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The word inspiration means to be in spirit. When you’re tuned into your spirit, you are naturally drawn to do whatever feels best. You may do things that aren’t outwardly productive. Or you may write a book in 30 days. Either way, it’s all good because fulfillment is the end result. So we say BE Inspired!

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Greetings, Luminous Soul! 'Tis the season to be gifting, so what better present could we offer than our December focus, Presence? Read more

Healing From Financial Stress

Healing From Financial Stress

The holiday season is often associated with joy, generosity, and togetherness. Read more

What I’d Miss If You Were Gone

What I’d Miss If You Were Gone

Last night, during a family holiday dinner, I stood by the pantry watching my loved ones from a distance. Read more

Attitude of Gratitude

Attitude of Gratitude

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Cosmic Unity

Cosmic Unity

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Tiny Secrets

Tiny Secrets

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One of My Favorite Practices for the Holiday Season

One of My Favorite Practices for the Holiday Season

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Waving Our Differences Into Unity

Waving Our Differences Into Unity

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Learning To Be Grateful For A Predictable Life

Learning To Be Grateful For A Predictable Life

The explosion of yellow arrived as an unexpected guest when just a week before the bedroom window was flush with green. Read more

Personal History and your Freedom

Personal History and your Freedom

What people so often don’t realize it that the re-running of their personal history often is killing their own freedom. Read more

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Poor Me Syndrome: A Reflection of Poverty Consciousness

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Sacred Honey Bee: A Spoonful of Wisdom

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Work With Yourself, Not Against Yourself

Work With Yourself, Not Against Yourself

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How to Harness the Power of the Mind for Manifesting Success

We may have come across the idea about harnessing the power of the mind. Read more

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5 Power Questions That Help You Heal From Within

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My Top Clarity and Self-Discovery Practice

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Practices for Managing Difficult Times

Practices for Managing Difficult Times

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How To Add More Life To Your Life

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Uniting Within - Uniting Without

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10 Simple Ways to Make Someone’s Day

10 Simple Ways to Make Someone’s Day

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5 Ways I’m Breaking Generational Cycles

5 Ways I’m Breaking Generational Cycles

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How Do We Live With Heartbreak?

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How Trauma is Not Just in Your Head or Mind

How Trauma is Not Just in Your Head or Mind

What I found out about trauma is this: Trauma isn’t something that is just in your head or mind. It’s not just a past memo... Read more

5 Affirmations for Managing Difficult Times

5 Affirmations for Managing Difficult Times

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Stairway To Heaven

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What Are Glimmers and How You Can Find Them

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Living Life in Balance

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Stop Shaming Your Body For Gaining Self-Acceptance

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Finding Peace In A Storm

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For Those Who Have Loved And Lost

For Those Who Have Loved And Lost

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Reconnecting With What We Value

Reconnecting With What We Value

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The Little Things: A Journey

The Little Things: A Journey

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Who Am I Now?

Who Am I Now?

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Princess Diana: 28 Transformative Life Lessons from Her Lega…

Princess Diana: 28 Transformative Life Lessons from Her Legacy

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The Beginning Of The End

The Beginning Of The End

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Lasso the Sun for Maui

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Celebrate Your Success

Celebrate Your Success

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The Painful Truth About Narcissistic Relationships

The Painful Truth About Narcissistic Relationships

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A Reminder for Managing Overwhelm

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Sharing History With Strangers

Sharing History With Strangers

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3 Reminders When Faced With Change

3 Reminders When Faced With Change

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How Many Miracles Do You Receive?

How Many Miracles Do You Receive?

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Enjoy The Little Things

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Say No The Easy Way

Say No The Easy Way

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5 Ways to Tap Into Your Creativity

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Moving into Service

Moving into Service

Greetings, Luminous One! And happy Lion's Gate (almost)! Read more

Time For A Smaller Plate?

Time For A Smaller Plate?

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9 Ways for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety

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Ultimate Humility

Ultimate Humility

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Making Friends Later In Life

Making Friends Later In Life

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One Thing I’m Prioritizing in my Life

One Thing I’m Prioritizing in my Life

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A Ritual That Stands The Test Of Time

A Ritual That Stands The Test Of Time

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Everything Is Connected

Everything Is Connected

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5 Things I’m no Longer Spending my Energy on

5 Things I’m no Longer Spending my Energy on

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Humility's Disguise

Humility's Disguise

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Never Postpone Joy

Never Postpone Joy

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2 Drops Of Wisdom And A Healing Prayer

2 Drops Of Wisdom And A Healing Prayer

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The Importance of Gratitude in Difficult Times

The Importance of Gratitude in Difficult Times

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Put The Brakes On

Put The Brakes On

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The 6 Core Needs

The 6 Core Needs

“Among psychologists there is a wide-ranging consensus about what our core needs consist of. These have been variously listed as... Read more

Remember These 6 Things When Hurting

Remember These 6 Things When Hurting

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You Are Receiving Cues

You Are Receiving Cues

You have been through intensified challenges in recent years This may have caused you to ‘harden’ Read more

Humble Pie Is Tasty

Humble Pie Is Tasty

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The Art Of Sensual Living

The Art Of Sensual Living

No sooner did I sit down in my favorite chair to record a dream in my journal, when a gentle rain began to fall. Read more

4 Self-Care Practices to Help You Connect With Yourself

4 Self-Care Practices to Help You Connect With Yourself

Dear friends, Self-care is a commonly discussed topic lately, and while I find the general interest to be positive, sometimes, I ... Read more

The Secret To Healthy And Loving Relationships

The Secret To Healthy And Loving Relationships

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Don’t Go Along With The Popular If Its Not Right For You

Don’t Go Along With The Popular If Its Not Right For You

At this present time the world is in a great state of flux and change, lives and attitudes to life are changing. Read more

How to Practice Loving Self-Acceptance

How to Practice Loving Self-Acceptance

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When We Forgive, We Love

When We Forgive, We Love

Greetings, Luminous One! I hope you had a beautiful Solstice. :) From what I could see from the videos at Stonehenge t... Read more

Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel

Michael and I were away last week, celebrating our 26th wedding anniversary, and I missed the chance to send a blog I wrote a... Read more

A Culture Of Kindness

A Culture Of Kindness

My Dad worked in the building trade for about 50 years. He worked full time right up until he was 70 years old. Read more

Finding Perspective: 5 Key Reminders During Life's Challenge…

Finding Perspective: 5 Key Reminders During Life's Challenges

My dear friends, All of us have goals, wishes, hopes, and dreams for our lives. We are taught to envision what we want, and alway... Read more

The Ups And Downs Of Change

The Ups And Downs Of Change

A couple of weeks ago, when I wrote about redefining retirement, I received a lot of mail from readers who could identify with the... Read more

4 Questions to Ask Yourself to Cultivate Clarity

4 Questions to Ask Yourself to Cultivate Clarity

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Make A Wish For Something Good

Make A Wish For Something Good

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How to Reduce Relationship Conflicts: Make Observations, Not…

How to Reduce Relationship Conflicts: Make Observations, Not Evaluations

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The Problem Isn’t Men

The Problem Isn’t Men

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5 Summertime Self-Love Affirmations

5 Summertime Self-Love Affirmations

Dear friends, With the rising temperatures and changing schedules, the summer season is upon us! I always loved summertime as a k... Read more

Why You May Want to Reconsider the Business Advice of “Charg…

Why You May Want to Reconsider the Business Advice of “Charge What You Are Worth”

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Redefining Retirement

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4 Simple Reminders to Spark Optimism

4 Simple Reminders to Spark Optimism

Dear friends, I was recently talking to a close friend about life and the seemingly unwavering state of chaos in the external wor... Read more

Courage in a Topsy-Turvy World

Courage in a Topsy-Turvy World

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You Are Not Who You Think You Are

You Are Not Who You Think You Are

Last year, I published an audiobook with Sounds True called Self Care for the Wisdom Years. Read more

The Courage to Walk with Spirit

The Courage to Walk with Spirit

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5 Lessons I’ve Learned From My Mom

5 Lessons I’ve Learned From My Mom

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6 Signs That Your Spirituality Is Universal

For human civilization to evolve, developing a universal spirituality is essential. Why? It is a mark of a primitive stage of evol... Read more

The Elder Wisdom of Women

The Elder Wisdom of Women

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5 Steps to Start Again

5 Steps to Start Again

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The Great Mother

The Great Mother

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Happy Mother's Day 2023

Happy Mother's Day 2023

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How Emotions Got Stuck in the Body

How Emotions Got Stuck in the Body

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Souvenirs of Love

Souvenirs of Love

I have a little wooden sign on my bathroom counter that’s painted to look like the sun. Read more

5 Affirmations for Managing Difficulty

5 Affirmations for Managing Difficulty

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How To Practice Self-Kindness

How To Practice Self-Kindness

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10 Reminders for Effective Communication

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Living An Unlived Life

Living An Unlived Life

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You Were Meant To Know, And You Do Know!

You Were Meant To Know, And You Do Know!

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A Gentle Reminder About Relationships

A Gentle Reminder About Relationships

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Metaphysical Lessons from Everything Everywhere All at Once

Metaphysical Lessons from Everything Everywhere All at Once

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You’re So Sensitive - A Blessing Or A Curse?

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3 Boundaries I’m Setting For Self-Care

3 Boundaries I’m Setting For Self-Care

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3 Reminders When Seeking Closure

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You Can Steal This

You Can Steal This

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Insider Knowledge

Insider Knowledge

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Tiny Treasures Waiting For You

Tiny Treasures Waiting For You

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The Truth Shall Set You Free

The Truth Shall Set You Free

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12 Good Reasons You Should Give Up Your Self-Importance

12 Good Reasons You Should Give Up Your Self-Importance

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A Time for Truth

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A Story Of Hope And New Beginnings

A Story Of Hope And New Beginnings

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Pray to Be Wrong

Pray to Be Wrong

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Wide Awake: Letters from Your Soul on Becoming Fully Awake

Wide Awake: Letters from Your Soul on Becoming Fully Awake

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5 Affirmations to Help You Bloom in Spring

5 Affirmations to Help You Bloom in Spring

Dear friends, With Daylight Savings time behind us, the light lingering a bit longer each day, Winter finally feels like it’s com... Read more

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

It was a gray day crowned by a milky white sky that gave way to shafts of muted sunlight now and then. We were walking in the wood... Read more

Two Simple Clues To Discern Your Inner Wisdom From Your Huma…

Two Simple Clues To Discern Your Inner Wisdom From Your Human Emotions

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8 Ways To Show Kindness To Yourself

8 Ways To Show Kindness To Yourself

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5 Reasons Why We Over-Explain

5 Reasons Why We Over-Explain

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All That The Eye Can (and Cannot) See

All That The Eye Can (and Cannot) See

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Time For A New Way Forward

Time For A New Way Forward

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The Healing Power Of Laughter

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Love in the New Era

Love in the New Era

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5 Tips For Whenever You Are Feeling Overwhelmed

5 Tips For Whenever You Are Feeling Overwhelmed

Dear friends, I recently received a memory notification on my phone from the start of the pandemic in 2020. Read more

Learning To Stay Where You Are

Learning To Stay Where You Are

Pale was the tone of the day and the color of my mood when I woke this morning from a fitful night’s sleep. Read more

Choosing a Vision

Choosing a Vision

Greetings, Luminous One! I was struck by this quote from Marianne Williamson's Presidential-bid announcement last week: Read more

A Powerful Practice to Shift Your Relationships

A Powerful Practice to Shift Your Relationships

Dear friends, I recently was talking to a friend about relationships, and just how complicated they can be. Friends, family, roma... Read more

How Determined Are You?

How Determined Are You?

The snow started falling just after midnight as I slipped into bed and listened to the gusty northeast wind move the walls and win... Read more

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Do You See What I See? Into The Future We Go!

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My Favorite Lesson I’ve Learned In 2023 So Far

My Favorite Lesson I’ve Learned In 2023 So Far

Dear friends, We are officially in the third month of 2023, and much has transpired in my life these past three short months. Read more

How Reparenting Helps to Address Your Insecure Attachment St…

How Reparenting Helps to Address Your Insecure Attachment Style

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Commitment Drives Passion

Commitment Drives Passion

Greetings, Luminous One! Want to feel red-hot about Life? Fully invested and jazzed about something you love? Read more

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How To Quiet The Inner Bully

Sometimes the voice of the inner bully is deafening. Read more

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The Creative Power of Your Thoughts and How They Shape Reality

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Do You Realize You Can Only Change Things Whilst You Are Her…

Do You Realize You Can Only Change Things Whilst You Are Here?

