by Paulette Rees-Denis | Jul 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
July 30
Good morning my friend!
Today’s musings are a blend this week, of roadtripping, what’s rocking my world, and some magic! Keeping my eyes wide open, maintaining patience, trying new things, eating too much!, and keeping my daily fitness regime whilst I move through each day, and NOT being hooked up to the internet all day every day…
What is rocking my world?
- This new oracle card deck- Earth Warriors, and my first reading with them
Beautiful, evocative and Powerful stuff, along with my shamanic studies…And great ideas for my next tattoo!
- Tiki bar gatherings with new friends and cocktails in a parrot mug
- Thrift shopping
- Packing up my mom’s apartment and moving her into her old home
- And my mom’s 96th birthday! Damn…
- Being proud of the women I have taught and coached over the years and how they have grown, expanded their dreams, their creative zones of genius, and their businesses–here’s just a few:
- Mid-century modern chairs from the 50’s that we are having reupholstered
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Tunes for you! This will rock your world…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFrCk6_0rM
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RECIPES!
Healthy and delicious for you!
How about some cowboy caviar?
https://www.wellandgood.com/what-is-cowboy-caviar/
Thirsty? Iced tea variations….
https://www.wellandgood.com/bone-healthy-iced-tea-recipes/
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Because I love Anne Lammot’s writings:
What is prayer to you, my friend? Have a read…Wowza…
“One of my daily prayers is, “Slow me down, Girlfriend.” The prayer changes me. It breaks the toxic trance. God says to Moses the first time they meet, “Take off your shoes.” Be on the earth. Breathe with me a moment.”
The whole she-bang, here…
https://www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/posts/pfbid02xT7i7RXzRU4nhJhjWrVekc9pboobZJVxAHs3MFFS2fdmWkmEuhJZHHTTcFeuxpf1l
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And some Mama Gena for you,
And leading with your heart!
https://www.facebook.com/mamagena/posts/pfbid02rKxwEM8uNBYUhmeqXm2cDnyV3uFq6urRjhvz9F8kqyhXVKvENs42w2RWCd1DZ7TTl
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That’s my news for you today, my friend! I hope you have a blessed and magical weekend…
And forget the stinkin’ thinkin’…
So much love for you,
Need some coaching? Want to have a chat with me about what could be next for you? Need a lifestyle adjustment? Schedule a free call with me…
I am excited to be of service to you, to possibly work together in the future as your coach, and help you achieve your creative abundance, the job of your dreams and desires!
Click this link and let’s talk!
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Other things going on in my Paulette land!
If you are wanting to do some more writing, or get your journaling practice happening, you can join my Tuesday weekly class, on zoom, 3:00 PST
From the Body to the Page!
Join us for our weekly virtual journaling/writing class, with adventurous prompts and inspired sharing, time for you to dive into your words and your self-expression!
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul-searching phrases
Register here:
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Also for summer, my online course…
From Chaos to Creativity
a 5 week DIY to move you from stuck to fabulous, at home, on your own time, with me!
So check it out, read more here, and get your copy, plus a free copy of my book, From Soulless Job to Creative Abundance, when you sign up for the course!
Click here…
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Sign up now and receive my free masterclass and learn how to create your own
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(your MAP) with ideas for making change and moving forward with your delicious desires.
Stay connected for inspiration, support, coaching, and all the love!
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by Paulette Rees-Denis | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
July 22nd
What is rocking your world this week?
I’ve been doing weeks of road tripping traveling! From Palm Springs to tiki bars to visiting friends to our family cottage on a small lake in Coloma, Wisconsin, to Madison with friends, to Chicago with my brother from another and his gal, and now to Columbus Ohio to stay for a awhile and help my mom!
What have you done differently this week? I love this idea of DSD, Do Something Different, whether that be in how you run your business, or what you do for fun, or what?
What happens when you do something different? You might get your heart rate up and sweat a bit out of nervousness, you might get exhilarated from something so fun, you might do something and hate it, so many options. But I love stepping out and trying something, perhaps something I thought I would never do… or just never had the opportunity. For one, driving across country is a whole new adventure, and is begin super fabulous.
Some of the things I have done, outside of my everyday normal:
- Gorgeous country road cruising
- Famous tiki bar visiting and tasting their MaiTais ( Jeff’s still rock)
- Enjoying the ever-changing beautiful landscapes this country offers us
- Kayaking in the early morning on a quiet lake
- Writing more poetry and more journaling
- Playing Yahtzee until late in the night with good friends with tears of laughter rolling down my face
- Reading and napping ( well, I do that a lot at home too!)
