Early mornings in Waimea Canyon. Are you a morning person OR a night owl? I’m 100% early morning🙋🏼♀️❤️ My ultimate goal is to be at peace with myself, eliminate toxic feelings, elements and energies from my life, unlearn negative and harmful practices and thought patterns. To stop checking for people that don’t check for me, create a space for myself that is nurturing for growth so that I may generate loving energy for myself and others, nourish my spirit and balance my energies. I have big dreams and I deserve to live a life I love and let that love radiate - Via The Minds Journal #freshairandfreedom
HUMAN CONNECTION: ‘Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too’. I am a very personable person and always find myself making conversation with others, no matter where I am. Whether it’s on a hiking trail, in a line at a grocery store, on the street, in the airport, anywhere. If someone is wearing a name tag, I actual use their name (I know crazy right). If I like someone outfit, hair, tattoo etc. I tell them, if someone looks like they need a pick me up, I smile and ask how their days going. The smallest engagement or compliment can go a FAR far way, and you also never know what will come from that encounter 🤷🏼♀️. I love networking, human connection and hearing pieces of people’s ‘stories’. I definitely get this character trait from my father, who is a social butterfly. It can sometimes make those with me uncomfortable, ‘Oh there she goes again making convo with strangers’, but I don’t mind one bit lol. It’s so easy these days with cellphones (and yes I’m guilty too), too lower that engagement with others as we all seem to be very attached to our phones. It makes me sad to see those going through grocery lines and instead of engaging with the cashier who’s bagging their groceries, on their phone not paying attention. Maybe that’s just me. Does anyone else love making conversation with others when they are ‘out and about!? Would love to hear your thoughts on it #freshairandfreedom
BODY TALK: I posted this photo on my story the other day and had a few responses saying ‘Happy to see body diversity on Instagram’ and I responded ‘What do you mean?’ They said ‘Well usually it’s girls with wide hips, tiny waists, big boobs, and just curvy, it’s nice to see someone with a body who’s more relatable - flat chest, flat butt’. I didn’t really know how to respond at first... and was a little hesitant but I feel like this is a good opportunity to speak on this topic. I didn’t know whether at first I was to take it as a compliment or not. I’ve never been ‘girly’ and never been any of the above... I’m pretty ‘boxey’ and I put in muscle super quickly. At one point I was doing CrossFit A LOT and one day someone told me ‘You have huge traps’, what did I do after that... welp I questioned doing CrossFit - and if I was too ‘manly’ so I added more running and less upper body training. I went from being a small skinny runner in college to a more muscular CrossFitter / ‘adventurer’ and it was hard to get use to the changes. Being a woman it’s tough with social media cause we are constantly comparing ourselves and being hard on our own selves but we can’t, cause we will live forever wishin’ we were different. Am I 100% comfortable in my own skin now? Mmmmm I wouldn’t say so. I wake up some days feeling good and others I wish I was built different, but this is the body I was given, so why not embrace it?We are all human - life would sure be boring if we were all the same #freshairandfreedom #bodytalk
