Shona Marie believes in the power and potency of words. She lives them. Breathes them. As the CEO of a copywriting boutique, her business is to know how to yank and tease words together to make them entice a reader or buyer.
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“It looked like a death sentence,” says Collins King about the moment she got up at 3am to reflect on her cancer diagnosis. But fast forward nearly a decade and now she is celebrating 7 years cancer-free! “I'll be 7 years out in November 2017 for Triple Negative Breast can-sur. I don't even spell it out and give it merit."
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Ellen first learned of Conscious Ink through her friend, Wendy Harvil. Wendy purchased various sets and then had her friends lean on their intuition to pick the one meant for them. The choice was immediate for Ellen. Her heart knew what she needed and when she saw the tattoo in the pile, it called out to her.
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We have 12,000-60,000 thoughts per day. Our brains are firing, wiring, and soaking up information constantly as we move through our lives and even right now you are likely processing these words while other thoughts are ricocheting off the corners of your mind.
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This journey started in February of this year. After a routine mammogram, I was informed that I had breast cancer. I was stunned. Up until that moment, I had never been a patient in a hospital. The last time I had been in a hospital was 56 years ago when I was born! I thought to myself this can't be happening to me. I never get sick. But the tests didn’t lie, and I had to come to terms with the fact that I had cancer.
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Conscious Ink’s mission is to spread love and raise global collective consciousness, one body at a time. As Conscious Ink has grown, its team has been blessed with witnessing incredible transformations and stories from all over the world. Conscious Inkers are a family who use their tattoos to proclaim, share, or whisper their truth to the world. Women, men and children have worn Conscious Ink tattoos while…
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In Arabic, the root word for human is insaan. Translated to English, it means the one who forgets. The one who forgets. Allow that to sink in. How often do we forget the power of who we are, of what we are? Conscious Ink was created for those aching to remember.
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Setting out to write my father’s eulogy, I wasn’t sure where I would land, but I was clear as to the direction I was headed. I started my expedition with my compass pointed to the core essence of my father, Thomas. His deepest truths. What made Thomas uniquely Thomas. I mean, why mess around? If I was going to dig, I was going to break out the heaviest, and the finest detail, excavation equipment I could muster.
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There is true beauty in turning negativity into positive and empowering opportunities. An off-handed comment by Senator Mitch McConoll, about Senator Elizabeth Warren, has risen to become a powerful call to action for women. In the past month, the “Nevertheless she persisted” has become our top selling Manifestation Tattoo, and we couldn’t be happier! In this great interview by Central Oregon Daily, Conscious Ink’s founder, Frank Gjata, shares that “Empowering and positive messaging brings greater opportunity to evoke change.”
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