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Women's Leadership Mindset Series

Sarah Dawkins

Naturally Healthy

Holistic Health and Healing Coach 

Hello. I am Sarah Dawkins. I was born in a small, deprived, northern town in England and I left school without many qualifications because I was regularly bullied.

After marrying my husband, I decided to follow in my mother’s footsteps and become a Registered Nurse. When I enquired about the process, I was refused access to training as I didn’t have the required qualifications. SO, I went to college and did more than was necessary, to prove to myself that I could do it.

I trained as a Nurse, then went on to get my bachelor’s degree and, not being satisfied with it, I went on and took my master’s degree in nurse leadership.

My core values are passion reliability, honesty and commitment. Passion drives reliability and commitment and honesty builds trust.

During my work as a Registered Nurse, I began to feel less and less fulfilled. I loved working with the clients, but I felt work was more about targets, paperwork and medications. I believed that we needed to be looking for the root cause of the health problem that had brought these people into hospital, i.e. being proactive rather than reactive.

I left hospital nursing to set up my business as a Registered Nurse doing some training and medico-legal work. During this time, I entered some entrepreneurial competitions. The first competition I entered, I had to do a PowerPoint presentation (yes, it was a while ago). I did not even know what PowerPoint was!! I had to learn how to use it as well as think about what I was going to say. This was to be my first public speaking event. I was terrified.

All my slides were black and white with far too many words on each. I almost read each and every slide and spoke to the wall rather than the audience. My voice trembled, my hands were sweating and my heart was pounding. However, I did it and won my first award as an entrepreneur. I went on to become a multi-award winning entrepreneur. Still, I did not feel fulfilled.

Having naturally self-healed several health conditions, from eczema, reflux, psoriasis, candida, underactive thyroid, burnt out adrenal glands, two frozen shoulders, multiple joint pains and a suicidal depression, I believed that I could help others to do the same. Pharmaceuticals have a place in emergency and trauma medicine and surgery, but there is much that we can do for ourselves.

I decided to train as a coach, to help people to find and naturally self-heal their health problems from the root cause. I work with people who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, as well as those who want to improve their health and ultimately their lives. I found that I had to remind my clients that they were born healers, their body knows what to do. Because I have already healed myself, I find it easy to build trust with my clients. As I understand the many intricacies of health problems, I can relate to much of what they are going through.

I soon realised this is my dharma--my life purpose. I really feel passionate about what I do, and I get so much pleasure out of watching my clients recover and live a better, healthier life. I feel honoured to be a part of their journey.

This work ties in with the identity of servant leader, the type of leader I was identified as during my master’s degree. Servant leaders are centred on the desire to be of service to help others and they walk their talk. I am aware of how my lifestyle choices impact my health and I strive to do the best I can. Some people call me crazy, while others come to me for advice.

Research is a friend. It keeps my mind open and receptive to new ideas as well as further develops my knowledge and critical thinking skills. Research is always evolving, so it is necessary to keep up to date with latest developments.

I have written and published my book, HEAL YOURSELF, about my own and seventy-four others healing journeys. We all share our diagnoses and how we healed ourselves, so that the reader can do the same. We have healed from conditions diagnosed by doctors as chronic, lifelong and life-threatening. My book has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French, with Greek currently being translated. My hope is that people will read it and see that it is possible to naturally self-heal and start their own journeys.

Dr. Joe Dispenza suggests that for someone to change their belief that something is impossible, they only have to see one person doing what they thought impossible.

My future aim is to set up wellness centres globally and start a podcast. I want to reach as many people as possible and help them to understand the power they have over their own health and bodies. As people start to heal, I believe they will share their healing with others and a new generation of healthy people will grow.

After going through everything I have been through, I would encourage anyone to follow their passion. Do what you feel is right for you. Let go of other people’s opinions. Move forward. If you fail, congratulate yourself as many people never start. Find the lesson to help you to learn and grow from the experience. Next time, you are starting from experience, not from scratch.

As Henry Ford says, “If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.”

Sarah Dawkins, BSc (Hons), MSc, Accredited Master Coach 

Holistic Health and Healing Coach 

About Sarah Dawkins

Sarah is a Holistic Health and Healing Coach, Keynote Speaker, the Author of HEAL YOURSELF and a Multi-Award Winning Entrepreneur.

