
You are a beautiful creation…be unapologetically you!
Love this!
Belle xo
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You are a beautiful creation…be unapologetically you!
Love this!
Belle xo

Photo by Matthias Zomer from Pexels
Did you ever think about how traveling can help you deal with grief or loss? I didn’t! If you are looking for a way to deal with grief or loss, take a listen to Memento More. How Travel Can Help Us Deal With Death and Grief with Dr. Karen Wyatt. It is a very interesting podcast called Books and Travel by Joanna Penn. It is good information on how traveling can help.
Enjoy!
Belle xo
Like last week, I am sharing two quotes/memes and two videos.
Today it is about Confidence!


This one by Demi is one of my faves! Just watching it gets you feeling upbeat. 😉
Raye’s video and song is the first time I have seen and heard it. I found it when surfing YouTube to find Confidence videos. Love it!
I hope you enjoy and get something from these. If you have any you like, please share. I always love new songs and quotes/memes to go by. <3
Belle xo

*Picture from Pixabay
Raina had to take a walk to get out of her mind and the things she couldn’t control. Slipping on her flats. Wearing a skirt and blouse. Just needing to get away. She stepped out of the house and put one foot in front of the other. Not paying attention to where she went. Not seeing those she passed. Just letting her body take her to somewhere quiet and peaceful. Somewhere far enough from all that her mind was trying to protect her from by throwing lies at her to make her shut down. Breathing in and out, the breeze coming off the shore washing all her thoughts away.
Realizing she had reached the ocean a few blocks from the house, she stood there taking it all in. The colorful sunset across the sea. The seagulls flying overhead, hoping she might have some treats for them. The tall grass swaying in the wind. The waves crashing on the shore line and then slowly moving back into the sea. Her long beautiful brown hair whipping around her.
This is her peaceful place. Her place to reflect and either think of nothing or everything. To breathe and live in the here and now. To know that all is going to be okay and she can do this life. She can be who she needs and wants to be. All anxious thoughts washed away and out to sea. Here she can just be.
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Just a short story I thought of when seeing this beautiful picture.
Belle xo

*Picture from Pixabay
For you, creativity is first and foremost a form of expression: it creates a special link between the internal and external worlds. It allows you to get a grasp of your powerful emotions, by moulding them into a physical form. In fact, the most important thing for you is to be able to release your emotions. You need to be able to touch them or look at them in concrete form, and to do that you have to find a way to make them come alive. This is how your desires and anxieties take shape. Keeping things bottled up creates a tension that can only be resolved once you have expressed how you feel. This means you have to be strong enough not to let yourself get swept away by chaotic impulses; if you turn your creative urges on everyday life — making a picnic, singing to the baby, choosing what to wear — you can express yourself while staying rooted in reality. Creativity is principally cathartic. It relieves a deep need, an almost primal, archaic impulse. For you, being creative is about having the power to give form to something you feel, to those deep personal issues that are often raw and disorganised. For these reasons you are usually attracted to art that demands physicality, that allows you to express what’s inside, and that unites spontaneity, strength, freedom, power and movement.

Brené Brown’s Let’s Rumble post.
“Open hearts and open minds are critical if we want to be brave. Remember, it’s not fear that gets in the way of courage – it’s armor. It’s the way we self-protect, shut down, and start posturing when we’re in fear.”
I have done this for the past I don’t know how many years. Didn’t realize it until I went to counseling and it wasn’t until my second counselor (third if you count the online counseling). It’s amazing how the mind works!
She also has at the end what she calls her list of Rumble Starters.
Love her and how positively she has reached others as well as myself!
I hope you have a chance to go and read some of her blog site.
Belle xo

*Picture from Pixabay
In the wee hours of the night
If you look intently you might
See the world of fantasy
Just a glance across a balcony
To be just a moment in time
When you are not sure to find
The glitter and shine of fairy lights
That twinkle around like ice
On trees and flowers around
As Mother Nature touches down
Making a splendid world of imagination
A beautiful magical expression
Transforming all you know
Into a paradise to bestow
All the thoughts and dreams
That have their very own scenes
Into the moon glow of the hourglass sand
Moving through something so grand
As the distant memories of your mind
To find it all gloriously entwined
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Belle xo

Such a great article on Creativity and Anxiety. About learning to use your anxiety for your creativity. Something that I feel is definitely beneficial for me and thought others might feel the same.
It’s called :

*Photo by luiisrtz from Pexels
Opposites attract: 4/25 by The Haunted Wordsmith
Today’s word: pretty
Antonyms: disagreeable, pleasureless, unpalatable, unpleasant, unwelcome
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I really thought she was pretty when I first saw her. Then, coming face to face with her, I found out how unpleasantly disagreeable she is and how unwelcoming to others she behaves. I have a whole new opinion on the matter.
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