Yoga with Terri Powell

12/03/2025

Your worth is not determined by how others treat you. How they do like to test you. Be stronger, Be kinder to yourself.

02/12/2024

06/07/2024

Day 25

Lessons I have learned in this journey of forgiveness and gratitude:

Be intentional with who you spend your time with.

Be mindful of how you show up.

Get comfortable with saying no and let go of the FOMO, not everything, everyone is for you.

“You are the average of the top 5 people you spend your time with.” - Jim Rohn

Social environments have a huge influence on our habits, our health, our lifestyles.

Choose your tribe wisely.

Everyday is a new day, new slate full of opportunity to follow dreams, goals…embrace it, live it and allow yourself to be drawn to what feels right for yourself.

~Namaste Terri

04/07/2024

04/07/2024

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Enjoy it!

30/06/2024

When I get confused, annoyed, or disheartened by someone’s behavior I repeat the words of Maya Angelou as my affirmation of truth:

“When people show you who they are believe them.”🌼

(Stay away from people who act like a victim in a problem they created.-unknown)

21/06/2024

Day 6-10
Forgiveness - Myself, for letting others drive my bus of emotion. Sorry your stop is here and it’s time to exit. The last few days, I’ve reverted back to some big forgives and had to spend a few more days on the these big ones which I’m still struggling with. Progress not perfection…Baby steps. Regardless of the regression I got back up and continue to move forward. A friend once said, “I’m not for everyone.” Nor would I want to be as that comes by way of self sacrifice.

Gratitude -
Summer weather and outdoor swimming. Water therapy, fluid, buoyancy, refreshing, no impact, sunshine

Home projects - reorganizing, restoring, updating, designing, hard labor, the challenge of figuring out new skills, satisfaction that I’m self sufficient, productive…all great feelings to build confidence and esteem.

Ability to keep an Open mind - life transition, it can be scary to change but keeping an open mind to change what you dislike to something you will like, follow a dream, try something new, learn something new

The ability to move on- garateful I am learning to let go of the toxic and navigate to healthy minded activities and people. One door closes another opens.

Life long friendships - trustworthy! Loyal! there when I’m down, there when I fall down and support me without judgement, there for the fun and the laughs too and will always have my back.

Resilience - we all fall down, sometimes we are pushed to the ground. Sometimes others feel pushed by me. I’m not perfect but I know what I am not no matter the accusations. However, I won’t stop getting back up. Never. There have been dark times and I never want to find myself there again. I am strong and I am a survivor. I read once, “You can only hold a person down if you get down on the ground with them.” Well I’m standing tall.

16/06/2024

Day 5 & 6 Forgiveness and Gratitude

Gratitude is gaining so much ground and regardless of a recent very, hurtful experience that caused an actual anxiety attack, I am giving a wider gap to gratitude. I am letting gratitude win. I know how unimportant and trivial this hurt really is in the grand scheme of my dreams and life.

I followed a guided meditation a short while ago and before beginning the actual meditation, you were to journal your biggest and maybe even most secret dream, a dream that put you in your best life and also a dream without any inhibitions, fear, doubt or reason. The biggest rule being you were not allowed to write down any reason as to why it can’t come true.

Then:

Journal it…write it all down.

Read it out loud to yourself.

Meditate…meditate on what your life would look like if it came true. Meditate with the belief that it can come true if you choose it. We can choose a different life at any moment. We can recreate our lives at any time…but we must choose to believe in the dream and ourselves. We may not get do overs as the past is the past but we can restart at anytime.

The power to write it down and read it out loud was powerful, exhilarating but also brought to front of my mind how we so often don’t listen to our own hearts and cast our dreams aside. Especially as we get older. Stuck in auto pilot and status quo. Learn to get uncomfortable with status quo rather than being comfortable in the safety zone. Reach beyond the self set perimeters of your safety zone…it’s a dotted line not a wall that can’t come down.

I am grateful to have this recent loss as it is pushing me to closer to my dream. Those who caused the pain, I not only forgive but I thank them. I also pray and wish for them to find better, healthier ways to resolve conflict without so much unnecessary aggression and anger which mindlessly weighs them down and holds them back from their own happiness.

The best revenge is living your best life.

13/06/2024

Day 2,3 &4
Forgiveness, working toward forgiving those friends who stand by knowing others are causing pain and anguish and choose not to stand up but just turn a cheek.

Forgiveness to those who pose to care but instead break confidence and use knowledge to wield that power against you,

Forgiveness to those who blur boundaries and infringe on your space, relationships and seek to control and manipulate where they have no place and work it all to their advantage. Selfishly push their own private agenda on others.

I’ve worked privately to journal these negative feelings and individuals and I will continue to let go of the pain these actions have caused. I forgive all who have treaded through this ugly trench. I pray for you to recognize your wrong and forgive yourself.

Gratitude
Health, I strive to live a healthy lifestyle. I am grateful for giving myself this outlet, opportunity to improve my mind, body and soul. An amazing stress reliever.

Training partners and friends, who help me to stay on track and push myself to take on fitness challenges that fulfill my athletic drive and also who listen and support me.

Nature, the beautiful lakes to swim in, the woodsy trails to run, bike, walk in, the mountains to climb and the spectacular views for miles, the ocean and Sandy beaches to relax, cool off and breath in the wonderful salt air.

