Review Comments From Aspen Tree Books Review
First, I do want to say that some of the poems may be triggering for those recovering from abuse.
Second, I want to say, this is beautiful poetry.
The free verse is strong, descriptive, haunting, lovely. Jacqueline paints with her words. like an artist.
This is no Monet, this is a Helen Frankenthaler with her bold marks and colors. There is a section which is written in relation to abuse and some of it is very dark. Darkness is gut wrenching at times, but the light of hope that shines through is blinding.
My heart agonizes for the girl who has lived through excruciating torment. But the woman she has become? She is an Amazon; a warrior of her own heart.
I am very moved by Jacqueline’s words. I already have my favorites and it’s amazing how Jacqueline reaches in and I feel the warmth. The last 20 poems are exquisite and delightful.
I give this book a high recommendation, for yourself, for a friend… maybe for an Amazon you know.
Thank you, Jacqueline. You are amazing.
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Tag: Empowerment
Blood of The Lioness…
Posts That Caught My Interest #5
I love positive things. I love progress and exciting news. I love to see people chase after their aspirations and dreams and watch them grow. It inspires me more than I can tell you. Some days when my inspiration tank is low, good news from others pep me up and keep me going. Michele, I know you’ll do exceedingly well on this new path.
Inspired Beacon’s posts on better living, food for thought, inspiration, success tips, personal development and business sense keeps me pushing for higher grounds. Never Stop Fighting.
The ‘Fine Lines’ of this poem is not only riveting but empowering in its raw state.
I am mastering ‘How To Sail My Ship,’ how are you doing yours?
You have a right to your opinion, but you’ve got to learn to accept ‘My Opinion.’ In the bid to state your opinion as tell it as it is, also learn that it’s not a license to whiplash others with your venom.
I honestly can’t explain how it must feel to be purchased. A short post ‘I was a purchase,’ that left me pondering.
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Regards,
Jacqueline
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Tuesdays Trickles – My Thinking Corner.
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple. You can check this link for more details.
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♦ You have to believe in yourself and your talent. You must believe that small fact with your entire being.
♦ That little faith that you have in yourself is not just a catalyst for change but keeps you going even when doubt begins to set in.
Lovely nuggets of integrity come in from Lady Cee and words of wisdom from Deb Glover. You need to check these out.
I hope these words add some value.
Regards,
Jacqueline
Midnight Motivation and Musings 105
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Worry and fear are intermarried and no one likes how both make you feel, yet it’s often difficult to stop and they tend to grow in enormity until they become huge factors that occupy they mind of the troubled person.
Worrying can be helpful if it spurs you to take the necessary actions to solve a problem.
However, if you’re preoccupied with all the what if’s and the worst-case scenarios, it turns into fear and becomes a problem.
Persistent doubts and fears can be paralyzing because they will sap your emotional energy, raise your anxiety levels even induce possible panic attacks and affect your daily life as well as how you view things.
Persistent worrying is a mental habit that you can break, but it will require training your mind and body to stay calm while maintaining a more positive perspective towards life.
There’s a little trick that I’ve been implementing for years now and it’s helped me in enormous ways.
- I created a worry period by choosing a specific time and mostly early in the morning when I wake up and about to do my meditative prayer. This way, I de-clutter my mind as much as possible and reduce all sources of anxiety before my day takes off. If possible choose a set time and place for worrying and during the worry period, let yourself dwell on the issues on your mind but for the rest of the day, maintain a worry-free zone. The best way to get a handle on this is by writing down the things bothering you and go over them one by one, but only for the amount of time you’ve specified for it.
Having a period to worry over issues is effective because it helps you to break the habit of dwelling on them when you’ve got other things to do. You are neither suppressing these thoughts but simply apportioning time to them as you do your other daily activities and as you keep up with the practice you will find that you have the ability to postpone your anxious thoughts and to be in better control.
All the best.
