Comfort Found in Love
Love goes hand in hand with comfort and joy. Most of us have been blessed to have experienced true, unconditional love at one point or another in our lives. And if we find a quiet time and place, and close our eyes, we can reach inside our memories to find at least one time when we felt 100% loved. Try this meditation. Sit or lie down in a quiet place. Close your eyes and get your body relaxed and still. To achieve this, start at your head and go down to your toes tightening and then relaxing every muscle. Once you are fully relaxed, think back to a time when you felt 100% complete and...
Read MoreComfort & Joy Defined
Let’s take a close look at what the words “comfort” and “joy” mean: COMFORT [kuhm-fert] Part of Speech: noun Definition: good feeling; ease Synonyms: abundance, alleviation, amenity, assuagement, bed of roses, cheer, cheerfulness, complacency, contentment, convenience, coziness, creature comforts, enjoyment, exhilaration, facility, gratification, happiness, luxury, opulence, peacefulness, pleasure, plenty, poise, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, snugness, succor, sufficiency, warmth, well-being JOY [joi] Part of Speech:...
Read MoreMy Inspiration
My inspiration for giving birth to Comfort & Joy English grew out of my deep desire to inspire and empower other women to truly feel comfortable with who they are, develop their personal voices and inner power, and speak from their hearts as I have become able to do through my own amazing spiritual journey. As my mentors, Alison Armstrong (www.understandmen.com), Ellie Drake (www.BraveheartWomen.com), and Ellen Benfatti (www.movementsofthesoul.info) have done for me, I hope to be a beacon for other women so their own lights may shine and their voices may be...
Read MoreTo Own One’s Voice
I really love the following quote from Ellie Drake, founder of BraveHeart Women, which she wrote in an inspirational card set titled, “It’s Easier Done Than Said.” It expresses exactly what my purpose and inspiration for Comfort & Joy English is. To own one’s voice is to own one’s true power. The origin of this power is self-esteem. The origin of self-esteem is trust in the power that created us. To own my voice, to unleash the sound of my spirit, to communicate the energy of my deeper self, means that I am always singing my song, the unique song of my...
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