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Space, Death & Purpose: There is timing for everything

Space, Death & Purpose: There is timing for everything

Lately, I’ve been seeing “inspirational posts” that say things like “There is no right time…” then followed by “the time is now!” or  ….”Don’t wait forever.” Or some sort of “get going” type sentiment about starting a work goal, or coming into your purpose.

It’s been bothering me.

In the past few years, I’m learning a hard lesson: There is timing for everything. 

Now, don’t get me wrong. If you are in an abusive relationship or toxic environment, I agree that the time is always ripe to leave ? that ? situ-? -ation. Do not wait.

As far as a work goal or purpose, I’ve observed that as I inch closer and closer, and feel more aligned to my purpose, and what I had come into this Earthly existence to do, I understand why there is a time for everything.

We are not always ready. 

This is not an invalidation of who you are, but rather, our lack of readiness comes from being a human being. Every day we learn, we grow, we come into new understandings that build slowly over time, that gets us ready for our purpose. We can take steps, one after another, but each step has its own timing, coming from integration of each one.

These motivational quotes make us believe that if we’re not hitting the pedal hard, to charge forward, then we’re just sitting around doing nothing.

I’ve found in the past few years, especially the last year – when I’m “doing nothing” I am, in fact doing a lot. We live in a society where we invalidate space, as if we’re lazy, or not ambitious, if we aren’t doing something towards our goals. 

Confined to my home, I discovered that space was exactly the medicine I needed. It was a clearing, which included a death of my identity, a death of unsupportive friendships, places and things that no longer serve me, a death of inherited belief systems and values that no longer resonates. 

I had to first become an empty vessel, void of any notion of who I am, before I could begin to fill it with my sincere, heart-aligned truth and authenticity. This empty void is incredibly disorienting, and has brought many to existential crises, that only fuels our fire to discover who we are with more enthusiasm. As we begin to fill our empty vessels, uncover what’s in our hearts, we slowly begin to settle into our new selves.

All of this took time and space. There is no moving forward without this process. If we try to fast pass or skip a step, we’re only left with half truths. 

Do not be afraid of this space in-between; the space that leaves us empty and uncertain of who we even are. It may not feel like it, but it’s working for you. Trust in that space.

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-08-16T19:25:03+00:00Tags: , |

The wisdom of anger

The wisdom of anger

⁠You’re allowed to be angry.⁠

This has been a theme coming up the past week… with various people, places and things. If I’m coming across it, perhaps you are too…⁠

When we get angry, we’re often told to “get over it.”⁠

We think: We want to be good people, and good people means we’re not angry. ⁠

That’s not true.⁠

Whatever “it” is, if you’re angry about it, there’s a message for you.⁠

We can ignore it all we want, try to move on without hearing the anger, but if anger keeps sneaking up on you, there’s something that wants to be heard, and it’ll keep coming until you hear it.⁠

Beneath the anger, is usually unrecognized pain, hurt, or grief. Or it’s telling us about a boundary that needs to be set. There may be a message of empowerment that wants to be received by you.⁠ Or something you want deeply that we aren’t allowing.

Throw out what you think you “should” do, about being a good person.⁠

Our anger, if properly heard and directed, is an innate wisdom, that transcends the protocols of “good person” and “bad person.”⁠

Stop, and talk to your anger. Ask it what it wants to say. Ask it what it needs, for you to be whole.⁠

And then, give it time to heal.

For more on this topic, check out this article about empowering yourself with anger, “How to be really angry and still be a good person” – written in my column for Jumble & Flow.⁠

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-08-04T21:49:24+00:00Tags: , , , |

Why I don’t tell the future

Why I don’t tell the future

In my latest article on Jumble & Flow, I wrote about how a coworker came to me in a dream as a spirit. The dream was ethereal, as dreams tend to be. But this was something else. It was like we were in an empty, beautiful void, just the two of us. The energy could only be described as pure love as he took my hand and said, “I want to start a family with you.”

As I go on to say in my article, I woke up from the dream confused. I wasn’t interested in the co-worker, and motherhood was still only a vague question-mark in my mind.