Previously, she was a Registered Nurse for twenty years. Sarah has extensive experience in health and wellness from her many years in nursing and her insatiable drive to improve overall health through nutrition and natural means. 

After naturally self-healing a multitude of health issues, Sarah understands what it is like to be sick. She uses the knowledge gained through her own personal healing journey and experience as a nurse to take a holistic approach in her work,

Sarah works with clients all over the globe, supporting them to find and heal the root cause of their health problems, through exploring their lifestyles and beliefs.

When she’s not working, Sarah can be found outside in nature or in the kitchen.

Connect With Sarah

Website - www.sarahdawkins.com

LinkedIn - /sarahdawkins

Facebook - /dawkinsse

Instagram - @sarah.dawkins.health

Twitter - @dawkins_sarah

Women's Leadership Mindset Series featuring Julie Zaruba Fountaine

Julie Zaruba Fountaine

EMPOWER Possible, LLC

“Together We Can Regenerate Our World." 

Do You Feel The Love?

Can you believe it is already the first week of June? Life moves fast and seems to move faster by the day. Sometimes it can feel like we are spinning out of control with no end in sight. As the pace of life speeds up you may feel drawn to activities that can slow life down. One of these activities is meditation.

Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, defines mindfulness as being fully conscious in the current moment. Thich Nhat Hanh believed mindfulness was the secret not just to happiness but to being authentically alive. Traditional meditation has many benefits, with practice you will begin to see the benefits of meditation including management of anger, social anxiety, improved concentration, and memory recall.

Meditation is not always easy, be patient with yourself and you will soon see the benefits. I remember the first time I tried meditation. I often found I was so relaxed it was hard not to fall asleep! I now know I need to practice meditation in the morning so I am not as distracted and not too tired. There are many forms of meditation. One form that has been particularly helpful for me during difficult times with others and when I am feeling disappointed is loving-kindness meditation. 

During loving-kindness meditation, you focus on moving loving energy toward yourself and others.  Take a few minutes of your day to practice loving-kindness through meditation. To sign up to receive a free loving kindness video, click below:

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Together we can regenerate our world!

“The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

Julie Fountaine

Founder of EMPOWER Possible, LLC

ABOUT JULIE

Julie Zaruba Fountaine is the Founder of EMPOWER Possible, LLC, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Mary, and a Well-Being Specialist at Essentia Health. Julie received her B.A. in Exercise Science with a Spanish Minor from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, her M.S. in Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Science from North Dakota State University, and her MBA in Change and Leadership from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN. 

Her leadership philosophy is to be data-informed, deliberately collaborative, and strategically results-oriented so that she can deliver superior health and wellness initiatives, programs, and events that result in improved morale, increased well-being, and a positive financial outcome.

Over the past decade, Julie has empowered individuals to reach their full potential, teams to develop their strengths, and organizations to build well-being programs and policies.  Julie consistently finds inspiration while living in Northern Minnesota surrounded by the north woods and the shores of Lake Superior. Her website is www.empowerpossible.com where you can find EMPOWERed online courses, coaching, and consulting services.

Connect With JULIE

Website - www.empowerpossible.com

Free Loving Kindness Video: https://www.empowerpossible.com/p/loving-kindness-meditation-free-video

The Rediscovery of Us: The Silver Lining of A Global Pandemic

Regardless of how dark the 2020s has been to date and how hard the human family has been kicked in the chest by this pandemic, we were never powerless! Each of us held, and still hold, the power to choose whether to surrender to the malaise of this moment or to vehemently ride this wave to preserve life at all costs. The fight is yet active, but we are beginning to see hope. I wonder who we will be as a collective when we get to the other side of this? That is to be seen. Yet, I am optimistic that we will emerge as a victorious people so that this interruption in our history and culture will not be for naught.

I cannot, in good conscious, deny the silver linings and the portals of opportunities that opened because of COVID-19. We were given the gift to pull over from the rat race of making a living to possess life! This was a unique moment in time to move at supernatural speed to revisit or create new ventures and inventions. This was the time to repair existing relationships or create new ones at a social distance or virtually. This was the time to address our finances; buy or sell property and make serious money moves. This was the time to rediscover US!

