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Waking from sleep – Mad in America

Spirituality can take on the DSM , psychiatry view point of mental illness .

I found this true .

Around the Web, from Spirituality and Psychology/Steve Taylor: “A few years ago, feeling serene and exhilarated after a meditation, I decided to go for a walk. It was a beautiful evening – clear blue sky beginning to get dark, orange where the sun was going down, a few stars beginning to shine through. I walked around the field near my house several times, looking at the sky, amazed at how beautiful it was. My mind was quiet and I felt full of vitality. I began to feel as though I was being engulfed in the sky, and my normal sense of space was changing. The sky didn’t seem ‘up there,’ it seem to be around me, a part of me. I felt that the blue-black space around me was alive, that the universe was a living being. Every time I stared at the sky, the feeling grew stronger. It only stopped when my mind started thinking again.

Most of us have experiences like this from time to time, when the world becomes more real and beautiful. Natural phenomena like trees, rocks and the sky become alive, and reveal their inner being to us. An atmosphere of harmony seems to fill our surroundings, which may intensify into a radiant energy or ‘spirit-force’ which pervades all things. We feel a tremendous sense of well-being and the world becomes a benevolent and meaningful place. Our normal sense of separation fades away; all things seem related, as if they’re expression of one essential oneness, and we feel a part of this oneness too.

These experiences are sometimes referred to as ‘higher states of consciousness’ or ‘spiritual experiences.’ However, in my book Waking From Sleep, I suggest that rather seeing them as transcendent or ‘higher,’ we should see them as natural. I believe these experiences represent a way of seeing and relating to the world which was once normal to human beings, but which we have lost.

It’s possible to see ‘normal’ human consciousness as a kind of ‘sleep’ which we wake up from in these moments. Most people are asleep in the sense that their perception of the world is automatic, so that they aren’t able to sense the is-ness and alive-ness of our surroundings. They’re also asleep in the sense that they see all things as separate to each other, and experience themselves as separate entities, as egos enclosed in their mental space with the rest of the world ‘out there.’ Seen through this state of consciousness, life seems meaningless, and the universe may appear an indifferent and even hostile place.

This state of consciousness is extremely dangerous, and can be seen as the root of our species’ reckless disregard for the environment. Since we see the natural world as inanimate and as something other to us, we have no qualms about abusing it. We see it as nothing more than a supply of resources to use for our own for our own devices, without responsibility.

However, I believe that this state of sleep is really a psychological aberration, and that it is actually natural and normal for us to be ‘awake.’”

www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/waking-from-sleep-natural-spirituality-steve-taylor-phd/

Our Unique Journey

Notice as we shift from a physical to deep energetic awareness, the nature of our existence is changing dramatically. Increasing stress, energy or incompatible life situations reflect we are adjusting to a higher vibration. Old patterns, behaviors and beliefs are surfacing for release. Feeling disoriented, “out of place” in the familiar, the acceptable is suddenly unacceptable and beckons action. This tells us we are no longer focused only in 3-D, we are shifting into higher realms, or. conscious of and integrating multiple realms already.

Unusual aches and pains through the body are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D, while we are vibrating in a higher dimension simultaneously. Recalibration is underway.

Rest assured, its common to awaken during the night between 1 and 4 a.m. or even multiple times. The dream state is not what we are taught. We can’t all yet handle intensifying energy for long periods, must break it up. ‘Cleansing and releasing’ is going on, allowing insights into the interdimensional nature of night dreams. Short-term memory loss, sporadic recall of the past are common. We are growing aware of existing in more than one dimension at once, and flip-flopping back and forth as part of the transition like chnging stations on a cosmic radio dial. Hence, symptoms of ‘disconnect’ with different people and situations. Also, our past is linked to the Old world, and the Old is gone. Being in the Now is the way of the New World.

Know ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ things is a symptom of experiencing different dimensions as we transition fully. Our range of sensory perception, what we register with familiar and subtler senses, is based on our sensitivity, how we are wired and which dormant systems are coming on line or already activated.

Life may feel topsy-turvey. We are forgetting what we no longer require. Loss of identity means the “Old you” grows quietly inaccessible, like it no longer exists. Clearing old patterns allows us to embody far more light. Rest assured, all is in order.

