Salina Amara Gioia (S. Sumner)
Lover of music & nature. Very passionate about guiding others through healing, growth, and life’s transitions. I am a foodie too.
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🌹 Part of My Joyful Life (opens the original)
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Today, my heart feels a little heavy.There is someone I wish I could be with. A presence I miss. Familiar little moments my heart would gladly return to if it could.And for a while, I wondered how feelings like these could possibly belong in something I call Part of My Joyful Life.Then I realized something.Joy does not require me to be happy every moment.Sometimes joy and longing sit quietly beside each other.I can miss someone deeply and still be grateful that my heart has known a connection wo
🌹Part of My Joyful Life (opens the original)
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There was a time when I thought becoming meant eventually arriving.That one day I would finally have everything figured out. I would be healed enough, wise enough, confident enough, peaceful enough, and somehow become the finished version of myself.But life keeps reminding me that there may be no finished version.I am still becoming.At this season of my life, I am still learning what brings me joy and what deserves my energy.I am still learning when to hold on and when to release.I am still disc
🦉The Owl Way — Peace That Doesn’t Depend on Circumstances (opens the original)
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🦉The Owl Way — A Soft Heart Does Not Require Soft Boundaries (opens the original)
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The Table That Healed Me — Chapter 19 (opens the original)
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There was a time when I looked at food and immediately thought about nutrition.Protein. Carbohydrates. Vitamins. Calories. What the body needed and what it probably didn’t need quite so much of.That made sense. I was trained as a dietitian, and food was something I understood through science as much as through taste.I still carry that knowledge with me. But after everything life has taught me, I know food differently now.These days, I can look at a bowl of arroz caldo and see more than rice and
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