It's not common to look to others to break the cycle of pain, to acknowledge what they did or didn't do to us, apologize for their behavior, or even change their hurtful actions. However, forgiveness, despite acknowledgment, an apology, and a change of heart, is an essential component to breaking the cycle of pain. We no longer expend unhealthy energy and thoughts. We don't stay in unproductive states. We know that pain isn't personal but often a cry for help and a lost soul. Forgiveness involves taking the lessons from experience without the emotional residue of anger, anxiety, confusion, doubt, guilt, resentment, shame, vengeance, and the like. We must take the lessons from the experience, mostly about ourselves, and press forward to do the work we are here to do. We properly care for our bodies because we know it is the vehicle by which we do our work. We know our lives are not a mistake but an opportunity to make the world a better place. It is through our experiences that we carry out our divine purpose of healing and restoration.

In addition, this new year, 2025, let's look at the thoughts that keep us from reaching our goals. When we find the underlying beliefs, and take positive action we change how we treat ourselves and others.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!

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Sometimes, we associate “stillness” with imprisonment, confinement, or powerlessness. We grab eternal things (e.g., drugs, medications, food, exercise, etc.) to soothe our wounds. However, when we remain still and trust that God is doing His perfect work through our life events, we break free of the limitations that often hold us back from expressing the truth we are here to unfold.

Stillness is an act of surrendering and releasing. We quiet our minds and spirit to be in the present moment. We open ourselves up to the wisdom of our Creator. We allow truths to penetrate our entire being and heal our wounds. We have a new perspective on life and specific events.

When no emotions and feelings such as anger, fear, confusion, doubt, guilt, shame, vengeance, and like-minded ones cloud our vision and create strongholds, we tap into our innate power of knowing we are beyond our life events.

Healing, therefore, is an act of aligning with the divine spirit within us. We acknowledge our power together (personality and spirit) to transcend experiences and do the work we are here to do.

When the storms come, know that they are not here to harm you but to provide the clarity you need to be who our Creator designed you to be.

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Are you keeping yourself in a painful state with your thoughts, feelings, and perceived identity? Freezing my thoughts is something I did as a child because anything that consistently rises needs to be addressed.

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Do you see pain or love? Do you see innocence, playfulness, and curiosity? Do you see our Creator?

Children are closer to our Creator in spirit, for the world’s standards have not socialized them. No child comes here to hate, divide, or judge others based on their divine difference.

However, our perceptions of life often leave us bitter, stagnant, and unable to see our true selves. Let us be reminded of our childlike attributes, for in them, we remember who we are.

By paying attention to my children, I have transformed my mind about eating and weight management and how I communicate with my children. The truth does not discriminate with the age of its speaker. If we pay attention, our children can be one of our greatest teachers.

Listen now as I share more about my insights of a child.

In Heal from the Inside Out Series #17: Healing Is Not to be Rushed, I remind you that healing has a place, time, and season. To heal correctly, we must allow the intricate details of our healing to take their rightful place inside of us.

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In The Seeds We Plant Series #21: See the Bigger Picture, I share how nursing helped me see beyond the minute details of life and the bigger picture. The more we see the bigger picture, the greater our understanding of life events can be. For more support in becoming more of yourself, sign up for my newsletter, Notes on Life: Empowering You to Be You. In it, I share resources, tips, and strategies for achieving and sustaining overall health, fulfilling your purpose, and enjoying the fruits of your labor of love.

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What we deem as powerful often wins. Do you believe more in the power of discomfort, dis-ease, painful experiences than of healing and enjoying the gift of life?

In Heal from the Inside Out Series #16: How much power have you given to Pain?, I share my thoughs on "it" (pain) and how it's important to keep our eyes on what we want in life. Often using four words, "I don't have to," can be the shift we need away from seeing ourselves as a victim to a transcender.

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Looking at today’s world events, we can’t help but wonder what is causing so much turmoil, especially among those who appear to have it all. Is it too much money? Is money evil, then? Is it being famous? Should we avoid any career that increases our chances of being known by many people?

Or, are the events we experience, read, and see the result of seeds that have sprouted and blossomed within us? Is it a broken moral foundation that increases our susceptibility to unhealthy actions? Is it unhealed wounds that continue to bleed and infect others?

Should I not want to be prosperous, the promise from our Creator (Jeremiah 29:11)?

The temptation to dominate humans, misuse, and use has no regard for color, race, religion, or other worldly dividers. The desire to do what’s opposite of our spiritual makeup is not to “get us” or make us feel less than we are. Instead, temptation is:

1. A call and an opportunity for self-assessment and healing from the inside out. We must dig within our hearts and minds to identify and remove the anger, anxiety, confusion, doubt, guilt, resentment, shame, vengeance, and other like-minded weeds.
2. A means to purify us or the work they are here to do. Temptation is a tool for enjoying the fruits of our labor.
3. A means to help others overcome similar temptations.
4. Ultimately, it is a means to unite with the divine within us.

Moral character building is reestablishing who we are (our spiritual blueprint) and part of our divine work here on Earth. A moral foundation is necessary to enjoy the fruits of our labor and align ourselves with the truth inside us. We distract ourselves from the solution when we blame money and other inanimate things for a person’s actions.

Let the morally wrong things you experience, hear, and see in the world be an opportunity to get to the root causes of such behaviors.

1. Talk to your children about morality and virtues.
2. Discuss age and intellectually-appropriate experiences and ask for their input or what they would do.
3. Assess yourself as your children’s primary teacher, and ask what moral examples you are setting.
4. Address inappropriate behavior efficiently and effectively.

How are you influencing the next generation to put character before divine work?

How are you reinforcing kindness, patience, respect, and other like-minded innate virtues?

Are you daily resewing and nurturing virtuous behaviors in the next #animators, #composers, #musicians, #singers, #dancers, $teachers, #coaches, #writers, #speakers, and other #divine #creators?

Yes, we want our children to be successful, but at what price? Character is not the last or unavoidable when lives are at stake.

We change the present and future by what we do today.