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How to Connect with Your Inner Child using S.H.I.F.T.

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It’s Not Rejection, It’s Redirection

It’s Not Rejection, It’s Redirection

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Becoming A Curator Of Beauty

Becoming A Curator Of Beauty

It had been a quiet, lovely morning, the kind of start to the day where everything came together with ease. I woke early, worked o... Read more

Identity + Passion + Purpose = Joy

Identity + Passion + Purpose = Joy

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Say Yes to Life

Say Yes to Life

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Precious Love

Precious Love

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What Love Means To Me

What Love Means To Me

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Let Yourself Off The Hook

Let Yourself Off The Hook

Last Monday I hemmed and hawed all morning long about whether or not to attend an event that night. There were people I wanted to ... Read more

Passion with a Purpose

Passion with a Purpose

Greetings, Luminous One! And Happy Valentine's Day from sunny Florida - sending you much love, even in the midst of so much devas... Read more

Your Story Isn’t Over. You Can Still Fall Madly in Love with…

Your Story Isn’t Over. You Can Still Fall Madly in Love with Life

“Just as a woman falls madly in love with a man; just as a man falls madly in love with a woman, so can you fall madly in love w... Read more

Healing Affirmations for Body, Mind & Soul Repair

Healing Affirmations for Body, Mind & Soul Repair

Healing affirmations are positive statements that can be used to counter negative thoughts and feelings. Read more

What We Can And Cannot Control

What We Can And Cannot Control

Sometimes it takes a jolt to help us understand what we can and cannot control. As usual, I had to learn the hard way. ... Read more

Letters from Your Soul: For Those Walking through Darkness

Letters from Your Soul: For Those Walking through Darkness

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”~ Mart... Read more

Wild Child Meditation

Wild Child Meditation

The sun is flooding my office with winter light and Berty, our ginger cat lying at my feet, looks like a warm bowl of carrot soup.... Read more

What Makes Your Heart Sing?

What Makes Your Heart Sing?

Greetings, Luminous One! Our monthly themes have gone from Wonder in December to Inspiration in January ... Read more

How to Bring Back to Life the Dreams You Once Left Behind

How to Bring Back to Life the Dreams You Once Left Behind

What if I told you that the dreams you once left behind, those ‘silly’ hopes and aspirations – as the world used to call them – th... Read more

Why Hope Matters

Why Hope Matters

“I hope it’s sunny tomorrow.” “I hope I can get everything done by lunchtime.” “I hope my talk goes well and is helpful to the p... Read more

The Lessons Learned from Making Mistakes

The Lessons Learned from Making Mistakes

My dear friends, There’s an interesting aspect about being on a path towards self-improvement, we tend to try really hard to get ... Read more

A Little Bit Of Just The Right Thing

A Little Bit Of Just The Right Thing

I reached into our silverware drawer for a teaspoon and noticed that pretty much all of the forks, knives, and spoons looked tarni... Read more

Be The Inspiration

Be The Inspiration

Greetings, Luminous One! What is the ultimate purpose of Inspiration if not to be one for others? One might think that if we're ... Read more

Watch "A Message that will Change Your Life”

Watch "A Message that will Change Your Life”

Hello beautiful Earth people ! I just wanted to share with you this incredible compilation of love expressed. This video is guarante... Read more

Positive Affirmations For Anxiety

Positive Affirmations For Anxiety

Positive affirmations are statements that affirm a positive outlook, mindset, and behavior. When used regularly, they can help rep... Read more

Want To Be Creative? First, Be These Five Things

Want To Be Creative? First, Be These Five Things

Creativity allows us to shape what’s possible into something tangible. The thing is, “being creative” is less about the outcome an... Read more

Living Boldly

Living Boldly

Introduction Living boldly is about having the courage to take risks, follow our dreams, and make meaningful changes in our lives... Read more

What I Learned From This TikTok Trend

What I Learned From This TikTok Trend

My dear friends, This week I want to share something fun that I’ve been marinating in since the start of this year. Most of you k... Read more

Why I Love Cold Water

Why I Love Cold Water

The backyard looked like a scene right out of a children’s fairy-tale. Snow lined branches against a winter-gray sky, cardinals an... Read more

Voices Of Inspiration, Then And Now

Voices Of Inspiration, Then And Now

Greetings, Luminous One! I think if the over-50 population were asked to name 5 of the most Inspiring individ... Read more

Nurturing Inspiration

Nurturing Inspiration

Inspiration can seem like something that happens by magic. Read more

When Little Things Matter

When Little Things Matter

I was vacuuming near our Christmas tree when I bumped a branch and a pine needle punctured the tip of my thumb. Read more

Dream it!

Dream it!

Greetings, Luminous One! Feeling Inspired yet? As we learned during the Infinity Circle last Monday (recording below), the ... Read more

Sending A Wave Of Love

Sending A Wave Of Love

Here is an interesting experience you can try if you want. Send sincere love to the past, the present, and the future. This wave o... Read more

Self-Compassion May Make You More Tolerant of Others

Self-Compassion May Make You More Tolerant of Others

A new study finds that when you’re warm and accepting of yourself, those feelings may extend to other people, too. Read more

To Create Change - Switch Gears

To Create Change - Switch Gears

It can be hard to make a difference in the world when we’re feeling undervalued and squelched. We feel like we’re on th... Read more

One Habit I’m Resolving to Break in 2023

One Habit I’m Resolving to Break in 2023

Dear friends, If you’ve read the blog for some time, you know that I don’t really like to set resolutions in the new year; I ofte... Read more

Disconnected From The World Around Us

Disconnected From The World Around Us

So many people seem so disconnected from the world and those around them these days. Read more

An old New Year!

An old New Year!

The wind howled and the rain flew sideways battering the windows with its fury. The storm began in the early morning hours and by ... Read more

New Personal Version Of Reality!

New Personal Version Of Reality!

Happy New Year, New Cycle, and New personal version of reality! Master, emerge as the master! 2023. Cycles come and go and tha... Read more

Lost In the Mind of Thought

Lost In the Mind of Thought

So many of us spend so much time thinking, but never really getting much done Read more

6 Affirmations I’m Using in the New Year

6 Affirmations I’m Using in the New Year

Happy New Year, dear friends! I hope the start of 2023 has brought you a renewed feeling of optimism, hope, and peace. If not, I ... Read more

A Gentle, Loving New Year

A Gentle, Loving New Year

Stop and think deeply about this question. What would it mean to love yourself more in 2023? What would you like to change? Do mor... Read more

Lovingly Free in 2023

Lovingly Free in 2023

We are magnificent beings born into a world filled with adventure and pure potential. We awaken into this reality with a fresh, newb... Read more

Boxing Day 2022

Boxing Day 2022

Boxing day isn't observed in the US, but it's one of the better "holy days" of the year, when boxes with donations for the poor ar... Read more

Wonder & Peace To You

Wonder & Peace To You

Greetings, Luminous One! On this night of Peace, as the Sun gets ready to begin its travel towards fullness once again, I think i... Read more

Best Holiday Recipe? Let Life Lead.

Best Holiday Recipe? Let Life Lead.

Earlier this week, I was having a conversation with a client who asked how my holidays were going so far. I thought for a moment a... Read more

Why it’s Essential to Revise your Perception of the Past to …

Why it’s Essential to Revise your Perception of the Past to Nurture Your Inner Child

Revising our perception of the past is essential to healing the inner child. Otherwise, we inevitably reject the child’s wound and... Read more

How To Keep Things In Perspective

How To Keep Things In Perspective

Take a moment to stare at this image above…really take it in. Notice the colors, the countries, the clouds, and the vast amount o... Read more

4 Ways to Detoxify from Dysfunctional Relationships

4 Ways to Detoxify from Dysfunctional Relationships

Dear friends, As we near the end of 2022, it’s common to find ourselves in a major reflection period. So much has happened over t... Read more

Why Wonder?

Why Wonder?

Greetings, Luminous One! As I write this, our first snow is beginning to fall, which I always find a bit thrilling... something&n... Read more

Through The Eyes Of An Owl

Through The Eyes Of An Owl

Eyes like saucers, innocent and wise. Weightless and ready, just moments away from taking flight. Yesterday I had the privilege of... Read more

3 Lessons I Learned From Being Gaslit

3 Lessons I Learned From Being Gaslit

My dear friends, Last week, Merriam-Webster released their annual word of the year, and for 2022, it is gaslighting. Ac... Read more

Joy Above All Else

Joy Above All Else

This holiday season I would like to ask for a gift from you. I would like you to watch an extraordinarily inspiring movie, Mi... Read more

Will Wonders Never Cease?

Will Wonders Never Cease?

Greetings, Luminous One! Do you ever Wonder about how the Universe works? Read more

A Special Treat For You

A Special Treat For You

Last night our home was filled with howling laughter, catch-up conversations, Christmas carols, holiday gifts strewn across floors... Read more

15 Uplifting Affirmations for the Holiday Season

15 Uplifting Affirmations for the Holiday Season

My Dear friends, I know that we can all agree the holiday season brings up a wide array of emotions, and at times, it can feel ov... Read more

Holiday Advice From A Snow Queen

Holiday Advice From A Snow Queen

I shuffled down the hallway in my new holiday pajamas – a birthday gift from my sister Lisa. Fleece-lined and crazy soft, they hav... Read more

No Strings...

No Strings...

Greetings, Luminous One! I hope you had a warm, loving Thanksgiving. As you may know, I spent it with my husband in Portugal, en... Read more

The Process Of Gratitude

The Process Of Gratitude

The unending qualities of life constantly surround us with natural beauty of unbelievable proportions. The wind plays upon the waves... Read more

Eat What Ever You Desire And Have The Body You Desire

Eat What Ever You Desire And Have The Body You Desire

If you’re like most people, you probably think that in order to have the body you desire, you need to diet and exercise. However, ... Read more

Do You Want To Improve Your Life

Do You Want To Improve Your Life

Are you tired of feeling stuck in the same old rut, day in and day out? If you’re ready for a change, there are some things you ca... Read more

Remembering the Importance of Gratitude

Remembering the Importance of Gratitude

My dear friends, With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us here in the US, I wanted to send you all a helpful about the importance of... Read more

But I Believe It Because It Is True

But I Believe It Because It Is True

If you’re anything like me, then you’re probably a pretty skeptical person. Read more

An Exciting Thought About Reality

An Exciting Thought About Reality

There’s much more to reality than what we can see with our eyes. In fact, some scientists believe that what we perceive as “realit... Read more

Today I am grateful

Today I am grateful

This month I celebrate the memory of my dad who passed in 2016. When I sat down to write this week’s blog, I recalled a visit with... Read more

The Generosity of Making Amends

The Generosity of Making Amends

Greetings, Luminous One! For those of us in the US, this week we celebrate Thanksgiving, when we hearken back with... Read more

Allow Yourself Freedom From What Others Think About You (2)

Allow Yourself Freedom From What Others Think About You (2)

One of the most important things you can do in life is to give yourself freedom from what others think about you. It’s so easy to ... Read more

Allow Yourself Freedom From What Others Think About You

Allow Yourself Freedom From What Others Think About You

One of the most important things you can do in life is to give yourself freedom from what others think about you. It’s so easy to ... Read more

You Are Supposed To Feel Bad When You Are Out Of Alignment I…

You Are Supposed To Feel Bad When You Are Out Of Alignment It Is Guidance

When you’re out of alignment, it’s natural to feel bad. That’s because your higher self is trying to guide you back to the path of... Read more

8 Reminders For The Upcoming Holiday Season

8 Reminders For The Upcoming Holiday Season

Dear friends, As we officially begin the holiday season, I wanted to share some simple reminders to you if this time of year brin... Read more

Turning Apathy Into Action

Turning Apathy Into Action

We were two hours into my shift as a poll worker during last week’s midterm election when a young man dressed in black jeans and a... Read more

More Swirls in Your Sky

More Swirls in Your Sky

Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere are starting to gather blankets, wood for the fire, pumpkin pies, and TV series DVDs for the... Read more

Do You Know Your Astral Self?

Do You Know Your Astral Self?