10/06/2024

Day 1 of 30 days of FORGIVENESS and GRATITUDE

1. I am working very, very hard to forgive a particular few individuals but IMHO they suffer from adult relational aggression. I have been so hurt and angry that this is my biggest struggle and I’m going in kicking and screaming because I really don’t want to forgive you. However I know deep down I need to, for myself. I will never believe this morphed version you have rationalized me to be for your own purpose of needing to feel better about yourself. I know who I am. For myself, I know I can, will and have already moved on but this last step of forgiving will help me close this chapter. I am shedding the feelings f resentment, anger and pain. I will just keep on keeping on and doing me. It’s the best self remedy.

I am hopeful you can find your way to do the same but without this horrible need to feel it’s only possible with a conviction of this malicious behavior. I actually think all of you are amazing people but you have fallen down, lack the courage and confidence to believe in yourself without having to act out in this way. We all have our crutches and failures. It is easier to forgive because I think you also act without the knowledge of subconsciously why you feel the need to behave in this way. I hope you can dig deep, find that best version of yourself that you’ve buried underneath this crutch. I’ve seen that version so I know it’s there. This best version is how I see you but I have taken a stance for self preservation to keep myself out your aim of fire. I believe these bad choices and behavior don’t define you, they are the result of some deep, past pain that has gone unresolved. I have just been collateral damage. However, these are your own crosses to carry and bare. I forgive you and I pray you can find your way.

2. Little tiny, happy human beings made by two of the most beautiful people I know. They make this first day to find gratitude way too easy. Skye bug and Bubba Colton you make me so so very happy. The purest love comes from children. They see the world through rose colored glasses and remind me to go back to that innocence and try to see the world from their loving perspective. The love I can give back comes with no strings, conditions, expectations…it’s just there and you are both my happy place and can turn any day around for me. Nana loves you so very much.

I have followed this with 30mins of solitary meditation with intention to find forgiveness and honor my grandchildren. Today I am also making a donation to the Ophelia Project.

~Namaste Terri

09/06/2024

On the road to healing, I am taking a self oath to a 30 day journey of a daily practice of journaling and meditation 🧘‍♀️ to find GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS. Two of the biggest components for happiness. Please join me if you are inclined.

1. Write a list of 30 good and 30 wrong things in your world.

2. For the next 30 days take one wrong to find your own way for finding forgiveness and then take one reason to have gratitude to find appreciation of what is really important.

FORGIVENESS:
This does not mean you are granted forgiveness by other(s) or a relationship must be rebuilt but rather find a way that helps you to understand in your own way to find the space to let go and move on. Forgiveness is not for others but for yourself to be free of any ugly, dark disposition that is weighing you down.

GRATITUDE:
Then find one good, rightful reason, person, thing in this world to feel gratitude. Cherish and wholeheartedly recognize this good, this wonder…become so very conscious that this should never be taken for granted. Hold it closer to your heart than you ever have held it before.

3. Journal your heart out about both. You can ramble, you can use bad grammar, wrong spelling, you can swear, let tears of sadness or happiness fall onto the page, you can frame or burn the page. This is for you, this is your space to say the good, bad, the ugly. You can tear it up and start over…you can write one word or thousands. Write until you can’t write one more word about it, write until your tired of writing about it, write until you can let go of the bad and embrace the good. Find the balance.

4. Meditate on both. Give both the opportunity to have solitary confinement of your thoughts for just a few moments (or longer if needed or chosen) Meditate long enough for it to completely resonate on how very important both are to leading an abundant and happy life. Take your time to think about what your life would look like with and then without each.

How to begin:
Beginning this practice, I recognize that journaling is one of my biggest tools to heal and work out my thoughts, feelings and perspective. When I go off track I can usually trace it back to one of the reasons being that I have not been following a daily ritual of starting my day with journaling and meditation.

Meditation helps to reinforce at a very psychic level, allowing me to dial deep into my feelings, thoughts, psyche, self recognition of when I have gone into auto pilot and my reactions are based on external factors rather than mindful choices based on my values.

Life without gratitude and forgiveness is a life of unhealthy stress and misery. We all lose our way at times and when we do one of the biggest challenges is letting go, picking ourselves up and getting back on track, no matter how often we fall. The struggle is real and a real kick in the teeth when you feel so very passionate about wrongs which can then make it so easy to take all the good for granted.

Take a moment and take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror. Physically do this. Have a very raw, authentic moment of truth with yourself. Ask yourself what is really important? Ask yourself how important will this right or wrong be in a year, five or decade from now? How important will it be in the moment when you leave this earth? Put it in perspective.

Harboring the resentment and pain is one of the worst self inflictions and holding on is giving up power to the wrong and allowing it to consume you. For the next 30 days I will work to liberate myself from ugly dispositions. Meditate on what makes me happy and unhappy while working on every item on these lists, one item, one moment, one day at a time.

“When habitual vapors of feelings of unforgiveness arise, remind yourself that you are unwilling to give your power away. You deserve a happy, peace-filled, abundant life. No one can take this from you without your cooperation.

Forgiveness leads to freedom, joy, and inner peace. It’s the best revenge.”

“Gratitude is an attitude.”

“Just think if you lost everything you have today and then gained it all back again. Just think about how happy you would be.”

~Namaste, Terri