Being quarantined, we were forced to look in the mirror to settle accounts with our personal selves whether we wanted to or not. Whose image did we see in the reflection? Did we see the person we have become by circumstance or the person we always dreamed to be? I am inclined to believe it was the former. The right now question is, who showed up on our behalf in the boardrooms, offices, classrooms, restaurants and warehouses as we reopened? Our stunt-double? Or our true authentic self ready to embrace our full value?

I trust it is the latter, for as a global citizenship, we have a real opportunity to paint a new reality for ourselves and our children if we have the courage to “Become Undone”! You see, to "Be Undone” is more than a suggestion. It is a command! It is a divine permission to fall open and unleash the totality of our beauty in its full concentration without restraint, compromise or forgiveness. It is a mandate to turn the miraculous into norms and make the exceptional the rule. It is the utter annihilation of any watered-down version of ourselves (Page, 2021).”

Bottomline, it is time for us to roll off the dust of this dark season and start living; for we are not who we were when we walked into this epidemic! We are in a special moment wherein regular citizens are now in the power seat willing to seek positions of purpose; courageous to negotiate livable wages and committed to setting boundaries for real work/life balance! We speak of being in the age of a Great Resignation, but it may be possible that we are finally ready to take our place upon our assigned mountains in Business, Education, Entertainment, Family, Finance, Government and Religion. It is also possible that we can no longer live beneath our massive potential.

Here is the good news! The windows of possibility are not closed just yet. We still have room to reset our lives; create witty innovations and act upon new concepts that will bring us into a place of sustainability. There is still time to release the 2.0 version of yourself by assessing the distance between who you are now and who you want to be. How you determine to close the gap will be your plan of execution that will require time, urgency, commitment and an upgrade on your personal development.

To prepare for your next big life move, consider one of the following suggestions:

Should your plan of action require an enhanced set of knowledge, consider earning an educational credential. To discuss a desired program of study, contact the education institution of interest to request an appointment with an Admissions Advisor.

Should your plan of action require a career reset, consider connecting with a Career Center for progressive career support. To sharpen your interviewing skills; update your resume or gain access to career events, schedule an appointment with your alma mater or community’s Career Advisor.

Should your plan of action require upward movement in you career, consider seeking professional growth opportunities with your current employer. To learn about internal leadership trainings, mentorships, stretch assignments and promotions, request a meeting with your manager and/or HR department.

Should your plan of action require starting or growing a business, consider contacting your local Small Business Development Center to learn about resources related to business planning, digital marketing, financial projections and more, contact your local center to request a one-on-one consultation with a counselor.

As I bring this conversation to a close, I pray that we will effectively eradicate this illness together and that our hearts will mend from its outcomes. In the meantime, I commission each of you to "Be Undone" this day forth and to never look back!

Let’s move forward!

Teresa K. Page, LLC | Performance Coach, Author and Speaker

Helping Professional Women Renew Their Leadership Mindset and Confidence to Re-Enter the Workplace with Fresh Fire and Purpose!

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Keep Doing What You Are Doing!!

One of the recent lessons the Lord has taught me is to never allow anyone that cannot do what I do, judge what I do.

Now, this lesson does not imply that I am immuned to criticism or above correction. However, I am old enough in the Lord to know that He conducts business to cause His children to triumph—not second guess their purpose or their ministry.

All of us have an destiny to fulfill and each destiny is designed with its own set of sustainable provisions such as:

Assigned Champions placed to guide us; hold us accountable and help us improve upon that which we have committed our lives to.

An assigned people, region, territory or domain whose predestined circumstance matches our predestined remedy.

An acute awareness to accurately determine the difference between the Lord’s voice versus the voice of detractors and distractors.

As we continue on to do our work, we must: keep our band of champions small; understand that our solutions are not formulated to solve every problem and know the Lord will speak on His own behalf when we are attuned to listen!

So, to those of us that have already said yes to our purpose, let us stay focused and make full proof of our call! Let us adjust our format as needed, but not our message! Let us be willing to be the last one standing for the cause of our work! But most importantly, at all costs, let us keep doing that thing we are made to do!

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Be Undone: The Destruction of Teresa Page As You Knew Her!

