Joy

Happy Monday! Abundance and Faith. No season manifest these better than the reality of Christmas . Nope. I am not talking about shopping. I've always thought of abundance as a feeling of "not lacking" more than a flooding of blessings. It is not overwhelming, but rather calming. Thoughts like... .... there's plenty of that where that came from ... i'd always be taken cared of ... someone will always have my back ... there is a solution here somewhere ... everything happens for a purpose Abundance is always a state of happening... its only a matter of time. Christmas eve was a long time coming in human history. Yet, it was at the center of it all from the very beginning. They say that if you want something to manifest in your life, act as if you've already received it (fair warning to those who shop excessively, you only get enough to pay debt if you accumulate it, so think). Faith was the same, is the same. We hope. Yet we act with courage,

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing. It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no  longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution. It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day. A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure. True self-ca