Morning After Watford Event - Link4Coffee - Hitchin Market

The morning after the Watford Link4Drinks, was spent chatting with the lovely +Catherine Baldwin and +tonia nixon ar Catherines home.  Thanks to you and your family once again for a lovely stay, you all made us feel very welcome.

As a wonderful surprise the lovely +Chris Ogle had arranged for +tonia nixon, +Gerri Riddiough  and myself to attend the Link4Coffee event in Hitchin Market at a really beautiful art gallery and cafe, the Copper Beech Art Gallery, with warm and friendly staff, yummy food and amazing art.



The event is hosted by the gorgeous +Kate Griffiths who I have had the pleasure and honour of getting to know up until this day only on Facebook, so this was our first meeting, and the look on her face when we walked in was priceless.  It was such a lovely event

Here we have +Kate Griffiths  and +Chris Ogle with Belinda, Usha and another Lisa flicking through the Link4Growth book during the event.

Kate, is the founder and CEO of Whole Self Leadership, which offers a range of services.   I am planning on organising a Colour Therapy Workshop here in Derbyshire in the spring of 2015 :)   

One very interesting conversation we had was regarding a workshop on leadership that Kate and her colleague are facilitating for nurses and midwives working for the NHS - anyone interested can contact Kate herself or check out the NHS Leadership Academy

In the background, myself, Tonia, Keith and Gerri

I also had the opportunity to chat to the lovely +Jen Tiller of who has such an interesting story to tell, a real spirit full of love and healing energy.  I definitely would LOVE to go and have an MOT and a visit the Snow leopard Sanctuary.  Jen is also the founder of Healerzone and Reality Quest.

Also attending was the amazing and very interesting character of Keith W Ecott who is a life transformation coach, and a new host for Link4Growth -Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Herts district lots to discuss their - safe to say Tonia, Gerri and I were riveted.

Afterwards we walked around Hitchin Market which was heaving with such a variety of stalls and goods, from dresses and clothes, fruit and vegetables, bread and take away food to car boot type stalls

I can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed the last 36 hours, spending time with lovely, awake and caring people, new and reacquainting with.  A HUGE Thanks and hugs go out to +Gerri Riddiough for driving us down to Watford and back home again, to +Chris Ogle for arranging the surprise visit to +Kate Griffiths' event and to everyone I met for the first time or more.

This was where Tonia and I stood and enjoyed the view while waiting for Gerri to finish at the market - lovely and relaxing

Thank you Kate my lovely for the use of her photos for this blogpost xxx

Check out what I discovered after I left this event in Hitchin

Little Discoveries - Bob Marley Coffee in Hitchin

following the Hitchins Coffee Event and a walk around the makets -
I discovered the little Marley Coffee stall, by following the tunes I could hear, some one, somewhere was playing my favourite kinda music, personally I love the Marley herbal soft drinks, as well as their business ethics, I had to try a coffee,

Boxer preparing coffee with #OneLove

Boxer the guy who runs the little stall from the back of a Piaggio Ape, takes REAL care in preparing your coffee by hand, everything is spotlessly clean before and after each brew takes a while but OMGosh its definitely worth waiting for, delicious !

Backgammon Tables while away the time

I wished I had time to sit and watch people play backgammon, by the riverside, listening to reggae while sipping my latte, sadly we had a long journey ahead of us and had to hit the road.

The stall was also featured in the Guardian recently

Boxer & Marley Coffee mini-van at Hitchin Market #OneLove

I urge anyone in the local area of Hitchin, to check out Boxers coffee stall, he can be found on 

Twitter 

I for one wish him ALL the very best for the future, much prosperity and abundance #OneLove

Link4Drinks Watford

I have to say I really did enjoy meeting so many people at Watford Link4Drinks event on the 16th October.

It was a lovely drive down with +Gerri Riddiough and +tonia nixon  who had already driven from Redcar to mine in Derbyshire to pick me up and then off we went down to the Big Smoke lol

First I would love to say a really HUGE thank you to +Catherine Baldwin and her lovely family for putting +tonia nixon and myself up for the night.

