Love Light

Life is a continual process of growth and change, learning and discovery, and an opportunity to make healthy choices to live a meaningful life. We often find ourselves struggling against forces which we have no control, and we learn to adapt in order or to survive. The world is filled with complex systems of interacting forces. We are constantly bombarded with information, false beliefs, illusions...

Are you stuck in the story of who you think you are? How can you release the past and let go? How can you learn the lessons? In my book, Living in the Spirit of Love: Our Natural State of Being, I sharethe transformational Power of Sankofa that inspired me to look back, take what is valuable, and move forward to write a new chapter in my life, a new love story. A quote from the West African Transl...

How does it feel to be free? What does freedom mean to you? How can you truly be free? Freedom is essential to our human nature and a  condition for happiness and well-being. Liberty and true happiness are paramount to moral living. Trapped in fear and abandoning feedom, we create our own prison. Whether living in bondage from the past, indulging in self-condemning thoughts or limiting self-impose...

Spiritual abundance gives us a fresh view and appreciation for the fullness of life. What is enough? What is a satisfied life? What is a successful life? The strong ambition to succeed, advance and have higher aspirations is admirable. The illusion of satisfaction, comfort and insatiable desire for status and material abundance leavess us languishing for more and often comparing ourselves to other...

What does it feel like to live and love wholeheartedly? When we experience healthy and wholehearted connections with ourselves and others, we feel a sense of value and worth. Our authentic, positive and effective presence is comforting and leaves both the receiver and the giver feeling intact and whole. Whe we live and love with our whole hearts, we become more aware of ourselves in the context of...

What are your relationships revealing? Do you see what you really need to see? How can you learn to be better?  We learn in the context of our relationships, and the world is a looking glass reflecting back what we need to know. Our innate desire is to have nurturing and intimate relationships, experience good friendships, and have positive interations with others. Relationships, whether in our pe...

How you get along with yourself is a reflection of how you get along with others. How you treat yourself is a reflection of how you treat others. Are you your best friend and ally? What are the sources of unrest that make inner peace seem impossible, and how can we rise above it all? Whether it is lack of peace with ourselves and others driven by pride, competition, envy, selfishness and ambition,...

How can we overcome adversity? How can we adapt to constant change and uncertainty? Spiritual resilience sustains us during challenging times by relying on internal and external resources. The remedy for life challenges is always available and readily accessible by realizing our innate power to overcome obstacles. We can build spiritual resilience through the four pillars of joyful surrender, true...

What does your best life look like? What does it feel life? What's holding you back? These are questions for gentle self-reflection to guage where you are currently in your life and discern if you are living or just existing. Dr. Jean Marie shares 7 Keys for Living Your Best Life : Be mindfully present, Make responsible choices, Continue to grow and serve, Enjoy simple pleasures, Appreciate what y...

We are constantly bombarded with our own thoughts and outside forces that disrupt our peace. Whether it's a series of events, behavior of others, or our own life challenges, we feel tired, exhausted and at risk of losing ourselves in fear. How do we get to a place of peace? How do we reclaim our power and return to our natural state of peace, love and joy. Dr. Jean Marie shares 5 strategies: Getti...

This episode will focus on kindness to ourselves and others. Self-kindness is treating ourselves with compassion, showing interest in ourselves and wholeheartedly accepting who we are. The outcome is increased happiness and a positive outlook. It boosts self-esteem and gives us a sense of belonging to ourselves. When we are kind to ourselves we show others how to treat us. These acts of self-kindn...

How can we live in harmony? How can we heal our relationships? How can we appreciate our commonalities and respect differences. In our current state of affairs, we are  witnessing much discord with a need for healing and harmony. We have become fractured within our human selves, alienated, isolated and disconnected. However, many communities have united in peace and love, raising consciousness and...