About 6 months ago I broke up with my girlfriend. It was devastating. When it was over, I felt like the stars, moon, and planets h... Read more

For All The Women I Love

For All The Women I Love

I sat quietly in the small office with mint green walls and white trimmed windows, waiting for the class to start. Read more

Generosity of Spirit

Generosity of Spirit

Welcome to November, a month when we usually concentrate on Gratitude. This time, however, we're going to work with Gratitude in ... Read more

Bucketfuls of Angels

Bucketfuls of Angels

Hello to all of my friends all over the world. I ask God and all of the angels that you will enjoy this newsletter and that it wil... Read more

The Importance of Self-Reflection

The Importance of Self-Reflection

My dear friends, My birthday is this week, and in the spirit of celebration and starting a new chapter of life, I find myself fee... Read more

Venturing Beyond the Veil

Venturing Beyond the Veil

Greetings, Luminous One! Who says witches can't have a little fun?? In fact, they (the good witches) may be the most f... Read more

The Three Fisherman

The Three Fisherman

In light of the upcoming midterms, I thought I’d share a story I wrote during the last presidential election. With so much at stak... Read more

What Adventure Offers

What Adventure Offers

Greetings, Luminous One! As if on cue for our month focused on Adventure, this week my husband, Jim, received an incredible story... Read more

A Legacy Of Beauty

A Legacy Of Beauty

Autumn morning ritual: Wake, stretch, walk to window and behold. Read more

A Saint's Last Words

A Saint's Last Words

How do enlightened people live? Do they renounce the world, shed their clothing, and go off to meditate in a cave? Do they write t... Read more

Divine Intervention

Divine Intervention

I slipped out of the hotel room firmly pulling the door handle behind me to be sure it locked. My husband Michael was sound asleep... Read more

Time to Spread Your Wings!

Time to Spread Your Wings!

Greetings, Luminous One! It’s really true that sometimes we don’t know what we need until we feel the void of where it used to be... Read more

Letters from Your Soul: The Futility of Always Trying to Pro…

Letters from Your Soul: The Futility of Always Trying to Prove Yourself

“Run my dear, run as fast as you can from all those who try to make you believe you ought to prove yourself and your worth to th... Read more

Everybody Has Issues

Everybody Has Issues

… stop. That’s where far too many people do STOP with that. What a complete and utter cop-out that is. Read more

Good Examples of a Bad Example

Good Examples of a Bad Example

Many dysfunctional folks around. I’m going to talk here about some of them around me. It’s all men, for whom I will no longer cu... Read more

Over Thinking

Over Thinking

One of the biggest diseases of the mind and unhappiness is” over-thinking,” especially too much thinking about others: Read more

Have You Found Your Sweet Spot?

Have You Found Your Sweet Spot?

Each of us has a primary and secondary purpose. Read more

Give Me Some Space

Give Me Some Space

Yesterday, when I went downstairs to work out in our basement, I discovered that my husband Michael had moved a large piece of equ... Read more

When The Adventure Goes Wrong

When The Adventure Goes Wrong

Greetings, Luminous One! I'll be brief because we're in the last few days of our Southwest trip, which has certainly been filled ... Read more

6 Ways to Become Trustworthy

6 Ways to Become Trustworthy

My dear friends, The ability to cultivate and sustain trust is one of the most challenging and important part of relationships. Read more

A Quick And Easy Way To Calm Down

A Quick And Easy Way To Calm Down

This morning, as I sat down to write, I received an upsetting phone call that kicked my adrenal system into high gear. Read more

Speak Your Truth

Speak Your Truth

I find it amusing that some folks who know an awful lot, still can’t get some things… like the line in the title of this post. Read more

My Favorite Thing About Boundaries

My Favorite Thing About Boundaries

My dear friends, Here on the blog, we’ve often chatted about the topic of boundaries and why they are an important aspect of self... Read more

Diverse States Of Awareness, Brain Function And The Formatio…

Diverse States Of Awareness, Brain Function And The Formation Of Reality

“It’s really important to understand we’re not seeing reality,” says neuroscientist Patrick Cavanagh, a research professor at Dart... Read more

Follow The Slender Threads

Follow The Slender Threads

“It is an audacious notion to put forth in this age of science and willful determination that one’s existence is somehow inspire... Read more

A New Lesson I Learned About Grief

A New Lesson I Learned About Grief

My dear friends, If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that when I was 21-years-old, my dad unexpectedly passed ... Read more

How to Deep Dive into the Root Cause of Anger

How to Deep Dive into the Root Cause of Anger

You may get all fiery, red and hot when feeling angry. It may also be that you lash out at others when you start to feel mad. Read more

Have Your Own Back

Have Your Own Back

Sometimes we gain wisdom from the most unexpected places. Last week I had my buttons pushed when I stumbled upon an exchange on Fa... Read more

Remembering

Remembering

Every year one of our local farms plants a giant sunflower field that blossoms into hundreds of bright, beaming faces that bring s... Read more

How Grief Paves the Path to Peace

How Grief Paves the Path to Peace

Greetings, Luminous One! What a week it's been... It was noted in our Infinity Circle astrology that the Piscean Full Moon... Read more

Have You Been Wronged?

Have You Been Wronged?

When someone is going through deep pain. When they feel rejected, betrayed, abandoned, or wronged, suggesting for them to "forgive,"... Read more

5 Ways I’m Breaking Family Cycles

5 Ways I’m Breaking Family Cycles

My dear friends, Recently, I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues about the topic of ‘cycle breaking’. I hadn’t ac... Read more

You Are Happening To Life ~ A Practical Science

You Are Happening To Life ~ A Practical Science

The general perception held by most is that life is happening to them but should we change perspectives we will find that we are hap... Read more

The Courage To Reach Out

The Courage To Reach Out

As you may — or may not — know, I founded a consulting company last year. I now work as a life purpose consultant, helping people di... Read more

Inner Peace: Cultivating Stillness in the Storm

Inner Peace: Cultivating Stillness in the Storm

Greetings, Luminous One! Here we are in September when the waning days of summer are so incredibly bittersweet... Read more

The Making Of A Good Day

The Making Of A Good Day

I was enjoying a lazy afternoon strolling through the aisles of our local Marshalls department store looking for a set of bowls fo... Read more

Take What You Have and Make What You Want

Take What You Have and Make What You Want

As summer comes to an end, lots of us think about going back to work or school. When I was in high school I used to get depressed ... Read more

Why It’s So Important to Be at Ease With Discomfort

Why It’s So Important to Be at Ease With Discomfort

Being at ease with discomfort fulfills the need for safety, security and connection. Read more

What I Learned From Telling the Truth

What I Learned From Telling the Truth

My dear friends, In the past, if you had ever asked me if I considered myself an honest person, I would unequivocally answer yes.... Read more

Stop Gaslighting Yourself: Learn to Spot the 10 Signs

Stop Gaslighting Yourself: Learn to Spot the 10 Signs

Could you be gaslighting yourself and not know it? Read more

Look Up!

Look Up!

I was sitting on the deck writing this morning in a small corner still blanketed by shade when I looked up just in time to see two... Read more

5 Positive Affirmations for New Beginnings

5 Positive Affirmations for New Beginnings

For those of us in the US, we are saying goodbye to the Summer season and preparing for Fall. With this changing of the seasons co... Read more

Turning Disharmony Into Harmony

Turning Disharmony Into Harmony

To achieve inner harmony in today's chaotic world might be the most important thing we can do for our soul's hygiene because, as w... Read more

The Last Lazy Days Of Summer

The Last Lazy Days Of Summer

“Good morning,” said the sun with its splash of golden light on the sturdy spine of the oak tree outside my bedroom window. Read more

My Favorite Practice for Connecting with Myself

My Favorite Practice for Connecting with Myself

Dear friends, I know these times have been confusing, chaotic, and uncertain. Life has those elements anyways, but experiencing i... Read more

Here’s What To Expect

Here’s What To Expect

This week I had an opportunity to visit the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) – the office where you get your driver’s license rene... Read more

10 Tips for Conscious Reparenting of Your Inner Child

10 Tips for Conscious Reparenting of Your Inner Child

Do you often wish that you had received adequate love, guidance, support from your mum or dad when you were young? It could be th... Read more

Breaking This Pattern Changed My Relationships

Breaking This Pattern Changed My Relationships

Dear friends, If you were to ask me what I think one of life’s biggest lessons is, I would without hesitation say, relationships.... Read more

Telling Stories

Telling Stories

While on vacation, I’m sharing a favorite memory – a blog I wrote about our cat, Poupon, when we were lucky enough to still have h... Read more

Harmonizing with the Heavens

Harmonizing with the Heavens

Greetings, Luminous One! As you probably know, we're in the midst of what's known as the Lion's Gate portal, which happens every ... Read more

The Catnip Caper

The Catnip Caper

In the morning when I come downstairs I let our cats, Wednesday and Berty, out of their room as I get ready to feed them. Rather t... Read more

The Vibration of Harmony

The Vibration of Harmony

Greetings, Luminous One! Even though it's the last day of July, I just couldn't wait another minute to introduce August's theme o... Read more

When They Go Low, You Go High

When They Go Low, You Go High

Relationships provide us with our greatest opportunities for spiritual growth. Some relationships bless us with love and joy... Read more

Six Strategies For Getting Beyond Creative Blocks

Six Strategies For Getting Beyond Creative Blocks

Unlocking your creative potential starts with setting up your environment and cultivating the right attitude. My coaching cli... Read more

Acceptance And Release Go Hand-In-Hand

Acceptance And Release Go Hand-In-Hand

Greetings, Luminous One! Wherever you are right now, you may be experiencing high temperatures like I am. All around me, people a... Read more

Bring On The Discomfort!

Bring On The Discomfort!

It was 6:30am when the early light hit my eyes and I woke to another dog day of summer destined to reach 100 degrees. Challenging ... Read more

3 Ways That Being Kind Can Slow Ageing

3 Ways That Being Kind Can Slow Ageing

At first it might sound a bit ‘out there’ to say that being kind to people might affect how fast you age but hear me out. It’s al... Read more

You Are Happening To Life - A Practical Science

You Are Happening To Life - A Practical Science

The general perception held by most is that life is happening to them but should we change perspectives we will find that we are hap... Read more

10 Automatic Negative Thoughts that You Need to Let Go of

10 Automatic Negative Thoughts that You Need to Let Go of

Do you find yourself having negative thoughts that run on auto-pilot? Read more

Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are?

I’m going through old blogs and came across one I wrote in 2010 after Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for “The Blind Side” and then d... Read more

Does A Placebo Work If You Know It’s A Placebo?

Does A Placebo Work If You Know It’s A Placebo?

The surprising answer to that question is yes … a lot of the time. Knowing full well that what they were taking were placebos ins... Read more

Acceptance Creates Flow

Acceptance Creates Flow

Greetings, Luminous One! I hope your summer is going well so far! Here in New England, it's been gorgeous, and after hearin... Read more

What Were You Thinking?

What Were You Thinking?

I’ve been making myself crazy since yesterday looking for a custom color palette my friend Ginger designed for me back in late May... Read more

Can Violent Computer Games Make You Violent?

Can Violent Computer Games Make You Violent?

I don’t play computer games much these days. I played for endless hours when I was a teenager, though. It was at the time w... Read more

To The Women I Love

To The Women I Love

Twenty years ago, after giving a keynote speech about self-care to several thousand women in Houston, Texas, I stood in line signi... Read more

My Experience Of Bullying

My Experience Of Bullying

I was bullied at school, although not until my sixth and final year of high school. It wasn’t physically violent, but more psycho... Read more

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

It wasn’t just a few things that happened all at once. It was many things. Email went down. Read more

Watch Your Thoughts They Are Energy

Watch Your Thoughts They Are Energy

Watch your thoughts, they are energy and they become words, Do your best to think only good ones, say only good words, positive... Read more

6 Simple Tools I Use to Manage Frustration

6 Simple Tools I Use to Manage Frustration

Dear friends, I don’t know if this resonates with all of you (I mean, I hope it does), but these past few months have felt intens... Read more

The Culmination Of A Career

The Culmination Of A Career

From the moment the thump, thump, thump of the background music started, I could feel a stirring in my stomach. As the beat grew s... Read more

Prayer

Prayer

“I don’t need science to tell me if prayer works.” This is what a friend once said to me. It’s a fair point, and I agree. F... Read more

A Bucket Of Love

A Bucket Of Love

Hello and welcome to everyone and I hope you enjoy this newsletter today as I write the sun is shining. As many of you know I'm re... Read more

A Daily Dose Of Inspiration At Hand

A Daily Dose Of Inspiration At Hand

My friend Mary is visiting from London this week and while driving in the car yesterday, she reminded me of a YouTube video I shar... Read more

The Amazing Power Of Observation

The Amazing Power Of Observation

Scientists at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia once asked a bunch of volunteers to stretch an elastic band between two f... Read more

Conjuring Grace

Conjuring Grace

Greetings, Luminous One! And welcome to the lovely month of June. It’s one of my favorite months because of the abundance of flow... Read more

A Simple Practice To Boost Confidence And Self Esteem

A Simple Practice To Boost Confidence And Self Esteem

We all wear our emotions on our body. You smile when you’re happy, frown when you’re sad, and tense your shoulders when you’re st... Read more

Which Door Will You Choose?

