Category: healing

Life, a delicate high-wire dance.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in grief, healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

Life is a delicate high-wire dance between chances not taken and bold quests to risk it all.

We move between treading lightly through life and jumping ”all in” at warp speed.

Then, something happens, a loss, an illness, a disaster and everything, absolutely everything changes. We are shaken to our core. Everyone means so much more than they did before that “something” rattled us.

We assess our purpose, our value and wonder why any of this matters at all.

But it does matter and it shouldn’t take “something” to remind us to live fully every day.

Our time on this earthly journey is limited. Those that leave before us are a reminder that we are not permanent fixtures in any of this. It’s that impermanence that makes life a gift.

So don’t tippy-toe through life, afraid to fall, be bruised or hurt. You’re here to feel and to BE human. So, feel it all and BE the things you’ve dreamt of BEing Take each step believing that there is a net to catch you when you fall.

None of us are getting out of “this” alive.

Don’t die with your love, your words, your music, your art or your passion locked inside you. Leave it all out there, where it can be seen, be heard, be touched and be loved.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

The amazing miracle you are

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

A billion beautiful things had to line up so you could be here living this life.

~ A Big Bang,

~ Trillions of colourful particles of star dust that found their way across the galaxy,

~ Generations of interesting and creative souls, all making decisions and taking tiny steps that led to the creation of you.

You are a big deal! A really big deal!

Don’t ever question the amazing miracle you are!

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

You are the Universe

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

Sometimes the universe appears to be silent.

Our prays and cry’s for help are not answered.

We see chaos unfold around us and wonder why any of this matters or exists at all?

Our world leaders flounder leaving us feeling adrift in a vast wasteland of lies and corruption.

It’s in moments like this that you get yourself;

a bag of Oreos, bar-b-q ripple chips, a couple tubes of all-spice Pringle’s, gummy bears, a jar of spicy olives, a few kit-kats, wine, a puppy and a line up of Hallmark movies.

Then you place your crown upon your head and you take that rainy day and turn it into your own damn picnic!

( I’ll also take a side of fries with that).

Darling, You are the Universe! You can turn any storm into a sunny day! Oh yes you can!

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

Does it matter what the purpose of life is?

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

This life journey takes us through magnificent highways paved with laughter, chaos, love, joy, heartache, physical pain and elation.

We walk quiet trails of wonder and awe, experiencing incredible highs and soul crushing lows, always seeking purpose.

And still here I sit, as naked and confused as I was the day I was born, trying to figure it out.

The moral of this story is, we will never figure it out, so, surrender to what is.

Does it matter what the purpose of life is?

No it doesn’t. We’re here, period, so create your own purpose, pave your own path and blaze your own interesting trails. Find the lessons where you can, love the ones you’re with and enjoy the dance.

Unpack anything that does not bring you joy and let it go.

We all have an expiry date, so, be kind, be tolerant, be compassionate and be loving to all living things including our planet.

I do not have a clue where my journey will take me next, wherever it is, I’ve decided it’s going to be great. There’ll be forests, oceans, starry skies, chocolate, music, puppies, trails to wander and adventures waiting just for me and hopefully shared with many of you.

Take charge of your journey, then enjoy where it takes you.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

The empty spaces inside of us.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

We’re all trying to fill the empty spaces inside of us. Maybe we need to stop trying so hard.

Those empty spaces, might be the breathing room we need to allow old attitudes, behaviours and beliefs not meant for us to leave.

We exhaust ourselves chasing happiness, chasing love, chasing a bigger this or a better that, trying to fill a false sense of “lacking” or emptiness in our lives. When maybe everything we already have, is perfectly enough?

If we’re constantly trying to fill up on something better, we’re NOT enjoying what and who is already present.

You don’t always have to be busy, frantically chasing, consuming and filling up on things, people, activities, substances or the doctrines of society, religion or politicians, to fill a sense of lacking in your life.

Every garden needs space so things can flourish. Like a garden, its the empty spaces within us that allows light to shine on new seeds of thought. Use those quiet spaces when you find them, to just BE and see what grows in you.

Give yourself permission to be still, to be quiet, to create space in your life for the things, the thoughts, the ideas and the souls that have been trying to reach you through the clutter, the noise and the chaos that has kept them out.

Not all empty spaces need to be filled. Sometimes the emptiness itself can fill us up.

Toni O’K~ 🌹 ❤️

Soul Music

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

I’ve often wondered why I’m drawn to certain people.

Is it love? Is it a Karmic connection? Are they a part of my long lost soul tribe?

Everything, including all of us, is energy and vibrate on certain frequencies.

Like the sounds that resonate from the strings on a violin or tunes created on the keys of a piano, we can create beautiful harmonies with some people or, create horrible noise with others that are out of tune with our vibrations.

You know the saying “I got a bad (or good) vibe from that person”. There’s something to that. People like certain pieces of music can lift us up or bring us down based on the vibrations they put out.

Maybe we’re drawn to certain souls because we’re part of the same universal symphony or choir, we’re melodies yet to be played or duets that have yet to be sung.

Whatever it is, I’m grateful for those that make beautiful music in my life orchestra.🎶 ❤️

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

Be Less

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, Humour, life challenges, Life Journey, nature, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

Be LESS THAN YOU CAN BE!

Most of our lives we’re told to be MORE, to want MORE to consume MORE.

Isn’t it time to be Less?

~ Less busy

~ Less stressed

~ Less critical of yourself

~ Less offended

~ Less judgemental

~ Less worried

~ Less impatient

~ Less of an impact on the environment.

~ Less violent

~ Less hurtful

~ Less deceitful

~ Less angry

~ Less prejudice

~ Less greedy

~ Less wasteful

~ Less concerned with what others think.

~ Less willing to tolerate the things and people that hurt you.

Maybe, just maybe if we were all a little less, the planet and all that dwell upon it would to heal just a little bit 🌏 😊❤️.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

Sometimes, wisdom just shows up.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in grief, healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

Sometimes, wisdom just shows up.

I don’t know how.

I don’t know why.

But I “know” that it’s arrived and it’s meant just for me.

It shows up for all of us.

You feel it in your gut, you hear it on the wind, and in rain drops as they tap against the window of your soul trying to get your attention.

It whispers to you in your dreams, appears in clouds as you gaze across the sky.

Sometimes this knowing arrives in the eyes of a complete stranger. It can feel as if this wisdom rode in on a lighten bolt to land at your front door. When actually, this deep sense of knowing surfaced from deep inside of you.

It often shows up during our greatest life storms or, when we’re completely still.

It’s an understanding, a deep sense of truth, an ah-ha moment when you just “know”.

This knowing is the sound of some”thing” calling you.

Listen to it.

Its a Soul thing.

Toni O’K ~🌹❤️