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World Kindness Day is a great reminder to be kind to yourself with mindful self-care!
Happy World Kindness Day!
Today is a great day to set an intention that supports your self-kindess with mindful self-care.
If you need support, watch the meditation videos on spirit and mindful self-care (22 min and 31 min) that honors my mom and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Soror Theresa B. Gartin Leeke’s spirit and 84th heavenly birthday month.
For those who embrace the wisdom of astrology and the Moon: The New Moon in Scorpio that showed up on the scene this morning is an invitation to set intentions on how you can transform yourself and life with mindful self-care.
ONLINE MINDFUL SELF-CARE CLASSES
If you’re called to join me, sign up for my November and December mindful self-care classes here: https://anandaleeke.com/movement.
FYI TONIGHT’S MINDFUL SELF-CARE CLASS AT 8-8:45 PM ET: I am leading a mindful self-care class that will help you get clear on how you can transform yourself with kindness and recommit to your mindful self-care with meditation, journaling and reflection, and intention setting.
If you’re called to, go here to sign up for the mindful self-care class at 8-8:45 PM ET via Zoom.
HOW I AM HONORING MY MOM THERESA’S HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY WITH ONLINE MEDITATION CLASSES
This year, I am honoring my mom and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Soror Theresa B. Gartin Leeke’s spirit and 84th heavenly birthday (November 10) with online meditations during our sorority’s Founders’ Day Month in November (also known as RHOvember).
The meditation I am leading on November 17th at 7:22-8 PM ET will focus on my mom Theresa’s life lessons about service.
SIGN UP HERE FOR THE LAST MEDITATION ON NOVEMBER 17.
I’d love to hear what you are doing to take care of yourself. I’d also like to know how I can support you better. Send an email or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube.
May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!
Love, Ease, Grace, and Abundance
Ananda
PS: I currently have space for new coaching clients for the fall and winter season. Click here to learn more about my 1:1 coaching program and schedule a free 30-minute call to discuss how we can work together.
Go here to find out about the Thriving Mindfully Academy and how you can become a member this fall.
Happy November & Loving Kindness Month!
Happy November! Happy Loving Kindness Month!
During the height of the pandemic in 2020, I launched Loving Kindness Month in November to remind us all of the power we have to slow down and take better care of ourselves with gentleness and nonjudgment.
Loving kindness is the act of befriending yourself with gentleness and nonjudgment in all you feel, think, say, and do.
Practicing loving kindness helps you come home to yourself. It allows you to look in the mirror and see and accept who you truly are without judgment.
Having a daily loving kindness practice strengthens your resilience. It’s one of the best mindful self-care practices you can use to navigate life.
Once you are able to give yourself loving kindness, you are in a better position to give it to your loved ones and others.
WATCH THE VIDEO TO GET MY 10 LOVING KINDNESS TIPS.
ONLINE MEDITATION SERIES HONORING MY MOM THERESA BEGINS TONIGHT!
This year, I am honoring my mom and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Soror Theresa B. Gartin Leeke’s spirit and 84th heavenly birthday (November 10) with three online meditations during our sorority’s Founders’ Day Month in November (also known as RHOvember).
The meditations I am leading on November 3, 10, and 17 at 7:22-8 PM ET will focus on three of my mom Theresa’s life lessons about spirit, self-care, and service.
SIGN UP HERE FOR THE MEDITATIONS. https://anandaleeke.com/theresa
ONLINE MEDITATION IN NOVEMBER: Join me in honoring my mom Theresa B. Gartin Leeke’s spirit and legacy during her birthday month
This year, I am honoring my mom and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Soror Theresa B. Gartin Leeke’s spirit and 84th heavenly birthday (November 10) with three online meditations during our sorority’s Founders’ Day Month in November (also known as RHOvember).
The meditations I am leading will focus on three of my mom Theresa’s life lessons about spirit, self-care, and service.
Click the buttons below to sign up for one or more of the meditations.