The dream felt so good though, so safe. And it triggered an intense desire in me. My mind questioned the desire, and fear settled in. I shooed away the desire and the seed of Motherhood, the dream was attempting to show me.

It’s been several years later, and now, I am in a relationship with a former co-worker, not the one from my dream. We’re in love and building towards an amazingly spiritual and loving partnership walking towards the possibility of starting a family together. 

I look back on that dream and I can’t help but chuckle. 

The Universe clearly wanted to get my attention. Dreaming is a way The Universe / Guides / Angels / Higher Self etc communicates with us. I look back and can see how The Universe wanted to wake me up to this desire I was suppressing, the desire to walk towards Motherhood.

I look back on the dream, and in some ways, it could be called a premonition, but really it was my Guides trying to steer me in a more aligned direction.

God / The Universe lovingly gives us free will, which means we have the power of choice. We can choose whatever path we’d like, but there are Hopes we had set out for ourselves before we came into our existence in this life. When we walk towards love, we walk towards alignment. 

God / The Universe wanted to remind me of this Hope I had set out for myself, but it didn’t want to ruin the surprise! It wanted to give me clues without telling me exactly what would happen, and so it substituted a different co-worker to get my attention without the surprise of what, where or who exactly. I’ve had this feeling for a while, my person, is an ex-coworker, but I didn’t know who. If we knew all the details of life, that’d ruin the fun! Life is about living it.

People often go to Tarot Readers or Psychics to know the future. Our worry causes us to think we’d be better off knowing the future. There are a few points I want to make about this:

1) The future hasn’t happened yet, so how can we tell it? We have free will, and others have free will. Each choice can spur things to happen one way, or another. So we can’t know if something will happen for certain.

2) If we know the future, we limit our own possibility – When someone tells you the future, they tell you a possible future. When you believe it, you ground into a limited possibility. God / The Universe wants the best for you. It wants more for you than you want for yourself. When we stay open to the unknown, we stay open to possibilities beyond what we fathom. 

3) The Universe wants to surprise you – Again. Ruined surprises are no fun!

We may get dreams, visions, information about the future. But as I’ve experienced it, “future information” is meant to get you to act, in the present. It gives you these potential views into the future as a way to encourage you to align with your soul, usually they’re not easy paths. 

Whether you choose to align yourself and walk that path, is your choice. If you do, be open to the surprise the Universe wants to give you.


In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-07-30T19:13:56+00:00

Don’t feel like you belong? Not everything is for you. And that’s okay.

Don’t feel like you belong? Not everything is for you. And that’s okay.

The other day, I was at a Loft clothing store. As the sales woman told me about the deals of the day, I felt uncomfortable. Stories began to trickle into my brain about my discomfort.

Thoughts like “I probably make people uncomfortable because I’m Asian.” I didn’t know this for sure, and yet, there the thought was. When you’re Asian American, thoughts like this come in often when you’re in a place where there are no other Asians around. I shooed the thought away. As Byron Katie would ask — “Is it true? Do you know for certain it’s true?”

No, I do not know if it’s true. And so it was pointless to think the thought; I was only hurting myself by thinking it.

Clearly, I was projecting.

I browsed around and tried on a pair of shorts. 

This just isn’t me, I thought. And I left.

Today, I was at a Goodwill Thrift Shop. There were all types of people at the Goodwill. Asians, Latinx, Whites, Blacks. As I was looking through the summer dresses, I found it interesting that I felt like I belonged there… at this grungy Goodwill shop. 

And then, I was hit by a realization:

That feeling of “I don’t belong here.” It’s not meant to invalidate you. It’s a message. Go find where you do belong. Not everything is for you. And that’s okay.

It blew my mind as I thought about the other day, feeling uncomfortable at the Loft store. I felt like I didn’t belong there, but — why do I need to? 

I don’t need to fit in everywhere. I had always thought me not belonging had to do with other people not making me feel welcomed. But — maybe the discomfort is also trying to tell me, *I* don’t want to be here. So why be here?

