Shared Wisdom – Are You Giving Your Personal Power Away?

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 More

Choosing to Wake Up

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. More

Ready to Tap into Your Intuition? An Interview + A Book Giveaway!

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 More

What’s Your Story?

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 More

5 Books to Help You Live Your Best Life

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 More

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