After meeting Catherine and her lovely family, we were off to a lovely pub called the "Moon Under Water"

Moon Under Water

It was lovely to meet +mike bridger and +Diane Richardson , +Alex Murray the very beautiful +Jennifer Harris who I am so happy to be connected to business wise - 

Tonia Nixon - Mark Alzano and Mo !

definitely NOT forgetting my rebel friends +Catherine Jennings and +Mark Alzano who entertained us all with his wig, "pets with tourettes" along with some very strange chat up lines, LOL

+mike bridger +Gerri Riddiough  and myself

+Alex J Murray

All in all we all had a really great night lots of fun and laughter, some serious conversation, but mostly fun chat about this and that.

Mark Alzano - Aye Aye Cap'in

Thank you to everyone who came along and for being fantastic

Link4Coffee - Child Friendly Event

The last few weeks have been flying by at such a rapid rate, I truly haven't known whether I am on my head or my elbow.

Link4Growth- Derbyshire 

I have been mega busy with lots of projects, one of which is +Link4Growth Derbyshire where we held our very first #link4coffee (child friendly event), this one was for self employed, home educators, the right people were there, as always and the conversation was as interesting as ever, it was real fun, watching the kids disappear and enjoy the facilities at Lanky Bills, a big thank you to the owner Jill for graciously letting us congregate there.  

And thanks too to Andy Jones of +Bouncing Carrot Photography as well as Tracy White, Mikey and all the other children for coming along. 

It's a monthly meet, the food is great, and we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Jill the owner of +Lanky Bill’s Fun Shack in Langley Mill, also has gluten free food on the menu.

Looking forward to seeing you all there next month on the 

10th November at 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Tickets can be found on Eventbrite

Left Brained Hangups

oh my days !!

I have never been good with numbers can manage life maths but it was always my sister Julie who was the numbers girl ;) 

but last night something in me broke when i was considering an "assignment" i have to memorise 32 cards against their titles.

Please remember that I am to now the sort of woman that cannot remember what day it is, never mind anything else

You see i have left brained hang ups - seriously I don't do numbers, logic most physics except quantum physics strangely enough.

I spoke to my friend and a "sis" in every sense of the word and I told her it reminds me of school and having to prove myself in front if everyone else, when i just didn't see the point

I just knew I couldn't do it - 

I decided meditate on it after talking to my friend s.

Then something I have heard +Gerri Riddiough  say "whether you think you can or not you're  right"  something I have known is right for half my life.  Then i realised I had never challenged my thinking on Maths or absolutely anything remotely numbers related.

Reprogramming

I have also been working through the book by +Carol Dodsley  called "Choose Change" as well as listening to her "breaking the past" NLP audios. 

I decided after my meditation to listen with the focus being (ie my intention being) to challenge that past agreement I made with whatever person or situation that taught me i did get left brained thinking activities lol

I put the audio on a loop while i slept my last and most focused thoughts on left brained hang ups and unhanging them.

I woke this morning and got to work on daily stuff before turning my attention to one of the most exciting projects i have been involved with since being "active" in the animal rights, the hunt sabs', human rights and other stuff i am REALLY passionate about.

A group of people i am so honoured to know, and myself have founded a local group in the Derbyshire/Nottingham areas to help people take lawful responsibility for themselves, their families, their income and property.

More on that later...

But since Gerri has worked in banking and mortgages i decided to look at that (weird when all my notes are geared towards the birth certificate issue).

I spent an hour following links doing research and chatting to some facebook friends about everything from pineapples, hawaii and hawaiian spirituality, polyamory, volcanoes and aspartame lol

It all seemed effortless really and then it hit me....OMG i understood completely and wrote my conclusions to the research 

but thats for another blog completely ;)

Maybe my left brained hang-ups are being unhooked 

xxx Lisa <3

Ps Thank you M. for starting this journey x to s. for being the voice of reason, Gerri for her little sayings (you have nearly as many as me ;) and Carol for her wonderful book and NLP Audio (which i thoroughly recommend both)

Meaningful Activity

Meaningful Activity

Meditation and other...