- Happy hour cruising on the lake with my other brother from another and a glass of wine
- Hiking to the point in Madison
- Thunderstorms
- Lightning bugs
- Sitting on the lake with friends in Madison, which is a totally rocking town
- Ebike riding around the town
- Supper club martinis
- Thrifting
- Improvisational dive bar and pool playing
- Bowling and more bowling, which I now am obsessed with
- Country bar karaoke ( NOPE!)
- Wallpaper obsessions
- And more thrifting
So, what are you DSD this week? It will change your energy, your perspective, and your desires! I promise…
Then let me know what you did! Or want to do…
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RECIPES!
Nice Creams! ( not ice cream!)
People… perfect for those hot summer days, or any freaking time!
https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-menus-collections/nice-cream-recipes/
Or
CHERRY-ALMOND NICE CREAM
Since we were talking about BBQ’s last week, how about this one?
GRILLED PEACHES WITH BASIL-PEACH NICE CREAM
Oh yeah!
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WOW!!!!
If Light Closed Its Eyes: A Verbatim Documentary Play from DU PAI (Trailer)
Here is a trailer, that is sooooo beautiful! I wish I could see the whole play.. Check this out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjpIIwMOBs
IF LIGHT CLOSED ITS EYES is a verbatim documentary play, created from 100 interviews, exploring the criminal justice system and shared humanity. This production is performed, designed and produced by over 50 incarcerated artists, with the guidance of DU Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI)
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PODCASTS
Tim Ferris and Derek Silvers!
Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying “No” to Millions (#125)
Derek started CD Baby back in 1998 in Portland… and how he moved from there, and what he does now…
a place that has sold a bit of our Gypsy Caravan tunes!
Gypsy Caravan music is still available on download from Amazon…
You my friend, let me know what rocks your world!
Other things going on in my Paulette land!
If you are wanting to do some more writing, or get your journaling practice happening, you can join my Tuesday weekly class, on zoom, 3:00 PST
From the Body to the Page!
Join us for our weekly virtual journaling/writing class, with adventurous prompts and inspired sharing, time for you to dive into your words and your self-expression!
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul-searching phrases
Register here:
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Also for summer, my online course…
From Chaos to Creativity
a 5 week DIY to move you from stuck to fabulous, at home, on your own time, with me!
So check it out, read more here, and get your copy, plus a free copy of my book, From Soulless Job to Creative Abundance, when you sign up for the course!
Click here…
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You are Invited to Join my Community of Creatives
Sign up now and receive my free masterclass and learn how to create your own
Magic Action Plan
(your MAP) with ideas for making change and moving forward with your delicious desires.
Stay connected for inspiration, support, coaching, and all the love!
www.paulettereesdenis.com
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Jul 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
July 21st
Greetings from Chicago…
Taking some time this morning, with my cuppa, to bring you one of my fav poets, Mary Oliver… Do you know her work?
“Her poetry combines dark introspection with joyous release. It assumes a close relationship between women and nature, she found that the self is only strengthened through an immersion with nature. Oliver is known for her unadorned language and accessible themes.”
Mary Oliver
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean –
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down –
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
+ Mary Oliver
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And I love this book! Devotions
“Today is a day like any other: twenty-four hours, a little sunshine, a little rain. Listen, says ambition, nervously shifting her weight from one boot to another—why don’t you get going? For there I am, in the mossy shadows, under the trees. And to tell the truth I don’t want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don’t want to sell my life for money, I don’t even want to come in out of the rain.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.”
― Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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And here is a clip read by
Saoirse’s Shelf On YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfSX5K515pk
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Who do you love to read? Can you share a clip or two with me of your favorite poems?
Have a blessed rest of your week. I”m heading out to Ohio today to help my mom for awhile… See you again soon!
If you are wanting to do some more writing, or try some poetry, or get your journaling practice happening, like we do every week, you can join my Tuesday weekly class, on zoom, 3:00 PST…
From the Body to the Page!
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul-searching phrases!
Join us for our weekly virtual journaling/writing class, with adventurous prompts and inspired sharing, time for you to dive into your words and your self-expression! It’s only $27 bucks, a month to join us every week for an hour of YOU time, exploring your words, heart and soul, and fun expressions!!!
