About

Welcome to “We Live Inspired!”, where I share my life’s journey of living inspired no matter what, along with fun creative things to help you make the “Mundane Marvelous” too!

 

My name is Rebekah Ann Stephenson (but most people call me Bekah). I’m an artist/writer/poet/blogger, who also happens to be a fairy godmother 😀 ! I help other creatives birth their dreams out in to the world, which is how I was given the title of “Fairy Godmother (if you need a fairy godmother to sprinkle some magic in your life, you can check out my services page HERE). I’ve been blogging about how I live inspired for a few years now, as my goal is to help others live with Joy, Inspiration and Love NOW, no matter what their circumstances are.

I believe in Miracles.

I believe in finding inspiration & beauty in everyday life.

I believe in practicing gratitude and recording life’s blessings (and have found this to be a life changer in my own journey towards creating a happier, fulfilling life that naturally attracts more abundance).

I don’t believe in putting off happiness until life gets “better”. I believe we can create our own uniquely beautiful lives right here, right now, wherever we are at in life.

That is exactly what I have done and continue to do. I have spent the last 16+ years of my life teaching myself how to live inspired despite anxiety/panic, loss, and trauma, and now I am sharing that journey with you. At the beginning of my journey towards recreating my life, I didn’t feel inspired, and in fact was suffering quite a bit. Bit by bit I put together a menagerie of self help practices that eventually took me from just surviving, to thriving. One day the words “live inspired” popped in my head, and I realized that was what I was doing. I wanted something beautiful to come out of all I had been through, and decided to create a place to share. That is how “We Live Inspired” was born 🙂 .

I hope that in sharing how I live inspired, you will gain a fun, fresh, creative perspective so that you can find hope, beauty and inspiration everywhere too. 

Will you join me in “finding the magic” in ordinary days?  

  Creating is my passion and you will find glimpses into my creative life here, like:(insert photos here)

I have been creating in some way, shape or form for as long as I remember.  It probably started with a love of music and singing for my own enjoyment since about the time I could talk.  By the first grade I was entering my first drawing and coloring contests, and started writing poetry and my first children’s book somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd grade.  As a child, I used to spend hours outside in nature, getting lost in books or just daydreaming about things and coming up with ideas.  In fact, a couple of years ago I found some of my elementary school papers where I had said that I wanted to be a writer or an artist when I grew up!  

At about age 12 or so, I took my first painting classes (starting with some water colors and moving quickly to oils) and in high school I would spend my “boring” classes (namely Math) doodling in a notebook and mostly writing lots of poetry which I compiled in to a journal.  

 

       This creating continued as an adult and has now grown to include a menagerie of other interests and ideas, many of which will be shared in this blog.  In recent years I realized that life itself is part of the creative process, which brings me to how I came up with the name for my website and what it means to me:

 

We Live Inspired, quite simply put, is about living an inspired life and simply looking for (& finding) inspiration in seemingly ordinary things.  It’s sort of like being a treasure hunter as we see life through a fresh, poetic, wonder-filled lens.

How does one do that?

Let me start out by saying it is NOT about having a perfect life, or about everything being peachy. Life can be tough. As bubbly as I am, I know what it’s like to have your life not go like you expected it to at all. I know what it’s like to rebuild from the ground up.  Really we all have these periods of re-inventing ourselves at one time or another- it’s just our stories and circumstances that differ.  

Sometimes you have to throw out that road map of the perfect life you had in mind and go off the beaten path and make your own unique trail!  That is where we have an opportunity to create great things we never would have stumbled upon had it all gone the way we planned.

 

♥  To me, living an inspired life is about perspective.  It is about seeing beauty in the world around you and learning, growing, and even laughing your way through life as much as possible!  It is about being grateful and not taking things for granted.  It is about slowing down and noticing the miracles & blessings around you (even the small ones).  It is about being a seeker of light.

♥  Living Inspired is also about Creating – Creating your own beautiful life and your own brand of sunshine-whatever you are doing!  It is also about using our unique life gifts and talents. Even if you don’t think you are creative, I believe we are ALL creative in our own unique way, as we are an extension of the Creator (God) himself.

♥  Living Inspired is about holding on to your dreams, and believing in possibilities (rather than thinking they are silly)–   After I reached the 30 mark , I decided it was time to revisit my childhood dreams and become the writer or artist I always dreamed of being when I was little.  As an adult I had put my creative passions on the back burner and I longed to get reconnected with my roots!  I realized life is too short to let any talents we have go to waste, or to spend our energies doing things we don’t really have the passion for.   What dreams and talents have you put on the back burner?  Will you join me in being a “Dream Chaser”?

What Stuff will you find in this blog?

An eclectic mix that I hope will appeal to people of all ages from all walks of life. 

 

the “We” in “We Live Inspired”, means it is not just about my personal inspired living journey. You will also find stories of others living inspired, following their hearts, making a difference in the world, or turning challenges into triumphs. My hope is to make this an inspiring community, so please do stop by, sit for a spell, and share your stories too in the comments of any page or article here. I do respond back. Let’s connect! You can also join me in being a “blessings hunter” by going to my online gratitude journal page HERE,  and leaving a comment of whatever little miracles happened in your world today, or what beautiful things you are noticing.

Looking forward to crossing paths with you, as together “we live inspired.”

~ Rebekah