Month: March 2018

SUNSHINE

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

sunshine blogger award

This is a beautiful surprise and a wonderful award of Sunshine to my Sunshine. Thank you to my blogging friends https://awakeningwildflower.com/, I am always inspired by your stories and your journey to healing is amazing, your an angel yourself.

Thank you Sally also for nominating me and giving me the opportunity to share with your followers as well , I love the smorgasbord you have and resonate with your passions for so many things https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/:

The Sunshine Blogger award is given by bloggers to bloggers who inspire positivity and creativity in the blogging community. I am very honored to have been nominated.

The rules for accepting the award are as follows:
Thank the Blogger who nominated you.
Nominate 11 new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions.
Display the rules and the Sunshine Blogger Award logo in your post.
Here are the questions given to me to answer from Sally G. Cronin’s, https://awakeningwildflower.com/, https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/:

1.Can you tell us about yourself in 100 words or less?

I am a nature wanderer and lover of life, a waterfall luster that includes swimming for miles(literally) feeling my most freedom and peace there, this qualifies me as a lake lusting mermaid as well, I thought I was a mom first but they all grew up and left home and my son recently grew his wings way faster than I can process and flying the heavens in fighter jets. What I found out recently is that in all my studies and all the wonderful knowledge I have built over these years, it really comes down to I’m me and that envelopes a ton of passions that all lead to nature.

My blog was created to be all about encouragement and a creative invitation to allow your own thought provoking inspiration to bubble up, in all kinds of ways and perspectives. .

3.What is the strongest memory from your childhood?

Living in the mountains, precisely why I am so drawn to it now, it was my refuge and still is.

4.Can you tell us more about where you live and why you call it home?

I left my home, my personal training gym and spa when my son got cancer almost 5 years ago. I never looked back, it was a new journey to invest all I am and have into my child.

( A lot here in the middle)

I live in the sunshine right now and am blessed to have more than what I need and a support system around me that is rock solid unconditional love to go through the exploration of a new self after the loss of my child.

6.Is there a country that you have not visited but is on your wish list?

I would love to go to Indonesia, really, I would love to experience as many as I can in my life.

7.Who is your favorite author and why?

I love reading and have so many and my favorite changes, its completely in the moment for me. I’m usually reading new things I can grow from.

8.What is your favorite meal?

I love raw foods and am super creative with food so this one too is dependent on the moment. Id say probably fresh juice in my juicer tops it all for me.

9.What is your favorite musician and can you let us have a YouTube link so that we can listen to them? I would say anything Tim McGraw and Faith Hill …………….

10.What is your favorite film and why?

Lion King, it was always a movie my son and I watched and had mom and son dinner dates together up until his last days and then he wanted to watch Tarzan with his entire family around. I’d say those two because they remind me of him and our time. I don’t own a TV and never have so I’m not a TV or movie buff.
11.If you could live in another time.. decade or century.. what would that be?

In the 50s and 60s for sure when you could dance in the streets and there was no traffic or social media and nature was everywhere, you didn’t have to drive miles to it, and you spoke to people on the phone and not computers.

Thank you also to my beautiful friend and blogger for you questions. I loved your questions and answered them all to myself out of curiosity. https://awakeningwildflower.com/

My 11 nominees are:

https://southernactsenterprises.wordpress.com/
http://writingtofreedom.com
https://gcdiaries.wordpress.com/
https://cindyknoke.com/
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/47208236/posts/2129
https://drandreadinardo.com/
https://rayoflight144.wordpress.com
https://sonofabeach96.com/
https://beautybeyondbones.com/
https://thetovaryshconnection.wordpress.com/
https://patticlark.org/

My 11 questions for my nominees:
1.What is your favorite food or recipe and will you please share it?
2. Do you have a pet and or more and what are their names?
3. What are 10 words that best describe you?
4.What is your favorite activity?
5.Where would you live if its not where you are now, if you could live anywhere in the world? and where is now if that is exactly where you always dreamed to live?
6. What was the inspiration to start a blog?
7. Where are you drawn more to, water or earth or sky?
8. What is your favorite color and why?
9. To get away , where do you go most?
11. What would you like most for people to receive from your blog?

Have fun and I look forward to getting to know you more and sharing!

Weekly Addition

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Mother Nature supplies you with all you need, you must open your senses and be willing to escape the pace that keeps you chasing yourself and be willing to create a healthy space for YOU to arrive!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

 

Affordable feel good Skincare:

My favorite is to let my skin be free in nature, rub mud and clay all over me and scrub and feel the magic of mother natures energy!

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A few common questions I am asked about skin as an esthetician.

What do you use on your skin? Coconut oil

 How much does it cost? Depends on if it’s organic and how much you use.

Do I need expensive products? No

Does it matter if I’m older what I use? This is individual.

These are of course just some of the common questions, feel free to ask me anything you’d like. I have been making most of what I use on clients and on my own skin for years now.

I don’t buy expensive products, although I have over the years and I don’t like the chemical smell or feeling. (You don’t have to buy these brands, I just posted photos for you to see an example.)

