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[sungoddess]

Custom Order #keffigal #waistbeads (Lavern Macdonald): Triple strand, #Onyx, (two sizes), cream wooden bead sliders, black dominant, brown and cream seed beads, butterfly charm and metal embellishments. http://www.keffigal.com

[sungoddess]

  My first custom order #waistbeads in two years… unfiltered so you can see all the gorgeous blues. Keffigal.com #keffigal #rootsnculture

Custom Order: Mermaid Blues was originally published on The Goddess ☥ Room

[sungoddess]

Mandatory Self-Care: Patience for the Patient

Journeying into self-care is a journey into self-healing.  In more than 20 years with myself as my primary patient, what I have discovered is this:

In self-care and self-healing, I am the patient and I require patience. Patience with myself and my process produces the most lasting kinds of change, maturity, and in that patience the wisdom of the Ancestors, Spirits, the Iyamis and Mami Watas comes to me. Patient I am in my patience. Loving I am in my Self Love. Caring I am in my Self Care.

We are at the Intersection of Femininity and Self Care.

It starts right where you are, wherever you are, and now.

This morning, I found and reposted this in the Backroom:

the ugliness of self care

“nobody talks about how ugly taking care of yourself can be

yes, sometimes it’s taking a warm bath and texting memes to friends and keeping an aesthetically pretty journal.

sometimes it’s crying silently on your couch at 3am, hugging yourself and reminding yourself that you’re a good person.

self care is not always ‘aesthetic’ and cute…and that’s ok. don’t be embarrassed, just do what you need to do.”

~pocketbucky

Via Ilya Parker

Let me add some more to contemplate.

Be patient. Be patience. Heal thyself and backsliding is allowed because you have your Beloveds and your sisters to hold your space. We must be patient with our sisters. When we say we are our sister’s keepers, it means patience with them and their process too. I does not mean beating them up or punishing them because their process or destination doesn’t look like yours. We are travellers… soul travellers. Embracing your own journey, means being free to embrace others IN their own journey.

The same way, in healing a physical wound, a patient can slide back into illness, infection or secondary problems occur, we appear to backslide. So our process looks like backwards, sideways, middling, navel gazing, all manner of bullshit. Yet, with patience, the patient does recover.

Stop beating allyuh self up, oui? Stop letting other people’s expectations define your process. Embrace your flaws and follies, and bring yourself back to your practise constantly. Like meditation, your practise is your breath, and with distraction and loss of concentration, the growth comes from returning to the practise, not in losing it.

I believe this is how we’re going to change the world.

I ’bout the place… bounce me nah. We are discussing this in The Backroom.

Mandatory Self-Care: Patience for the Patient was originally published on The Goddess ☥ Room

[sungoddess]

  Keffigal Pre-Launch Collection from sungoddess on Vimeo.

This campaign is geared towards sourcing and acquiring sufficient tools, materials, packaging materials and a modest marketing budget to create a small collection of bead sets.

We wish to complete the collection by the end of January 2017.

This will allow us to continue to pursue the development of our mutual benefit platform.

Keffigal Pre-Launch Collection was originally published on The Goddess Room

[keffigalwaistbeads]

Milk N Honey

Single strand: Mother of Pearl accents, sea shell and alternating shades of honey coloured seed beads. 31 inches with "Love" charm and two inches of extension chain. $22.50USD/$45BDS.

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[keffigalwaistbeads]

Black Beauty "Black Beauty" - Single Strand: Large Onyx, two sizes of black, two shades of white frosted, two shades of transparent seed beads with metal accents. $22.50USD/$45BDS (DESIGNER NOTE: This design was named by my son Adedayo!)  All prices in USD for online purchasing... Direct bank transfers, Western Union, Cheques and Cash (Barbados Only) accepted also.

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[sungoddess]

Some years ago, when I was still in England, I was told I needed to make and wear waistbeads.

I’ve been stalking Waistbeads.com for years, but have been attempting to make my own for a while. I finally made some that held together back in October, but it’s amazing.

I made some for myself and Oyadele, but between now and then, I’ve been getting soooo many request from other women to make some for them, it’s become this whole ‘thing’ I’m doing.

It makes me happy.

#waistbeads #eshu #orunmilla #rootsnculture #keffigal

Waistbeads: New Artform Emerges was originally published on The Goddess Room