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09/20/2025

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08/30/2024

Let’s celebrate Miss Lilly! Beauty for sure inside and out. I’ve loved watching you grow into the amazing woman you are now. (Kinda partial since she’s my baby!) More to come!

06/09/2024

04/18/2024

WHEN WE STOP SEEKING APPROVAL

When we aren’t seeking
love and approval from others

When we don’t mind anymore
what they think of us

Whether they like us
Or agree with us
Or understand us
Or even see us

Then we are free

Free to be ourselves
Free to express our authenticity

Free to be wild
Free to be soft
Or fierce
Or silly
Or wise
Or angry
Or silent
Or sensual
Or weird or not

Free to express what’s truly alive for us
And not censor it
Or manipulate it for “likes”
Or control it for “love”
Or moderate it for “acceptance”

We are finally content to be ourselves
Seen or ignored
Ridiculed or celebrated
Loved or hated
Or whatever

It doesn’t really matter
Not on the deepest level anyway

(And it doesn’t mean
we aren’t still open to feedback
and exploring our blind spots)

But we finally approve of ourselves
And accept ourselves
And love ourselves
And feel safe inside of ourselves

So we don’t need to go “out there” for approval

And the hunt for safety “out there” fades away

And we find the deepest safety “in here”

So when they laugh at us
Or dislike our expression
Or ridicule us
Or try to shame us

We can smile
And have compassion
And refocus
And just keep walking the path

The path of authenticity
The path of ourselves

Jeff Foster (www.lifewithoutacentre.com)

07/19/2023

One Day…
an army of furious older women will take over the world.
And I want to be there at the front.

Because one day, every woman wakes up and realises, that quite frankly, they put themselves through too much.
Trying to fit in, trying to be enough, to be attractive, to be acceptable, to be responsible, to be reliable, to be a mother, to be a wife, to be a friend, to be a carer, to hold a career, to keep it all spinning effortlessly….

And in a flash, years and years of back-breaking conformity, whizzes before your eyes and you have a lightbulb moment…
It was never going to happen.
We could never have done it all.

For it is not possible.
No man could do it either. Not a chance.
Women of this world, beautiful, wonderful women – let that lightbulb go on sooner rather than later because when it does, you will be free.
Free to live.
Free to mess up.
Free to take breaks and make mistakes.
Free to pass over on the list of things you ‘should’ be doing.
And you will understand that whatever you did today, it was enough.
You are enough.

One day, an army of furious older women will take over the world and I want to be there, right at the front.

Donna Ashworth

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