Letting Negativity Flow Out

Sep 23, 2015

I was feeling extremely overwhelmed the other day. My sweetie, Dan, and I are coming down the home stretch with our 365 Ways to Connect with Your Soul book edits and have been pushing extra hard to make sure it’s all ready to go to the printer by the end of the month. We haven’t taken a day off in weeks and have been working much more each day than More

Newly Found Freedom

Sep 10, 2015

In the last couple of weeks, one of my worst fears has been realized several times over.

When something happens once, I tend to let it blow by me. When it happens twice, I start to pay a little closer attention. And when it happens again and again and yet again, I realize that this is something big for me to really look at and learn from.

All of my life, I have lived in fear of people being mad at me, and I tend to do everything in my power to make sure that rarely happens. It’s why I’ve More

Permission to Stand Up for Myself

Sep 3, 2015

I hardly slept last night. 

Before going to sleep, I did everything “right” to insure that I would sleep soundly:

  • I closed all screens two hours before winding down.
  • I played a game of Backgammon with my sweetie, which we have done every night for many years.
  • I took my herbal sleeping remedy.
  • I had a light snack with protein, carb, and fat. (Perfect for my adrenal glands.)
  • I took a warm bath with epsom salt and lavender.
  • I read a bit in my novel while two of my three cats snuggled with me.
  • I turned on the air conditioning, making the bedroom nice and cool.
  • I closed the curtains so the room was pitch black.
  • I covered up my digital clock so I wouldn’t fixate on the time.
  • I turned on my white noise machine.
  • I rubbed some AdrenaCalme on my wrists.

I do each of these things every night, and usually they send me into a deep slumber for many hours.

But not last night. I could feel my mind swirling and my heart racing and my body tensing and my adrenals on high alert.

At some point in the early hours of the morning I realized something: I had done everything I could to make sure the More

Many Different Roads

Aug 25, 2015

I’ve been here, on this Earth, for long enough to have discovered that there is more than one way to do something, more than one way to get to wherever it is that we want to go, and more than one road to take.

Some of us will take the straight road – one that is easy and free of struggle – one that feels light and joy-filled. Some of us will take the road that twists and turns so much that we feel completely disoriented after being on it. Some of us will take the road that seems More

Shifting It

Aug 10, 2015

The other day, it seemed like a dark cloud was following me everywhere I went.

I woke up from a not-so-restful sleep to the sound of bulldozers shaking the entire house. An old neck injury flared up. We were surrounded by smoke from nearby forest fires, which was making me cough and feel altogether crappy.

I took the day off from work, and I wandered around the house not sure what to do with myself – I just wasn’t in the mood for anything, and I felt like my life was just passing me More

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