Our skin is our largest organ, if you don’t take care of it, it won’t take care of you.

I find almost always in my life, less is more and when you go live you feel alive.

I have tons to share on skincare but this is a start.

Coconut oil, Cocoa butter and shea butter are my favorite, you can buy these in the raw form and give your body the love it deserves without chemicals and processing. Mix them together and experiment.

I mix these and add an essential oil I like to it. You can look up all kinds of essential oils that are best for skin. I use what smells good to me and I decide the amounts for me and for each individual as I go, using intuition and muscle testing also to confirm.

This is simple, affordable and works amazing.

More books I love:

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These two books have been very enlightening guides to my relationship with myself and learning more about listening to my soul, that always in truth brave, courageous part of us.

Nutrition:

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The other very important tool I’d love to share is eating right. I have heard for years as a fitness and nutrition professional,” I eat healthy already”, but can you help me get in shape?

First thing I ask is for a 3 day exact menu and then I ask, “how serious are you and why do you want to get in shape?”

Learning to love food is equivalent to loving yourself, not someone else.

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I know the moments where you just want to throw caution to the wind and eat something for a reward and feel like crap and wonder why you did it or what was the reward was if it makes you feel horrible?

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There is an online journal called penzu that is easy to use and has an app for you phone to journal privately and share what you want, create a folder called foods or whatever excites you. https://penzu.com/

Mimi Kirk is my favorite raw foods chef if you like raw foods or want to experiment with recipes , here is her site  http://youngonrawfood.com/

So journal your meals for a week, the feeling you had when you ate it and ask a professional to look at it.

If you are a surgeon you don’t have a nutritionist come in and sew up your patient.

Ask someone that knows and keep moving. (see my about page)

When you love your body , your body returns the love!

SUNSHINE

 

Look Outside

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it-

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. 

~Goethe~

 

Open the door to possibility, it’s right outside

Where the suns radiance warms your core

While raining tears fall from heaven down your cheeks

Where each blade of grass has a dalliance with the sky

And trees reach their limbs as if they had eyes

It’s possible its right there

Open the door

Look and see

Possibility

Sunshine

Antidote

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The solution is in the light!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

Those rays lifted me
Fed my soul
Believed I could
Showed me the loving truth
My source of complete light
Lead me and enlighten my heart

And without delay

Completeness rattled my cage
And under those rays, the fog cleared
Natures sweet whisper spoke
I am your antidote

SUNSHINE

Weekly Addition

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Step outside your box, you won’t fall into the sky of infinite possibilities, you’ll just simply and beautiful be infinite in possibilities.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

 

 

Hello, all my beautiful and amazing friends,

 

First, I want to start off with a HUGE thank you for your support, your comments, and desire to help one another succeed by sharing. I love this community and the desires to help one another grow.

Weekly, I will be sharing people, ideas, sites and things I have implemented along the way to help me heal and grow. Please feel free to add your site with your intention and purpose for others to grow and let this be a wonderful opportunity for us all.

I have so much to share, spreading it out weekly will be an opportunity to practice my own discernment, and not giving away all my energy at once. My nature is to be excited and share it all, then take a nap. (P.S. and feeling guilty for the nap and resting)

How many of you can resonate with that?

That was me before I fell on my face a few thousand times of exhaustion, I was causing myself. I could start a nap club now and be excited about it. It’s a “HELL YES” for a nap. “Do it and love it,” and anyone that creates an attitude from you resting needs to rest themselves, guaranteed.

In the process of learning to own, share and protect my energy and even encapsulate it at times, and more so for you, empaths and “Super Trait Empaths” as I am,  (Christine Northrup M.D.)  will be a solid place to learn.

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A few helpful shares you can implement right away:

1. If you’re frustrated, mad, disappointed and unable to create calmness inside, text yourself everything you want to shout out to someone else. You must get this out as fast as possible before it festers in your cells and causes anxiety and sickness, not to mention exhaustion and confusion. Title the note and spill your guts, don’t hold back any cuss words or thoughts. (make sure you’re texting yourself and not someone else, they have different results, trust me on this one).

         The energy you are dispersing starts to flow and let go and you don’t give your power away to someone else. This allows you space to shift without interference and choose a response from an empowering place.

2. When you want to spill all your gratitude, love and apologies to someone that has you spinning to apologize to them for something they did, text it to yourself and then read it, it’s for you not the other person. Trust your inner voice, when to apologize and share your love and gratitude to others and be aware and awake to thieves looking for your beautiful energy.( Christine Northrup M.D.’s, “Dodging energy vampires”.)

3. When your heart is pounding and your head is spinning in a million directions, you’re not dancing on a solid foundation. STOP! Take 10 deep breaths and visualize your feet having roots that connect to the core of the earth keeping you grounded, “YES 10”, you’re worth it.

This will allow your heart and mind to harmonize and dance again with soul intent.

