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I know I know, it’s been a long time since I last wishcasted with all of you.

First of all, I encourage you to go to Jamie’s blogpost because she’s celebrating something big today: the soon-to-be-launched Wishcasting Journal. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay ! It looks amazing, I can’t wait to see the video she’ll make to show this treasure to all of us.

So this week is all about celebration ! What do you wish to celebrate ? Woot Woot.

It may sounds cheesy, but since a weird dream I had a few nights ago, I realized that Love can have so many faces it’s just amazing. So I wish to celebrate all the form Love can take. Sentimental love, Parental love, Friendship Love, Love for your pet, Love for your country (may it be where you’re born or where you live) and whatever I can’t think on right now.

You are loved. Yes YOU are. Even when you feel lonely, abandonned, and misunderstood. You are loved. Your heart is not made of stone, you have the possibility to change the way you see things around you, the way you feel, you are the master/mistress of your life, so make it as you wish it would be. It can be perfect. Just as you are.

It took me nearly 15 years to accept that I am worth the love of others. 15 years to realize that no one deserves not being loved, even the worst people on the planet. It’s Love that will literally save us, trust me. It’s so much easier to hate and to criticize than to love, I know it from experience. It takes practice to always be in a place of Love, and even me am not there yet. But I practice 😉

Don’t be affraid to love, to say it, to express it. You are loved. And you are Love.

This week is not even at its middle but is awesome so far. When I woke up this morning, I decided that this wednesday will be just fantastic, setting a intention for the day helps me a lot.

Today, Jamie asks us What do you wish to step into?

I wish to step into my Life Mission. It may sound weird or whatever but it becomes a little bit clearer. I have the great outlines of what it is but not the details yet. Trust me: it’s VERY frustrating.

I also wish to step into the artist i am without fear of showing my art to the World.
Following the encouragement and suggestions of wonderful Connie, I opened a seller account on RedBubble. I’m busy scanning and processing pictures of my artwork to sell. You can see it here (and i linked it to my facebook account so if you’re my friend of facebook, you’ll see each new item I add):

And last but not least, I wish to step into the writer in me. Let the words come out of me instead of keeping them all, giggling inside, hurting sometimes. I have this book project for more than a year, that I kind of gave up a few months ago. There are too many signs coming my way showing me that I should take care of it now and release all this. Maybe what I have to say will be helpful to someone.

Today, Jamie is also asking us (aka Wishcasters) what does wishcasting brings in our life. So I’ll begin by answering this week’s prompt, and then I’ll answer about what do I wishcast the more often I can.

Today’s question is What do you wish for less of ?
And my answer was instantaneous: I wish for less clutter in my life (and by consequence, in my mind).

I was really sad when I talked to my husband about Bindu Wiles’ new project that will begin next week, called “the Shed project“. The goal is to get rid of about 1/4 of your stuff, and shed 10 pounds, in two months. To build a community around this will to let go, and to clear our space and our mind.
My husband disagreed in me trying to do so. I understand completely is point of view “It makes me sick to throw away 1/4 of things we bought, for what we gave money for. Why did we bought this if it’s to throw it away afterwards ?!!!?”. BUT he’s the first person to qualify my stuff as “your mess” (which upsets me… a lot). So what’s the point ?! It’s cluttering the house but because I paid for it, I can’t get rid of it ? It makes me sad too, to think that it costes money and that it’s just sitting there in a corner or whatever.

When we moved from France, we sold lots of our things, and we gave some, and of course, a lot goes directly to the trash. Clothes, cooking stuff, toys, books, decorations… people were happy to get them for less than what it would have costed “new”, and we were happy not to have to bring them in Canada. Sometimes it was painful, because we attach importance to these material things. But it’s only material, physical. We shouldn’t care that much.

I am a compulsive art supply buyer. But i’m healing myself. yes I do. And it’s the same with food: I am always affraid we don’t have enough. I’m planning to sort all my supply, make some piles “use it a lot” “use it sometimes” “bought because it was trendy but I never use it”. I may sell some, and giveaway the rest. Maybe people will have some use of it and it will make them happy (I love happy peoples).
Last week-end, we sorted our daughters’ dresser, and have a big bag to give to the nearest thrift store. It feels good.
I wanted to get rid of some of my cookbooks (cooking is my first passion, then painting/creating came in my life) but Cheridoo is not that okay with it so I keep them all (about… 150 books only about cooking).

I feel the urge to clear my space. It’s calling me for weeks now, but everytime i want to do so, an obstacle comes on my way…

On another note, I wish for less pounds in my body, less food intake. I don’t want to talk much about it, but here too it’s time to make some changes in my alimentation, and I’m beginning soon to work out again.

Sooooo in honour of her new big project (a 52-prompt Wishcasting Journal !!!!!!!!!), Jamie is asking to whom want to answer “What Wishcasting has meant to you“.
For me, Wishcasting allows me to take time to think on a particular subject/area of my life. And to introspect, listening inside for answers. Some are very easy to find and comes as soon as I read the prompt, some are very difficult and need some time to dig deeper in me. Most of the time, Jamie’s week prompt is in perfect timing with what i experience, and it’s an amazement each time, as if she was in my Soul without knowing it.
Putting concrete words on feelings makes SUCH a difference. It’s like an open letter to the Universe. And I experienced several time the love and support we all put in others’ wishes is also something that makes a different, like a huge worldwide tribe of dreamers and wishers, united to change their life. The sentence “as X wishes for himself/herself, so I wish for himself/herself also” may sound cheesy, but trust me: it DOES make a difference.
I feel very thankful to know Jamie, and she makes me wanna jump on a plane to Toronto and hug her “for real”. She inspires me, pushes me to go deeper and deeper, she’s a positive bomb. And so are her projects such as Wishcasting Wednesday.

This week is all about new beginnings… so says Jamie 🙂

What do you wish to begin ?

The first thing that came into my mind was I wish to begin to trust. It seems simple said like this. But it’s not.

By the way, I am working on it everyday. Letting go: fears, doubts etc. But they keep coming back and keep telling me these nasty things about me and what I do.

But when I am in a deep state of Trust, I can feel everything changing around and inside me.

Trust brings freedom. Trust brings light (in the heart and in the mind). Trust allows us to be ourselved and do what we feel inclined to do.

I wish I could be in this state of mind all the time. Without any breaks. I wish to trust myself, to trust the emotions I experience, to trust the messages and signs I receive.

Trust.

Trust.

Trust.

Detail of a mixed media artwork I've created

This week question is very hard, I don’t have answers as I am writing this. But I hope that by writing, it will come, as by magic !

I always try not to look back too much at my past. I acknowledge it, I know it’s there but I prefer to focus on today and tomorrow because the past can’t be changed.
It’s funny to say this as my book project is about the past and so I have to think of it quite often. Sometimes it is fun, sometimes it brings tears and nervousness. I can’t modify it, so I have to cope with it and accept that my past makes who I am and that today will be tomorrow’s past: I can create it as I want it to be ! Never forget that.

So… saying that, I wish to make a fresh start in the relation I share with my Self. Not only my body, but with my psyche too.

Because my worst ennemy is simply me. Or at least, it used to be like that. I want to make a fresh start in this relationship. I am not a bad person, sometimes I make choices people do not understand, sometimes I am a little harsh, but I am also loving and compassionate. I help whenever it’s asked and in the measure of my possibilities.
I wish I could turn back time and change some choices I made that are still affecting my body today (don’t worry: I’d keep my baby girls LOL).

It’s a hard wish today, really.