The reason I wrote “God Bless Our Dogs “.

As I write this blog post 📫 Lily is right by my side.  She spends most of her time as close to me as possible.   Dogs are such remarkable creatures and it is our spiritual 🙏🏽 ✨️ 🙌 ❤️ bond with them that was the inspiration behind “God Bless Our Dogs “.  Each of the stories in it is are actual encounters that happened to me or those close to me.   I firmly believe that God created Dogs 🐕 to be humankind’s best friend 🧡.  I would love more people to read it. To my Australian readers, I am selling it for $15  a copy.. Everyone who has read 📚 it loves it.  It is a celebration of Dogs 🐕 in our lives..

Maintaining Health and Well-being

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

There are a few things I do to maintain my health and well-being.   First of all, I practice mindfulness in my everyday life.  Just small things like slowly savouring the taste of my food, or focusing on how good it feels to pet Lily.  Definitely walking 🚶‍♀️ Lily helps to keep us both fit and is bonding time for both of us. Regularly taking my medications helps to keep me well and focused in my life. Enjoying the time I spend with my friends also helps my well-being.

Life is an unending cycle of baby steps.

If there is anything I have learned in my life, it is that everything happens in baby steps and in God’s time. As John Lennon quoted “Life is what happens whilst we are busy making other plans”. In times of stress, I tend to remember that saying.

Many of my readers would be aware that I am planning to move home, into social housing,  in the not-too-distant future.  The process for this takes many months and I was feeling disheartened by the process of awaiting NDIS approval. I have a support worker helping me with the housing application and now today, I feel a lot more optimistic,  the NDIS are looking for an approval letter from Mind. I am feeling optimistic because I know I am near the top of the waiting list, for Mind’s accommodation and it should be easy to get a letter about that. I am choosing to be optimistic and can relax and enjoy the rest of the process once this hurdle is overcome. All of my family and friends are praying 🙏🏽 that this works out for me.  I believe in the power of prayer.

Watch this space,  I will keep you posted 📫 as the story unfolds.

Mid-year resolutions

It is July halfway through the year, and I think that as all New Year’s resolutions are long forgotten about we should attempt to have some new resolutions for the mid-year. Today is the first day of the rest of my life and I intend to stick by my half-year resolutions of declutter my place and getting ready to move sometime in the not too distant future.

Today is significant because I am going op-shopping with Kathryn and I am looking for something to put away for my move. I am looking for angel-related things and am happy to wait for exactly the right thing.  I will be seriously downsizing and still need to work out what to do with my portable air-conditioner,  my outdoor setting and exercise bike etc. I need to act on these things probably sooner, rather than later.   My mid-year resolution is to get my act together and stop procrastinating.  It is a good day to make a fresh start and I am looking forward to catching up with Kathryn this morning.   I will keep you posted as to the progress of my mid-year resolutions 

Putting information online or on social media.

There is one golden rule I follow in regards to what I will put online abd write about in my blog or post on social media.  That is I never publish anything that would upset or negatively impact my grandparents.

It is the golden rule that I learned whilst studying a few law subjects at uni.  That rule was to never publish or post 📫 anything online that you would be embarrassed for your grandparents to see.  When you think about it, it is a very good rule of thumb. I am not on Facebook by choice and I am careful and diligent about what I write about in this blog.  There are just some subjects that are so personal and not for public consumption.   I am careful what I post about my friends 🧡 and my family.  There is just something that I don’t need broadcast to the world.  I am happy to write about the good stuff, the positive optimistic stuff, but there are some things that I am very private about and keep to myself.  I don’t post photos online, it is a minefield of what you must get permission about to do such.

I am careful about what I express in my blog and try to only write stuff that I would be proud for my loved ones to see.

If you are concerned about your online presence think before you publish.  Is this something I want to broadcast to the 🌎 world and would I be worried if my grandparents stumbled across it?  If you would be embarrassed then don’t post it, choose wisely what you write.