Self-Care For The Soul

You might be older, wiser, and a bit more mature than this, but you can probably recognize it as the battle cry of the teenager: “You cannot tell me what to do, and more you try, the harder I will fight to do what I want, and if you push I’ll do the opposite just to spite you!” I might not have been aware of it at the time, but my teenage self certainly sang that song a time or twenty. And “the op...

The desire for self-improvement is innate. We are born with a desire to advance. Without it, a baby would never crawl or stand or walk.    When a baby is learning to walk, he will inevitably fall down, not just once but many times before he masters the skill of walking. And then he will want to run.   When a baby falls down, we don’t think twice about acceptance.&nbsp...

A friend once said to me, “A leopard doesn’t change his spots.” He was making the point that people do not change who they are.    It may be true that we are who we are and that does not change. However, it is also true that we do not always know who we are and are therefore not always living true to ourselves – and this can make us look like spotted leopards when we are not. ...

It’s been a while since we focused on the meditation itself, going deeper into the still point in the heart to connect, listen, receive, rest, awaken, rejuvenate, pray, give thanks, or however you are guided.  This week’s Meditation & Healing Circle is just that – to deepen and follow what unfolds, however you are guided.    Listen to this episode for a heart-centered transforma...

It helps to get quiet and meditative in order to connect with Divine Flow. Our world keeps us so busy that we need to take time out to meditate and connect with Natural Rhythms in order to reset, listen for guidance or receive divine inspiration.   But do you ever experience a disconnect when it’s time to move from the connected meditative flow state into action? Like you have to en...

That disapproving parent or sibling or spouse or teacher or boss or child – after enough of trying to please, your nervous system becomes poised for the attack. You know as soon as you come into their view, they are going to find something wrong with you – and they’ll let you know it.   The repetitive experiences create a cloud that follows you and darkens your pathway. You are wait...

We’ve all experienced hypocrisy – from religious institutions, governments, schools, the justice system, the legal system, from our parents and families . It’s impossible to avoid, and its effects can be detrimental. While working with a client this week, we uncovered a root cause of a long-held wound. It was the experience of hypocrisy. The wound was protected by a hard wall. What surfa...

When we want to heal the family, we need to care for the mother, to be the mother, to be the earth – the stable, grounding, healing, nurturing, loving force of compassion. On a larger scale, when we want to heal the world, we need to return to care for the Mother Earth – to support her and reinforce her qualities of stability, grounding, healing, nurturing, love, and compassion.   And we need...

My dear friend and spiritual traveler, Amina Deborah Lewis, joins us today. She put on her astrologer hat to bring us an outlook on what is happening in the cosmos over the next few months and how it supports our transition to living in peace, compassion, and harmony.   We seize the opportunity that is opening today with a healing exercise to help us let go of attachments and agendas as we ex...

We did it! We have just completed all 37 questions in all 5 sections from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.   Each of the 5 sections outlined a core teaching to living in Peace and Universal Harmony. Together they form a beautiful pathway of the human journey to return from our perceived separation to the reality of Tr...

We have just completed the section on “Spirituality” from the upcoming book, The Answer Is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace .   Today we recap this section with 4 Keys to Strengthen Your Divine Connection – to letting go of what you think you know and who you think you are in order to find Truth which your heart truly seeks.   The poet Rumi wrote:   “...

My spiritual teacher used to say, “Do not stop with any outside pictures. See the Face of God in everything.”    "Everything?" "Yes, everything." "But what about..." This includes everything outside ourselves and everything inside ourselves. And everything is One.   This means no separation, no you versus me, no judgment of better-worse, higher-lower, worthy-unwo...

What is Unity? And what does it mean to surrender into Unity Consciousness?    Unity means the state of being one. It means not making any separation between any parts of the whole, recognizing all parts of the All That Is as Only One.     Surrendering into Unity Consciousness means letting go of your separateness and dissolving into the Real. It means allowing y...

Existence is vast; it is infinite. Our seeing and hearing only perceive a small fraction of what exists all around us.   We are surrounded by angels, helpers, healers, guides, and jinn. They are here to help, and because we have free will, they have to wait for us to ask them to help.   In this episode we direct our focus to connect directly with our helpers and guides and we a...

Today we begin Section 5: Spirituality, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.    The question for today is “How do I know when I’ve found/reached Unconditional Love?” Life is a journey. Do we ever reach the state of Unconditional Love? Of course, we get glimpses and experience epiphanies, but can we maintain the...

Over the past 6 weeks, we explored the 6 questions in Section 4: Passion & Purpose, from the upcoming book: The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as We Transition into an Era of Peace.    Today we recap the bottom-line takeaways from this section and find 6 Keys to Living Your Passion & Purpose to bring perspective to your life journey, and increase trust and capacity for joy....

Life can get really heavy and intense sometimes – much of the time – and we can forget to have fun and feel the joy along the way.    If you are a person whose Passion and Purpose involves caring for those experiencing hardship or oppression, speaking for those whose voices are not heard, righting the wrongs in the world, or protecting the planet, your pursuit though fulfilling can take...

Do you ever feel like people don’t see you or value who you are and what you have to give?  You were created on purpose with a purpose for a purpose. You are meant to be here and fulfill that purpose.   The human journey includes learning to trust in your value and hold it with inner strength and confidence.    That is the topic of today’s Meditation & Healin...

My initial Spiritual Awakening came as a totally unexpected spontaneous event. Not drug induced or intentional in any conscious way, it lasted a full week. It changed my life from that day forward, but after that week of epiphany, I was re-immersed in the same daily life I had been living for the previous decades.    I had been changed inside, filled with insights and passion.&...

For many of us, we have a deep desire to be of service in the highest way. Yet, with so much need in the world, it’s hard to know what that right way is.     What is the best way? What is the highest way? What is the way that will serve the most pressing purpose? What is the way that God wants you to serve?   These are questions we explore in this week’s Med...

For many of us, the Passion and Purpose we feel called to serve is to awaken others as we have been awakened. Is this possible? To what extent can we influence people or guide them? How can we best align with this burning passion to serve?    These are questions we explore in today’s Meditation & Healing Circle.   This is from Section 4: Passion and Purpose from t...

This week we begin Section 4: Passion & Purpose! This section included 6 questions on accessing your Passion and Purpose, serving in the way you are called to serve, allowing the expression of the Divine Life Force energy to move through you freely.   This section contains secrets to fulfillment - getting to the end of your days knowing that your life was well-lived - which means living e...

We just completed Section 3 of the upcoming book, The Answer is Love: Questions to Explore as we Transition into an Era of Peace. This section included 8 questions about healing for the body-mind-heart. Looking back at the 8 questions in this section, they tell a story of how we can return from the chaos of our hectic lives to heal the hardened heart that shields itself from past and future p...

We know that disease has components in the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual layers of our bodies. We know that many times, disease offers us the opportunity to see where the layers of our existence are out of sync with each other so we can bring them into harmony if we choose.  As we transition into the era of Peace and Universal Harmony where we will be living primarily aligne...

We are traversing a pivotal time in our earthly evolution. Many people are exiting the material plane – dying from the physical body. You may have lost people close to you. It can feel scary. “What if… Please, not me. I’m not ready to go.”  None of us knows when our time will come, or the time of those closest to us. The most important thing is how we spend our t...