Register here:
http://paulettereesdenis.com/from-the-body-to-the-page-a-writing-journey/
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by Paulette Rees-Denis | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Roadtrip views, blues, and the mess of possibilities! July 18
Happy Monday!
My ramblings again, as I move through my holiday days…meditating, reading, listening…words, insights, phrases… take a line or a word or the whole thing, and see what it brings up for you… journal with it, paint with it, dance to it…
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Sitting by the lake
Meeting your mind
Images of consciousness
Meditation the art of doing nothing
Seeking and searching for satisfaction
Daydreaming and choiceless awareness
Unobstructed views
Recognize the possibilities and experiences
Doing nothing is everything
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#44 Earth Goddess
Dreams to become real life
Experiences of heaven on earth
Take the visions out of your head
Taking practical earthly steps
Take action when the time is right
Manifest your vision
Acknowledge your creative power
You are a lightworker
As you shift from fear to love
Healing the self and the earth mama
Fulfill your divine life purpose
Practical, spiritual, and positive
The heart is the gateway to divine union
As you enter into your own heart
Noone like you, no one has your quirks
You are a divine alchemy of flesh and bones and spirit and energy and love
Unlock and unleash, your sacred rebel and your wild beauty
Celebrate
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Early morning sun, the eagle flies
Country tunes, tears, beers, and bloodies
You always go against the grain
Creating commotion
Co-motion (that’s my jam)
Yes
Gathering and causing group movement
Radical dreaming
Brining the light yet still
Feeling the lonely
Seeking and forging different paths
Making the impossible possible
The essence of creativity
Deep beneath the waters
Feeling the flow and the ease of surrender to the new sensual
Agitator, instigator, motivator
Shaking it up
A catalyst for feminine celebration
Preaching the work of ahimsa
Earth sacredness and connection
In a world that hurts my heart, daily
The unconscious consumption of the privileged
I can’t be dulled down, I can’t allow that pain to stop me
It can be a beautiful chaos
Before the clarity hits
Alignment within and without
I want the wild butterflies to join in my world of
Envisioning, healing, and creative energy
With that way of graceful flow
In the river of life, the individual journey
For fulfillment and love
Being open to life
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Thank you my friend, enjoy your week…
What would it be like to have 3 months of focus, support, and your vision unfolding? From Chaos to Creativity. Let’s have a call and talk about you hiring me as your coach, we can discuss how you can move forward toward unlocking and unleashing your sacred rebel and your wild beauty! And your mess of possibilities…
That’s how to show up and live full on my friend! https://paulettecoaching.as.me/schedule.php
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If you are wanting to do some more writing, or get your journaling practice happening, like we do every week, you can join my Tuesday weekly class, on zoom, 3:00 PST…
From the Body to the Page!
Join us for our weekly virtual journaling/writing class, with adventurous prompts and inspired sharing, time for you to dive into your words and your self-expression! It’s only 227 bucks a month to join us every week for an hour of YOU time, exploring your words, heart and soul, and fun expressions!!!
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic, and soul-searching phrases!
Register here:
http://paulettereesdenis.com/from-the-body-to-the-page-a-writing-journey/
by Paulette Rees-Denis | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
July 15th
What is rocking my world?
Celebrating Jeff and my’s 38th wedding anniversary, and at the place in Wisconsin where we got married! How about that? So fun, special, lots of good memories, and more to come…
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Have you heard of Commune yet?
They have great courses for practices for physical, spiritual, and societal health. I love their offerings…and the teachers are world class!
Here’s a free trial
https://www.onecommune.com/sign-up-for-the-commune-wellness-summit-trial
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QUOTES
Derek Sivers : “Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes us to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting.”
“To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.” – Derek Sivers
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Sam Harris–Meditation, Mindfulness, and his new app, Waking Up
Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.
Learn more about Sam
WAKING UP APP
Waking Up is a guide to understanding the mind, for the purpose of living a more balanced and fulfilling life.Waking Up app. Get a free trial
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Abraham:
“You can say things like, “As I look at successful people, and by that I mean rich people, yes, and I mean happy people, and sometimes they’re rich and happy.” But when I’m talking about the successful ones, what I really mean is the really happy people. People that are really joyful, that want to get up every day, that are eager to get into their day. Almost without exception, they had a pretty rough beginning, which turned them into a powerful rebel initially. And then they found a way to relax into their natural birthright of Well-being.”
