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Reflections on Self-Care I Practiced to Cope with Death, Loss & Grief During Pandemic Years of 2020-2024
While I was sitting in the Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas yesterday (which was March 11th), I remembered what happened four years ago.
As you may recall, our lives were disrupted and changed forever on March 11, 2020. That’s when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The pandemic and its impact on our spirit, heart, mind, body, and life continues.
I also began thinking about the how I have struggled during the past four years to cope with death, loss, and grief.
How have you struggled during the past four years to cope with death, loss, and grief?
What have you done to take care of yourself?
Redefining and deepening my self-care practices have helped me cope with and embrace Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief.
Over the past four years, I have developed a self-care practice of tapping into the ancestral medicine of my loving + wise + well ancestors.
I learned ancestral medicine is my birthright. It’s yours too!
Getting help and support from my therapist, ancestral healing coach, life coach, and business coach over the past four years helped me lay a foundation for defining and accessing my ancestral medicine.
I define ancestral medicine as the love, protection, and wisdom I receive from my loving + wise + well ancestors.
This year, I decided to create a series of Thriving Mindfully Podcast episodes that share how I am using self-care practices like ancestral medicine and creativity to cope with and embrace Thriving Mindfully with death loss, and grief.
If you are struggling with death, loss, and grief AND/OR interested in learning how I am using self-care to embrace Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief, listen to the Thriving Mindfully Podcast episodes below.
Here’s a list of the episodes. Clink them to access the episodes on YouTube.
-S7 EP15: Tapping into Ancestral Medicine When A Loved One Dies
–S7 EP16: Grief Self-Care – Writing Love Letters to and from Death, Loss & Grief
–S7 EP17: Death, Loss & Grief Reflections Four Years After the COVID-19 Pandemic Began
Do you need more support with your death, loss, and grief journey?
Join me for the 2024 Grief + You Retreat Series on March 17, April 13, May 5, June 30, July 28, August 25, September 29, October 27, November 17, and December 15 at 2-3:30 PM ET via Zoom.
Click the sign up button below to register.
I’d love to hear your responses to the March check-in questions below.
I’d also like to know how I can support you better.
Leave a comment below. You can also send an email to ananda@anandaleeke.com or a direct message on Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, or YouTube. Follow @anandaleeke.
May your life, relationships, and career be filled with love, ease, joy, awareness, acceptance, and abundance!
Love, Peace, Joy, Gratitude, and Abundance
Ananda
Thriving Mindfully with Death, Loss & Grief
Hey there! It’s been a few months since we last connected. That’s why I decided to check-in with you.
How are you doing during the winter season?
The winter season has given me lots of time and space to explore the lessons I am currently learning from death, loss, and grief. One of the lessons I am learning is death, loss, and grief are a master class in SURRENDER.
WATCH THE VIDEO below to get more of my reflections on death, loss, and grief.
The latest episode of the Thriving Mindfully Podcast dropped this week. It focuses on three key lessons I have learned on my Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief journey. Tune in by clicking on the video below.
If you’re struggling with or interested in exploring how to embrace Thriving Mindfully with death, loss, and grief, join me for the 2024 Grief and You Retreat Series on March 17, April 14, May 5, June 30m July 28, August 25, September 29, October 27, November 17, and December 15 at 2-3:30 PM ET via Zoom. Click the REGISTER button below.
WATCH REPLAY VIDEO: Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class for the Holidays (December 20)
Remember to click the button and sign up for the Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class on December 27th at 12:30 PM ET.
Your Special Holiday Gifts: 2 Meditation Online Classes to Help You Nurture Yourself During the Holiday Season
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Attend DC Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class on Nov 15 with Guest Teacher Maria de Los Angeles
I am super excited my soul sistalove Maria de los Angeles will be leading this week’s Thriving Mindfully Meditation Class on November 15th at 5:30-6:15 PM at Qi Kratom CBD Tea, 1517 U Street, NW, in DC.
Click here for more information.
REMINDER: The weekly donation-based classes will end on December 20th.
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS SHOW UP FOR THE CLASS!
ABOUT MARIA: Maria de los Angeles is an award-winning writer and teacher of heart-centered living based in the greater D.C. area. She is the publisher of Heart-Centered Living News, a monthly newsletter for the “practical mystic” or anyone longing for grounded spirituality. Maria is also a certified yoga instructor with a background in the Iyengar tradition. Visit www.heartcenteredmaria.com.
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.
Ananda Leeke 