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Essays, Writing

🌞 Setting Intentions

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All images created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompts using AI on Gencraft.com website.

Each day, I align with my desires, act with integrity, and open my hands to receive — knowing that I am the author of my becoming and the universe delights in meeting me where I am as a partner in the adventure.

🌱 Why This Fits Me:

  • “Each day” — anchors my practice in the daily rhythm I’m aiming to cultivate.
  • “Align with my desires” — affirms my birthright to want, hope, and reach.
  • “Act with integrity” — centers my value of wholeness and balance.
  • “Open my hands to receive” — welcomes blessings I didn’t foresee, with gratitude and courage.
  • “Author of my becoming” — declares that I am opening myself to my desired transformation.
  • “The universe delights in meeting me where I am as a partner in the adventure” — brings in the magic: when I show up, the universe responds with perfect timing.

(I am doing the writing exercises in the back of the book You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero, and this topic was about setting intentions. I am also learning to trade futures, so the art is related to the charts we use to make the trades.)

Essays, Writing

🔍 Seeking Becomes Seeing

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What I look for, I amplify — so I choose to seek joy, possibility, and proof that life is working in my favor.

💡 Why This Speaks to My Intention:

  • “What I look for, I amplify”
    ➤ This highlights the power of attention and how my brain filters reality based on what I expect to see.
  • “So I choose to seek joy, possibility…”
    ➤ Affirms my power to choose a hopeful, abundant lens.
  • “…and proof that life is working in my favor.”
    ➤ Replaces old scarcity narratives with a belief in support, ease, and flow — especially with money and the economy.

(I am doing the writing exercises in the back of the book You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero, and this topic was about Seeking the Reality I Choose. I am also learning to trade futures, so the art is related to the charts we use to make the trades.)

Essays, Writing

A Court of Thorns and Roses (Book Review)

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Feyre and the fey wolf. Image created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompts using AI on Gencraft.com website.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is a fabulous fantasy tale of personal discovery, growth, and becoming. Feyre reminds me of myself, willing to work herself to the bone to provide for her family, while usually putting her needs last. As often happens in unhealthy family units, her sacrifices are taken for granted.

Accidentally killing a wolf who is fey, she finds herself bound and forced into a world of magic, terror, and beauty unlike anything she has ever experienced. She falls in love with her gift of painting that has never before had the chance to blossom. She begins to see herself as capable of much more than she ever thought possible. And she even falls in love.

Little does she know that every step she takes toward her new life brings her closer to death.

I was terribly disappointed in so many of the characters in this story who did nothing to protect Feyre. Sarah J. Maas is the master of making us dislike characters before letting them redeem themselves. I hope future books give me something to like about some of them because at the end of this book, I was not impressed with anyone but Feyre. Ok, maybe I see some hope for one of the males, but I don’t want to spoil the surprises for anyone who hasn’t read the books yet.

Mass, Sarah J. A Court of Thorns and Roses. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Essays, Writing

🌕 My Friend, Fear:

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All images created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompts using AI on Gencraft.com website.

Fear walks with me, not ahead of me — it is the shiver that proves I’m expanding, the hush before my next leap, the echo that reminds me I’m alive and rewriting the rules I was taught to obey.

💬 Why This Resonates for Me:

  • “Fear walks with me, not ahead of me”
    ➤ I’m learning to hold fear as a companion, not a leader — I’m still in control.
  • “The shiver that proves I’m expanding”
    ➤ Honors that fear is a signal of growth, not failure. I’m not broken — I’m stretching.
  • “The hush before my next leap”
    ➤ Speaks to my propensity to reflect deeply before making bold moves — and that those silences are sacred, not stuck.
  • “The echo that reminds me I’m alive and rewriting the rules I was taught to obey”
    ➤ This is about healing financial trauma, breaking inherited scarcity mindsets, and forging my own path — with fire and grace.

(I am doing the writing exercises in the back of the book You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero, and this topic was about fear. I am also learning to trade futures, so the art is related to the charts we use to make the trades.)

Essays, Writing

💎 My WHY:

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I build wealth to rewrite the story — to bless those I love, heal the wounds behind me, and create a life of joyful abundance, generosity, and freedom for all who walk beside me.