I do this every morning now from 6 - 8 am - I start with affirmations and then a guided meditation.  I do NLP hypnosis and the follow by just sitting quietly enjoying the peace. I also listen to a lot of shamanic drum meditations.

My Daily Meditation

• Create sacred space (music, candles, incense, oils(optional), nature
• Sit or lay down with spine straight state intention, "The Divine Light is my source of thought, emotion and action"
• Begin breathing in a slow & comfortable rhythm. Inhale/ count silently to 4/ exhale to 6.4-8
  
  times. Then increase inhale to 6 and exhale to 8, 4-8 times.
• Allow natural and comfortable breath. By now your body will be relaxed and focus in moment.
• Imagine golden flame in the energy of heart (you may see, feel or just have faith)
• Hold awareness in the light, breathe....
• Allow light to fill heart and create ray of light that goes up behind eyes. Just let it fill with light. Breathe…..
• Let light flow as you breathe from heart down to torso, legs soles of feet
• Back to heart, breathe light around shoulders, arms and into palms, fingers and tips of fingers
• Imagine a golden heart light in each palm. Breathe.. be.. believe..
• Back to heart gently through throat, and hold it behind eyes.
• Allow it to flow back into a sacred Well, endlessly flowing back as eyes, lids, brow, forehead relax
• Do not hurry from here stimulating the Third Eye/Divine Eye.
• Bring light through Crown Chakra and up. Imagine it passing through clouds, stars, moon, sun.
• Imagine light passing through veils of time and space (symbolic of passing through dimensions)
• From here let it flow down around and through you. Breathe..
• State silently or aloud, "Every cell accepts the Divine Light, Order and Love with every breath I take". REPEAT THIS FEW TIMES… BREATHE..

Exercise

Just working on an exercise plan too - which will be the hardest part in all honesty, not that I lack motivation, its just the rejigging of time etc to fit it in - in a way that works for everyone.

Getting back to the gym,  doing yoga, too and as soon as possible, I am still planning on doing the kickboxing with the kids at the local leisure centre

anyone got advice on how to work exercise into a busy schedule ???




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Health & Wellbeing

Health and Well-being

for me this is find a balance in life and this is achieved I know through great nutrition and meaningful activity and exercise, creative, emotional, spiritual expression and growth, good sleep and natural rhythms.

I also know I have a LONG ways to go.

Nutrition

My aims nutritionally are quite drastic from how I was eating at the beginning of this transition period.

From the age of 18 to 39 I was a vegetarian and even vegan for nearly a decade.

Then due to being absolutely exhausted, desperately anemic and very depressed, I sort of gave up and started eating meat again, then gradually although my diet was better than most, it was poor in comparison to what I knew it should be.  For the past 3 years I have wanted to go back to being a vegetarian, the resistance by my family and a lack of money meant I procrastinated and this led to more illness and chronic fatigue.

So my aim is to correct this, to return to a vegan diet once again but this time increasing the raw content of my food to up to 80% by the spring.  I need to get my nutrition right and for that I have chosen to use the Juice Plus+ range and I start on their shakes today for SERIOUS !!!

So to start with I am using Juice Plus+ Chocolate flavour with coconut milk YUM ! - looking forward to getting going - along with my friend Nina  :)

My good friend +Gerri Riddiough has encouraged me to take before and after photos, and I admit that's a great idea, yet I am a little unsure about a bikini Gerri lol :P

I have been learning lots about clean eating and raw foods, and tbh I am really looking forward to doing this, I love raw fruit and veggies, and nuts and seeds and tbh its what I would prefer to eat, but as a mum with 7 kids on a small income I am conscious of the knock on effects, this time however most of the kids are on board with my plans, but don't want to go to the same extremes, which is fine, they will get there :)

But I started of by signing the 30 Day Vegan Pledge at PETA UK and signing up for the Go Vegan Kit.

So, far I have 4 weeks worth of my plan for the change over to vegan/raw food sorted (almost) - Wondering whether to do a Pinterest board or just a collage of the weekly meal plan - with recipes :)

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