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When we hold onto what needs to fall away and keep looking in the rearview mirror, we miss the new blossoms coming into view.

There are always new blossoms, but we can’t see them when we’re looking in the opposite direction.

It always seems like we need to get something “out there” to make us happy and draw something to ourselves. However, this places us at the mercy of everything “out there” and can lead to frustration and a sense of powerlessness.

The good news is that we actually experience what we Continue Reading »

It’s the first day of May, and I’m going to share an exercise with you that might be a little challenging.

We often believe that we need to be loved or get something to be happy, but the truth is that what we give and extend brings us happiness, not what we get. Likewise, the pain we feel is the pain of withholding or being unwilling to give.

Many years ago, there was a person who I thought deeply hurt me. One night it came to me to do this exercise so that I might be free from the pain I was feeling. Continue Reading »

You are incomprehensibly beautiful and precious…and there’s nothing you can do about it.

We can forget this and cover it up with many stories about what we are, but Continue Reading »

Babies cry when matches are pried from their chubby little fingers. Well, I’m sometimes that baby. I’ve learned that sometimes a path that I think is great is really a dead-end or one that would take me straight off a cliff. Like the baby, I have cried when that door slams in my face.

It’s not always easy as we Continue Reading »

There were six kids in ​my​ family​ growing up​–three girls and three boys. I am the youngest girl. ​One of my sisters was always working towards some goal​ from a very young age. ​Everything centered around the goal. She was miserable in the process and made everyone miserable around her.

I remember thinking that ​it would be better once she achieved the goal. But alas, Continue Reading »

We all have ideas of what we need, what we want, and what will make us happy. The problem with our ideas isn’t that we ask too much but that we ask too little.

I’m never referring to things or being greedy. The things are the least of it and automatically follow Continue Reading »

We can be so afraid of the unknown. We sometimes even cling to the most terrible things because we believe it’s still better than the unknown.

So what do we do? Particularly when we see that a big change is on the horizon or something needs to change? Continue Reading »

There was a period in my life that was extremely dark; I can only describe it as a period I would have never thought one could walk through and live to tell about it. There wasn’t one area of my life that wasn’t getting battered by hurricane-force winds. All I could do was just hang on. I was in the proverbial dark night of the soul. Continue Reading »

New tomorrows are never found by dragging yesterday into another day. They are found to the degree we allow room for new beginnings today.

Letting go of the past is a moment-to-moment process that takes practice. It’s not something we Continue Reading »