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This is not your ordinary “Good Morning Beautiful!”…though maybe it should be.☺️A mindful morning routine in my space in...
04/15/2026

This is not your ordinary “Good Morning Beautiful!”
…though maybe it should be.☺️

A mindful morning routine in my space involves an intentional coffee, prepared with intention from the moment I wake up to the when I open the coffee jar, to pouring and sipping – all this, to kick start the day, open for insights. This approach turns coffee from a desperate “fix” into a “precision tool” for deep work, sustainable energy and mental clarity for the day.

☕️💡 Concocting the brew-ha experience involves preparation before the delicious sips. It involves intentional, quiet activities to foster creativity and reduce anxiety.

☑️ Upon waking, while still in bed, and incorporating prayer, sinking into 5–10-minute gentle body movements and mindful breathing to shift from sleep mode.

☑️ After first morning ‘bio relief’, gargling with saltwater (rid the nasty mouth bacteria), hydrating first with 1 glass of room-temperature, mineral-rich, ionized Kangen water (key is delaying caffeine intake 60-90 minutes from waking to align with the body’s natural cortisol levels).

💫 Now for the Coffee concoction (while coffee brews):

☕️ Picking the right coffee cup that calls to you – so important!

☕️ Adding spices into that intentional cup - includes turmeric, cracked black pepper, Ceylon cinnamon, 3-5 whole cloves, cayenne pepper, cacao powder, and raw unpasteurized honey. I personally enjoy my first cup with a little coconut milk.

☕️ Having a second cup (no more after that) entails using the same cup and just black (whatever ingredients are left from first cup is fine).

💫Once poured, savouring each sip while catching a calming view or journaling. [calm is the operative here]

Thinking of you in my mindful morning over a cup of coffee goodness over here.

Whatever your morning elixir, enjoy your day from a morning that sets you up for a day of ease and flow goodness. Giddy up with cheers!🤍☕️

“Putting on the ritz” of gratitude isn’t always easy at the best of times but the get-back is priceless…Why am I waking ...
04/13/2026

“Putting on the ritz” of gratitude isn’t always easy at the best of times but the get-back is priceless…

Why am I waking up at 5:00 each morning and tending to my fluidity and motility exercises in the midst of a recovery period that oftentimes still presents surprise blow ups of weakness, aches and pains?

It’s as though one minute, I’m on good track with my energy and physical coordination. Next thing I know, in a split second…fizzle and drain with pain (like yesterday’s fail to “move my groove”).

I hate being uncomfortable…physically, mentally, emotionally. And I’ve been very uncomfortable these past months in all these categories. Though I can still breathe, I have what I need, possibilities for even better are before me…and all this makes me smile from the inside out.

With every life happening, including in their split-second surprises, I continue to learn life’s like that, filled with “hard stuff” surprises, rude and exhilarating. Growth does not come when we are comfortable, when we live reactively or passively.

It takes having to unroot the things in life that keep us stuck to ignite that flow forward sometimes in all the categories in our life.

Customized therapeutic emotional management, meditation, prayer, tailored nutrition and body movement, rest, social connection are all ways that help me during phases of recovery, restoration and strengthening (growth).

This latest score (walking and leaning stick) helps for when I just need to lean and take a breath as I flow in the style of “putting on the ritz”.

And yours?

With much love and in God’s full embrace, enjoy your week and may it flow in ease with clear reminders to seize your moments just right, in the knowing that we can lean, catch a breath, and flow forward in the midst of life happenings.

In Gratitude and Faith, with style and “putting on the ritz”. 🤍

04/06/2026

An IMPORTANT message from me and my sunshine-homie 😉🫢

“If you want to be happy,
don’t be sad.” 💥

The Good and Blessed Holy Friday reflection of the greatest love. 🤍🕊️✝️Each year when sunshine and warm temps come out i...
04/03/2026

The Good and Blessed Holy Friday reflection of the greatest love. 🤍🕊️✝️

Each year when sunshine and warm temps come out in more regular play, I visit one of my favourite spots alongside Toronto’s Lakeshore that always seems to heal and restore me.

The rocks by this shore remind me of cathartic happenings like
recovering from gruelling health ailments that stop me in my tracks and rock me at my core.

The moments by these rocks by this shore, have become symbolic for me - welcomed moments in surrender,
…in stillness,
…in joyful hope and trust,
…in thankful faith that God’s will be done, not mine, and from this,
…in God’s embrace,
…in deep knowing that I am not alone.