Another thing: ‘out of body’ (OBE) experiences are increasing. We may feel as though someone is talking, but it is not us. This is our natural defense mechanism of survival when we are under acute stress, trauma or out of control. Easing the transition process, may include tuning out or dissociating from the body. This only short term. It passes. Deep sleep is par for the course. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.

As energies shift within, we grow more sensitive to surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, tech, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. Overwhelm happens very easily with overstimulation. We are tuning up. Know this too will pass.

Come what may, rest periods and ‘rebooting’ are required. Each body knows what it needs. Awakening more fully is realizing that as our vibes heighten, reaching the higher realms, ‘doing’ and ‘making things happen’ is obsolete. New energies support the feminine of receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to ‘bring’ it on while savouring life. Alignment happens in heartfelt energies.

Certain intolerances also present for lower vibrational things, reflected in conversation topics, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. We may feel ‘sick’ inside, feel alienated. When our vibration is no longer in alignment, we are literally ‘pushed, to move in new directions, to ‘be’ and create the New. All-the while, our appetite for food and other old consumption diminishes. The body is lightening and changing biochemically.

Suddenly, friends, activities, habits, jobs, life situations fall away. We are evolving beyond the fromer version of us, and what disappears no longer matches our vibration. The New arrives in parallel with our changing vibes.

Curiously, we absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. Some activities evoke dizziness, queasiness and worse. Fatigue hits. Our body is losing density, going through intense restructuring that physical senses cannot begin to register or understand. The periodic blurring or pixellating of vision is part of this process. Some frequencies leave from scope of consciousness. The range of sound-light received, decoded and transmitted is shifting.

Some people feel urges to to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar or know weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. Cravings for protein happen. Weight gain with an inability to loose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. Its another exercise of accepting oneself fully without judgement.

This comes with emotional ups and downs, unexpected tears. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and this happens a lot.

That nagging desire to go “Home,” as if everything is over and we don’t belong here anymore is part of the process of returning to Source. Everything is over, the process is done, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.

Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behaviour patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. The patterns and behaviours we are losing are not needed in the higher realms. This passes into a sense of love, safety and unity.

It may suprise some, but vivid, wild and even violent dreams may stand out. We are releasing many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting beautiful blissful dreams too. Our dream state will eventually improve and dreams will be consciously used for new kinds of conscious creation such as interdimensional travel and interactions if this is not a facit of reality already. Some experience deep releasing and travel while awake.

Do not be surprised as plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a totally new direction. Soul is balancing out our energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as our soul knows more than we do.

Some of us feel we created very difficult situations, with many ‘worst nightmare’ aspects to it. Soul is guiding us to ‘stretch’ into aspects of self where we were imbalanced, or into ‘toning down’ aspects where we were a bit over-the-top. Our energy is re-balancing itself. Finding our way to peace through this situation is the test we have set up for ourselves.

Come what may, each of us has created our unique journey, and our soul would not have set it up if we could not handle it. We are the one who finds our way out and so it is already done. Looking back, we are grateful and appreciate every twist and turn, emerging as the best version of ourselves, a very different being. ~ Liara Covert ❤️

Empathy & Lack of Empathy- Craig Childress PsyD

Empathy.

Narcissistic personality pathology is the absence of empathy. The absence of empathy is the capacity for human cruelty.

Narcissistic personality pathology is the abuse pathology because of its capacity for cruelty. Narcissistic personality pathology is responsible for child abuse and spousal abuse.

Writing in the Journal of Emotional Abuse, Moor & Silvern describe the association of narcissistic personality pathology and the failure of parental empathy with child abuse.