A few days ago, I was reminded about an ancient passage of scripture written by the beloved scribe Enoch, which walked with the Lord. He indicated that the Lord--who is self-eternal and not made with hands--could not find peace until He made visible the creation, He created from non-being and invisible things. According to this writing, the Lord called forth Light and commanded Light to "Become Undone"! And Light became undone and made visible all the creation that the Lord thought to create! After an age, the Lord then called forth Darkness and commanded Darkness to “Be Opened”! And during its age, Darkness became open birthing the creation of all lower things.

 In the midst of these ages, the Lord made Himself a throne, sat down, said it was good and let it rip from that point forward! It was not until everything He conceived in His thoughts was made manifest that He was able to rest on the seventh day!

I hope you were able to catch what I just shared. If not, let me summarize it for you. Carrying the thought of creation, the Lord of Glory could not find peace! He was only able to rest after He created what He was carrying!! The moral? We, the very images of God, are no different from our Heavenly Father. For we will not find the peace that passes all understanding or the rest that enables us to cease from our own works until we release that deep thing we are to create in this earth realm!  

This revelation has taken my breath away and has cleared the smoke to help me understand my purpose and focus for this year and beyond! It has also helped me close the books of my past by revealing the source of my restlessness felt in the past year and explaining why I had to contend with the most fierce giants that detected I was getting too close to the truth.

You see, to "Be Undone”, is more than a command! It is a divine permission to fall open and unleash the totality of our beauty in its full concentration without restraint, compromise or forgiveness! It is the utter annihilation of our former watered-down selves! It is a mandate to turn the miraculous into norms and make the exceptional the rule!! It is our opportunity to cause our Heavenly Father to marvel and say, “Now, that is good”!

Since I came into direct contact with this knowledge, I have not been right with myself. I am altered and can no longer exist as I did before these disclosures or operate with this kind of dominion download on my hands. I am becoming unrecognizable and “Teresa 2.0” is actively staging an internal revolt demanding release!

 It would make me more comfortable to liken this revelation experience to a crossroad, wherein I could pretend that I have a choice in the matter and hold myself captive for another season. But, I have no such luxury! In fact, the Lord in His genius and timing has brought me to a place where I have nothing else to lose and no place to turn literally! All that remains is the opportunity to manifest the beautiful, genuine and organic treasures the He has successfully excavated in my earthen vessel.

My excavation has taken years to uncover a portion of its yield! It has required the relenting of my self-reliance; stretchings; prunings; humiliations; losses; NOs; YESs; facing my worst fears; taking hard blows to the chest; knockdowns; get-ups; the eluding of promises; the dismantling of my faith and the renewal thereof! Though I am still in transformation progress, I am learning the endurance of the aforementioned pressures and discomforts were not for naught! For what is ultimately coming to the surface is a refined purpose that will nourish this generation and the ages to come long after I am gone!

So, here’s to being undone!!

Here’s to being opened!! 

Here's to the destruction of Teresa Page as you knew her!

The Hope of His Calling

An Excerpt From “My Journey to Wholeness: The Sojourn Continues”

Want a real battle on your hands? Tell a Page woman that she does not work hard—and the fight is on as a never ending list of all she has done with little to no sleep is tallied. As an apple hanging from the same family tree, you cannot tell me I have not put my time in! I was living on my own at the age of 17 and since that time, I have wholly poured out my soul onto good and righteous matters! In the name of the Lord, all that I have performed was accomplished with a fervent anointing and sincere heart. Impressed? Me neither.

For the past twenty some years, I have been pretending to walk out my life’s calling. Afraid to compete, I have taken planned escape routes to avoid true achievement. In my cloud of working menial jobs; hiding out in small towns; championing other people’s projects and entangling myself in doomed relationships, I have managed to paint the facade that I am actually happy and taken good care to keep purposelessly busy!

I have to come clean! Daily I am mocked by the restless disgruntled groaning in my belly for not living my little girl dreams. The glimpses of my destiny haunt me without ceasing and I cannot find solace. I am fully aware that the Lord Himself has orchestrated the housing of books, music and businesses in the chasm of my person, but I still run from the notion that my aspirations live in corporate buildings and in global markets. I figured if I ignored these foolish thoughts long enough, I would wax old and they would leave in peace. Not so! Every morning I awake to New Mercy staring me dead in my eyes daring me to become all the Lord smiled and predestined me to be millenniums ago! I give up! I give up, for even my body is turning on me for tolerating the delayed fulfillment of my life’s intent! I can no longer avoid the hope of the Lord’s calling on my life (Ephesians 1:18)! Uncle—I cry, Uncle!

