KootenayGirl

Oh dang. Poor guy. I hope it clears fast. 🫂🤍

I definitely tried to. I wish I had done more.

🤍🫂

Ugh....thats aweful. Im so sorry that happened....but I guess if it started your deconstruction than .... not really an adequate word to put there.

This is an excellent reframe.

Me trying to assemble a pipe shelf. All the parts or organized on the floor for me to work with. My black cat decided that she needs to be in the middle of it all.

If you have a cat you can be sure they demand to be at the center of your world.

#MissFeona
#BlackCats
#CatsOfBluesky

Exactly. It's "our least" not "the least."

Thanks Saoirse. Lots a good memories with her. Especially when our kids were young.

Logs in a forest with moss covering them.

My friend Kim passed away this morning after a long battle with cancer.

Time, life, and death are so weird. I'm sad.

Two pictures showing the same forest scene. The bottom one has lots of sun peeking through and casting light along the path and trees. Top picture is an overcast day with no sun.

Its amazing what sunshine can do. This is the same spot along my forest walk.

I like this comparison cause it reminds me my harder days come and go and so do the more pleasant days. Time meanders on and I can check out or check in.

I like checking in. 🩷

#LoveMaven
#IFSEmotionCoaching
#Nature

Could be 😂

Maybe we do and just cant see it?? 😉

Yes. "The body keeps the score."

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We need to learn non-violent ways of communicating. The word "non-violent" here's doing some heavy lifting but the meaning is clear. Language that expresses what's going on inside verses language that projects blame.

#LoveMaven

Black cat looking out the glass sliding door at the fresh snow on the deck.

"Mom, I thought we were done with this stuff?"

#MissFeona
#KootenayLife

Trees Seen Emitting a Ghostly Light During a Thunderstorm For The First Time For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms.

Trees Seen Emitting a Ghostly Light During a Thunderstorm For The First Time : ScienceAlert share.google/7Cs1ElGcMOYZ...

So rest when you need to. Push through when you can. Most importantly listen to what's on the inside and be good to your body. Its working hard for you. 🩷

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#IFSEmotionCoach
#RelationshipCoaching
#Counselling

Getting to know me (as an enneagram 2 this is hard work!) has been a difficult journey to differentiate parts of myself and the roles they have. Now that I feel like I'm on the other side of "the worst of it" I am so compassionate with myself & system.

I listen to my body way more.
#LoveMaven

Ive spent my entire life not listening to my body and I believe that is why I have several autoimmune issues. Ive got some pretty fancy dissociative parts too so its made feeling safe in my body's experience hard to understand.

Now that I do tho, WOW. It's an entirely different experience.

Today my fitbit told me that it wanted me to push my fitness and train higher in cardio.

Now, for those with autoimmunity, you cannot simply rely on a particular program. You MUST listen to your body. Today my body said no way. So I chose some other less intense activities.

#LifeCoaching

Awesome!! Well done! ☺️

I like how you word that..."see it coming and getting louder." Great way to describe it.

It really is.

This is my favorite old shack. It's along my walking route. The sun was shining just right.

#NoFilter
#OldStuff
#KootenayLife

Awesome! And OMGosh! Did you share? 😂

Its an interesting question of when deconstruction began because I can see many small signs along the way but when the church (MAGA in particular) chose power over love it was all too clear by then.

I STILL remember that haunting feeling of watching the vote tally in 2016 come in.....horror.

Then 2016 and the election of Trump lit my process of deconstruction on fire and I deconstructed in nuclear fashion.....

Extremely greatful to have left the cult.

The death of my mother in law in 2012 is when it slowly began. She was a hippie American who came up with her partner who was a draft dodger. Christians would ask me "Did she know the lord? Was she saved?" Like it was some kind of litmus test for what kind of person she was.