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✨Grow where you’re planted.✨
Release the desire to wait for perfect. The right place, right time, right moment is now.
Create your own blossoming.
Emerge. Expand. Embrace.
Thrive wherever you are.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing #Growth #Lotus #Emerge #Thrive
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✨“I can’t help it” isn’t true.✨
An attempt to ignore responsibility and accountability.
Slow down. Deep, restorative breath. New perspective.
Can’t usually means won’t.
Say instead “I won’t help it,“ and see what happens.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing #Responsibility #Perspective
Wishing you gentleness through the griefquakes. What a lovely way to honour your son. ✨💕
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✨Uncomfortable? Do nothing.✨
In a world that glorifies resistance to suffering, choose opposite.
Slow the body and mind. Turn focus away from emotion. Notice the discomfort with detached curiosity. Befriend it.
No need to fear.
No need for reaction.
Just simple presence.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Deep peace in pristine stillness of sacred morning on the pond outside my door.✨
Red-winged blackbirds awaken. Owl hooting softly above.
Slow, intentional movement. Harmony with all.
Deep thankfulness.
#OutdoorMeditation #Morning #Solitude #Stillness #Peaceful #Meditation #SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Amplify the kind words.✨
Even when in conflict, speak with kind words.
Kind doesn’t mean nice. Being nice pacifies, even if it means not being truthful.
Kindness communicates honestly with intention to never harm.
Connect with grace.
Speak the kind words.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Slow yourself enough to notice the tiny joys.✨
Shift focus from chasing dramatic highs to the smaller, more abundant moments of everyday bliss.
Inhale the tiny joys around you with simple, radiant delight.
Deep peace.
#Joy #Bliss #Happiness #SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Create your own path forward.✨
Plan and cultivate your path. Or relax into flow and receive direction in each moment.
Both rise out of the same intention. Forward movement toward wellbeing.
Deep breath.
Intention.
Decision.
Deep peace.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Procrastination waits for release of tension where release can’t exist.✨
A thing will not disappear because you refuse to give it attention.
It may bring peace when behind you, but never when hovering over you.
One deep breath.
Begin with one small first step now.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
A pen lying across paper with a quote from Margaret Chittenden: Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. Image copyright guiltfreeselfcare dot c a.
Feeling this quote from Margaret Chittenden to my core today.
#Writing #Writers #SelfCare #Wellbeing
Screenshot of 22 reposts and 111 likes.
The moment this post appeared in my feed: 🙏🏻
Thank you for this link. 🙏🏻
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✨Radiate loving kindness.✨
Bring attention to others' happiness. Compassion for others' suffering.
No expectation of self-benefit. Non-attachment to outcome.
Practice self-forgetting with pure heart.
#Metta #LovingKindness #Compassion #Wellbeing #SelfCare
Side by side view of the same landscape scene in a forest clearing with new pine and fir trees, 24 hours apart. On the left, before snow, the ground is bare. On the right, the exact same view but with snow covering the ground and tree branches. Guilt-Free Self-Care logo, Cultivate Wellbeing title, copyright guiltfreeselfcare dot c a.
✨ 24 hours later…✨
Brisk morning walk in fresh, snow-blanketed forest clearing. Mindful steps. Mindful breath. Inhaling the scent of crisp winter forest.
Warm inside. Hot tea. Thankful for this view out my window.
#WinterLandscape #Snow #BeforeAndAfter #Wellbeing #Mindfulness #Beautiful
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✨What is your life’s purpose?✨
Big industry has been built on finding your purpose.
But it is much simpler.
We need only open heart and eyes to what is in front of us.
Ask one simple question.
“How can I best be of service in this moment?"
#LifePurpose #SelfCare #Wellbeing
Pause a moment.
Long, slow, deep breath.
Quiet mind.
Be. Here. Now.
#Mindfulness #Release #Waves #Meditation #SelfCare #Wellbeing #ReMindfulness #Stress #Anxiety #Calm #Serenity
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✨Create sacred space.✨
A place and time for solitude. A container for wellbeing. A launchpad for BEing in the world with compassion, kindness, grace.
Breathe.
Allow monkey mind to settle.
BE in full presence.
Deep peace.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing #SacredSpace #Mindfulness #BePresent #Breathe #BE
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✨Breathe into LOVE.✨
Peaceful, vibrant life force flowing deep within.
Beyond feelings, beyond romance.
Simple presence.
The experience of pure Love.
Breathe.
Allow.
Heart waking up.
Expanding.
Opening and softening.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing #ValentinesDay #Love #Breathe #Mindfulness #Presence
Cartoon of a monk and a rabbit. Rabbit: 'I have a hard time taking compliments.' Monk: 'Then don't take them. Borrow them. Tuck them away for the next person who needs one.' By James Miller of @asmallfiction.bsky.social
#SaturdayMotivation
#SaturdayThoughts
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✨Awe. Childlike wonder. Magic.✨
Pause from everyday routine.
Turn quiet, reverent gaze to the expanse of a starry night, across the vastness of a barren desert, into mesmerizing ocean waves.
Allow eyes and spirit to see as if for the first time.
#SelfCare #Mindfulness #HeartSmiles #SoulFull
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✨Pay attention, or give attention?✨
Paying usually means an exchange of something for another.
Is there expectation of receiving attached to my attention, or am I giving it freely?
Which is the better way?
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
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✨Change is like a pendulum.✨
It begins with slow momentum. Builds up to empowered, faster energy. Swings to the other extreme before it settles back into the center.
Release extremes. Allow completion.
Settle into a healthy, balanced middle path.
#EmotionalMaturity #Change #SelfCare #Wellbeing
My heart is with the community of #TumblerRidge, BC, after the shock of yesterday’s mass shooting. I have no words… just love to all affected. 💔
Wishing peace to all in this time of horrific grief.
#Canada #Grief
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✨Admiration for the courage to be vulnerable.✨
Wounds, even the ones healing, can feel so tender and raw.
Natural response may be to protect them out of fear.
It takes great courage to be vulnerable enough to hold the rawness without apology nor shame.
So brave.
Deep peace.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
Wavy Gravy. Far out. ☮️
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✨ Emotional maturity lives in the pause between action and reaction.✨
In the heat of the passionate moment, instead of trying to control the circumstance, control your reaction.
Interrupt the wild mind with deep breath, then choose a different way forward.
#Mindfulness #SelfCare #Wellbeing
Synchronicity. I just wrote about this exact thing this morning. Not nearly as eloquently as she, though. Wonderful to have this show up in my feed. Thank you. 🙏🏻
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✨You don’t have to be an artist to create a life in which you are at peace.✨
The space around you reflects the space within.
Add delightful splashes of colour. Enjoy the calmness of monochrome. Relax into earthy, natural tones.
Choose and cultivate space that nurtures YOU.
#SelfCare #Wellbeing
Another sister-in-fury. Powerful, awake, unstoppable force, indeed.
“Oh HELL no.”
A person playing their acoustic guitar, with sharp focus on fingers on the frets and the rest of the guitar in blurred background. Guilt-Free Self-Care logo, Cultivate Wellbeing title, copyright guiltfreeselfcare dot c a.
Deeply emotional morning. Ability to play guitar continues to creep away like an unhurried, snail-paced thief.
Breathing through sadness, comforted by wisdom. Life is a series of shifting joys at different times. Changing perspectives, different heart-smiles.
New joys await.
#Disability #Grief