Paint your emotions with love
Transform them with color
Moving with grace upon a blank canvas
Creating new perspective
Allowing movement
Healing
Grace finds you within each stroke
Pain changes itself to strength
Tears leave droplets of change
Soon
You are with new insights
To share
By contemplation and observation
Inspired by a heart and a brush
~Kerri-Elizabeth ~
My heart with a paintbrush of expression.
When you think it’s too late , when you believe you can’t or you choose “I won’t” for the moment, inspiration will lift you and pull you to your feet.
Will you listen , will you rise, will you pull up courage and determination, will you work hard, will you strengthen where you feel weakest, will you believe in yourself and encourage your own destiny to be all you want to be and find out you can be even more along the way, will you raise the bar for yourself , or not?
Here is a story of my 39 year old daughter, she is an inspiration, a light in the world that carries deep pockets of courage and determination and she believes she can and there for she does.
Many years ago she wanted to be in law enforcement but life had other plans for her to learn from first. She became a very successful business woman at an early age. No surprise there she was determined from day she arrived in the world , actually before that. (that’s another story).
Then she went on to create herself even more success in another career and had two beautiful children. So many changes and so much growth along the way but an unsettled desire to be in law enforcement.
I’d asked her everytime I called” what are you doing”, she’d answer with reservation “I’m at work” , there was something missing, was it desire, a passion, so one day I asked “if you could be anything what would it be?” She answered , a cop or an English teacher.
I don’t know how many times in the day she wondered and thought about all this, but I know it all became a decision and off she went. I have no idea if my questions opened a door that she needed a little crack to see through or if something I said mattered.
What I do know is that it’s important to challenge a thought and ask questions, that’s where exploring ideas, sparking dreams and possibilities come from. It isn’t our place to push, it’s our place to listen, ask and open doors where possibly over time we become so settled in what is we forget what’s possible or believe it’s too late.
Her answers prompted me to ask more questions. I could hear her working through it with more than wonder and one day she said “I’m going to take my law enforcement test.” Then she got her book to study and reinforced her love for working out and she made a goal, her dates kept getting moved closer and closer than planned and soon she was done testing , wow the depth of tests and paperwork were amazing.
I want to tell you this story because her inspiring strength and determination to DECIDE and take the leap is a testament of what inner strength and courage can do, how it’s never too late even if you have already built success, which she did. She could have stayed doing what she was doing forever.
What is success to you?
Here is my painted expression highlighting her new courageous journey. May she always be safe protecting our communities with many brave people like her and may her success in all things bring her and her family happiness and a legacy of courage that continues in for generations.
Gosh I love her so much!!!
Kerri-Elizabeth (Brandee’s proud Mom)
Identity is in your energy
The essence of you
The beauty you bestow
The love you hold
The soul of you
Your spirit
The core of more, the DNA
The truth, the nitty gritty
Your authentic emotions and feelings
Not another
Your not another’s judgement or opinion
Your not recognition or a profile
Identity is your gift, you were chosen to be and do something more than this
What is this…what is more
More is when you hear your breathing and its not shallow and ignored
Its not taken for granted but explored
More is when your physical frame is relaxed and still able to hold you upright
More is when your heart speaks and there is no misinterpreting the message
More is when your vibration is unshakeable
More is when love flows and you are present in all that’s true for you
More is when life opens doors because you cleared space to be embraced
More is what you allow
More is a presence
An energy flow when you decide
Your identity is nothing to hide
To know yourself, is to forget yourself
Without a thought
Identity
Is energy thats free
To be
Kerri-Elizabeth
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Reviews:
I’m finally writing! And it feels so right:)
Kerri Elizabeth has inspired me beyond measure and I am loving every minute of absorbing and rebounding, soaking in the essence of Love.
At first I thought, “what am I going to do with all these blank “write it” pages, I wouldn’t know where to start. After reading each of these honest, raw, and soothing entries, I finally resolved to begin writing without pressure…perfectly imperfect words began to flow from my heart. What a delightful journey and ongoing process I have allowed myself to take part in.
There is no wrong way to journal! This is for my soul, and long overdue. I am healing, growing, and learning to embrace, accept and appreciate myself through this surprising piece of work by a very talented artist.
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone, especially those who seek to experience a newfound Love for themselves. Reflection, contemplation and a pen, go for it. Now is the time!Kris
BEST BOOK EVER!!! Do yourself a favor & order this book now!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
This book is so insightful, and it helped me and my daughter in so many ways. My daughter is a 10 year old aspiring writer, who LOVES poetry, and she throughly enjoyed being able to be inspired to write about her thoughts and feelings.
I also loved this book so much as jumping off point to be able to create my own journaling habits, and as inspiration for my own creative writing outlet.
Please do yourself a favor and ORDER THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!! I promise you will be so happy you did!
