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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 ✿

The cold is here and we got our first negative temperature. As long as the sky is blue and the sun is out, I don’t really mind (I won’t say the same in four months…).

This week, I am thankful for:

• Doby, the dog we adopted almost two weeks ago
• The sun’s warmth
• Walks several times a day, everyday (I am now smashing my 10,000 steps a day goal, trust me !)
• Honesty
• This Zibu inspired deck of cards I began to create.
• Good homemade food
• Working out and seeing results of my hard work
• Moments we spend as a family
• The new album from Willow Smith
• Inspiration for new paintings rushing at me

I got my first tattoo when I was 16. I have been pushing it on my Mom for two years before she gave in. She knew I would get one eventually and that it was better for her to be there than to keep saying “no”. At the time, I was fully involved in the francophone esoteric sphere and felt like I needed some extra protection. My first tattoo is a pentagram with an eye in its center, a double circle and some flames. Cliché ? Tramp stamp ? maybe for you, but it was essential for me at this specific time of my life.

I now have 6 tattoos, mostly on my arms. Each is part of my essence. Of who I am. Of what I have been through. Despair, Love, Gratitude. And a whole bigger spectrum.

My body is, indeed, a blank page.

When I told my Mom about this more recent tattoo project, she had the same reaction as usual “not another one ? You know your body is not a blank canvas…!”. And my immediate answer was “But indeed, my body IS a blank page, a blank canvas”. I see it as a good surface, as anything would be. I have so many stories to tell, and things/moments/feeling to remember. This is what my tattoos are for. Not just pretty images on my skin.

Months ago, I googled “watercolor tattoo Montréal” and JF Biron’s name showed up. I fell in love with his work, that I find to be very very artistic and fluid. But I did not jump in right away. I kept following his work on social media and listened to my guts when it told me he was the tattoo artist I needed.

I knew my left forearm needed to be a reminder about how I seem to overcome sadness, grief and difficulties in general. When I got my latest tattoo in Vancouver, the artist (AZL from Rainfire tattoo Studio) told me about the Unalome symbol. We talked about incorporating it to the design I came to him for, but it did not happen. However, the symbol stuck in my heart.

In Buddhism, they are the visual image of reaching enlightnement. The spiral means our struggle with life, while the straight line shows that we have finally found harmony. Unalome are the “crowns” of the Arahants, the enlightened saints. This is a very powerful symbol of spiritual and personal quest.

This deeply resonated with me. The lotus is one of my personal symbol (I already have a lotus tattoo on my chest) so I was over the Moon (no pun intended) when JF had one design with it.

I have a fascination and obsession over what belongs to the sky, galaxies, stars… and JF’s watercolor art was what drawn me to him in the first place so it was an obvious choice.

Do you have tattoos ?

How many ? Do you want a tattoo ? What would it be ? I would love to know about your personal experience.

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

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday !

Happy Friday ! I want today to be good. I want to feel more accomplished than any other day of this week.

This week has been challenging in many levels, so I am very happy it is coming to an end…

This week, I am thankful for:

• My husband coming home tonight
• The trip my 12yo daughter is doing with her school, and her dreams coming true
• Books and music as an escape route
• The safety of home
• Tears streaming down my cheeks, draining the pain out of me
• My friend Micki’s new amazing class, Fawn and Forest
• The possibility to rest
• “I love you”s
• Family time
• My journals, safe places to pour my heart out when I just want to let everything go, including myself.

Tune for today (and every other day because it is THAT good):

Want to be held in my Reiki bubble of Gratitude and Joy ? Feel free to leave me a comment with a short or long list of your own Gratitude moments, and I will send energy to you as a thank you <3

Welcome to this new Gratitude Friday !

I am finally feeling like my normal self, or almost, after 4-5 days of terrible intestinal pain. I have no clue what happened last Monday but I was plagued with horrific spasms that left me crying and wondering when it would pass. But I am still here, and I have even more compassion for people living with conditions bringing this kind of pain on a daily basis…

This week, I am thankful for:

• “Beautiful Trauma“, P!nk’s new album. I waited for 5 years and it is just as beautiful and powerful as I hoped it would be
• The ability to push my creative edges and how this Munny project turned up
• The choice to workout regularly and control my food intake
• The job my best friend has recently started at the other side of the planet
• My daughter finding interest in Magic and paganism
• Books (I am currently reading a series by Cate Tiernan about Wicca. It’s for middle grade I think but it’s pretty good)
• People speaking up when words escape me but feelings drown me alive

Today’s jam is my older daughter and I’s favorite song from Kesha’s album (yes, I am still listening to it on repeat too):

Want to be held in my Gratitude bubble ? Leave me a few things you are grateful for in the comments and I will send you lots of love.