Riding the waves

September 21, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

It’s possible to feel aligned and peace in your heart, yet still experience sadness and pain. It seems different waves of emotions are continually coming into my life. Some are waves from the past, finding their way back to the present through my emotions. And I want so hard to let this go, this divine […]

Growing up.

September 13, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

(You don’t need to live your best life right away.) I always thought my life would lead me in a particular direction. The momentum of my life was building up to a particular outcome, and then things changed. Things stopped. Things shifted with a bang. I think this same thing can be said for everyone. […]

Crayons

August 12, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

I feel like a little kid learning to color with crayons again. Picking the right colors, Trying to fill the spaces. Choosing a picture that I would like to bring to life. Working with direction, textures, mixing and experimenting. Being so excited when my new art is finished, Desiring to show someone what I am […]

What Makes Me Happy?

June 21, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Sometimes doing the right thing for myself feels wrong. I am used to what’s easy for me and used to comforts and the path of least resistance in my life. I am finding that improving myself is requiring making myself do things that I don’t feel like doing. Right now I have pretty much all […]

My Escape Button

March 25, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

For a few months now, I’ve been hitting an “escape button” in my life. I’ve had some challenges present themselves in my life, and escaping is one way I have dealt with that. I am not proud of this, and I wish I could say I reacted differently in some ways, though all of this […]

Be curious of your fears.

March 15, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Are you feeling fear like so many are right now? I invite you to explore your fear. Explore it instead of trying to melt it away with positivity. Find out why you are so afraid in the first place! Why are we so afraid? What do we have to lose? Who are we when we’ve […]

Acknowledge Yourself

February 20, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Start by writing down what’s troubling you. Let all your thoughts come out, uncensored. Let yourself write. After all your thoughts are there, reread the first sentence you wrote and say to yourself: I Acknowledge You, I See You, I Know You. Continue on to read the next sentence, repeat those words. Tell yourself that […]

Sunlight

February 19, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

No matter the day or the hour, I can count on sunlight to come around. It hides sometimes, but so do I. Sunlight is always there in some form, maybe even at times only a memory. At times, I choose to not see sunlight, I choose to look down instead. It hides sometimes, but so […]

Do Something Different

February 19, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

This the inspiration that came to me from watching a recording of a yoga class. “Do something different” If you’re feeling depressed, do something different. If you’re feeling anxious, do something different. If you want a change, do something different. It seems so simple. so simple, in fact, that we might overlook it. “I’m doing […]

Blinders