From Moor & Silvern: “The act of child abuse by parents is viewed in itself as an outgrowth of parental failure of empathy and a narcissistic stance towards one’s own children. Deficiency of empathic responsiveness prevents such self-centered parents from comprehending the impact of their acts, and in combination with their fragility and need for self-stabilization, predisposes them to exploit children in this way.” (Moor & Silvern, 2006, p. 95)

From Moor & Silvern: “Only insofar as parents fail in their capacity for empathic attunement and responsiveness can they objectify their children, consider them narcissistic extensions of themselves, and abuse them. It is the parents’ view of their children as vehicles for satisfaction of their own needs, accompanied by the simultaneous disregard for those of the child, that make the victimization possible.” (Moor & Silvern, 2006, p. 104)

In their study of child abuse survivors and the failure of parental empathy, Moor & Silvern found that the narcissistic pathology of the parent was itself a traumatic experience.

There is no difference between the trauma of child abuse and the failure of parental empathy that caused it – they are the same thing – just flip sides of the same trauma of child abuse by a parent.

From Moor & Silvern: “The indication that posttraumatic symptoms were no longer associated with child abuse, across all categories, after statistically controlling for the effect of perceived parental empathy might appear surprising at first, as trauma symptoms are commonly conceived of as connected to specifically terrorizing aspects of maltreatment (e.g., Wind & Silvern, 1994). However, this finding is, in fact, entirely consistent with both Kohut’s (1977) and Winnicott’s (1988) conception of the traumatic nature of parental empathic failure. In this view, parental failure of empathy is predicted to amount to a traumatic experience in itself over time, and subsequently to result in trauma-related stress. Interestingly, even though this theoretical conceptualization of trauma differs in substantial ways from the modern use of the term, it was still nonetheless captured by the present measures.” (p. 197)

Moor, A. and Silvern, L. (2006). Identifying pathways linking child abuse to psychological outcome: The mediating role of perceived parental failure of empathy. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 6, 91-112.

The trauma is the parental failure of empathy. The treatment for the trauma is abundant empathy – authentic empathy. Through our “eyes of the other” of compassion and empathy we bring our intent to understand to their self-experience, and we help the child discover their authenticity.

Whenever we are asking the child to understand us or something we are saying, empathy is flowing in the wrong direction.

“Tell me more about that” is always an appropriate response to a child in all situations.

The ADHD child is frustrated with doing homework, “It’s too hard, I can’t do it.”

Tell me more about that.

Don’t give encouragement. Don’t try to solve the problem. It’s their problem, they’ll be able to solve it once they have the support they need. What do they need for support?

Let’s find out. Provide genuine caring and genuine curiosity for “What is it like to be you?”

Her boyfriend just broke up with her and she is despondent over the lost love.

Tell me more about that.

Don’t give encouragement, don’t try to solve her problems. They’re her problems, she’ll be able to solve them with the proper support.

What support does she need? Let’s find out, with genuine caring, genuine empathy, and a genuine intent to understand “What’s it like to be you?”

Tell me more about that.

That is of benefit for all children in all circumstances. Empathy is always a good thing. Caring is always a good thing. Listening with an intent to understand always helps.

Complex trauma is the failure of parental empathy, and the failure of parental empathy is complex trauma – Moor & Silvern; Journal of Emotional Abuse.

The treatment for the failure of empathy is abundant empathy – all the time – provide authentic empathy for the authentic child – the person they are, the person they are becoming.

The child’s feelings are authentic. The child’s attribution of causality for WHY they feel the way they do is typically in error – all the time – with all children. Childhood is the time of figuring out how the machinery works.

They start as toddlers in the high-chair performing scientific experiments on cause-and-effect. Oooo, if I push my plate of food off the table it falls – cool – oh – and when I push my plate off the table mom gets loud… cool.

The child is a mini-scientist performing experiments to learn about the world, things like cause and effect, and how to deal with emotions… whooo, that’s tough.

In childhood, all of childhood, they learn about their feelings and how to express them for maximum gain, and how not to express them to remain out of trouble… hopefully. Emotions grab them, “How do you ride these things?”

They learn about relationships and love. It’s on-the-job training with only one set of instructors. They have to figure everything out, or try to. They have complex feelings and they try to figure out why, and what to do about it.

Feelings are such complicated things. Not like thoughts. Thoughts are precise. Feelings are so vague yet so captivating. I know what I feel, it’s figuring out the why that’s the hard part.

