Healthy Living with Chantelle Lagatule

Imagine if we always bought 2 of our favorite treats during a spuratic craving at the local dairy and gifted it to another less fortunate person who wouldn't buy something like that on any given day due to cost ..

every time..

imagine that..

So tell me...
What happens when all the content creators run out of content?

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world,
but then I thought there are so many people in the world,
there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that,
yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”

Frida Kahlo 👁

I'm finally alone.

Whoa..

She is powerful!

Traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world.

The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “damaged.” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is.

What they forget is that survivors have the most dangerous advantage of all: resilience.

When you try and you try but you can never bring a woman down, you’ll know there is no going back.

Don’t fool yourself. You could never defeat her. You never will.

This is the woman who will always rise from the dead; Lady Lazarus, after going through hell and back.

This is the woman who has burned her feet in the flames time and time again and always lives to tell another tale – even if she has to crawl back to life. . . .

When someone tells her, “You can’t do it,” she says, “Watch me.”

She is fiery light birthed out of wintery darkness. Brought into the underworld by Hades, Persephone brings forth spring and rebirth when she reemerges finally from the cold.

She owns her shadows and seamlessly weaves them into the fabric of her freedom, creativity, imagination and independence. . . .

She lived all of her nightmares in high definition. She was given every reason to give up, handed every justification to never believe in herself or anyone.

But there is raw magic in the ways in which she cultivates a faith in herself, to manifest the dreams her soul was meant to bring forth.

Despite it all, she still conquers.

She still survives and thrives.

The “damaged” woman is capable of immense manifestation not just in spite of, but because of the traumas she has gone through.

There is no one more motivated than a woman who has constantly been told what she cannot do or who she cannot be throughout her lifetime.

There is no one more determined to succeed than someone who has nothing left to lose.

The “damaged” woman doesn’t sign up for the hardships of her journey – but she plays the hell out of the cards she’s been dealt.

The “damaged” woman is not damaged at all – she is wounded, and in channeling and healing her wounds, she becomes the source of incredible energy, the site of unbelievable potential for abundance and change.

She possesses the power to use her wounds for the greater good and her highest good.

She builds her own success and becomes her own rugged hero; tends to her own scraped knees.
She uses every stone thrown at her to build the foundation for her empire.

Brick by brick she builds – and despite every attempt to tear her walls down, she rescues herself again and again.

Despite it all, this type of survivor may still face hatred, envy, greed from those around her. . . .

As a result, she becomes the survivor of countless witch hunts, the target of many persecutors. Yet when they try to burn her at the stake, she does what comes naturally: she resurrects herself. . . .

Now when she creates, she creates new worlds and transforms and manifests on a level that cannot be recreated by someone who never had to struggle to survive.

When you hear the voice of a powerful survivor and the will of a warrior – there is nothing you can do but to stop and listen.

She is the voice of a million lifetimes lived.

She is the voice of the hopeless and the powerless when the fire is brought back to their eyes. She is the harbinger of the justice that the voiceless have longed to hear and feel and touch.

Regardless of how much you try and how it may seem, you can never truly bring a survivor like this to her knees; she already knows the value her scars bring.

She knows how to fill the cracks between her wounds with gold.

She knows how to transform each bitter word cast upon her into an iron-clad will that will set her and other caged birds free.

You can’t ever defeat a “damaged” woman, because she knows exactly how to save herself.”

Shahida Arabi, excerpts from
SHE IS POWERFUL!
Artist: Cosmic Svasti

Rare for me to post personal stuff on here but this is very close to home...
Maybe if people weren't too far up their own rear ends or have their heads buried in the sand of oblivion and took the time to understand instead of judging, thinking it won’t happen to them because they think they have the ‘perfect family’, then life will be that bit easier for people who experience this.
This rings very close to home for me.
Not only myself but for family and friends.
The days of ‘it’ being shut away and not talked about or even criticised should be over.
Yes there are some that milk the system and others that don't know or understand how much help there is available. Then you get the ones that want nothing more than to be "rid" of the shadow.
Unfortunately for most of us, it is only in the most difficult moments of life you realise who are your true friends and the people who really appreciate you are 😊
It is also very unfortunate, most friends will send you a "like", but in reality they do not actually take the time to read your status if they see it's lengthy. More than half will stop reading right here, or have already scrolled on to the next post in their feed.
I'm posting for anyone who has a friend or family member suffering a terrible mental illness and now I'm watching the ones who will have the time to read this post until the end.
This is a little test, just to see who reads, and who shares without reading.
If you have read everything so far, select "like" so I can put a thank you in your profile because Mental Health Awareness is needed, just because you can not see it, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
People ARE suffering and even dying as a result of Mental Health issues. This is real, it is insidious and people need help.
Maybe it will even strike up a conversation with someone that wouldn't normally talk to you because they don't know how to broach the subject and this becomes their way to reach out.
Please, in honour of a family member or a friend who is suffering or has passed away from mental health, copy and paste this entire message on your page and also try to spare a little of your time with someone who may just want to talk (about anything).
Talking can help someone to cope a little more with their situation, keeping it bottled up just makes it worse.
Most people say, "if you need anything, don't hesitate to call me, I'll be there to help you". So, I'm going to make a bet that most who saw this post (maybe even read all the way to the end) won't, but I believe a select few of my friends will post this, to show their support for their family/friend who may be struggling.
Please just copy (not share) and paste.
I'd like to know who I can count on to take a minute out of their day and actually read my status then write "done" in the comments. Thank you.

The unknown isn't always unsafe, it's the faith I have that things will work out for the better. Stay faithful 🙏🏽

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