3/100 Gratitudes

My Wonderful Husband, Craig

I give thanks for you coming into my life, for loving me unconditionally and for supporting me in every way. I appreciate the relationship you have with my children, for your generosity and caring. The fact that you gave me the opportunity to be a “stay at home Mom” so that I didn’t miss out on any of Jordan’s milestones and growth. It has been such a wonderful experience and one I wouldn’t change for anything! Thank you for my first overseas trip and all the subsequent ones since then. You have made so many sacrifices and gone without to provide us with the amazing life we share. I thank you my darling, with all my heart and soul………

 

2/100 Gratitudes

My aunt and uncle – Geoff and Lorraine.

I express my appreciation and immense gratitude for the wonderful and kind people that you are and for stepping into the role of my parents. Geoff, with your quiet strength of character and sense of fairness, you lead by example. Laney, you truly inspire me with your unwavering faith and service to God. Your love of nature and all God’s creations has been an enormous influence in my life. Spending week ends and holidays on the farm when I was growing up provided me with a childhood filled with amazing memories and strong sense of family. It still gives me a sense of “coming home” when I visit now. Thank you for being who you are and for providing so much stability in my life….

1/100 Gratitudes

Dear Mom, thank you so much for being the person that you were. You were a single mom of 3 children, one of whom is deaf and who had to attend a special school far away from home. You had to move in with your parents and often worked 2 jobs to make ends meet because you had no support from our father. You did the best you could under the circumstances. I am the strong, loving, caring, independent person I am today because of the lessons I learned from you. I have a wonderful relationship with my children because I decided that I wanted a different relationship with them to the one I had with you.  For this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Rest in peace Mom, lots of love and hugs, your daughter, Doris”.

My Mom

Good morning all,

What a beautiful morning we are having here on this sunny winter’s day in South Africa! The sun is shining, the birds are singing and I’m feeling totally at peace. You see, I received a message yesterday that I really needed to hear and the result will definitely go onto my list of gratitudes!

My whole life I believed that my relationship with my Mother was not what it should have been and I always felt closer to my maternal Grandmother. I remember that I was always comparing it, and was envious of, the loving and close relationships my friends had with their Mothers. My Mom has passed on so it was something I couldn’t discuss with her to try and understand it, and I felt stuck with feelings of resentment towards her because it was too late to “fix”.

After my message yesterday, I now want to say……

“Dear Mom, thank you so much for being the person that you were. You were a single mom of 3 children, one of whom is deaf and who had to attend a special school far away from home. You had to move in with your parents and often worked 2 jobs to make ends meet because you had no support from our father. You did the best you could under the circumstances. I am the strong, loving, caring, independent person I am today because of the lessons I learned from you. I have a wonderful relationship with my children because I decided that I wanted a different relationship with them to the one I had with you.  For this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Rest in peace Mom, lots of love and hugs, your daughter, Doris”.

This realisation and learning has been sooo cathartic for me. I feel as though a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders and my growth has taken one HUGE leap!

I’m sharing this because I want the same for you. Get rid of any resentments you have been harbouring by changing the way you look at situations. “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change!” This will allow you to forgive, put it behind you and move on. I believe that life is made up of lessons we must learn from, in order to grow and be the best we can be, for ourselves and everyone around us!

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Until next time…………

All my love and hugs,

Doris

 

Questioning

Good morning world!

I trust that you all had a wonderful Easter celebrating with family and friends and remembering what the true meaning of Easter is, which brings me to what I have to share today.

Whilst doing my Evolved Life Coaching course, each student had to write a letter to themselves which was to be posted at a later date. I received my letter yesterday and I got quite emotional reading it. Just having celebrated Easter, I believe it arrived at a most appropriate time! Here it is……

“Dear Doris,

I am writing this letter to let you know that I understand your reasons for questioning my existence but I am so glad that that you have finally found your way back to the fold. I am very proud of the decision you have made to help other people achieve the same peace and self that you have. I want you to know that I will be beside you all the way to guide and love you. Keep asking for my help and you will receive my blessings and guidance.

All my love and light,

Jesus Christ”

I would love to hear your comments and also your stories

Until next time………..

Love and hugs,

Doris

Life

Hi Everyone!

I’ve been thinking about how I was going to compose this page that is my journey. I thought about doing it like a mini biography in chapter form but wasn’t quite sure. I been asking the angels to guide me and today I sat down at my laptop and the following words just flowed. So I guess this is how it’s going to be! Thank you angels…..

For a long time now I have lived my life believing that life is made up of problems, and our ability to deal with life’s problems determined our quality of life! Do you see what I was focusing on?? Instead of focusing on a wonderful, contented life full of quality and love, I was focusing on being strong enough to deal with life’s problems!

Thank goodness I have now learned to say thank you for my life and appreciate everything I have, my wonderful husband and children, my family and friends, my home and the peaceful and tranquil surroundings that we live in. I look at the world through totally different eyes now and I’m happy all the time. One the rare occasion than I am unhappy, I take responsibility for it because I know that I have chosen to feel that way. As soon as I become aware of it and I take responsibility for it, I’m able to move beyond that and I’m happy again! Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us. I have learned that I am totally in charge of my state and it is just so empowering for me.

The reason I chose to do the Evolved Life Coaching Course is because I felt like I was evolving at the time, and I wanted to learn even more about this new self awareness I’d discovered. I felt so fortunate for reaching this wonderful space that I was in and I wanted to share it with everyone! You see, I feel so totally blessed!

Life Coaching gave me the tools to empower everyone else, not only through my own life experiences, but also with even more knowledge than I already had.

Until next time…..

Love and hugs,

Doris