The Truth About Failure Some days we feel like we are propelled forward and then only hours or days later we are back at square one. Two steps forward…three steps back. We celebrate everything that looks like a win and quietly hide anything that looks like a loss… We have this idea that anything that looks like it is taking us backwards
Is Your Feasting Healthy? Food has always been an integral part of celebration in cultures worldwide. Feasting has been associated with abundance, harvest and even a sign of favor from the gods. Not too long ago, there was a cyclical and seasonal eating pattern that was based primarily on the growing seasons. There were times of feasting and times of fasting built
What Does Saying Sorry Too Much Say About You? Being able to apologize when you are in the wrong is an important part of being an emotionally healthy person. We need to be able to own our mistakes and things that we have done that have hurt other people, and do our best to make amends. However…there are many people who need
Are Your Labels Limiting You? If someone were to ask you what your defining identity is, what would you tell them? What I mean by that is… ...what is the one thing that influences and directs the vast majority of the decisions in your life? Are you a business owner? A caregiver? A cancer survivor? An activist? An employee? An immigrant? An
Tis' the Season For most of us, our expectations of what the holidays should be are several steps above the expectations that we have throughout the rest of the year. We expect more quality time with family and friends. We expect to form special memories. We expect to eat well, engage in annual traditions and put on our fanciest clothes. We also
Being Vs Doing It is to remind us that it is not about what we do, it's about who we are… Our value is found in who we are as divine and unconditionally loved souls… Not in what we do Being busy or productive or overly helpful doesn’t increase or decrease our value at the level of the divine. There is a
What are you looking at? When you are learning to drive a car, you realize very quickly that the car will go exactly where you are looking... If you are looking straight down the road, the car will go straight down the road. If you are looking at the ditch, you will end up in the ditch. We are taught that if
Change Your Words, Change Your Life I sometimes can’t help but cringe when I hear the way people talk about themselves and their lives. Knowing what I know about the power of words and subconscious beliefs, I am sensitive to the messages that I hear those around me telling themselves, especially when I know those messages are rooted in false beliefs that
6 Ways to Release Trapped Emotions From Your Body Did you know that our cells all have memory? Whatever is going on in our environment is being recorded by not only our brain, but also our body. In fact, even when our brain is not consciously recording something, our body still is. Our body will hold trauma, anger, fear, isolation and many
The Power of Silence When is the last time you were in a place of total silence? A place where there was no music or television in the background, no voices, no traffic or even the sound of your fridge running? These true moments of silence are rare and can actually be unnerving for many people when they do happen. Have you