If someone’s being racist and it’s somewhere you want to be, then by all means, fight for your right to be there. Now that I’m older, I feel like — why do I want to be somewhere that’s racist (if they are), when there are places who are willing to accept me? Places where I feel comfortable and can be myself.

There was a time in my life when I shopped at Loft stores, and I felt like I belonged. I was a career woman and the style appealed to me. In that same period in my life, I would had never set foot in a Goodwill. The idea of buying second hand grossed me out a bit.

Now, I’ve flipped the script. Why buy expensive, new stuff, when there’s perfectly fine used clothing, waiting for a person to wear it, while donating to a good cause? 

It’s funny the stories we sometimes create in our minds when the feeling of discomfort or anxiety comes in. Sometimes, that feeling is just trying to say…. This isn’t for me

It’s no one’s fault. Sometimes it’s for you. Sometimes it’s not. It can even have been for you in a different time of life, and now it’s not.

As Asian Americans, we comprise of 5.4% of the US population. “Not belonging” is a feeling all Asian Americans have felt; it’s certainly been a big issue in the early parts of my life. Now that I’ve lived in America for 35 years, I rarely feel like I don’t belong. And it’s not because I am surrounded by all Asians. In fact, sometimes I feel uncomfortable when I am surrounded by only Asians. 

I don’t know what it is. You just know sometimes, that you’re in a safe place. A place where you can relax and be yourself. It could be all white. All black. Or a mix of people. It’s not about race. It’s about mentality and attitude, and our own attitude about our surroundings, and the stories we tell ourselves.

If you feel like you don’t belong, keep looking. Take back your power by choosing to be where you want to be.

Watch for the stories that run through your mind. Ask yourself — are they true? 

Let go of the need to belong everywhere. Sometimes it’s actually this need that keeps us trapped as an outsider. When we accept not everything in the world is for us, we accept ourselves for who we are.

 And when you do… poof! Like magic. You’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

Sending love to anyone who needs it.

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-07-18T18:25:03+00:00Tags: , |

Trusting the Unknown: The Goldilocks Theory of the Universe

Trusting the Unknown: The Goldilocks Theory of the Universe

I’m developing a new theory.

It’s called the Goldilocks Theory of the Universe.

The Universe wants the best for you.

It wants way better for you than you even know.

But we don’t know what’s possible. We don’t know how good we could have it.

And so, the Universe shows you.

Just like Goldilocks, and the Universe presents you with the Three Bear’s porridge, one at a time.

As a young naive girl, we venture into the forest, and we’re presented with what’s wrong for us. 

The first porridge we try is cold. We may not realize it’s not very good. It’s the only thing we’ve ever had, and so we keep eating the cold porridge. 

Whether this is a relationship, or a job, we’re so glad to have anything to quench our hunger, we may not even realize that cold porridge isn’t that great.

After a while, we realize that maybe something better is out there. And so, we get up the courage to stop eating the cold porridge in search for better porridge.

We move on. And so, the Universe gives us some hot porridge. Having only experienced cold porridge, the hot porridge is appealing, at first! It takes us to the other extreme. The hot porridge wakes up senses we didn’t even know we had. It’s exciting. It’s thrilling. It’s burning our tongue and yet we keep eating.

After a while, the pain of burning our tongue is too much to bear. And so we brave the possibility of never eating porridge again, and go out into the unknown in search for better porridge. 

We’ve learned. 

Cold porridge is bland. Hot porridge is too painful. If any comes our way, we’re not taking it. 

Before the Universe can give us the right porridge we had to experience the extremes. We had to know for ourselves, what we don’t want, some of the qualities that we do want. And to know we deserve better.

Until we say “No, I deserve better” – we will keep getting crap porridge.

If you are unhappy with your porridge, (or job, relationship, etc), the Universe wants you to wake up from it. It wants to give you better. 

But first, YOU have to say no.

It wants to bring you something beyond what your mind can fathom as possible. 

Our Minds create based on past experiences of what we know. 

Our Spirit creates based on all possibilities, beyond what our minds can make up. 

Beyond comprehension. 

