It’s challenging to go through the holidays without being emotionally triggered or stressed out. You want to be loving and peaceful with every encounter you have. You want to stay calm and centered and move through the season with ease and grace. Yet, the holiday season is upon y ou before you’ve wrapped your first gift, baked a cookie, or got your joy on. So How do you stay calm, centered, and intentional at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you … [Read more...]
15 Ways You Can Create Peace as an Ambassador of Light
You can create peace as an “Ambassador of the Light” in these challenging times. As an ambassador of the light, you are here on Earth to assist in the evolution of humanity to a higher level of consciousness. That doesn’t mean you have to be like Atlas holding the whole world on your shoulders. You can create peace by stopping to help someone in need, holding the space of love for someone in pain, or acknowledging people with smile. Let others see how happy, joyful, and peaceful you are, even when life is extremely challenging. The key to being an Ambassador of Light is that others feel completely loved and accepted in your presence. How … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Preciously Care for Yourself During the Holidays
It’s challenging to go through the holidays without feeling overwhelmed or stressed out. You want to remain loving, peaceful, and move through the holidays with ease and grace. But, how do you stay calm, centered, and energized at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. Too often during the holidays, you set aside your own needs while caring for others or put off self-care in favor of the endless holiday to-do lists, expectations, … [Read more...]
Holding the Space in Love for a Miracle
“Where love is present, there are always miracles.” Dr. Debra Reble On a typical gray winter day in Cleveland, I sat on the edge of the examining table in my oncologist’s office, gazing out the window and trying to soothe the terror that was rising within me. It was just yesterday that I was planning our spring vacation to New York City, driving my daughter to middle school, and sending care packages to my son at college. It was just last week that I committed to finishing my first book. It was just six years ago that I left an unhealthy marriage, met the love of my life, and married him in a romantic ceremony in Florence, … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Preciously Care for Yourself During the Holidays
It’s challenging to go through the holidays without being emotionally triggered or stressed out. You want to be loving and peaceful with every encounter you have. You want to stay calm and centered and move through the season with ease and grace. Yet, the holiday season is upon you before you’ve wrapped your first gift, baked a cookie, or got your joy on. So how do you stay calm, centered, and intentional at this time of year? You consciously slow down, create sacred space, and give yourself precious self-care. Precious self-care requires that you nurture yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. … [Read more...]
Stepping Out of the Shadows of Shame and into Self-Love
Disconnecting from ourselves or others early in life is often prompted by feelings of shame. In her research, author, Brené Brown identifies shame as the “intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and, therefore, unworthy of love and belonging.” Throughout our lives, we absorb shame messages, such as, “I’m unlovable, I’m not good enough, or I’m unworthy of love.” Wearing this cloak of shame keeps us from loving who we are and being connected with ourselves and others. In my case, the shame-based core belief, “I’m unworthy of love” took root after my mother abandoned me when I was eight years old. For twenty … [Read more...]
6 Sacred Steps to Inviting In Your Beloved Soul Partner
“To find the beloved, you must become the beloved.” ~ Rumi Having a soul-hearted partnership with yourself is the foundation for inviting into your life a beloved partner. To attract a soul-hearted partnership, you must become your own beloved partner. The same goes if you want genuine love, you must be a loving person. If you desire absolute trust, you must be trustworthy. If you want true intimacy, you must be open and truthful with yourself and others. You attract what you desire in a partner by embodying those qualities. Here are 6 sacred practices that will assist you in inviting in your beloved partner: Take purposeful … [Read more...]
3 Spiritual Practices to Guide Your Life in the New Year
We all have powerful intuitive moments when we channel information that comes directly from our divine source. These divine downloads are when our heart expands, time stands still, and we tap into the essence of our soul. Recently I received these divine downloads and want to share them with you to support you on your soul’s path in the new year. Trust that you receive what you want or need for your highest and best good. When you step into your spiritual power and heed the calling of your soul, you are given every opportunity to let go of anything that impedes your spiritual progression. This means every pattern, mindset, and emotional … [Read more...]
The Pivotal Moment I Let Go of an Unhealthy Relationship and Chose to Love Myself
In all our relationships, it’s essential that we find a point of balance between supporting our own needs, wants, and desires and those of another person. When we fail to satisfy our own needs, it results in no one’s needs being fully satisfied. Instead of asking for or manifesting what we want or desire, we become tolerant of mediocrity in our relationships. Although it’s wonderful to have a strong drive to support, serve, or assist others, in our need to give, we sometimes become overly responsible or over cooperate. This pattern debilitates us and those we serve. This tendency to over help can lead to a pattern of co-dependency where we … [Read more...]
Self-Love: The Key to Transforming Our Relationships and the World
By loving yourself wholeheartedly, you can change the world. You become a conduit for love when you fully embrace and express your true nature—which is, and has always been, love. The more you love yourself, the more you eliminate negativity, connect compassionately with others, and become ambassadors of love in the world. Like dropping a pebble into a pond, loving yourself creates an energetic vibration that radiates outward from your heart center and shifts everyone and everything in its path. When you emanate the highest frequency of love, you not only receive the benefits of the high vibration, but also raise the vibration of others … [Read more...]