Bouncing back from setbacks

1. Life waits for nobody.  Keep getting up everyday and pushing through. No matter what.  2. Make sure you take good care of yourself.  If something happens to you, the world will move on and you will fall behind.  3. If you don’t work to build your dream life, someone will hire you to build theirs.  4. Work in silence.  Celebrate in private. People love to ruin things.  5. Don’t regret your past.  Just learn from it and move on.  6. No one cares.  Work harder to become better each day.  7. Ignore advice from anyone who doesn’t live the life you want to live.  8. Rule over your emotions.  A calm mind can handle any situation.  9. If you find someone better than you that you don’t hate.  Ask them for advice and cooperate with them.  10. You’re truly at peace with yourself when you mind your own business.  Regardless of how I feel today, I will keep pushing through. I have made tremendous growth in the past year and I am determined not to stop.  This week has been incredibly hard…I have

“ It’s strange how people look up to the sky like it’s heaven.  It isn’t heaven they see, it’s love.  When you let someone actually see you.  When you let someone into your heart, you will see them forever .” Survive I came for a weekend away to Vancouver BC with one intention: find peace within.     I feel that I found it.     The mountains give me something I can’t describe.    A peace and freedom from my hang ups and hurts.    They see me purely, just as I am.    They challenge me, strengthen me, and overflow me with curiosity and passion.  Hiking Stawamus chief first, second and third peak trail took me back to my adventurous childhood years.    I wasn’t afraid of the technical aspects of the hike.     I seriously felt like Spider-Man as I crawled up the rock surfaces.    It was the epitome of my younger years.    Hiking that trail brought back a surge of fun and adventurous memories from when I was a wee little girl.      Not all of my childhood memories were positive, however. So

Love is my gift to the world.  I fill myself with love and I send that love out into the world...   Wayne Dyer I fill myself with love. ..this must happen first.   This morning I awaken for my first full day in Vancouver.  No alarms, no clocks, no wake up agenda...wake whenever, and let my body decide the pace of the day.  My room is a chilling 62 degrees, so I turn up the space heater to a ‘shower appropriate’ 74 degrees.   I lay under the warmth of the covers and I take time to think about how I am feeling.  What thoughts am I having?  How is my mood? I initially find myself wishing I had someone here with me to enjoy adventures with.  I visually scroll through the images of my loved ones and I and how we would be living up this adventure together.  I decide not to stay here though.  This trip is for ME, to learn to spend time with myself.  This shifts my focus to a chapter of self healing I am keenly attuned to, being more aware of what's happening internally and learning how to