To experience Spirit’s gifts, we must trust in it. Trust in letting go of the past. Trust in letting go of what we know. Trust that Spirit will guide us and bring us beyond what and who we thought we can be.

If, and when we do. The Universe brings us the most amazingly delicious porridge in the whole world. Porridge you didn’t even know existed. Porridge that you couldn’t even ask for because  you’d never experienced it before.

And you wonder why you had said yes to the cold porridge, or the hot porridge. 

You wonder why you didn’t allow yourself this amazing porridge sooner.


In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-06-15T21:48:56+00:00

My dignity cannot be taken, if I do not feel shame.

My dignity cannot be taken, if I do not feel shame.

⁠This post was written on Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, January 18th, 2021. The week of President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Last week, I was spit on.

I was walking down the street, minding my own business when a guy walked near me and spit in my direction.

I didn’t make out what he said, but he said something like “_(?)_, you b*tch!”

I stepped back and said “Hey! What the f*ck!” 

The guy kept walking. 

I was startled and taken aback for a moment. What happened after that, I did not expect.

I immediately went into a prayer.

Honestly, I was surprised myself. 

The prayer was for myself, but it was also for him. For the past year, I have gotten accustomed to praying for the homeless I see on the street. Especially those who seem to be taken by demons. So it seems my prayer mode immediately kicked in.

After my prayer, I noticed something. 

I have been spit on before, and afterwards, I am usually in fear and in shame. But this time, I didn’t feel fear or shame. I was rattled, but this was different. I didn’t shrink.

I don’t know why this person spat at me. I couldn’t make out what he said except for the “You b*tch.” Through this, I could insinuate that he was spewing hate on me because I am a woman. It’s possible. And in the past, my brain most definitely would have gone there.

As I walked pondering about what just happened, I realized that it really didn’t matter why he spat on me. Because my dignity cannot be taken, if I do not have shame within me.

I did not feel shame, because I know I am not shameful.

On this day, it makes me think of all of the brave Light warriors in the Civil Rights movement. All of the hate spewed on them as they staged sit-ins, marches as they fought for their Rights. They were beyond just spit-on.

As Martin Luther King Jr said: “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” 

As we move into this week. I pray for the world, that we can hold Dr. King’s vision. 

Whatever happens. Remember that our dignity cannot be taken, unless we allow the darkness to do so. 

Remember your Light. Remember your Love.

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-01-19T19:31:05+00:00

What if I am normal?

What if I am normal?

All of my life, I was fighting to show I was special.

My parents were not the type to tell me I was special, and I didn’t feel special. They thought I would have an ordinary life. Grow up, get married, have kids. 

I resented that this was what they thought I would become, so I rebelled. I envisioned myself as something else.

I set out on a life to show I was special. I became independent. Successful in an analytical career. Going on adventures, eating incredible food locally and around the world. I did enjoy these things, to a certain extent. It certainly fulfilled my ego to show them they were wrong.

I was fighting so hard to show that I am special, that I missed something that was calling out deep inside me, that I was ignoring.

Really, I am quite simple.

In my deepest of hearts, what I really am, is a simple heart.

In a meditation a few months ago, Mary Magdalene showed me this. She invited me to a white chapel. As I looked around, the chapel was small, quaint, filled with light, but not too much. She walked into my little chapel and held my hand.

Mary Magdalene said to me, “Look at this place. This is the place of your heart.”

Inside, there were no signs of the successful career I’d had, or the cool adventures I had been on. Really, there was nothing, but pews, and a table. It wasn’t even decorated. There were two jars representing my beloved late cats, Leo and Paintfoot in the corner. That was it.

I’d been running from my simple heart, my entire life.

Really, I know that deep down, this was what my parents had recognized within me, as a child. It wasn’t a bad thing. I was innocent, and there was part of them that was scared I’d be eaten up by a nasty world. 

I had taken this cue as needing to toughen up. 

And maybe I did. Maybe all of my path was meant to be. 

So that I can come back.

And know the worth of my simple heart.

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2021-01-04T18:52:56+00:00

Don’t forget your own desires

Don’t forget your own desires

In important relationships, we are often wondering: What does the other person want? 

