Emotional Wellness, Stress, & Health
Posted by: | CommentsFor many the holidays is a time for joy, family, and love. A time for special family gatherings, giving gifts out of love, and the joy of togetherness. It is for many also a time of religious and spiritual celebration.
For others, the holidays can also be a source of stress: financial, emotional, physical (weight gain/inactivity, etc.), relationships, etc. I thought it was a great time to share about emotional wellness, stress, and health during the holidays.
I remember reading a statistic once that said December is the month with the highest number of suicides. Further, it has been my professional experience (when Life Coaching) and from what I’ve heard from Psychotherapists and Doctors that it is also during this time that their business picks up.
This article written by Marcelle Pick, Women To Women discusses holiday stress on women. So for anyone whom might be feeling the stress of the holidays, I wanted to reach out and share this article and a resource that I personally refer to often on womens’ health.
Sending you joyous, relaxing, and loving times during the holidays!
Warmly,
Debby
Music Inspires & Heals
Posted by: | CommentsIt raises my heart and vibration to hear and sing music.
Inspirational music like such songs as “Temporary Home” by Carrie Underwood and heart-felt songs such as Whitney Houston’s latest song “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength” are inspiring and speak to my heart. These songs are from two people whom came from very different backgrounds – one grounded in faith in her childhood with supportive parents and the other whom clearly had a life with many difficulties and disappointments.
I am inspired by both. Carrie for her passion in sharing about the importance of being rooted in a faith saying in an interview that she will feel she fulfilled her purpose if she is able to help others know God. Whitney equally if not even more (if that’s possible) inspiring because her foundation was not steady from the beginning and consequently had many challenges. She fell hard and ultimately reconnected with the light within and perservered through it all. Both Carrie and Whitney – now having a true sense of self, loving themselves, and connecting with a ‘higher power’ they choose to call God.
My belief – it doesn’t matter to me what one’s ‘higher power’ or faith is called, higher intelligence (as Ellen Degeneres - an inspiring woman whom also found her true sense of self from trials and tribulations - said in her last interview with Oprah), divine being, universal energy, God, Budha, and the list goes on. It is FAITH and feeling connected to some higher energy (we are all energy after all) and knowing the love and light we are that brings peace, abundance, and empowerment.
Warmly,
Debby
What Makes You Worthy?
Posted by: | CommentsHave you ever considered what makes you worthy of goodness, love, and abundance? In our society it often breeds us to believe we are worthy when we “do good”, have accomplishments, and demonstrate “success” by the material belongings one possesses. Measuring success whether one has experienced the American Dream, buying a home and furnishing it with lovely belongings. Driving that luxury car for others to see and for some to think “wow – he/she has made it!”
The truth – these material belongings certainly can bring beauty and joy into our physical lives and are meant to be cherished and experienced. However, they in and of themselves do not determine one’s worthiness or prove a person is a success (or good enough).
I have walked many paths on this journey to self acceptance, love, connection, and inner peace. For many years walking the commonly treaded path of proving myself through accomplishments and acquisitions; another of unintentionally shedding these belongings and experiencing when all was gone a sense of true self underneath it all; now living with intention to experience abundance flowing from a deeper sense of self, worthiness, and connection with the source of my goodness.
What Makes You Worthy? Have you asked yourself…..really asked yourself……what makes me good, what makes me worthy of love, goodness, joy, and my life’s desires? I promise you it is your “beingness” and spirit within. I wish for all this sense of knowingness and peace.
True Acceptance – Self, Life, & Others!
Posted by: | CommentsThe topic for today’s guidance is “ACCEPTANCE.”
Acceptance of all, what is, and truth.
Challenges. Noises. Disappointments. Pain. Joy. Love. Wounds. Peace. All that there is both in physical form and beyond.
Where does that true sense of acceptance reside within? From a greater sense of self, deeper connection to a higher being, energy, or power? For me it resides in knowing who I am (really, who I am), where I came from, and what my soul’s purpose and life path is meant to be. Living authentically, being true to myself, connecting to a greater sense of energy and being, and being and giving the love that I am to others.
Accepting not just myself (as worthy and good), but also others in my life and in this world. Whose to say what their life’s journey is and challenges they may be crossing along the way. Certainly not me. For my limited perspective if not conscious could as often is the case in society habitually lend it’s self to judgment of who they are, what they are doing, and why. The complete opposite of acceptance.
One thing I have learned, you can only give to another what you first give to yourself, thus to truly have acceptance of others (just as they are), you must first have self acceptance. To authentically be and give to others the love that you are, you must give that love to yourself first.
