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Martha Essien's avatar

Love everything I just read 🥹

The year has been a messy one for me but as it progressed, I decided to let go of the mess and embrace the little joy inbetween and that has been a great navigation for me.

Yes! All of these will be memories soon 🫶🏽❤️

Josefina H's avatar

Martha yes!

The art of surrendering to the flow is a magical one. Learning to let go rather than controlling every thing makes a way for freedom, and joy. I am so proud of you for moving forward with courage.

Nathalie Peña's avatar

I'm a big fan of simple slow mornings so I resonate with the coffee machine change shifting the energy of your morning ✨🌄

Marc Typo's avatar

Thank you for your vulnerability. My son is 3 months old, I know the feeling of trying to create sacred moments - it’s difficult now. But I’ve been resting in the feeling of getting to hold him, especially after a long day. I know these moments won’t last forever - that’s been helping me settle down and appreciate times like this.

Josefina H's avatar

Marc thank you for reading. Congratulations Dad! Ah yes, it's interesting it's like as soon as you find flow the babies switch up on you. But learning to adjust and include them into my sacred moments has made even the most growing seasons bearable. (If that makes sense) Keep relishing the moments.

Tinashe D. Ndhlovu's avatar

This is a great post, I appreciate the self-reflection. It is important to pause and allow for grace

Josefina H's avatar

Hey Tinashe,

Thank you so much for reading. I never realized the impact moments of self reflection had until it was all I could lean on for a while. So true, it's important to pause and welcome grace.

Sarah J's avatar

Oh this was just so genius and poetic!! I am so stealing this idea to just capture the messy moments when I have my own family and home. As much as we want to do staged photos in an aesthetically pleasing background or lighting, you thought to photograph the moments bound to be forgotten. But now they never will. 🥺I love how you showed us how we should even be grateful towards the chaos, because somewhere along the way we actually prayed and hoped for it. You are a beautiful and unique person!! Thank you immensely for this.

Eric Hinzman's avatar

Thank you for sharing this!! I’m in the midst of a messy season right now. I followed your prompt and came away with quite a few ‘joys’ that will allow me to be more intentional and embrace even the messiness in my life as sacred.

Josefina H's avatar

Eric I am so glad you followed the prompt. Isn't it so helpful being able to jot things down and remember the things that bring you joy? In some odd way, it brings me joy being able to do that. I hope this month you make space to embrace joy through some of the things you wrote down.

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Josefina H's avatar

Jannelle thank you for reading!

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Josefina H's avatar

Melissa,

Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us. I am so proud of you for choosing the mindful path and doing the soul work you've needed to do to get to a place where you find joy even in the midst of chaos. I know your daughter will be proud.