We’re almost at lift-off! If you can’t join us for the live event, no worries, just sign up anyway and you’ll receive the recording after the event has ended to watch at your leisure…
See you on Sunday, Katie and Nicole ❤
What does Phil Borges, Producer of the CRAZYWISE film have to say about our KindaProud book series?
I died into a new life.
The day I died into a new life
I heard the sound of absolute silence.
I saw its outlines.
I felt its touch.
I tasted its scent.
The absolute silence is the sound of the soul.
The chambers of my heart breathe in memories of the future.
They were revived 666 minutes after my cardiac arrest.
Do you know how misery tastes if you haven’t suffered before?
Do you believe the hungry if you are satiated?
Human life is hidden in the shell of an instant that lasts forever.
The circle of suffering rises in the spiral of eternity.
The mirror image of the human soul is eternal.
The sign of eternity is burned into the heart as an irreversible sign of destiny.
Through love my heart woke up from unconscious.
Now I know we all are here forever.
Thank you to one of our #EmergingProud through NOTEs book contributors, Julia, for sharing her powerful poem with us …
Join us on Sunday 12th May for our FREE, GLOBAL and LIVE event. We’re attempting something truly crazy: to host an event that captures several continents at once.
Yep. That makes for some funky hours in several time zones, but we wanted to pull off a global party nonetheless.
We’ll have people calling in from around the world who are hosting LIVE #EmergingProud events. We just found out there’s over 400 folks at the Brazil party and almost 200 in Hungary.
If you’ve ever felt alone on your spiritual journey, this is a wonderful opportunity to feel globally connected with tribe.
ALL proceeds from the book will go right back into printing more books for FREE distribution in hospitals and mental health care facilities, where people can do with a little touch of hope and inspiration.
Our vision is to have these pocketbooks available in public spaces around the globe. And there are 3 more to come!
You can pre-order your copy here and support an awesome cause.
See you at the party!
Did you know it’s our 3rd International #EmergingProud day on Sunday 12th May?!
We’ll be launching our first pocket book of HOPE in the KindaProud series;
Pre-order your copy HERE!
ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO BUY BOOKS TO DISTRIBUTE MESSAGES OF HOPE TO MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES ACROSS THE UK AND WORLDWIDE
Sign up to join our launch event HERE
What are people saying about this book?
Hungarian Artists Eva Gal and Clara Teleki have produced this stunning digital art display in advance of the Budapest event for #EmergingProud day 2019; köszönöm Clara and all of the team doing an incredible job to spread the #EmergingProud message of hope in Hungary…
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE HUNGARIAN EVENT
You may remember Sue who shared her ‘Blooming Warrior’ journey with us for our #Emerging Proud through Trauma and Abuse KindaProud book?
Read it again here;
A few weeks ago Sue shared an incredibly powerful poem that came to her in the middle of the night. It cut straight to my heart and speaks to everything that is wrong with how people are often treated in the current mental health system. I don’t think anyone could read Sue’s words and not be moved; (*trigger warning*)
Look into my Eyes
When you’re done with noting down the colour of my skin, the style of my hair, my gender, the clothes I’m wearing, the way I sit,
When you’re done with judging the way I express myself, the way I behave,
When you’re done with calculating the risk I pose to you,
When you’re done with depriving me of my freedom,
When you’re done with stripping away my dignity, my humanity, my self-agency,
When you’re done with labelling me and placing me in one of your cluster groups,
When you’re done with plotting out your pathway for me,
When you’re done with subtly insisting on my compliance to your world,
When you’re done with inflicting upon me your evidence-based practices and lecturing me about your NICE guidelines,
When you’re done with questioning the very core of me,
When you’re done with blaming me and shaming me,
When you’re done with crushing my hopes and my dreams,
When you’re done with raping my soul and breaking my spirit,
When you’re done with killing me softly.
When you’re done with all this,
I would ask you,
To show me your humility, your willingness to learn,
To put down your textbooks, your manuals and your formularies,
To set aside your prescription pads,
To peel off the electrodes you’ve placed on my forehead,
To remove your clouded spectacles,
And to step down from your thrones of power,
And when you are ready,
I invite you to be with me in my world,
To walk alongside me as I stumble along my fragile pathway,
To share with me your vulnerability as I have shared with you mine,
To sit with me and bear witness to my hopelessness, my alienation, my pain, my sense of betrayal, my grief and my humiliation,
To look into my eyes,
Where you will see the child within me who holds the agony, the scars, the terror, the silent screams,
And when you have sat for a while with all that you have witnessed,
And are able and willing to hold this space and explore with me my story,
Then my self-loathing, my despair, my loneliness, my shame, my fear begins to fade and wither,
My spirit begins to awaken, and my soul begins to heal.
Only then might you begin to understand who I am.
Andy Farr depicted Sue’s poem in this beautiful painting named ‘Little Sue’ – the details of the whole collection is called ‘The Twisted Rose and other Lives’ – and explores the emotions and experience of post traumatic stress and recovery. You can see the background info on Andy’s website here: https://www.andyfarr.com/twistedrose.
Would you like to share your transformation story or poetry for Mandy’s KindaProud book, #EmergingProud through Trauma and Abuse?
Please contact Mandy to find out how by contacting her at: ambrieleve@gmail.com
“Even within the midst of great confusion, despair or turmoil, can we trust that intrinsic within the very nature of our Beings lie the seeds of profound healing and transformation.” Dr Paris Williams
Join our insprational KindaProud Rep Amy Woods and me for a nourishing Self-Love retreat in July…
Have you found yourself alone in your challenges with food or body image?
Come join us, discover that you are not alone, and you are already more than enough exactly as you are!
Embrace the freedom to enjoy the experience of eating, and appreciate your body exactly as it is…
Click here for more details: Eating and Body Image Retreat Info Booklet
Contact us HERE to reserve your place
We look forward to welcoming you to the idyllic Breathing Space for some deep sharing and laughter ❤
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