I was talking with a girlfriend the other day and she told me how she was waiting in line at the grocery store and started eavesdropping on a conversation two women were having in front of her. One of the women said, “Now that I am in my 40’s I really don’t care what...
I was thinking about the quote, “Misery loves company,” because there are some people in my life who feels like they are looking for company for their misery. I am working on being compassionate, but it can get difficult, at times. I believe they are good people and...
I went on a hike with a friend a couple of weeks ago. The hike is called Devils Causeway. When my girlfriend explained the hike, she said it was on her bucket list and would love it if I joined her. I immediately said, yes! I love hiking and helping my friend cross...
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...
I’m in the middle of writing a book. It is something I’ve started and stopped many times. I feel like it's time to complete it. As I was writing, it struck me how far I have come regarding my fertility journey. If you don’t know, I don’t have children. I wanted to...
You may be asking to forgive who? For what? I believe that forgiveness is a powerful practice to incorporate into your life. Let me explain. Sometimes we do or say things that we want to be forgiven for - but instead, we push it aside and tell ourselves it is no big...
Hi, my name is Monica and I am still in recovery from being a people-pleaser. Lately, I’ve been feeling like my people-pleasing tendencies are coming back to the surface. At first, I got a little annoyed with myself. I thought, “Why is this coming back up? I thought I...
Have you ever met someone and they seemed perfectly nice, cordial, and friendly when they greeted you, but something about them rubbed you the wrong way? Everyone else that meets this person thinks they are great, but not you. They haven’t said or done anything to...
Can you let it be? Or are you someone that feels the need to dig in, figure it out, and get to the root cause - so that you can understand the reason something happened or didn’t happen? I would say that I’ve been more the type of person that likes to dig into things,...
As an intuitive healer, I focus a lot on energy. My energy, the energy of the things, people, places around me. Everything in the universe is made up of energy. We are all made of energy and it is always changing and shifting. How aware are you of your energy? Do you...
What is your relationship to sugar? My relationship is good, for the most part - now, but in the past, it was more of a love-hate thing. I loved eating sugar, especially chewy candy - Swedish fish, Mike & Ikes, Twizzlers, and cinnamon bears. Then I would hate...