{"id":338,"date":"2013-02-08T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findingahealingplace.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/08\/from-rose-bud-to-full-blossom"},"modified":"2013-02-08T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:16:00","slug":"from-rose-bud-to-full-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/from-rose-bud-to-full-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"From Rose Bud to Full Blossom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are our own worst critics.&nbsp; We feel inadequate in so many ways, and that inadequacy instills fear in us.&nbsp; Fear, when fed, prevents us from doing those things that ultimately would give us the courage, energy, and persistence to grow and blossom into our full potential.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Okay, so here you have it.&nbsp; I was a victim of my own fear.&nbsp; For years I&#8217;ve wanted to bloom and I&#8217;d get almost to that point of blossoming, and then something inside my crazy head would begin telling me, &#8220;You can&#8217;t do this.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a crazy idea.&nbsp; Why do you think you&#8217;re qualified?&nbsp; Other people can speak and write so much better than you!&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Well, you know what?&nbsp; This year I&#8217;ve made a decision to blossom!&nbsp; I&#8217;m going from bud to blossom and I&#8217;m so excited about it that I&#8217;m finding it hard to calm down enough to sleep at night!&nbsp; Every day I&#8217;m taking one action plan &#8212; one step &#8212; towards reaching my full potential to bloom, and it feels soooooooooo&nbsp; good!<\/p>\n<p>My mini goal is to write one thing that is meaningful each day.&nbsp; I can do that!&nbsp;In fact, I&nbsp;have been doing that since January 1.&nbsp;My middle-sized goal (where the bud begins to open) is to take these daily&nbsp;writings and turn&nbsp;them into a&nbsp;super inspirational story or a book.&nbsp; I will do that, and day-by-day I&#8217;m taking steps to completing this.&nbsp; My BIG sized goal (and this is where the blossoming happens) &nbsp;is to speak to groups of&nbsp;wonderful, awesome people&nbsp;(who don&#8217;t always know or feel they&#8217;re wonderful and awesome)&nbsp;about how to turn disappointments and loss in this life into something beautiful. <strong><em>I want to share with thousands how to find their happy place in life!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have secret goals and aspirations?&nbsp; Has fear been holding you back?&nbsp; C&#8217;mon and join me in this awesome adventure!&nbsp; Get started on your dreams.&nbsp; Share them with someone &#8212; anyone.&nbsp; Share them here, if you&#8217;d like!&nbsp;&nbsp;And then start working towards your dream step-by-step, and don&#8217;t let anyone or anything discourage you! Never, ever lose hope in your ability to blossom!!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Let&#8217;s bud, blossom, and bloom together!&nbsp; If this old mama of eleven can blossom, so can you!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Clara (Mama Lucca) <\/p>\n<p>PS&nbsp; It sure does help when you have a cheerleader on your side!&nbsp; A special thanks to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/homeiswheremyheartis1.wordpress.com\/\">Jen<\/a>&nbsp;for being in my corner!&nbsp; It&#8217;s&nbsp;so much fun for me getting to see her bloom, too!&nbsp;Any other takers on this blooming thing?&nbsp; Let&#8217;s&nbsp;put together the brightest, most beautiful bouquet you&#8217;ve ever seen!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingahealingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/flowersjune18001.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/findingahealingplace.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/5c4fa-flowersjune18001.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nature is such an inspiration!&nbsp; Look at those buds!&nbsp; That&#8217;s just how we are &#8212; full of potential to bloom!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/findingahealingplace.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/flowersjune18010-edit.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"507\" src=\"http:\/\/findingahealingplace.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/64283-flowersjune18010-edit.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Oh, yes!&nbsp; The bud is unfolding and is one step closer to blooming!&nbsp; You can be like this, too!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingahealingplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/flowersjune18023.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/findingahealingplace.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/0eabb-flowersjune18023.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The bloom!&nbsp; Beautiful in every way!!!&nbsp; From bud to bloom &#8212; NOTHING can stop you except you!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I love photography but I don&#8217;t have a fancy, schmancy camera.&nbsp;&nbsp;These photos were taken with&nbsp;a little point and shoot, so don&#8217;t put off taking pictures just because you don&#8217;t have a $500 camera.&nbsp; A little $89 like mine&nbsp;one will do!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Let&#8217;s do it!&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to&nbsp;take those steps towards finding your happy place!&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us are our own worst critics.&nbsp; We feel inadequate in so many ways, and that inadequacy instills fear in us.&nbsp; Fear, when fed, prevents us from doing those things that ultimately would give us the courage, energy, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/from-rose-bud-to-full-blossom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,31,100,153,160],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findingahealingplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}