‘Sacred’ is a vastly different word than ‘special.’ Special implies unique and singular and treads carefully close to perfectionism. Sacred is the removal of the veil, a place that tends to heal and release our egoic mind. It allows us to access the richness of our...
Growth manifests in various forms, and as I've discovered in my own journey, much of it stems from the challenges we encounter in life. The most apparent signs of growth emerge once we've navigated past challenging experiences, allowing time for peace and perspective,...
I’m borrowing this heading from Seth Godin and one of his recent blog posts, he delivered the message below, but I’m taking some liberties with my interpretation of his heading and expanding on his thoughts. He wrote: “My building had an elevator problem. The...
Every thought is either pulling us towards or away from love. The thoughts we think when we wake in the morning directly impact our day. The thoughts we think about our partners determine what kind of relationship we’re going to have. If we minimize our partners in...
I lived in a constant state of anxiety — I would wake up and feel it gripping my heart. My jaw was in a permanently clenched position, and I think I even slept like that. I couldn’t slow down, and I constantly felt like I was drowning. I felt alone and desperate. It...
Dear one, the journey of life is a consistent offering of emotions, this is happening because you’re meant to feel all the things – our emotions help us connect to our aliveness. The universe, God, the divine, or whatever you connect to in order to know you’re not...
Recently I received an emotional blow, unexpected and surprising. For a few days (weeks) I was challenged to move through without the emotional bombardment of deep sadness and self ridicule. I opened myself up to someone in a way I haven’t in a long time, and in the...
In her song, Dear Insecurity, Brandi Carlile sings “Dear insecurity, ah we meet again, don’t try to fight with me, you’re not really my friend, you take up half this bed, living rent free in my head, ah insecurity.” There is research that shows how resiliency is a...
‘The version of yourself that you had to be in order to survive through something difficult, is not the version you can now be to move forward’. Healing is a complex process of time, acceptance, releasing, forgiveness (most often of ourselves), tending to your needs,...
When I was a teenager, maybe 14 years old, one of my sisters and I were having a heated argument – my solution was to throw a brush at her, which resulted in her tooth going through her lip. I think I tried to convince her not to tell my mom, but in truth I have no...