This  free app has tons of meditations and a community and groups of support https://insighttimer.com/

A few of my favorites also have individual sites you can look into:

Judy Unger, https://myjourneysinsight.com/

Sarah Blondin,  https://www.liveawakeproject.com/

Davidji, https://davidji.com/meditation/free-guided-meditations/

Stretch your body and mind EVERY SINGLE DAY! When you stretch your body you stretch your mind and when you stretch your mind your body will give you more.  

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I do these every single day, sometimes numerous times a day!

Oxygen flows were restrictions let go.

~Kerri Elizabeth~

I hope this offers some ideas to help inner restrictions let go and to start to allow flow.

Stay tuned for so much more!

SUNSHINE

 

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The peaks and valleys are why you shine!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

And then…………….A quick change offered me my biggest challenge to rise from the reality of, “what was”, to “what will be”, and how to resonate again with a new perspective.

The changes and traumas whirled me around for 5 solid years, spinning me and challenging my greatest fears and failures and testing my depth and desires, not to mention my deepest intentions and truths, finances and emotional well being, to highlight a few.

I can tell you in a short version without creating a book of circumstances. The circumstances mean the world to me because I lived them, however, each person is individual.

I’m not here to tell you my way is the right way, it is a way. Sharing my techniques to healing on a daily basis, even in the middle of the traumas continues to help me heal as well.

I feel like I can start to share more deeply with you now, ask any questions you would like and feel free to share your thoughts.

This is not to say I have it all figured out.

What I have figured out is that I am enough and whole.

Action is very important and often misunderstood as just a mobile body, of course, this is true, however, the action comes in the process first of changing a thought, having a new perspective, a desire, and intent.

As important as a mobile body, a thought and emotion must be flowing in action, rather than sitting stagnant and festering toxic energy in your body. When the flow is not active it is a critically unhealthy atmosphere for healing, as we all know.

I have been in fitness and nutrition literally a lifetime, I started studying and learning long before I was a legal age to get certified. It is in my DNA to want the best for everyone and after 50+ years, for me too.

This letter is to awaken and create awareness to a weekly letter I will post in between my, “Sunshine” soul writing to share with you my favorite staples that gave me a foundation when I felt as if it wasn’t there.

Also to all the empty nesters, parents who have lost children, like me ( the heaviness and feeling lack of everything, good, bad, excruciating, painful and all the in-between) who lost literally a part of themselves, to the middle age blues playing in your head lost in the middle beautiful people, there is more!   

I love you, Sunshine

Ego and Truth

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Ego must cooperate with truth not die in the wounds of yesterday!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

 

Life changes and journeys shift

Evolution of self will resist denial

To love someone so deeply and let go, enlightens a deeper space to grow

Letting go of a child to the heavens

Letting go of a lover to life

Spreading your wings to heal the empty places the wind blows

Leaping into self-love must continue to grow

Saying “Hell Yes”, to falling down and hitting the ground

Tapping into courage and releasing negative pulls

  The heart has a voice and speaks when its time to let it all go

A wild heart and free spirit can never be tamed, only shared

You will feel shamed and attempted to be trained

You’ll resist and persist

In time you’ll learn

It is not in the training or the shaming you find your place

It is in the flight where your spirit is heard

The heart is purest in this place

This is where love lives

SUNSHINE

 

DONT RUSH IT

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If you rush your pace, you will be directed back to heal that space eventually!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

Be yourself and that’s enough
Be mad and choose change
Be happy and share your light
Be joyful and give
Be pissed off and allow it to resolve
Be amazing and amazed
Be bold and beautiful
Be courageously full of life
Be real and inspire
Be truthful and inspired
Be untamed and create
Be wild and unassuming
Be free to be
Be whatever it takes to rise into the moment and free yourself from the shackles that bind you and fill yourself with abundance and laugh into and until it hurts AND burst into the freedom that love is YOU!

SUNSHINE

Natures perfect exchange

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Nature is our example of the perfect exchange of gifting!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

 

Trusting in the abundant love of the wind

The fire from the sun circulating within

Bending of the trees, inspiring resilience with ease

Let only love flow through the veins under your skin

Bare your heart to the moon

Let the roar within center you again

Spilling forth the poisons of the day

Reveal each vulnerable place to be painted with the sun and highlighted in the hues of grace

Shout and let it out

Scream so loud the vibration of the ground responds to your sound

Authentically release,”I am NOT broken”, ” I am open”

Shed into rejuvenation

No judgements, no whys, no needs, no surprise

Genuinely open

Authentically  spoken

I am whole and always have been

SUNSHINE

Shift

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Touch your heart with your hand and feel the shift from overthinking in the mind to heart-centered gratitude and the harmony between the two will dance again!

~Kerri Elizabeth~

 

Beyond amazing how nature can offer such light without asking
How creation exists without wanting
Just perfectly accepting the flow
It’s amazing to me how free you can be
Freedom is how you see
Freedom is what you allow inside
Trusting in your own way
The heart will hear and will steer
Will you follow the voice that’s clear
Soul dancing requires courage to know when to let go
When to go slow
What pace you’re in the flow

Sunshine