Healing Hearts & Homes Reiki

"They will call you “crazy” because you are, because you were born with the gift of seeing things differently and that scares them.

They're going to call you “intense” because you are, because you were born with the value well placed to allow yourself to feel it all fully and that intimidates them.

They're going to call you “selfish” because that's right, because you found out that you're the most important thing in your life and that doesn't suit them.

You're going to be called in many ways, with many judgments, for a long time, but stay firm on yourself and what you want, and I promise you one day they're going to call you to say, “thank you for existing.”

— Frida Kahlo

Obstacles in your path are your path
You must face them head on
The only way is straight through
Feel your feels
Get comfortable with those emotions
So you can use that energy productively
Emotions are energy in motion
Power is in stillness
Harness your emotion
Reveal your strength
Emerge from that fire
You deserve that Gift
Love yourself enough to find yourself

" In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that ..
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back."
Albert Camus
💕 Artist unknown

“The black sheep are the artists, visionaries and healers of our culture, because they are the ones willing to call into question those places which feel stale, obsolete, or without integrity.

The black sheep stirs up the good kind of trouble. Her very life is a confrontation with all that has been assumed as tradition. Her being different serves to bring the family or group to consciousness where it has been living too long in the dark.

As the idiom implies, she is the wayward one in the flock. Her life’s destiny is to stand apart. But paradoxically, it’s only when she honors that apartness that she finally fits in.

The world needs your rebellion and the true song of your exile. In what has been banned from your life, you find a medicine to heal all that has been kept from our world.

We must find the place within where things have been muted and give that a voice. Until those things are spoken, no truth can find its way forward.

The world needs your unbelonging. It needs your disagreements, your exclusion, your ache to tear the false constructions down, to find the world behind this one.”⁣
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- Toko-pa Turner ⁣

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

C. JoyBell C. 💫

✨Artwork by Salvador Dali

You have to resurrect the deep pain within you and give it a place to live that’s not within your body.
Let it live in art.
Let it live in writing.
Let it live in music.
Let it be devoured by building brighter connections. Your body is not a coffin for pain to be buried in.
Put it somewhere else ...

Ehime Ora ✨

Artist Credit : Janice VanCronkhite

As time goes by,
You will loosen your grip on that rock,
The one you always thought was home,
And you will realise that home is not a place,
It’s a state of mind.
Let it go.
As time goes by,
You will learn to see yourself more clearly,
The girl who was always too much of one thing,
And too little of another, was actually
Everything she needed to be.
Let her out.
As time goes by,
You will let the simple things become the big,
And you will allow the big things to become the simple,
And that readjustment will be,
The day you really start to live,
Let it be.
As time goes by,
You will be forced to say goodbye many times,
And your soft little heart will shatter but,
It will still beat and that will bring you,
All the purpose you need.
Let it beat.
As time goes by,
You will stop choosing wealth over peace,
You will stop choosing money over time,
And you will see that the treasures you need,
Are in the smiles and the laughter.
Let them in.
As time goes by,
The moments you remember when your life flashes past,
Are never the awful memories my friend, it’s the joy,
The summer nights, the lazy days with loved ones,
The midnight chats and the morning hugs,
Let them happen.
Let them all happen.

✍️Donna Ashworth
🎨VisualDreams.art
Readings By Roxy

“Everything you perceive is being filtered through your entire belief system. And the result of interpreting everything you perceive by using everything you believe is your personal dream, an entire virtual reality in your mind. Perhaps you can see how easy it is for humans to distort what we perceive. Light reproduces a perfect image of what is real, but we distort the image by creating a story with all those opinions and beliefs that we learned. We dream about it with our imagination, and by agreement we think that our dream is the absolute truth when the real truth is that our dream is a relative truth, a reflection of the truth that is always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory."

― Don Jose Ruiz

[ Art • “Drown My Pain” by André Dorais ]

Isn't it weird how you can experience situations throughout your life that are so heartbreaking or stresstul that you can't imagine ever being okay again. Then a few weeks, months or even years later, you notice that the days go by without you thinking about those times.