Which Door Will You Choose?

For more than two years I’ve glanced at an armoire in my office and thought to myself, I have got to clean that thing out. Read more

Faith When Nothing Makes Sense

Faith When Nothing Makes Sense

Greetings, Luminous One! I have to admit that I'm almost at a loss for words... please bear with me as I stumble through this. T... Read more

Don’t Give Up

Don’t Give Up

Last week, after the tragic shooting in Texas, I posted something from Moms Demand Action on my Instagram account, inviting follow... Read more

Focusing on Ourselves Is Critical!

Focusing on Ourselves Is Critical!

Nurturing one’s self is so essential. Change can only happen when we focus on the nurturing of ourselves. Often our focus is based o... Read more

Body Image

Body Image

Yah, I’ll have a decaf extra skinny mocha choca latte please. My waist will be smaller to accentuate my double Ds!. Read more

5 Affirmations for Summertime Self-Love

5 Affirmations for Summertime Self-Love

My dear friends, With the rising temperatures and changing schedules, the summer season is upon us. I always loved summertime as ... Read more

It's Time To Make A Change

It's Time To Make A Change

Summer has arrived in spring and it’s expected to soar past ninety degrees again today. As I walked around the newly planted deck ... Read more

How To Use Visualization For Wellness

How To Use Visualization For Wellness

Turn illness into wellness in your imagination! That’s the basic premise for using visualization for wellness. Read more

You Are Reality. There Is No Reality Without You

You Are Reality. There Is No Reality Without You

The world, your experienced reality, and indeed everything and anyone is only a mirror. Mirrors are neutral. They will reflect any... Read more

5 Green Flags in Relationships

5 Green Flags in Relationships

My dear friends, So often we talk about red flags, things to look out for, signs that someone might not be who they say they are,... Read more

Homecoming and the Super Flower Blood Moon

Homecoming and the Super Flower Blood Moon

This is the time of year when the birds are full of song, the turkeys are doing their mating dance in the backyard, and the wind c... Read more

Faith in YOU ❤

Faith in YOU ❤

Greetings, Luminous One and Happy Eclipse! If you remember from May’s Infinity Circle, one of the most important astrol... Read more

Kindness, Laughter, And A Fond Farewell To A Dear Friend

Kindness, Laughter, And A Fond Farewell To A Dear Friend

A dear friend of mine passed away recently. Margaret McCathie was one of the kindest people I have ever known in my life. In some... Read more

The Birth Of Something Good

The Birth Of Something Good

All week long I’ve felt the rumblings of anxiety in my system. As hard as it is sometimes, I welcome it in. I want to be a safe pl... Read more

Happy Mother's Day 2022

Happy Mother's Day 2022

A Happy Mother's Day to all mothers around the world who read this! Today we honor all those who nurture, with a special focus on ... Read more

Is Consciousness Inside Your Head Or Is The World Inside Con…

Is Consciousness Inside Your Head Or Is The World Inside Consciousness?

Have you ever been in love? Do you recall what it feels like? What about the experience of joy? What was that like? I’m guessing y... Read more

5 Reminders to Help You Manage Your Judgment

5 Reminders to Help You Manage Your Judgment

Hi dear friends, For many years I’ve been in a self-study of sorts on the topic of judgment. Long ago, a teacher of mine tasked m... Read more

You Are Beautiful

You Are Beautiful

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Happy Global Love Day 2022

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An Exercise To Counter Self-Criticism

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How I Learned to Belong

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Do You Have Mental Superpowers?

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4 Reminders When Managing Grief

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What Does The Greeting of 'Love and Light' Really Mean?

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70 Inspiring Karma Quotes to Motivate You to Live Your Best …

70 Inspiring Karma Quotes to Motivate You to Live Your Best Life

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Fake Social Media Profiles

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How to Use Your Dreams for Guidance

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Reality - The Paradox Of Self-Discovery Through Utter Nonsense

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Feeling Strong?

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Holding Hands

Holding Hands

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Are You in Relationship with the Person or Their Potential?

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Countering With Kindness

Countering With Kindness

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5 Reminders When Cultivating Confidence

5 Reminders When Cultivating Confidence

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The University of Mother Nature

The University of Mother Nature

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Remember To Be Kind To Yourself

Remember To Be Kind To Yourself

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Why A Positive Attitude Can Help You Live Longer

Why A Positive Attitude Can Help You Live Longer

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A Reminder That You’re Worthy

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Ready To Retrain Your Brain?

Ready To Retrain Your Brain?

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Telesomatic Events

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How I Manage Unnecessary Stress

How I Manage Unnecessary Stress

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4 Quick Ways To Calm Yourself Down

4 Quick Ways To Calm Yourself Down

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Forgiving Yourself Restores Your Future Potential

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Why Time Speeds Up As You Age

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Find Certainty In Uncertain Times

Find Certainty In Uncertain Times

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15 Signs You’re Spiritual Warrior

15 Signs You’re Spiritual Warrior

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Your Vulnerability Decreases As Your Wisdom Increases

Your Vulnerability Decreases As Your Wisdom Increases

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What Outdated Habit Will You Begin Changing Today?

What Outdated Habit Will You Begin Changing Today?

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The Science of Focused Dissatisfaction

The Science of Focused Dissatisfaction

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5 Reminders for When You Feel Overwhelmed

5 Reminders for When You Feel Overwhelmed

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Radiate The Energy You Want To See In The World

Radiate The Energy You Want To See In The World

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The Healing Power of Moral Treatment

The Healing Power of Moral Treatment

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Transcending Ego-Consciousness

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8 Tips To Manage Anxiety

8 Tips To Manage Anxiety

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Stay Out Of The Storm

Stay Out Of The Storm

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The Fine Line Between Being Positive And Hiding Fear

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5 Beautiful Ways to Cultivate Gratitude and Foster Genuine J…

5 Beautiful Ways to Cultivate Gratitude and Foster Genuine Joy

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Things to Remember When Practicing Forgiveness

Things to Remember When Practicing Forgiveness

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Facts Can’t Fix The Brainwashing - But THIS Will!

Facts Can’t Fix The Brainwashing - But THIS Will!

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Tiny Anchors

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Realizing the Nature of Our Beliefs

Realizing the Nature of Our Beliefs

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5 Things To Remember When Life Isn’t Where You Want It To Be

5 Things To Remember When Life Isn’t Where You Want It To Be

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How Kindness Impacts The Brain And Benefits Mental Health

How Kindness Impacts The Brain And Benefits Mental Health

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Step #1 In Discovering Your True Life Purpose

Step #1 In Discovering Your True Life Purpose

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It’s About Love

It’s About Love

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Slowing Down The Speed Of Life

Slowing Down The Speed Of Life

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4 Ways to Redefine Purpose in Your Life

4 Ways to Redefine Purpose in Your Life

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Everything Has A Purpose

Everything Has A Purpose

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When You Just Feel Like Escaping The Game Of Life (reality)

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The Gentle Unfoldment Of Wings

The Gentle Unfoldment Of Wings

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Expanding the Energy of Our Heart

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6 Things I’m Not Apologizing for in 2022

6 Things I’m Not Apologizing for in 2022

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Expanding Awareness through Intuitive Guidance

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How Your Beliefs Influence Your Life

How Your Beliefs Influence Your Life

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Is Your Attention Being Hijacked?

Is Your Attention Being Hijacked?

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Overcoming Self-Doubt: 7 Easy Things You Can Do to Overcome …

Overcoming Self-Doubt: 7 Easy Things You Can Do to Overcome Self-Doubt

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The Science Of Affirmations

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Your Ideal Self: 10 Powerful Ways to Align Yourself with You…

Your Ideal Self: 10 Powerful Ways to Align Yourself with Your Ideal Self

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Encouragement

Encouragement

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5 Reminders to Not Take Things Personally

5 Reminders to Not Take Things Personally

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A Path to Inner Realization

A Path to Inner Realization

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The Placebo Effect

The Placebo Effect

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Are You Ready To Take The Plunge?

Are You Ready To Take The Plunge?

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You Are Not Your Thoughts

You Are Not Your Thoughts

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Being Aware of Being Aware

Being Aware of Being Aware

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Gratitude Not Working For You?

Gratitude Not Working For You?

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We Treat Our Lives As If Our Experiences Are Random

We Treat Our Lives As If Our Experiences Are Random

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Creating Our Energetic Presence

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When The Mind Ruins A Good Fantasy

When The Mind Ruins A Good Fantasy

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The Presence of One

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5 Habits I’m Releasing in 2022

5 Habits I’m Releasing in 2022

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How To Deflect Negative Emotion

How To Deflect Negative Emotion

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Choosing Our Experiential Reality

Choosing Our Experiential Reality

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How I Set My New Year Intention

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How To Deal With Narcissistic Personality Types

How To Deal With Narcissistic Personality Types

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Let’s Stay Together

Let’s Stay Together

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Survival Of The Kindest

Survival Of The Kindest

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Being You in 2022

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Get Your Ticket!

Get Your Ticket!

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Something About Sundays

Something About Sundays

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10 Ways to Make Someone’s Day

10 Ways to Make Someone’s Day

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My 3-Part Year End Ritual

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This Holiday Season: 9 Valuable Things You Should Remember

This Holiday Season: 9 Valuable Things You Should Remember

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A Welcomed Surprise

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Boxing Day 2021

Boxing Day 2021

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Perception Choices And The Space-Time Continuum

Perception Choices And The Space-Time Continuum

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15 Affirmations for the Holiday Season

15 Affirmations for the Holiday Season

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5 Tips for Not Taking Things Personally

5 Tips for Not Taking Things Personally

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A Definition of Unconditional Love

A Definition of Unconditional Love

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The Art Of Making Moments..

The Art Of Making Moments..

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The Light of Hope and the Future

The Light of Hope and the Future

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5 Reminders for Managing Overwhelm

5 Reminders for Managing Overwhelm

My dear friends, Now that we are fully into the holiday season, it’s easy and oh so common to feel the mounting pressure that thi... Read more

Entering The Stillness!

Entering The Stillness!

