To take a moment and think of all that you do in your day, all of the tasks, the various people you deal with and then what you choose or want to do.
Feeling overwhelmed yet?
I know I can quickly go from peace and ease to feeling drastically overwhelmed…
Pause and breathe.
Look around at your surroundings and focus on your senses – what can you see, feel, hear, taste.
What do YOU need in this moment?
For a recovering people pleaser, setting boundaries can feel out of sorts, especially when you have been so used to saying yes and just doing whatever. Many times putting your own personal self care needs aside. This can be extremely real for women and moms. We tend to have a lot on our plate at any given time.
For every 1 Litre of Goat Milk add in 1/3 cup of lemon juice and 2 TBSP of white Vinegar, Add salt to desired taste.
Heat the Goat milk on the stove to 180° stirring as it’s heating. Remove from heat and add in the lemon juice, vinegar and salt. Gently mix. Allow it to sit for at least 30 min. After 30 min SLOWLY ladle into 3-4 layer cheesecloth in a strainer and allow to drain. As the liquid drains out tighten into a ball to get as much liquid out as possible. Leave in the fridge to set and shape and flavour as desired.
We love plain goat cheese but also will be creating a cranberry log, as well as enjoying the Italien goat cheese ball I created for dinner! I am SO excited to continue experimenting and flavouring with some natural essential oils!!!
If you try this recipe let me know what you think!!! It’s actually extremely simple and not challenging at all!
Its very important, if you have food allergies or sensitivities to READ THE LABELS! The reason we began making our own goat cheese is because ALL commercially sold “goat” cheese we have found… contains cows milk!!! . . .
Albeit there was a time that it was BUSY!!! We literally had Christmases for a week or more, here and there, late nights, young kids, sugar and toys gallore.
We were burnt the fuck out!
After the “holidays” both us and the kids needed a holiday to literally do nothing.
Last year, Christmas 2020 was emotionally very hard for me. Everything changed and quite quick and drastically. Although I mourned not spending Christmas WITH our extended family members (honestly that’s what rocked me…) we REALLY enjoyed the downtime!
A loved one shared this post with me thus morning. The link to the posts is below. This… holds so much truth!
This year especially, my nervous system is more than ever naturally winding down when it’s dark. Many nights I’ve been able to honor this and I love love love going to bed early now in these fall and winter months.
Kind of like eating seasonally! I am leaning more into this as well and honoring my body. One thing I will say is that with everything there is a learning curve, even just shifting eating habits… be patient with yourself!
This month begins with a powerful new moon in Sagittarius with an eclipse peaking at 430am. It’s no wonder I woke shortly after 4am.
As I tune more into myself I realize how our energetic bodies work and align with with cycles of mother nature and the universe.
It’s fascinating that by planets moving, we experience energy shifts. I’m not into the science explanation of why this happens, it does and that’s so cool!
I am feeling truly grateful as we enter into this month. Christmas truly is my favourite holiday and also enjoy some more downtime as I enter into the months of hibernation! I don’t know about you but it’s been helping me have a more solid bedtime routine as it’s pitch black at 5pm!
This new moon energy feels powerful! Almost as if I’ve felt this anticipation for quite some time. A knowing.
Understanding as I learn more and more about myself every single day. Leaning in, honoring my heart and soul. After so many years of neglect. Choose to process.
Process and feel. We become numb in life by literally pushing away things we do not want to feel or “deal” with. When in turn, these ‘life lessons’ are helping guide us, teach of our life’s path and journey. Be one with you. You know the way. Your heart wants to be in charge but for so many, they push away the feelings.
As we become more numb in life, we become more predictive, more automatic or unconscious in our day to day. By not feeling.
The more we feel our emotions, our 3 brains are positively affected. The brain, as it processes information and logic, the heart, as we can feel pain that is stuck and needs to be freed and in our gut, that gut feeling when you know something isn’t right – but also the basis of our health is held there.
As I healed my digestive system I could literally feel movement that I hadn’t for many years. Years of emotional eating also contributed to this. Numb.
Trapped emotions can negatively affect us physically by creating pain that normally wouldn’t be there. As I am reading and learning about The Emotion Code it’s absolutely fascinating, and understandable how this happens!
Truthfully as I learn, as I raise my frequency and vibration, as I heal my body emotionally and physically with lifestyle and habit shifts I am even more determined as a Mom to be an example for my kids, to also model that life my not be “perfect” all of the time but we have the choice. I dhare with my kids the various energy and oil healing modalities because I want this to be a norm in their life, so that they will not grow up needing to heal from their childhood like so many have.
We know better now. It’s OK to talk about “taboo” stuff – WHO decided what is taboo and what isn’t?!
