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...]
3 Ways to Stay in High Vibration When Life Gets Tough
Although you are in a physical body, you are connected to an energy field that is formless, vibrating, and emanates from you. You can consciously plug into this energetic field through prayer, meditation, being in nature, or simple mindfulness. Such higher awareness opens you to your divinity and strengthens your sense of connection with others and the universe. Knowing that I can connect to this energy has always been my touchstone in the midst of fear and turmoil. As a little girl, I found solace in knowing that I was connected to an energy that sourced through me. At the time, I didn’t know how to explain this universal connection I … [Read more...]
5 Sacred Strategies to Move from Stuckness to Inner Freedom
In every moment, we have a choice to move forward or remain stuck. When we feel stuck, it feels as if the same old things are repeating themselves or we’re just going through the motions. “Stuckness” is a state of paralysis where you feel unable to make a change. This sense of stuckness is at pandemic levels right now. As a collective, we are suffering from anxiety, depression, and hopelessness more than ever before. Most of us crave change and want to be free from suffering, but we don’t know how to create such freedom. Above all, we will continue to perpetuate these negative patterns, conditioning, and beliefs unless we do the … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Transcend Fear and Negativity & Shift to Love
Transcending fear and negativity can be challenging when we are constantly bombarded with negative words, messages, and images. Yet, we can lift out of this toxicity by connecting to a higher power or divine source (whatever that means to us) through our hearts. Many of us feel adrift and detached, having lost our spiritual compass and any kind of higher guidance. We may wander aimlessly through life, waiting for something to fill the spiritual void we experience. Thus, we try to shift the burden of responsibility for our spiritual awakening onto others and do not acknowledge the innate power we have to create it for ourselves. From the … [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...]
4 Sacred Practices to Awaken to Your Soul’s Purpose
You are here to feel inspired, create joy, and fulfill your soul’s purpose. Like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, you are liberating yourself from anything that shackles your soul. You are being called, nudged and even frustrated to the point of waking up. It’s time---no more postponing your soul’s call to action. When you experience the things that take your breath away or make your heart sing, you live with passion and purpose. You step out of the shadows and into the light, aligned with your soul’s path. Above all, you realize that your full soul-expression is greater than the job you do, the roles you play, or how successful you … [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...]
4 Sacred Practices to Awaken to Your Soul’s Purpose
You are here to feel inspired, create joy, and fulfill your soul’s purpose. Like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, you are liberating yourself from anything that shackles your soul. You are being called, nudged and even frustrated to the point of waking up. It’s time---no more postponing your soul’s call to action. When you experience the things that take your breath away or make your heart sing, you live with passion and purpose. You step out of the shadows and into the light, aligned with your soul’s path. Above all, you realize that your full soul-expression is greater than the job you do, the roles you play, or how successful you … [Read more...]