Day of Love

Happy Day of Love 💕

I love talking about growth, and today I’d love to share about my journey of learning or remembering to love myself.

You see, from my perspective, our society isn’t set up to encourage us to authentically love ourselves, if anything, certain things appear to be in place encouraging the opposite.

I had to relearn how to love my hair, my body, my personality, my soul… the strong willed soul inside of me that can feel and see so much.

I hear cute stories of me being a child and saying “No” so clearly and sturdily, and that’s something I had “lost” or “forgotten”. I had to relearn how to say “No”, so I could say “Yes” to my hair… to my strength.

It is still a journey, because, if a world where so many people forgot how to say “No”, me saying “No”… it’s kind of unconventional.

Saying “Yes” to doing something you don’t want to is like saying “No” to your self…

The journey is also not linear, some days “No” are easy, some days they are hard.

I can’t say that it’s easy… or that it’s not a day to day process.

I can say I am so grateful to chose to do this … daily, because little by little, I can feel
Growth,
Freedom and
Truth,
no matter what.

May All Beings Be Free ❤️❤️❤️ #valentines

Love,

Dannah Perez

Home?

You can find me in California, when I’m not in Georgia or perhaps Florida. Except for when I’m visiting family abroad unless I’m exploring a new location around the World. In this picture I’m in Tennessee 😁

Originally I come from Venezuela, and I also grew up in Georgia until I finished growing up in Florida. Work brought me to California, my latest and maybe favorite new Home.

In Venezuela, there is this tradition on New Year’s Eve day where at midnight, you leave your house with suitcases to bring lots of travel to your life … I think I did that… (too) many many times.

Now here I am, with a place I call home for the 22nd time (Swipe left to see how I felt when I realized I had moved 22 times … 😅🤪), but for the first time a place to myself (with out house mates).

Yet I am in my second Home, at my mother’s Home, in Georgia. Where I have a huge community that makes it feel so much like Home.

And I’m heading back “Home” next week, where I plan to put up the holy days and decorate my own Home for the first time.

However, I am learning and integrating that Home isn’t a place.. it’s more of a feeling or a piece in my heart, which means there are so many places I can call Home all over the world

🌎 Home resides inside my heart ❤️ and that means, I can make myself (or any one) feel at home anywhere at any time 🥰 Have you felt this ?

Winter Solstice 2021

Yesterday I walked into the mountains as the sun set, with my sister @suzanneyvetteobando , to celebrate the Winter Solstice.

The further in we got, the darker it was. Passing people by as they were leaving … to avoid the dark, and we were just arriving, right after dark.

A man asked if we had a light as he passed us by, of course we did, although we aren’t afraid of the dark.

The whole experience was a metaphor, as this wasn’t our first rodeo, we’ve have both been through the dark night of the soul many times.

It actually felt familiar, comfortable if I may say, because we both new the light would come the very next day.

We arrive at the hot springs exactly at 5:55, because it was all divinely designed.

It was completely dark, and too early for the moon to rise. We soaked in the springs, under the stars enjoying some chocolate, it wasn’t our first time.

We prayed to nature, we prayed to God, to keep guiding us for all to align.

I’d like to share the prayer I read out loud 3 times, a co-creation from a Winter Solstice Prayer and my own spice:

“As Above, So Below.
May the Longest Night and the Shortest Day, Bring Rest to yOUR Body, Mind and Soul.
May We Find True Guidance,
May We Find True Peace,
As the Cycle of Light WILL Increase.
Embrace the Magic that the Darkness Bears,
May The Light of Truth Pierce All Veils.
May We All Ways Be Blessed with the Light
With In, and May Well Being be yOURS as
The New Cycle Begins”
@dannahperez

Amén, amén, amén 🙏🏾

A rebirth, an opportunity to redefine all the things that no longer serve us, a new cycle begins ✨✨✨