Graduation season…transition, endings, change, new beginnings…I was invited to a few ceremonies and parties…always a reminder (for me) that life is zooming by faster than we realize, at times.<\/p>\n
Attending the grad ceremonies and parties had me wondering…are we only focused on external<\/em> accomplishments? Ambition, goals and all the external achievements are good; however, are we also prioritizing emotional\/spiritual inner healing and growth?<\/p>\n Are we taking time to focus on inner healing, create emotional\/spiritual goals and count internal health and growth among our achievements and celebrate those milestones?<\/p>\n Consider clocking these as milestones:<\/p>\n Making it one day, one week, one month, one year without<\/em> calling\/texting\/sexting\/emailing\/hanging out with\/hookingUP with someone who is unhealthy\/damaging\/disrespectful<\/p>\n Not being manipulated, gaslit, controlled, run over\/by others (regardless of whether theyS blood)<\/p>\n Not allowing our energy or time to be robbed in any way by those who don’t show value for us<\/p>\n No longer needing to “prove” anything to ANYone (being and doing only what’s on our hearts)<\/p>\n Responding versus reacting (recently someone said some unkind things intended to cut\/hurt me; I remained silent. I knew there was no need for words with someone hell-bent on having the last word).<\/em><\/p>\n Remaining silent rather than wasting our energy on those who don’t care for us<\/p>\n Living fully\/freely from the heart (not from fear or societal, familial obligations\/expectations or other unhealthy places and patterns)<\/p>\n AND re: all the above – redirecting ourselves as often as we need and keeping ourselves accountable to trustworthy\/safe individuals<\/p>\n How can we prioritize our emotional\/spiritual\/mental health today?<\/p>\n Which emotional\/spiritual\/mental growth and milestones can we celebrate this week?<\/p>\n Grace upon grace to you dear ones; I’m here on the journey with you and always cheering for<\/em> you!<\/p>\n Common Day Hero:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> You are respectful, funny, gorgeous and kind. May you always be Led (in every facet of life) by the impressions\/dreams\/visions on your heart.\u00a0 Your heart counts! Madelyn, grateful for you, here for you always and today, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graduation season…transition, endings, change, new beginnings…I was invited to a few ceremonies and parties…always a reminder (for me) that life is zooming by faster than we realize, at times. Attending the grad ceremonies and parties had me wondering…are we only focused on external accomplishments? Ambition, goals and all the external achievements are good; however, are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,406,81,404,15,285,403,149,374,405],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-change","tag-endings","tag-free","tag-graduations","tag-heart","tag-led","tag-milestones","tag-new","tag-newbeginnings","tag-transitions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lalijean.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/baim-hanif-pYWuOMhtc6k-unsplash.jpg?fit=1920%2C1277&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}