#thegratefulmission

[tawshadawn]

By no means am I saying that we’ve gone too far in the self love department. But I am saying self love is only a piece of the puzzle. 🥰🧩⠀ ⠀ KEY WORD BEING LOVE. 🔑 ❤️⠀ ⠀ Love isn’t meant to be exclusive to just ourselves, just our kids, just our family and friends. LOVE Is meant to be shared by ALL, to ALL. To your neighbor, the the random human you walk by on the street, to the lady working at the grocery store. Everyone deserves love and we all have the power to share it. ⠀ ⠀ It’s FREE. It costs nothing to hold space for another human being and can be as simple as a hug, a connection of eye contact or even just a smile. ⠀ ⠀ Loving ourselves is essential but loving others is the big picture we can no longer ignore. ⠀ ⠀ This is why I’ve created “the Grateful Mission” ⠀ Join myself and countless others on changing the world by changing our perspective.. and of course it free to join.💗⠀ ⠀ Here’s what we do.. ⠀ ⠀ 1) Perform one random act of kindness each day. ⠀ Examples::⠀ - Giving a homeless person food or simply a text to someone you love reminding them you love them. ⠀ - Send flowers to someone hurting or simply smile and say hello to someone you walk past. - Hold the door for someone or leave a love note for your spouse or children. ⠀ ⠀ 2) Each day write down 3 things you are grateful for. Might be about your previous day or just about life in general. ⠀ Example:: snuggles with someone you love or simply the sun came out. ⠀ ⠀ These daily weekly or just random actions can be shared on you’re social media to promote others to share in these LOVE ACTIONS (don’t forget to tag @tawshdawn for a repost) or they can be kept private. Neither is wrong or right, just simply a matter of your own comfort and preference. ⠀ ⠀ Love to you all. 💖💖⠀ If you’re already practicing the Grateful Mission or haven’t started yet but would like to join us, comment below👇🏼👇🏼⠀ ⠀ #thegratefulmission #lovetoall #spreadthelove #weallhavealoveweb #selflove ⠀ (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4aPYyogd0O/?igshid=uwr3kd1tphzn

[tawshadawn]

3 things I’m grateful for. 📸⠀ 1) Stanley ⠀ 2) Mealtrain⠀ 3) Pj’s ⠀ Thank you to @marnie_mcrae for our meal this evening 🙏🏼❤️⠀ #thegratefulmission ⠀ (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B38WpcPg09j/?igshid=1gt2jfsr3nkx3

[tawshadawn]

Charlotte’s Web! 😍😍⠀ Since my stage 3 ovarian cancer diagnosis the love and support my family and I have received has been nothing short of miraculous. Really from everyone we know, to a whole lot of people we don’t know. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This meme originally posted by @seersuckerandwhiskey really hit home to me. I feel like Wilber 🐷 in wondering why? Why are all of these people going out of their way to do extra special things for us. Bringing food, driving our children to and from, family photos, random texts, comments and messages of love and support, holding fundraisers for us, donating to my go fund me.com/tawshadawn for my treatment, making/buying bracelets in honour of my cause, really the list goes on and on. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ I have to say, Charlotte 🕷 sure is a smart little spider. Her words brought me to tears. “You have been my friend”.. the answer is that simple. How we make someone feel is so powerful. Holding space for another human being creates a love connection that can’t be denied. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Ironically I call this our LOVE WEB. 🕸 It’s like throughout our lives we create a web of all of the people we’ve connected with. Even if it’s just for a brief moment. And every connection that happens, stems from love. We wouldn’t connect with them if it wasn’t for love. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Then one day when we least expect it and we need it the most, that web is there to catch us, to love us and to hold us up until we are ready to carry on, on our own. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Every time you burn a bridge you push a person to the outer edge of your web and if you have too many holes you might have a harder fall. Take care of your web, show love and kindness and don’t allow the small stuff to burn holes in your web. (Ps. don’t worry, everyone’s web has holes.) ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ This totally aligns with my new project “the Grateful Mission”. Being grateful and doing random acts of kindness helps to grow your web and tighten it. You can never go wrong with love and kindness. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Check out my post on the Grateful Mission and let me know if you’d like to join us❤️⠀ #charlottesweb #wilber #charolette #thegratefulmission (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B33qqVyApeg/?igshid=cb2chg479ht8

[tawshadawn]

I am back. 😍 this past month has NOT been easy. But life hiccups are normal and it’s ok to not be everything you “think” you should be all the time. If you need a life break.. then take a life break. When you’re ready you’ll spring back like you always do.. but you have to put in the work. ⠀ ⠀ Well my spring has sprung!! My docs are giving me a couple of months off chemotherapy.. Porty Spice is healing and doing well, no more fever, my immunity is still “very” low but I know it’ll come back up, my pain is still there but it’ll subside and I’m feeling like I can get started back on my workouts again. #nojudgingonthepizza #iamonlyhuman ⠀ ⠀ Why don’t I wait until I’m “no longer” in pain? Because I know keeping my body strong will help my pain and will give my body the endorphins and serotonins that it needs to heal and feel good. I AM DESIGNING MY LIFE. I refuse to let the cancer or the chemo design it for me. ⠀ ⠀ It all comes down to loving and nurturing your body, your mind and your soul— whatever that means for you. Your life and your happiness matters.. so when you’re ready, make the switch to be what you want to become. ⠀ #beittobecomeit #thegratefulmission (at Edmonton, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/B32LcLKABcT/?igshid=17s07k5wh8qqu