Not just for your kids in the courts, all kids everywhere. I worked with them – school behavior problems – ADHD – family conflict problems and oppositional-defiant anger in the family. The kids are just trying to figure things out.

They can do it, they just need the proper support. What support do they need? Let’s find out… tell me more about that so I understand your reality better. What’s the situation we’re dealing with inside you? What’s it like to be you?

Not to change it. Not to make things better. Just… empathy. I want to understand what it’s like to be you? The problems you’re facing. Tell me more about that. I want to understand.

Feelings come when we need them, they go when we don’t, once they’ve done what they came here to do.

Anxiety makes us alert – watch out, pay attention, something might be dangerous. Anxiety wants to be safe, anxiety seeks protection. When we’re safe, anxiety goes away.

Sadness says we’re losing something of value – that we need to attend to the things that are valuable to us. Sadness draws nurture, sadness draws love from others. Once love is there, sadness leaves.

Anger says we’ve been hurt (or we’re scared and trying not to be). Anger turns off the ‘weak’ emotions of sadness and fear. Anger protects us. We don’t feel sad or afraid when we’re angry. We just feel angry. But angry is sadness and hurt underneath – when empathy for the sadness and hurt arrives, anger leaves.

Happy is the social bonding emotion. It’s great and its easy. There’s a brain-hack you can do. You can add happy brain chemicals to any other emotion and change that emotion. It’s a back-channel brain chemical hack of the machinery of us.

Just smile. It fools your brain into thinking you’re happy, just a little bit but enough. If you smile your brain responds to the muscles and it thinks you’re happy, so it doses you with a little happy brain chemical… which gets added to the existing brain chemicals for whatever emotion is there.

If you’re anxious and you add happy to anxiety, you get excitement. That’s the roller-coaster – wheee, this is scary and fun at the same time. It’s not a fake thing, you’re actually changing the emotion. You’re changing the brain chemical composition when you smile.

Better living through neuro-chemistry.

If you add happy to anger, you get leadership. Anger is power, assertion, and voice, happy is social bonding. Together, power and social bonding is leadership – come on, we can do this.

Oh my goodness, happy is such a good emotion to add to anger. Smile when you’re angry. Just do it. DO IT. Smile. You can still say everything else, just do it with a smile too – angry with a smile. It softens the aggression. We need to soften our aggression with children.

When you’re angry… smile… add a dose of neuro-chemistry to your daily living.

If you add happy to sad, you get compassion. When those we love are sad, it makes us sad too, and that feels good somehow, to be sad with them together. They’re not alone. That’s compassion.

When you’re sad, if you can smile onto your sadness you’ll have the emotion of compassion for yourself. It’s hard to do, to smile when you’re sad. But that’s what the neuro-chemistry of your emotions will create if you add happy to sad – that’s compassion.

All you need to do on the brain-hack side is smile. The biology of your brain takes care of the rest. It adds a dose of happy chemical to your brain, just a tad, but enough.

Hey, and the more you practice the back-channel brain-hack on your emotional networks, the better you get at it and the more happy chemical your brain releases each time.

You get better at adding happy the more you add happy. Smile. Right now. Just try it. Smile. Now do it again. Go ahead. I don’t care if you don’t feel like it – just do it. Smile.

More. All the time more. It’ll make you a better person. I don’t care who you are, if you smile more you will become a better person.

Betcha. Try it. Think of it as an experiment. Smile all the time and see if your life doesn’t get better. It will. You know it’s true. Smile more – a lot more. It’ll make the world a better place by adding more happiness to it.

The problem with the world is not that there’s too little suffering in our world and we need to add more. The solution to our problems is NOT to add more suffering because we think people aren’t suffering enough.

The problem with the world is that there is too much suffering. Any chance we can take to remove some pain, we should take it.

Nor is the problem with the world that there’s too much happiness in it – “No, no, no, don’t add any more happiness to the world, there’s already way too much.”

That’s not the problem. The problem is that there is too little happiness in the world – we need to add more. Smile. Go ahead. See? Isn’t the world just a little bit better from just one little smile?

Oh my goodness, think if you smiled again. Try it. See? It makes the world a better place.

