Women Empowerment Month - Guest Blogger Kera Thompson
We are so excited to continue our Women Empowerment Month by introducing you to the beautiful Kera Thompson!
- Tell us a little bit about yourself.
My name is Kera Thompson, and I'm an Indiana native currently living in the mountains of Salt Lake City. I'm a wife to McSean, mother to four awesome kids, and owner + curator at Interwoven- an artisanal home decor shop. We recently purchased our first home, that also happens to be our dream home, and I take great pride and pleasure in making it feel inviting and warm for our friends and loved ones. We were fortunate to live abroad for several years in Abu Dhabi, UAE, which brought us many opportunities and experiences to travel and expand our world view. I love historical dramas, listening to music really loud, especially West African beats, being in nature, exploring local SLC shops and eateries, and hanging with my family and close friends.
- What's been your biggest hurdle thus far?
Something I struggle with is organizing all the thoughts in my head into action. I am a very detail-oriented person, and sometimes I have a tendency to shut down when I get overwhelmed instead of powering through distraction and feelings of self-doubt. Getting older, however, has surprisingly been a beautiful and humbling experience as I learn love, acceptance, and grace for myself partly through the experiences and examples of the amazing people I get to surround myself with. Life is filled with all sorts of hurdles for us all and we can all help each other if we listen and choose love.
- How did you overcome it? AND
- 4. What advice do you have for other women?
Women! What a wonderful time to be alive! I truly think that women are special creatures... and my advice would be to sit very still with the intent to find your divine, inner voice inside that may have been conditioned in the past to stay silent. Wake up and realize that we are creators, life givers, and mothers to all! Learning to live life intuitively, taking time for real self-care and love, empowering yourself and learning through the voices of other like-minded women, allows us to give of ourselves abundantly and without regard, infinitely blessing the lives of our families and community.
- Share with us one of your favorite inspirational quotes.
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love."