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About Hopeservations

Hope + Observations = Hopeservations

Welcome to Hopeservations.

A place to find Hope everyday!

My goal is for this blog to become your retreat. An inviting place for those who appreciate stories about spreading hope and sharing observations as we navigate & digest all the perfectly imperfect aspects of life and the Hopeservations we find in these moments.

What is Hopeservations?

Hopeservations are self reflective nourishments to our soul, ever actualizing healthy habits, and the human desire to connect. It’s mindful, meditative moments that help us grow emotionally, intellectually, physically and spiritually. It’s authentic understanding and transparent vulnerability, that delves in to the human perspective about hope, love, laughter, grace, gratitude, compassion, inspiration, learning to let go, stress relief, pick-me ups, travel, motherhood and various aspects of parenting. It offers balanced insight, practices and thoughtful dialogue for ALL humans looking to relate and feel accepted. Hopeservations are any hopeful observation in life.

Who is Hope?

I am a Florida girl, sports mom, wife, teacher by day, freelance blogger by night, intuitive reader, licensed minister, story teller, Harley rider, work out enthusiast, lover of observations, all things coastal, soulful, spiritual, metaphysical, educational, and being real about being human. I have studied and taught abroad in Brighton, England, as well as in Florida. I have been serving teens and helping families in the field of Special Education and Alternative Education in the Florida Dept of Juvenile Justice since 1994. I hold two degrees, in Early Childhood Education and Special Education specializing in Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities. I specialize in developing behavior intervention plans, IEP’s and assisting teens and their families with transition to the post-secondary world. I was a high school competitive cheer coach before my life as a mom! I am a skilled intuitive reader, utilizing many tools and attend metaphysical fairs around the state of Florida. I have studied and practice TM since I was nine and have continued with that practice off and on my whole life! As a life long learner and teacher, there is nothing I love more than to share all I have learned along the way. One of my greatest joys is working with others to mentor, guide, help develop life plans and truly connect on an authentic level in this journey we call life!

So welcome to Hopeservations, where spreading hope and sharing observations come together to be your, “Place To Find Hope Everyday!”

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Hope E. ⚓️

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    Make A Wish!

    05/18/2020 /

    Hey you playful soul!!! Yes, I am talking to you! Today is May 18, 2020 and do I have a fun little offering for you! Make a wish! Yes, you heard me right…make a wish! When was the last time you had a wish you wanted to have come true? I personally enjoy making wishes all the time. They are fun and whimsical and we all need a little of that sprinkled through out our day. I grew up making wishes with my grandmother’s on wishbones from whatever chicken or turkey they had cooked. They would let these bits of bone dry out on the window ledges above their kitchen…

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    Hey beautiful soul, this is from my Hopeful heart to yours…so check it out. Yeah…so it’s no secret I love take out Chinese! Terrible but true. Oddly enough, one of the things I love most about getting take out Chinese is the little fortune cookies at the bottom of the box. I mean how simple are those little jokers, and yet they bring me so much joy. I don’t even particularly care for the cookie itself but there is SOMEthing about breaking open that cookie to pull out those little slips of paper to read a few words of good fortune or zen like insight that seems so fascinating and…

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    “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” meaning, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr It’s so true, as much as life marches on in change, somethings stay the same. You catch little glimpses of it in your routine. Daily habits, patterns, the comfort zones we re-create or fall into time and again. Some are as simple as the way we wave, some we are aware of and makes us happy, and some run far deeper and rule our lives even as we are blind to the subconscious manner in which we are driven or make those choices. Sometimes it is something…

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      Not sure what your dream is, take a look at your children. Their dreams should be your dreams too. I am not saying forget your own pursuits and desires, but don’t get so wrapped up in doing you that you lose focus on what they’re doing… That’s when they start to lose their way, when your not watching, cheering, talking, motivating, modeling, leading or actively engaged! They need you present in their presence! Talk about the big things, little things, silly things, dull things and everything in between. Find the balance. Seems simple. Right? Well we all know it isn’t, and parents need pep talks too. Because, let’s be…

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      So this evening, I was catching up with an old friend and we were talking about life….when he said, “life is a journey and if I had fun along the way, then that is cool.” I couldn’t entirely disagree with him. I mean, I am a big proponent of living life with the journey in mind and not simply the destination. After all, we have been taught that it is the journey that is most important but in our western culture we also get very caught up in the destination. I personally am a journey type of gal, but of course the destination or as I prefer to think…

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