Category: Life Journey

Sometimes your entire world gets turned upside down and it ends up being a beautiful thing.
Happy Friday ~ hope you bump into amazing people and unexpected adventure this weekend 🌹❤️.

Some of the worlds greatest art, the most moving pieces of music and the greatest novels ever penned were borne through the creators pain.

Depression, anxiety, rage, grief or heartache all have the power to take root and grow into artistry that is passionate, deeply profound, influential, expressive and beautiful or, these emotions can fester and grow tentacles that reach into your heart, rip it apart and paralyze your soul.
There is tremendous energy caged within our negative emotions, imagine if we could harness that power and turn it into positive energy and release it back into the world. We can. Like anything, it just requires practice.

What we often perceive to be our greatest suffering, our deepest pain, if managed, can become our greatest companion, our greatest strength, our greatest motivation, our greatest gift.

Don’t focus on what your pain is doing TO you ~ focus on what your pain can do FOR you.

T’OK~ 🌹❤️

For anyone silently fighting🌹❤️

We all fight pain and demons our family and friends have never met. Depression, addiction, grief, substance abuse, anxiety, heartache, loneliness, physical pain or a host of other painful life challenges that take hold of us and drag us into the darkness of their shadow.
When we go through these things we might feel like we’re alone, but, we never are. There’s usually an army of people waiting to help us when we’re ready to help ourselves.
It takes strength and courage
to face your pain and leave it behind forever.
You get to decide when you’ve had enough.
When YOU do decide you’re ready,
you’ll be surprised at the size of the army that will assemble to help you beat whatever is hurting you.
If you allow your pain to hold you, no one else can.
Step out of the shadow of your pain and back into your light.
Because you deserve to shine.
~ TO’K~🌹❤️”

Nothing is meant to last forever.
Nothing.
Not me, not you.
It’s this impermanence that makes the moments and the people we love,
so precious.
Be grateful,
for all of it.
Because all of it, is beautiful.
TO’K~🌹❤️

Whether you entered my life for a moment, a minute, a day, a few months, a few years or decades, you are a part of my life story, and I am a part of yours.
You occupy a place in my mind and in the colourful collection of memories that make up my life.
I can bring forward the sound of your voice, the shape of your face and recall the moment or moments we shared together. It’s amazing that all I have to do is close my eyes and there you are.
When we’re born, each of us comes clutching a million puzzle pieces that belong to and will fill in, the lives of others. Some pieces are as a son or daughter, a mother, father, friend, boss, employee, lover, healer, adversary, teacher or guide.
The point is, our lives are connected.
We are a part of each other’s stories.
So let’s write amazing, interesting, exciting, happy, kind, compassionate, loving and memorable words, lines, pages and chapters for each other.
Whether you’re a member of my family, a friend, a colleague, an ex-lover, an acquaintance, a school-mate or a neighbour, you’ve helped shape my story even if it was just a few brief lines, and thats a pretty big deal.
You’re a pretty big deal.
Thanks for the memories
TO’K~🌹❤️

Wanna’ change the world?
I mean really change the world?
Then stop being normal, stop following the pack, stop conforming to peer and family pressure, stop agreeing with things you don’t agree with for the sake of getting along.
You don’t have to follow the party line or behave or think the way your religious or political leaders tell you to. Challenge the status quo, challenge those things that make you crazy and make you shake your head and say “that’s messed up.”
Go out there and shake up somebody’s thinking – chart your own course and carve out your own path.
Todays normal is what has f’d- up the world. The world needs more free thinkers and creative problem solvers.
You don’t have to be normal, the universe just wants you to be you!
I love you ~
The end 😊
TO’K~🌹💕

There is no more time.

You sweet, beautiful soul.
We can not buy or earn more time on this journey.
We get what we get.
Those things you want to do,
places you want to see,
words you want to say,
people you want to spend time with.
Stop yearning, stop waiting and do it.
TO’K ~ 🌹❤️

My soul cries out for something greater – bolder – brighter – deeper.
Something more than just the words and thoughts that stream from my mind and heart.
I know that this is the voice I have to listen too – the cry of my soul.
But, I don’t always listen, I have allowed the cluttered, chaotic sounds of a busy and disturbed world take over and I conform.
Be still, be silent, all of us, and listen.
Our little blue planet is screaming – our souls are screaming. We’re not living the way we’re supposed too.
We all come from the same place, we’re all going home to the same place.
We have created artificial walls, boarders, religions, laws and societies that we believe separate us, we fool ourselves into thinking some are better or worse or more entitled. But really we’re all the same. We are not separate, everything that happens to one, happens to us all.
We can be greater – bolder- better- brighter, we just have listen to the collective cries of our weeping souls.

TO’K ~ 🌹❤️

We learn from our mistakes.
If you spend your life worrying about f’ing up, you’ll never get anywhere.
Make mistakes, big ones, HUGE FRICKEN ones, learn from them, then grow and move on.
It might hurt, so what, at least you’ll feel something.
Don’t waste your life worrying about making the wrong move, dating the wrong person, getting into the wrong career. Get out there and Fuck-up!
Your life will be better because you did.
TO’K~🌹❤️
PS: apologies to my Mom for my potty mouth this morning- just practicing f’ing up🌹❤️

Somewhere between the wishing, waiting, praying, believing, hoping and trusting, we forget the “doing.”
For god sake; just build it, say it, write it,
fix it, go to it, do it, BE it.
And have a wonderful weekend while you’re “at it”😊
TO’K~🌹❤️