Jan 15, 2012
Shared Wisdom Guest Post
Featuring Andrea Hess from Empowered Soul
The way I see it, most (not all!) people spend their lives in a little box. The box provides boundaries, a sense of security, an identity. The box tells us how to live. The box eases the responsibility of choice, and so we agree to live in the box.
Some of us look up one day and realize that the box has no lid.
We get curious … what’s up there? And so we begin to explore what is above the box. We expand into the vastness More
Jan 14, 2012
Jan 13, 2012
Are you running? Running from your dreams? Running from the possibilities? I sure am. I’ve spent the first couple weeks of this new year running scared. Reaching for my dreams with one hand and putting on the brakes with the other. And then turning around and sprinting back toward my comfort zone.
When I asked you to join me in making this the year that we leap toward our dreams, I had a feeling that it was going to be hard. More
Jan 8, 2012
Shared Wisdom Guest Post Featuring Marilyn Tam
How has your first week of the new year been? We start off feeling optimistic and energized – excited for each new possibility. And some of us stay this way – continuing to push forward toward our goals, creating new habits to make sure they happen. But…some of us get discouraged (been there!) – maybe because we got overly excited and set goals without an action plan to reach them. Or maybe the More
Jan 7, 2012
I feel really blessed to be supported and loved by some really amazing intuitives, and I am excited to share some of them with you this week.
We have all experienced times in our lives where we felt stuck – some of you may be feeling this way right now. When my own inner guidance feels like it’s been running in neutral for far too long, these are some of the beautiful souls that I turn to. Each of them has honed their gift of seeing and feeling things that we aren’t always able More
Jan 2, 2012
I love the newness and possibilities that are inside each of us during this time of year. We get a fresh slate, and we get to map out the next 12 months. We get to dream and plan and imagine and envision. Nothing is impossible. No dream is too big. Isn’t that an amazing feeling?
But while I love this openness and freeing feeling that this newness and possibility brings, I have noticed that there is also an unsettled feeling inside of me. Venturing into the unknown can be scary.
Stepping into my dreams requires a leap that might require jumping before I know where I will land. Remembering that I must let go of the good to make room for the great (wise words from my mentor, Steve Harrison) is both exciting and terrifying.
One minute I want to write down all of my dreams and jump into them at full speed. The next I want to crawl back into my comfort zone and stay there forever. It’s not so bad here, I say to myself. And yet, my soul is pleading with me to keep moving forward – to leave the known. It knows that so many beautiful things await me, and I just need to be brave enough to keep moving toward them.
I find it wonderful that the universe always provides us with exactly what we need exactly when More
Jan 1, 2012
Happy New Year!
Shared Wisdom Guest Post – Featuring Jen Louden
I have admired Jen Louden for years. I was first introduced to her writing over a decade ago when she wrote The Woman’s Comfort Book. Jen was truly one of the pioneers in the self-care movement for women. Because of her, we began to see that it was okay More
Dec 31, 2011
You all know that I can get pretty sappy. I live my life with my heart on my sleeve, and when I fall in love with something, I want to shout it from the rooftops and share it with everyone I know! I have been so excited to share this week’s selection with you for awhile now, but I wanted to do it today because I think it’s so important that we kick off the new year in a positive, reflective way. The 2012 More
Dec 23, 2011
How are you holding up? Sometimes, especially during this time of year, we expect ourselves to be superhuman. We want to cook the best meals, be the best hosts, get everything checked off of our list, plan our next year, wrap all of our gifts, and do it all absolutely perfectly. We want everything to go just as we planned. We push ourselves to the limit to make sure this happens, and we crumble when things go wrong. Are you feeling some of this pressure right now?
I definitely am. For those of More
Dec 18, 2011
Shared Wisdom Guest Post from Mike Robbins
I’m sometimes amazed and embarrassed by how critical I can be – both of other people and of myself. Even though I both teach and practice the power of appreciation (as well as acceptance, compassion, and more) when I find myself feeling scared, threatened, or insecure (which happens more often than I’d like it to), I notice that I can be quite judgmental. Sadly, as I’ve learned throughout my life, being critical More
