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Author: Maggie Holbik, Offering Inspiration for Living Freely and in JOY!
Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer & Coach, Certified Life Coach, Business Coach, Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Reconnective Healing Practitioner, and Internet Marketer who loves to work and play from anywhere, hoping I make a difference in the world.
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Maggie, no matter the temptation, you no longer think or say, “I’m anxious,” “I’m hurt,” or “I’m angry.” Because each of these feelings are choices, that can be unchosen, instead of reinforced. And you will be amazed, The Universe This was my beautiful note from the Universe the other morning and I quite loved it.โฆ
Good morning everyone! I wanted to share with you how I felt when I read these words from Byron Katie. But before I do, just to share some good news, I figured out another technological hack and here is the audio link from SoundCloud which is exactly the same verbal content as this written blogโฆ
Yesterday I was both humbled and honored to be interviewed by Louise and I think that our interview turned out fabulous. I really hope that you enJOY listening to it as much as we did making it! I think that there is a lot of insight into life in general in this interview, so theโฆ
What does your soul want? Your soul just wants to express itself. It wants to use its creativity. It wants to follow its divine plan to help you unleash your gifts that you brought with you here to Planet Earth.
How do we unlock this door to the soul? It’s easier than you thinkโขโขโข
We throw away the key and we just be who we are. We get up each day and we ask ourselves who we are and what brings us JOY? And we follow that! We follow our hearts. We follow our BLISS and that, my friends, is how we throw away the key and cast aside any doubt.
We drop the insecurities and the expectations and we stop analyzing and worrying if we are doing the right thing because there is no right thing. We are perfectly imperfect and came here exactly to be just that!
So I hope that you embrace the ease and grace of just letting YOU be YOU each and every day!
On another note I have included a quote from my spouse Don that he created today. You can see it below. It’s the one about Heaven on Earth. I have also attached a 2 minute audio clip to explain our thoughts about and around the quote and where it was inspired from for Don.
Don and I both like to write. Don moreso poetry and me well these types of blog posts.
Don and I also love to share our thoughts, ideas, and philosophies with each other. We do this through phone calls throughout the day as well as deep discussions on date night which as most of you know is Friday night for us. It’s very sacred to us. Sharing like this with another Human Being who is also creating their own Heaven on Earth is such a beautiful thing and I am very grateful for him.
I hope you enJOY everything presented here today from our hearts to yours and have a great day everyone!And here is the short audio clip.
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I love little girls in the morning, especially when they are bright-eyed and bushy tailed and excited about life! It’s just such a magical energy don’t you think? ๐ Sisters My sister Stephanie loves this Margaret Mead quote below and said she thinks of my sister Barb and I when she sees it. How nice.โฆ
Miraculous Moments Just yesterday I was emailing with someone who I believe, is helping me greatly with my miracle-making and miraculous strides in healing my body to pure, complete, and whole health. We were talking about how MIRACLES DO HAPPEN! I firmly believe that miracles happen all the time! Do you know why and whatโฆ
What I’m Feeling & Thinking This Morning Today’s blog post will be largely in audio format. In this 4 minute audio I share some thoughts on how I feel today on March 6th of 2022, and how that transpired from March 6th of 2021, when I made that life changing trip to the emergency departmentโฆ
I hope that you all take just a few moments to listen to this super short audio about using your gifts and letting your soul express itself. I also hope that you all have an amazing Saturday or that whenever you’re reading this in the future that your day is also amazing and that you let your soul shine by using your gifts!
A picture of a yacht on the water that I took in Miami on one of my #workandplyfromanywhere trips. The picture that I took of a butterfly and lilacs, 2 of my favorite things, along. Click here on the picture to receive my Free 33 Affirmation to use…A pretty picture with a link to sign up for Maggie’s monthly newsletter “Your Path to Wellness”
Many of you know that every Friday night my husband and I are dedicated and committed, with JOY, to having a date night.
