The Blooming Season blog turns 1 years old today!
Wow, I am so grateful for this space and I’m grateful for everyone who has taken the time to read anything that I have written.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
I started this blog on my birthday last year, as a present to myself and it has been an incredible gift to my growth journey ever since.
This week, I’m sharing 5 golden lessons that I have learned during this first year of blogging.
There’s power in sharing our experiences and our stories.
It allows us to be vulnerable and open hearted.
It exposes our truth which gives us the power over it instead of being controlled by it.
It connects us with others who feel the same way and we realize that we are never alone in what we are facing.
It builds our overall confidence in our unique journey. I realize that there’s nothing to be ashamed about because there are as many journeys as there are people.
It could help give someone perspective and hope because we all see the world in different ways.
Share your stories, share your experiences, unashamed and afraid because you never know who you will encourage.
When I first started the blog I was so exited to share the lessons that I’ve learned.
A few months into the blog I went through a very challenging experience and I felt like I took a hundred steps back in my mental health journey but with each blog I would write, I began to heal and take steps forward.
After several highs and lows, I realized that this journey will never be a straight line, it’s a dance. Sometimes the music is as fast and electric as salsa. Other times it’s an instrumental with a hundred violins.
What matters is that we never stop dancing because every song teaches us something new.
God has used writing to heal me in so many ways.
Journal therapy has changed my life and continues to change my life.
Since I made a habit of journaling, I’ve become more aware of my triggers and my subconscious mind. There’s something powerful about seeing your thoughts on paper. It’s like you’re taking a deep dive into your mind through the pages.
Last year I went through several storms, didn’t we all? And I wrote through them. I expressed all of the rage, the fear, frustration, doubt and chaos.
I poured my soul into the pages and they absorbed the energy that I needed to release.
There are many, MANY times when I do not feel like writing how I feel but I have learned to force myself because of how beneficial it is to my mental health.
I read a quote in Jay Shetty’s book called Think Like A Monk that says, “Our thoughts are like clouds passing by. The self, like the sun, is always there. We are not our minds.”
That’s why I love writing because when we write our thoughts down, it gives a visual representation of everything that happens in our minds and I am reminded that I am not my mind.
Another quote from Jay’s book says, “I am the sky and everything else is the weather” and for me, writing clears the storm.
One year ago, when I started this blog I had no idea what I was doing but I just got started and showed up every day.
Sometimes, as the wonderful humans that we are, we complicate things but all of the great things that we want to do only require getting started and deciding to show up every single day.
Every new healthy habit that we want to implement or a new project only requires getting started and showing up.
This blog taught me that, my goals can be challenging but they don’t have to be complicated.
We just have to start and the journey will teach us everything we need to know, as long as we keep showing up.
So let’s keep showing up my friends, everyday, with open hearts, ready to work, learn and grow.
Before I had this blog, I imagined myself blogging and now it’s been 1 year.
We must use our imaginations wisely.
On Jay Shetty’s podcast, he was having a conversation with one of my favorite artists named Big Sean and he said something powerful.
He said that, there are two different realities.
There’s the reality that we can see with our eyes and there’s an internal reality.
He said that the internal reality is even more powerful than the external one.
If you can imagine yourself living a healthy lifestyle? You are capable.
If you can imagine yourself living your dream? You are capable.
We are capable of everything that we imagine, we just have to work smart and have faith.
I once heard Bishop TD Jakes say that our imagination is a preview.
Let’s not allow the preview to intimidate or frustrate us. The preview is meant to motivate us and energize us towards the life that God created for us.
What is your wildest imagination for your life?
Be empowered by it and don’t be afraid to imagine.
I’m imagining big things for this blog and I am grateful to all of you for being part of the very beginning of this journey.
Thank you.
Let’s keep growing!
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