Dear Light Beams!
I’m writing to you today not just as a creator, but as a hopeful co-conspirator. I’m embarking on a new daily practice, and I would be so honored if you would join me… not as an audience, but as active heroes in a cultural movement.
For the next year, I will be writing a short blog post every single day about the word honor. My goal is to explore its many facets, especially those that are often overlooked: the soft, the quiet, the internal, the feminine.
When you search for the word “honor” online right now, you find images of triumph, military, and religion. It’s a word that has been defined by external achievement, hardness, and rigidity. But we know honor is so much more than that.
Honor is the feeling of your own worthiness. It is the sacred act of tending to your own heart. It is the courage to be soft in a hard world.
This is where you come in. I don’t want you to simply read my posts. I want you to help me free the word honor. I want us to flood the internet with a new vision of what honor looks and feels like.
The Practice: Post Purple
I’m inviting you to join me in a simple, powerful practice called Post Purple.
Here’s how it works:
As often as you feel called—daily, weekly, or just once—I invite you to:
- Post an image of a purple honor card, or any purple image that represents honor to you (a flower, a sunset, a piece of art).
2. Write a short reflection. It can be just a few sentences.
3. Tag it with #PostPurple and #HonorEffect so we can find and celebrate one another.
Your reflection could be:
•A moment you honored yourself today.
•A person in your life you wish to honor.
•A quality you are honoring in yourself (like your rest, your boundaries, your joy).
•A simple statement: “Today, I honor my need for quiet.”
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence. It’s about making honor personal, relational, and deeply felt. It’s about creating a world where the softest parts of our being feel seen, welcome, held, and supported.
Every time you #PostPurple, you become a hero in this movement. You cast a vote for a new definition of honor. You help create a visual landscape where honor is synonymous with warmth, worthiness, and love.
You are not just participating in this movement. You ARE the movement.
Thank you for being on this journey with me. Thank you for your courage, your heart, and your willingness to build a more honorable world.
With all my love and deepest honor,
Debbie
Honor
When the goodness in people is honored,
they become empowered to stand strong
in their true, authentic, invincible greatness.
At Joy-Based Living, we’re writing daily blog posts about honor to change what the internet thinks this word means.
You can be part of this restoration by sharing these posts, using the hashtags #HonorEffect, #JoyBasedLiving, and #PurpleCards, and posting your own reflections on honor.
You can get download instructions and beautiful 4 x 6 framable cards at this Patreon link: [link to be added]
Join our community of honor practitioners:
Patreon.com/JoyBasedLiving →
This is a collective restoration project. When you share your own experiences of honor and use the hashtags #HonorEffect and #JoyBasedLiving, you help us reclaim this word for the sacred feminine and make her visible in the search results.
