For several years now, at the start of each new year, my sweetie and I have had the tradition of choosing one word to represent our intention for the entire year. (I originally heard of this idea in Leonie Dawson’s Creating Your Shining Life workbook, which I highly recommend if you don’t already have it!)
In 2012, I chose the word Soar. I had spent years hiding behind my gift company, and I was ready to step out into the world
I’ve been wanting to write a new post here for several days. I would open up a “New Post page” and wait for inspiration to come. And wait. And wait. And wait some more. And yet nothing came. I felt like I was trying to force something rather than simply allowing myself to honor where I was.
I just wasn’t in a place where I felt that I could inspire and uplift and shine light. I’ve had a rough few days, to be completely honest – some of the lowest that I can remember
I’ve been learning more and more how important showing up in the world from an open, loving space is.
And I’ve noticed that it’s not as common as one might think to find others who are bravely living this way.
I get it. I definitely didn’t used to be this trusting and this open and this heartbased and this warm and fuzzy.
I was when I was very young, and then – like many of us – I got hurt over and over again and quickly realized that being open and sharing my
Lately, I’ve been feeling a bit disconnected from my soul. I’ve been feeling like I’ve been pushing too hard and trying to do too much. I’ve been doing and doing and doing and was forgetting to simply be.
One of the many things that I love about our life is that we get a fresh chance to start again with each new moment.
I recently went away to a hotel for the night. It’s something that I used to do quite often when I wanted to create. I would go into a vortex and write
I believe that everyone has a loving core. I really do.
And, for the most part, I see this loving core all of the time in those I interact with most often. I’m pretty protective of who I let into my love bubble, and so I usually see only love from those around me.
However, we’re all human. And we all have our own “stuff” that we’re working through (or not working through). And every once in awhile, I find myself in a situation where someone’s loving core isn’t
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