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Surviving Loss
I don’t think I’m alone when I say I lost someone this year. Have you suffered a loss recently? If so, I’m right here with you and send you the biggest hug filled with love and hope. I lost my dad unexpectedly on August 1st from a simple surgery that had a 1% chance of going wrong. My dad...
How I Stepped Out of Fear And Into The Life I Wanted
Are you feeling trapped in your life with your heart screaming for more? If so, I get you 100%! It’s time to listen to your heart and start taking action to the life you want. I moved from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Bay Area in my early 20’s to start a “life” for myself and my son....
Desperate For Change But Frozen By Fear…
Making a life change is no joke. It’s one thing to dream about a different life but to take the leap is a whole other beast. The beast is FEAR. This is where most people will give up. First our heart speaks and we have this exhilaration of excitement of how incredible life could...
Our Primal Instinct…Are You Connected?
If I asked how you feel inside, what would you say? In today’s society we are trained to live super busy lives, juggling a million things, and trying to survive the day. Most times when we do have downtime we find more busy things to do. We are chronically distracted. You know what...
How to Not Look Back on Your Life With Regret
I’ve been thinking a lot in the last year about what I want my life to be. I think we all tend to fall into this pattern of “the norm” and think we are living. But it’s so clear with how unhappy people are these days that this boring chaotic “normal” existence is not feeding our souls. Can...
What If The Answer To Our Problems Is “Simple”?
Our endless problems overwhelm us. They overwhelm us because we meditate on them and think of the worst scenarios to go along with them. I did this for the majority of my life. Give me a problem and I’ll turn it into a fiery monster and worry myself into oblivion! The most...
Are You Speaking To Yourself With The Same Painful Words From Those Who Have Hurt You?
Have you ever taken a good look at how you internally speak to yourself? Most times we are speaking to ourselves the way others have treated us in our past and we don’t even realize it. Do you have a constant replay in your mind saying “What is wrong with me”? Are you hard on yourself?...
What Do You Really Want For Your Life In The New Year?
As we move into a new year, we start to look back at what went right…what went wrong in the previous year. Are we happy? Are we not? What do we want to do better next year? What do we want to accomplish? What is your yearly ritual? Do you have one? If so, does it work for you? ...
4 Ways To Put The “Happy” Back In The Holidays
As the holidays grow near many people are getting stressed. They don’t even want to hear anything about the holidays. Their blood pressure rises with the mere thought of it. People grumble about the holidays coming every year (myself included). A time that is supposed to be special...
Thankful For The Scars
Do you ever feel beaten down and battered by life? Your soul is drained from the obstacles and suffering you’ve been through and some days you just don’t feel like you can carry on? Or worse, you want everyone else to pay for your pain?We typically respond to hard things and suffering with...
When Darkness Falls
Sometimes in life we get placed somewhere that ends up being a very difficult and dark environment. Have you ever started a new job and absolutely hated it? Maybe it was a problem with management or a problem with your peers. I think we’ve all been there. It doesn’t have to be a job, it...
Expectations Are Stealing Our Life Experiences
Expectations. We know of them. We know we have them. But do we realize the depth of which we have them and what a huge impact they have on our lives and those around us? Are a lot of your actions based on what you think other people want you to do or how they want you to act? Do...
Living In The Now
Are you stressed out most of the time? Overwhelmed by everything in your life? Is your mind constantly going a hundred miles an hour? Do you have a short fuse? Full of anxiety? Do you feel like you are merely “surviving” the day? I spent a good chunk of my life this way. I was focused...
Do You Feel Broken?
Am I broken? This is a question I used to ask myself quite often. Do you feel broken? Like there are things inside of you that you don’t understand and don’t know where they are coming from? You act in ways or feel certain things and don’t know why you do them or think them? Do you feel...
Want A Positive Life? Think About What You Are Thinking About…
Do you realize that our thoughts determine our moods and reactions? They dictate whether we live happy and peaceful or chaotic with anxiety and stress. I used to just let my thoughts run wild in my mind. I never realized that I had the power to control what I allowed into my mind. ...
What Mask Are You Wearing?
Do you realize that a lot of things we do in our lives are based on what others think of us or what we want them to think of us? It’s amazing how people focused we are nowadays and we don’t even realize it. Many years ago if you would have said I was living for others, I’d say no way, I...
Finding Calm in the Storm…
We live in a chaotic time. There are scary things happening, we’re stressed, we’re overworked, we’re in debt, we’re sick, we’re over extended. There always seems to be some kind of storm going on in our lives. All of this causes chaos in our minds to where we can’t hear our hearts. ...
Stop Living a Fear Based Life!
Fear. It comes in so many forms that most of the time we don’t even realize we are making decisions based on fear. It sneaks in, it deceives us. Fear is a liar. When we worry, when we stress, when we’re jealous, when we judge others, when we are insecure, when we follow the crowd...these...
Are You Stressed Out???
Do you feel like the lady in this picture? Like your whole body is getting ready to spontaneously combust? I sure used to! I may not have looked like that but I definitely felt like that inside. Are you sick of feeling like crap? Stressed out, exhausted, frustrated, miserable, and...
Why You Feel Stuck and Unhappy…..
Do you find yourself feeling down and unmotivated? Or worse, depressed, stressed out, and miserable? Maybe you’ve lost your excitement for life? It feels like all you do is work and try to get endless lists completed which leaves you exhausted at the end of the day? Do you spend Sunday...
Where Are These Feelings Coming From???
Do you have a lot of emotions that pop up? Do you anger easily? Or do you have moments where someone said something and it really upset you? Do you have certain triggers that affect you every time they come up? Emotions can be really hard to control and can make life and relationships...
Complaining is Draining!
Complaining is a tough subject. We all do it. We all have that urge to “vent” when we are going through hard things. Do you know anyone who constantly complains? If so, how does it make you feel when you’re around that person? It feels heavy and exhausting doesn’t it? I have a few of those...
A Childlike Heart…
There is nothing more precious than the heart of a child. Children live fully from their hearts and dream endlessly. They are fearless, they are creative! I love hearing kids talk to themselves because they have a constant stream of dreaming and make believe happening inside of them. Remember...
Want to Feel Happier? Try Kindness…
When we are suffering, going through hard times, when we’re cranky, tired, have work stress, family stress, not feeling well...the last thing we want to do is be bothered with other people or be nice. The reason we feel that way is because we have given our problem all the power....
Do Your Dreams Feel Impossible?
Do you feel trapped in your current life with dreams unfulfilled? Life just didn’t go as you had planned? Things out of your control happened? You have things that you’d love to do but you put them on the back burner? Or do you dread going to a soul sucking job everyday but you stay because it...
Focusing on Thankfulness Changed My Life!
In America we have abundance. Even if we are barely making ends meet we are considered wealthier than 75% of the world. Instead of living in poverty, we live with heavy stress and pressure. Sometimes abundance takes away simplicity and causes chaos instead. Every day we have a million...
You’re Ready to Connect to Your Heart and Find Your Purpose But Don’t Know Where to Start?
Connecting to yourself, finding your purpose, and living a heart guided life sounds amazing right? But where the heck do you start?? That’s how I felt when I realized I was so miserable because my heart was guiding me in a new direction. I was identifying what felt heavy and what was...
Hearing Your Heart in a Chaotic World
I watched an interesting documentary recently about how after the war and the depression, America put this new design in place which was to go to college, get a degree, find a career with a company, climb the ladder, get married, buy a house, work hard, raise a family, then finally at 65 years old...