Harmonizing by Dawn Breslin

It’s a pyssycat’s life…

I’m researching retreat venues in Zanzibar, East Africa with my dear friend and local events organiser …

Next year is going to be super exciting!!

The Self Reset Retreat will be for anyone who would like to step out of their existing life to dream, reimagine and redesign a whole new life.

We are excited! We will keep you posted on details as we confirm details.

Right now I’m dreaming and designing my best life! ❤️

1930’s Party night ..

Beautiful…

"Grandma, I'm tired. So tired of this life..."
"Take your tiredness, my child, and wrap it around yourself. Like a blanket in the cold winter months. Tiredness comes to make you a nest, to bring you to wear comfortable clothes, to make you sink into its warm embrace. I invite you to stay within yourself. Without strength, without thoughts, without actions. Like the snow that covers everything to soften the world, to make it muffled, to protect it from noise. Accept the flakes of your tiredness and let yourself be completely covered by them."
"I could die buried under there..."
"You will be reborn instead. Like the seed in the ground. Do not resist your weariness, do not reject it with a thousand actions, a thousand intentions, a thousand feelings of guilt. It just wants to take you by the hand and lead you to sink into the void. Right there, where the source of every inner strength lies. They taught us to be strong by resisting. But it is in surrendering that the true heroes emerge."
"I'm afraid, grandmother. What if fatigue will annihilate me?"
"My child, you are not afraid of tiredness but of losing control of yourself. The time has come for you to give yourself to life. And to generate together with it the most wonderful children: the fruits of your soul!"

- Elena Bernabè

art | Mary Jane Q Cross

Stop swimming so hard,
and climb in the boat.
Rumi

Just loving this trip, my vibe feels so high! I’m manifesting like a crazy thing. I’ve been brushing up on the basics of the law of attraction.

Gratitude, non Judgement, overcoming fear. crystal clear vision, unshakable knowing… Ask for it. Clear out any neg vibes, amplify the high vibes. Be open to receive. Expect miracles. 💫✨✨💥🔥

In Awe, a Twin Biobab tree…
We are seeking out magic for a Zanzibar 2025 Retreat.
Cooking up plans!

knows where the magic lies on this Island 🧙🌴🌞☀️

Just loving this African vibe. Sometimes exactly what we need is a complete change of scene. We need to visit somewhere where our senses really wake us up, somewhere where our imagination is ignited … and our comfort zone is challenged. In these moments we move into a more expansive version of ourselves. We move out of the linear, the familiar into to the unknown. In these places we physically walk through unknown doorways and somewhere in our psyche we are called to do the same… We are infinite beings with infinite potential, we live on this incredible planet which is a playground for unlimited experience and possibility… When we walk into new portals of experience we are reminded that there’s so much more to us and so much more to life. We are the creators of our own reality. Our thought manifests what is possible for us and what isn’t. Right now I’m reading ask and it is given AGAIN. I’m polishing up my manifestation powers. I’m feeling inspired to move into the new.

Delving into my inner world here in Zanzibar, asking what wants to emerge. Syncing with my creativity and sense of adventure. I want to bring women out to Africa. Bring them into balance, open up their minds to the phenomenal possibilities life holds. This place is a manifestation portal. The energy is incredible. Collapsing the walls of your limited thinking. Waking up your passions, opening your mind to new possibilities. Come into balance and relaunch either into energetic new worlds or into the softness and gentleness of a slower life. Follow your heart… follow your bliss. I’ve ramped up businesses and I’ve slowed down to heal, I know how to do this stuff. I have the formulas… There’s there’s a time for action and a time for rest….
I’m in creation mode now. Africa has activated me…

Working with an activated heart.

This week I’ve taken a break from writing my new book to work with clients for a while. The reason I did this is that my life really felt like it was lacking deeper meaning when I wasn’t helping others.

I really believe some of us are here on this planet specifically to assist others and when we feel the call of the heart we need to follow it or life will feel dull, boring …. or we may even find ourselves feeling depressed on some level.