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RECIPES:
What are your fav kitchen gadgets?
I use my Vitamix almost daily- smoothies, soups, sauces, and if not that my food processor- nut sauces and cheeses, and since I am the chili and soup queen, I’ve been using my centuries old slow cooker/crock pot, that is now falling apart!
But what about the new air fryers? Or the instant pots?
I also bought a korean wok last year, that is my daily go to on the stove…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F73GLGL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and the best knife ever…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GKZ36AY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And I share these because I love them, not an affiliate! Just want you to enjoy your cooking even more…
And because it is coming on to massive zucchini season… air fryer zucchini chips from Holy Cow…
https://holycowvegan.net/crispy-air-fryer-zucchini/
And because chickpeas/ garbanzo beans are my fav beans… https://holycowvegan.net/chickpea-rice/#spotlight-on-chickpeas
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Joanne Molinari ( the Korean Vegan) talks about the work/life balance and gives some great tips!
What do you think of these? Any you agree or disagree with? Any additions you would add?
“the American worker has been trained to believe their worth is directly a function of their productivity. While corporations attempt to pay more than lip service to the elusive “work/life balance,” there are a few things we can do independent of systematic labor reform to try to ensure that we aren’t running straight towards a brick wall:
- Trust your instincts. In your gut, you know when something is abnormally stressful to you, in the same way your body has evolved to know the difference between a saber tooth tiger and koala….
- Acknowledge your feelings. Acknowledging how you feel about a distressing situation can provide some instant and welcome relief. My favorite way of doing this is writing my feelings down. According to this study, expressive writing or journaling can help reduce anxiety and stress. …
- Step back. …
- Meditate. I’ve talked before about the benefits of meditation. A recent study found that regular meditation relieved anxiety, pain, and depression, and that for depression, meditation was as effective as a pharmaceutical antidepressant. …
- Unplug. … Take a walk. Read a book–the kind that smells like dried ink. Listen to your favorite playlist while baking some cookies.
- Stop shaming yourself. You don’t need to feel guilty for not being angry and sad and outraged over all the things happening in the world all the time. You also don’t need to shame yourself for taking 57 minutes to veg in front of the TV or read a good mystery novel. …
- Exercise. While taking a break is crucial to guarding against chronic stress, regular light exercise (like walking or yoga) has also been proven to counteract the effects of stress.
- Talk to someone. Sometimes I think we say things like “you don’t need to be ashamed of getting professional help” while, in our heads, we’re saying, “Omg, I would never, though.” … There is no shame in seeking counseling, therapy, or even just a friendly support group.
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Make sure to check out last week’s episode of Heart and Hustle, with the incredible Susan Hyatt who is out to change women’s diet culture!
Click here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3Iuq5geI3_qhHExfGbjlQ
And this week’s episode with women’s health advocate, Arwyy Taffs
Click here
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You my friend, have a blessed and heartfelt weekend and let me know what rocks your world!
Other things going on in my Paulette land!
If you are wanting to do some more writing, or get your journaling practice happening, you can join my Tuesday weekly class, on zoom, 3:00 PST
From the Body to the Page!
Join us for our weekly virtual journaling/writing class, with adventurous prompts and inspired sharing, time for you to dive into your words and your self-expression!
Our once-a-week gathering on Zoom with focused time to journal to the varied prompts of poetry, stories, magic and soul-searching phrases!
Time to write together and time to read aloud your journaling, with no critique or judgment, only encouragement and support. This is time for you to take the pen to the page, perhaps with some body movement, while you listen deep within, and enjoy this hour of YOU and your creativity unfolding.
Register here:
http://paulettereesdenis.com/from-the-body-to-the-page-a-writing-journey/
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Also for summer, my online course…
From Chaos to Creativity,
a 5 week DIY to move you from stuck to fabulous, at home, on your own time, with me!
So check it out, read more here, and get your copy, plus a free copy of my book, From Soulless Job to Creative Abundance, when you sign up for the course!
Click here…
~~~~~~~~~~
You are Invited to Join my Community of Creatives
Sign up now and receive my free masterclass and learn how to create your own
Magic Action Plan
(your MAP) with ideas for making change and moving forward with your delicious desires.
Stay connected for inspiration, support, coaching, and all the love!
www.paulettereesdenis.com
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