If you are unable to attend the meditations via Zoom, I will post the videos on this page and Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
TWO LAST THINGS …
Tune into A Cultured Pearl’s Legacy Podcast (9 episodes) and listen to my mom Theresa share her journey as a life member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, reflections on the Centennial celebration, lessons learned, and wisdom as an African American woman who wore many hats as a wife, mother, educator, nonprofit leader, and musician.
If you’re looking for a way to honor my mom Theresa’s life and legacy, click the button below to make a donation to Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority’s SPEAR Foundation, one of her favorite charities.
What emotional season are you in right now?
What emotional season are you in right now?
I am in an emotional season of GRIEF + GRACE + GRATITUDE + GROWTH + DEEPER SOFTNESS.
What do you need to navigate the emotional season you are in right now?
This month, I have been exploring how to align myself as the Strategic CEO of my life with seasons and systems. My exploration has helped me dive deeper into how I am navigating the emotional season of grief with the Thriving Mindfully system I developed over the past 30+ years.
I thought you might like to know more about my journey and how you can align yourself with seasons and systems. Listen to the latest Thriving Mindfully Podcast episodes below to learn more and gain tips on how you can align yourself as the Strategic CEO of your life with seasons and systems.
S7 EP11
CLICK HERE to listen to S7 EP11: Strategic CEO Reflections on Navigating My Emotional Season of Grief with Thriving Mindfully System.
GREAT NEWS! I am partnering with the owners of Qi Kratom CBD Tea to host the donation-based Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class on Wednesdays starting October 25th at 5:30-6:15 PM at 1517 U Street, NW, in DC. All you need to do is SHOW UP!
CLICK ON THE BUTTON If you’re called to join me, scroll down and sign up for the online mindful self-care classes on October 23rd at 8-8:45 PM ET.
I’d love to hear how you are taking care of yourself. I’d also like to know how I can support you better.
Send an email or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube.
May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!
Love, Ease, Grace, and Abundance
Ananda
PS: I currently have space for new coaching clients for the fall and winter season. Click here to learn more about my 1:1 coaching program and schedule a free 30-minute call to discuss how we can work together.
Go here to find out about the Thriving Mindfully Academy and how you can become a member this fall.
Community Meditation Classes in DC: Wednesday Evenings Starting October 25
Meditating in a safe and sacred community each week is POWERFUL. It’s one of the best ways to be strategic with your self-care.
I am partnering with the owners of Qi Kratom CBD Tea to host the Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class on Wednesdays starting October 25th at 5:30-6:15 PM at 1517 U Street, NW, in DC.
The weekly donation-based classes will end on December 20th.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SHOW UP FOR THE CLASS!
Click the button to sign up for the online classes.
BEING STRATEGIC WITH YOUR SELF-CARE TIP: Adjust how you take care of yourself based on your regular self-care check-ins
Sometimes you have to adjust how you take care of yourself.
That means you gotta check in with yourself to see what you really need in terms of self-care.
When’s the last time you checked in with yourself about your self-care?
WATCH MY VIDEO TO LEARN ABOUT MY JOURNEY.
Struggling & Resourcing Yourself: Getting The Support You Need As the Strategic CEO of Your Life (Lessons I am currently learning!)
Happy Take Care of Yourself Tuesday! Happy World Mental Health Day!
How are taking care of your spirit, heart, mind, and body this month?
Yesterday, I recorded a video that I hope will spark reflection about the times you have struggled with yourself and to get the support you need. See below.
If you are currently struggling with yourself and getting the support you need, I invite you to listen to the video and the two podcast episodes below.
May these resources offer you a buffet of self-care tips you can pick and choose from to nurture yourself this month.
PODCASTS
S7 EP6: Being A Strategic CEO of Your Life & Resourcing Yourself
S7 EP8: Struggling with Being the Strategic CEO of Your Life & Resourcing Yourself (Getting the Support You Need to Move Forward in the Present Moment)
YOUR INVITATION
For the next three months, I am holding space for you to show up and be the Strategic CEO of your life through a daily PRACTICE.
If you’re called to join me, SIGN UP HERE for the online mindful self-care classes on October 23rd, November 13 and 27, and December11 at 8-8:45 PM ET.