So many people have told me of jobs they have done which felt meaningless. They say they don’t know what it’s like to have a job they love, they simply did the work for the money.

Gosh we spend so much of our lives in work…

Even if we just get involved occasionally in doing something heart centred, it can impact our lives immensely.

When we have a mission or a cause to fight for, we feel enlivened, activated and passionate.

We may feel super happy or even very sad at times. The truth is that whether we feel happy or sad, the heart is in the game and we feel very much alive!

When we work in service to others OUR life changes. Whether it’s campaigning, getting involved in a voluntary project, working as a boss coach, therapist or trainer.

The joy of working to help or support others feels so good, it feels rewarding, it feels kind.

I choose my projects by listening to the activation in my heart. If my heart beats fast and I feel a strong pull towards something there’s no stopping me. I follow.

The reason I wrote this post is that I have just finished with a client. My heart was aching because her situation was so difficult. I felt moments of joy and such sadness, even tears in the session. In the end I believe I helped and that felt so good.

Does this make sense to you?

D X

If it disturbs your inner peace
Don’t continue to ignore it.
🩷

This morning
Quiet in the garden
Except a chorus of birdsong
Mary Oliver, my choice for today
Stirring up my inner world
Feeding my soul
🌸💕💖

This week I’ve been thinking about why nature makes me feel so good.

I think it’s our natural habitat, our true home beyond the artificial walls we live within.

It’s where we belong….

Something primal in our being awakens when we make time to walk amongst the trees the rivers and along shore lines.

When we sync our attention with the seasons we come into the natural rhythm of life itself, life beyond schedules, plans and the seductive world of screens which we have become accustomed to.

When we walk alone in nature we align with our own true nature. Our essence, the primal aspects of the self. This is a felt sense, it’s something you feel in your body’s knowing. It gives us a sense of grounding and a deeper sense of connection with the Earth we live upon.

Being alone in nature awakes us, it moves us beyond the noise of the constructs and stories we live within.

I feel a sense of awe and wonder as I walk, especially when I walk onto little pathways I’ve never discovered before.

My senses are blasted open as I watch the birds, smell the soil, listen to the whisper of the breeze in the trees. Nature enlivens me, it seeps into my body, heart and soul…..

“Rumi told us that the wound is the place where the light can enter.

Khalil Gibran told us that out of suffering emerges the strongest souls, that the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Marcus Aurelius told us that the impediment to action advances action, that what stands in the way becomes the way.

Napoleon Hill told us that every adversity, every failure, and every heartache carries with it the seeds of an equal or greater benefit.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross told us that the most beautiful people we have known are those “who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These writers have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.”

That “beautiful people do not just happen.”

When Joseph Campbell outlined the hero’s journey for us, the premise was that at the moment of the deepest and most unmoving difficulty, the protagonist recognized that it was they who must change. That which seemed to derail the path was the pinnacle moment at which the true path was actually revealed.

In each case, the epiphany is that the presence of the challenge is the initiator. If we are lucky, our lives will continue to grow as we are presented with new paths, and various obstacles among them.

To heal is not to arrive at a place where we are absolved of that difficulty, but where we no longer interpret the presence of it as our finality, our ending. Rather, we come to see it is as yet another beginning in support of the continual unfolding of all we will one day know ourselves to be.

In a world where most of us die before we are dead, where most of us hyper-fixate on what we cannot control and leave to ruins everything that we can, where most of us fear our humanness and our vulnerability — I hope you find the courage to try. I hope you will come to see that just maybe, beneath the journey you fear to take is the life you had been waiting for, all along.”

~ Brianna Wiest

Art by Laron G. S. via Midjourney (PM Laron for digital prints)

Here comes the enegy of Spring, it’s moving through nature and moving through us humans too!

Maybe it’s time for you to reflect on what may be stirring deep within you at this time…

Are there are changes you would like to make in your life? If so, what are they?

Are you tired of the same old habits and routines? Be honest, what would you love to change?

