Conversation with Rachel

 Life presents to you a choice to evolve or remain. If you choose to remain unchanged, you will be presented with the same challenges, the same routine, the same storms and the same situations until you learn from them, until you love yourself enough to say “no more’… Until you choose change. If you choose to evolve, you will connect with the strength within you, you will explore what lies outside of your comfort zone… You will awaken to love, you will become and you will be. Beside you have everything you need…. Choose to evolve, choose love

  Helllllloooooo I’m Back!!!!! We waste a lot of time and energy trying to stay in the comfortable bubble of our self-made Biospheres. We fear the stresses and challenges of change, but those stresses are the wind that makes us stronger. In order to change our relationship with fear, we have to change our perception of it. Once we can see the value that fear offers, we can change how we respond. Therefore, an essential step in this reprogramming is learning to recognise our reaction pattern to fear. We have so much to offer to the world, but fear and anxiety disconnects us from our abilities. I would like for this page to speak to issues that are closed to your heart, home and mind.  Write to me and lets engage...

 You are reading this post because you made it to 2021. Thank you Lord… Let’s reconfigure our factory settings… We live in unprecedented times… 10 months since the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Death and loss of our loved ones has become a daily event. Uncertainty has become so certain… But you made it. Our vision boards will look a bit different this year. We may not achieve all our set goals but remember this “ Surviving 2021 to 2022 is also an achievement ”. As we reconfigure our factory settings, here’s some food for thought: Don’t let anyone invalidate or minimize how you feel. If you feel something, you feel it, and it’s real to you. Nothing anyone says has the power to invalidate that, ever. No one else lives in your body. No one else sees life through your eyes. No one else has lived through your experiences. And so, no one else has the right to dictate or judge how you feel. Your feelings are important, and you deserve to be heard.

 2020 is almost over... it has been the hardest year ever, right??? What got us through??? Resilience maybe??? Resilience is the ability to handle and recover from stressful situations and crises. It is not simply coping with adversity, but to experience growth and flowering, finding meaning and purpose, experiencing self-awareness and to tasting life in all its flavours. Remember, resilience is not about overcoming but becoming...  As already mentioned, it has been the hardest year ever.... So stop... Yeah, JUST STOP FOR A MOMENT.... THINK and REFLECT....  Remind yourself that you did your best and that is all you could do. Pause. Take it all in, the good and the bad... Acknowledge your losses... But more importantly, acknowledge what you are grateful for. For me, I am thankful that: I am alive,  My family is safe,  I am still employed,  I am pursuing my dreams,  I am living my truth Going to 2021, I open my heart to growth, love and peace. I really hope that the Conversation with Rac

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. John F. Kennedy Stop making things not work for you. Stop looking for reasons why it doesn’t work or why it will never work for you, instead figure out a way to make good things happen to you. Whenever we try to make changes in our lifestyle, sometimes we doubt ourselves that maybe we can’t do it or it isn’t suitable for us. Why does this happen? It isn’t because of fear but because we don’t believe in ourselves. We aren’t confident enough to keep pushing through to do things we should. We are complacent about our dreams… No idea will work for every single person, but a lot of them can work for most people as long as you believe that you can make them work. Stop wasting your energy to worry. Use what you have to create and grow from what you’ve learned. Guys, you need to put more trust in yourself and believe in the process of things. If one thing doesn’t

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will When the road you are trudging seems uphill When the funds are low and debts are high And you want to smile but have to sigh When all is pressing you down a bit Rest if you must, but do not quit Success is failure turned inside out And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems far So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit It’s when things go wrong that you must not quit.                                                                                                                 By John Greanleaf Whittier Have you ever been in a situation where you just don't want to go on? The harder you try the more it feels like you are self inflicting pain? You call out to your God, and it feels like your cries fall on deaf ears... Where you question you will to live? I know I have, many times.... But, here I am alive, happy and hopeful. My family and friends got me through.  What got you through? Ta

Let's speak to this common phrase, "Some people are lucky." I don't know anything about luck. I have never banked on it, and I am afraid of people who do. Luck, to me, is HARD WORK - and realising an opportunity and what isn't. I had to purposefully plan and strategise what I want to achieve by when. I consciously decided to do less partying (I don't think I have ever started 😊), reduce reckless spending, watch less of Netflix, and movies to achieve my goals. Likewise: Her body is banging hot because she decided to eat clean, meditate, and worked out every day. His business is successful because he puts the extra hours instead of the 09h00 - 17h00 to get the business off the ground.  She has that corner office and earns a six-digit salary because she is qualified for it and has the relevant experience. They are couple goals because they have taken a decision to continuously forgive and love each other every day. They can afford finer things in life because th

I am not afraid to expose my melanin to the world.  There's too much magic brewing in this skin for me to keep to myself. To hide this shade under the sun because of society's standard of beauty. I am my beauty, and that is enough to live in this body to walk in my truth. I am enough.... You are enough....

Women all over the world walk around with deep scars covered by layers of make-up or a smile. Let us remove those layers and begin the journey of healing.  It is known that women in different age groups go through a lot of trials and tribulations in life. It is time for women unite and be one, speak in one voice in issues that affect the nation. This week I would like to speak life and unity to Inzalabantu. Bafazi lets help each other heal.  Let us celebrate our individualism and the uniqueness in you. Let us hold each others hands in building a nation of bold and assertive women. Life is a journey let us walk side by side through the dark tunnels and the sunny days.  Let’s us mentor each other.  To married women: Let us help prepare the women aspiring to be married for marriage. Let us be honest: Marriage is not easy and not for the faint-heart. Marriage works best when you are one with your spouse. When that union embraces the individual character it builds a strong tea