Humilty empowers us to achieve self-mastery, transform our relationships and enrich our lives through selfless service. Humilty is a foundation ingredient of love. It is recognized as an essential quality for soulful leadership. This ingredient of love takes us out of ego and regarded as a quiet virtue. When we are humble, we are not puffed up, haughty, prideful and arrogant. We do not have an exa...

Love is not something new to learn. We are love at our core. Love is inherent and the essence of who we truly are. Due to deep conditioned fear and faulty beliefs, we forget our truth. Lift yourself by embodying the higher ideals of love to achieve self-mastery.  Becoming the master of your self is the ultimate empowerment that requires awareness and practice.  Our thoughts and feeling determine o...

Knowing ourselves and becoming who we are meant to be is an onging endeavor by overcoming and developing a healthy relationship with ourselves.  The old adage, " To Thine Own Self Be True " is like looking at ourselves through our own mirror to authentically understand and accept ourselves; and acknowlege our strengths and capabilities for self discovery. As we endeavor on our life's journey, it i...

How do we transform our lives? Where do we start? Our journesys are so unique yet similar in regards to transformation. Love is the answer. We have an innate desire to return home to divine love, which is always there for us to access. Divine love is our power source that is stable and unchanging.  Our life's journeys can be equated to any journey that we embark on. If we follow our inner guidance...

This episode focuses on Love as a Pathway to Flourish. Living in love is empowering and refreshing. When we flourish in love, we master our lives. We must nurture and care for our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Thus, we can give from a full cup of self-love that is empowering. Cultivating love in our lives comes from the integration of this innate and natural love, which is t...

This episode highlights the Voice of Love that is always speaking to us. Do we listen? Do we pay attention? How can the voice of love guide us every moment of the day?  Dr. Jean Marie highlights that we may become so mired in negativity and unworthiness that we are unable to hear the whisper of love that is trying to guide us back home to our true self. Our love light becomes dim and obscued by ou...

Love is the essensence of who we truly are. So, how can we re-member, rediscover and reclaim our natural state of being. Love is our divine power. How can we feel the love within ourselves? How can we truly dwell in love? When we love ourselves, we naturally radiate love to others.  This was inspired by a listeners question, " How can I treat myself lovingly". Dr. Jean Marie shares the Wholistic M...

Love is the greatest thing in the world and fundamental to human existence. We are true expressions of divinity and love is our natural state of being. Love is not just a mere sentiment or offhand casual remark without much thought. Do your really feel the love in your heart for those whom you're expressing love to or is it just an expected response based on conditions? During this conversation, D...

Conversations on Love is a new series to gain insights about love and how to cultivate a loving relationship with yourself. How to master loving yourself. Love is our natural state of being and the essence of who we truly are. However, many feel unloving, unlovable and unworthy. Overtime life experiences, faulty beliefs formulated from childhood and onward influenced, shaped by family, religion, c...

Health is closely related to our emotional states. Emotions arise as a consequence of events, but they are interpreted through our personal histories. While our histories have many layers, most are stored in the unconscious mind. Negative emotions are based on fear and affet the body by subjecting it to stress, which in turn is the cause of most illnesses, and what is stress but fear? Fear of not...

Why is it difficult for so many people to turn off their heads? Do people actually have conversations with other people in their own minds, and if so, why? What's the differenc between posotive thinking and negative thinking? Our internal conversations can control how we thihk, but do they also affect how we behave? Faust Ruggiero speaks about his upcoming handbook, "How To Fix Your Internal Lanua...

Join us for an inspirational and empowering episode exploring the transformative power of placemaking in creating vibrant, equitable communities, and places for people. We will unpack  how thoughtful community led-urban planning and design can revolutionize community health, social captital, accessibility, and ongoing representation.  Our special Guest is placemaking visionary Edwin Linderkamp, wh...

In order to enact the change we need in this world we need to renew our committment to leadership based on service to others and a recognition that every person is sacred. Ian Haycroft, joining us from Australia, is the Founder of ClearMindWay. Ian supports the awakening of as many people as possible, so that together we can build and sustain peaceful and just communities. His work with businesses...