Maybe you would like to experience more vitality and aliveness? What do you see others doing that you would love to try?

Spring moves stagnant energy and re-energises us.

As you dust yourself down from the sleepy slumber of Winter, listen to any inner stirrings for change calling from within.

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If life is not working out the way you planned and you would love some support to help you rediscover your Inner Spark, I have 3 openings for 1:1 Sessions. Please DM me for more info. Let me help you to love and honour yourself and create a life you LOVE. ❤️

Absolutely loved this. Creativity in motion, passion, positivity & prayer WOW !

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The full moon is on her way. Watch out for your emotions intensifying. Journal your feelings… The moon brings you wisdom, shhhh, listen! ✨🌚✨

My beautiful beautiful Silver Birch tree. Photographed in moonlight, blowing in the wind….
Magical

Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.

Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.

Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.

Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path...

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.

May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From the blessing, 'For Presence,' found in Benedictus (Europe) /
To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Killarney National Park, Co Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

I’m wrapped up in a blanket, sat
in my garden. it’s 6am and dark.
The day is awakening..

I’m touching into the sacred.

I’ve reached a beautiful peaceful place in my life. Im so grateful.

My heart is full of reverence for this incredible path I’m walking. The ups the downs the lessons, the gifts…

Wishing you a beautiful day wherever you are on your journey.
❤️🙏

There’s something in the air right now, a feeling that heralds the onset of Autumn. I feel her creeping in. My favourite season is just around the corner….

When my daughter Liberty was growing up, we fostered an annual ritual of buying the yummiest ingredients to make the most delicious hot chocolate.

Earlier this week I found myself instinctively reaching for some new ingredients.

I’m so excited to experience new daily rituals in my cottage this Autumn.

I’m so utterly in love with this magical space… I love the trees in my garden, the way the light dances on my walls. My new dusky pink sitting room (photos will follow!) The soft, sensual light shining into my bedroom from dusk to dawn.

Flowing with the seasons, delighting in the simple, living rich and juicy is my modus operandi these days.

I’ve found a whole new level of flow, joy, fulfilment and peace in my life.

I am living ME so wholly and completely … and I’m loving every moment of it.

Life is such cyclical journey. Sometimes it’s so tough but if we do the inner work and we continue on our path life can change in miraculous new ways.

Have a lovely 🌞 day ❤️

If you allow yourself to be the person that you are, then everything will come into rhythm. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessing in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love, rather we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara, 25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

the message was to keep busy. so we kept busy. sometimes out of shame, sometimes to avoid certain truths. most times to survive. to be made to feel lazy and useless if you didn’t stay busy is what we experienced on a collective level, maybe so we wouldn’t slow down and thaw. maybe to prevent us from asking the important questions. what frequency do you want to live on? how do you want to design your life around time? how is a powerful system capitalizing on my energy? what was so traumatic for me that the one thing i don’t want to do is to stop and think about it and feel into its pain, or protect myself from reliving a sense of lack? why do i think if i look busy, i am enough? what does productivity mean to you if the fruit is never within your reach? (-by Susan Frybort)

Sun down in the garden. Took a tumble when sprinting on tarmac! 🤕
Recovering gently today.

Lying down on the grass in a carpet of daisies. The simple things… ☀️ 🌼

Writing next Monday’s Consciously Female Women’s group workshop, it’s all about living each day with more juice and succulence.

Like an inner fountain, feelings of deep joy well up inside me when I write and create … this is such a sure sign that I’m doing what I absolutely love.

I deliberated over the title of the session this month but once I jumped in to writing, the words magically moved through the tips of my fingers.

I know some people who are sitting on the shelf, contemplating a new career, they want to write the book, write the programme, become a coach… they want to begin doing something they love …. I say do it.

Take a risk, follow your heart…. If your gifts are to dance through you, they will …however you need to create the conditions to breathe life into your dreams.

You deserve to live with passion and purpose each day…

Begin now!

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Pinks! My new loaf sofa has just arrived! LOVE 💖