LoveWorks

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20/05/2014

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03/12/2013

I hope that this wonderful video will inspire you to gather your courage and take some risks …. and to stay open to all of the many possibilities you have in the course of a day to generate authentic connection and love with those around you.

23/11/2013

"Be a novice. Be a blank page. Be embryonic in your sense of yourself. You are just learning the steps. You are just starting out. It is okay to be stupid or blind or to not have the answers. It is okay to be wrong, to make mistakes, to muck it all up. This is all part of the process of becoming. Of enlightenment. Of living. Love it all. The confusion. The mess. The raw, red rims of your eyes. Love the experience of being born. Love the experience of watching the old way of life die. Watch everything burn. Watch everything go. Don’t be afraid." (Shavawn M. Berry)

14/11/2013

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define it yourself.” (Harvey S. Firestone) http://bit.ly/1gOB2P3

14/11/2013

What person or type of person would you choose as a life companion? A witness to your life? Forget the should’s / could’s / can’ts / wont’s / impossibles. Who would you love and who would love you back if you could have a say in it? Cos see, your say in this makes all the difference. When you say your dreams out loud, you turn on the engine. It’s like this whole unlived, abundant life is waiting to come rushing out of you and in wishing it — out loud — you open the gates and give it permission to happen.

05/11/2013

So, I learned that we cannot solicit what we do not possess. The world simply mirrors our own life condition. When we change; the reflection changes. It is incredibly simple and incredibly profound at the same time. Such a tough lesson to learn, but one I am finally willing to tackle. Self-love. It’s the foundation of everything. How can we ever step up and manifest anything else, if we do not even feel worthy of our own love and affection?
shavawnberry.contentedly.com

05/11/2013

14/02/2013

In Celebration of LOVE.
Give Yourself a BIG Hug today, and know that without YOU and your loving heart there is no possibility.
Because YOU are the fire that ignites and attracts unprecedented experiences of Joy and Delight.
Be the LOVE you want to see in the world....commit fully to your best Life, and cultivate your capacity to receive and give great LOVE.
And celebrate Beloveds.... with chocolate, roses, massages, foot rubs, red wine, any of the glorious things that make YOU feel special.

28/01/2013

"You teach people how to treat you ..."

16/09/2012

To support you in your budding commitment towards self-love, let me explain where most people tend to get stuck:

It's often in learning how to connect with and honour our own feelings and needs.
Most of us were not taught how to check in with ourselves so we could learn to be aware and respectful of our own needs and desires.
Some of us were even trained out of having our feelings and asserting our needs in ways that would have created healthy dynamics of mutuality, depth, understanding and authentic care.
Yet these skills of self-awareness and self-care are foundational to being able to set clear, healthy boundaries that allow a relationship to flourish.

I'm not talking about walls here. Walls don't let anybody else in. Boundaries, however, are fluid and allow us to be clear with others about what we can do, and what we can't do, what we want and what we don't want.

They allow us to say no when something doesn't feel aligned with our own well-being or integrity, and to say yes to those things that do.
And, contrary to our fear that if we don't give someone else everything they want from us, they might leave, boundaries actually serve to make our container of love stronger.

For good boundaries, the ability to recognize yourself as a separate autonomous individual who is holding ultimate responsibility for your own happiness in life, is necessary in order to create a healthy, happy relationship with another human being.

A wonderful way to begin practicing honouring your own feelings and needs and setting good, healthy boundaries is to ask yourself in any given moment, "Where is my attention?
Most of us have our first attention on others and are more aware of the feelings and needs of others than we are of our own feelings and needs.
This is the core of co-dependence and will create toxicity in relationships over time.

For example, have you ever felt yourself merge so much with another that you became unable to differentiate their emotions and needs from your own?
Have you ever believed that things would get better and that the relationship would succeed if you could just give more and step so fully into the other person's shoes that you could entirely understand them?
Have you ever found yourself disappearing your own feelings and needs in order to care for the feelings and needs of someone else?

Many of us have. And it's a misunderstanding of what mature love really is.

And so, in taking a stand to create happy, healthy love, you want to identify the growth and development you must begin to engage now in preparation for having this love.
This particular practice is learning how to keep your first attention on yourself while also being sensitive and available to care for the feelings and needs of others.
For many of us, this is a real evolutionary edge, for we have only before known either self-abandonment or self-absorption!

But true love will require more of us.

And our task in making a commitment to call in great love is to become a great lover.
A lover of maturity and depth who has cultivated the capacity to show up as a grown-up in order to co-create a grown-up love.
Commit to your own evolution in love . . . and your beloved cannot help but follow.

16/09/2012

The best place to begin creating a very different kind of relationship than any you've had in your past, is in your own relationship with yourself.
Because any relationship you'll ever have is only going to be as good as the relationship you have with yourself.
And those places where you have problems relating to yourself will also be troublesome in creating a relationship with someone else.

