THAT BEHOLDER IS YOU. aHh… it took me 3 decades, battling insecurities and low self-esteem. To finally feeling comfortably home in mySelf. To this day, I still get insecure, but I feel confidence in my insecurities. I cannot articulate fully the energy that I feel…. It feels safe, it feels gentle, it feels kind, it feels loving, …
I’m hurting today, still yearning
GRIEF IS NOT LIMITED BY TIME (2 mins audio listen on Medium) It was dated 9.9.21 I thought I’ve served my time? I’ve lossed so much in the last forty years of my life. Only in the last couple of years when the world simultaneously experienced an unprecedented loss as a collective is when I finally …
Evolution of A 40 years aged Woman
29 OF 30 DAYS (3 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) Somehow I have always bounced back up higher and stronger than where I’ve landed last. Same is true that I dread saying, “I do not fear a thing” for that would be a fabricated internal reality. As confident as I’ve experienced myself the …
Motivation to Pursue
23 OF 30 DAYS (3 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) I didn’t want to kill myself. That was enough hope for me to know that I was going to be okay. Yet, each moment of everyday wasn’t easy to say the least. I couldn’t get up and off the bed. I was sleeping …
I See You
19 OF 30 DAYS (2 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) These 3 words are transformative and transcendence. I fell in love with Avatar 14 years ago when the first movie was released in 2009. I was young at 26 years of age. Rebellious. Ignorant. Naive. My Soul wasn’t awakened to the heights of …
Even when I am certain
18 OF 30 DAYS (2 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) I feel the most awakened Soul I have ever experienced myself to be. As a 40 years and aging Woman living today, I feel there isn’t anything that I cannot achieve, succeed in, overcome, evolve to, develop, mature and grow. And still, at …
Informed Consent
16 OF 30 DAYS (3 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) “The information on this list I am consenting to as acceptable. I’m not asking you to comply if its inauthentic to you. However, If you want to date me and eventually be in a romantic relationship & life partnership with me, then I do need …
I’m going to be okay
15 OF 30 DAYS (1 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) "I’m available to talk, adept, and willing." Time has past and distance is lengthening. Enough unfolded and transpired in the silence between. It was communicating even without intention. Anger and Bitterness is what I’ve felt. Still feeling. I say, “what I have experienced …
Improve your Relational Dynamics
“When you’ve experienced so much heartaches and disappointments in relationships, it is easy to think that it maybe your destiny, misfortune, even your path to never experience satisfaction in relating. It’s as if it does not matter wheather it’d be familial, professional, romantic, even friendship. Give it up, you’re just not cut out for it.” …
Misery Loves Company
(3 mins audio listen on Medium @FLO Mystic) It was naive of me to think that I would just get on the plane from Ninoy Aquino International Airport to O’hare and everything will unfold for me like how I had imagined. Narrate it in such a way like a fairy tale. The story of my …
FLORENCE LEONARDO 