What Brings You Joy

by Alexis Love

Exactly As The Article States” What Brings You Joy?” I'm going to let you sit with that for a bit.... I am Alexis Love, 40 yrs old, owner/founder of Einstien’s World Of Wonders Dayhome, owner/ founder of Creative Playful Parenting Group. I am super passionate at assisting parents releasing the need to be perfect, the guilt that comes with parenting and lastly the worry that also comes with it. I replace it with confident, vibrant, playful energy all through releasing childhood fears, hands on play to ignite the child within, meditation to reconnect to the inner child, self love/self care techniques and much more!! I believe once connected back to the inner child one will be able to show up 100% as themselves and in turn will give their children permission to JUST BE !! Sounds inviting?!?! I encourage you to join my page

Okay I now invite you to go back to the original question - What Brings You Joy?!?!

So often parents will go to look outside of themselves and state my kids, friends, material things... the list goes on... Are you noticing a theme? They are all things that are outside of oneself...

Man when I was faced with this reality, I was absolutely shocked and in disbelief that I was constantly looking outside of myself for Joy - in other words external validation. That was hard for me to swallow... does this sound like you? I am here to share a bit of my journey into discovering joy

within myself, to basically enjoy my own company... I took it upon myself to remove many things that I depended on to bring me joy and allowed me to be in my own thoughts… which allowed me to really be with my own thoughts and I was faced with many fears and feeling anxious. I was super unsettling. This is when I became aware I was dealing with codependency. After becoming aware of this, I chose to take action to rediscover who I was, and where I wanted to go. I became aware all my energy was used to worry about others, to take it upon myself to "fix" other people, these really were to distract me... I had a fear of losing control, which sucked the joy right out of me. Now I always choose myself…

Here are some questions that have helped me...

1. Is that thought true? 2. How do I behave when I believe the thought? 3. Where would I be without that thought? 4. Think of turn around thoughts for the original thought (meaning discovering positive thoughts) 5. Picturing self living the turn around thoughts ....how do I feel? How do I behave when I believe the turn around thought?

Photo by Robert Collins on Unsplash

Love Byron Katie's work !!! This tool alone has definitely helped me release any negative core beliefs that I have developed from my childhood, not saying they don't surface, it just means anytime they do i use this tool, and if it does not work I then go to meditation, particularly inner child meditation, which can be found on YouTube.

These two tools have definitely helped reignite the joy within!!

I am now finding my relationship with myself is becoming more healthy by taking care of healing my negative core beliefs, which were formed right from 0 to 12 yrs old. Also taking responsibility for my own happiness. I am now seeing the results of having more energy in carrying out the things that truly are in alignment with my soul, and I am now able to share these amazing tools with my daughter which deepens our relationship.

In closing I invite you to revisit and make a list of what truly brings you joy from within. To start by taking 15 mins a day to be with your own thoughts - journal them out. Walk in nature, whatever that looks like. This will guide you back to what is truly in alignment with your soul and leave you feeling genuinely happy. You will feel confident and restored which will spill over!

Alexis Trinity Love is a woman of power who is ready to take that leap and not look back and only move forward!! To continue to walk the path that is meant for her and to do what brings her joy, to go through the growing pains of life, as she is paving the road to success and feels soooo blessed to be calling in her tribe

She assists parents in regaining their vibrant, playful, creative energy back by doing inner child work. She began on January 15th, 2020. Mom, woman and owner of Einstein's World of Wonders Day Home.

To contact Alexis Love send email to spiritualhealing21@hotmail.com.