Jacqueline
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Midnight Motivations and Musings # 42…
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It should go without saying that the voice of the giant in us should be the one that makes the most noise.
Alas, it’s hardly ever so. For the fact that the voice is not often heeded to, it lies dormant in us, while the screeching empty voice of the coward that knows all the negative, pessimistic words takes pride of place.
It does take a whole lot of paradigm shift and practice to drown the voice of ‘I can’t’ and ‘impossible’ to ‘I will and I’m possible.’
It’s equally a very liberating experience when we let go of some of our unfounded inhibitions and just spread our wings.
Even if we do take a splat in the attempt, chances are we must have gained some worthwhile experience.
When we don’t seek or venture, we shall neither find nor gain.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Midnight Motivations and Musings #13…
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I have been talking to people about ‘thoughts’ for days and I keep reiterating this thought process because a whole lot that we are and become lies within our thoughts.
Our thinking mind is our power house and like a fine machine that when it is properly oiled, serviced and tuned, it brings out the best that it has to give and will even yield outstanding results beyond what you thought was possible.
Keep servicing your mind in the right manner and you will find yourself not only pushing the boundaries of your goals, but exceeding your own expectations.
It’s all in the mind.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Tuesdays Trickles 5..My thinking corner…
Every Tuesday, I share snippets of thoughts that I call ‘My Thinking Corner.’
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Each Tuesday, share your very short snippets of positive, inspiring, motivating, health, spiritual, writing advice, clips, posts etc, that can serve as a prop to motivate others and simply add my link to your post.
I call it my thinking corner because, I actually take out a bit of time just to think through things, encapsulate my thoughts as much as possible and detoxify my mind.
It might work for you in a different way, but the idea is to get the positive thoughts flowing.
Please send in your little thoughts. You never know whose life you might inspire.
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- Sometimes we stare hard at a closed door for too long that we fail to see the new ones opening for us.
- When we expunge the negative, we must endeavour to fill the space created with the positive, because nature abhors vacuum in our existence.
- As difficult as it might be, hold on to those positive thoughts. It never fails to expand your coast and broaden the possibilities of your impossibilities.
- We must pay conscious mind to how we live each day, so that when we look back, we have lots of reasons to smile.
- We ought to respect ourselves, otherwise, no one else will!
This is Rosema of Reading Writers little nuggets Small Choices. In-depth in brevity.
The gift called today from Oba of the King’s Oracle fills me with beautiful thoughts.
Tuesday’s thoughts by Bisi of Femininematerz connects the dots of rising to the skill of your art.
Deep thoughts of Trickles and Tears from Diane of Ladies who lunch reviews.
Persevere. These very few words from simply me speaks very loud and clear.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
The Rolling Train Of Thoughts…
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It is very easy to sit down and dreamily wish for the niceties that life has to offer, but the bare truth is that those niceties come at a certain price. That price entails working smart and being less slothful.
Achieving most of our life’s goals emanates from our minds, which now transforms itself into the required energy.
So in essence, how we treat this powerhouse (our minds) that controls virtually everything that we are or we aspire to become really matters.
We have to choose daily, the seeds that we plant in our minds very wisely.
A weevil eaten seed is already faulty and is likely not to germinate into anything, much less giving any yield.
Our actions or in-actions emanates from our thoughts or lack of thoughts.
When we change our thinking, we change our lives.
If our thoughts are not working for us, it is time to switch into a better route of thinking.
As my people will ask with a proverb, “If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building or do you change the nail?”
As we plant the seeds of our thoughts wisely, may we hold onto belief, hope and grace to bring about increase and a bountiful yield.
This is applicable to everyone, irrespective of our religious or non-religious incline.
Thank you Vincent Wambua for inviting me to partake in the 3 quote challenge. Let me extend the invitation to other inspiring bloggers in the house.
Here are the rules:
- Post 3 quotes on 3 consecutive days
- Thank the person who nominated you
- Nominate 5 new bloggers each single day of the challenge.
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