Like a bolt of lightning striking me in my chest, I am forever changed by the next italicized words of Proverbs 13:12. “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life”. Let me repeat that. “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life”.

These seventeen words answered why I often scaled the ledges of depression. It was not that I was slowly losing my mind! It was not that I was weak in body! It was not that my life was spiraling in shambles. On the contrary, for my intelligence is quick on its strong feet as they stand in the most awesome of places. Plainly put, the root source of my blue funks, which could paralyze me for days, was the sheer postponement of my destiny.

It is most interesting to me that Proverbs would mention the sickness of the heart instead of the body, but I get it. Heartsickness is a documented illness that ultimately takes shape in varying degrees and forms of depression. Whether classified as the mildest “low spirits” or the most extreme “melancholia”, depression, left to do its work, has the ability to debilitate the entire human body from the destruction of the emotions to the breakdown of its functional systems.

Could the deferment of our hope be the real reason many are physically and mentally sick among us?

This is a theory to strongly consider, for if we look at our communities, schools, workplaces, houses of worship and especially the hospitals and prisons, the candlelight of ambition has dimly cooled. The lack of vision is fatal! It fades natural beauty; trades swift footsteps for shiftless scuffles and chemically warps the brain from producing original imagination! Such conditions coupled with systematic laws designed to prevent success subjects the human soul to slavery.

It is not coincidental that the symptoms of underachievement are mistaken for affliction. We make appointments to sit in sterile doctor’s offices just to stand in line at a white washed pharmacy with an illegible prescription in hand to pacify our subsistence! This minimal level of survival cannot be medicated and we consciously know it! Yet, we are twistedly comforted to cope with poorly disguised mechanisms designed to sedate the mind into crippled living. Regardless of our sedation efforts, we are ever awake and incapable of escaping the fact that a life lived opposing its intention is of low generic quality. It is time to stop popping the pretty colored pills; snap out of this trance and unplug from this ungodly matrix!

I know what many of us are thinking! We think that it is too late to begin and that we do not have what it takes! Oh, but the devil is a liar, for this is the age of the unlikely hopefuls. We are not only highly suspect, but perfect prime candidates that are most apt to confound the wise! 2 Peter 1:10 affirms, “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall”. Who cares if many of us do not have a silver spoon jammed in our mouths—we shall never fall! Forget that we are labeled as the forgotten, the overlooked and underestimated—we shall never fall! Though we may be uncultured, unpolished and very rough around the edges—we shall never fall!

The Lord highly enlightens and anoints His people to walk upright in the offices He has placed us. Too wise to utilize a singular approach, there are a myriad of gifts, operations and administrations, specialized by the same Holy Spirit, for us to fulfill our work in the earth (I Corinthians 12:1-31)! So, as long as Philippians 1:6 tells me, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ”—there is hope!

Therefore, with both fear and bravery, I take a deep breath to answer the call.

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The Rediscovery of Us: The Silver Lining of A Global Pandemic

As far as pandemics go, COVID-19 had it all! It sucked! It was inconvenient! It was unfair! It was frustrating! It was scary! It was dirty! It took the lives of so many members of our global family! It may even have long-term effects on our survivors! And if the aforementioned was not quite enough, this common enemy of mankind brought its buddies of variants, magnified emotional distress, isolation, social unrest, political buffoonery, domestic terrorism and economic challenges along for the ride.

Though this pandemic kicked us all square in the chest, we, the human family, were never powerless! Each of us held the power to choose whether to succumb to the malaise of this moment or to vehemently ride this wave to the other side to preserve life at all costs! Though the fight is yet active, we are beginning to see the light at the other end of this tunnel. Who will we be when we get to the other side? That is to be seen. But, if we are the same as we were prior to, then this interruption in our history and culture will be for naught!