We ask this because we don’t want to rock the boat. We don’t want to overstep for them to reject us or see us in a negative light. 

When making decisions, we want to know what the other person wants, ignoring our own wants and desires.

Oftentimes, we’re not thinking about this consciously. It’s just something we do.

Women have this tendency, but I’d say anyone with a nurturing side does. We lean into our natural nurturing skills, a good skill set to have. We take it and use it to the point where, that is all we do. All we do is nurture others.

If you are this natural born nurturer, I feel for you. 

Remember that nurturing others is only one of the things that you want for your life. You are more than your ability to nurture. 

Remember that sacrifice is not nurturing. Society has somehow convinced us that sacrifice for someone we love is the ultimate showcase of love. It is not.

When we tire of sacrificing, we beat ourselves up. We accuse ourselves of being not a good friend, parent, child, sibling. 

We get so accustomed to sacrificing that we forget what it’s like to explore our own desires.

We forget that our own desires exist. Then, one day we wake up and realize – I have no idea what I want.

Give yourself permission to explore your own desires.

Start simple.

What do I want for breakfast today, truly? 

Break yourself out of your own routine and see that today, you may have a new desire that  wants to be heard. Perhaps you have a desire that was different from yesterday’s. 

Ask yourself, “What do *I* want?”

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2020-09-08T18:47:59+00:00Tags: , , |

What if I make the wrong decision?

What if I make the wrong decision?

Sometimes we get wrapped up in the worry of making the wrong decision. 

And so we think and think and think. Is it this way? Or that way?

For those of us, who are Spiritually inclined / Starseeds / Lightworkers. What we fear the most….

Is making the wrong decision in the eyes of God / The Universe / Higher Self.

We have the power of choice.

But there are no wrong decisions.

Each decision we make takes us on a journey or path that may be slightly different than the other.

But it is never wrong.

Especially in the eyes of God / The Universe / Higher Self

Each path brings its own set of opportunities and challenges. 

Even as we see two paths – one that is scary; one that is more within our comfort zone. Neither is right or wrong.

Each contains something to learn. Discoveries to be made. In its own way. With its own processes.

God / The Universe / The Higher Self has no judgement on you. 

It is always loving and compassionate.

It is us, who won’t give loving kindness and compassion towards ourselves.

Give yourself permission to be wherever you are in your decision-making.

There are no wrong decisions. 

Let every decision be okay.

Love yourself, ya’ll

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2020-09-02T23:42:47+00:00

Own up to your part in a relationship (Part 2)

Own up to your part in a relationship (Part 2)

Trigger Warning: This is a reflection of my own experience, take what resonates and leave the rest. Give yourself permission to feel whatever you feel, that includes being angry at the other person (which I was for many years). I invite you to go to the Permission Wishing Well, and give yourself permission to be where ever it is you are at. 

See Part 1 here: Own up to your part in a relationship (Part 1)

“He brought out the worst in me.”

“He made me become a person I hated.”

“I became the worst version of myself.”

He was an asshole. But I was an asshole too.

We can get into an argument about who is a bigger asshole. But that would only be an excuse for my actions, which I am ready to take responsibility for.

“He brought out the jealousy in me.”

“He brought out the hatred in me.”

“He brought out the manipulativeness in me.”

But, it was in me.

I may not had known it at the time, but I had a choice. I let those emotions overwhelm me. And I did what I did. 

I also said terrible things.

I also did terrible things.

I was playing the game, just as he was. And I convinced myself of my innocence.

At the time, I didn’t know it, but my emotions were trying to get my attention. All the anger from all of my life was pent up; I had kept my feelings shut out from myself my entire life. I was trying to keep them in check by pretending everything was okay even as we emotionally abused each other.

Now, I see what happened.

I take ownership for also being an asshole.

I did unloving things to hurt another person.

I did unloving things to another, to hurt myself.

Instead of self-love, we embodied self-hatred. We put ourselves through misery.⁠

When we own what we did, we free ourselves.

Love yourself, ya’ll

In gratitude, Bonnie
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2020-08-28T03:32:29+00:00Tags: , , |
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