Month: April 2017

I Will Not Be Erased

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I will, forever,

Leave my mark.

I will not be silenced by your rigidity.

I will not be made to feel less,

Because your view differs from my own.

I will stand proudly,

In admiration of who I am becoming.

I will not be erased.

I will no longer be chained,

By guilt that you told me to carry.

I will no longer suffer,

Because of who I once was.

I will no longer,

Live in fear of opinion.

Instead I will be brave,

A force to be reckoned with.

I will not be erased.

I am not perfect,

Made millions of mistakes.

They do not define me,

I am not them.

I am resilient,

I am a warrior.

I will not be erased.

I have carried the weight of loss,

Guilt, sadness, brokenness.

Yet, still I remain.

I will not be erased.

If I weren’t here to speak my truth,

Would it be easier for you?

Easier to live,

As if your views are the only ones that count?

Easier to prove,

Your reality is the only truth?

Easier to silence,

Your own souls attempt to awaken you,

From unconscious slumber?

I am not here to make things easier.

I am here,

To live my truth.

I will, forever, leave my mark.

I will not be erased.

 

I Will Love The Skin I’m In

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I will honor my body.

I will love the skin I’m in.

I will no longer compare my body to another woman’s.

The journey I have been on is my own, no one else can know the darkness I have caused my body to endure, no one else can know the light that shines through me regardless of that darkness.

I will no longer look in the mirror and cringe.  I will embrace my flaws.

I will no longer be controlled by body image.  We are all just star dust, in this imperfect human form.

I will be ok with where I am, no matter what the scale says. No matter what society says.

I will leave behind detrimental thinking patterns that have caused me to focus solely on my outward appearance.  What a waste of time that is.

I will begin using that time to tend to matters of the soul.  Striving everyday to grow, to be a better human, to love BIGGER.

I will love myself.

I will love my reflection in windows as I pass by, not because I am super model status, but because I am so much more.

I am me.

I am love, I am beauty, I am fearless.

I will not be constrained by what society calls beautiful.  I will wear what I want, when I want, with no apologies.

I will no longer be a slave to the scale.  That number isn’t real.  What is real, is the magic that dwells inside me.

I will no longer call myself names or criticize myself.  Goddess knows, there are enough critics running around, why add to that?

I am not fat, I am not saggy, I am not cellulite, or stretchmarks, or wrinkles, or gray hair.

I am amazingly me.  Unique in all I think and say and do.  I will revel in my uniqueness.

I will no longer guilt myself into doing things that I don’t enjoy.  I will listen to my body.

There are days I want to lift heavy things, days I want to do yoga, days I want to hike, and then there are days I want to lie on the couch all day, cuddled up with a good book and some chocolate.

I give myself permission to do ALL of those things.

I will do them when I want, how I want, and without feeling a damn bit guilty about it.

It is okay for me to go to the gym, & equally okay for me NOT to go to the gym.  Okay to practice yoga, while just as okay NOT to practice.

I will listen to my body and give it what it needs.  Whatever that need may be, in that moment, on that day.

I am ever-changing, as is my body, there is no one size fits all life.  I am realizing this now…

I will love me.

I will take long baths, naps, and walks in the sunshine.

I will fuel my body with nutrients that make me feel alive.  I will have greens and vitamins and shakes.

I will also lavishly enjoy chocolate, wine and southern cooking.

I will find my own truth.

I will find my own balance.

I will no longer force my body to endure brutal workouts day in and day out in pursuit of perfect muscle definition.  Because, what good is a perfect body if it is carrying a broken soul?

Instead I will move in ways that make me happy, simply to say thank you to my body for how amazing it has been to me.

I will take care of myself.

I will rest, I will meditate, I will sit in silence.

I give myself permission to howl at the moon, to dance around naked, to be unceremoniously wild.

I will love me.

 

 

 

Abundance

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Wow.  What a whirlwind these past few months have been…

LOADS of changes have come my way!

I find myself in such a grateful place right now….blown away by gifts from the Universe…

(btw Universe, I’m totally OPEN for MORE!)

I firmly believe, the vibes you throw out into the Universe, come back to you.

I am determined to change the vibrations I’m throwing out.

In my pursuit of raising my vibrations, I bought an awesome goal-setting workbook, (Leonie Dawson’s My Shining Life…& no I didn’t get paid to plug her, she is just super amazing!!).

One of the workbook pages is dedicated to your word for the year.

I skipped this page at first, not sure what my word would be.

Then it started to happen…

Don’t you love it when you start seeing a word over and over??

“Abundance”

I began hearing it, reading it, seeing it….EVERYWHERE!

Finally, I was like, “Okay, Universe, I hear ya!”

So, I chose the word abundance.

I have made that my focus.

Abundance.

Imagine that???

Small town, poor, country girl who has struggled to keep her head above water, focused on abundance?!?!?

Um, yeah…

Don’t mind me I’m just happily riding my unicorn, focusing on ABUNDANCE.

My husband says I like to live in my own “bubble”.  Truth is, he’s right.

But let me tell you…this awakening that I am going through.  This realization of who I really am, accepting that I create my own reality, the realization that now is all we have, the realization that I am not my mind, but instead I CONTROL it….

Those realizations led me to decide that I’m alright…

It’s okay to live in my bubble, to ride my unicorn, to focus on the good, to accept and receive freely from the Universe.  Since making that decision…

Life has been AMAZINGLY different.

A weight was lifted.  I have a peace in my soul, that I cannot really explain.

I haven’t won the lottery.  I haven’t been enlightened like the Buddha.  I haven’t been speaking to any burning bushes.  Yet, I am experiencing waves of peace and happiness on such a deep level.

There is also an excitement present, a buzzing under my skin, a constant expectation of something good.

Let me be real…

I still have bad days.  I still have melt downs. There are still times I want to run screaming for the hills.

I’m not floating around on Cloud 9 all the time.

The difference is, those bad days are happening much less often.

The difference is, I can shake those crappy moods/feelings much quicker.

The difference is, I am learning to have my moment and then move on.

The difference is, I am more aware.  I am the watcher.

So maybe it’s because of this new “awareness”?

Maybe because I am looking for it?

Maybe because I invited it into my life this year?

Maybe it is simply because I am choosing to focus on the good…

Whatever the cause may be, I am just happy to report…it’s happening…

Abundance!!!!

I have been blessed with so many positive changes.

It feels like, for the first time ever, the pieces are coming together.

I realize that the Universe is conspiring for me…

The life I’ve been waiting for, has been waiting for me.

Wishing you ABUNDANCE in every area of life,

Xoxo, Kris