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What’s your Christmas Gratitude story? Who‘s given of themselves for you or done something significant to gift you this year. Share your story, post a photo, and spread the gratitude!

LifeApp is a charity registered in both Canada and the U.S. For the last 6 years we’ve focused on empowering people to live love well. We often get asked what exactly do we do? Here’s a link to our year end letter a little bit about what we do around the community along with a couple of videos. https://mailchi.mp/4f1f286c7d/increase_the_love_in_2021_ltr

5 things you are grateful for today, and go.......

Often I talk with people, old and young, who are struggling with trying to figure out their purpose in life; dissatisfied with who they are, or feeling like the...y have little to no reason to live, and I am reminded of a principle that is baked into the very fibres of the universe. Cling to your life and you will lose it. Give your life away and you will find it. There is a counterintuitive truism in this axiom. To the degree that we fixate and focus our lives on our stuff, our wants, our pleasure, our pursuits, and our goals. We ultimately become a self absorbed island of loneliness, addiction, and self loathing. But when we see our life, our abilities, our hopes and dreams, through the lens of how we can give of ourselves for the benefit and blessing of others. We ultimately uncover and discover a life full of meaning, purpose, quality relationships, and genuine wealth.

LM This. Hits. Hard. The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response.... Your I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself conditioning is a survival tactic. And you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you. From the parent who was absent and abandoned you by choice or the parent who was never home from working three jobs to feed and house you. From the lovers who offered sexual intimacy but never offered a safe haven that honored your heart. From the friendships and family who ALWAYS took more than they ever gave. From all the situations when someone told you we’re in this together or I got you then abandoned you, leaving you to pick up the pieces when shit got real, leaving you to handle your part and their part, too. From all the lies and all the betrayals. You learned along the way that you just couldn’t really trust people. Or that you could trust people, but only up to a certain point. Extreme-independence IS. A. TRUST. ISSUE. You learnt: if I don’t put myself in a situation where I rely on someone, I won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t show up for me, or when they drop the ball... because they will ALWAYS drop the ball EVENTUALLY right? You may even have been intentionally taught this protection strategy by generations of hurt ancestors who came before you. Extreme-independence is a preemptive strike against heartbreak. So, you don’t trust anyone. And you don’t trust yourself, either, to choose people. To trust is to hope, to trust is to be vulnerable. Never again, you vow. But no matter how you dress it up and display it proudly to make it seem like this level of independence is what you always wanted to be, in truth it’s your wounded, scarred, broken heart behind a protective brick wall. Impenetrable. Nothing gets in. No hurt gets in. But no love gets in either. Fortresses and armor are for those in battle, or who believe the battle is coming. It’s a trauma response. The good news is trauma that is acknowledged is trauma that can be healed. You are worthy of having support. You are worthy of having true partnership. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of having your heart held. You are worthy to be adored. You are worthy to be cherished. You are worthy to have someone say, You rest. I got this. And actually deliver on that promise. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy to receive. You are worthy. You don’t have to earn it. You don’t have to prove it. You don’t have to bargain for it. You don’t have to beg for it. You are worthy. Worthy. Simply because you exist. -Jamila White, @inspiredjamila

Always remember...........

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.