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The Technology Of Mind - And The Science Of The Season

The Technology Of Mind - And The Science Of The Season

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Turning Disappointment Into Delight

Turning Disappointment Into Delight

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Unconditional Joy

Unconditional Joy

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How Gratitude Can Help In Turbulent Times

How Gratitude Can Help In Turbulent Times

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Reminder: It’s Important to Take Breaks

Reminder: It’s Important to Take Breaks

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Create in the Image of Love

Create in the Image of Love

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Holiday Happiness

Holiday Happiness

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How to Reframe Loneliness

How to Reframe Loneliness

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A Few Of My Favorite Things

A Few Of My Favorite Things

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Breaking Character

Breaking Character

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Gratitude For The One Who Is Always With You

Gratitude For The One Who Is Always With You

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Learning to Notice Red Flags

Learning to Notice Red Flags

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Kindfulness

Kindfulness

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The Difference Between Longevity And Timelessness

The Difference Between Longevity And Timelessness

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In Praise Of Kindness And Ordinary Days

In Praise Of Kindness And Ordinary Days

The midday sun is casting light beams over my living room as I sit at my computer tapping life into this blog. The last golden lea... Read more

Take The Wild Creative Ride

Take The Wild Creative Ride

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5 Reminders When Faced With Difficulty

5 Reminders When Faced With Difficulty

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Everything That You Are Doing Is Working

Everything That You Are Doing Is Working

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Navigating Grief And Loss In Complex Times

Navigating Grief And Loss In Complex Times

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What Challenges Us Makes Us Stronger

What Challenges Us Makes Us Stronger

The wind was howling and the rain blew sideways like sheets of frosty glass that made it hard to see beyond the windshield. We wer... Read more

5 Affirmations for Combating Negative Thinking

5 Affirmations for Combating Negative Thinking

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The Mystery and Magic of Midlife

The Mystery and Magic of Midlife

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How Your Perception Creates Your Reality

How Your Perception Creates Your Reality

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5 Reminders for Managing Judgment

5 Reminders for Managing Judgment

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The Joys Of Sisterhood

The Joys Of Sisterhood

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Living Joyful Lives

Living Joyful Lives

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Simply Respond To What’s Unfolding Before You

Simply Respond To What’s Unfolding Before You

As we transition into autumn in the Northeast, the trees are slowly starting to show how beautiful letting go can be. One of the m... Read more

Tiers

Tiers

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Keep Going No Matter How Tough Life Might Get

Keep Going No Matter How Tough Life Might Get

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7 Ways to Manage Fear

7 Ways to Manage Fear

Hi my friends, This week I want to share some thoughts I have on the topic of fear. Fear comes up in many conversations lately, w... Read more

Time For A Change

Time For A Change

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Becoming A Professional Lounger

Becoming A Professional Lounger

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Embracing The Days When Nothing Matters

Embracing The Days When Nothing Matters

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Guardrails, The Self-Care Secret That Works

Guardrails, The Self-Care Secret That Works

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My 6 Tips for Practicing Discernment

My 6 Tips for Practicing Discernment

Hi my friends, I believe deeply in the importance of truth. There’s so much going on in our lives, in our minds, and on our... Read more

5 Ways to Tap Into Your Purpose

5 Ways to Tap Into Your Purpose

Hi my friends, I want to take this week to do a little part two, of last week’s blog about purpose! I received so many notes and ... Read more

NOW Is The Time For Whatever Action You May Choose In The Mo…

NOW Is The Time For Whatever Action You May Choose In The Moment!

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What If This Is What It’s All About?

What If This Is What It’s All About?

Last night, I sat on our veranda staring at the late summer flowers in our garden when a hummingbird arrived at the feeder. I’ve b... Read more

Time To Eliminate - Change The Way You Labor

Time To Eliminate - Change The Way You Labor

Time to Eliminate. It’s time to take a review of things, projects, people, and old business or career models and eliminate what no ... Read more

Kindness Is The Opposite Of Stress

Kindness Is The Opposite Of Stress

I often ask audiences the question, “What is the opposite of stress?” Most people offer that it’s “peace” or “calm” or “tranquilli... Read more

Handling The Big Stuff

Handling The Big Stuff

In the morning when I come downstairs I let our cats, Wednesday and Berty, out of their room as I get ready to feed them. Rather t... Read more

4 Powerful Ways Purpose Shows Up in My Life

4 Powerful Ways Purpose Shows Up in My Life

My dear friends, The concept of purpose has always been an important part of my life and my evolution. I’ve always put the concep... Read more

10 Essential Tips For Hacking Your Life And Making It Intern…

10 Essential Tips For Hacking Your Life And Making It Internally Bigger

Commitment to self Allow yourself to see your vulnerabilities Establish a mind focus practice (walking or stationary meditation ... Read more

You May Think That It Doesn't Matter - The Land Upon Which Y…

You May Think That It Doesn't Matter - The Land Upon Which You Dream Your Reality

Does the land/space matter where you dream reality? The governing of the land mass and its various divisions of space/land ter... Read more

How Childhood Emotional Neglect Affects Our Mental Health

How Childhood Emotional Neglect Affects Our Mental Health

We tend to pay little regard to any form of emotional neglect that we’ve experienced as a child. After all, it is not as if that w... Read more

6 Powerful Ways to Forgive Yourself Even When You Think You …

6 Powerful Ways to Forgive Yourself Even When You Think You Can’t

If you find it hard to forgive yourself for the mistakes of the past and all the things you think you have done wrong, I want you ... Read more

Keep Your Eye On the Target

Keep Your Eye On the Target

Lots of wild things are happening around us now. The Delta variant keeps Covid a factor in our lives. Major fires are burning, sen... Read more

Are You Here?

Are You Here?

After more than a year of meditating every day, I’m still amazed at how often I’m somewhere else rather than where I am at any giv... Read more

In This Moment You Are Shaping Your Tomorrow And Next Week!

In This Moment You Are Shaping Your Tomorrow And Next Week!

Believe it or not you are in charge of how each day unfolds specifically for you. In this moment you are creating tomorrow and next... Read more

5 Lessons I’ve Learned From Ended Friendships

5 Lessons I’ve Learned From Ended Friendships

My dear friends, I want to talk today about some thoughts I have about the ending of friendships. I’ve always felt so conflicted ... Read more

Higher States Of Consciousness, What Does This Mean?

Higher States Of Consciousness, What Does This Mean?

Higher states of consciousness involves gradual shifts beyond thoughts and reactions that are the true anchors to lower frequency fi... Read more

How Grief Shows Up in My Life

How Grief Shows Up in My Life

Hi my friends, If you’ve been reading the blog for a period of time, you know that my dad unexpectedly passed away 14 years ago. ... Read more

My One Favorite Practice for Clarity and Self-Discovery

My One Favorite Practice for Clarity and Self-Discovery

Hi my friends, Lately, in conversations with friends, I’ve found myself commenting often about the passage of time, and how elusi... Read more

5 Ways to Say No

5 Ways to Say No

Hi my friends, I’m really excited to talk about this topic today! The recovering people pleaser that lives in me knows how deeply... Read more

Don’t Let Your Thoughts Disturb You

Don’t Let Your Thoughts Disturb You

I have a small chalkboard hanging on a wall in my kitchen with the words, “Calm Inner State,” printed in bold, decorative letters ... Read more

5 Tips on How to Process Judgment

5 Tips on How to Process Judgment

Hi my Friends, For many years I’ve been in a self-study of sorts on the topic of judgment. Long ago, a teacher of mine tasked me ... Read more

Do You Truly Believe That You Control Your Own Fate?

Do You Truly Believe That You Control Your Own Fate?

Or is this just mental lip service? What does it really mean to control your fate? This is the question that one should ask Becau... Read more

The Little Voice Inside

The Little Voice Inside

My friend Melissa reminded me that the Perseid meteor shower peaks this week on August 12th and 13th in the northern hemisphere so... Read more

Feed Yourself Well

Feed Yourself Well

She was encouraging and optimistic during our first meeting. Not at all what I expected knowing that Alia, my new nutrition c... Read more

You Can Always Ask For Help

You Can Always Ask For Help

I hope you enjoy my newsletter wherever you may be in the world. I hope you are all well and life has not been too hard, and you h... Read more

Interrupting the Interruptions

Interrupting the Interruptions

Interruptions are diverse and specific according to what we wish to avoid or delay Interruptions are a partner to procrastination ... Read more

7 Tips For Dealing with Difficult People

7 Tips For Dealing with Difficult People

Hi my friends, Sending you all so much love in this new week! I am most often asked about how to manage relationships, particula... Read more

Meet Your Inner Saboteurs

Meet Your Inner Saboteurs

After more than a year of waiting and wondering, we’re launching registration for our next Self Care by the Sea retreat this week ... Read more

5 Things to Remember When Going Through a Difficult Time In …

5 Things to Remember When Going Through a Difficult Time In Life

Hi my friends, Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about life, and just how little we can truly predict and control. Each new day is ... Read more

5 Biggest Life Lessons From The Past 5 Years

5 Biggest Life Lessons From The Past 5 Years

Hi my friends, I was recently reflecting on this past season of my life, and all of the things I’ve learned, particularly over th... Read more

The Twists And Turns Of Growth And Change

The Twists And Turns Of Growth And Change

I stepped off the scale and stared at the lever pointing to the numbers reflecting my new weight. How long have I dreamt about thi... Read more

You Only Win If You’re Not Trying To Win

You Only Win If You’re Not Trying To Win

This apparent paradox is inherent to life. It’s built into the side effects of kindness. You only gain (in terms of mental and phy... Read more

The Supreme Art Of War Is To Subdue The Enemy Without Fighti…

The Supreme Art Of War Is To Subdue The Enemy Without Fighting

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy... Read more

Grace Under Pressure

Grace Under Pressure

Last week I shared my success with losing weight and improving my health and several people emailed to ask for more details that m... Read more

What Will You Do with Your Life Now?

What Will You Do with Your Life Now?

As the pandemic recedes, we are all looking forward to reclaiming something like the life we once knew. But could one of the purpo... Read more

The Drama Of Your Dream World Is Seductive - Waking Up

The Drama Of Your Dream World Is Seductive - Waking Up

“The drama of your dreamworld is so seductive” Recently while watching the series Treadstone the following lines between the two ch... Read more

When Hard Work Works

When Hard Work Works

This week I celebrated a milestone. In February, after enlisting the part of me that loves a good challenge, I decided to use what... Read more

2 Reminders When Learning to Forgive

2 Reminders When Learning to Forgive

Hi my friends, I want to share some insights and thoughts that I’ve been having lately when it comes to the topic of forgiveness.... Read more

The Healing Power Of Nature

The Healing Power Of Nature

Our species, Homo sapiens, branched off from other species around 260,000 years ago and lived their lives in Africa’s tropica... Read more

Embracing Your Current Position In The Human Race

Embracing Your Current Position In The Human Race

What’s your position at this time in the human race? More than likely we will state that we are not in a race; however the human ex... Read more

3 Reminders to Overcome Indecision

3 Reminders to Overcome Indecision

Hi my dear friends, In this moment, as I write this, I’m vividly remembering so many times in my life where I was fraught was ind... Read more

Feline Self-Care Wisdom

Feline Self-Care Wisdom

It’s a hot, steamy day here in the Northeast and I snuck out early to get a hike in before the humidity threatened to melt my moti... Read more

You Are Precious And I Love You

You Are Precious And I Love You

Hello everyone and welcome. I hope this newsletter will touch your heart. It’s a sad one for me, to write about suicide. It can a... Read more

The Mind Is Always On The Job!

The Mind Is Always On The Job!

Happy Monday! Today presents another opportunity to notice all of the unimportant thoughts that float through the mind, one after ... Read more

My Guardian Angel

My Guardian Angel

It was early morning and the sun cast rays of light against the wall in my office. I sat down on my favorite chair and signaled fo... Read more

It’s Ok To Feel Blank From Time To Time

It’s Ok To Feel Blank From Time To Time

We are faced with so many protocols and expectations about how to “be” in our lives; always faced with needing to reflect ac... Read more

Who Is The Scheduler Of Your Life's Journey- Is It Really Ti…

Who Is The Scheduler Of Your Life's Journey- Is It Really Time?

Who created the schedule for your life’s’ journey? Is it really in the hands of time? This is a question that should be asked and... Read more

4 Hard Truths About Relationships

4 Hard Truths About Relationships

Hi my friends, Sending you all so much love on the start of a new week. Over the past year, I’ve reflected a lot on relationship... Read more

Becoming A Teenager Again

Becoming A Teenager Again

For the last week, I’ve been feeling impatient and irritable. Slogging through tourist traffic near our home makes me want to scre... Read more

The Overwhelm Of Finding Your Place In This Sea Of Informati…

The Overwhelm Of Finding Your Place In This Sea Of Information

Many will at some time in their life face a questioning of their purpose, their point of being. Some may feel the pressure of nee... Read more

What Good Shall I Do This Day?

What Good Shall I Do This Day?

Yesterday, with some exceptions, Massachusetts lifted the last restrictions on wearing masks and limiting people in public venues ... Read more

5 Practices for Not Taking Things Personally

5 Practices for Not Taking Things Personally

Hello my friends! This week I wanted to share some insights I’ve been having about the topic of taking things personally. Learni... Read more

A New Practice Called Mindlessness

A New Practice Called Mindlessness

It was warm, 75 degrees, and rather humid for a spring day. I stood at the shoreline ready to take a plunge with my friend Libby, ... Read more

5 Affirmations for Managing Post-Pandemic Anxiety

5 Affirmations for Managing Post-Pandemic Anxiety

Hi my dear friends! I wanted to do a follow-up after last week’s blog, as I received a lot of feedback and affirmation that many ... Read more

Living Your Life as the Exception to the Rule

Living Your Life as the Exception to the Rule

Achieving the Impossible!! Here is the thing: I live my life as an exception to many rules. I should not have been a multimillio... Read more

Allow Yourself To Receive!

