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Centering after Social Media

07/02/2021
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Social Media

Almost a year ago, I deactivated all my social media accounts. While I had been considering taking a break and had periodically taken breaks from time to time, that day my daughter had asked me a simple question that hit me right in my heart. "Mom, does the Earth get sad if we don't look at it?" Her simple, innocent question gave me pause. It was July 2020 and I was definitely swept up in looking at my phone - not at the earth, and not at the real people around me. While I wasn't a prolific social media poster, I did have active Facebook and Instagram accounts. My personal Instagram account had over a thousand followers at the time. Did I even have a thousand friends? I...

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Field of wildflowers

The seed of joy

06/04/2021
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joy

There is a kernel of joy at the center of your being. It was with you when you were born, and it will be with you throughout your life and beyond. It is your essence, your soul spark, your true nature, and the seat of God within you. We each have this seed of joy, no matter who we are or how we seem to others. And yet, sometimes it can be hard to connect to that joy. Between kids, jobs, bills, and the news (and anything else you may have on your plate), that joy can so easily get buried beneath all the needs of the day. I have definitely been aware of how much I've let the worries of life take over and cloud...

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Sunrise

Be the Love

05/07/2021
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Love, meditation

I would love to say that I sit down to meditate for an hour a day. I hope someday when life is calmer I'll have time to do that! But for now, with a young(ish) daughter and a job, I am only able to catch a meditation here and there. It's not always every day, and sometimes it's just a few minutes, but those moments help me recalibrate and awaken in ways no other practice in my life does. Last month I shared one of my favorite meditations, a light and color meditation from one of my teachers, Suzanne Giesemann. In it, we're guided through sending color and light to each chakra. Red for the root, orange for the sacral, and so on up to the...

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Finding Love Wherever You Are

04/02/2021
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Love

When the world seems to be falling apart, it can help to remember that this is not all there is. I don't mean to ignore problems and issues in our world, but to see them from a higher perspective. At our core, we are all Love and we are all created from Love. When we get out of alignment with the Love that created us (and how many ways there are to do that!), we may lose touch with that Love, but the Love never goes away. It is always there at your center. It is always there beneath everything in our world. We just need to connect with it. I believe this in large part because of my Spiritually Transformative Experience (STE) - something I've only...

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Enjoying Life & Having Fun

03/05/2021
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fun

Having fun may seem selfish. It may seem fruitless. However, I believe part of why we're here is to have fun, grow, and enjoy life. I would not have been able to write that a few years ago, before I began healing. I know it can seem hard to enjoy life when the world seems unfair and harsh. But there is still joy in the moment, because joy is who you are. I remember being asked many years ago in therapy what made me happy. I couldn't even answer! I didn't know what happiness felt like and I did not know anything that could help me feel that way. So, I started small. I enjoyed nature. I liked flowers. I pulled a thread that eventually brought...

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Loving Yourself

02/07/2021
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Love

Self-love is a form of self-care. Loving yourself can mean any number of things. To me, it means letting ourselves open up to the love that created us, to the love that always lives within us. In my journey and spiritual studies I've come to understand that we are all love at the core of our beings. It's a world-view that can seem impossible when watching the news, but probable when you see the love that exists quietly around you in friends, family, and loved ones. So few of us were raised to love ourselves. We feel far from the love that created us. If it seems far away or unlikely, it's only because our human world has been living far away from the love that...

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Using Your Will in Alignment with Divine Guidance

01/01/2021
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honoring your truth, inner knowing, Will

As we enter 2021, I felt called to write about finding the balance between using your will and following your inner guidance. Your will is the power you use to create things in the world. Your inner guidance is the promptings you receive from your higher self, spirit guides, and God as to the best path for your soul. Ideally, your will be in balance with your higher guidance. Finding the balance between the two is the sweet spot that will help you create beauty in your life and in the lives of those around you. Before my experience and before learning to heal, I used my will to create that which I wanted in my life. I did not have a sense of something higher...

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Letting Go of the Past

12/04/2020
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Releasing the Past

As 2020 comes to an end, I’m thinking about letting go of the past. Are there things and people in your past that are clinging to you and not letting go? I can relate! Before my experience with the light, I spent a long time trying to make peace with the past. I did many exercises and went to a lot of therapy. Sometimes it helped, but most of the time, I felt weighed down by the pain of the past. Thankfully, my experience taught me that pure love can heal in an instant. Loving myself with total acceptance has helped me come to peace with myself and what’s come before. While letting go of the past can seem like a very hard thing to do, it...

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The Source of All Peace

11/06/2020
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breath, centering

I hope this post finds you well! I started writing this post in October, in advance of the US Presidential Election, and will finish it after, to send out the first Friday of the month of November. I am, along with everyone else I know, apprehensive about the results. It’s hard to know what’s going to happen, who’s going win, and what direction our nation will take. In the midst of so much disinformation and online ads, it’s become hard to know who to trust or believe. My own extended family is divided on candidates with seemingly completely separate sets of facts, based on which media each consumes. And thanks to the film The Social Dilemma, I’ve learned about the social media algorithm that often results...

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Staying with the Breath

09/11/2020
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breath

Today, amidst Coronavirus and the memories of 9/11, I'm thinking about the breath and about how important it is to breathe. Last summer I ended up in the hospital with spreading limb numbness that was eventually diagnosed as a mild form of Guillain-Barré. Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare autoimmune response that at its most intense can result in total, but usually temporary, paralysis and require use of a ventilator. It was a terrifying but important time. I learned how precious our health can be. I also learned how vital breathing is. I watched my oxygen sats on the monitor and breathed deeply. Sometimes they dropped and it felt scary. When I was able to stay calm and centered, I could breathe in fully and my numbers would...

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