A setback is only a setup for a comeback.

Willie Jollie

A  journey through pain.

Take a breath, feel it fill your abdomen.

Let your lungs come alive, feel the air every time.

Pain sets in as a reminder to stop, look and listen.

Pain is a warning, give yourself the time, go where you can recline, be loving and kind.

Take care of your heart, your body and your mind and all that carries the beauty intertwined.

Let go of expectations, pleasing others and conflict, allow your heart to beat with time, feeling it all going out with every climb.

Let every day show the way, staying present in the healing, not missing it, not pushing it, feeling it and letting go of it.

When a setback grasps you tight, every feeling rushes in and wants to fight.

Healing is in the breathing, the remembering the believing, the moments your strength grew, the days you certainly knew.

Healing is in the love you give yourself and the love poured out where you invested in someone else.

Healing is a safe place you find where peace surrounds you and faces remind you, and love is poured into you and the wind blows around you, and the sunshine heals you and nature can feel you.

Set your feet on the earth, take your shoes off,  be heart ready, soul listening, knowledge soaked deep into the mind, the love of nature never ever resigns.

Birds singing songs, a waterfall vibrating calm, the sky is so blue, the mountains surrounding with safety speaking, “I got you, don’t worry, you’ll be up again soon!”

When you come to a physical stop, the emotional journey can reign at the top, let it heal, let it feel, let it know, let it grow, your about to see the wonderful way your body lets it all come together and feel whole.

Sometimes pieces get left behind and we search and search not realizing that the piece left behind was the very piece that was the one we searched to find.

All of our life’s experiences can be seen as part of a puzzle, when we can put it all together and see the beauty in how it unfolds, when you let the pieces come together and there are no holes, a new puzzle can now start, the next phase takes hold.

It’s amazing to me how pieces get left, lost and buried behind and how life’s journey will remind you where you left, tried to lose and buried them inside.

Show up for your pain, your happiness, your joy, show up for the moments that seem too hard to enjoy, let love , let forgiveness take a hold, let go while you love it and let it unfold.

The air is so clear on the other side when you decide to let forgiveness heal you from the inside.

“Raise” of Sunshine, let it take you to new heights and depths.

A mother’s love is forever.

A mother is an indescribable gift.

Being a mother is where life turns into joy, love, happiness, excitement and so many other amazing feelings I believe there is no language for, it’s felt through the heart.

Being a mother has been the most amazing journey of my life.

I dreamed as a little girl to be a mom one day, it was my number one dream and a dream it was.

I wanted 4 children and that is exactly what I have, they are all a part of me everywhere they go and they show me every day what wonderful hearts and souls they unfold.

I can see there smiles no matter how far away I am.

I can see there animated characters living life as if life was freedom and I found out it is.

Oh to be a child, they have taught me so much.

They taught me to stop and see things no one else could see.

They taught me to let go when everyone else was taking hold.

They taught me to be so strong, when times were tough there was no way I would be anything but POWERFUL and PROTECTIVE of all of us.

They loved me when I made mistakes, they followed me to every escape.

It seemed I never ate a meal without tiny hands trying to steal.

They laughed until they cried all the time, they danced and sang along to every song.

These kids showed me how to be still, how to listen and how to chill.

They taught me to love and to let love in, they showed me no matter what our love together ALWAYS WINS.

We traveled to the biggest puddles, the rivers, the lakes and got into trouble without any mistakes.

We were always spontaneous, on the go, we never stopped living and no one ever said, “ I’m bored!”

I ended up in classes watching every move, I was protective and fierce and they learned to MOVE.

They knew when they were in trouble and they knew what to do and it when it came to rebellion, they shared that with me too.

I love my children more than words will ever describe, I love every moment even the ones I thought I would never survive.

They are the blessing I know GOD gave me to save me from my own selfish behaving.

I learned how to be the best I can through every second of this life they blessed me in.

Thank you to all my children and to my mother that loved me through every day of my life no matter what I dealt her in love and strife.

Thank you for all I am, you 4 children are my heart forever and again.

To my mom thank you for giving me the life I have in me, you taught me so much and I know it and can see it within you and me.

To my grandmother that taught me to shine, she never let go of loving me to the end of her time.

Also to Becky Bergstrom a woman that taught me so much about how to be a mother and how to love and laugh when life seemed chaotic and tough.  I miss your wise words and your smile and heart, you gave me so much to learn and grow and I think about you always along my journey’s road.

Collect Moment Not Things

How often do you challenge yourself?

Challenge yourself to stand the duration of a sunrise and sunset.

Walk a mile farther.

Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Run instead of a walk.

Ride a bike instead of a drive.

Eat raw foods instead of cooked foods.

Create a rainbow of colors in your food that are alive and bring you joy.

Clean out a room and leave only what you enjoy.

Be spontaneous now and then, go where you have never been.

Have you ever just stopped and listened to a river full of frogs, at midnight in a park?

Have you ever stood still by a pond looking and talking to two swans?

The deepest craziest most amazing energy is reached when you have the tenacity and tenacious spontaneous ability to say yes before you imagine why you would say no.

Say yes and then figure it out, say yes and figure out how.

 Never say no to an opportunity that will fulfill your deepest desires and dreams if you don’t know how take the time to learn now.

What story keeps you stuck, are you living and breathing with limitless belief?

Whatever you dream of for your life is clearly written and ready to thrive.

Have you set your own heart aside for the life of someone else that deserves to experience and feel what you may be covering for them inside?

Everyone has their perfect place, where you’re at is where you need to be, to get to the next place, you’ll see.

Feel what’s real!

Sunshine all the time!