Allow Yourself To Receive!

Choose to know you are good enough for the Life you want and the state of Being you want to embody! If good can be for others, it c... Read more

Emerging From Hibernation

Emerging From Hibernation

I’m staring out the window at a million shades of green – chartreuse, lime, moss, and jade. As I shift my gaze from left to right,... Read more

Inspired Action Follows Desire

Inspired Action Follows Desire

THE DESIRE means IT IS DONE. Inspired action follows desire. Deeper beliefs shape how the inspired action of the desire is a... Read more

5 Tips for Managing Post-Pandemic Anxiety

5 Tips for Managing Post-Pandemic Anxiety

Hi my sweet friends! I want to talk about some things that have been coming up for me lately, especially as we start to move into... Read more

Mother Wisdom From The Wild

Mother Wisdom From The Wild

She’s back. Like an elegant Queen, she sits quietly on her throne, undisturbed by the world around her. She’s strong, determined, ... Read more

Happy Mother's Day 2021

Happy Mother's Day 2021

A Happy Mother's Day to all mothers around the world who read this! Today we honor all those who nurture, with a special focus... Read more

5 Tips to Take Your Power Back

5 Tips to Take Your Power Back

Hi my dear friends, There is so much of life that can make us feel powerless or out of control. I think this is the nature and ul... Read more

A Ring of Fire

A Ring of Fire

Finally free of the gusty winds that haunted us for most of the day, the night turned calm and cool. As the sun made its descent, ... Read more

Happy Global Love Day - Celebrating Our Humanity

Happy Global Love Day - Celebrating Our Humanity

Welcome Dear Friends to Global Love Day 2021, All around our precious earth, we are hearing and responding to the inner call o... Read more

11 Ways Meditation Has Changed My Life

11 Ways Meditation Has Changed My Life

Hi my dear friends, It’s hard to believe, but May is just around the corner. If you didn’t know, May is Mental Health Awareness m... Read more

Tethered To The Sweetness Of Life

Tethered To The Sweetness Of Life

Earlier in the week, while on my way to the grocery store (my big outing these days), I saw an elderly gentleman I haven’t seen si... Read more

2 Experiences that Damaged My Body Image (and How I Bounced …

2 Experiences that Damaged My Body Image (and How I Bounced Back)

Hi my friends, I want to talk about a topic that has been on my heart lately, especially as we begin to move out of this pandemic... Read more

Priorities For The Wisdom Years

Priorities For The Wisdom Years

The sun is shining bright this morning, an unexpected gift after two days of strong winds and driving rain. It was supposed to rem... Read more

Once Its No Longer OK

Once Its No Longer OK

Once we decide that certain experiences in our life “is not ok”, then we must take the necessary steps to change it, and that... Read more

Self-Love Healing: 7 Signs that Your Inner Child Needs Help

Self-Love Healing: 7 Signs that Your Inner Child Needs Help

How to recognise that you need self-love healing to address the needs of your inner child? Or if your current struggles are conne... Read more

Let’s Talk About Rage

Let’s Talk About Rage

Hi my dear friends, I want to talk about a topic this week that has been on my mind for quite some time. Undoubtedly, this past y... Read more

I Hope Something Good Happens To You Today

I Hope Something Good Happens To You Today

There are some days when I feel a sincere sense of weariness at the state of our world and I just want to find a small island in t... Read more

Today Doesn't Have To Be Yesterday

Today Doesn't Have To Be Yesterday

End the looping! Today doesn't have to be yesterday, however we tend to keep looping familiar patterns, happy or sad, comfo... Read more

8 Tips for Managing Anxiety

8 Tips for Managing Anxiety

Hello my dear friends, In this week’s blog, I hope to help you to feel less alone and realize that whatever you’re feeling during... Read more

The Signals Of Spring

The Signals Of Spring

It was 7am when I stood on the back deck breaking up ice in the birdbath so I could refill it with fresh water for the little crea... Read more

Permission To Rest

Permission To Rest

Drizzling rain and blustery wind are making their presence known beyond my bedroom window. I left it open last night and this morn... Read more

No One Fails At Life...

No One Fails At Life...

But rather we live life by unrealized terms and conditions we feel bound by! The idea that no one fails at life is not a co... Read more

5 Ways to Make Reading for Inspiration a Part of Your Life

5 Ways to Make Reading for Inspiration a Part of Your Life

Hi my dear friends, I spent this past weekend reflecting on my favorite books. The books that inspire and nourish me to be the gr... Read more

How To Stop Redecorating Hell

How To Stop Redecorating Hell

I’m taking this weekend off and sharing a story inspired by my friend, Louise Hay, back when we were working on our book, Y... Read more

What a Wonderful Day

What a Wonderful Day

Hello and welcome, wherever you may be in the world, I hope you know that your Guardian Angel has its arms wrapped around you just... Read more

Finding Freedom with This One Truth About Relationships

Finding Freedom with This One Truth About Relationships

Hi my dear friends, This may be surprising, but I’ve never considered myself someone who is “good” at relationships. Throughout m... Read more

What The Royal Tribe Has To Teach Us

What The Royal Tribe Has To Teach Us

Last week I watched the interview Oprah Winfrey conducted with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. I hadn’t intended to see it, but wh... Read more

What I’ve Learned This Past Year

What I’ve Learned This Past Year

My dear friends, I’ve been reflecting lately, even more than usual, as we reach this very poignant moment in time: one year... Read more

Utilize The Intelligence Of The Heart-Mind

Utilize The Intelligence Of The Heart-Mind

Since 1991, the Institute of Heartmath located in Boulder Creek, Colorado, has been studying the power and influence of the human ... Read more

The Exquisite Beauty Of Ordinary Things

The Exquisite Beauty Of Ordinary Things

I just finished a zoom gathering with three girlfriends I’ve known for more than thirty years. We make a point of seeing each othe... Read more

How To Write A Book

How To Write A Book

There’s no correct way to write a book. I’ve been asked dozens of times about how to best write a book. If you ask 10 authors how ... Read more

5 Affirmations for Cultivating Self-Love

5 Affirmations for Cultivating Self-Love

Hello dear friends. Whenever I begin to write my blogs, I silently ask myself what would be the most useful and helpful for the p... Read more

When Who You Are Is No Longer Who You Used To Be

When Who You Are Is No Longer Who You Used To Be

Spring is in the air and I’m both excited and a little apprehensive. As the world starts to open up again, I wonder about the impa... Read more

The Art Of Foolishness

The Art Of Foolishness

Our lives are often filled with absolutely incredible foolishness lol and often I evaluate myself with my foolishness me... Read more

Reasons To Smile ☺

Reasons To Smile ☺

My friend Nanna introduced me to an interesting practice. She said she was taking note of the activities and experience... Read more

Three Reminders When Feeling Lonely

Three Reminders When Feeling Lonely

My dear friends, I want to speak to you this week on loneliness. I know that this topic is at the surface for many of us, and thi... Read more

Visualize Illness Becoming Wellness (and The Science Of Why …

Visualize Illness Becoming Wellness (and The Science Of Why It Works)

I’m often asked what the ‘right’ visualization is for certain conditions. The truth is, there’s not ‘the’ right visualization, jus... Read more

Love, Lovable and Loving

Love, Lovable and Loving

Love is innate and universal in every facet of our existence. It is the wonder we experience as life naturally unfolds and the sourc... Read more

Your Most Important Valentine

Your Most Important Valentine

I’m sitting here with my feet in a pot of warm water and lavender oil, laptop perched on my knees, watching my cats chase each oth... Read more

What Self-Love Means to Me

What Self-Love Means to Me

My dear friends, One of the silver linings of this past year, with added isolation and limited social interaction, has been havin... Read more

From Cheesy Relationships to a Gourmet Banquet

From Cheesy Relationships to a Gourmet Banquet

In the early 1900’s a European man named Frederic had a dream to travel to the United States. At that time, air travel had not bee... Read more

Mind and Weight Loss

Mind and Weight Loss

I’ve had a few hypnotherapy sessions recently. A friend is training in solution focused hypnotherapy and is using me as one of his... Read more

How I’m Managing Pandemic Burnout

How I’m Managing Pandemic Burnout

Hi my dear friends, I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that we are very quickly approaching the year mark of this pandemic. ... Read more

3 ways to practice Kindfulness

3 ways to practice Kindfulness

I’ve talked a lot about benefits of kindness in other articles. For example, I’ve talked about the impact of kindness on mental he... Read more

Two Self-Care Practices to Try Right Now

Two Self-Care Practices to Try Right Now

My dear friends, As we start to settle into this new chapter of 2021, I hope that you make some time to take care of yourself, in... Read more

An Important Self-Care Reminder

An Important Self-Care Reminder

Last year, I shared a note I wrote to myself when we first went into lockdown for the pandemic. I used it to stay focused on self-... Read more

The Importance Of Hope

The Importance Of Hope

When times are hard, hope can get us through. The simplest hope that things can be better, and that this is not going to be the way ... Read more

The Benefit of Consequences

The Benefit of Consequences

Hello my friends, I want to share something that’s been on my heart for a long, long while, and a theme, that I believe, has popp... Read more

Finding Certainty In Uncertain Times

Finding Certainty In Uncertain Times

This morning I woke up feeling like I’m stuck in the movie, Groundhog Day, repeating the same routines over and over again. I fed ... Read more

Understanding Life’s Cycles

Understanding Life’s Cycles

Hi my dear friends, I’m sending all my love to you as we bring in this new week. I feel almost like a broken record saying this a... Read more

Learning To Live With Questions

Learning To Live With Questions

What a week.What a year, really.What a time to be on the planet. Still in process and doing my best to make sense out of a sensel... Read more

What is Your 2021 Intention?

What is Your 2021 Intention?

Happy New Year dear friends! I’m thrilled to enter this new chapter with all of you, I know that 2020 was quite challenging, so i... Read more

Stay Connected To The Sky

Stay Connected To The Sky

The best decision I made in 2020 was to meditate every day starting on January 1st. I kept a small journal by my bed and before go... Read more

My Year-End Ritual

My Year-End Ritual

Hello my dear friends, I can hardly believe we are now in the last week of 2020. What a year it has been. There is so much that h... Read more

The Cosmic GPS And The Current Coordinates

The Cosmic GPS And The Current Coordinates

Stirring rapid human evolution! Crossing the bridge to 2021 and facing self! What does it mean to go more deeply inward? As the n... Read more

Go Gently Into The New Year

Go Gently Into The New Year

I woke just after 7am today to watch the sunrise, a wash of fiery red and orange fading to soft pinks and peaches on her ascent. I... Read more

Have Faith Because Everything Is Perfect!

Have Faith Because Everything Is Perfect!

Become relentless for your own good. Accept your emotions without judging them and embrace them. Proceed to what feels rig... Read more

The Joy of Love

The Joy of Love

Life is the most amazing adventure of self-discovery and creation. As a multidimensional presence, we are simply having a precious h... Read more

Helpful Reminders To Manage Feelings During The Holidays

Helpful Reminders To Manage Feelings During The Holidays

My dear friends, I want to briefly check in with you all this week, as we are in the full throes of the holiday season! In normal... Read more

Standing Still And How It Can Move You Forward!

Standing Still And How It Can Move You Forward!

As we approach the new cycle of 2021 curiosity is heightened or for some, there is fear in not knowing what to expect. Standing st... Read more

Lifting Spirits And Turning Strangers Into Friends.

Lifting Spirits And Turning Strangers Into Friends.