At 23, 17 years ago the doctor said to me “Infertility”… I felt SO alone. It wasn’t talked about. PCOS?! WTF is that?! Nope we don’t tall about this either. Mental health, we can talk about it to raise money but then can’t guarantee no judgment and really, they say money is invested to help people but really, is it?! More people than ever need mental health help, these things that matter to people NEED to be talked about. This is why as energy and light workers, so many more are being revealed at this time to raise the frequency of the planet.
This is partially why I created my journal and planner. Women have a LOT going on in their minds. I’ve been reminding myself more lately that it’s OK to not be a ‘multi-tasker’, this is when I recognize my body checks out. Literally. Sit down to watch a show, I literally watch a few, and pulling out my phone. I am now unconscious to both the show and my phone.
BE more conscious in life. In whatever you do. I’ve found I am SO much more productive. Also happier. Being IN the moment. Gratitude. Grace. Ease. Love. Understanding. Forgiveness. A lot of forgiveness, which is key. For myself and others.
Have you ever experienced a cord cutting meditation before? I highly recommend! This is a great way to shift your energetic connection with someone – or many people. If you feel any feelings that are foreign and do not feel like yours? Release the attachment, return to sender – whoever the emotion belongs to.
Lets chat Oils for the month of December!
These beautiful oils were intuitively selected by me and I just adore the grounding feeling and scent of this blend.
Clove – The Oil of Boundaries. I honestly do not use this blend much and I appreciate it so much more when I pull it out. This oil has powerful antioxidant properties, supports cardiovascular health and is beneficial for our oral health. As this is a spicy oil you will want to ensure you use a carrier oil if using on your skin. As a natural health product clove used in aromatherapy is supportive for muscle and joint pain as well as colds and coughs. Clove uses and benefits.
Frankincense – The Oil of Truth. This is a beautiful mild oil that has so many uses! It supports healthy cellular function, promotes feelings of relaxation and grounding, beneficial for skin care and supports healthy immune, nervous, digestive function. Frankincense uses and benefits.
Myrrh – The Oil of Mother Earth. This is a very unique oil. Another one I also do not typically use often, but am reminded of its benefits when I do. This is a powerfully cleansing oil, especially for oral care. Beneficial and soothing to the skin. Grounding and feelings of emotional balance. As a natural health product used in aromatherapy Myrrh is supportive for colds and cough, eczema and dermatitis, minor skin irritation, cuts, bruises and burns. Myrrh uses and benefits.
Myrrh is very unique. It’s almost like it starts coming out of the bottle. Then it’s very hard to open, notice the lid. Once it’s open the oil flows beautifully!
Grapefruit – The Oil of Honoring the Body. I love citrus oils and Grapefruit certainly is one! Its fresh and uplifting. A beautiful addition to the grounding oils of frankincense and myrrh. This oil is beneficial for the skin and also supports healthy metabolism. Grapefruit uses and benefits.
Wild Orange – The Oil of Abundance. One of my fav’s since I began using oils. It just smells SO good. Legit like a fresh orange ❤ This oil is also powerfully cleansing, supports healthy immune function and is beautifully uplifting to the mind and body. As a natural health product wild orange is a nervine and calmative and also offers support for digestive discomfort. Wild Orange uses and benefits.
Lemon Eucalyptus – The Oil of Protected Space. This oil has a fresh lemony smell to it. Beneficial for the skin, cleansing for surfaces and when diffused outdoors during the spring and summer could deter certain bugs! Lemon Eucalyptus uses and benefits.
Oil Savings for December! When you place a 200PV order you will receive FREE a holiday collection of 5ml Frankincense, 5ml Myrrh and a 5ml Holiday Love. Holiday Love is an exclusive blend only available in this holiday collection.
Save 10% off of Ylang Ylang 15ml. Ylang Ylang is the Oil of the Inner Child. Depending on how you feel in the current state of the world, your soul may be drawn to this blend for its emotional uses! Many of us need to take the time to heal our inner child to be the adult we are meant to be!
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Oracle Cards The card selected this morning from the Moonology deck.
I truly felt like I had a very powerful morning. As I woke early – I dove into me. Began writing in my journal. Also began this blog post – which truthfully I need to go back and read because I do not remember the exact messages that came through.
Today is a powerful day for me as well. The past 10 years has provided me with opportunity to do some deep, intensive healing at various stages. I am grateful for where I am at today in my life, I am grateful for this journey, I am grateful for the healing that has happened and continues to happen. I am grateful for my planner and journal creations. I am grateful for my job and involvement in our family history but also the future as well. I am grateful for our children and the emotional and physical growth we have witnessed in them over the past two years. I am grateful for my husband and his healing journey. I am grateful for me – for recognizing the importance of focusing on me and my health first – regardless of anyone else! I am truly appreciative and grateful for this journey which yes at times has included a LOT of ups and downs. The more I get quiet and listen, the more clarity I receive.