I’d love to hear how you welcome Autumn into your life and what you are doing to take care of yourself. I’d also like to know how I can support you better.
Send an email or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube.
May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!
Love, Ease, Grace, and Abundance
Ananda
PS: I currently have space for new coaching clients for the fall and winter season. Click here to learn more about my 1:1 coaching program and schedule a free 30-minute call to discuss how we can work together.
Go here to find out about the Thriving Mindfully Academy and how you can become a member this fall.
Could you be softer with yourself as you move into the autumn season?
When you hear the word SOFT what comes to mind?
Are you SOFT with yourself?
What get’s in your way of being SOFT with yourself?
MY SOFT JOURNEY
In 2022, I received a divine download during meditation that invited me to embrace S.O.F.T. as a self-care mantra and intention that takes the form of an acronym (confession: I remember many things with acronymns).
S: Slow down and
O: Offer yourself
F: FREEDOM
T: TODAY
MEANING OF FREEDOM
My FREEDOM has shown up as a deep breath, a hug, giving myself time and space for loving kindness + compassion + nonjudgment + patience + forgiveness + grace, a gratitude prayer, setting boundaries with my time by declining invitations, singing at karaoke nights, reading a juicy book, listening to soothing music, taking a walk, spending time by the water, quality time with family and friends, a nap, time with my journal, sleeping in my mom’s bed, wearing my mom’s lipstick and jewelry, holding and wearing my crystals, anointing myself with essential oils, touching and hugging trees, lighting candles and incense, preparing and eating a healthy meal, talking to my therapist, getting acupuncture and reiki, playing my sound bowls, moving my body with tennis and yoga, writing and reading my poetry out loud, traveling to see family in NYC and London, and so much more.
MEANING OF TODAY
Today refers to the present moment and the birthrights of mindfulness, self-love, self-care, and self-work that we each get the day we are born. They come alive in our lives when we choose to claim and practice them today — the present moment.
What does S.O.F.T. As Fuck (AF) mean?
SLOW down and OFFER yourself FREEDOM TODAY married As Fuck to remind me to seek out my softness by any means necessary.
By any means necessary is a phrase Malcolm X, one of my greatest teachers, used in a speech he gave on June 28, 1964, that introduced the Organization of Afro-American Unit at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan: “We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”
I am using by any means necessary to claim and practice my softness no matter what’s happening in my life.
S.O.F.T. AF RESOURCES FOR YOU
Do you want to explore and practice being SOFT with yourself during the autumn season that officially begins on September 23rd, the first day of autumn and the celebration of the autumn equinox and Libra season?
If you answered YES, hell yeah, or kinda sorta maybe, check out the resources below.
GUESS WHAT?
My softness married my grief this summer.
Since my mom, Theresa B. Gartin Leeke made her peaceful transition to ancestorhood in my presence on July 9, 2023, my SOFTNESS has married my GRIEF and become SACRED MEDICINE that is super INTENTIONAL, JUICY, LAVISH, LUSH, MESSY, MAGICAL, ABUNDANT, OVERFLOWING, and everything in between.
Recently, I noticed my SOFTNESS is deepening even more as I enter the autumn and winter seasons. It is calling me to give myself more time to be still, reflect, journal, write poetry and prayers, make art, and share in a sacred and safe community of support that reminds me to claim and practice my SOFTNESS as ONENESS with others.
That’s why I am hosting S.O.F.T. AF Sunday on September 24th to welcome the Autumn Equinox and December 10th to prepare for the Winter Solstice.
Read on if you’re called to join me.
I’d love to hear about your SOFT and self-care journey (what’s working, what’s not working, any struggles you may be having).
I’d also like to know how I can support you better.
Send an email or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube.
May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!
Love, Ease, Grace, and Abundance,
Ananda
PS: I currently have space for new coaching clients for the fall and winter season. Click here to learn more about my 1:1 coaching program and schedule a free 30-minute call to discuss how we can work together.
Go here to find out about the Thriving Mindfully Academy and how you can become a member this fall.
National Grief Awareness Day: Navigating Grief with Grace & Gratitude As Theresa’s Daughter
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