Create The Ripple Magazine April 2021

Many memories fly through my mind and the stories begin to form. The tree analogy above brings light to a new way of thinking. Many times, in my life the leaves needed to fall and when the challenging things happened that seemed to say life is over or it will not be like it was, these are the times that life was not ending but merely changing so that I too could shift and grow.

Shed my old beliefs, lose my old doubts, and worries and grow strong and tall into a new state of being. Standing in my Power...

2020 brought to light a whole new way of living. A fresh start for me is one way I like to look at it. It was the year that started with a photo shoot. The first time I emerged from my cocoon of concern. Concern that people were judging me. They would look at my new pictures and see something that I never saw. They would see a confident loving individual and see all the greatness that lies within. I realized that those who really mattered in my life were not judging me in the picture they saw, and instead it was me who was judging me. It was me that would see the confidence and strength that I did not look hard enough to see before. I started to love myself and the pictures before I even saw them developed. I was beginning to love me and what I was growing into. I had this grand idea in my head of what the year would look like. A new year had started and so many things were turning into the vision I had for my life.

Covid hit and so much changed. The way I did business changed, the way I interacted with people changed. All that I had come to know would look different. Looking back now I realize that like so many things in life, it did not happen to me, it happened for me. It really is about the story we tell ourselves and how we allow things to play out or change us. I saw many people cocoon into themselves as did I at first. It took me a long moment of pause to realize it was time for new growth to begin. A new adventure of spiritual growth. I referred to it on several occasions as my Nexus cracking wide open. I didn’t even know what that meant, the words came to me and I allowed my world to expand and grow. Opening to new possibilities and allowing change can be hard. When we see new potentials for growth and focus on what we can do instead of what we can’t, things around us turn into opportunity. Typically, I am a planner. I plan things to happen a certain way and if they don’t, I am disappointed