Veggie bowls for dinner

 Last night's dinner...bowl time!

#vegetarian #glutenfree #familymeal #vegan #wholeingredients

Who can tell your life story?

 

Good morning!

I gave a challenge to a loved one yesterday...."Tell my story."

I realize that there are many in my life that I can honestly say, I can not tell the fullness of their story. I want to say part of the reason is because we haven't spent enough time together....but that is a lie. I know it's not so true because, there are friends I know that I have only captured what feels like a minute with them yet, their stories and the details are rich in my mind. How is that so? They went there! That is what they shared with me...is the depths and details of their stories with vivid technicolour details and then....we started laughing about the lyrics to baby shark and who knew it best (they did )

There are many people that I know their stories, and they would not like to hear it again. It's stays locked up with me...as a reminder and gift that stays as a treasured depth of their soul. It's an unspoken "knowing" that I see deeper into their moments than some perceive on the surface. Still, I would love to connect in more to fill in some of the gaps I realize when I am "reciting" their story in my head. More of how they taste joy and cherish with pain, those that they love. Goals and desires left unmet that burn at them throughout the day.

I remember sitting to have lunch with a lovely sister one time behind the library downtown when a man approached us. His clothes were weathered and his hands and face told the story of hardship yet he came to tell us that he loved our smiles. I returned the complement and said that we are fortunate that he would smile with us, and then.....he shared his story. A story of love savoured and love and life lost. He shared of his dreams and you could see in his eyes that he could still see the beauty of the vision for his life he held....and then it faded into his tears of remembrance. I thanked him for sharing such hope and love and he went away feeling appreciated (because he was).

But all that said brings me back to the fact that there are so many that guard the details and blow them off in their own heads. They don't even get the to the journey from their own appreciation to their tongue to be shared with another.

We see many asking for suggestions of what to watch on Netflix yet, have they shared their own story with someone near and dear to them? Have they valued their own experience and allowed their details to inspire and connect in with another?

Is it because of a lack of feel safe with sharing our details? Can we foster relationships where we get the freedom and gift to share so fully? Do we hold our vision and love with such high value that they flow off our tongues with praise like the stranger we encountered? Do we trust in the value that others will see and hold in and of our lives?

Let's just start with us first then. Speak your story to yourself like a movie trailer. I get so filled up personally just thinking about how awesome it is to be connected to the beauties I call my family, that I get choked up sometimes. I'm choked up now. They're amazing! And the stories I would tell would be magnificent.

How deep do you allow yourself to love, cherish, and savour those around you and the "you" that you have become?

Let's love and cherish deeply today... Much love to you

#thankyouGod #LovedandCherished #biggerPicture #Lovestory #WeAre #greaterstill #divinegifts #INJoy

Cognitive dissonance. Don't let programming silence good feedback

 

Did you know...?

That many of these strongly held beliefs are unconscious and programmed in at an earlier age? And that many are also unaware of expressing them in most incidences?

I experience this with many people. Most people would not describe these people to be defensive or rude, but if I experience it with them, then I MUST have done something to provoke it. Does that sound familiar?

Because of this inflated response, I developed a coping strategy that had me say next to nothing in social settings unless I felt welcome, accepted, respected, and valued for what I MAY say. Otherwise, I didn't bother talking. Or at least that's the coping part.

That "shut down" of my voice in particular groups is most often overridden by my compulsion to say what needs to be said in a moment.

I remember one "incident" as a child, while I was breathing my breath onto a tree and another child ask me what I am doing. I shared that trees breath in carbon dioxide and we breath out carbon dioxide. They screamed at me in my face and said that I was a liar and they were going to tell their mom.

Even more recently, I experienced "backlash" from my voice coming out of "me" more than my words....later to find out that in my adult life and experience that I am not alone.

I will tell you honestly, when I intend to "poke the bear", I will almost always let you know. And that is usually because we are in a coaching or teaching relationship.

So this is my plea to you, one another relationships with people who are not like you and who don't necessarily act like you can provide you with feedback on what it is that you are expressing.

My current circle is mainly family, small children, seniors, neighbours, and other coaches, trainers, and teachers of some sort. They often describe me as calming (which still surprises me from time to time). And well, maybe my boys may hear more authority in my tone from time to time Our conversations cover almost every topic.

Anyways, just putting this out there...consider if you feel thrown off or highly agitated in otherwise simple topics and see if there is a way that you can consider even just your response without having to accept what is being presented to you.

Show the wholeness. Show UP in wholeness.

 

Good morning!

Show the wholeness. Show UP in wholeness.

This is going to seem like it's about food, but it's not. Our lives are reflective from one area to the next. There is a connection that runs through it all.

The other day I saw this post and quote..."How you do anything, is how you do everything." And, I remember a time when I related this to my drive for excellence and my passion against neglect and half-hearted behaviours and actions and I was like "YEAH! That's it!"....And when I read it the other day, I saw that it didn't speak to wholeness.

But let's break it down just a bit...What IF.....I could take those things and attributes about what is "good and excellent" in my life and experience, and sprinkle that "glitter" everywhere in my life?

LOL it sounds beautiful and motivational...but does that feel real for you? Is there a voice in an area of your life that is saying..."Well, that's a load of CRA...!!!"

Now what??? What do you do when there is an area in your life that just doesn't "line up" like or WITH the rest of it?

Do you shake your head and keep going in the areas that DO feel good? Do you stuff it in a closet and close the door and then go on with your life? Do you start to feel that something must be wrong with you and you start trying to latch on to ways that will "fix" it"? DO you start feeling like you are a fraud because you can't seem to get his one area right EVEN THOUGH you "KNOW" what it is that you have to do and "should" just "DO it?"

Because, I will tell you, that there is a part that can just put it on and push and get it DONE! And then, there is the part that knows the quotes, read all the books, knows "all the things" and is beating you up because you aren't using it or applying it....And then, there is you.

Just you.

You are not a car. You are not a classroom model of the body. You are not a puzzle. You are not a math equation. You are not a philosophical theory. You are NOT a page, a chapter, a book. You are not a mathematical equation. You are not the facts. You are not the stories that swim around in your head.

You are.....evolving and growing....energetic, vibrational, resonating, multi-faceted/dimensional, unseen and seen in the same space....non-linear....beyond 3 dimensional....a summation of relation and individual in expression...connected, supported, supporting, explorative....radiance and reception...experience, adventure, journey.....gifts, immeasurable, priceless...the unfolding of creation...humanity....able to read and consider these very words in unseen spaces and chose how it resonates with you.....and beyond what I could ever truly describe of the awe and wonders in and of what you are...

WHOLENESS! We can't even begin to consider all of what and who we are....so we approach ourselves in parts.

Okay, so this didn't turn out to be about food That "part" I can share at another time LOL. But let US remember, as we go through our days and consider all the "parts" that make up the lives we are living, that it IS just a part of the bigger picture of ourselves, our lives, our existence. That thought alone humbles me and reminds me to have compassion for and of myself as I navigate through "parts" in my day

#ThankyouGod #biggerPicture #IAm #WeAre #greaterstill #oneAnotherLove #Compassion #LoveFirst #Moretoknow #inIncreasingMeasure #aweandwonder #considersuchthings