Dense fog has encircled our home this morning making it feel like I’m living in a moody snow globe. In some ways, it feels apropos... Read more

When A Bicycle Man Goes Viral

When A Bicycle Man Goes Viral

Well, winter has finally arrived here in our neck of the woods. Yesterday we had our first Nor’easter, and while the prediction wa... Read more

Taking The Plunge

Taking The Plunge

I awoke Thanksgiving morning to the sound of wind-swept rain splashing against the bedroom window. As I made my way to the bathroo... Read more

Finding Gratitude In Tough Times

Finding Gratitude In Tough Times

There’s a memory I hang onto when times are hard and I find it difficult to feel grateful. I’m 24 years old standing in a bathroo... Read more

Going For The Gold

Going For The Gold

For more years than I care to remember, I’ve celebrated my birthday by making a list of ten intentions for the upcoming year. It w... Read more

Awakening in Love

Awakening in Love

We all have the gifts of thought and feeling allowing us to manifest what we need and desire in the material world through our atten... Read more

My Favorite Self-Care Practice Right Now

My Favorite Self-Care Practice Right Now

Hi dear friends! I want to talk to you about the importance of care and the practice that I am heavily relying on, right no... Read more

The Three Fishermen

The Three Fishermen

On Thursday afternoon, after a full day of calls and zoom meetings, I pulled on my sneakers and set out for a sunset walk in the n... Read more

Bending With The Wind

Bending With The Wind

There are times in our reality in which we must choose to either "bend with the wind," or try to change the course of the wind. Ho... Read more

Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid

Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid

When we see with our physical eyes, it appears that we are alone in the physical world. On the other hand, when we “look” with our... Read more

The Passing of Indian Summer

The Passing of Indian Summer

I love Indian Summers. For those who live in a perpetual warm climate year round, an Indian Summer is a period of unseas... Read more

A Little Wisdom To Hold Near This Week

A Little Wisdom To Hold Near This Week

It was 5 o’clock and I’d just completed a long day of work when my friend Beth texted to see if I was interested in going for a wa... Read more

The Inspiration of Wanting

The Inspiration of Wanting

Wanting is natural. Let it come and go like a cooling breeze on a hot summer's day, until its time is up. Wanting is much like a mo... Read more

Mud or Stars?

Mud or Stars?

My neighbor Rick is a retired homicide detective. Nearly every workday for 25 years Rick went to crime scenes where someone had be... Read more

Finding Power in Solitude

Finding Power in Solitude

Hello dear friends, We all know that this year has presented so many unexpected challenges and difficulties. Life is simply diffe... Read more

Like What’s Before You

Like What’s Before You

I woke up this morning to a cloudy, gloomy day and pulled the covers back over my head. I’d much rather stay here, I thought ... Read more

Remember It’s Important to Take a Break

Remember It’s Important to Take a Break

Hello friends! I know that time, and schedules, and planning have all been turned upside down in this very strange year! We’ve ta... Read more

Come Home To Yourself, Sweetheart

Come Home To Yourself, Sweetheart

I sat quietly in my office staring out the window at a red-tailed hawk sailing overhead. The wind carried her far above the tree l... Read more

Holographic Mind

Holographic Mind

I have always been fascinated by the power of the holographic mind and the human ability to transcend the physical realm, to insta... Read more

The Truth About Purpose

The Truth About Purpose

Hi my dear Friends, In regular times, the concept of purpose is something we think about and wonder how we can fulfill it. This y... Read more

Turn the Page...

Turn the Page...

Today I’m finishing up a new writing project. I’m transforming my “Self Care Cards” deck into an updated version of helpful, heali... Read more

Living With An Open Heart

Living With An Open Heart

When our heart is open, we have access to the beauty around us; the radiance of every soul we encounter, and the splendor of natur... Read more

How I Deal With Negative Thoughts

How I Deal With Negative Thoughts

Hi my dear friends, In this week’s blog, I wish to share my insights on negativity, negative thoughts, and how we can start to co... Read more

The Art Of Discernment

The Art Of Discernment

Hello dear friends! This week I want to discuss a topic that has been sitting in my heart for quite some time. It’s really a priv... Read more

We Are Love

We Are Love

We are all magnificent beings of love. Only the veil of beliefs we embrace masks our brilliance. At our core, we all share a cosmic ... Read more

Is It Time To Say Goodbye?

Is It Time To Say Goodbye?

Last week I received an email from a longtime reader who wanted me to know she was unsubscribing because of my newsletter about Ru... Read more

Channel Kindness

Channel Kindness

What does channel kindness mean to you? There’s a few ways you can think of it, I suppose. You can be a channel for kindness. That... Read more

Is Meditation Different Than Prayer, and Are These Different…

Is Meditation Different Than Prayer, and Are These Different From Affirmations?

Over the years I’ve been asked this question countless times. The short answer to the first question is yes, but there are a thous... Read more

Becoming Notorious

Becoming Notorious

In life, there are some people who, by their presence and character, inspire us to be better human beings. They model what it mean... Read more

Connecting With Our Values

Connecting With Our Values

Hi friends, I know this year has been confusing, chaotic, and uncertain. Life has those elements anyways, but experiencing it all... Read more

A Curator Of Beauty

A Curator Of Beauty

I woke at sunrise to find mist floating above the reservoir behind our home. Translucent clouds drifting over steel gray water, sl... Read more

The Three Wise Monkeys

The Three Wise Monkeys

Japan During January 2014, I traveled to Japan to teach the Quest For Mastery Level III material. Quest For Maste... Read more

One Simple Practice to Shift Your Energy

One Simple Practice to Shift Your Energy

My dear friends, I know that the blogs we have been producing over the past few months have been heavier in nature and in message... Read more

7 Ways To Develop Your Self Love

7 Ways To Develop Your Self Love

1) Know it’s OK to not be OK It’s OK to not be OK, or have a bad day, or to fail at something. It happens to everyone. Failing at... Read more

Managing Unnecessary Stress

Managing Unnecessary Stress

Hi my sweet friends, I will keep this week’s message to you short, and sweet, as I know we all have so much that we are managing ... Read more

A Helping Hand To Calm Anxiety And Stress

A Helping Hand To Calm Anxiety And Stress

This week I’m taking a vacation from the blog and thought I’d share a Facebook Live event I did in late March to help you deal wit... Read more

Why Does Life Flow Faster As We Age?

Why Does Life Flow Faster As We Age?

Most of us will agree: The older we get, the faster our time passes. When we remember our childhood, we feel that our experie... Read more

Stay off the crazy train!

Stay off the crazy train!

There’s nothing like a mandate to stay in one place to help us see how neurotic the mind can be. These days, as I spend most of my... Read more

Expanding Love

Expanding Love

Our magnificence is the most amazing life secret hidden in plain sight, simply awaiting our conscious recognition. Each of us are br... Read more

The Power of Prayer and the Blessings of Having a Daily Spir…

The Power of Prayer and the Blessings of Having a Daily Spiritual Practice

“Prayer is an act of surrender. We don’t pray because we are religious. We pray because something within ourselve... Read more

The Life Changing Practice of Surrender

The Life Changing Practice of Surrender

Hi my sweet friends! This week I want to share some thoughts I have with you about the practice of surrender. As much as we may w... Read more

The Great Opening

The Great Opening

This afternoon, after doing a bit of work and making pesto from basil in the garden, I was washing up at the kitchen sink when a w... Read more

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is an act of completion; it is the acknowledgement of a lesson learned. The act of Forgiveness is Grace, a blessin... Read more

Overcoming Feelings of Hopelessness and Despair

Overcoming Feelings of Hopelessness and Despair

...When Times Are Difficult As could be expected, many people are having a very hard time right now. Beyond the natural and unnat... Read more

Counting Kindnesses

Counting Kindnesses

There’s a lot to be said about noticing what you do. Many of us go about our days largely unconscious, in that while we do the thi... Read more

A Reminder of Your Worthiness

A Reminder of Your Worthiness

Hi my dear friends, I hope that whatever this week has brought you, you can find some happiness and relief here today! This ... Read more

The New Normal

The New Normal

Standing at the kitchen window, I look up to find a coyote peeking out from behind the stone wall that forms a border between the ... Read more

How to Make the Shift From Negative to Positive Thinking

How to Make the Shift From Negative to Positive Thinking

“Negative thinking will never create positive results. Negative thinking will only create negative experiences. And if that’s th... Read more

How Your Mind Can Impact Your Immune System

How Your Mind Can Impact Your Immune System

PCDR stands for Placebo Controlled Dose Reduction. It is where a drug is gradually replaced by a placebo by making incremental red... Read more

The Art of Homeschooling You

The Art of Homeschooling You

Over the last few months, as the pandemic continues to dramatically change the way we live, I’ve been using this time to develop n... Read more

10 Affirmations to Manage Uncertainty

10 Affirmations to Manage Uncertainty

Hello my dear friends, Happy Sunday once again! I feel it deeply in my soul, how difficult these times are for all of us. Everyt... Read more

Thoughts on Covid-19 - A Call to Compassion

Thoughts on Covid-19 - A Call to Compassion

In the midst of all the chaos, divisiveness, gas-lighting and subversion currently enveloping the U.S. there is one thing I believe ... Read more

10 Tips for Effective Communication

10 Tips for Effective Communication

Hi my sweet friends! Sending you the biggest Sunday hug! I want to talk about communication today, and why I think many, many of ... Read more

You’re Invited To Steal This

You’re Invited To Steal This

Last night I went to bed feeling anxious for the world. This morning, I woke remembering who I am. I sat up, opened my journal to ... Read more

How To Be A Good Human

How To Be A Good Human

As the pandemic picks up steam in some parts of the country and we continue with restrictions, it seems we’re being invited to mak... Read more

What It Means To Love Yourself

What It Means To Love Yourself

My dear friends, This year, but particularly, the past few months, have been completely life-changing. I know we all know this, b... Read more

What to Remember When Practicing Forgiveness

What to Remember When Practicing Forgiveness

Hello my sweet friends, I want to share some insights and thoughts that I’ve been having lately when it comes to the topic of for... Read more

Interdependence Day

Interdependence Day

This morning I made the mistake of looking at the news. I was sitting in the living room, enjoying a cup of tea when I turned on the... Read more

You Are Made Of Stardust

You Are Made Of Stardust

Every atom in your body was made in a star! That means those that make your heart, brain cells, skin, hair, teeth, bones, even th... Read more

11 Ways To Get Inspired Today!

11 Ways To Get Inspired Today!

Know that you are amazing. You are so unique that there is no one else quite like you in all of creation. See the value in th... Read more

See The Best Show In Town

See The Best Show In Town

Yesterday morning, while cleaning the upstairs bathroom, I caught a flash of something moving in the field in our backyard. ... Read more

Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is not a goal to achieve, but an alignment already being cultivated and refined within you. Throughout this pro... Read more

Not All Who Are Alone Are Lonely

Not All Who Are Alone Are Lonely

Hello dear friends, I’m so happy to be back with you again this week. I want to share my thoughts with you on a topic that I beli... Read more

Do You Shoot, Ready, Aim?

Do You Shoot, Ready, Aim?

Have you ever sent an email and the moment you clicked on Send; you realized it wasn't really what you meant to say and you may have... Read more

5 Reminders for Stressful Times

5 Reminders for Stressful Times

Hello my friends, I want to start this week, by saying that I know these times that we live in are stressful, uncertain, and anxi... Read more

A Walk Down Memory Lane

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Every morning I start my day with a ritual that feels good. I wake up and before I do anything else, I head out to the deck to car... Read more

Keep Looking Up

Keep Looking Up

I was sitting on the deck writing this morning, in a small corner still blanketed by shade, when I looked up just in time to see t... Read more

12 Lies We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Misery

12 Lies We Tell Ourselves to Justify Our Misery

With the lies we tell ourselves we are hurting, not only ourselves but all those we love. Through our lack of honesty, cour... Read more

Here’s The Action I’m Focused On Right Now

Here’s The Action I’m Focused On Right Now

Transformation is afoot. There are big changes happening in the world on both seen and unseen levels. During these ch... Read more

The Current Marketing Of Death! The Death Theme!

The Current Marketing Of Death! The Death Theme!

Is there a historical connection? Burying bodies 6 ft. deep? With this new social distancing phenomenon, one has to wonder why a ... Read more

Embracing Our Humanity

Embracing Our Humanity

We laugh, we cry, we breathe, we sleep, we think, we feel, we discover. We come in all shapes and sizes, in a variety of colors and ... Read more

Today Is The Day

Today Is The Day

How many times have you said, “Today is the day”? Not like in “today is the day I catch a plane to Paris” or “today is the day... Read more

5 Things to Remember When Going Through a Difficult Time

5 Things to Remember When Going Through a Difficult Time

Hi my dear friends, It is another incredibly difficult week in America. I had planned to discuss maneuvering through difficulty l... Read more

Holding The Tension Of The Opposites

Holding The Tension Of The Opposites

I’ve spent the last three hours trying to write this blog but I’d rather shut down the computer and take this week off. I ... Read more

Do This And Everything Will Be More Than Okay

Do This And Everything Will Be More Than Okay

For the last two months I’ve been talking about self-care in turbulent times with friends and family, employees of the companies I... Read more

Letting Go of the Old Opens Us To Greater Truths

Letting Go of the Old Opens Us To Greater Truths

While moving through the intersections of Fate St. and Free Will St. on Eternity Boulevard, one of the greatest ancient spirit... Read more

Evolution Calling

Evolution Calling

I stepped outside just before sunset, to add a little birdseed to an empty feeder because I have a raccoon who comes to visit for ... Read more

My Practice for Not Taking Things Personally

My Practice for Not Taking Things Personally

Hello my friends! Happy Sunday! It was so wonderful to get so much feedback from you all about last week’s topic on not taking th... Read more

Let’s get through this together!

