🌿 Embracing Our Journey To Joy (J2J) “Celebration of Life” Buildshop 🌿
✨ We Embrace Joy. We Honor Growth. We Celebrate Life. ✨
Are you truly celebrating your life, or has life been about avoiding and surviving the pain, grief, and trauma?
Join us for the “Journey To Joy (J2J) Celebration of Life” Buildshop, a transformative space where we reflect, release, and rejoice in the sacred journey of healing and transformation.
🦋 Date: Monday 3/3/2025
📍 Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88324556318?pwd=QlNsT3lLWnc0alo3K09nN0JoaFNxQT09
⏳ Time: 6:00 pm
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In this immersive experience, we will:
🌟 Reflect on the beauty of our journey, both the highs and the lessons in the lows.
🌟 Honor our personal growth, achievements, and transformations.
🌟 Learn how to create Celebration Rituals that cultivate joy and healing.
🌟 Shift from survival mode to fully embracing life as a sacred journey.
This is more than a workshop; We use the term Buildshop because this is a healing, transformational, and liberating movement. It is a moment to pause, breathe, and recognize that our existence is worthy of celebration.
🦋 Are you ready to take flight? Reserve your spot today!
he Celebration of Life: Honoring Every Step of the Journey
True healing and transformation occur not in isolation but in the delicate dance between celebration and mourning. As we walk the Yellow Brick Road, we must learn that healing is not about avoiding pain but embracing the full spectrum of human experience. We must celebrate our existence’s beauty, connections, achievements, and the Love we share. But we must also honor our losses, grief, and the parts of ourselves we have had to release along the way.
This journey is not about bypassing sorrow or pretending pain does not exist. Instead, it is about walking through, acknowledging, and allowing it to transform us. In doing so, we emerge as survivors, journeyers, truth-seekers, and more compassionate, loving, and whole beings. The Yellow Brick Road is where we confront the “elephants in our living rooms”, the traumas we have long ignored or denied. By facing them head-on, we find the courage to heal and the strength to transform.
The Interplay of Mourning and Celebration As Transformation and Healing Journeyers, we know that joy and sorrow are not opposites but companions. Celebration and mourning are intertwined threads in the fabric of life. Life’s beauty and complexity offer us moments of exhilaration and deep grief, but both are sacred. To celebrate life is to recognize its preciousness. It means acknowledging the wondrous moments, triumphs, milestones, and connections that give meaning and purpose to our journey. But it also means holding space for loss, allowing grief to move through us like a sacred river, knowing that even in our most profound sorrow, there is love.
If we attempt to avoid mourning, we also limit our capacity to experience joy fully. By honoring both, we move from merely existing to truly living.
Preparing for Flight: A Higher Perspective on Life
Human life is a miracle, so let us celebrate it rather than fear or mourn death. That is easier said than done, and depending on our past trauma, it may not even make sense at first. But perspective is everything.
Seeing the world from the sky differs from seeing it from the ground. So, let us at least try flying. If we do not like it, the ground will always await us. Many of us have been given driver’s licenses in life but never imagined we could become pilots. We have learned to navigate survival, but now it is time to learn how to soar. I want us all to commit to attaining a pilot’s license, and I genuinely believe that once we take flight, we will only crawl by choice and in the Spirit of the Caterpillar.
The Art of Celebration: Choosing Joy in the Present
To celebrate life is to embrace the small joys that often go unnoticed:
✨ The taste of a delicious meal
✨ The warmth of the sun on our skin
✨ The laughter of loved ones
✨ The music that stirs our soul
Celebration nourishes our spirits, teaching us presence and mindfulness. It reminds us that joy is not something we wait for; it is something we cultivate. Celebrating life is also about honoring personal and collective achievements. It is about acknowledging the growth, the faith, and the courage that have propelled us forward.
When we celebrate, we affirm that:
✅ Our struggles have not been in vain
✅ We are still here, still evolving
✅ We are worthy of joy, love, and transformation
This is the true Celebration of Life, not just waiting for grand moments but finding sacredness in every step of the journey.
Exercise: Designing Your Celebration of Life Ritual
- Reflect on Your Milestones – Write down five moments in your life where you experienced growth, no matter how small. How did they shape who you are today?
- Create a Celebration Ritual – Think of one way to celebrate yourself this week. It could be lighting a candle, writing a letter of gratitude, or taking a joyful walk in nature.
- Honor the Pain with Love: Acknowledge one loss or challenging experience that shaped you. Write a letter about this experience, thanking it for what it taught you and releasing it with love.
- Embrace Daily Joy – Identify three things you can do daily to bring joy.
Take the Celebration of Life or Surviving Pain, Grief, and Trauma Quiz
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