Carl Rogers said we only need three things for growth and healing of everything within us, that these three qualities were both “necessary and sufficient” conditions for change and growth – unconditional positive regard – authentic empathy – genuineness in the relationship.

He’s right. Do you know how Rogers developed his Person-Centered Therapy approach? From working with children. He started by trying to use a psychoanalytic model with children and it was a complete failure.

So he tried something different. He tried listening to the child. Not to change them – just to understand – empathy and caring, unconditional positive regard (those are each three interesting words in a row).

Complex trauma is the failure of empathy. The treatment for complex trauma is abundant empathy.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.

Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857

Mental Health Professionals Affected by personal experience in their council

A new study highlights how mental health professionals’ lived experiences influence their perspectives on mental health. The study, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, investigates how clinicians’ first-person experiences of depression and their perceptions of their own susceptibility to mental health concerns affect their viewpoints on causes of depression, the connection between depression and burnout, and mental health issues in general.

Researchers found that previous experiences of depression and perceived vulnerability influenced whether clinicians viewed depression as caused by biological or social and psychological factors, as well as whether they viewed depression and burnout as connected or as separate concepts.

The inspiration for the current study was motivated by the significant number of clinicians who have lived experience of struggles with mental health. The researchers, led by Angel Ponew of the Medical University Brandenburg Theodor Fontane in Neuruppin, Germany, write:

“. . . a German study (EKB study) found that over 80% of a self-selected sample of mental health professionals stated to have experienced mental crisis including mental disorders.”

Lived Experience Affects Mental Health Professionals’ Approach

www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/lived-experience-affects-mental-health-professionals-approach/

Soul Exhaustion

SLEEP WON’T HELP

if it’s your soul which is exhausted.

Food won’t satisfy a hunger for acceptance, love or adventure.

An empty void can’t be filled, with material possessions or holidays.

A bountiful bank account won’t buy health or happiness.

If you aren’t watering the seeds of your joy, your life will never flower, and no amount of expensive decoration will make it blossom.

Sleep won’t help if it’s your soul which is exhausted my friend…

but the good news is, the remedies you need are free and plentiful, and they are all around you,

hiding in plain sight, amongst the ordinary everyday moments that bring your soul joy.

Seize them.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘LIFE’: https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Art: Autumn Skye ART

#autumnskye #donnaashworth #art #poetry #sleep #tired #exhausted #words

Sleep Won’t Help

Age myths

THE BRAIN OF AN ELDERLY PERSON.

The director of the George Washington University College of Medicine argues that the brain of an elderly person is much more plastic than is commonly believed. At this age, the interaction of the right and left hemispheres of the brain becomes harmonious, which expands our creative possibilities. That is why among people over 60 you can find many personalities who have just started their creative activities.

Of course, the brain is no longer as fast as it was in youth. However, it wins in flexibility. That is why, with age, we are more likely to make the right decisions and are less exposed to negative emotions. The peak of human intellectual activity occurs at about 70 years old, when the brain begins to work at full strength.

Over time, the amount of myelin in the brain increases, a substance that facilitates the rapid passage of signals between neurons. Due to this, intellectual abilities are increased by 300% compared to the average.

And the peak of active production of this substance falls on 60-80 years of age. Also interesting is the fact that after 60 years, a person can use 2 hemispheres at the same time. This allows you to solve much more complex problems.

Professor Monchi Uri from the University of Montreal believes that the brain of an elderly person chooses the least energy-intensive path, cutting unnecessary and leaving only the right options for solving the problem. A study was conducted in which different age groups took part. Young people were confused a lot when passing the tests, while those over 60 made the right decisions.

Now let’s look at the features of the brain at the age of 60-80. They are really rosy.

FEATURES OF THE BRAIN OF AN ELDERLY PERSON.

1. The neurons of the brain do not die off, as everyone around them says. Connections between them simply disappear if a person does not engage in mental work.

2. Absent-mindedness and forgetfulness appear due to an overabundance of information. Therefore, you do not need to focus your whole life on unnecessary trifles.

3. Beginning at the age of 60, a person, when making decisions, uses not one hemisphere at the same time, like young people, but both.

