Zoom. My fees are Pay What You Can, because I believe spiritual and emotional support should be accessible, not transactional. This is one way I live out my calling and offer forward the care I have received.

If you are seeking a sacred, non-judgmental space where faith, questions, and real life can be held together, I invite you to reach out. 🌿

Grace and peace,
Stacey