It’s challenging to go through the holidays without being emotionally triggered or stressed out. You want to be loving and peaceful with every encounter you have. You want to stay calm and centered and move through the season with ease and grace. Yet, the holiday season is upon y ou before you’ve wrapped your first gift, baked a cookie, or got your joy on. So How do you stay calm, centered, and intentional at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Preciously Care for Yourself During the Holidays
It’s challenging to go through the holidays without feeling overwhelmed or stressed out. You want to remain loving, peaceful, and move through the holidays with ease and grace. But, how do you stay calm, centered, and energized at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. Too often during the holidays, you set aside your own needs while caring for others or put off self-care in favor of the endless holiday to-do lists, expectations, … [Read more...]
5 Precious Self-Care Practices for a Stress-Free Holiday
It’s challenging to go through the holidays without being emotionally triggered or stressed out. You want a loving and peaceful with everyone you encounter. You want to stay calm and centered and move through the season with ease and grace. Yet, the holiday season is upon you before you’ve even wrapped your first gift, baked a cookie, or got your joy on. So how do you stay calm, centered, and intentional at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. Too … [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...]
Healing Insecurity and the Unhealthy Patterns that Stem from It
Feelings of insecurity undermine your health, career, and relationships. Such feelings create anxiety, diminish your confidence, and erode your self-esteem. You may believe if you do more, achieve more, or care more, you will finally “be enough.” Yet, when you feel insecure, you deny our power and sabotage your success. You live in a perpetual state of self-doubt, afraid to freely express your true self. As a result, you try to overcompensate for your insecurities through unhealthy patterns such as people-pleasing, approval-seeking, needing to control, and care-taking. Feelings of insecurity develop early in our lives. The relationship we … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Be of Service During Caregiving Without Losing Yourself
"A true caregiver opens her heart compassionately and emits a positive flow of energy with others without suffering with them." ~ Dr. Debra Reble Even with all the strides women have made, we are still discovering how to be of service without losing ourselves. We tend to lose our sense of self in relationships while focusing on our partner or family. Most of all, we often forget that we are whole and worthwhile apart from the “caretaker” roles we play. Like many women, I’ve been a “caretaker” most of my life. Yet, it’s only been recently that I’ve become a “caregiver.” I’ve discovered that there’s a difference between the two. As a … [Read more...]
Your Soul Legacy: Leaving A Legacy of Love
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two, my life flows.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj Leaving a legacy of love begins with positive energy and a healthy optimism for your future and the future of your world. When you channel love and create what you want in alignment with what is best for yourself and others, this flow becomes a spiritual path that leads to living joyfully, abundantly, and well. Leaving a legacy of love is the path of seeing life as a challenge, an adventure―and, most of all, a gift. Being and expressing love is your soul legacy and your purpose in being here on earth. People who … [Read more...]
5 Positive Changes to Embrace from Your Spiritual Quarantine
This time of spiritual quarantine has challenged us to let go and become clear of what’s truly important in our lives. It has shown us the unhealthy habits, endless distractions, and self-sabotaging behaviors that keep us stuck and hold us back from living our best lives. This sacred self-quarantine gives us the opportunity to create a new “normal" for all of us. What's going to be your new normal? Here are 5 Positive Changes to Embrace from Your Spiritual Quarantine Keep It Simple: Simplicity of the present moment originates in the heart, not the mind. It’s grounded in your present awareness in connection with your divine source. … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Preciously Care for Yourself During the Holidays
It’s challenging to go through the holidays without being emotionally triggered or stressed out. You want to be loving and peaceful with every encounter you have. You want to stay calm and centered and move through the season with ease and grace. Yet, the holiday season is upon you before you’ve wrapped your first gift, baked a cookie, or got your joy on. So how do you stay calm, centered, and intentional at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. … [Read more...]
8 Ways to Detox & Restore Your Body, Mind, & Spirit
After any negative encounter or stressful situation, it’s important that you emotionally, spiritually and physcially detox any negative energies you may have absorbed. Like a sponge, your sensitive energy field is porous and can soak up the energy from others. This often leads to compassion fatigue or empathy overload. Here are several sacred strategies you can use to detox and restore energetic balance to your body, mind and spirit: Take frequent breaks throughout the day to decompress and restore balance. You can take this quiet time through meditation, journaling, or reflection. It takes only five minutes to recalibrate your … [Read more...]