Ep 297 Where I Found Unconditional Love

The episode I share the news that a lovely man that I met while I was just beginning my journey to change my relationship with alcohol, has passed away. He owned an organic wine farm in Sicily called Agriturismo Tarantola. https://www.gorgodeldrago.it/en/ His name is Filippo Testa and he touched my life in a profound and deeply spiritual way. I visited his farm during my journey to stop over-drinking and I came home from that trip and wrote a podcast about the unconditional love that I found there on his farm and in Sicily. This podcast shares that original podcast I wrote and recorded back in 2018 along with 2 poems that Phillipo and I created together using piano music that the shared with us while we were on his farm. It is unbelievably beautiful and I wish everyone could have an experience like I did, then. His legacy will live on forever. I will never forget the impact he had on my life at such a special, transformative time. Say YES to your life. Share your sentiments with people who move you. Go on the adventure, see it, feel it, appreciate this one life you have to experience all the things. Here is the translation of the poem that Fillipo wrote: I arrive I go I enter I leave I depart and I meet. I meet different people different cultures different languages different colors It’s the world that spins incessantly in your hands. And what do you leave behind?? What do you leave behind?? Maybe a fragrance a flower a gesture a word love or maybe nothing absolute silence. But it’s not difficult to turn hatred into love a tear into a smile rain into sunshine. And you what do you leave behind? You, a drop on a leaf that shines like silver You, a drop among many drops that form the meetings that bind us together, drawn by one thing: love for people for life for everything. You leave a smile a hope you leave a trace that remains etched in the folds of my heart. So leave, always leave something of yourself so that you may live forever in a step in a leaf in the green meadow on the hill at evening and at morning so that even the dew will remind me of a meeting always and forever. You are my box of colors. How many of you are there? So many, so very many and how many colors you leave behind. Vivid colors bright colors colors that blossom in my heart. Every day I open my box in silence. I embrace my colors I embrace them all because I know that in this moment they are all painting a thought of love for me. Author, Filippo Testa 2018 Join me on an adventure of a lifetime, one that will change you forever in Mexico in December 2024 or Palm Springs in 2025 http://www.angelamascenik.com/2024retreatsandcoaching Join Alive AF: https://www.angelamascenik.com/aliveaf Application to work privately with me: https://form.typeform.com/to/x8tcz6lm Tags: Stop Over-drinking, Angela Mascenik, stop drinking podcast, how to feel, how to overcome addiction, how to drink less wine, change your relationship with alcohol, coach for women who want to drink less alcohol, help to stop over-drinking, stop over-drinking, life coach to help stop over-drinking, self-love, importance of self-love, online membership to stop over-drinking, program to help quit alcohol, how to quit drinking, spouses, partners, food, overeating, moderation, sober retreat, how to prioritize yourself, make yourself a priority to drink less, mental health, mental health and alcohol use, mental health awareness month, how to stop over-drinking, how to stop drinking so much wine, life coach for women who drink too much, use humor to drink less, drink less, where do I start, wine free work week, sober retreat, unconditional love, say yes to your life