Welcome

Well hi there, its so nice to have you! Please sit back and stay awhile.

This is the space I have created to share my experience and inspiration with other Mama’s that have taken the journey down the Road Less Traveled (and in their quest for Staying True to themselves, may have taken a few “Adventurous” turns along the way).

This is a place to share the tools that have been graciously shared with me and express the beauty I capture and create in the world around me .

It is where self-expression meets self-actualization

This is the journey to my path Home and a soft place, if you need, to land.

Many Blessings Upon You,

Nina- The Magdalene Mama

Beauty Surrounds You

 

Plunging into Lovely

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would not have been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed your fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.                         St. Augustine of Hippo

Free To Be Me

The Declaration Of The Magdalene Mama

I AM NO LONGER CONSTRAINED BY THE confines of societies rules AND BELIEFS.

I EXPRESS MYSELF FREELY, WITH PURE INTENTION, DISCONNECTED FROM WHAT OTHERS DEEM ACCEPTABLE AND RIGHT.

I AM TRUE TO ME, AND MY DAUGHTER; I WILL NOT falter FROM MY TRUTH- THE TRUTH I WORKED desperately AND OPENLY TO FIND WITHIN.

I WILL RESPECT the TRUTH of others AND BE CONSIDERATE OF WHERE THEY ARE AT    ON the PATH TO AWAKENING CONCIOUSNESS; KNOWING CLEARLY THAT THERE IS NO “ONE WAY” TO THE divine.

I WILL LOOK PAST THE EGO, AND AT TIMES UNCONCIOUSNESS OF OTHERS, TO THEIR HEART, THEIR TRUE ESSENCE, AS BEST AS I POSSIBLY CAN.

I WILL REMAIN OPEN AND WILLING TO CONTINUE TO LEARN, TO REMAIN  A STUDENT AND TO BE WILLING TO SHARE MY TRUTH WHEN IT IS ASKED OF ME-NEVER FORCING, ALWAYS STRIVING TO REMAIN conscious OF GRACE.

I  NO LONGER CARRY THE BURDEN OF STAYING SMALL SO OTHERS MIGHT FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE AND STAND IN THE SPACE OF BEING BIG, PLAYING FULL OUT and knowing my greatness.

I will LEND A HAND,BUT NEVER CARRY , WHEN SOMEONE REACHES OUT FOR help or UNDERSTANDING. When I carry someone, I interrupt the lesson the universe is trying to teach them; I am no longer honoring them or myself.

I RETURN ALL PAST BELIEFS THAT WERE BESTOWED UPON ME TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS AND TAKE BACK ALL THE PIECES OF ME I GAVE TOO FREELY- freely TO THOSE THAT TOOK WITH BOTH HANDs leaving only morsels behind.

I STAND FOR LOVE, connectedness + EQUALITY AMONG ALL BEINGS, FREE AND CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND HONORING MYSELF AND ALL OTHERS FOR WHO AND WHERE THEY ARE ON THEIR JOURNEY.

WE ARE ALL EXACTLY WHERE WE NEED TO BE, LEARNING THE EXACT LESSONS WE NEED TO LEARN AND WILL experience ENLIGHTENMENT + consciousness AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME.

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Inspiration for You on this wonderful day of thanks:

Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. | Video on TED.com.

Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.

Click the pink link above to view this powerful and heartwarming presentation.

Sending you love and warmest wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving,

Nina

 

While You Were Dreaming…

While you were dreaming in the early morning,

I picked you flowers and caught for you

a handful of the first morning light…

 

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Denying the Critic

I have read and been told many times and in many different ways that one should dissolve the critic in your head. Kill him with kindness or action, meditation or affirmations.

This is wonderful advice for some but I realized recently that it does not work for me.

I was sitting in deep thought after some really deep soul work and the critic came up and wanted to go a round with me. I recognized him (for me it’s a “him”) and almost pushed him out when it occurred to me that I Recognized The Critic and know him all to well.

For me,  I find it best to welcome the critic, for now, so that I can acknowledge him and kindly mother him, for just a minute, and then detach from him with love.

It gives me a chance to reaffirm my positive beliefs and strengths and mother myself to freedom.

 

Little Treasures & Simple Pleasures

Little Treasures

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A small sampling of this evenings Sunset Ritual here at the farmhouse

We are sure to take time out each evening, just before dinner, to walk up on the land and envelope ourselves in the beauty that surrounds us.

There are always little treasures to find and tonight there were an abundance.

A discarded nest, robin egg, turkey egg and best of all blackberries!

This is what grounds me with oh-so-much gratitude.

Everything is just so alive. The sky. The animals. The Land.

And mostly, our Hearts.

Greetings and Salutations

Welcome to my personal blog!

I am preparing to share with you all of the gifts that have been graciously shared with me and some of the first of many goodies .

Please check back in a couple of days to experience what The Magdalene Mama is all about.

Blessings,

Nina- The Magdalene Mama