Well, last night was a little different than our normal date, and it was such a beautiful and welcome treat! We even brought JOY along with us… you can see from the pictures. This is my JOY Doll that I bring with me and also move around the house to remind myself that we bring JOY with us and we find the JOY. ๐
We were invited to a friend’s house for appetizers and it was so nice because I haven’t been out in so long. The only place I’ve been going lately as I manage my Stage 4 Cancer ‘Diagnosis’ as well as recent Pandemic restrictions with visitations and the closure of businesses and such, is to my vitamin C IV therapy on Thursdays and a few grocery stores. I’m home most of the time and I really was starting to get where where I craved just sitting with people and eating food together and connecting through the heart.
Don and Lorraine are great friends to us. In fact earlier in the day Don plowed all of my snow and used the snow blower and shovel to make a path to my little lake house so that I could get out if I needed and my support workers could get in to help me.
We had the most lovely evening and we visited over appetizers. I had an APPETITE and I don’t always so this was really, really JOYful to me!
In fact, at one point I wept with JOY just for the experience and to be able to eat and sit with these beautiful people. I had to just stop and let my emotions pass which I have learned is OK to do. In fact it is necessary for healthy emotional Detox.
Human connection is so important for us and we need to have that. One of the things that I have found on my new journey, is that food is one of the most pleasurable and JOYous experiences here on Earth and it is something that I miss the absolute most when I cannot eat or cannot get an appetite.
I also have found it challenging to even try to explain to people what it feels like to just want to have an appetite! To just want to! You just want to be able to smell food and not have an adversion to it. You want to be able to salivate and prepare for the JOYous experience of eating and when you don’t have that it’s like one of the vital life forces has beentaken from you.
Anyhow, my Friends last night I was lucky and I had it all, time with my favorite man, time laughter and sharing with good friends and food. I hope that you too take time for food and connection with others in your life and I love you all!And please enJOY this short audio clip that I have made just for YOU! Here it is:
My audio message for today from ME to YOU!
My Recent Interview with Paul Luftenegger A pretty picture with a link to sign up for Maggie’s monthly newsletter “Your Path to Wellness”The picture that I took of a butterfly and lilacs, 2 of my favorite things, along. Click here on the picture to receive my Free 33 Affirmation to use…
I was truly honored and humbled today to be interviewed by Rev. Dr. Paul Luftenegger, Multi-Award Winning International Singer/Songwriter, Doctor of Ministry, and Heal Your Lifeยฎ Teacher.
Paul is a dear friend of mine who I was once again graced by gaining another FB friendship after learning about his music. I have acquired amazing friends through Facebook and Paul is one of them!
Paul’s Mission Is To Truly Help To Heal Our Precious World With Divine Love By Uniting Hearts & Souls Through Kind Conscious Supportive Music All Around The Globe; Vibrational Emotional Intelligence As ONE “SPHERE OF LOVE”
What is this Interview About?
Paul and I talk about my journey in life that has led me to where I am and how I am JOYously dealing with a ‘Diagnosis’ of Stage 4 Colon Cancer.
We talked about so many other things too!
Why might you want to watchthis interview? And I hope that you do!
This video is for EVERYONE. We are all traveling together on our way back home and we all go through struggle and strife. Whether life is good for you right now but you are looking for a deeper meaning to it all, or you are struggling from chronic illness, depression, anxiety, uncertainty, or letting go of things that have hurt you in the past, this video is for YOU!
As an added bonus if you are looking to be a better version of yourself in life and/or business, this video is for YOU. This video is also for YOU if you are wanting to understand more about exactly WHY we are here on earth.
Here is the link to the video interview. If it resonates with you, be sure to subscribe to Paul’s channel and enJOY!
I am sharing a link to Paul’s website so that you can learn more about him too!
I truly, truly hope that you take the time to watch this and any comments or feedback are truly, truly welcome. I would also love it if you would share this post and the video or either or so that other people may enJOY! We are all one and in this together. ๐
Several years ago I picked up these two candleholders at the Farmer’s Market. I gravitated to these two in particular. The pictures do not them justice. The colors are much more vibrant in real life and the HOPE one looks to have pretty purple amethyst at the bottom. These candles have gel in them and you use replaceable tea lights in them.