Nicole
Inspiring, Energetic, & adventurous
Love love this! I love being able to read and write as I think and take the time to journal! Having an open space where you can love, feel and share your thoughts and feelings while it helps gives you the space to lay it all out in a way you want to, but being inspired when don’t know where to begin! Love this! Got one for all my co-workers and my kids can’t wait for their copy!
Brandee
BOUGHT ONE, BUYING MANY MORE!!
I struggle journaling or taking the time to write even here & there. NO LONGER! This incredible, wisdom-filled book made it surprisingly easy to jot down whatever came to mind because what I read was so inspiriting and thought provoking, you WANT to write it down! Also, they aren’t too lengthy which helps you keep focused while embodying what you just read. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!! I’m super impressed!
Have a wonderful Holiday!
Kerri-Elizabeth
While in flight the view expands and perspective transforms.
Powerful enough to speak with wings
Unearthed in flight an angel sings
What seemed large becomes small
While the view expands over all
What is grounded below
Leaves a story of how the winds blow
Seeds are planted , growth happens
Change keeps transforming it all
Freedom is in the ability to expand your view
Let go of the limits , start anew
Perspective has many hues
~Kerri-Elizabeth~
Will you transform when the opportunity presents itself ready.
Transformation
A significant change
Within another significant change
Takes flight
To not get stuck in a rigid way or routine that stops a flow of growth
Reaching outside the norm
Taking flight
When all you want to do is hold tight
To not be afraid but be curious
It happens here with a brush and some paint
While tears collide with a fixed way
Assurance
It’s time
Even a brush and paint can grow wings
Transformation made its way in
~Kerri Elizabeth~
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The start of something new is always right now.
Living in a beautiful design of change requires
Evolution
Restructure
Peace
Rejuvenation
Forgiveness
Transformation within willingness
Who are you vs. who do you want to be
Juggling both leave less space for change
Choice is yours
Your voice is free
Reminisce with your current design
Color in the lines
Shall you wait
Must you respond
Maybe inform
Who are you
You will see
Listen in …..
~Kerri Elizabeth~
Many directions are traveled daily and not all are with consciousness.
Unconscious and conscious travel require a relationship
Connecting knowledge and experience
Strength and knowing intertwine
Magnetically pulled to one another, an awareness develops
It will require a surrendering and love of experience
Unravel the mind and observe
Beyond the noise of thought
Awaken the heart
Belief awaits
~Kerri-Elizabeth~
Reflection shows up to a varied response, but never a varied truth.
Even when a reflection invites varied responses
Truth is it’s constant rythym
Reflective responses vary by emotion and circumstance
Changing like the rivers current
Truth that the rivers current moves
That the sun rises and sets
That is a truth in constant rhythm
Even in a blur of the morning dew
Or a beautiful evening rain
The truth that is constant brings the change
Change although constant relays upon the truth
~Kerri-Elizabeth~
Perseverance will offer you a choice and it doesn’t travel alone.
Leaning into perseverance and whispering ,”I’m here.”
Perseverance replying, “yes?”
My response, “Must there be more, can’t you read my mind?”
“Must I need clarity to explain why I’m whispering?”
“Dear whisperer, I may know exactly why you are whispering, but if you are interested in my services you must speak with clarity.”
“Clarity I say,”with an exhausting defensive stance.
Perseverance responds back, “ Dear whisperer, when you are ready to speak with clarity and request your desires, I will meet with you to create a plan of action, until then , my family and I have a full schedule.”
“Perseverance, are you a small family business?”
Perseverance responds, “ oh no , we are a world wide organization known for tiring out our clients, pushing them to their knees, financial challenging them, among an array of different types of battles we will toss your way to test your strength and endurance.”
Dear whisperer, “Only the ones that are willing to experience , sleepless nights, agitation, frustration, pain and vulnerability among emotions you haven’t even experienced yet, you must face your deepest truths, stand in the hottest and coldest temperatures and don’t shrink back.”
Dear whisperer, “when you request my services my company will test every limit you have and it will be up to you if you stay on board with us to get the results you’re looking for.”
Perseverance, “ your services sound like a war zone of chaos and destruction, I’d be crazy to invest in those requirements.”
Dear whisperer, “feel free to continue on with our referral to hope, desire, love, laughter, smiles and a positive attitude, they run together and their charges although similar still require our services for longevity.”
Perseverance, “what other options do you suggest so I can process this decision?”
Dear Whisperer, “ have you forgotten your continued investments into our company over your lifetime, the investment has earned you interest and are documented for your future records, you are welcome to use those investments as a down payment.”
Dear Perseverance, I respond with a bit of a defensive wise cracking voice and posture.
“I have investments I didn’t even make?”
“How’s that possible, who made those?”
“It wasn’t me, I’d never make an investment into such a chaotic plan.”
“Whispering”, perseverance answers, you’re investing right now, it’s in arguing rather than action, maybe that’s the statement you didn’t read.”
“That one does not yield high returns, but it does have persevering effects, check your statements for more details.”
“The statements will refer you carefully to your own documented evidence in your journals.”
“You do have them , right?”
~Kerri Elizabeth~
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