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12/31/2023

It is your birthright to be loved. You are and always were worthy of care, kindness, generosity, and attention. I invite you to align yourself with this truth. This process involves an intention setting practice—one that invites you to fully love and accept yourself just as you are.

If you have history of trauma, you might find it difficult to access these positive feelings or beliefs about yourself. You may carry faulty beliefs that you are not lovable or that you are unworthy of joy. Or, because of your past, you might have inaccurately concluded that you would never feel like you belong in this world.

One of the ways that you can heal is to take time to create and focus on positive experiences that evoke gratitude, joy, and awe. Each time you notice a good feeling, take time to enhance it a by slowing down, breathing into any positive sensations, and allowing yourself to fully receive the nourishment of the moment.

09/20/2023

Beloveds….Love them from afar,
as you listen to the sound of your own footsteps……walking away, &
towards the life you deserve. 👣♥️

Drop a ❤️ if this speaks to you.

It’s really hard to believe that there are people in our lives that will not admit, nor acknowledge that their actions have caused us great pain and sadness.

So when someone shows you who they are, and will not admit that they have harmed you, believe them and walk away. 👣

My loves, believe them and live your greatest life. You are worthy. 🖤

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03/13/2023

Alcohol awareness:

- $237 million dollars has been spent in the past two election cycles on political contributions (lobbying) from alcohol companies.

- The alcohol ad spend in 2023 is expected to hit 6 billion dollars.

- 95% of all violent crimes on college campuses involve the use of alcohol.

- 60- 70% of Vietnam veterans have alcohol use issues.

- Research shows 75% of people who’ve experienced violence or abuse in childhood engage in ‘problematic drinking.’

- “distributive attachment” (attachment wounding) increases the vulnerability for alcohol use as coping.

- children of alcoholics are 4x likely than the general population to develop alcohol problems.

My point here is to not villainize alcohol or drinking. My hope is to bring awareness to our relationship with alcohol individually and as a culture.

Ads for alcohol involve beautiful people walking into beautiful places and smiling as they take a sip. People with massive influence market alcohol in care free ways. Every celebration calls for “popping bottles” — this runs so deep in our collective conditioning.

As we wake up, we have to start to acknowledge our dark secret.

Alcohol has long been the accepted coping mechanism for generational trauma.

A secret shame that many have grown up within. Adults who still carry the scars of all the abuse, chaos, and unpredictable behavior that comes with a parent who numbs and soothes with alcohol.

Adults who rely on alcohol to deal with the anxiety of social situations.

Adults who rely on alcohol to sleep.

Adults who rely on alcohol to silent the scary thoughts of the mind. And to numb the pain of the past.

We know ‘drugs’ are bad. But alcohol has long been the drug (throughout every economic class) that is perceived in a different light because it’s so embedded with all that we do.

If we tell someone at a social event we’re not drinking, it’s often met with confusion. Or the thought that this person must have a ‘problem.’

It’s time for us to acknowledge and wake up to our relationship with alcohol. To understand it’s the most widely accepted drug to soothe. And to have the courage to look at: what we are trying to escape