As dark a time as 2020 and 2021 has been, I cannot, in good conscious, deny the silver linings and the portals of opportunities that were opened. We were given the gift of an entire year at home to pull over from the rat race of making a living to possess life! This was the time to move at supernatural speed to revisit or create new ventures and inventions. This was the time to repair existing relationships or create new ones in the virtual world. This was the time to repair our credit; refinance existing loans for lower interest rates; buy or sell property and make serious money moves in the stock market.

Above all, this was the time to rediscover US!   

Whether we wanted to or not, this pandemic should have forced us to look in the mirror to settle accounts with our personal selves. Whose image did we see in the reflection? Did we see the person we have become by circumstance or the person we always dreamed to be? I am inclined to bet it was the former. The right now question is, who gets to show up on our behalf in the boardrooms, offices and warehouses when all of this is over? Our stunt-double? Or our true authentic self, ready to embrace our full value; willing to seek a position of purpose; courageous to negotiate a livable wage and committed to setting boundaries for real work/life balance?

Again, the power of choice remains in our hands; for we as a global citizenship have a real opportunity to paint a new reality for ourselves and our children if we have the courage to “Become Undone”! You see, to "Be Undone” is more than a suggestion. It is a command! It is a divine permission to fall open and unleash the totality of our beauty in its full concentration without restraint, compromise or forgiveness. It is a mandate to turn the miraculous into norms and make the exceptional the rule. It is the utter annihilation of any watered-down version of ourselves!”*

We are in a special moment in time; for regular citizens are now in the power seat. Human capital is not cheap, and I am not sure that the early suspension of federal aid in some states will be able to force the hand of their constituents to return to less than honorable working conditions. I do believe that we are dawning an age of a Great Resignation as many begin to take their rightful places upon their mountain of Business, Education, Religion, Entertainment, Arts, Family or Government. It is also possible that there will also be a “Great Termination” as many employees fail to allow their potential to be reduced to organizational status quos.  

Bottomline, it is time for us to roll off the dust of this dark season and start living! We are not who we were when we walked into this epidemic, and I am optimistically glad about that. I can only hope that we utilized this time to reset our lives; create witty innovations and prepared to execute upon our new concepts and visions that will bring us into a place of sustainability.

In closing, I commission you to "Be Undone", this day forth and to do the following:  

Utilize your time with urgency to hone your giftings by way of education or development. The following pathways include, but are not limited to:

Earning a credential such as a certificate or a program degree. To discuss a desired program of study, contact the college or university of interest to request an appointment with an Admissions Advisor.

Connecting with your alma mater’s Career Center for career advancement tools and events such as: Interviewing Skills, Resume Writing Assistance, Internships/Apprenticeships, Career Fairs and Job Boards. This is an overlooked resource available to current college students and alumni seeking a career change.

Seeking new career options with your current employer. Consider scheduling a meeting with your manager and/or HR department to learn about professional growth opportunities such as: leadership trainings, mentorships, stretch assignments and internal promotions.

Contacting your local Small Business Development Center. Small Business Development Centers are designed to help entrepreneurs organize, develop and launch their businesses the right way providing guidance and resources related to business planning, digital marketing, financial projections and so much more. Learn more by requesting a one-on-one consultation with a counselor.

Never let a good storm go to waste! When the storms of adversity or crisis come for you to test your validity, do not run! Use the rage of the storm to strengthen your character! Listen to its winds for the lesson you must learn! Then make the storm work for you by allowing it to blow off unnecessary rubbish to reveal the kind of person you truly are!

Discover yourself and the treasures you possess to build generational wealth!

Optimize relevant platforms to practice the functions of your gifts in safety! And stretch your talents beyond its comfort zones to see what they can really do!

Never allow external factors to define or make you ashamed for being an Original! Ground yourself in your value and keep your self-esteem in check! For our first responses of low esteem is to hide who we truly are!

Erase and eject any ideas that your gifts and talents are for your personal pleasure alone! They are tools destined to dazzle, confound, heal and set free the world around you!**

If I may raise my glass and propose a toast…

Here’s to eradicating this pandemic together forever!

Here’s to the healing of our collective heart’s!

Here’s to the discovery of a new world!

Now, let’s go to work!

THANK YOU FOr Visiting My Blog!!

Thank you for taking a moment to review my thoughts on this matter! I look forward to taking a deeper dive into a few of the subtopics in the coming days and weeks. If you would like to follow the conversation, feel free to connect with me! Until next time, be well and stay safe!

