If you’re waiting for the stars to line up and everything to fall into place before you leap and make your dreams your reality, I have some sobering news for you: you’ll never get there.
That sounds a bit harsh, doesn’t it? If I didn’t have personal experience in this area, maybe I wouldn’t be so harsh. But I know that waiting until we are “ready” before we listen to our soul and have the guts to make big changes in our lives can be absolutely paralyzing.
I write a lot about the soul – getting to know your soul, reconnecting with your soul, loving your soul, etc. Because of this, you might think that I’ve had a wonderful relationship with my soul for my entire life. Would you be surprised if I told you that it’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve been in touch with my soul?
Like all of us, I was born a spiritual being in a human body. And like many of us, as life’s hardships piled up on top of me, I became more
Shared Wisdom Guest Post
Featuring Shann Vander Leek
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock
I’ve witnessed and been involved in situations where personal power is traded for acceptance and peace at any cost. Life coaching clients, family, friends and yours truly, can find ourselves in situations where we relinquish our personal power and over-empower others.
If you are a highly sensitive creature like I am, these encounters can bring forward feelings of sadness, betrayal and confusion.
Recently I was involved in a conversation
One day I woke up.
On this day, I realized that I had been asleep for a very long time – years, actually. Somewhere in my late teens, I decided that life was too scary and difficult to handle, and so I flipped my life switch to auto pilot and crawled back into bed.
Every once in awhile, I would groggily awaken, but often it was just for brief moments. Every once in awhile, my spirit would get into the driver’s seat and shake me until I woke up.
And these were beautiful moments.
I’m excited to share a heartfelt interview with you today from a friend of mine, Angela Artemis! Her blog, Powered by Intuition, is a wealth of knowledge about using our own intuition to create a better life. She has just written a book that I had the chance to read, and I definitely recommend it! Wow – it’s packed with tons of exercises and guided meditations to help you tap into your own intuition and start benefiting from it right away!
I had the chance to sit down with Angela
Shared Wisdom Guest Post
Featuring Isha Judd – author of Love Has Wings
In our society, people view comfort as king. Anything that makes life easier and requires less effort is prized. We have learned to refrain from speaking our truth for fear of conflict and to avoid confronting our fears whenever possible. We have come to value routine over the unknown, and security over spontaneity. Yet often the things that make us uncomfortable — the hard knocks, the
I’m excited to tell you about a super sweet book! And you will have the chance to win it + have a phone conversation with one of the authors! How cool is that?
The book is called, A Little Book about Something Much Bigger: The Gift of a Spiritual Practice, and it’s written by best friends, Victoria Cryder and Lois Hughes.
This book is sweet, profound, loving, joyful, spiritual, and amazing. If you have been wanting to create space in your life
I was watching Oprah’s Lifeclass the other night and author and speaker Iyanla Vanzant was talking about changing the stories that we tell ourselves.
Oftentimes these stories are true. They are parts of our life and parts of our past that happened. Yes, you have been hurt and mistreated and lied to and cheated on and stolen from and stepped on. Yes, your childhood was far from stellar and you weren’t treated as well as you should have been by your parents. Yes, you have had trouble speaking
I love books. And I especially love books with practical advice – worksheets, programs, and techniques that I can apply right away to my life. I love books that get me excited – that get me fired up. I love books that give me the tools that I need to make the changes that will help me live the life that I know I was meant to live.
What I love almost as much as reading these books is sharing them here with you! Knowing that we are all reading
Have you ever written something that just flowed out of you?
Have you ever read one of your own pieces and wondered how the heck that came out of you?
Have you ever looked at your own writing and thought, “Yes. This is who I am – this is what I’m all about. This is my true essence. This is what I want to share.”
I love that feeling. If you’ve ever experienced it, you know that it’s a beautiful gift. You feel it when you’re writing – you start typing
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