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Your Physical & Mental                           derful parts of yourself that you had long ago for-
                             Health                              gotten.
                   Becoming WHOLE Again
                                                                 Fall is the season for planting new seeds! What will
                     Submitted by Soror Tiffany H. Taft
                                                                 you decide to plant and nurture for your new har-
          Changing your thinking to recognize your value         vest? What are you willing to sacrifice so that you
                                                                 find  and  make  more  time  for  you?  What  are  you
                                                                 willing to “clear” so that you may thrive fully? Here
          Often times we as women, spend so much time in         are a few tips to consider:
          service to others, that we often forget to take care of
          ourselves in a way that best serves our inner fitness   1.     Put yourself first. The clearing is an inside job
          and peace. How many times do you put your “to-do       and begins and ends with you.
          list” on your calendar or in your planner but if you
          were to look at it, there is no space or time allocated
          on it for you? We must learn to #pencilourselvesin     2.   Change your mindset. It is not something you
          so that we are better able to fully show up as our     do or squeeze into your life. It is a lifestyle. A jour-
          authentic selves.                                      ney to creating the best version of you and a life you
                                                                 love.  It  doesn’t  have  to make sense  to  anyone  but
                                                                 you. It is not a straight line. A perfect formula. It is
          October was filled with health and wellness remind-    not  about  “getting  rid  of”  it  is  about  letting  go  of
          ers focused on women and opportunities for us to       things and thoughts that do not serve you.
          reconnect  with  our  minds,  body,  and  soul.  There
          was  Breast  Cancer  Awareness,  Domestic  Violence    3.  In order for clearing to  work,  you have to slow
          Awareness, and Mental Illness Awareness to name a      down.  Yes,  you,  slow  down!  We  live  in  a  world of
          few. While not all pleasant, they provide an aware-
          ness and reminder to take care of our physical and     speed.  This work requires awareness.  Daily doses,
          mental  health  in  support  of  our  WHOLE  selves.  It   slow drips, intentionally being consistently applied
          can become easy to buy into the concept of our own     over time for the real change to happen.

          insignificance  especially  when  life  makes  it  easy   Are you ready for your new opportunity to become
          now to live in the world of comparison and social      WHOLE again? I say you are more than ready. The
          media. Don’t compare yourself sis, because you are     time is NOW!
          uniquely and divinely made and there is no one else
          like you. Someone is waiting for you to show up and    Verse of reflection: “Before you were born, I set you
          share  your  gifts,  talents,  and  purpose  in  only  the
          way that you can. No matter how small or grand we      apart”…Jeremiah 1:5
          think ourselves to be, we all have a gift to offer that     Soror Tiffany H. Taft, PhD, is an Integrative Health and Wellness
          is no better than the    other. When we help others,   Therapist focused on the science and well-being of the Mind,
          we are in fact, helping ourselves. It supports the re-  Body, and Spirit.   She may be contact directly via  email
          lease  of  endorphins  that  make  us  feel  good  about   at  info@sacredsoulwellness.org or via her website: https://
          ourselves and the work that we do. Our very exist-     www.sacredsoulwellness.org
          ence affects countless people in ways that we may
          never fully realize. Every woman matters.

          If you find yourself in a space of thinking that you or
          your  work  does  not  matter,  think  again.  Let  go  of
          the  self-rejecting,  self-sabotaging,  and  negative
          words that you have said to yourself since you were
          small. What is at the root of that thinking or those
          feelings? Address the movie you keep replaying in
          your mind and decide to tell a different story from
          this  day  forward.  Yes,  the  thoughts  count  too.  Be-
          lieve and know that you are in divine order for such
          a time as this. When you are able to shift your per-
          ceptions around, your own ability to affect your life
          and impact the world, you just may discover won-
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