Life Is Crafted

When you craft a life you love, you’re listening to that inner voice that is sharing with you its hopes, dreams and strengths.

You’re honouring it amongst all the messages, opinions, biases, cultural norms and societal standards that are shouting at you (often with love from those that really care about us).

You’re choosing Yourself in the midst of fear, worry, going against the grain, risk, challenges, differences. Bold and Brave!

You’re following your joy, recognising what inspires and lifts you up and prioritising what’s really important to you.

Such a big lesson I’m still learning. I recommit to it every day. It’s not always easy, but it gets easier with each opportunity to choose what the ‘real me’ wants.

As a people pleaser and lifelong chameleon🦎- changing the way I show up to make the people around me comfortable, often at the expense of my own comfort 🥴 - I’’ve made many choices that were not for my personal benefit because I thought that was the ‘right’ choice.

Unfortunately the cost of that was a lot of my self esteem and a big disconnection from my authentic self. I’ve rediscovered many of what MY needs and wants are and my life is ssoooooooooo much better for it!

Are there parts of your life where you could be bolder in designing a life YOU love?

First day of AUTUMN OR SPRING? Regardless, it’s March everywhere!

Which means it’s a beautiful time to do your month in review for February.

This is your opportunity to go through the happenings of the last 28 days and celebrate, learn from or let go of what you experienced (or didn’t experience).

- What are 3 things you feel really grateful for this month?
- Go through your calendar and write out the highlights, events and activities you did. This can really concrete in what you did do (as opposed to you beating yourself up for doing ‘nothing’!) and show you if there are some patterns in where you spent your time.
- What were your Wins for the month? What were you proud of or surprised by?
- do a life audit and rate the different areas out of 10. No judgement! This just gives you a chance to check in and have an overview of where you’re currently at.
- Choose the main area of life you’d like to spend some extra time and attention on for next month.
- take a moment to note down the songs, meals, outfits, trends, happenings you’ve been loving on. This can be memory sparking to look back on in years to come.
- note down a lesson you’ve learned
- choose one thing to stop and to start doing
- then the more admin side of things. Move incomplete items to next month or to your master to do list. Transfer any scribblings and notes to helpful places. Tick off the goals you’ve accomplished and CELEBRATE!

Comfort zone expanded.

This happened on an early February morning. The alarm went off at 4.45am and for a split second I wanted to stay in the warmth and comfort of my bed.

But the decision I’d made the evening before - to do something different and out of my comfort zone - came back to spark the commitment I’d made.

Being a woman with two sisters and young daughter, I know there is a lot of messaging and pressure out there about body image and expectations.

Being a sensitive and self-aware person, I know there are experiences and programming that have caused us wounds in mind and soul.

I like to see myself as a life activist because I’m on a journey to wake up to who I truly am and how I show up and express myself in the world (and I love to help others do their version of it).

And I feel like I’m rising again from a dulled, muted, fear-filled version of me - through challenging anxiety experiences, understanding why people may choose other paths and the transition in motherhood - to whoever that vibrant Arienne truly is.

with *t and .rees with are helping sisters rise. We showed up and let the bellies free and supported each other. I felt alive.

And while the sand was freezing, the water was divine. The swim and camaraderie and feeling of power and shifts were priceless.

Plus I got to do it with Katie 😍

Main pic by the gorgeous who was amazingly uplifting before 6am in the morning.

What do you need to inject some high vibes in your life/body/mind? Do it today!
💗 Arienne