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It’s easy to sometimes take a back seat or wait for someone to tell us what the right step is.
Truth is, we innately know what OUR truth and our next step is. We will begin to understand it even better, when we go within!
Thriving is feeling peace, authentic, happiness, content, understanding, compassion, the richness in life. Honoring your body with nutrition, sleep, hydration etc.
Surviving, is what many of us have been doing for the past almost 2 years. It’s exhausting, could feel lonely, unsure, confuses, uncertainty, unloved, almost like fight or flight!
Our energy can become attached to one another’s. So if you have ever say… spoke with someone within your day and suddenly it’s totally gone for a shit?! You are standing there thinking WTF just happened… Chances are you are feeling someone else’s energy.
The other day, was one of those days for me. I felt like I was repeating myself, time being wasted etc. As an empath, working with the public can be SO draining at times. Although as my day was ending, I enjoyed a beautiful phone call with a customer who truly was the beam of light that I was needing in that moment.
I came home and after feeling so frustrated for not getting done what I needed to, I simply said “I need help”… yup to nobody, literally to the air. It didn’t take long for me to be directed to some incredible words of wisdom and a reminder…
Cord Cutting Meditation!
Our energy becomes attached to EVERYONE we interact with, regardless of our intent to. Our energy crosses. I completed the cord cutting meditation and felt incredibly better. I also saged myself, got my oils out and pulled a couple cards. The cards of course related to being true to my heart and soul.
These have been trying times for so many, it hasn’t been easy and sadly, many people who have been stuck in fear have very very short fuses.
It’s easy to say don’t take it personal… it can be challenging in that moment when you have something in mind and your day goes sideways. However I am also a firm believer that challenges truly help us grow. They come into our life at times to test us, even when things were going incredibly well, will this turn or bump in the road completely derail you or can you shift and pivot?
I am grateful for those moments, I am grateful for my family understanding when any of us need alone time, and honor that. I am grateful for our commitment to positive and very real mental health!
We may not always be thriving, but we can shift our life so that we can much more easily shift from surviving to thriving!
Truthfully, food for me can also be a trigger that affects my mental health. Which also happened this week. A flare up isn’t fun, especially when not expected. So honoring my body, honoring my mental health, honoring my body’s nutrition desire is SO key!
As I was leaving for work this morning, the sky was just phenomenal! I had to stop and capture this image. Completely SOOC (straight out of camera) using my cell phone I captured this…
Zero editing, zero filters. This is it! Isn’t it gorgeous…
Then it got me thinking as I uploaded this photo to Instagram and then later to Flickr… BOTH apps instantly brought up the editing tools to add filters or edit this or that.
What is real in life anymore? What we see online certainly isn’t with many people. Hiding behind filters, manipulating the photos and colours. Yes I use Lightroom and photoshop but have never been a big processor of my images.
Sometimes in life, what you see is what you get and that is incredible! Push aside the false belief’s and false images. Which is exactly why I wanted to share this today… in all of its glory ❤
The energies continue to shift, align with you, your true self and be authentic to you!
Whether its age, your weight or your bank account. Many of us make this statement.
In truth, as I was getting ready for bed the other night, I was thinking about how much better my body has felt. I was thinking this because I didn’t feel great. I felt horribly inflamed. A feeling I knew all too well.
Its interesting, Ive heard of people being able to clear their energy towards a food sensitivity or allergy, I haven’t experienced that myself. What I have experienced is as soon as these food sensitivities were brought to my consciousness, my body is now quick to let me know when its not happy.
At 40 years old, I am keen to learn how to make goat cheese. This is slightly “big” only because Im the type of cook who just throws in whatever, I don’t measure. I decided I wanted to do this 2 weeks ago, when I realized that much of the commercial “goat” cheese sold… contains milk – meaning cows milk! I was so disappointed but keen to learn this new task.
Alas, after avoiding the “goat” cheese we have had in the fridge for a bit, that I bought and then one day as the thought popped into my head to flip it over and check the ingredients… so the herbed goat cheese has sat. Sadly after picking up some at Costco (which was the best place for GF stuff until we realized much of it has corn as well 😦 ) we found those have milk as well.
As I was thinking of this, I thought of how good I was feeling, how this has reminded me to truly stay aligned with ME. That heavy, inflammed feeling inside does NOT feel good, its painful and uncomfortable.