4. Conclusion: if a person leads a healthy lifestyle, moves, has a feasible physical activity and has full mental activity, intellectual abilities DO NOT decrease with age, but only GROW, reaching a peak by the age of 80-90 years.

So don’t be afraid of old age. Strive to develop intellectually. Learn new crafts, make music, learn to play musical instruments, paint pictures! Dance! Take an interest in life, meet and communicate with friends, make plans for the future, travel as best you can. Don’t forget to go to shops, cafes, concerts. Do not lock yourself alone – it is destructive for any person. Live with the thought: all the good things are still ahead of me!

A large study in the United States found that:

The most productive age of a person is from 60 to 70 years;

The 2nd most productive human stage is the age from 70 to 80 years old;

3rd most productive stage – 50 and 60 years old.

Before that, the person has not yet reached his peak.

The average age of the Nobel Prize laureates is 62;

The average age of the presidents of the 100 largest companies in the world is 63 years;

The average age of pastors in the 100 largest churches in the United States is 71;

The average age of dads is 76 years.

This confirms that a person’s best and most productive years are between 60 and 80 years of age.

This study was published by a team of doctors and psychologists in the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE.

They found that at 60 you reach the peak of your emotional and mental potential, and this continues until you are 80.

Therefore, if you are 60, 70 or 80 years old, you are at the best level of your life.

* SOURCE: New England Journal of Medicine *.

You Are That Strong

It seems so par for the course to now post and say, ‘The energies are very high…’ But today, they seemed to have gone beyond another level…so here I am posting and saying, ‘The energies are very, very high…’

What does this mean for us?

It means that you may have headaches, feel nausea. It means you can feel very tired, weak, and it means you might be feeling it as a pressure in your forehead, your third-eye region and at the back of your head. It means, like me, you may have felt all day that you were always ‘somewhere else–the past, a particular landscape, a memory known or unknown, all of it suddenly so real, so present–releasing–to feel all the last vestiges of emotional residue that needed to be felt from that timeline. It means your body, your form, is releasing more and more–literally becoming more transparent to carry, express the light. The cells and the spaces between them expanding. Because it is the light of our Being that transforms, that lifts others–not simply our actions.

Believe in yourself. You Are transforming, and mostly, you won’t even recognize how much so until later when you realize you are responding to things much differently than the way you have in the past: you are much more patient, understanding, less judgmental, more compassionate, and not just looking for what to critique or comment on. You are much more willing to wrestle with your own role, your own participation in whatever has arisen so that you may know yourself better. You begin to find each day a curious thing…a thing to know….

The energies are very high, and you may feel scattered. Have difficulty sleeping, feel like the top of your head itches profoundly, feel like the world is simply getting stranger and stranger. This is You really beginning to focus on You and not getting distracted as much by the external world. You feeling you––your experience much more deeply, your presence in a more profound way that makes it feel in stark contrast to the world at large. Know this is Good–because that means when you change, become more sensitive to you, this sensitivity, this awareness will show up in the world too. You’ll see others more deeply, recognize their fellow humanness more profoundly.

Know, all of this is par for the course when the energies are higher than normal. Know, it takes up to three-four days to begin to integrate high incoming energies, so you may notice others being more emotional, sensitive, tired–even yourself–in the next few days.

Love you. Be compassionate to others. Trust you and what you are feeling, though others may not want to or be able to hear it. Just notice it, note it, hold it within yourself and let it move through. You are making room for unimaginable newness–new ways of Being that by the end of the year will startle, will amaze you.

You can’t see it now, but we are in big waves of change, evolutionary change in consciousness. Know what a gift it is to be here now. To change, things have to shift, things have to get a little chaotic, unsettled to loosen their grip on us–and that’s what were in, unsettled times. But know, you chose this, you chose to be here and participate in this. You Chose to participate and contribute to the change. How beautiful is that?

You are that strong.

You are that beautiful, that courageous, that creative. Believe in yourself–because when you do, you more easily extend that generosity to others, and that’s part of what we need right now. To believe in each other. To extend that grace and love to each and ever one of us. So love you.

May the blessings unfold for you. May you know you are loved.

~Allannah Capwell ❤️