We make space for what we want to happen, but when we give God room, amazing things happen. Our making space is limited by our perspective. Surrendering to God is exchanging our perspective for God's possibility and power. That surrender results in what our space deemed impossible to be possible with God.
As we work within or towards our next chapter nothing can sabotage our progress more than unhealed wounds. Our wounds are an opportunity to practice true self-care, to attend to our needs, to strengthen ourselves, and to learn how to move in this life as a healed Queen. Do yourself a favor and give yourself a gift....Deal With Your Wounds Sis!
Embrace every season in your life. There is opportunity in each one!
There are instances in our lives when old negative feelings resurface. It's in those instances we can "Be" with those feelings while addressing the root cause. When we "Be" in negative feelings we explore where they are coming from, what work did we leave undone in our past and/or what tapes did we not destroy but rather put on a new reel? Embrace your "Be" while you are Becoming Queens!!
When we focus only on our voice we don't consider the value of the echo of that voice. When your voice comes back to you does it give you life, envelope you with love, does it feed you, empower you, embolden you, can your echo sustain you when you don't have a voice?
Your voice may be a force to be recon with but your echo is......TIMELESS!!
If you don't like your echo change your VOICE!!
Getting from point A to point B in your life can be accomplished in many different ways. Our greatest gift to ourselves is to determine the route that is is best for us, the route that feeds us, grows us, challenges us and brings us joy in the process. As with any trip there should be a guide and in this day and age it is an APP. As we move in our Nxt Chapter or towards our Nxt Chapter we should make sure the APP of choice is the APP for us. What APP are you Using for your life?
Welcome to the Queen's Corner where we will talk with Daria C. Mallard, a licensed clinical mental health counselor. This Queen has birthed a body of work on self-conceptualization! Join us for this amazing conversation about healing, self-truth and navigating our therapy.
Our past is full of lessons and gauges that we can use to ensure we are writing a narrative that is informed by our past but not leading us to repeat it. If we choose to cover up our past we also cover up the lessons and the gauge. Our past has value, our past is our story and our past is just that our past. Referencing our past removes it's control over us and places it in a place in our life of reference and lesson only which is why white out doesn't work!
In order to embrace change in our lives, in our next chapter, first be aware of what needs to change and why. Second accept what you can and what you cannot do and then surrender to what you need in this new space. These steps will ensure that your change is what you need, uses all that you can do to bring it forth and in the process you are honoring your needs every step of the way!
Queens it is time! It is time that we let go of the excuses and begin to explore the reasons for situations in our lives. Excuses are what we use to stop our progress. Our Nxt Chapter beckons us to address our reasons and move forward. Let's Go!!!
When we consider each other as living beings with needs for growth we have a better chance of being positively impacted by that growth and possibly even growing ourselves!
As we take the pin to write our next chapter we start with where we've been or where we are and we dare to write were we are going. Your direction is in your freedom. What did you need freedom from and that freedom gave way to freedom to...become, live, love, create, appreciate, develop and embrace who you're becoming, Your Next Chapter.
If we do not have judgement for the less egregious acts in our lives, we unknowingly and knowingly build paths to allow the egregious acts to occur! You have a right to judge the acts that impact your life! Sis, ITS YOUR LIFE!!!
As we take ownership of our narrative we also take ownership of our emotions, emphasis on OUR. At times others may feel we should mirror their emotion when we haven't experienced the cause. We can love, support, honor and respect people in the emotional space they are in, that is love. When we join them in that space and take on their emotion we move ourselves into spaces that are not ours. That creates more work for us to do because in that moment we are no longer the authors of our narrative, we have given up our pen.
Queens our true power resides in our ability to replace our thoughts, our mental tapes of embedded defeat with EMBEDDED SUCCESS!!
While we are embracing our Nxt Chapter and navigating life in the newness of a healed whole self there may be instances where we need to recall our energy from others. It may be for our benefit or it may be for another's but it will always be necessary!
As we embrace our next chapter and we begin to see the fruit of our labor we cannot forget to tend to our roots. Continue to nourish your roots beyond the leaves, the trunk and even the flowers. Give your roots enough space to stretch out and get all that you need to continue to grow in your Nxt Chapter!
We aspire to become our greatest self which is so powerful.....however, what are you going to do with that power. Our power to write our own narrative enables us to decide what our lives will look like, how we will show-up and how we will take up space, all of our space. The power to write our own narrative also has purpose for our sisters. it may show them what joy looks like, how we can help one another, what forgiveness and true self love feels like. The Purpose for Your Power to write your own narrative can and will empower other women to do the same. Check your purpose for your power.
Enslavement to people places and things and allowing the rejections of others to bound you does not provide you the freedom to evolve. Release anything that has bound you and venture into the beauty of your next chapter with you writing every word on every page. When you are unbound your narrative changes from others to a beautiful love story of self to self. I can't wait to see your story play out in your life. A story that is No Longer Bound!!
Boundaries are acts of love and walls are a result of our fears. As our beliefs, truths and self awareness evolves, our boundaries will also evolve but our walls will not. Walls cannot serve our growth and evolution they just feed our fears.