For instance, if you're constantly making yourself wrong, you'll find that eventually others will be more than happy for you to take the blame for everything going wrong between you.
If you chronically berate yourself and speak in disrespectful ways to yourself and about yourself, you will exert an almost magnetic pull on even the most loving people around you to begin doing the same.

Some of these patterns might not show up immediately, but eventually they will. And when they do, you'll be startled.
You'll wonder, how did I create another relationship with my critical father? How did I get into bed yet again with someone who is always making me wrong just like my mom?
Yet, it's not really your mother or your father. They may have treated you that way 20, 30, even 40 years ago, but actually it's you who has been treating yourself the same way ever since.

And inside of not evolving that dynamic in your own relationship with yourself (which we will often not do when stuck in blaming our parents to the point where we are not taking responsibility for the choices we are making to perpetuate the same dynamic with ourselves), you will have a tendency to duplicate your old painful patterns in love again and again and again.

The way you can begin to make great progress in your relationship with yourself is to make a deep commitment to recognize and stand for your own value and worthiness to love and be loved.
To make a promise to yourself to do whatever it takes . . . to go the extra mile in your efforts to become the man or woman you'll need to be in order to prepare yourself to have authentic love in your life.

Your commitment to yourself needs to then begin showing up in your actions.
Are they reflective of your commitment to have a great love in your life?
Are you living in integrity with that vision?
Letting go of everything that is not that in your life?
Taking the risk to show up in ways that are generative of the life you're committed to creating?
Katherine Woodward Thomas

16/09/2012

When you finally make a commitment to call in "The One," an extraordinary sense of possibility begins to open up . . …
You feel filled with an exciting sense of anticipation and hope. You just know something wonderful is about to happen . . …
Yet, paradoxically, you may also find yourself somewhat consumed by unwanted fears and doubts, as well, and I want to assure you that this is totally normal.

People often ask me questions like: “How can I know if I'm ready for love?
Even though I want it deeply, how can I make sure I won't repeat my past mistakes and ruin my next relationship, too”?

“What if I can't set appropriate boundaries? What if I give myself away and chronically self-abandon in the same ways I have in every other relationship?
What if I overinvest in someone who turns out not to be "The One"?

These concerns are natural, and evidence that, yes, in making this commitment to have a happy, healthy, loving partnership, you will also likely be challenged to grow and evolve in how you show up in all of your relationships!

Until you understand your fears and anxieties as a call toward your own growth, and begin relating to them as such, you may find yourself paralyzed by them.

In seeing clearly the mistakes of your past, you might conclude, "Maybe happiness in love is for other people. Maybe I'm just not meant to have love and really am destined to be alone in life!"

But that's the wrong direction to go!

If you've ever considered such a thought, I want you to know something right now: We are each meant to have love.
There is something about that silly old saying your Grandmother might have used: "There's a lid for every pot." Grandma knew a thing or two.

But you do need to see clearly the covert ways you've been showing up in your relationships that have been minimizing your chances for finding and keeping the love you so deeply deserve to have.

While many of your difficulties in love are not really your fault (poor role models, dysfunctional patterns in your family growing up, etc.), it is your responsibility to move beyond them.
The good news is that you can absolutely get past those old patterns in love and attract someone who will meet you on even ground and become the romantic partner you've always dreamed of having.
The only hard part is that no one else is coming to make this situation better for you, and it is up to you to invest in doing the necessary work.

Why some people find love and others don't has nothing to do with fate or worthiness but whether one has identified and cultivated the capacities that support happy, healthy, real love to flourish and thrive.

30/07/2012

All the info you need is at the ABOUT button - just scroll up a tinny bit.

30/07/2012

Even though the course is ultimately about calling in a partner or soulmate, the initial work revolves around ‘Calling In Yourself’ - shifting your perceptions of self and the world, re-aligning with your own fundamental value, and causing an unprecedented breakthrough to a magnetic and purposeful life.
This shift extends to every relationship you have, not just the romantic love interests but relationships with family, friends and colleagues as well. Changing how you view yourself will change everything in your life, because the truth is every aspect of our lives is governed by our relationships in one way or another.....
Please look above these posts to the icon ABOUT for more comprehensive info on what this course is about.

27/07/2012

At last! I am a fully certified relationship coach - of the internationally acclaimed `Calling in The One' programme. I am the only coach in SA and proudly inviting you to like my page.....pass on to any friends you know looking for tools for self-transformation. This work is for everyone looking to enhance their lives and relationships - not just folk seeking a soulmate. Plus anyone anywhere in the world can do this via skype.

23/05/2012

I feel so privileged to be facilitating this work and am passionate about people finding love in their lives. If you would like to know more about the "Calling in the One" 7-week course, see the "About" section.