healing
How to heal fully and properly.
BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP
Being in nature is my absolute favorite! It allows me to be in tune with my divine self and connects me closer to my inner being. After a long draining work week, me and my girls decided to take a day trip up to Payson, AZ. While we were there, we decided to hike Horton Creek Trail. I have never hiked this trail before and being a beginner, I hesitated after hearing it was 8 miles long. Sometimes fear holds us back in life! I am a walking testimony of it. I tore my ACL & Meniscus 1 year ago and had to have knee surgery after falling off an electric scooter. My recovery journey has had its ups and downs. It has not been the easiest only because in the beginning I limited myself to what I can and could not do. My negative mindset was controlling my reality. I babied my leg and did not try my hardest to heal because I was so afraid of injuring it again. I got depressed in the process because I felt like a failure and could not do everyday activities such as walking, straightening and bending my leg. I lost weight due to not being able to put pressure on my injured leg; I became very insecure with how I looked. I realized that I was causing suffering upon myself by being so negative and speaking down on myself. I had to wake up and smell the coffee. I could not change my past or what had happened to me, but I was able to change my future. Once I stopped feeling sorry for myself, I shifted my mindset to something more positive. I started nurturing my inner child because I realized she was hurt and needed healing. I am currently on a self-love journey and have been challenging myself each day to step outside of my comfort zone. I want to experience life fully and see all the beauty it has to offer me. During my self-love awakening I realized that I connect closer to my intuition when I am in nature. I can meditate and quiet my mind. With all the hardships that is going on in the world today with COVID-19 it is quite common for many of us to lose ourselves and suffer internally. It is incredibly important to take this time to find yourselves and heal from past trauma. During this time, I promised myself to not fall back into old patterns and negative thinking. I had an awakening on this day trip, it has changed my life miraculously. I faced my fear and I hiked this trail! I captured many beautiful pictures in the process. This picture symbolizes the heartache I went through, the depression, the fear, and the suffering I had brought upon myself. This photo Reflects the woman I have grown to become. The beauty in this picture reflects the true beauty that is within me and has never left me. I challenge myself every day to be better than I was yesterday. My past does not define me! Bad things had to happen in order to make me stronger. I know now in order to heal you must reveal. Being in nature allows me to do just that! I chose to not edit this picture because I wanted to capture the true essence of this view. I needed to experience this view in order to heal the false beliefs that were running through my head. This story concludes that I am a unique individual and I do not need to change anything about myself in order to fit into societal preferences!
By Destinee Work6 years ago in Motivation
Roaming in Nature
As I reflect that the world is collectively almost through the year, I think of the consistent metaphor that I have used to describe what this year has felt like. Wading. Wading into a dark pool where there are no lights, no guidance, no lifeguards, no markers to tell you when you’ve reached the deep end. And you are already waist deep and no matter how scary this feeling is, one thing is for certain, you cannot go back. There is nothing there for you, so you begin to tread, and you feel the ground slowly disappearing from underneath you. You begin to slowly swim. Gently and softly, with fear in your heart but you know it’s time. The further into the year I go, the closer to nature I return. I once read that our natural state is Peace. With each passing month, my gratefulness in Mother Earth has been enriched. In this time, I have been able to stroll aimlessly, stopping to take pictures and respect the beautiful and uninterrupted pieces of the world. I am allowed long moments to think about where I have been and now where I am going, in this pool of uncertainty.
By Tam W.6 years ago in Motivation
Where Has My World Gone?
As we get older it seems we get to reflect more on our past, and what we have missed and enjoyed. Sitting on my porch under the stars many interesting thoughts have come to me. Some I really enjoyed and some made me pause for a moment thinking where has my world gone.
By Kenneth Watkins6 years ago in Motivation
Suffering by Questioning
I used to question everything. Every. Little. Thing. And not only did I question all of it, I resisted. I slithered backwards into my safe haven of negativity, pessimism, and cynical thinking. I evaded any sense of clarity, denying that nothing could ever be simple for a radical mind like mine.
By Brittany Tinder6 years ago in Motivation
What Changes In A Year
When I look at where I was last year, I see loss. Not in the physical sense, but mentally? I didn't know where I was, where I was going, or what the future held. Since then, so many things have changed for the better- a strange feeling considering we are living through a pandemic.
