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Gratitude Friday 2018/04/13, thank you body strength

13/04/2018

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday ! Feel free to share with me your (partial or full) gratitude moments in the comments; that way I can hold joy for you ✿ (you know that makes me happy to make you happy).

I am aching all over my lower body as I am writing this and this is when it gets important to remind myself the most important. Yes, I walk funny and moan at every stair I have to climb (up OR down). Yes, it’s been three days of pain already. BUT I have a body that overall functions. Fibromyalgia and other stuff are just details now because I want them to be. Because I choose them to be. My husband and I disagree as he thinks I am putting too much strain on my body working out every day. That 3 or 4 times a week is best. Not for me though and I know because I listen to that envelope of mine. So I am grateful for it. Every morning that I wake up breathing. No matter the level of pain, I am grateful it is still working somehow…

This week, I am grateful for:

My body getting stronger with every workout
Never giving in to the temptation of giving up
The honest love from my BFF Cocotte, and for having her trust
Being part of such a fun group of creative women representing Strumpet Stencils (Psss: head over my Instagram to discover the ones I received)
Lush bath products
Music
Learning to give less of a shit about others’ opinions about me and/or my family
The real friendships my daughters are both developing this year
The care my Mom is putting towards herself and her well-being
Art journals and creativity
Something I keep on the low for now but will tell you about in a few months (hopefully)

What about you ?

What’s the things we tend to take for granted that leave you full of Gratitude today ?

I would love to hold space for you when you share with me your Gratitude List in the comment.

This week’s soundtrack:

Gratitude Friday 2018/04/06, Thank you confidence

06/04/2018

This week, I am grateful for:

Being part of a new Design Team
Having the choice in my nutrition choices
Sunshine
Working out every day and a body that is getting stronger and stronger
Creativity
The package received from ColourArte
Time spent with my kids, together and seperately
Stress free school mornings
My husband’s love

What about you ?

Is there any excuse you are finding that keeps you from becoming your best you ? Within you own definitions, not somebody’s 🙂

I would love to hold space for you when you share with me your Gratitude List in the comment.

This week’s soundtrack:

Gratitude Friday 03/23/2018, thank you Love

23/03/2018

This week, I am grateful for:

My daughter loved her birthday
She and I are going to see P!nk in concert tonight and are SO excited
I received some good news I will be able to share with you next week
My close circle of friends and family
Sunshine
Books (currently reading Breathe Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally)
Long baths
Family game nights (any games to suggest to us ? What are your family favorites ?)
Working out 6 days a week, and going to hot yoga with my husband on Sundays
Going to the movies and see amazing ones (we’ve seen Black Panther, A wrinkle in time and Love, Simon in the past few weeks)

Tell me about you

What are you grateful for this week ? what brings you to your knees in awe for what you have received ?

Soundtrack for this week:

Gratitude Friday 2017/10/27, thank you support system

27/10/20173

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday !

Sharing these pieces of my heart with you every week has made me happier. I am glad I decided to go back it. A lot of bad and plenty of good happened in the last seven days.

This week, I am thankful for:

My new tattoo, inked by the amazing JF Biron
My tight support system people
Family time
Creativity as a healing tool and as Soul Care
Books
Nourishing homemade food
The warmth of our home
Journaling
Sunny days
Cuddles

What about you ? What made you utterly happy lately ? Please, share your joy and gratitude in the comment <3

I am becoming the Daring me.

17/09/20174

This is something most of us have trouble with. Dare. Dare saying “no, thank you“. Dare spending time alone. Dare go to all the places your heart feels called to explore (even if it means moving in a foreign country where you know no one).

I am sick of showing to the world versions of my Self that are untrue to my Essence. It is exhausting to be someone you know you are not, or not fully. So when your Soul says, loudly “no more bullshit. be true to you. stop hiding” you don’t have much choice than to obey the Inner Voice.

This is gradual in my life though. I got a tattoo at 16 (after two years of working it and talking about it all.the.time to my mom, who was against it. She went with me. And is still against all my tattoos), a nose piercing. Recently I finally got boxed braids with blue and purple. I now speak my Truths more easily.

In my creativity, it meant I needed to stop painting what I thought people would expect to see from me.

See, I am a pretty quirky and weird person once you know me. I am totally okay with it, but always afraid of being judged for it. My spirituality transpires in everything coming out of me. It is sometimes obvious, sometimes more subtle. Last year, when I began my 365 Nixies in 2016 project, I just let them come as they were; not judging the character, their features or their stories/messages. Most of them are odd but gosh, how I love them ! (psss: they are still looking for new homes).

Life taught me that it is way too short to walk its path in somebody else’s shoes. Mine sometimes feel too small, or too big, but they are mine nonetheless.

What are you doing to stay true to yourself ? It does not have to be big, like respecting your own boundaries for example. I celebrate all those steps you are taking to live the life you are meant to live.