Reminders of Goodness

                January 25, 2021

            Reminders of Goodness

                Take some time to find them...

            Be here with me, in the Truth.

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Photo & caption by a lovely human - Warning: Longest post ever not really about stir fry: This may just look like any old dinner but when I look at this I see the product of years of personal growth. Coconut quinoa stir fried with red cabbage, roasted eggplant, shallots, garlic and green onion. I’ve always loved cooking but I’ve also always been a stickler for following others recipes. Just one of many ways I was doing things I loved in a superficial way. Back in the spring I ended my time working with @ellieburke.life as my mentor after 2.5 years. I showed up to her feeling riddled with self doubt and like my intuition was just garbage. My relationship with myself was so poor and I was watching it effect my relationships with EVE.RY.ONE. I felt like a fraud, hidden behind a tired facade, and I was ready to surrender. Working with a life coach was nothing what I expected and Ellie met me in all of the non-traditional ways that suited me. She offered me books and easeful conversations and saw me in ways that I badly needed and gave me a direction to start with. It took years for me to sort out the life I felt like I had made for myself while half asleep. In total honesty, coming out of working for and with her this spring was more like being catapulted high speed onto the “right” path. I left perpetual waves of depression and anxiety behind me and rewrote the neuron pathways that I found myself mentally walking everyday. And there in the very way that I communicated with myself. I watched life open itself up to me in the most profound and mundane ways alike. Ellie, you show up every dang day in my art studio, my kitchen, my conversations and most epically in the spaces of solitude I spend with myself. This has been the most empowered time of my life and I can’t thank you enough for helping me become one more “woman doing whatever the fuck she wants.” I feel like a better ally to everyone in my life and myself. I miss being in your beautiful presence, but I feel you in my spirit every single day. This stir fry is for you <3

Wish I could take credit for that ☝🏼 insanely delicious looking stir fry....

I can’t. 

But I am sharing because today I needed this heartfelt and sweet gem of a reminder that what I do matters, that it’s worth continuing to show up and do this work (both within myself and guiding it in others).

We all need reminders of the goodness... 

Reminders of the moments we helped to shape or lives we’ve touched. 

Reminders of our potential, our possibilities and also of what’s already inherently right here within us.

Reminders of sweetness and beauty, shared. And of connection and the resiliency of the human spirit.

In the weariness, in the fatigue, in the heaviness, find some things that remind you of the goodness that you are and that you bring to the world.

(And big love to the maker of this stir fry... you know who you are 😘❤️)

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, Ellie

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