Knowing there’s something more
The last couple of months I’ve been experiencing an interesting energy building inside me. I’ve shared with a few people that the image I get is of a racehorse ready to run, but stuck in the starting gate. It may have started around my birthday,…
Uncovering Your Authentic You
I recently had a guest on my Heart & Chutzpah podcast. Her topic was about her journey from doing all the “right things” but feeling lost and miserable to finding how to love herself unconditionally. One of the things she mentioned was self-abandonment. After we’d…
Trusting what you know
. “What a struggle it has been for us to repress our knowing for all these years…for all these centuries. Our addiction to doing too much enables us to ignore our own wisdom, so that we fit more easily into an addictive society. How often…
Cranky pants
A couple of times this week I’ve wakened cranky. Snippets of unpleasant dreams still playing in my mind. Ugh. Everything annoys me: the whining of the coffee grinder, the cat playing her game: mewing to be let in – and then walking away when I…
Setting Ourselves Free
“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her writing ‘yes’ in the sky.” Monique Duval Have you ever decided to free yourself from a situation that had you in chains of some sort? It…
Grant Yourself Permission
Who could have imagined 2020 would turn out like it has? I lean towards being an introvert, so for most of the last five months, sheltering in place hadn’t been a huge problem. But this month something changed. I’d reached my limit for being…
And Guidance said…
Recently, I was able to participate in a virtual spiritual retreat (Wow! Despite some of the issues I have with technology, it definitely makes some things easier and more available!). One of the clearest messages I received was pretty simple, but felt profound at the…
Awakening the FLAMBÉ
Although it’s several weeks in, I want to wish you special blessings for 2020 and the new decade! These are exciting times, aren’t they? Not necessarily comfortable, but exciting. More and more of us recognizing the need to shake the old off, so we can…
Does Shame Keep You From Shining?
Just wanted to post a quick little Love Note today – we’re having some beautiful weather here and it’s great to get out and do a little gardening – mostly weed pulling, to be honest! As I write that, I realize how easily I can…