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💫What’s your story💫⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌱With 💫What’s your story💫⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌱With my eldest son, Samuel, I’ve been shocked at how early the ‘stories’ we create with our words can start, the first seedling of a limiting belief. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀I noticed Samuel saying ‘I can’t (do X)’ or ‘I’m not good at Y’ as young as 4 years old. I was determined to turn this around. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙊On the night that the idea for ’Samuel and the monster’ was born, as I was helping to change Samuel’s state and the words he used, once we’d determined there were no longer any monsters to worry about, we chanted some affirmations together, using the theories I’d learned with @theyesmummum, that our words can turn our beliefs on their head. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨‘I am Samuel⁠⠀ I am Samuel⁠⠀ I am Samuel⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ and I am AMAZING!’ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🚀We yelled together. I saw his conviction and confidence change as he stood in front of me. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💌As a side note, Hollie (@theyesmummum) sells incredible affirmation cards that address any and all stage of life, including young children, teenagers, new mums, bosses. I highly recommend them.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👇🏻👇🏻Do you use affirmations in your daily life, I'd love to hear how they have helped you. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🐝
🔮Our words create our worlds🔮⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📕As a lifelong student of language - English and others - I find the language that we use with ourselves completely fascinating, both out loud, and also in our heads.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💕A lot of the things we might consider berating ourselves with, we wouldn’t DREAM of saying to a friend.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨My journey in learning how to harness the power of our internal words started on our hypnobirthing course with @theyesmummum, before we had Samuel nearly five years ago. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💫Hollie gave us scripts, tools and exercises to gently turn any negative messages of pain and fear into empowering, encouraging words and phrases. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👶🏻👶🏼But the real proof was in the pudding, when all these scripts played an enormous and important role in both (very different) births of my boys. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀Since then, I’ve enjoyed building more and more use of daily affirmations, incantations and ‘power thinking’ (not the same as positive thinking, a topic for another day). They have been life-altering. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌈Of COURSE I still regularly hear that little niggly voice that might creep in whispering nasty things, but now I’m better trained to catch them before they start to spiral, acknowledging them, and filling the vacuum instead with more encouraging words for myself. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👇🏻Where have you most benefitted from the power of your words?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox ⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🦋 🌳I’ve realised I should explain this pic...it is the home of a certain little magical someone who has taken up residence in the tree at the bottom of our garden...we’ve not met her yet but we’ve heard LOTS of stories about her world...
💫Everything happens for a reason💫⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍑I'll just post this pic of me looking cheerful and sanguine...because this morning I definitely wasn’t feeling that way! ⁠⠀ 💊To give some context: I opened my inbox to a really disappointing announcement, that Bologna book fair has been moved from end March to May, due to the Corona Virus.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 😤My first reaction was frustration: Gaaah! The flights! The accommodation! All the work that my friend @mistascribbla had put into finding a place to stay! (not me, I can’t claim credit). ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 😪And then there was the disappointment: I had been planning on presenting ‘Samuel and the monster’ for potential international deals, as I am confident it’s got a strong chance.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🙊But I’m a student in training to catch the language I use with myself, so…:⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💫Quickly, my head (+ an eerily duplicate text from my husband) switched disaster thinking and language into ‘everything happens for a reason’. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌀The opportunity it brings is 100% focus on the book launch in the next 8 weeks. Bologna would have added pressure and split focus, where now I can fully hone in on the book launch.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍭Have you ever had super disappointing news, and if so how did you reframe it to make it more powerful for yourself?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 👩‍🎤
✏️stop, story time✏️⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍍🍑 ✏️stop, story time✏️⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🍍🍑If you've been following over on my stories, you'll have seen that I'm prepping for some storyboarding, so I thought I'd show you what a (different book) storyboard looks like.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🚀Off on an adventure, and I've brought all my storyboard templates along, so I'll be sketching out first draft ideas for the children's book commission. It is shaping up nicely! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🔮What are you working on at the moment and, perhaps more importantly, what have you got lined up this weekend to fill the inspiration pot?!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀
🏰Once upon a time🏰⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨there was 🏰Once upon a time🏰⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ✨there was a group of PHENEMONAL people…⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🐞They were called...⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌳The Pea Tribe🌳⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 💌Once a week, juuuust when they were yawning and getting ready for the week to end and the weekend to begin, 🌳The Pea Tribe🌳 received into their inbox a letter, sent as if by magic through the internets.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⚡Like a lightning bolt, the letter would sizzle and crackle in their inbox and, ONCE OPENED, 🌳The Pea Tribe🌳 would obtain the most extraordinary special powers (not to mention prizes, offers and sneaky treats...) that other humans could only ever dream of…⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🚀Are you one of 🌳The Pea Tribe🌳 yet?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 👆🏻It would make me jump for joy if you'd join! Link in bio to subscribe 👆🏻⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox⁠⠀ Alexia ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 👑
🌀over and over🌀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌈One of my ( 🌀over and over🌀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🌈One of my (many) favourite songs is ‘Over and Over’ by Hot Chip (@made_by_nell that’s your doing!). ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🐛I had no idea before I became a mum how many times I’d be asked to read a book over and over and over and over…as HC would say, ‘the joy of repetition really is in you!’. It certainly is in 2-5 year olds!!⁠⠀ ⠀ 📕Our favourites: Oi Frog! By kes grey and the extraordinary @_jimfield which we’ve read approximately 2,345,623 times in the last 4 years. I met Jim in Spain a couple of years ago when on @picturecamp, and thanked him personally for all of the hours of entertainment and laughter. The 18mo is more traditional, currently enjoying The Very Hungry Caterpillar, I think because he empathises with the main character. He certainly gets excited at the chocolate cake page.⠀ ⁠⠀ 🐭What are the books your kids ask you to read over and over again?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🎒And, the bigger test, which books do you ENJOY repeating…?⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ xox ⁠⠀ Alexia⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 📷 @catherine_frawley 🌈
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