Being Me: Week 50

You can always give something, even if it's only kindness. 

Being Me: Week 50 - Sometimes giving back can actually save you

December theme: Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope 

It's funny how I stumbled upon kindness to save me, how it grew into a season of hope instead of a spell of despair. For so long grief held me hostage, echoes of living were a sound in the distance. The finality of loss does that, displaying the emptiness you will never understand until you're shrouded in it.  

I cursed God's promise for so long, ignoring the gentle nudge in the direction of hope to instead linger in sadness. The judgment of the world watches the grieving, placing their own itinerary on our sadness, as if we aren't already shackled.

It is not easy, and because we go on does not mean that we have forgotten. It does not mean I still don't have days of heartache so thick I cannot move through it. Or pity for myself that only those who too have suffered loss can comprehend.

Loss doesn't evaporate into nothing, the sting is an ever present ache that I choose to anoint with kindness. Showing the world who he was even twenty-five years later still lifts me up. 

We should all want to be that example for someone. That promise of hope...

 Themes for each month to journal, create or contemplate on your journey

• January - The best time for new beginnings is now

1. Morning routine
2. Mission statement
3. Create your YES list
4. Goals, baby steps, tiny promises
5. Putting it in motion

• February - Before anything else, find yourself, be yourself and love yourself

1. Take care of your body
2. Meditation and solitude
3. Food choices and ideas for change
4. What makes you happy

• March - All you need is tea and warm socks

1. Enjoy the simple things
2. Letting go of thoughts and things
3. Both hands
4. Mindfulness (social media and smart phones)
5. Setting intentions

• April - Water your roots so your soul can blossom

1. Water and other things we need to grow
2. Time to blossom
3. The 3 R's
4. Forgiveness

• May -  The difference between a flower and a weed is judgment

1. Stop judging yourself and others (why we judge)
2. The grass isn't always greener
3. Love is the absence of judgement
4. Stop judging yourself if you don't want to be judged

• June - Believe you can and your halfway there

1. Believe in yourself
2. Believe in others
3. What thoughts have distorted our beliefs
4. Invest in yourself

• July - Bold stripes, bright stars, brave hearts

1. Integrity
2. Taking risks
3. Abundance
4. Let your light shine

• August - We are who we choose to be

1. Who do you think you are

• September - Sometimes we can learn and study & know, and sometimes we have to believe, trust and hope

1. What do you know to be true of you
2. Books that create thought
3. What holds you back
4. Trust yourself
5. Hope means your ready to see the good in tomorrow

• October - We can't become what we want by remaining what we are

1. Do the work if you want change
2. A mind stretched can never go back
3. Healthier is not just what your eating, but what you think and say
4. In the end we only regret the chance we did not take

• November - Small seeds of gratitude will provide a harvest of hope

1. Count your rainbows not your thunderstorms
2. What consumes your mind controls your life
3. Be grateful when things are going your way. Be graceful when they are not
4. Interrupt anxiety with gratitude

• December - Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of hope

1. Be the reason someone smiles today

 Mission Statement:  I will improve my overall health and wellness, use kindness and inspiration with a vision that creates  a community of giving and in doing so achieve my purpose in this life.   

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