This journey was never about a number, never about reaching an ideal weight. Truthfully this journey has all been about FEELING good. Whatever that is!
I have realized as I have hit the “goal” weight that I somewhat set but never thought could happen… A number does NOT define us at all. Whether that is our weight, our bank account, our address. Whatever that number is, its simply just a number. The only way to gauge your OWN health – is truly HOW YOU FEEL! Even at the weight that I am… Im getting closer to doing some weight lifting (long as this rib stays in place), which I know will shift my “number” and that’s totally ok and healthy!!!
But, here’s the thing… when you begin to shift (if you choose to), be patient with your body, achieving this awareness takes time and doesn’t happen over night. If you have been taking anti-biotics for years, eating processed foods/drinks etc… it will take time for your body to properly flush that crap out. I couldn’t believe it when I could actually FEEL my body moving inside. Some was painful, it took time to sit with it and be ok with time. Be ok with putting that “number” aside and putting my health and how I feel, first!
I did something for me a few weeks ago, that I told only my family about. Its truthfully not something I need to be known but this is a good example of what I tend to do when I sink back into myself.
I LOVE photography. Always have for as long as I can remember. My first 45mm camera, it was a pink/purplish colour. My first digital camera – which was like a brick and the quality was pretty crappy. But I learned, I took the time and taught myself. I leaned in to what I wanted to capture – yet I remember my first DSLR.
My first DSLR, Canon Rebel XT, was a major purchase for me and one that I did while on maternity leave with our son approx 1 month before I found out I was pregnant with our daughter. Our son was 9 months old. Although I loved my camera and was grateful that I saved up the $1300 to buy it I didn’t celebrate that part of it. I allowed other people’s voices in my head – specifically at a local mom’s get together when I pulled it out… I heard the judgmental remarks about “I wonder what that cost”, “what is wrong with a normal camera”, “really she needs that”.
In 2012 when I purchased my “big” camera I also heard the judgment remarks. Yup I spent over $4,000 on this camera. Full frame Canon 5DMIII – its not only a beautiful camera, its still proudly displayed on my shelf and used all year round.
Something inside of me was pulling for a new camera body… I then found I was being judgmental of myself – why?! Why do you need a new camera body? You spent thousands on the one you have you don’t need another. Yet I still felt this desire and would look here and there.
Truthfully, photography means a lot to me. Not just the fact that memories are captured, but being IN the moment, feeling the emotion and then once I import the photos realizing how unbelievably wonderful they turned out, although in the moment I could be quite hard on myself for “missing the shot”.
This morning I started my day quite early, just shortly before 5am. I initially thought I should go back to sleep but then remembered I woke up for a reason. As I went through my own routine – which I am learning is not and does not have to be like anyone else – regardless of who you or they are. A natural rhythm “routine” of simply going with the flow eventually led me to my den in my cozy chair and blanket to my computer to allow words to flow. After posting in my Chakra Mastery Academy, working on healing our sacral chakra which includes acknowledging and honoring any past sexual traumas I naturally gravitated to my new camera.
Yes that’s right… my NEW Camera that I bought a few weeks ago and have literally just gotten my toes wet with. A couple weeks ago we went for a drive on our side by side, I grabbed my new camera to bring along to test it out in nature. We got home and I put it up on the shelf. Admittedly change can bring some resistance. This new camera, although the same brand, Canon, is a mirrorless full frame. What I love about it is, I had originally been looking at and thinking if I got a mirrorless I would need the same build as my 5DMIII as I adore shooting full frame.
Then I found the Canon RP. Yup there is a learning curve because the controls are different. I know this has slightly held me back from truly experiencing it. I very much went through my research as I do before any big purchase. Compared my 5DMIII as well as the 6DMII and the 5DMIV – I knew I wanted to keep it very affordable and what also was appealing with the Canon RP is the features are very similar to my 5DMIII with a bit better low light capability AND this camera came with the adapter… SO all the lens I have, I will be able to use with my new body! Super cool 🙂
This morning, as I downloaded the images from a couple weeks ago and began going through them… my heart began bursting wide open… and trust my decision!
When I saw this… ❤ Like tiny little diamond star bursts all over the beautiful water and up in the sky.
Little diamonds in the rough… breaking through. Kind of like me and how I am choosing to break through and break free of past traumas and hurts that previously were buried for years.
Definition of diamond in the rough
: one having exceptional qualities or potential but lacking refinement or polish.
You are worthy, you are talented, you are incredible, you have a reason you are here and no matter what anyone else says or does… BE YOU! Fully and completely through your heart and to your core. Get ready to watch yourself bloom.
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