Johanna’s blog

365 days with the beads

Wow, we have done our first year of The Bead Movement. It’s been 365 beads moved from one jar to another. I’ve been moving beads in the state of fear, anxiety, sadness, happiness, love, and in pure bliss and gratefulness. The beads have been with me in the States, Spain, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy […]

Faith IV

Faith is knowing without having the answers, it’s trusting without the facts. It’s walking the path sure of your way, without a map. It’s letting go of your need to control the outcome, and relinquish the fears and the anxiety that holds your littleness in place. It’s to choose love in every moment, no matter […]

Faith III or jumping into the unknown

I’m currently on vacation in Tuscany, Italy. A truly beautiful region with it’s hills and coastline, not to forget the amazing food and wine! The other day my boyfriend took me on a snorkeling date in the Mediterranean. I absolutely love being in the water so one might think its the perfect event, but the […]

Faith II

To a large degree, summertime is for a freelancer synonymous with stress and anxiety. Everyone is waiting for decisions to be made, ie will my show or film get a go ahead. Few decisions are made pre-summer because the decision makers leave for vacation, which leads us freelancers in limbo, and we sometimes don’t know  whether we […]

Faith I

Our theme to guide us through July is ’Faith’; a word filled with meaning and a word we both have chosen to lead our lives by. Now is the time to find out what the word at this point actually means to us. Faith is absolutely linked to religion, but is it synonymous with it? […]

Grace IV

This week’s thought, and the last one on this theme of ’grace’, is tremendously simple. I feel incredibly graced with wonderful people in my life. Yogi Bhajan said that people come into our lives as lessons. Every interaction is here to teach us something, and ever since I took on that point of view, my […]

Grace III

Grace isn’t just the light in one’s soul or a way of being kind and good towards others. Grace also implies standing up for oneself. It’s also someone who has a great posture. I met a person this week who made me feel small. It doesn’t happen to me that often anymore, but when it […]

Grace II

There is something about the word grace that implies giving and sharing. Not only ’to grace with someone’s presence’, but in a wider sense like sharing and giving wholeheartedly to others. Most of all, to ’live with grace’ somehow speaks of sharing and a giving without a need to get anything back. I had a […]

Grace I

Last summer when we started The bead movement we wrote down words we wanted to guide us through our lives. Both me and Mhairi put the word Grace on our lists, but what does ’Grace’ actually mean? We have chosen Grace to be the theme of June, and during this month I want to investigate, […]

Stand IV

How do we keep two feet on the ground, our visions and goals clear, as the world is constantly changing? I’d say it comes down to two things. First, working on yourself, keeping a strong center, being in tuned and on your path, is crucial. Secondly, I think it comes down to the people in your […]