Feb 16, 2016
Five years ago, I wrote my first blog post, having no idea where it would lead me or how it would change my life.
I started blogging to prove to myself that I could follow through with something that mattered to me. So I committed to showing up and writing something/anything every single day for 30 days. I planned on sharing prompts from our Soulful Journals and expanding on them, but my soul quickly stepped in, and my posts became a dialogue between the two of us.
This was a first for me. I had More
Dec 9, 2015
I’m so happy to introduce you to my friend, Tree Franklyn, in this Shared Wisdom Guest Post. Tree is a contributing author in our latest book, 365 Ways to Connect with Your Soul, and I have loved getting to know her better over the last few months. She has such an honest and open spirit, which you’ll see in her post below. I’m continually inspired by her authenticity and loving heart.
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As I reflect back on the closing year, I’m overcome with immense gratitude and joy over More
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
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
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