Flashback to when I got these. I did not have a Cancer Diagnosis and I did not have a place on Lake Superior!
Flash ahead. I was diagnosed in March of 2021 with stage 4 Incurable Colon Cancer and guess what the first thing I looked for? It was HOPE! I even Googled HOPE!
Flash ahead. I spend my days at my little lake house on the shores of Lake Superior ebbing and flowing to the needs of my body, mind and spirit at this time. I call this my ‘Healing House’.
This whole thing reminds me every day that I am exactly where I need to be and that I am SUPPOSED to be here on this particular journey at this particular time in my life and it helps me to accept everything with GRACE!
I feel this often. I feel like this is perfectly matched to my soul and what is supposed to happen. It gives me comfort. And when I am in comfort I am not in resistance. And when I am not in resistance I am not in pain. I am in PEACE.
I do not feel as though I am a victim and I trust that I am divinely guided on this journey now and always.
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Do you feel that things happen to you? Or for you? Do you trust that things are always working for your highest good? Or do you resist and struggle? I think this is where the word ‘Faith’ would come into play. We need to have faith that our soul knows the reasons we call to us experiences on this journey called LIFE. Life is sweeter because of the hardships, although not easy. I hope that when you are in your times of struggle you too can keep your faith and use grace as a conduit for peace.
๐๐๐I love you all now and to eternity.๐๐๐
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Affirmations are not only powerful but they WORK! What I love most about affirmations is that they are ‘reminders’. This is why I like to keep them handy and to go back and read them…. to remind me and to remember that I and YOU are all-powerful! Affirmations are assistants for us. They are toolsโฆ
Pain Is a Doorway Pain. Pain and suffering are inevitable things that we will experience here on Earth, regardless of how much we wish to avoid it. I try to look at pain as a prompt especially if it’s emotional pain. What is this pain telling me? What is the message? Is there something thatโฆ
QUOTE: “When times are good, be grateful, and when times are tough, be graceful.” Anonymous
Words have such depth and meaning to them especially when you really lean in to the energy and frequency of them. They are magical really.
Do you notice that for example, when you even say the word “Grace”, it even feels graceful? ๐
Not only saying the words but using them in our daily life helps us to access the true frequencies of what they imply.
I love living my life with ‘Grace’. And how about ‘Ease’? Another great word to incorporate the energy of in your daily life.
This might be something to ponder on…. accessing the tremendous potential of the frequencies in words!
Have an AMAZING day my friends!
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Yesterday was the day that my 15-year-old daughter and I had a very emotional talk about my journey with cancer. We shared, we cried, we hugged and we both got a deeper understanding of each other’s feelings and where everything is at, as we know it. I let Sivanna ask any questions about anything at all that she had. We both shared how we felt in March, along the way and now. It was an open, transparent conversation that unfolded perfectly and it prompted me to write this blog post that I have been meaning to write for quite some time.
It may in fact be the most important post, for me, that I will ever write as part of my writing legacy and on my journey with cancer.
What Is This Important Thing That I Speak of?
From day one on my journey which started with a trip to the emergency department on March 6 of 2021, I have felt this….
After I learned of my diagnosis of Stage 4 Uncurable Cancer, and after I processed it all, what I realized that I both needed and wanted most, was this:
Throughout it all, I want and have wanted from Day 1, is for my Husband to continue to be my Husband and for my Daughter to be my Daughter, and what I mean by this is that I needed them and still do, to be who they are in their roles in life. I want them both to be happy and doing what they love, working and attending school, engaging in life and doing the things that 15-year-olds and Dads enJOY doing!
There is no way I could handle everything being revolved around me and my cancer. And yesterday, Sivanna and I talked about this. I explained that this whole experience is new to me and I was learning and processing as I went along. What helped me most was that they are my rocks and they keep my spirit high when they are living THEIR lives to the fullest.
