6 months ago, I created a wonderful Facebook page, "Simply sharing POSITIVE thoughts, feelings and advice", which is a safe place where we, women only, can share whatever is truly on our minds, receive positive feed back and helpful insights without judgment nor negativity.
In doing so, we share many of our positive thoughts, feelings, advice and pertinent quotes/sayings/stories. I explain to the women on the page that we are beautiful inside and out. There is absolutely NO judgment.
And, we are there for each other.
I have been asked by many why did I start this page? In all honesty, it was what I was seeing in my newsfeed on my Facebook. As I have mentioned before Facebook has kept me sane and alive. I needed a place where I could freely express myself and be heard or maybe not. But it is MY wall in which I have control over in one or a few parts of my life. I can write whatever is on my mind. In other areas of my life, I am powerless of what will happen in my future...I can only resolve that THIS is the place where I can feel liberated and happy!
I began noticing that there were alot of my female friends and friends of friends who were either posting or commenting very sad stories of their lives...breakups, family conflicts (spouses, mothers/fathers, sisters/brothers, daughters/sons, work related woes, BFF-best friends forever- relationships and etc.) the ups and downs of all areas of LIFE and etc. I, too, was going through alot of painful challenges and growing. AND, it seemed that the frustrations and anger were building and increasing over time.
I thought to myself, "Why not start a page where women could truly express themselves and NOT feel judged or scorned?" I only looked at one other page on Facebook to this similar idea I had in mind and decided that I would start one with just my circle of friends. This is one of those situations where you wonder, "Why didn't I start this sooner?"
Ahh a ~ sweet ~ sigh I'm letting out here.
I am amazed, impressed and in awe of the beautiful women who have come to join together in such a way that I am truly blessed to witness such wonderful bonding and trust being established. The open-mindedness, the honesty, the respect for one another is nothing I had seen nor experienced in my life...and this is all online on Facebook. Sigh, yes...online.
We have all come together finding such a warm and wonderful place of comfort. It has a sorority feel to it...a sisterhood of spirituality has formulated here. We all feel so blessed to have found each other through this group of empowering and beautiful women through and through. It started with just my circle of friends and then somehow grew from outside interests looking...more like peeking in here! I had no idea how the dynamics of this group was going to change so quickly.
The interaction is lively, upbeat, refreshing and most of all down to earth! At first when I saw the group growing I was really nervous...it was like having a whole new classroom of freshman starting in high school. I didn't realize that I had the settings on the group page to allow everyone (the current members) add whomever they felt like inviting. So, all these personalities overwhelmed me. Now I have it set for the administrators - that being me and another designated administrator - who are the only two to be able to accept "to be added to the group" requests.
Now, I feel there is a sense of keeping the group at peace and in harmony.
Each day I wake up I so enjoy seeing the activities that have occurred while asleep. That is the fun of this page as we have a group of ladies from England and Hungary with the time difference being 8 hours. Then there are members on the East Coast with 3 hours difference. And then there is the West Coast group! So there is constant flurry of sharing, laughter, tears of both joy and some sadness ( a reality of life), issues discussed and just a array of conversations passed between each other.
It's simply and positively pure magic!
THIS is the group of friends that I hold so dear to me. I feel I have a better sense of purpose- as a friend so kindly pointed to me that I LOVE people, especially the special women here, and am a TRUE friend. My positive attributes that I possess are listening intently with great focus; sharing with honesty and open mindedness; to be humble when listening and advising from the heart; to love unconditionally and most of all showing integrity with compassion.
When I look at the fantastic personalities that have come into this group, I see all of these women with such natural beauty both inside and out. To me, not only do they have a heart of gold each...they are ALL simply and positively "Beautiful in My Eyes"...
Each beautiful lady in this group knows how I deeply think about them AND feel for them...we are positively united and empowered.
I will leave you on this note with a great BIG grin...
One of my members posted this on our wall and it resonates how this group feels for each other; our perspective on how we see our lives that have been changing in a positive way; increasing our self-esteem; lowering our expectations; reveling in great strides of self love and loving life!
May you all find a group of friends who can share such a beautiful and mutual respect for one another with such wonderful compassion as we are experiencing here.
NOTE: Men...you would benefit being a part of a men's only positive thinking group! ;-)