On this blessed Holy Good Friday I reflect on how many times I think of my own struggles and burdens as excruciating and life/earth shattering - and that is the truth from flesh, bones and headspace…

…until on days like today, as it has been written that Jesus Christ was judged, mocked, beaten, nailed to the cross and pierced - suffered greatly beyond measure that I couldn’t even fathom, not for any wrongdoing on his part, but for humankind’s transgressions in God’s merciful grace.

In this, there is deep humility, compassion, gratitude and praise to the God of full and faithful presence, power, wisdom, healing, forgiveness, grace and unconditional love.

It is written that although on Good Friday the earth shook, rocks split, the sky was dark and hope seemed lost on this Christ-crucifixion day, redemption was unfolding, for because of Jesus, for us,

“It is finished!”
~ John 19:30
♥️🕊

The gearing up is underway for the 27th annual Charity Golf Tournament in support of New Visions Toronto, happening on J...
04/01/2026

The gearing up is underway for the 27th annual Charity Golf Tournament in support of New Visions Toronto, happening on June 2, 2026! 🤩

⛳️Register
There’s still time to register under the Early Bird too.
See details below.

🤲 Other Ways to Participate
💡Sponsor a hole or part of the event through your organization.
💡Donate a product or service for the event’s silent auction.
💡Contibute a monetary donation of any size - it all helps! 💚

Easy peasy weekend begins over here. Are you catching it? Enjoy your flow, with big love from me to you!🤍
03/28/2026

Easy peasy weekend begins over here. Are you catching it?
Enjoy your flow, with big love from me to you!🤍

03/26/2026

A playback that still resonates in my heart - love intentions - out to yours.♥️🕊️

Sipping in a bit more from the final hours of 2025, with a full cup of Love and overflowing gratitude for every bit of i...
12/31/2025

Sipping in a bit more from the final hours of 2025, with a full cup of Love and overflowing gratitude for every bit of it! …like this major feat…

I got up and took a shower today!🎉 - it was painful and exhausting, but I did it!

I know there are others out there who understand 😉.

Sending my big love and warm wishes for the coming New Year - may it be filled with good health, prosperity, peace, joy-filled and blessed moments in God’s full embrace for you and your loves some more!

Til then, mmmuah♥️🎊

The morning of Christmas Eve - eee! 🎊Before signing off for the rest of the year (and recooperating from this “nasty” ma...
12/24/2025

The morning of Christmas Eve - eee! 🎊
Before signing off for the rest of the year (and recooperating from this “nasty” making its rounds)… wishing all warmth, joy, best wishes as we enjoy our Christmas cheer with our loves!

As I reflect in thanks, I’m reminded of the true meaning of Christmas - the celebration of the birth of Jesus, the expression of unconditional Love and joyful hope. This word “meaning,” reminds me of the purpose of his birth that is celebrated on Christmas - signifying how God entered into the world, becoming one of us, through Jesus Christ; that He might deliver us from evil and turmoil, with His message for love and hope for humankind.

May our eve and coming celebrations (whether in big hooplah or gentle quiet) be filled with loads of LOVE, deep gratitude for our bountiful blessings, in God’s faithful presence, in peace, merriment and kindness, now and forever, in Jesus’ name! ♥️🎄🕊️

This weekend’s treat: Rijoa, Walleye fish fry, and in-laws who never made me feel like an outlaw…for life. ♥️🍾🤗
09/21/2025

This weekend’s treat: Rijoa, Walleye fish fry, and in-laws who never made me feel like an outlaw…for life. ♥️🍾🤗

05/06/2025

Grateful to be welcomed and appreciated in this meaningful wave. 🌊
Thank you, for all you do in making the world a better place for those you serve so brilliantly! 💙

04/20/2025

“He is Risen!” 🕊️
~ Matthew 28:6
Happy blessed Easter!🕊️

Whether observed at church or home with baskets of colourful eggs and feasts with joy in togetherness, Easter has become a day of celebration for so many globally.

For the Christian faith, this day commemorates the miraculous resurrection of Jesus Christ, fulfilling the promise of redemption and eternal life with God in faith.

Enjoy this blessed day with so much joy, hope, peace and love. I, for one, am getting ready with a postured heart, smiles from ear to ear…and stretchy pants! ♥️🎉🙏🏾🕊️

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“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.“ - Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

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​Maria R. Nebres, CEO of MPCS Inc., is an international bestselling author of Love and the Highly Engaged Team, and her upcoming book, Love & Leadership in The Fast Lane, founder of The FACTOR OF, a new paradigm approach to true leadership through her signature program The True Leadership Compass: Spirit of the Forward Path.