I want to shout to the world, "Dang you did it girl!" I feel tired at the moment as I'm writing this towards the end of the day. But this morning I paid off a debt 2 years earlier than it was projected to complete. It was an emotional moment and monumental chapter of my …
Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder
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 …
ANGER: feeling, emotion, being
27 OF 30 DAYS (3 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) The voice is getting louder. The words articulated imply a building up of a potential outburst for intense emotion, which can be unpleasant to be around. “Don’t be angry.” I’ve heard this many times throughout my life and it makes me even more …
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 …
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 …
Discovering Treasure
8 OF 30 DAYS (3 min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) I dread most mornings than some, getting up, getting ready, being at my best self, fully functioning adult, presenting myself as a professional. I will not accredit so much to covid, but since covid, along with the experiences during its time, I noticed I …
The Beginning of the Last
(3min audio read on Medium @FLO Mystic) Yikes, feels like a daunting task. I have envisioned this day and thought when it was still in the future, “that would be pleasant.” HA, I don’t usually use that adjective to describe an experience nor a feeling. I’m realizing that it would indeed be a “pleasant” experience …
FLORENCE LEONARDO 