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CuddieWoods, 6911 Proof Line, Forest, ON (2025)

07/12/2025

Morning Mantra: “You are the sum of those you surround yourself with.”

You are influenced by those you surround yourself with so don’t underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unsupportive, and critical friends.
Your circle should align with your true self. If you're not sure what that is then ask yourself if this is true...
Your circle should want you to win.
Your circle should clap the loudest when you have good news, and lift you up when it is hard. Your circle should be making you stronger, and more courageous.
They should require honesty and hold you accountable.
If they don’t, it's time get a new one.
Those in your circle are your "people", and you get to decide who is in it.

07/08/2025

Morning Mantra: "Saying 'Yes" to your well-being means saying 'No' sometimes."

This one is hard. Because we are raised to be helpful, accommodating, and to put the needs of others ahead of our own. I have found that you have to actually learn to say no.

But learning to say no must be done without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is a healthy skill. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself as well as everyone else or you risk burnout and feelings of resentment.

It’s OK to say no to someone you love. It’s OK to say no to a friend. It’s OK to say no in a job or relationship. It’s OK to say no to a person who is romantically interested in you.

Even if it hurt someone’s feelings, even if you disappoint people, even if you’re judged and criticized – it’s OK to say no to anything or anyone that causes you pain, stretches you too thin, or makes you uncomfortable.

You are allowed to put yourself first. You are allowed to set limits and boundaries. You deserve to make your own happiness and well-being a priority. You don’t ever have to settle for something or someone that doesn’t feel right. And you definitely don’t have to compromise yourself for the sake of making other people happy. You have to take care of yourself and if that means saying no, it’s more than OK.

It’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that will help you grow and make you happy.

07/07/2025

Morning Mantra: "People don't fake depression, they fake being okay."

Times are hard right now. People are struggling. So I'm going to make a habit of not judging someone by their appearance. Because I don’t know what’s going on inside, what really is happening.

We never know what is beneath the surface. We never know what anyone is really going through. Only they know their thoughts, fears, and worries.

Just because someone posts a photo of them smiling doesn’t mean they don’t feel sadness. Just because you see someone laugh doesn’t mean they don’t cry when they are alone. Not everyone has the strength or resources to get help when they feel really low. They pretend to be OK.

So check in with your friends. Offer to hold their hand in the darkness if they let you in. Smile at strangers. Let them know they are seen. That they matter.

Let’s make today a day we spread joy, compassion, understanding, and kindness.

07/05/2025

Why are horses a release for people?

Horses are a release for people because they strip life back to its simplest, most honest form.
In a world full of noise, emails, deadlines, expectations, horses remind us that real communication isn’t about words. It’s about presence. It’s about energy, intention, awareness.

When you’re with a horse, your words mean nothing, but your actions, your body language, your energy? That’s everything. You can’t fake confidence with a horse. You can’t lie with your posture. You can’t manipulate with charm or excuses. Horses reflect back exactly who you are in that moment, your fear, your calm, your frustration, your peace.

That’s why working with horses is 90% self-reflection. They force you to get quiet. To slow down. To pay attention not only to them, but to yourself. Your breathing, your posture, your thoughts. They draw you out of your head and into your body, into the present.

It takes us back to a time when survival, connection, and trust weren’t built on promises or conversations. They were built on consistency, energy, and respect. Horses remind us how to just be, without the layers of complication life piles on.

That’s why so many people find healing with them. They don’t care about your job, your past, your social status. They care about your energy in this moment, and nothing feels more freeing than being seen for your truest self, without judgment, without words.

📸 With One Line

07/03/2025

Morning Mantra: "Stay anchored in love."

In a world spiraling with so much noise, fear, and division, the greatest revolution is to stay anchored in love. According to the research of Dr. David Hawkins, “One individual who vibrates to the energy of pure love will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 who do not."

Vibrate in the energy of pure love, not passive, head-in-the-sand love, but loud love. Love that sees the darkness and feels compassion for suffering, but chooses to shine anyway.
Bravely, boldly and without excuses or apology.

The more you let your love shine, the more you see the love around you. The more you are anchored in love, the more you counteract the noise, the hate, the bullying, and judgement.

So shine beautiful one. Shine bright. The world needs your light.

07/02/2025

Morning Mantra: "There are two things we get at the start of each new day; A chance and a choice."

Each morning you wake up with the chance to live your life the way you choose. Will you live with love, compassion, honesty, inclusion and gratitude? Or will you choose to live it focused on what's wrong with you, your life, your job, or your relationships?

If you choose to focus on what's wrong you then have the choice to do something about what you don't like.
Not satisfied with your health- go for a walk.
Not happy with your job- spend some time exploring new ones.
Not feeling the love in your relationship? Explore ways to improve it or to move on.

Life will always throw you a curve ball-it's how we grow. Some of these will seem unsurmountable. But you STILL get a chance to choose how you respond. Will you live bitter or better? Will you live with a victim mentality or will you see each obstacle as a way to build your self esteem with the power to overcome?

The number of days you get is limited so don't waste another one unhappy with your life. You have a CHANCE to CHOOSE something better. Let today be the day you start.

06/27/2025

Morning Mantra: “I trust the next chapter of my life because the author is me.”

Isn’t it great that you get to write the story of your life? You get to decide the characters that are in it. You get to decide how the main character (you) will think, feel, act, and interact with the supporting characters.

Sure, the plot may have some unexpected twists that surprise you, but you get to decide how they affect you and how you will change in response to them.

Without realizing this, many people allow life to write the story for them without taking DELIBERATE action to write their story in their own voice. Or they allow other people to tell them how the story should go. Remember, YOU are the author of your story, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

You can trust the next page, chapter or the end, because you get to write, edit, and rewrite it every day until it's perfect.

06/26/2025

Morning Mantra: "Today's possibilities are endless."

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. See the positive possibilities in this day, you’ve done it before and you can do it now.

Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and disappointment and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable, determination. Remember to not become too attached to anyone one belief or outcome that you cannot see past another possibility.

Choose to look at situations that impede your progress as obstacles, not defeats. The difference between an obstacle and a defeat is simple – an obstacle opens the door to possibilities, defeat closes it.

Believing in possibility tells the Universe that hope lives within you and faith is the lantern that lights the way to make your dreams a reality.

Quotes; Eckhart Tolle' and JoEllen Lucero

06/23/2025

Morning Mantra: "Fear controls you so it's time to face it."

What are you afraid of? Stop for a second and write down something you are afraid of that is holding you back. Now, write down ways you can over it. It doesn't have to be well thought out, just get started.

For me it's always been to be seen as "less than". And snakes. I'm terrified of snakes. Because of this fear I have spent my life chasing things to make me appear beautiful, successful and "enough". Then one day I realized that I couldn't keep it up and decided I needed to address this fear. To face it and find out what was behind it.

I started to see that my fear was based in rejection. If I was "enough" I wouldn't be rejected. But wait, I had busted my butt all my life to be enough and I still had many times that I was rejected. It dawned on me that the only person I needed to be good enough for was me.

If I accepted myself- flaws and all- I didn't need outside acceptance to feel good enough. It was a difficult and life changing process but I no longer fear rejection.

What is holding you back, or maybe you're like me and it's driving you to exhaustion? It's time to stop letting it control your life. To free yourself from the grip of fear.

Facing your fears can be scary, but you know what it even scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, progressing and living your life on your own terms.

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