“If you don’t spend the time making the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with the life you don’t want.” Kevin Ngo Do you believe that your life circumstances make you who you are? Have you surrendered your dreams – or...
How do you measure your worthiness? This is an interesting question, and one I have recently explored as I unpack the ways I habitually respond to the world around me. What are the things that matter to you? Do you choose to surround yourself with people who like you...
I believe we are all searching for bliss. We all want to more consistently feel happiness. Happiness being the desire to feel joy in the small things, to feel free from suffering and challenges, and to feel a lightness in our hearts on a more consistent basis. To me,...
Isn't it great to know that you have a choice in how today, and this week, will be for you? Do you know that you are the creator of your life? You have choice in how your day goes. I spent years thinking the outcome of my life was due to my circumstances or to the...
This weeks Mindful Monday contains conversations around sexuality and has sexual content, if you are offended by sexual content you may want to avoid reading further. (However, if you are intrigued by sexuality and the power it has on your life, in all the right ways...
For a long time, I was so invested in being known as a highly competent, reliable and hard working woman that I sacrificed living an inspired life. Or living a whole life. I wasn't following my heart; I was following an image I’d created for myself. I wanted be to be...
Strong attachments. We all have them. We get attached to ideas, to people, to things and to outcomes. We often structure our lives around our attachments. They become our anchor to who we believe we are. They give us a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives – but...
When I was young, I grew up with my mother and two younger sisters. My parents divorced when I was six, and the divorce ended our financial and emotional stability. It was a challenging time. Eventually, my mother became dependent on alcohol and my father moved...
Our desire to be liked is linked with our not living for ourselves. It is a symptom of choosing to live based on the judgements of others instead of living in our own authentic lives. Recently, I had an amazing opportunity: I was able to see Barak Obama speak live....
I was probably around 11 or so when I started to feel immense shame around who I was. As you would imagine as I grew into a teenager, my memories are of being under constant assault by my peers and friends. It may not have been...