Solitude is good for the soul. Creating space to be alone sustains your connection with your heart, your true being, and your soul’s journey. It’s also essential to your health, happiness and well-being. Most of all, it gives you the opportunity to tune in, reflect and cultivate self-awareness so you can bring your life into alignment with your soul’s path. Spending time alone wasn’t always easy for me. I used to feel tremendous anxiety when I would sit still and be with myself. All I wanted to do was run away from the uncomfortable feelings that surfaced when I took time to sit alone, feel my feels, and tune in to the spiritual … [Read more...]
4 Simple Ways to Lean Into Life (Instead of Trying to Control It)
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” ~ Alice Walker One of the ways you know you’re feeling out of control of your life is when you notice yourself trying to micromanage everyone and everything. When you feel yourself needing to control, it’s time to pause, lean in to these feelings, and ask yourself what’s really going on within you. The need to control stems from insecurity and you use it as a substitute for internal security. Unfortunately, this fear-based pattern only generates an illusion of stability. It displaces an absolute trust in yourself and your connection to source onto external … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Peel Away & Release Your Layers
Healing our pain, limiting beliefs, and unhealthy patterns requires that we continuously peel away the layers. Like the Turkish pastry baklava, with its fragile phyllo dough layers, the subtle layers of our patterns must be peeled away on a continuous basis. Often, we unconsciously create life experiences that reveal the next layer of a pattern to peel away, a process that occurs throughout our lives and is essential to our spiritual growth. This healthy clearing process is like skin sloughing off dead cells that accumulate and block the growth of new cells. Animals, birds, and plants also move through a regenerative clearing … [Read more...]
The Power of Choosing to Respond to Life Instead of React
It’s not always easy to respond when life comes at you especially when there’s so much chaos and unpredictability in the world. You may feel like you are powerless when it comes to health, financial, or relationship issues. Yet, you can take your power back by choosing to respond to life. Being responsible, “able to respond,” gives you the power to be the co-creator of your life and not the victim of your circumstances. Our lives are made of up of a series of choices everyday----whether or not we get out of bed, what we eat during the day, how we spend our time, whether to continue with a relationship, or what we do for a career. Each and … [Read more...]