Where healing begins...

"Yesterday doesn't really matter when we allow ourselves to be fully present in this moment. When we choose in this moment to forgive ourselves for those things we did do and the things we didn't do, we catapult into new beginnings, a new lease on life.
It is in this moment is really where everything is...where the love and healing begin...." 

Becoming a child again...means to enter into a stress-less state of existence

As children, we were infamous for being 100 percent ourselves, with minimal struggle feeling our emotions, asking for (or commanding) what we wanted, and expressing our opinions.

As we began to grow up, hearing from those we trust that the world doesn't revolve around us. We learn that others have expectations of us. Consequently, in order to meet their approval -  win love and support from them, we endeavour to meet sometimes - impossible expectations.

By now, we have now devoted so much time and energy trying to be the person that others want us to be, that we lose touch with who we really are.  

The most important Life lesson is…

NOTHING is more significant in life than honoring your true self and expressing it to the world.

Your confidence, courage and success will begin to soar when you're truly living an authentic life, ultimately magnetizing people who admire and love you for who you are.

It is a great and tremendous feeling!

Play and laughter without question, offers us the opportunity to effortlessly tap into those feelings of freedom and authenticity we had as children. The joy and freedom experienced when we played - that childlike feeling of free expression, will be rekindled in the midst of playing, experiencing this joy again.
This feeling serves as our anchor, assisting us return to that healthy state of mind. Anchoring from this space permits us to use our accumulated wisdom to powerfully create and express a new blueprint for our lives, making a new decision to Purposefully Love and Appreciate YOU! (P.L.A.Y.!)

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Why PLAY?

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If you don’t invest love in yourself then what do you have to withdraw?

Are you running on an empty tank looking to fill your cup? When is the last time you had PURE FUN???

Do you appreciate yourself enough to give yourself time to PLAY?

When you  fully love and appreciate yourself, you are willing to invest time in yourself.

When you Purposely Love and Appreciate YOU!-- you are able to tap into your creative energy identifying those elements of life that are pleasing and FUN to you--your passion. When this is identified, naturally you can gravitate towards what you really want in your life.

Spending time to fill up your own tank turns you into a "Love Generator" of good cheer to share with all.

This is your life. Your playground.

Give yourself permission to play, have fun and be FREE in this PLAYGROUND of LIFE.

Process of Becoming...A Life Artist.

Just recently, last Summer,, I started a movement simply entitled, P.L.A.Y. which means Purposely Loving Appreciating YOU!.
I felt to do this because I found that playing and laughter was absent from my life and anyone who really knows me knows that I love to laugh, joke and play! Silliness is my middle name! A true gift.

For now, I am on a mission, committed to spread the fires of PLAY events your way and around the world, leaving no stone unturned.  On my radio show return debut next week (Streams of Wholeness), I will be discussing ways to get free from the daily hustle and bustle to find freedom through playing with life, creating,  doing with it what you desire. So that whatever happens for you in life, you are willing to respond with grace and ease, knowing that you are the one in control, creating life as the Life Artist that you are -- whatever your current profession.
 I am a lover of alchemy, putting the best blend of objects and situations together for a perfect end result!

I am producing events, facilitating playshops, sharing articles, broadcasting, writing books, singing, dancing, all in the name of P.L.A.Y.. As you can see I am in it. Happy to be back to share my thoughts with you on how I am in the process of becoming...a Life Artist!

Gift yourself with the Joy of life - Dare to live again!

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”Moving from Grief in your Past...to Gratitude in the Present”

The holiday season has generally been considered as a time to celebrate, share gifts, and spend time with family and friends; it is known to be a time of sharing the spirit of joy and love.

In this season of joy and giving, depression will often appear when we reflect on previous occurrences such as - the loss of loved ones, jobs, relationship endings and even having to relocate your home . If the space is not created to release this grief in our lives, this dark cloud can linger on for days, months, years or even a life time.

This stagnation happens particularly in this society where we haven't learned to live with the “dark emotions” in our lives such as depression, grief, loss, sadness, and most often end up projecting it on to our loved ones.

The most devastating effects to wholeness – wellness, come from unexpressed grief.

Though grief is evident in all of our lives, the affect of repressed emotions like grief is easily noticeable in how females, particularly mothers, who don't take the time necessary to create a safe space to heal their grief. With my clients and personally (if I may add), I have witnessed the traumatic results of unexpressed grief, where we have allowed ourselves to believe that our needs are not as important as our children s needs - when healing ourselves is the greatest gift that we can give to our children.

Like all unexpressed emotions, grief can and does cause all sorts of dis-ease. It contaminates our relationships and sucks the joy out of life. Since it is true that what we “resist persists”, when we repress any emotion we are guaranteed to attract situations, experiences or circumstances that trigger the need for the healing of these emotions. It is the nature of the human Soul to always seek balance and wholeness.

Ask yourself as you read this article...

When was the last time you took time to connect with yourself and honor who and what you are?
Are you clear about what you want out of life?
Are you grieving from any loss in your life?
Are you are living a lie trying to hold it together for everyone else?
Are you ready to feel really free?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then the time may have come for you to confront and release the blockages that these unexpressed emotions have afforded you.

Grief 2 Gratitude retreat is designed to nurture and realign those who are grieving over any disappointments, unfulfillment, loss, death, divorce or relationship and although we may or may not understand that our transitions are a part of life and that every relationship at sometime must change, it doesn’t make it any less bearable. If you have put your life on hold - stopped living because of a transition, ask yourself if it is time to stop this cycle and release, let go and begin living again.

Gift yourself with life - dare to live again!

To find out about the upcoming retreats
go to grief2gratitude/eventbrite.com

or email grief2gratitude@yahoo.com

Life Conversation on Depression with Trevayne Cox

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Host: Ombassa Sophera

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Om