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Monica-Justine | Food, Faith x Mental Health

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In honor of 💚Earth Day💛 today, what’s one small thing you can do for #MotherEarth 🍄✨ bc #planetaryhealth is #mentalhealth (and vice versa) 🌱🧘🏻‍♀️#earthhealing #ecopsychology #sustainability #earthday2024 #laudatosi#mon4home by @healgrowloveyourself

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2 years ago

Self-love is alchemy and pure magic✨ Cast a spell with it this All Hallows’ Eve🌚 Our Series continues today with 🕯Self-Love Is…👉🏽Halloween Edition🕯what else would you add? #wisdomofshadows Here’s to the nourishment of our body, soul & spirits🖤🤍#hauntinglybeautiful #selflovequotes #selflovejourney #soulcare #octobermentalhealth #castaspell #selflovemagic #witchenergy #shadowandlight #healingvibrations by @healgrowloveyourself

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4 years ago

During my 🇫🇷pilgrimage, I thought a lot about Proverbs 4:23:“Above all else, guard your heart❤️for everything flows from it.”After my emotional rock-bottom and the healing that followed, I continue to learn how to balance serving others, self-sacrifice and self-love. I adore my faith, but I also know the Church doesn’t always teach us how to love ourselves well. Service matters. Sacrifice matters. But so does recognizing ourselves as God’s creation: worthy, chosen, in need of protection. In Hebrew thought, the heart (לֵב, lev) isn’t just emotion; it is desire, will, intuition – the spiritual center. I expected divine reminders inside our visits to grand basilicas, where God’s glory is made manifest, truly. And sometimes He speaks there. But more often, I find the Spirit in the humble and unexpected – much like Christ’s own birth. While cutting a simple baguette at a mediocre hotel boulangerie, I was reminded that guarding your heart is not about closing off. It’s about protecting the deepest part of you and choosing what is allowed to shape your inner world.🤍It means not giving full access to people careless with your feelings.🤍Not attaching yourself to confusion, instability, or half-presence.🤍Not letting longing outrun wisdom or fantasy blur truth.🤍Not pouring emotional energy into someone who hasn’t shown capacity or reciprocity.Guarding your heart isn’t fear; it’s wisdom. Discernment. Emotional boundaries with spiritual clarity. It asks:🤍Who deserves closeness?🤍Who needs limited access?🤍Who must be loved from a distance?It means noticing when desire leads to life – and when it leads to confusion. Watching for unhealthy attachments, blurred truths, and people who stir longing without offering clarity.Above all, guarding your heart means protecting the place where God speaks: the quiet space of intuition, conscience, and truth so that we can continue serving wholeheartedly. I wish I heard more homilies on this. But maybe that’s the call – to fill the gaps, offer nuance, be the Lord’s instrument of representation to remind others – but mostly myself – of God’s whole teaching:Love others AS YOURSELF🤍#faithjourney by @healgrowloveyourself

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8 months ago

Part ✌️: Mutants in training🧪🍵Dearest Gentle Reader,Verily, ’twas a most excellent suggestion thou @remixedrebel Having only recently discovered ourselves to be mutants of rather uncommon ability, we deemed it prudent to assemble and further refine our peculiar gifts. One must practice, after all. In a word… spellbinding. ✨ by @healgrowloveyourself

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11 days ago

Spot the flying 🍋‍🟩🤭#millenials #RIP30s #maythefortiesbewithyou #♋️ by @healgrowloveyourself

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13 days ago

As I was harvesting kale, I was noticing a quiet shift in myself. 🌱There was a time when I measured closeness by being first - first to know, first to be asked, first to be chosen. If I wasn’t, I often wondered what it said about me.But healing has been teaching me a different language.For example, instead of, “I’m the last one they told,” I would practice, “I’m grateful they included me.”It’s not settling. It’s releasing the need to measure my worth by my position in someone else’s life; to build my whole identity around this. Looking back, there were needs and places and relationships I knew I had to let go of, truly. Still, there were some that I sometimes wonder if I’d handle differently today. Maybe I would. But perhaps no regrets - it was what that version of me needed. Today’s me exists because of her.And maybe one day, I’ll look back at today’s me and smile at how much more I’ve grown, realizing I’d respond to the very same situation differently once again.Healing isn’t about getting everything “right.” It’s about becoming a little freer, a little gentler, and a little more at peace with each passing season. 🌿It seems the more I tend to the earth, the more sacred the work becomes. I think because it quietly reminds me that every season has its purpose - just as every version of ourselves does. 💚 by @healgrowloveyourself

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18 days ago

Let her celebration begin. “Her” referring to my soul sister who is thoughtful, caring, funny, influential, and all the positive impact she has on my life and everyone around her. As she enter the 4-0 milestone, I can’t wait for more of her breathroughs, not just external accomplishments but leaps and bounds in her inner world. I am grateful and blessed to spend time with this bright star 🌟 who continues to amaze me. I love you, sista! ❤️💙❤️ by @healgrowloveyourself

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💙💛🐻#climateandhealth #foodsystemchange #collectiveliberation #ecopsychology #socialjustice fnph by @healgrowloveyourself

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The struggle is real:Balancing maintaining our mental health, taking care of life things, while also addressing the causes that are important and matter to us. Sometimes it’s too much, everywhere, all at once. Life. AI. Burnout. Consumerism. Climate grief. The call of capitalistic, systemic undercurrents: Produce, optimize, respond, achieve. “Do more with less. Buy this, automate that, do it all, now.”❤️After reading Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on human dignity in the age of AI, I keep returning to one question:What if innovation today is not about doing more for less… but restoration? 🧘🏻‍♀️🕊️Restoring our humanity.🕊️Restoring community.🕊️Restoring the earth.🕊️Restoring sacred limits.When is enough enough?Because maybe slower things are actually the things that save us.“In #ecopsychology there is an understanding that human well-being and the health of the earth are inseparable. We are not disconnected from nature; we are nature. So when the earth is exploited endlessly, people eventually become exploited too. Burnout is not simply an individual problem. It is often a symptom of systems that have forgotten sacred limits.”Full reflection on The Catholic Kaivegan - link in bio🙏(icyi When youre on the page go to “writings & resources)#sustainability #AI #catholicvegan #magnificahumanitas by @healgrowloveyourself

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2 months ago

🦻 that CRUNCH at the end 👅got some Takis lime chips as a gift and experimented with it as a breading…oh my word… that sour, citrusy tang 🤌😋goin through it during finals week😅(plus a mini identity crisis 🫠)so we’re resting BIG with comfort food~introducing: takis lime potato fritters 🍋‍🟩🥔🤤Thank you @eatjust & @followyourheart for your help with this one💛crunchy, tangy, cozy… exactly what i neededVEGAN COMFORT FOOD FTW!!!Dm for recipe🤍Also, seeing that it is now May, here’s to #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth MAY we continue to care for our mental health💆🏻‍♀️ #itsgonnabemay #catholicvegan #ecopsychology #plantbasedsnacks by @healgrowloveyourself

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3 months ago

May you have a colorful week 💙❤️💛#petitejoys by @healgrowloveyourself

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3 months ago

Earth Day continued 💚🌿missing Pope Francis (1 year since)🌿in solidarity with Pope Leo 🌿being the change we wish to see through our @plantbasedmojo_ biz, thank you for your support! get cha some to celebrate surviving these current times 🫠🥲 together, we can move the needle towards a more just, kind, sustainable world🙏🤍🌻HAPPY FRIYAY🌧️🌸#EarthDayEveryDay #ecoeats #greenbusiness #catholicvegan #ecopsychology by @healgrowloveyourself

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3 months ago