In retrospect, I am soooooo very glad that we did not sit down as a family in March and say something like “Okay family meeting. Mom’s got Stage 4 Incurable Cancer and then we would all be devasted and the world would start to revolve around me and my disease.I so did not want that so the way it rolled was perfect.
As my favorite Doctor says “This experiment has never been done before”. This means we don’t know how this will unfold for me given MY body and what I am doing etc. So we have all processed and dealt with this as we have gone along and I feel it has been the best way to handle it, for us anyways. It has allowed life to go on because it does! Life goes on no matter what is happening and I want my peeps to be in JOY! I know we all have to let our feelings express themselves but we don’t need to become obsessed with the disease. The disease takes away enough on its own.
I explained to Sivanna that I NEVER want her to have any regrets, now or in the future. For example, I said maybe we talk about spending time together and you tell me that you are chilling and watching TikTok videos. I say “Great!” That is what my daughter is enJOYing… just being her 15-year old self!
I have no NEED for having to spend time together for the sake of just thinking we should. I also shared that if she is doing something that she enJOYs and if a thought strikes her like “OMG my Mom has cancer!”and thinking she should be sad, to stop and say “No it’s okay for me to be happy right now”. Now my friends this is what I want the most for my daughter and all of those who love me.
One of The Hardest Things About Cancer
One of the hardest parts about cancer is telling those you love. It took me a long time to spill the beans to everyone and for some, it was through a blog post. I can tell you that I can still see the look in the eyes of everyone that I told in person and those are the hardest conversations I ever had in my entire life! It had to be done in stages because it is just too painful to see the pain in others and to hear it in their voices. This disease affects everyone in your circle, it is not a stand-alone thing.
So to all of you reading this today or in the future, no matter what turn life throws you, make a choice. Choose not to let it become your life. Try not to let it consume the life and happiness of everyone around you. It really is much easier this way, I promise.
And as always and in all ways, I love you all!
And if you would like to learn about my last wish and legacy you can do so here:
Please note that this blog post although updated was written in January of 2021, 3 months before my cancer diagnosis.
I am writing this blog post more for me so I can remember something that moved me deeply yesterday, but hey if you are here and want to read along, feel free.
So here it is……. Yesterday I was driving by a funeral home and saw the cars outside. It made me wonder, because of the time of day, if they were having a luncheon about that time. I started thinking about how I love little tea sandwiches. I always have. I can pass on the desserts but the little sandwiches I have a hard time saying No to :-).
My spouse also knows this and we have often talked about how there will be little sandwiches at my funeral. ๐ I started to think about this and in one brief moment in time while pondering these little sandwiches, I had an epiphany!
Life will go on and it will happen quickly! I saw the people say goodbye to me, say some nice words, eat little sandwiches, sip on coffee and tea and enJOY some desserts and then hop in their cars and go back to work, to their homes, to their life. It will go on as it always does.
I may not be conveying what I feel here but that’s okay because I get it and I did mention this blog post was more for me to remember the moment from yesterday’s drive by the funeral home. ๐
What do I take from this?The Gems!
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. Here are the gems! (And sidenote I am rereading this on January 26, 2022, nearly 11 months after my Stage IV Cancer Diagnosis and I wouldn’t change a thing! ๐
. I think these are all great! ๐
. life is short so make the moments matter and the moments count
. forgive quickly and often
. look at everything and every experience as though it were both the first and last time you will feel that, experience that, or see that
. eat the chocolate! (and the little sammies off course) ๐
. appreciate each and everyday for the gift that it is, our days are numbered and we all know it… it’s realizing it that matters most
. throw FEAR out the window and tell it you never want to see it again! Live fearlessly
and in JOY!
. be as much YOU as you can! Authentic, Real, Raw in all your imperfection which is perfect!
. be FREE…………….
Maggie Holbik.com is lover of life who believes that death can teach us a lot about life and that the circle of life is precious and sacred and is denied to many… she is passionate about helping people to find the JOY in their life and to see the beauty all around that is waiting for eyes to witness it and hearts to appreciate it.
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