Grow Your Practice

28/11/2022

28/11/2022

Over the next 16 Days various talks, videos and polls will be shared at about 1pm each day - you don't want to miss out on any of this action🤩

Check out the programme using the below link:
https://www.jamandcheese.co.za/pages/orange-the-world

Here is a little intro/teaser to today's topic:

What type of activist are you?

According to the Oxford Dictionary an activist is someone who brings about political or social change.

In light of the international campaign, 16 Days of Activism, to eradicate violence against women and children, e-WD unpacks the role each one of us play in giving effect to the campaign.

A jam-packed calendar of events over 16 days aims to evoke deep introspection to identify the role every woman plays in combatting this scourge. Together, we can bring about change.

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28/11/2022

"To be an activist is to speak. To be an advocate is to listen. Society cannot move forward without both." _ Eva Marie Lewis

28/11/2022

07/09/2022

29/08/2022

I release my parents from the feeling that they have failed with me.
I release my children from the need to make me proud, so that they can write their own ways, according to their hearts.
I release my partner from the obligation to make me feel complete. I lack nothing in myself.
I learn with all the beings that surround me through all time.
I thank my grandparents and ancestors who met so that today I breathe life. And I release them from the faults of the past and from the wishes they did not fulfill, aware that they did the best they could to resolve their situations, within the consciousness they had at that moment.
I honor them, I love them, and I recognize their innocence.
I bare my soul before their eyes and that is why they know that I do not hide or owe anything, more than being faithful to myself and my own existence walking with the wisdom of the heart.
I am aware that I am fulfilling my life project, free of visible and invisible family loyalties that may disturb my peace and my happiness, which are my greatest responsibilities.
I renounce the role of savior, of being the one who unites or who fulfills the expectations of others. And learning through LOVE, I bless my essence and my way of expressing, although there may be someone who cannot understand me.
I understand myself, because only I lived and experienced my story; because I know myself, I know who I am, what I feel, what I do and why I do it.
I respect and approve.
I honor the Divinity in me and in you.
We are free.

~A Traditional Náhuatl Prayer~

03/12/2021

I don't drink alcohol anymore for the very simple reason that my life is better without it.
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Who knew that after getting rid of most of stuff, becoming debt free, downsizing and leaving a job that wore me out, the thing that would simplify my life the most would be quitting alcohol.
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For a long time, I questioned my drinking but thought I needed a rock bottom reason to quit or thought that quitting meant people would think that I had a problem, or maybe it meant that I had a problem. I also worried that my life wouldn't be as fun without alcohol and that my relationships would change.
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When I decided to take a break from drinking on January 20, 2019, I didn’t know that weekend I’d had my last glass of wine, my last hangover and that I would end a decades long journey of managing alcohol.
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I wrote about my concerns about alcohol in 2011 and came to the conclusion that I wasn’t addicted/didn’t have a problem/wasn’t an alcoholic. If I could go back and send a message to the me who wrote those words and thought those thoughts, I would have asked her, “Is that a good enough reason to keep drinking?” and “Is alcohol contributing to the full, healthy, intentional life you say you want?”
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Clearly, alcohol took up a lot of space in my mind and my life — says the woman who enjoys freeing up space in her mind and her life.
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For me, minimalism is removing the things that remove you from your life. Alcohol removed me from my life. So I removed it.

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Remind yourself now…

03/12/2021

We are all divine. 🙏