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16/11/2025

Praying for you.
May the world protect you.
May you be blessed.
May all the evil doers be brought to justice.
May you come to know who really loves you.
May you see who is playing games.
May you see the truth.
May we come together and protect peace.
May you see through the government and bureaucratic lies.
May we all see through medical coercion.
May you see and feel all the great grandmothers who have passed on and feel their love.
May you come to see the fake Gods, fake people and fake world for what it is.
May you know your mother’s love.
May you know and see through all family who have double crossed you and used you.
May you see and feel your mother’s heart.
May all spells, curses and hexes be broken, so only love exists.
May you see your way through the dark times to know good.
May St Michael’s sword protect you and your health and see through others’ lies.
May the path be forged forward and the double edged sword be broken, cut and destroyed.
May all scapegoating cease.
May all discrimination cease.
May all witch-hunts cease.
May you know how much I love you.
May you see, feel and experience compassion in your heart again.
May all who separate us from each other be released.
May the quantum entangled traumatic bonds break.
May the entrapment stop.
May the coercive controlling stop.
May the mothers of the world rise up.
May the fights I’ve gone through not be in vain.
May God protect humanity and may we see things as they are.
May the love always be felt.
May the mothers of the world be protected from the evil doers.
May the truth break free.
Crayfish.
Amen.

16/11/2025

16/11/2025

🌹 The Rose, the Film, the Song, and Our Emotional Lives

There’s a reason the image and symbol of the rose has lasted for centuries
— across poetry, art, music, and human healing.

A rose is both fragile and strong.
Its petals can bruise with a single touch,
yet its stem carries thorns and structure
strong enough to help it stand tall against the wind.

Recently, I shared a post about how our emotions are like rose petals —
delicate, layered, easily damaged, and yet deeply beautiful when tended to.
And it reminded me of the 1979 film The Rose, starring Bette Midler,
and the iconic song that followed.

One of the most moving lines from The Rose is:
“It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.”

That line captures something I see every day in therapeutic and coaching work:
so many people are terrified of their own emotional fragility,
yet it is that very fragility that becomes the gateway to strength.

Strength isn’t the absence of vulnerability.
Strength is vulnerability tended to.
Just like a rose.

The story of The Rose is ultimately a story about:
🌹 sensitivity in a world that doesn’t hold tenderness well
🌹 the cost of abandoning oneself in pursuit of approval
🌹 the longing to be understood rather than merely applauded
🌹 the pain of being admired publicly yet unseen privately

These themes show up in trauma work, relationship work, leadership work, and life.
And they show up in my own story, too.

What most people forget is that a rose doesn’t flourish because it’s left alone.
It flourishes because it is cared for.
Watered.
Protected.
Held.
Given sunlight.
Given space.

And human beings are no different.

When we allow ourselves to tend to our emotional petals —
our grief, our wounds, our longing, our courage —
we don’t become weaker.
We become whole.

And wholeness is strength.

If you’re in a season of remembering your own fragility,
or rediscovering your own strength,
know this:

🌹 You can be both.
🌹 You already are both.
🌹 And your petals are worth tending to.

— Renée McDonald
Therapist | Coach | Educator | Author
www.reneemcdonald.com

16/11/2025

Fragile Yet Strong — The Rose Within Us

We don’t talk enough about the tension between fragility and strength.
But in my work — and in my life — I’ve learned they’re not opposites.
They coexist. They shape each other. They depend on each other.

We are all a little like a rose.

A rose is strong in its structure:
its stem, its thorns, its ability to grow again each season.

But its petals — soft, delicate, easily damaged — are what make it beautiful.
And they require tending. Care. Attention. The right environment.

Our emotions are the same.

People often believe strength means shutting down, pushing through, or “toughening up.”
But true strength is the capacity to feel deeply and stay open.
It’s allowing life to shape you without hardening you.

It’s tending to the soft parts of yourself with compassion.

Because fragility is not a weakness — it’s information.
It tells you where healing is needed.
Where boundaries are necessary.
Where love must enter.
Where something wants to grow.

In therapy and coaching, I’ve witnessed countless people discover their strength
not by suppressing the petals,
but by learning how to care for them.

So if you feel a little delicate right now, a bit overwhelmed, cracked open, or emotionally exposed —
remember: that is not a failing.
It’s an invitation.

Tend to yourself.
Give softness the space it deserves.
Let fragility be the doorway to your strength.

🌹 Fragile yet strong. Like a rose and its petals.

— Renée McDonald
Therapist | Coach | Educator | Author
www.reneemcdonald.com

11/11/2025

09/11/2025

The World is Polarising Us — And We Don’t Have to Participate

We are living in a time where almost everything is framed as a fight or a side:
• Vax / Anti-vax
• Palestine / Israel
• Ukraine / Russia
• New money / Old money
• Status / No status
• Judgment / Non-judgment
• Boundaries / No boundaries
• Cisgender / LGBTQIA+
• And the quiet wars inside families, workplaces, communities

The narrative is:
Pick a side. Defend it. Win.

But the human cost of this constant division is profound.

We start to lose:
• Nuance
• Humanity
• Curiosity
• Compassion
• The ability to truly listen

When everything becomes winner vs loser, someone always ends up dehumanised.

And that is where harm grows.
Not because of disagreement — disagreement is healthy —
but because of disconnection.

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Not Everything Is About Who Is Right

Some things are about:
• Who is hurting
• Who is afraid
• Who is trying to belong
• Who has never been heard
• Who has been taught to survive instead of feel

Legitimacy isn’t measured by:
• Who shouts loudest
• Who has the most followers
• Or who claims “truth” as a weapon

Legitimacy is measured in:
• Lived experience
• Accountability
• Willingness to listen
• The capacity to stay open
• The ability to hold tension without attacking

Acceptance is not the same as tolerance.
Tolerance still holds distance.
Acceptance says: I see your humanity, even if I don’t agree with you.

This is mature empathy.
This is emotional intelligence.
This is how we prevent more harm.

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The Work Now Is Internal

Every day, I choose to:

🙏 Pray or reflect deeply
🧭 Re-examine my own assumptions
💗 Stay open to learning and unlearning
🚫 Resist the lethal spirit of the world that demands we divide

Because connection is not naïve.
Compassion is not weakness.
Listening is not surrender.

It is how we resist becoming hardened, bitter, and unrecognisable to ourselves.

The real work of this time is to stay human —
in a world that benefits when we forget.

—
Renée McDonald
Therapist | Coach | Educator | Author
www.reneemcdonald.com