My journey on the Path less traveled. Introverted survivor of childhood abuse using writing to “Bring on the thriving!” A little lopsided sometimes, stubborn, but smart enough to know it’s time to truly heal! 🙏🏻❤️
Oh, I could go deep into this overflowing well of my mind today, but I’m not up for it. No, today is Friday, and I’ve gotten so many good things accomplished this week! Today I’m going to roll with my nature and let the light hearted feelings win out!
My teenage daughter was teasing me last night about me being so goofy! She’s saying now that she’s also goofy, and it’s somehow my fault! HA! It was an awesome conversation about who’s cool, and who isn’t,…and how apparently Cool isn’t the first word that my personality brings to mind. But you know what, we were laughing almost the entire time during this conversation last night! I’ll take that anytime!
When you’re wired to be light hearted, enjoy the simple things, and absolutely love to laugh,….I’m voting that you let that resurface in everyday life. Throughout my healing journey here laughter and joy is starting to resurface, and today I’m ever so thankful for it.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all.
I’ve heard that some of our deepest thoughts come to us in our dreams. Well, I usually don’t remember anything about my dreams, but they have been a little extra vivid and crazy these last few months!
Through the past few years it’s been a goal of mine to try to save and breathe new life into what few family items were able to be saved. It’s too long of a story for now, but let’s just say there’s hardly any household items, or anything for that matter, that have been physically passed down in my family, both sides.
Stuff has never been important to me, I learned that one the hard way. But, for the few items with family memories tied to them, that have been found, I want to give them a second chance.
We live in such a “throw it away” culture anymore. So, this dream I had cemented the idea for me that I need to get working on the few family projects I do have sitting around.
I’m setting the goal out there to quit giving up on things so quickly, whether it’s people, items around the house, or ideas.
Our culture has gone way too far into buying cheap junk, throwing it away, and then replacing it with two or three more junkie items. I’m choosing to veer off this path. I want the solid items, the one old but solid oak clock instead of three Dollar Store knock offs.
Goals!! I want to at least try to fix the broken before considering to just replace it.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all.
Looking back today on one year ago,…the actual beginning of a life changing perspective. Thankful today for these kids who grow up and show so much heart, when you would least expect it!
Definitely Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thanks so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all.
It’s a good thing I’ve always set goals for myself. Today, for example, my writing goal of at least two posts per week to stay active is out there,….but today is not a good mental health day. Again, it’s a good thing I set goals up, and since I’ve decided to keep my writing as real as I am, here’s my frame of mind today.
To keep it short, the physical activity has slowed down with the winter hibernation going on, and the covid thing,….So, it makes sense that I’m not in top physical shape right now.
This is when the vicious full circle thing starts: the physical pain increasing, the need for med’s and extra rest due to pain, the daily headaches (partly due to in house stress), and the scattered mental thoughts – partially related to headache medications.
It’s not a fun cycle, but at least it’s recognizable. Writing is helping to clear some of this fog, but I’m still pretty far out there today. So, setting goals, oh and keeping a list of things on my “to do” list. Hopefully I’m not the only one out here keeping the post-it company in business. 😳
Today I am thankful for my mom who taught me that through pursuing lifelong and ongoing education, so many answers to so many questions will show themselves.
I am choosing today to not focus on the physical pain and the mental storm clouds that keep trying to show themselves. (In comes the heating pad, the Tylenol, the morning meditation, scripture reading, pet therapy with the household crazies, and a little extra cream in my coffee). 😊
Since I follow Dr. Edith Eger, Holocaust survivor, and counselor to many,….this clip below showed up on my Twitter feed today. @DrEdithEger1. Regardless of how you may feel about either of the involved here, please just take a listen. 🙏🏻
After having the amazing experience of visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and actually sitting down with two survivors to ask any questions I wanted to; I’ll be forever changed in my approach to how much thought I put into displays of extremism seen almost every day in our media worldwide. Yes, I’ll always remember the glow these ladies at the Museum had in their faces. Both of them, speaking so graciously, with such a kindness and compassion that can only be described as humbling.
The holocaust survivors are almost all gone at this point, so it is with great respect that I choose to follow Dr. Edith Eger on all of her social media platforms; her words, her story, her perspective on our current extremism in the world of US politics. These are the ones I choose to learn from, not my peers who are displaying their own version of hate and discrimination, extremism, and using the church and God to supposedly support their cause. No, that’s a huge history lesson, that has thousands of years of brutal evidence to show how that all turns out.
I choose compassion. I choose to stand for those who cannot. I choose to share words from Mother Teresa, Dr. Edith Eger, and bible verses from thousands of years ago that still relate to our world today.
In the end, compassion, loving each other, and standing up for the oppressed does show itself as a necessary core value, and a deep life purpose leading to peace of mind, body, and soul.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thanks so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all.
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