Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Jun/July 2019 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 57
What good companion plants do you
need to include in your garden?
Cultivating a supportive community is vital to
thriving. Choose to include people in your life
that support and encourage you to blossom,
grow, and thrive! Remember our growth is
amplified when we spend time with other
committed gardeners.
We have the ability to nurture ourselves
to cultivate fertile ground for our growth
and thriving!
Today choose to give yourself permission
to listen to yourself. Follow your heart and
make nurturing choices. Allow yourself to
feel nurtured by every activity you choose
and plant the seeds for more self-nurturing
practices to include in your thriving life.
Explore more ways to cultivate peace and
joy so that your cup overflows into your
saucer and that is where you give from.
We all have the capacity to be gardeners
of our own thriving lives and create ripples
of peace, love, and meaning in the world.
We cannot be truly loving, compassionate
or generous with others if we are not
that way with ourselves first. True self-
nurturing enhances our presence in
the world by allowing us to give from a
filled-up place. Selfishness arises from
scarcity. When we are nurturing and
We all have the
capacity to be
gardeners of our own
thriving lives and
create ripples of peace,
love, and meaning in
the world.
sprout in your garden because you were
too overwhelmed and exhausted to weed
it out. These weeds may come in the form
of responsibilities, commitments, beliefs,
thoughts, paradigms, or unsupportive
people. Recognizing what needs to be
weeded is critical to making space in your
life for health and vibrancy and letting
them go is a powerful act of self-love and
self-nurturing.
caring deeply for ourselves we have
the capacity to shine our love and light
generously in the world.
Become the gardener of your own
thriving life and nurture peace in
the world from the inside out!
Peace, love and gratitude,
Kelley
Kelley Grimes, MSW - Kelley is a counselor,
speaker, internationally bestselling author,
Aspire Magazine expert columnist, and
self-nurturing expert. She is passionate
about empowering overwhelmed and
exhausted individuals to live with more
peace, joy and meaning through the practice of self-nurturing.
Kelley also provides professional and leadership
development to organizations dedicated
to making the world a better place. She is
married to an artist, has two empowered
daughters, and loves singing with a small women’s group. Learn
more at www.CultivatingPeaceandJoy.com and download your free
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