REFERENCES

*A reference from: “Be Undone: The Destruction of Teresa Page as You Knew Her” by Teresa Page (http://teresakpage.squarespace.com/tkpagejourneysblog/2019/2/3/be-undone-the-destruction-of-teresa-page-as-you-knew-her)

**A reference from: “Be Undone: A Charge To The Young Poets And Writers Of Fulton Science Academy” by Teresa Page (https://teresakpage.squarespace.com/tkpagejourneysblog/2020/1/30/be-undone-a-charge-to-the-young-poets-and-writers-of-fulton-science-academy)

A Revelation of a Former Servant

A few days ago, I was seeking the Lord’s wisdom on a particular matter and as I expected direction, the Lord said to me that I have been showing up to Kingdom opportunities dressed as a servant.

Ummm…Owww!

While this was hard to hear, in His loving kindness, He did not leave me there, but challenged me to read Galatians chapter 4. It has taken some time to get around to it, but I finally took a moment to read it the other night and understand why it was necessary!  

As I look over my life, the Lord was right! The many places I found myself over the past 20 years where not conducive to my intrinsic skill sets, but was directly in alignment to my low esteem. I camped out in unlikely territories driven by perfection, because I did not believe that I belonged in higher dimensions. I was an imposter hiding in plain sight! Yet, without fail, there was always somebody that would call me out in the spirit to demand, “You don’t belong here!”

Again, I say, OUCH!  

After reading Galatians 4, the revelation hit me in the very pit of my stomach, because up until this point, I took pride in my service to others and servant leadership all in the name of Christ! While that seems honorable, doing so was never the Lord's intent nor the reason why Jesus Christ came to redeem Man.

We thought it was all about our sin,  but Jesus came to restore us to our original place in glory as Sons! As Heirs! As Kings! Not convinced of this? Check out lyrics of the song the citizens of heaven even sang in Revelation 5:9-10:

“ And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

Listen! Regardless of what challenges you are faced with right now, check your servant garments at the door and approach that matter as an heir of God full of the Spirit of Christ! 

Tap into the Lord's realm of genius and burn your servant garments to never wear them again! While you're at it, reject the romance of servanthood forever; for there was never any glory, honor or righteousness in seeing ourselves as lowly, weak or beggars!

As we endeavor to operate in our spheres of influence, understand your "service" unto your assigned territory is an expressed demonstration of our Heavenly Father's benevolence to His people! 

Moving forward, when we show up in any room or put our hands on any problem or project—arrive fully! Bearing all your gifts of the kingdom ready to bestow them upon those that need such grace, love, kindness and mercy! 

No wonder we've been having such a hard time! We are Kings that have impersonated servants all of this time! Well, we're busted! So come out with your hands up and surrender to your original blessing of Dominion and redeemed place of Sonship! 

Let us put on our appropriate garments which is Christ Jesus! Our hope of glory! Our King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

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The Marching Orders Of A Civil Solider

When it comes to insurmountable tragedy or injustice, my initial and honest desire is to eradicate the entire measure! In most cases, if not all, it is feasibly impossible to totally erase the darkness! So, what then? Well...

First, I cast my widest and strongest net of prayer onto the matter. For my words are spirit and will propel declarations of life and heaven’s authority into territories and regions at the speed of thought.

Second, I ask the question, "What can I do, from my sphere of influence, to make revolutionary change right now?"

Third, I rummage through my arsenal bag to learn how my hands will serve through any of my capabilities, gifts, funding, information, intellectual property, action or non-action.

Fourth, I determine my strategy and execute quickly.

Fifth, I bid others that I know or trust to join me in multiplying the micro effort to enhance the macro solution.

Currently, the global family is in the fight of our lives with an invisible adversary that seeks to bring us to our knees! In spite of our differences, there is no question that humanity will win the day! However, our success will heavily depend on how quickly and effectively we mobilize to fight this common nemesis as ONE! For we cannot conquer this giant as lone rangers or with a renegade mentality!

As one civil solider in this fight, my marching orders constrains me to:

Stay home to defend/protect the matriarch of our family with all I have.

Position myself as an education resource to support my organization, students and partners in a virtual space.

Maintain and adhere to social distancing protocols to respect the community during scheduled necessity runs.

