Do you hold back how you truly feel? Do you know how you truly feel? Take this moment to take a deep breath in with me. Drop your shoulders. Relax your jaw, open and stretch your mouth. Now check in with how you are feeling. Was it easy or difficult to connect to...
Have you ever been infatuated with someone or something? You know, borderline obsessed? A friend was talking about her teenage daughter who is currently infatuated with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. Her daughter cannot see how poorly this boy treats her. She...
We were spending the weekend in the mountains with some friends and their infant son. We were waiting to be seated at a restaurant when this older man turned to my friend, looked at her baby in the car seat, and said, “You need to cover up your baby better, it’s a...
Do you believe that EVERYONE is doing their best? No one is excluded - not your spouse, partner, co-worker, friend, neighbor, etc. What about your mom? Your dad? The person that raised you? Do you believe they are doing their best? I unknowingly excluded my mom from...
The holiday season is here. How are you feeling? Are you excited, stressed, happy, sad, nervous, anxious, depressed, lonely, or all of the above? I definitely have mixed feelings about them. This time of year can bring up so much for people. It can bring up sadness...
There is a pattern that I have experienced and have seen in many women in my life. The pattern is being in a relationship where you start to feel like you are being taken advantage of. It can occur between family members, partners, friends, etc. Anyone, you have an...
Relationships - sometimes they are great and sometimes they are not so great. Are you nodding your head up and down with me? For example, they can fill us with happiness, joy, pleasure, love, excitement or sadness, grief, stress, fear, and anger - to name just a few...
“The purpose of my life is to let things go.” This has been my mantra lately. It was something that Michael Singer, author of the Untethered Soul discussed in a video I recently watched. This mantra has stuck with me. “The purpose of my life is to let things go.” I...
I was looking at past journal entries at a time when I was struggling and felt stuck in life. I noticed how at the beginning of many of those entries I would write about how I may be hiding from my emotions - from how I was really feeling, which at the time was sad,...
Have you ever been in a situation where someone in your life will not communicate with you - no matter how hard you try? I am going through this right now. There is someone in my life that I love dearly, whom I have tried to reach out to many times, but have received...