Let’s get through this together!

This weekend, I experienced classic New England showmanship. Yesterday, I woke to snow falling over the burgeoning green fields in... Read more

Happy Mother's Day 2020

Happy Mother's Day 2020

A Happy Mother's Day to all mothers around the world who read this! Today we honor all those who nurture, with a special focus... Read more

The Great Retrieval

The Great Retrieval

There are many, many people who are so plugged in to the old programming that even through the inner work they’ve been doing, they... Read more

Pray that the World Does Not Go Back to Normal

Pray that the World Does Not Go Back to Normal

As I was entering a local grocery store, a sign caught my eye: "These are our temporary hours ——until the world goes back to norma... Read more

My Number One Tip for Relationships in Quarantine

My Number One Tip for Relationships in Quarantine

Hello my friends, I’m so happy to be back here with you all today! We are entering the eighth week of isolation practices here in... Read more

The Great Realization

The Great Realization

This morning, as I filled the bird feeders, changed the water in their bath, and tended to the seeds I’ve started for the deck gar... Read more

Three Ways That Kindness Impacts The Brain And Body

Three Ways That Kindness Impacts The Brain And Body

In light of the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve found myself speaking and writing a lot more about kindness recently. You can catch loa... Read more

7 Affirmations for Difficult Times

7 Affirmations for Difficult Times

Hello my dear friends! I hope this week has brought you some unexpected smiles and some slivers of joy even during this hardship.... Read more

Stop Dragging Your Baggage Of Stories Into Every Next Moment

Stop Dragging Your Baggage Of Stories Into Every Next Moment

Often we forget that life cycles through with no two moments alike. However, it is us that drag the baggage of our stories into ev... Read more

Let’s Not Go Back To How It Used To Be

Let’s Not Go Back To How It Used To Be

My nervous system is beginning to acclimate to this new normal and I have to admit I’m starting to like it (most of the time). Th... Read more

The Self-Care Practice You Need During a Pandemic

The Self-Care Practice You Need During a Pandemic

Hello my sweet friends, I know these weeks have been dark, heavy, and incredibly stressful. I know that there is a lot going on, ... Read more

Birthing a Planetary Reset

Birthing a Planetary Reset

The world is not the same place it was just a few months ago. The pandemic and economic downturn have put humanity’s activities on... Read more

Finding Stability in an Uncertain World

Finding Stability in an Uncertain World

Hello again, my friends. We’ve made it through another week, and I am so grateful that you all are here. These times are so odd,... Read more

Easter, Resurrection, and A Higher State of the Spiritual Li…

Easter, Resurrection, and A Higher State of the Spiritual Life in 2020

From "When the Sun Moves Northward” Today we’ll revisit why Easter is so important. For those who haven’t seen it before, wha... Read more

Working Through Our Disappointments

Working Through Our Disappointments

Hello my sweet friends. We made it through another week, and I’m so happy to find you all here with us on this Sunday. How is eve... Read more

Lovely Wellbeing

Lovely Wellbeing

In our innermost nature, we are intuitively aware that we are loved, lovable and loving. This intrinsic aspect of our consciousness ... Read more

The Ushering In Of A New Ordered World

The Ushering In Of A New Ordered World

A time of resets and upgrades in the system “We are all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try ... Read more

5 Tips for When You are Feeling Overwhelmed

5 Tips for When You are Feeling Overwhelmed

Hello my sweet friends, No matter where you are reading this blog, you are likely feeling the effects of the global coronav... Read more

Remembering the Importance of Space

Remembering the Importance of Space

In the sweetest irony of life, I decided to talk about space, my recent experiences with taking space, and why I believed it to be... Read more

The Most Contagious Thing Is Kindness

The Most Contagious Thing Is Kindness

We’re all thinking of contagion right now due to the coronavirus. Let’s not forget that kindness is also highly contagious. Scien... Read more

The Happiness Cure

The Happiness Cure

Have you washed your hands lately? Are you getting enough sleep? How’s your immune system? Are you a clean, lean, healthy machine?... Read more

The Need to Be Seen and Why It Matters

The Need to Be Seen and Why It Matters

One of the greatest human needs is the need to be SEEN, not for who we pretend to be, but for who we truly are underneath it a... Read more

What I’ve Learned About Making Mistakes

What I’ve Learned About Making Mistakes

There’s an interesting aspect about being on a path towards self-improvement, we tend to try really hard to get clear, grounded, a... Read more

Finding Happiness Is A State of Mind

Finding Happiness Is A State of Mind

There are many ways to find happiness, and many ways not to find it. All Beings want happiness. The pursuit of happiness leads us t... Read more

How to Overcome Your Deep Insecurity of “I Feel Stupid”

How to Overcome Your Deep Insecurity of “I Feel Stupid”

Do you often say to yourself “I feel stupid”, “I am dumb” or “I am so slow”…even though a part of you knows that this can’t be t... Read more

Tapping Into Our Values

Tapping Into Our Values

I know in many of my blogs, I talk about how we can uncover, build, and sustain deep, meaningful foundations for our lives. I full... Read more

Where to Find the Love of Your Life

Where to Find the Love of Your Life

When I asked my friend Brenda, “How’s your love life?” she sighed and answered, “Working on it, like everyone.” Were we rea... Read more

Ever-Present Love

Ever-Present Love

Life, from the subatomic particles to the infinitely vast cosmos of all known substance, connects together in an intricate dance of ... Read more

3 Important Steps to Pursuing Your Life Purpose

3 Important Steps to Pursuing Your Life Purpose

Have you ever wondered what is your life purpose? Well, I have. Laying on my death bed, I knew I needed to find a reason for livi... Read more

The Surprising Lesson I Learned After a Friendship Breakup

The Surprising Lesson I Learned After a Friendship Breakup

Last year I went through a pretty difficult break-up, with one of my best friends. Break-ups are hard, no matter the circumstance,... Read more

The Power of Solitude

The Power of Solitude

We receive hundreds of emails and messages online weekly from our lovely community members about topics they would like to learn m... Read more

You Are Not a Failure

You Are Not a Failure

You are not a failure and if you need a reminder of this, just keep reading and your entire outlook on success and failure will ch... Read more

20 Ways To Self Love

20 Ways To Self Love

Do you feel you need to work on your self love? Here’s 20 simple and powerful practices that can help you develop a healthy sens... Read more

Know Your Value

Know Your Value

You may have found yourself stretched to your limits and beyond in a situation that may even have replayed old outdated dynamics t... Read more

The Top 11 Scientifically-Proven Benefits of Writing and Jou…

The Top 11 Scientifically-Proven Benefits of Writing and Journaling

Writing down one’s disquieting thoughts in a journal which one never wants to share with anyone has a cathartic effect. Plus, most... Read more

My Intention for 2020

My Intention for 2020

Happy Sunday, my sweet friends! I hope that the start of this new year has been kind to all of you. If you’ve been reading the bl... Read more

As You Give, So You Receive

As You Give, So You Receive

I have written a lot about side effects of kindness, that when you give you also receive. Sometimes receiving can be in the form o... Read more

Clear Vision in 2020

Clear Vision in 2020

I was standing at the counter of a snack bar at a children’s zoo when a customer became quite nasty with the server. A part of his... Read more

The Clarity of Love

The Clarity of Love

Woven into the fabric of life is the unifying love that creates worlds and animates the essence of our being. As humans, we are embo... Read more

Ending the Year on a Positive Note

Ending the Year on a Positive Note

Happy end of 2019 to you all! I am grateful to be sharing with you on this very auspicious day of a calendar year. I believe that ... Read more

3 Important Steps to Living a Meaningful Life

3 Important Steps to Living a Meaningful Life

What does it mean to be living a meaningful life? Ask anyone what they most want in life and they will almost surely tell you tha... Read more

Coping with Difficult Feelings in the Holiday Season

Coping with Difficult Feelings in the Holiday Season

Over the years, I’ve seen many people experience difficult or conflicted feelings during the holiday season for all kinds of r... Read more

Celebrating Christ Mass - You Are Super-Consciousness Infuse…

Celebrating Christ Mass - You Are Super-Consciousness Infused In Matter!

Celebrate life! Celebrate the magic of the season! Earth is an amazing space and a profound experience. The adventurous and c... Read more

Managing Feelings During the Holidays

Managing Feelings During the Holidays

We have a surprise for you today, we decided to write this week’s blog together! The holiday season can bring up a lot of feeling... Read more

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

“You are not alone on this path you are now walking – you never were and never will be. And even though at times, your... Read more

Understanding Limiting Beliefs

Understanding Limiting Beliefs

A couple weeks ago my mom and I were in the car on our way down to Miami for an appointment. Driving to Miami from where we live t... Read more

5 Habits I’m Releasing Before 2020

5 Habits I’m Releasing Before 2020

I saw a meme on social media recently, that served as a reminder that we are rapidly closing in on the end of 2019, which subseque... Read more

Release Your Disappointments, What Are You Burdened By?

Release Your Disappointments, What Are You Burdened By?

We tend and nurture our burdens like we do our gardens or those we hold dear. Although it may not appear to be this way this is of... Read more

Holiday Anxiety?

Holiday Anxiety?

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Although we’re serenaded this festive message through various types of speaker systems ... Read more

7 Unique Happiness Hacks to Experience Immediate Joy

7 Unique Happiness Hacks to Experience Immediate Joy

What if there were some happiness hacks to help you experience more joy in your life, would you want to know what those are? We a... Read more

When God Shows Up on Earth

When God Shows Up on Earth

I am a big Beatles fan. The more I hear their music, the more I recognize the sheer genius behind it. I saw a rare YouTube video o... Read more

For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

We are entering the time of year where things feel extraordinarily…hectic. There’s simply a lot going on. With the added buzz of t... Read more

From Feeling Worthless to Realizing You Are Enough

From Feeling Worthless to Realizing You Are Enough

“It is not that you are worthless, it is just that you have forgotten how much you are actually Worth. Since you can no lon... Read more

Trust That What Happens Is For The Best

Trust That What Happens Is For The Best

I broke my wee toe about three weeks ago. I have such a dangerous job – I was preparing to give a talk, walking around my office s... Read more

Kindness Is More Than The Things That We Do

Kindness Is More Than The Things That We Do

I was asked what kindness is during an interview a few weeks ago. It’s something I’m rarely asked as most of us assume we know wha... Read more

How to Deal with Your Relatives During the Holidays

How to Deal with Your Relatives During the Holidays

As we plunge into the holiday season, many of us will be spending intensive time with our relatives. If you love your family and t... Read more

Happy dog, happy heart

Happy dog, happy heart

I find myself writing this piece today because it was 5 years ago on this day that my dog, Oscar (main photo), passed away from bo... Read more

Do what’s in your heart

Do what’s in your heart

Do what’s in your heart. Be yourself. We often doubt ourselves and imagine that we have to change so that the world accepts us. W... Read more

Do you see things as they are, or as You are?

Do you see things as they are, or as You are?

Look at grass. We say it is green. But it’s not inherently green. It’s green for us because we have 3 photoreceptors in our eyes t... Read more

Magical Transformative Love

Magical Transformative Love

We are all brilliant creator beings gifted with immense love. Yet, for too long a time, in fact eons, we have forgotten our magnif... Read more

To Boldly Go

To Boldly Go

On March 9, 2015, pilot Andre Borschberg lifted his experimental aircraft Solar Impulse 2 from the Abu Dhabi runway. His bold plan... Read more

Don’t Judge People As You Never Know What They’re Going Thro…

Don’t Judge People As You Never Know What They’re Going Through

I remember waiting in line a coffee shop once, and a woman drove over my foot on a mobility scooter. She didn’t look back to apolo... Read more

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