Sunday Flowers #1

For the love of giving

Hello beautiful human, happy Sunday.

Today I am excited to share with you the first “Sunday Flowers” post inspired by my dear almost husband. Sundays are the days he brings me flowers. Mind you he does that randomly mid-week too if I had a particular hard day mothering, however Sundays are my day and he knows there’s no better way to start a Mothers Sunday then with flowers and breakfast.

Giving flowers, gifting meals, dropping chocolates in mailboxes and writing love letters are some of the ways I too like to surprise fellow mothers, friends or community members on a Sunday (or any day of the week). Little surprise drop offs are my love language, celebrating people and sweetening their days with a little “I love you. I think of you. I am proud of you” truly is something so deeply engrained in my heart, I wouldn’t know who I’d be without it.

So Sunday Flowers is my way of gifting you some sweetness too. On the last Sunday of each month, I will take some time to share some incredible humans and resources with you. People that inspire me and that I’d like to celebrate. Podcasts that I loved. Music that moved me. Resources for the heart, for the homeschool mother, the mother creative, the homesteaders and homemakers, the yogis and meditators .. just a big fat I love you and thank you for being here. And hopefully you’ll be able to take some time to listen, to read or be inspired by what I share in this series with you and maybe you can pass some of it on to someone you love, someone you like to gift some flowers to.

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This weeks Sunday Flowers.

This month has been heavy on the heart, no doubt you felt it too in some way, shape or form. I hope you were able to find some grounding, some softness within you and some time to create a little spaciousness for yourself and the feelings that arose. I shared a few practices I personally use to create spaciousness in my own life in one of my recent posts “Inviting Space” and also a guided meditation to create some inner peace and harmony in my first post of our series “Inwards” with you here.

If you would like to access either of them and don’t have the means to become a paid subscriber at the moment, please comment or email me on helloclaudiawilde@gmail.com and I’d be happy to compensate a month or two for you. I believe we all need a little space and peace right now so I’d be more than happy to do that for you.

Conversations that inspired me this month.

I found myself listening to a lot of podcasts and interviews in October, some that moved me in the best sort of ways were

Sarah Blondin

and

Elena Brower

’s conversation “The Softest Place On Earth” was a beautiful invitation towards inner peace and a soft, open heart. I am deeply inspired and moved by both of these women.

The Softest Place on Earth

Andrea Gibson

’s conversation on “Facing Morality and Being Adored and Cherished by the Universe” with Tami Simon on the “Sounds True”: Insights of the Edge” podcast . Andrea has such a way of sharing their life and insights, it never not moves me to tears.

A little more

Substack

specific - an interview with

Claire Venus

and

Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

on “The Power of Substack” . Both Claire and Sarah share a huge passion for Substack, they are equally as generous with their hearts and knowledge and I can only recommend working with them, if you are looking at setting up your own garden here on Substack.

The Power of Substack with Sarah Fay

Writers I have loved this month

I also spent quite some time reading here on Substack, not much as I usually would due to spending more hours meditating however here are just a few pieces that I enjoyed.

Two pieces by

Tess Guinery

one for the poetry lovers “Please tell me about your pretty day …” and one for the creatives as she shares so openly about her creative process in her body of work “Part One: My creative process”

Part one: My creative process.

Lauren Barber

spoke to my mama heart in her recent post “Blood and Milk.. endings and beginnings”

Blood and milk... endings and beginnings...

Troy Putney

moved me with his poetry piece “Eagle and Endless Sky” so much I had to mention it here.

Eagle and Endless Sky

Joy Sullivan

shared words straight to my heart in her post “How to keep going in the dark”

How to keep going in the dark

Slow Scottish Stories

wrote about her “Life as a recovering Instagram addict” - a take on her first year off Instagram and got me excited for my time off the app.

Life as a recovering Instagram addict

And lastly “The heft of it all” by the beautiful

Lisa Olivera

and author of “Human Stuff”.

The heft of it all

Humans I am celebrating

My last little bunch of flowers will go to some special people I am celebrating this month.

First of all my sister, who isn’t on Substack but I nevertheless celebrate her for entering the realm of motherhood mid October and birthing her beautiful daughter, my niece *insert happy tears*, who I just cannot wait to meet in a few month when I’m finally back in Europe. If you’re reading this I love you and am so proud of you.

Next up happiest first Substack birthday to

Kat River

and

Chapin

(Kat shares about her one year journey here and Chapin here) , congratulations to

Lyndsay Kaldor

on launching her beautiful series “Atelier” and to

Claire Venus

and

Tess Guinery

for sowing beautiful, flourishing seeds in their Substack gardens and receiving a badge of appreciation in return. And

Tara Franca

for leading her first mothers dance class.

And last but not least I’m celebrating every single one of you generous humans taking the time to read and support my work. It is because of you that I can allow myself to take some time away from my darling babies to write, record meditations and breathwork sessions for you, connect with other incredible creatives to bring you inspiration and allow myself to trust and grow alongside this beautiful community.

What’s to come in November

Some essays from the heart including poetry on motherhood, aware parenting, creativity, slow living and mindfulness.

Our first “Over Coffee” interview series - a part written, part audible (podcast) interview series with inspiring human beings from around the world.

If all goes to plan also our first “Art+Wine” co-creation between a local mama and I.

“Inwards #2” - a guided meditation and/or breath work to soften your heart and connect with the present moment.

And our second celebratory “Sunday Flowers” at the end of the month.

Another exciting thing happening in November is a little transformation to our publication name. As I am evolving and the vision for the home I am creating here for us gets clearer, my heart wanted the name to reflect that and I look forward to sharing it with you.

If you feel called, I would love it if you’d pass on some of your flowers by sharing your favourite reads with us in the comments below or pass this post on to someone you love.

For your month ahead I hope you will be able to stay grounded and move through it at a slow, intentional pace. I look forward to sharing some words with you again this coming Wednesday - an honest, vulnerable essay about growing up (in motherhood and life).

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Thank you for being here.

All my love,
Claudia x