Somethings just simply need to be said in a video? Perspective.

This is my second attempt in writing this blog, and not to mention it took me about an hour and half to pull together, unfortunately I lost the first one and couldn’t get it back. Yes. I wanted to cry, well I did cry and I just wanted to walk away from writing it again. The whole video is about showing up for myself fully and how I learned this lesson while I was in New York a couple weeks ago and also seven years ago when I was on Food Network. The trip was amazing and I got to cook with my mentor and visit the famous Eli’s Grocery store, (picture below). We had an amazing time exploring the grocery store and the city, we even tried some delicious cheeses from France. It’s a trip I will never forget for many reasons. I am so grateful for the time I got to spend with my coach in her artsy upper Eastside apartment and being able to have someone show up for me fully in the way she has for me during and after my visit. Rewriting this blog is in honor of her and myself. Everything in me after a long emotional day taking my oldest son back and forth to a scary doctors appointment and coming home to work late, then write this blog post, and then to loss the whole thing all a girl wanted to do is go to bed.

However weeks of studying, meditating and praying about this one subject, SHOW UP FOR YOURSELF FULLY, has me writing. Why start over, you have a video, just post that people will get the message. I want people to feel the message and hear the message in the fact I decided to keep writing and share my heart, because maybe this will help someone to not stop, but decide to get through the pressures of a hard day and a few failures along the way to still show up fully for themselves. Maybe just starting over will give someone else the courage to start over too. Just maybe it will solidify what I believe, practicing what we want for ourselves is the gift. The PRACTICE is the gift. SHOWING UP is the gift. We did not stop, we showed up.

Well, I had another article written talking about New York, it’s buzzing scenery, flavors, smells that sent your senses into euphoria and not to mention the vibrancy of it’s heartbeat that made me sing inside without uttering one word. Till next time, remember to Live Well. Live Beautifully. Live You.