✨ Why This Works:

  • “I build wealth to rewrite the story”
    ➤ Acknowledges that my path is one of transformation and conscious re-authoring of generational patterns.
  • “To bless those I love”
    ➤ Centers my heart-based motivation to support friends and family.
  • “Heal the wounds behind me”
    ➤ Honors the lineage and the pain I’m transmuting through my journey — a true act of generational healing.
  • “Create a life of joyful abundance, generosity, and freedom”
    ➤ Highlights the quality of life I’m manifesting — not just money, but liveliness, joy, and choice.
  • “For all who walk beside me”
    ➤ Speaks to the shared nature of my success — that my elevation raises the collective.

(I am doing the writing exercises in the back of the book You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero, and this topic was about coming up with a “Why” for wanting to create wealth. I am also learning to trade futures, so the art is related to the charts we use to make the trades.)

Art, People, Poetry, Writing

Lead With Grace

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All images created by Rebekah Marshall’s prompts using AI on Gencraft.com website.

To lead with grace
requires steel humility
when praised
and iron confidence
when cursed,
for either extreme
wields the awful
temptation to unsettle
the serene pond of self.
To yield to right
and bow only to integrity
fills her people
with love overflowing,
willing to sacrifice all
in service to her rule.

Essays, Writing

Positive Mindset

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I am trying to learn to keep a positive mindset when all around me feels as though it is crumbling to ashes. That used to be easy for me. People criticized me as being too much of a Pollyanna, who was a character from an old movie who always tried to keep her focus on the positives. People who seem to hold disdain for the upbeat nature of the little girl forget a key theme in the film. Pollyanna maintained this attitude despite having lost both of her parents, having to move in with an aunt she did not know, and enduring unkindness from many people in her little life. She continued looking for the good in people through it all, even people no one else was willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Near the end, she becomes paralyzed and loses the mental fortitude to keep herself positive. She gives up and no longer wants to live through any more struggle. Then all the people whose lives she has touched come back and lift her up by reminding her of the amazing effect she has had on them and the entire community. Their strengthening renews her conviction to stay positive and seek medical help for her paralysis.

I am not dealing with paralysis. Everyone in my life currently is doing fairly well. My house hasn’t burned down. My pets are all ok right now. I have a job. My husband has a job. I have a roof over my head and food to eat. The temperature is comfortable in Texas right now. I am not living in a war zone. I have medical insurance and can get care if needed. I am losing weight and making improvements in my body day by day. I am not in a horrific amount of pain currently. I am ok. But I ache for the fact that people around me are suffering. I cry for the people who don’t have access to the same privileges and comforts that I have. I am saddened by the new laws and regulations that are being enacted in our government currently that will harm people who most need support like people with disabilities, minorities, immigrants, and the poor. How can I be positive and joyful and full of hope for the future when so many other people cannot?

Does optimism turn a blind eye to the suffering of our brothers and sisters, our friends and relatives, our neighbors and communities that are struggling? Does keeping my focus only on concepts of growth and peace and hope and positivity somehow negate their pain or make me less empathetic or out of touch with the reality everyone faces? This is a real struggle. And I do not have an answer that satisfies my conscience.

I would love feedback if anyone has grappled with this same concept and has suggestions.

Essays, Writing

Paracosm

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I learned a new word today—paracosm. The internet says it is a detailed imaginary world. Paracosms are often formed by people in childhood and the creators can have complex, deeply felt relationships with this universe of imaginary characters and conventions. I remember having vivid daydreams as a child, but do not remember a consistent fictional imaginary world that I would return to. I find this concept fascinating. These are some expert level imaginers to be committed to a fully created universe that they continue to develop from a young age on through adulthood. I am actually quite impressed.

As a writer, I try to create alternate worlds for my characters in my books and I can’t keep all the details straight. I forget my own rules and setting characteristics and have to keep referring to my notes. People who create paracosms just do it naturally and don’t even have to try. I wonder if novelists who create such amazing fantasy worlds are doing this, in a sense. Maybe some people are naturally more capable of writing fantasy because their brains easily create paracosms.

In case anyone else was unaware of this curious word, I thought I would share what I learned. Then I also made some art on my Gencraft site about paracosms. I simply typed in that word using different models and let AI share what the word made them think of. They turned out really interesting.