1. Exude confidence
2. Practice serenity
3. Make room for the divine
4. Melt away your troubles in candle-lit baths or fragrant showers
5. Sniff wildflowers
6. Speak your truth often, even if your voice shakes
7. Throw out your raggedy undies, gowns and cloaks
8. Don’t make assumptions
9. Laugh heartily
10. Nurture your creativity
Have a fabulous fun Friday! I would love to know what you love to do to feel better.
Your life becomes better by making other people’s lives better.
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magic in the clouds-photo by Leanne French
1. Watch your thoughts come, and then watch them go; just like clouds floating across the sky.
2. Watch one cloud at a time, and tell yourself how interesting it is to observe that particular cloud.
3. Breathe and wait for the kinds of thoughts to Continue reading
Finley French (Age 6)- Awesome artist. Image Copyright. This is his ‘Monster Girl’
When you were six:
Did you think it was possible to draw monsters all day for a living?
Did you wish you could marry a prince or princess and live happily ever after?
Did you want to become the Continue reading
One of the reasons why being in therapy uncovers truth and causes discomfort so readily for people, is because it takes place in unfamiliar surroundings, with an unfamiliar person.
The therapist’s care, compassion, and intense focus on you can actually make it easier to find hidden treasure. When they focus on you and you focus on yourself, it makes it more difficult to become distracted or sidetracked. In fairytales, it’s akin to finding yourself alone in a dark cave or deep woods. Without distraction it’s so much easier to see how you operate. It also enables exploration of outcomes and Continue reading
Photo credit and thanks to Nisha Ravji Photography and Models Sabina Vixen and Candy Thorne.
Snow White and Rose Red is a Brother’s Grimm fairytale about two sisters who shared a close and loving friendship with each other, where ‘No evil ever befell them.’
Their widowed mother taught them ‘What one has, she must share with another,’ so they effortlessly obeyed and shared whatever they had. This fostered the type of generosity and kindness that enabled them to offer shelter to a half-frozen bear who knocked on their door in the middle of winter, asking to be warmed. He became a trusted family friend, and when he left in the spring, they were sad. On their many adventures they encountered Continue reading
Thanks and credit to photographer Nisha Ravji and her beautiful model Candy Thorne.
Mirrors allow people to see themselves, and can represent the way others see us.
Whatever answer we imagine, to the question “Who is the fairest of them all?” is really just the voice of judgment that rules every woman’s self-evaluation.
It’s clearly a mistake to rely on magic mirrors that believe we must rely on physical beauty alone. To measure how good we feel by asking society “Am I beautiful or not” is asking for trouble in the self-worth department. For some women, being caught in an obsessive pursuit for extreme beauty can actually have deathly Continue reading
Goldilocks may have been the only character that actually slept healthily in the fairytale world without being tricked into it by someone wicked.
Relaxing makes room for new ideas to surface, intuition to rise, and greatly enhances creativity.
Buzzy finds a spot that is ‘just right’.
What are you waiting for? Rest easy.
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles
Would you like to be remembered as someone who approached life in a calm and curious way, who lovingly affirmed and praised those close to you, or is it more likely that you are heading in the direction of leaving an imprint as someone who is frustrated, critical and irritated?
If you recognize that even a small part of you is heading towards the latter, here are several things you could do to invite more neutrality and less Continue reading
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