Guest Post: Kind Over Matter

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi


Hello! I wanted to invite you to join me today over on Kind Over Matter. I am contributing a guest post as one of their Kind Kindred tribe members. If you aren't familiar with KOM then you're in for a huge treat! It's a space dedicate to perpetuating kindness and to uplifting creative spirits. Kind Over Matter started "with the hope of spreading love & kindness by card dropping, [and] it has blossomed into [a] breathtaking lovefest..."

It's a great source for a pick me up when you're having one of those days. and mama. we all have 'em BUT hopefully today is not one of those days! and if it is then I'd encourage you to visit me over there! In the post, Radiating Kindness: illuminating the dark garden within I share how at one point in my creative journey I was over grown with negative thoughts - totally bullied by the mobsters - shoulda, woulda and coulda ! The freak'n Shoulds had me trapped and feeling despondent regarding my creative goals and urge to build a thriving creative business - until I reached that point where enough was enough and batteled back! You know what they say about bullies, stand up to 'em and they'll back off, well that's exactly what happened, though I had to do that to a place inside! Please join me and share your struggles with the inner, Naugh - you can't do that voices or worst yet, your romps with The Shoulds.Together we can shed light on how to live our inspired lives with heart, courage and most of all moxie!

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"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do." - Dark Garden by storypeople


....I was creating for myself an everyday that meant living my dreams required exhaustion and badgering to-do-lists. I was so freaked out I wouldn’t allow myself to realize how freaked I was! I wasn’t waking up everyday with soft and gentle ideas waiting to be brought into fruition, a spring in my step or the echoes of hi-ho in the distance, there weren’t any stars or little birds flying circles around my head like a snow-white crown.

LIFE became to-do-lists and mayhem. 

Though things were being done and the business expanding, it was not fun nor was it inspiring. It was nothing I imagined or dreamt. It was long days and sleepless nights. It was eating later and only when this or that got finished. It was canceling plans with family and friends to work longer. It sucked. Those thoughts of fear were keeping me from creating the very thing I had set out to do – which was to live a life of creative freedom.

I needed to find sun ..."

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