Essence of Cynthia

12/23/2025

🎄Wishing you all a magical Christmas season and a beautiful start to 2026. I am so grateful for each and every one of you who have supported me, my business, and my sacred creations throughout the years.

As this year comes to a close, it is time to rest, to turn inward, to cherish family, to contemplate, to be gentle, and to love.

Thank you—truly and deeply—for all your support.

With love and gratitude,
Cynthia )0(

12/21/2025

Welcome back the coming of the light.

I send blessings and love to all of you.

Let’s create this light web together. ✨🙏🏻🔥

May the best days of your life be ahead of you.

With love Cynthia )0(

12/20/2025

Solstice Blessings my friends

This year's winter solstice takes place tomorrow, Sunday, December 21st, and it beckons us to reflect and to surrender.

I try to take this time to nourish myself with warming, wholesome soup or broths and connect more deeply through meditation, pranayama, and quiet walks outside. (Fingers crossed for warmer weather)

Nowadays in the Western world, the shift to winter barely registers for most people - except that maybe it's time to haul your heavy coat out of storage and turn up the dial on your thermostat.

However, when we carry on living the same way regardless of the season, we lose the opportunity to connect with nature... and with our deepest selves.

Even though we can control the climate indoors, it's vital that we pay attention to the lessons that the earth is sharing with us outside.

Ancient cultures like the Egyptians, the Maori, the Maya, the Celts, the Druids, the Inca, and so many others - each celebrated Solstice.

In the Chinese Taoist tradition, winter solstice is considered the most yin (dark / feminine / damp) day of the calendar. Energy comes to a momentary point of pause, before it gives birth to yang (light / masculine / heat).

Yin and yang form the basis of Chinese medicine and according to this school of wisdom, one cannot exist without the other. These two seemingly opposite forces are intimately connected and complementary.

I love this concept. We need times of darkness, quiet, stillness, healing, and rest, as much as we need activity, noise, and light.

Here is a lovely prayer / poem from the French philosopher and author Albert Camus that speaks to the spirit of this shortest day of the year.

In the depth of winter,
I finally learned
that within me there lay
an invincible summer.

― Albert Camu

12/19/2025

Truth 😂😂😂. 2025 has been a year, hasn’t it!?

12/19/2025

If you’re like me and still looking for some unique stocking stuffers or gifts, Sacred Mountain Wellness Studio has some lovely hand crafted magical products for those hard to buy for soul sisters

All my products are 25% off for the months of December!

Still need some gift ideas? Our local vendors have you covered! Order online and pick up Saturday, Sunday or Monday!

12/19/2025

😂😂😂🤷‍♀️
Life is good

12/19/2025

Powerful

The Owl Who Carries the North

She rises without a sound,
wings opening like old stories
carved into ice and wind.
The mountain knows her name
and steps aside.

Gold sleeps in her eyes—
not hunger,
but sight.
She sees what walks ahead of time,
what hides behind memory.

Each feather is a map,
painted by hands
that learned from rivers,
from bone,
from snow that never forgets a footprint.

She does not chase the night.
The night follows her,
trusting her silence,
trusting her judgment.

Below, the forest breathes
in the slow language of ancestors.
Above, the sky listens.

When she passes,
questions fall quiet.
When she turns her head,
truth turns with her.

She is not a messenger of fear—
she is the keeper of balance,
the watcher between worlds,
the winged reminder
that wisdom flies
only where respect still lives.

12/18/2025

Oh yay said no one ever

Facebook appears to be testing limiting organic link posts to just 2 per month for non-Meta Verified profiles and pages. 👉🏻 Have you heard this news? It may be a 'stealth' limited test rolling out only to certain regions and users so far. But likely will roll out more widely soon.

If you don’t pay for the Meta Verified subscription service, you’ll be restricted to sharing links in only 2 organic posts per month!! 😳

This has to be a big push for more Meta Verified subscriptions, right?

BOTTOM LINE? 🤷🏼‍♀️
- Facebook wants to keep users ON the platform.
- Link posts have gotten the lowest reach for the past decade+. (Which is why most marketers learned to put links in the first comment).
- You can still share links in your own comments. But, they are only active (clickable) when you add a comment with a link to your *own* posts. You might’ve seen this happening lately? If you add a comment with a link to someone else's post, the link is not active.

🔗 WHAT TYPES OF ACCOUNTS are impacted by this change?
- Personal profiles switched to Professional Mode
- Public / Business Pages

So, personal profiles in ‘classic mode’ are not affected… but most likely because people don’t tend to use that format for business/posting links. Hm.

🔗 WHAT TYPES OF LINKS will be limited on Facebook?
- ANY links.
- BUT you can freely share on an unlimited basis ‘supported affiliate links’ (whatever that means?!), and any links to anything officially Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.).

What are your thoughts? Is this a good move to minimize spammy links? Or will it impact your ability (even further) to drive traffic from Facebook to your website?

🔗 SEE MY FULL BLOG POST in the comments!!

12/16/2025

Good Morning & Happy Tuesday!

Which two words will set the frequency of your day?

Carry them with you as a reminder. 💚💜💚

Mine are: gratitude & patience

12/14/2025

Sunday Smudge 🪶

Share to your page for clearing and cleansing negative energy.

All my custom smudge bags are ethically sourced and organic

My custom Smudge the cedar is from BC, sweetgrass from a local friend, the Sage and Lavender - from in Red Deer and the Self Love - most rose petals are gathered from local sources (friends) 💜💜💜

ALL scared creations are 25% off for the full month of December only at Sacred Mountain Wellness Studio

Please note: as of January 1st these products will not longer be offered at Sacred Mountain - its been 5 beautiful years in their magical atudio and I am so very grateful to have had this opportunity 💜💜💜

With love, Cynthia )0(

12/13/2025

I hope you are having a cozy weekend.

I wanted to share some winter reflections with you as we make our way into December.

I find that this month invites us into a different pace...

The light softens, the days grow shorter, and the body naturally wants more rest. Winter asks us to slow down, to take pockets of downtime, and to let ourselves settle after a full year of movement and effort.

It can be a beautiful season- full of connection, celebration, and moments of joy. And it can also bring up tenderness. The quiet of winter along with past memories of the holiday season often highlight what and who we may have lost, reminding us of the people and memories that have shaped us.

Joy and grief often sit beside each other and both deserve honouring and space.

During the holiday season, time with one another, deep listening and presence, shared experiences, a walk, a meal, a conversation - memories that last I find are the best gifts of all. And choosing what feels aligned rather than obligated. Peaceful rather than pressured.

So as we move into this season, may we give ourselves permission to rest or to move based on how we are feeling each day, to feel what arises, and to care for our body in gentle ways.

Honouring ourselves during winter invites us to breathe, soften, and hold ourselves with compassion and the mix of emotions that perhaps this season may bring.

I find the true heart of this season and winter is connection...to ourselves, to each other, and to what really matters

With love and warm wishes, Cynthia💜