By Sarah Anne 6 years ago in Motivation
The Butterfly Effect
I know you have probably heard this a lot, as well as said it a lot, but let me just remind you; 2020 fucking blows. So far, we have had six months of natural disasters, murders and political chaos. We have had to lock our doors for days at a time, too scared to leave and too scared to let in what lays beyond our four walls. We have had to find solace within ourselves and become our own best friend when we weren’t able to see others. We have learnt about the darkness that resides within the same world that brings so much light, and we have actively been consuming knowledge to help reduce the destruction. It has been a shock to the human psyche to say the least. But through this shock to our natural balance of work, play, sleep and freedom, I believe we have gained a better understanding of reality rather than the cotton candy version we once believed life was. And with this understanding, it is quite easy to realise that we actually, cannot, control shit.
By Madeline Stocks6 years ago in Motivation
Perspective
As we all know, life has changed drastically around the world. Things that seemed run of the mill and “normal” are no longer in existence and seem a distant memory of the past; sitting inside a restaurant with friends, traveling internationally, and finding toilet paper for example are all things many of us took for granted and could never imagine having challenges surrounding them. While some restrictions have either been lifted, or aspects have been modified in order to adhere to the new normal, life seems to have somewhat resumed in some parts of the world. Unfortunately for me, currently living in the United States, many restrictions still apply and for good reason. Traveling internationally, and photographing different countries and landscapes is my biggest joy. Having been born in the Canary Islands to Chilean parents, and raised in New York, I am no stranger to traveling around the world. I had been to four different continents by the time I was nine years old, so sitting at home has never quite appealed to me. My mother says I have an adventurous spirit whose sole sustenance is seeing far and distant lands. While I would argue and say that pasta is actually what truly feeds my soul, she is in fact incredibly correct. Not being able to travel internationally feels inherently wrong, not to mention stifling to say the least. I have been very lucky the past couple of years and have been traveling often internationally three to four times a year. Quite the luxury I know, in several different ways; economically, responsibility or lack thereof, and paid leave from work to name a few. I have been lucky enough to see the aurora lights twice, spent a week in a tiny North Atlantic archipelago (Faroe Islands), seen the real-life castle that inspired Disney’s iconic logo (Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany), climbed to the top of a mountain via cable car that oversees six different countries (Hoher Kasten, Switzerland), have walked through ancient Roman ruins from Spain to Turkey, been denied entry to Russia and Malta (COVID-19 border closings), taken a train cross country in Morocco, and seen more Game of Thrones shooting locations than I can count spanning from Ireland to Croatia. However, in recent months that has not been an option, and there is much uncertainty as to when that option will once again become a tangible reality. In the meantime, I’ve resigned myself to going on hikes, reading books, editing the last 5 years of my life in pictures, and even taken up exploring my own backyard for a different perspective. This resonates with all of us on some level: a different point of view, a different angle if you will. Going to a supermarket, receiving mail, going for a drive, getting take out - all these concepts have changed immensely and irrevocably, and were viewed so incredibly differently during this pandemic than they have ever been, and may still be depending on what part of the world you live in. We also became more widely aware of this world, what we do to it (see green gas emissions, pollution, climate change), and how we relate to each other and treat each other (see black lives movement). Some of us are out of work, some of us are working through a global pandemic, and some of us are still trying to figure out what route we want to take with our lives. Regardless, this has been a great time for reflection, perspective, and growth. My time certainly has been; I don’t always have to get on a plane and travel thousands of miles across an ocean to find beauty. Sometimes beauty sits right in my backyard.
By Andrea6 years ago in Motivation
It won't always be easy
We have to remind ourselves of why we are doing what we are doing and not always expect the Universe to show us the way. Since the last time I wrote anything, I would say it has been a little over a year, the more and more “woke” I became, the more and more I started to realize that I was going have to start to remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing instead of always expecting the answers to my question as easily as the Universe makes them at times. Going through trials and tribulations are going to be part of that reminder to yourself, in a sense it’s the way the Universe is going to see if you really are trusting and believing in the process of where your journey is headed and where you are truly meant to be.
By BuBz6 years ago in Motivation
