A State of Grace

07/11/2022

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25/10/2022

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Healing journey. ✨

23/10/2022

20/10/2022

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17/10/2022

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Your name is not exhaustion. You do not have to answer when called that way. Maybe exhaustion raised you at home. And exhaustion taught you at school. And exhaustion supervised you at work. And exhaustion was your Lover in relationships. Maybe you believe you are exhaustion. But, dear soul, you are not. You are life. A thing that breathes and releases and rests and sleeps and cries and crafts peace medallions from precious beads of moments. Even if all the people you have known have modeled exhaustion, you are not that species. You are a vibrant thing. Alive like spring meadows and freshwater sing. Blushing lotus, time to burn your false identity. You are not exhaustion. You are a winged thing shedding unnatural chrysalis, aloft toward bliss. You are diaphanous in sunlight. A bravery of spices. Pioneering stillness inside flocks of nervous geese. Powder blue flamingo adroit on silver water. Reunion with the code of Grace. You are not exhaustion. You reject that tragic race. No, priceless soul. You are not exhaustion. You are life. In Love with renewing your life. With a kiss. Like this. *Freedom: Medicine Words for Your Brave Revolution

My new book, Fragrance After Rain, and all my books are available online at booksellers worldwide. My whole heart cries Grateful.
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14/10/2022

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01/06/2022

Congratulations Mum and Dad 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

What's one piece of advice you wished some one had told you about becoming a parent?

31/05/2022

Feb - May has been a wipe out of 2022 with lots of transitions to manage through challenges, circumstances and change..and I have been all for it 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 leaning the f**k in and anchoring hard.

The absence has been on purpose while I build with purpose a future for me and mine.

Failure has always been part of the process,
Fail forward tends to be the way I roll
Failure has shown that it tries more than success ever will...

I am to amping myself up to start again
And I am so glad I took the time to get ready
Here for this 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

02/02/2022

I am not religious...I do however, appreciate a soul deep sing song and I love me some Gospel - I know it's not everyone cuppa tea, and a hard pass for most but I can't help but love the expression of all in this vid and the opportunity to bust out a hearty 'AMENE'

I do believe in a higher source of energy that is grand and universal

I do not believe in a higher source of energy being a 'he' or a 'she'

I simply believe in 'being' connected and guided by sense that brings meaningful value and purposeful passion

Before I attempt sharing any stories and writing any new ones this year - a blessing feels appropriate

There are so many reasons I chose this particular one

All the faces - my favourite are the four Polynesian men who appear as staunch and strong as they do soft and sensitive

All the ages

The distance in between space and time becoming combined

The collaboration of cultures

The symphony of sincerity and faith

The succession of thier belief

Amene!

**check the comments for the karakia.x

https://youtu.be/eZQPifs2kjo

Inspired by the many other “The Blessing” virtual choir videos that have gone before us, we - The Church of Aotearoa/New Zealand - have added our voices to t...

01/02/2022

I love words...in all the ways
I'm guna start using some
To tell some stories soon✌🏽😎

20/01/2022

Rental Property viewing reality today - easily 100+ people viewing one property in 30mins.

Trademe Listed 48hrs - 137 watchers, 1712 views...
✌🏽 Elderly couples
✌🏽 Young families
✌🏽 Middle age adults
✌🏽 Couples
✌🏽Solo parents

Worried faces, impatient, frustrated and scared ones too 😥

🤔 How many believed they actually had a chance?
🤔 Who tried slipping the agent a higher bid to secure a home for thier family?
🤔 When does it end?

If you are fortunate enough to be secure in your space, safe that tomorrow you will have a home for your family... please be thankful 🤗 treasure what you have today, and everyday because what you have so many people are desperately hoping for tomorrow 😥 Be kind.

18/01/2022

✌️Creation
✌️ Love
✌️ Connection
✌️ Purpose

I love this! I 💗 these types of 'interactive' memes

I love how this is a brain gym exercise that offers an opportunity for an expression of alignment and attraction 🤗

I'm ready 2022 ✌️😎

16/01/2022

"GURL! 😳😳😳 the state of it!
What is going on?..Are you ok?"

Once upon a time a sight like this would give me the feels like the nails running down a blackboard kind of chills 🥴

I understood the concern from a close friend at the state of my nails 🤣...she knows me well and while I took a moment to pause and reflect while I snapped this pic..I pondered...

🤔 Am I Ok?...🤣
🤔 Am I justified to go get my nails did now 🤣
🤔 Is this really important?
🤔 Why? What value does this add to my life?

And then I found myself saying
"atleast it's only three nails" 🤣
"3 is my favorite so it's ok for them to be in a state like that"

Cos if any one knows me well they would know that me and three have a thang..

There's so many reasons but upon turning 33 did I really, truely understand why..

I'm ready to stop holding on by my finger nails

I'm ready to start getting some dirt underneath them

So as I choose to continue this pathway I create in this space a State of Grace,
I wish to create a way for us to navigate the space between us..when it feels like the world is pushing everything we know and love apart.

I wish for you, in 2022 to ride your on own Highway to Healing towards Happier Horizons in a State of your own Grace.

