Sometimes I get caught up in pondering this world and how it operates. I like to think about what comes next after this life is over. I enjoy musing in my mind of the various spiritual teachings that are out there. While in the shower tonight, I was taken back to one of Jesus’ final […]
Yoga is all about practicing different states of being. As we journey through our practice we experience different bodily states of self-induced stress followed by calmness. In riding the wave of our practice, we coast on the crest of intensity followed by the crash of the wave back into peace. The practice lies in staying
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My 6 year old daughter just got her first “big girl” haircut today. She’d gotten hair cuts in the past, but for some reason this one felt different for me. I think it’s because we’d always trimmed it, while steadily letting it grow long like Rapunzel. She’d wanted hair like Rapunzel for the longest time
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Last Saturday, I found myself feeling a bit off the day before I was going to my friend’s baby shower. You know, those moods where you find yourself in a funk and just feel like you need a pick-me-up. I was in the midst of telling my fiancé that I wanted to get a new
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Today in therapy, my therapist was thrilled with something I’d said as we had a conversation around Jesus, which really made me wonder how many others don’t quite understand this. I felt as though her hug signified that I was a secret member of some enlightened club. My comment was, “A lot of people misunderstand
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Funerals have a way of reminding the living what is really important in life. It is an opportunity to see the inevitable destination we all arrive at and causes us to question whether we’re living in a way that we’ll be satisfied with when our own eulogy is spoken as we are laid to rest.
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Sometimes we get a gem of wisdom gifted to us by another. Today, while making small talk with a woman who I see frequently at my yoga studio, I was gifted such a moment. She asked how my daughter was and I said, “She’s great except for when she tests me, which seems to be
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Don’t offload your trauma onto your children, otherwise your children will feel the same way that you do someday and they deserve better. At times in my own life, I’ve offloaded my own frustration onto my daughter. Many of us have done it. We are stressed out, they are there and our energy ends up
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“I believed in God so I spoke” 2 Corinthians 4:13 This morning I came across this beautiful verse and it comes at such a wonderful time. I was just speaking to my therapist this morning about how old mental scripts die hard and indicated that I am feeling like I’m doing a good job counteracting
For a long time, I believed that some were just more capable than others. I believed that some were just naturally happier than others and it was all a matter of innate disposition or outer circumstance. The only thing that I was right about was the fact that happiness is innate. Everything else was erroneous
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So many spiritual guides speak of going within to find the truth. What does this really mean? For me it means unraveling the truth from the lies and seeing who we are underneath the falsities. When we go within and start taking the time to truly know ourselves, we start to realize a lot of
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This morning I was reflecting on last nights’ meeting with my women’s church group. We call it “crew,” but really, it’s a group of women who get together to get deeper into the messages at church, help one another, learn from one another, and grow together. It’s refreshing to be surrounded by like-minded women who
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As my fiancé and I were having a discussion this evening, I used an analogy that was really good and helps me to further explain what it means to operate in the present moment. Sometimes, God graces me with beautiful words in the midst of a conversation and it’s as though I’m preaching to myself.
I used to dread having birthday parties for my daughter. I would feel really anxious the whole week leading up to the party and even more anxious the day of. I would stress about all of the details and become really irritable with everyone because I was stressed out. It wasn’t as though we ever
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Fairly randomly, last night my daughter asked me to write a book entitled “The Book of Love” since she knows I’ve often dreamed of writing a childrens’ book that is just as amazing as my favorite childrens’ book of all time, “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. I’ll admit, I haven’t been as inspired around
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The other night my fiancé and I laid in bed and had an interesting debate. We were debating the # of followers that individuals’ had on Instagram and what this data is telling us. I have been filling my mind with nothing, but positivity and spiritual teachings for well over a year and I was
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I’ve cleansed my land of the weeds that were once choking the life of any fruitful crops and now I’m at the point where I’m beginning to plant some seeds. Yesterday, I realized, though I was planting new seeds in the form of branching out in the area of sharing my authentic self with others
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“We don’t know what we’ve got ‘til it’s gone” is a popular word from the wise. A recent incident in my own life really made me appreciate this all the more and in this moment, I realized how far I’d come in my ability to take negative occurrences and transform them into something positive. Yesterday
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In Luke 2:49, Jesus responds to his parents who have finally found him after frantically searching for him in the crowds of people at the temple by stating, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” As I sit here today reading “The Wind and the Rudder” by
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This morning, I had an unexpectedly amazing conversation with a woman I worked with a few years back. I’ve been keeping in touch with her on social media and have been seeing her journey from afar after the loss of her child to drug addiction. Her journey is one of the many events that have
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The universe is always speaking to us when we are willing to listen. As I finally grew some wings and decided to move forward with investing in this project, I began having some doubts about whether it was a good idea. I questioned whether people would actually enjoy my work or whether I was attempting
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Last week when I’d dropped my grandfather home after church, he’d asked me what my plans were and I told him I was undecided but threw out some options of things I may do when we parted ways. As I drove away, I realized that asking me if I had any plans was his way
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This morning I woke up and had the this thought ringing in my head, so like a good vessel, I felt called to bring this thought to life and allow it expression. When we run from others’ emotions, we are also running from our own. As I woke up today, this thought kept plaguing me
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The purpose of taking is so that you may give. Like the roots of a tree seek to take the nutrients from the soil so that it may give it to the tree so that the tree can in turn provide shelter, oxygen, and nourishment to other creatures. So too must we be both taker
Last night I was feeling really insecure about my ability to parent and I spoke to my fiance about it as we laid down in bed. However looking back I realize I was not intentional and direct in my communication. I was not clearly asking for what I needed. I explained that I felt like
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Our heart often sits in a cage awaiting her release. Thumping and pounding hoping that someone will hear her pleas to be freed. Locked away within the core of our being, forgotten in all of her importance. Beating against the bars of apathy with the secret code for being happy. Waiting for us to enter
Have you ever had a day where you just feel really unaccomplished? Today was one of those days for me. I couldn’t fight my lazy bones and intense lack of motivation to get anything done despite feeling like I should be doing so. I’ve been working to organize the tasks I need to get done
I’m struggling with the individuals I work with. The culture that I work in, I have deemed to be unhealthy for my well-being. If there is anything that ruffles my feathers, it is condescension. I shouldn’t announce this, but condescension triggers my ego the way that nothing else can. I’m aware of it and therefore
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Help me to find my voice… to drown out all of the useless noise. The voices saying it can’t be done, the sounds that say you’re no one. Free my thoughts and let my soul unleash everything I was meant to be. I want to be an example of success, to be fearless and try, always
You, my dear, are a mosaic. Each experience a small fragmented piece of glass. Some are sharp and jagged cutting through our being threatening to bring pain at the mere thought of them. Others smooth and calming, a worry stone that we rub to bring us back to more peaceful and blissful times. Some are still