You laugh, you smile, you go about your day and realise that you're stronger and happier than you thought you ever could be again. Those bad times might always be in your mind, but you feel at peace with your past; and the memories that come back don't punch you in the heart like they used to.

You realise that you are, in fact, as strong as everyone was saying you were at the time, and that you would in fact get through what you went through. Isn't it amazing how much we can change, how much we can learn, and how much we can grow.
- Charlotte Freeman

🎨Emilii Wilk

“I understand now that I am not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, “For the same reason I laugh so often — because I am paying attention.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

[ Artist • Fernanda Maya ]

Northern lights created by a rare geomagnetic storm. I am blown away!!

Light & LOVE

The depths of my soul knows this fire.

That relentless spark that keeps me going.

My heart knows this surrender,

trusting she is safe to be herself.

I’m about to make waves.

Having spent too long where I don’t belong,

I find myself beside the ocean, to wash it all away.

Loosely wearing remnants of a personality crafted from experiences I didn’t even choose – like a necklace dutifully fastened each morning.

Should the beads spill messily onto the shore, they’d be claimed and set free all at once. Destiny unknown. I smile.

The water bubbles about my feet, sinking me further into the seabed, anchoring me, as I sway with the welcoming pull to the vastness.

I’ve played roles I’ve long outgrown and nodded agreements, supported by gentle tones.

Now, something deeper calls, to be untangled and free, revealing the truest version of me.

Mesmerized by the undulation, the fullness of the cycle rising and breaking, tickles my soul.

Alive in the spaciousness, infusing possibilities with promises.

The sun shines through and I commit to standing in my light.

I wasn’t born to fit in, but to grow through and glow through it all.

Let’s make waves.

~ Lisa Jayne

"Sometimes you have to wait in the dark
For what seems like forever

Stuck
Certain no progress is being made, not even a little growth
Nothing seems alive
You, least of all

It doesn't even feel like waiting, truth be told,
Since waiting implies an end in sight - and you haven't seen one of those in ages.

You're sure you've been abandoned
Forgotten
It seems as though your own soul may have deserted you

But then one day
A day you didn't think would come -

The smallest of cracks appears
Then the crack turns into an opening
Then the opening a breaking free.

Maybe it was the way the sun hit, or how the rain fell or the planets aligned
or maybe something deep within you simply knew:
NOW.

But it's not just that you've come back to life
You're different.

The life within you feels humbler, since you know you know less now.
And more grounded, since your roots were growing deep all this time.

There was something happening, you understand
now something profound
in that slow and tedious germination.

It's a miracle, isn't it?
How even in the longest and most brutal of winters thousands of seeds are plotting a most magnificent spring."

~ Leyla Aylin

Art: Shanna Trumbly

https://www.facebook.com/LeylaAylinSoul

Today

Today, I said goodbye to the me who thought that I couldn’t. A final farewell to all of those who believed that I wouldn’t. I left it all behind, those memories that told me that I shouldn’t.

Today, I said hello to harmony and to the truth that I see through these eyes. I greet the lessons and, through the grief, I can feel in my heart that I’ve tried. I dream the future, one that is forgiving, a life lived with purpose for which I will strive for all time.
~B.G.

When the news weighs heavily on your soul, watch just enough to be informed. Then, do yourself a favor and turn it off.

Hug your spouse, your children and your pets.

Think of five ways you are blessed and five people for whom you are grateful.

Listen to uplifting music. Dance. Read a book, draw, sew, paint.

Close your eyes and breathe. Put your hand on your heart and set your internal dial to peace.

Ask for prayers to rain upon you, saturating you in serenity.

Release to your source any lingering images.

Remind yourself this too shall pass. Then, gently rest your mind and be kind to your body.

As my grandpa used to say, "Let the evils of the day be enough unto themselves." Don't take on more. Be your beautiful, peaceful self and let this be enough. Jody Doty
©2024 Meditations and Musings by Jody Doty
🎨 Thomas Little

“You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.

You have been built up from nothing but the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix, and small enough to be carried by a s***m. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.

You are not living on Earth. You are Earth."

Words by Aubrey Marcus
Artist- Brian Kiriagis (BK the Artist)