And in true three style, to the absolute ultimate

I wish for Peace, Love and Happiness - Body, Soul and Spirit ✌️🥰☺️

07/12/2021

Koro said "what did the virus look like?"

The House Surgeon said "you can't really see it"

Koro said "did you touch it or smell it"

The house surgeon said "no"

Koro said "Dr I admire your faith in unseen things and your belief in the power of invisible forces"

The house surgeon was speechless...

https://youtu.be/ypKwMUWSUt4

06/12/2021

Post One: 97 views, 40 reactions/comments
Post Two: 256 views, 40+ reactions/comments

What's the difference?
Both images I find vulnerable asf...because I'm choosing to be seen in a state of 'being' in my humaness.

What is the measurement of 'being' human?
What is in the value of being seen?

There's a highway I have been travelling from healing to healthy...the distance between I have called State Highway 32....

There has been bridges to cross,
Roadblocks, bus lanes and round abouts.
Trips into town, trips out of town
Along winding coastlines
Around cloud cloaked mountain tops
In the depths of dark nights
In the light of dawn's promises

And the same energy that took me to State Highway 32 is what sustained the journey to travel

The same energy that carried me along the way was the same energy that called me along

The same energy that I have to give is the same energy I am grateful to recieve

The same energy i see lacking so greatly within humanity today - is the same energy we are so easily available to give freely if we choose to access it.

Aroha

In it's full expression - it is the presence of breath, the only thing that has the power to pull us back into our bodies and into a present state of awareness.

Aroha is Love?
Absolutely, because if we are honest
Love exists most in the moments where our breath is taken away...

Joy, Celebration, Honour, Peace
Grief, Sadness, Surprise, Shock, Trauma

Aroha is our greatest measure of capacity for 'being' human.

Breathe like you know your heart beats
Love is a birthright 😘

03/12/2021

"Pour inward, dear one. Pour inward. It's not that you lack Love. It's that your river needs to flow in both directions. What you are used to giving to others is a sacred water meant to nourish you first. Doing so purifies it, filtering it through the fertile earth of your original spirit. Then when you share it, you are free to share without desperation, anxiety, motivation, or need. Love water shared this way is a pure tonic for both souls. You can learn a new ceremony: soaking in the springwater of your own Love. Peace, healer. Peace." *Fragrance After Rain

My new book Fragrance After Rain, and all my books, are available online at booksellers worldwide. Thank you for posting and tagging your copy on ig, encouraging others to purchase, posting readings of your favorite passages, and for sharing online book reviews. My whole heart cries Grateful.
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02/12/2021

It's all part of the system

01/12/2021

I am...

A human being

There are so many layers to my 'being'

In my previous post I shared the ways in which I felt shame in the levels of my identity - within the structures of my whakapapa, my geneological roles, and the social capacity of my relationships.

I belong to so much more than that..

I belong to a range of systems which nurture the reality of my unique physical, emotional, mental and spiritual existence.

As I considered my own unique Highway to Healing I discovered a whole new language to raise the state of awareness....

Embodiment
Absorbtion
Digestion

Alignment
Acceptance
Accountability

Permission
Forgiveness
Gratitude

Attraction
Manifestation
Affirmation

Systems
Process
Cycles

Order
Phases
Sequence

Rest
Release
Recover

30/11/2021

Say something

29/11/2021

Ya gotta be...BAD, BOLD, WISE

https://youtu.be/pO40TcKa_5U

29/11/2021

I am...

A daughter
A grand daughter
A sister
A niece
A cousin
An aunty
A friend
A lover
A mother
A human being.

There are so many layers to who I am..it is so easy to understand how I became so lost in all the layers of my identity.

The thing is - the realization in my reflection on this particular morning was that I felt shame and failure in every layer of who I am.

In that shame and failure, I found challenge in every dimension of my wellbeing..and the thing is - where did I start the heal when every part of me hurt?

Who do I ask for help first? And from who?

I remember on this morning I stopped believing the best choice was to die
And the only option left was to really live.

For myself - first, last, everytime.

When I removed myself from every body else
I made space to heal for me.

When I stopped telling myself how much it hurt and started saying "everything is falling apart, to make me stronger so better things could fall into place" I really started feeling and believing that I could live life better.

28/11/2021

Did you notice my absence? Was there a lack of capacity? Of presence? Of order?

We have already looked at what 'disorder' is defined as a verb (doing).

Here it is defined as a noun (being).

You will come to learn the method in my madness comes not from a state of 'disorder' but more a state of play with order.

Because nothing in this world makes sense any more!

And in the absence of aroha - we must continue to disrupt fear with our korero!

23/11/2021

Depress + Disorder = Dysfunction

23/11/2021

When we depress what we feel because we don't know how to process what we feel it's easy to see how we end up in a state of disorder

23/11/2021

Here, in this space you will find lots of words 🤗...Some of those words will be defined by verbs, nouns and adjectives - which will also illuminate states of doing, being and knowing.

I share these words with you because they might help you understand with abit more clarity and certainty too.

In my healing journey it has been very common to understand in others that we love to minimise our feelings when we don't understand.