Sep 13, 2011
Do you ever feel pressure to be someone you aren’t? Have you ever felt that if you showed the world the true you, you wouldn’t be truly accepted?
We are all under a tremendous amount of pressure each and every day – pressure to look the right way, do our job the right way, perform to a certain standard, have everything under control.
Yet, whose standards are these? Who decided that this was how life was supposed to be? Who made the rules up in the first place and said that we were More
Sep 12, 2011
Why is it so hard to slow down – to take ourselves off of the treadmill of our busy lives and just be still?
Why are we not welcoming stillness and peace and serenity? Why are we instead choosing chaos and imbalance and busyness?
I had planned on taking a day off this weekend. I had big plans to relax and unwind – to treat myself to a day on the couch where my only task was to chill out, watch a miniseries, snack all day, play games, read, and take lots of naps.
It didn’t quite More
Sep 8, 2011
We’ve all had moments where nothing seems to be going our way. Your day just isn’t working out the way you had hoped it would. In fact, when you really start to think about it, you realize that it’s not just that your day or week or year that isn’t working out: your life isn’t working out. And in realizing this, you begin to spiral downward into the deepest despair. You are quickly entering a place where nothing ever works, no one is ever on your side, you are never More
Sep 6, 2011
If you look at your life now versus how you imagined it would be, is it pretty much a mirror image or is it completely different? If you’re anything like me, it’s the complete opposite of how you planned it.
How I Thought It Would Be
When I was much younger, I imagined that I would be a career woman with several advanced degrees working in a big city for a large corporation. I visualized myself living in a modern loft – in a highrise – with a cat. More
Sep 5, 2011
As many of you know, I am in the process of writing a book. It’s a different kind of book than the Soulful Journals that Dan and I have written. It’s a full-length book about pushing through fear to live the life of our dreams. It really gets to the heart of who I am – my soul has begun to emerge throughout the journey of writing it. This has been both a great experience and a real learning lesson at the same time.
It has given me the chance to see up close and personal how many More