Maximize federal provisions available to me to eliminate/reduce debt to enhance credit.

Recreate, develop, innovate myself and my personal endeavors in preparation for life after corona. Yes! There is life after corona!!

Nonetheless, I want to do more! I want to help my global family in a way that does not put unnecessary pressure on first responders/essential workers and does not put my home in danger. So, today, I determined my cause! I decided to donate to Feeding America to fuel the mission of nourishing families in urgent and immediate need!

If you feel compelled, suit up and join me by donating as much and as often as you can at: https://www.feedingamerica.org/

We must have strong soldiers to win this war! If we can help it, we will not die from a virus and hunger too! Thank you in advance for your action!

Stay safe and be healthy!

~Teresa K. Page

Be Undone: A Charge to the Young Poets and Writers Of Fulton Science Academy

Sunday the world collectively stood still in silence and grieved at the unbelievable loss of Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other souls. Some grieved because of who he was over the last 20 years. Others grieved because of all he could have been in the next 20 years! Whichever side of the line we may stand, this young man utilized his time and gifts wisely in such a minute amount of time that the universe will never forget his name.

Life is short! Whether we live 13, 35 or 105 years--it is only a blink! When we go, how will our names be remembered? How will history even know we were here? What actions or gifts will be synonymous with our presence? What tangible achievement will the world be able to reference when our head is cold? What will be our legacy?

Legacy is a strong word, but it has sat upon my heart for the past year or so. I can't really say what has triggered the need of it, but it is a necessity for me now! Legacy is one of the reasons I began to write books! Words are not only creative, but they are alive in spirit and are eternal! Therefore, I take comfort that the words I pen today will be preserved, heard and read 1,000 years after I am gone! My writing will help the future become acquainted with the Woman that I always imagined to be—Fearless and Amazing! Living the exact life I dreamed! Saying the exact words I intended to say! Fully comprehending my contemporary thoughts without pause! Because of this, I am driven to leave every gift I came assembled with in this Earth as they will be of no use in the world to come.

Young poets and writers, hear me with your hearts and not with just your ears! You are the social prophets of the age that captures the feeling and rhythm of our modern culture for the future generations to experience in their real time! Whether you are full of whimsy or aflame with militant fire, you have a responsibility to be authentic and speak the truth in a cunning way it can be received! You are charged to "Be Undone" and set at liberty to pour out yourselves upon the people, territories or regions you have been assigned!

You see, to "Be Undone", is more than a suggestion. It is command! It is a divine permission to fall open and unleash the totality of our beauty in its full concentration without restraint, compromise or forgiveness! It is a mandate to turn the miraculous into norms and make the exceptional the rule!! It is the utter annihilation of any watered-down version of ourselves!* 

So young people, if the version of you that is sitting before me today is an imposter or your stunt double, I pray that you will not be right with yourself until you come to terms of who you are designed to be! I hope today's revelation will alter your spirit so that it will never be okay to just merely exist. I expect you to become unrecognizable among your peers and that your genuine soul will stage an internal revolt and demand release!*

In closing, I commission you to "Be Undone", this day forth and to do the following:  

Utilize your time with urgency to hone your giftings by way of education or development. That includes, but is not limited to, college, apprenticeships, mentorships and more!

Never let a good storm go to waste! When the storms of life and the universe come for you to test your validity, don't run! Use the rage of the storm to strengthen your character! Listen to its winds for the lesson you must learn! Then make the storm work for you by allowing it to blow off unnecessary rubbish to reveal the kind of Man or Woman you are!  

Discover yourself and the treasures you possess!

Optimize these types of platforms to practice the functions of your gifts in safety! And stretch your talents beyond its comfort zones to see what it can really do!

Never allow external factors to define or make you ashamed for being an Original! Ground yourself in your value and keep your self-esteem in check! For our first responses of low-esteem is to hide who we truly are!

Erase and eject any ideas that your gifts and talents are for your personal pleasure alone! They are tools destined to dazzle, confound, heal and set free the world around you!

Young Poets and Writers, the world is waiting to hear from you! Don't make us wait too long!

Let's go to work!

*A reference from: “Be Undone: The Destruction of Teresa Page as You Knew Her” http://teresakpage.squarespace.com/tk...