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Growing Your Intuition
This simple intuition practice helped changed my life. Trusting Your Inner Knowing Do you find yourself distracted by the noise of stress, fears, the overwhelming voices and information on social media, concerns about what others think, and ruminating thoughts? At the end of last year I found myself really pulled this way and that with…
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Grief with Gratitude: a gratitude ritual
Honoring our loved ones who are no longer here. Grieving with Gratitude I have seen that grief has been emerging in our community. I feel for you and am so inspired by your vulnerable and honest gratitude sharing. I decided to create this month’s gratitude ritual with grief in mind and I was so very…
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Great Works Started and Sustained
You have so much to offer the world. Tapping Into Your Softness and Strength The rain came thunderous and hard then soft and gentle. Afterward I went outside to enjoy the cool summer air. The light all around was soft and airy. It was the middle of the day but everything seemed so still and…
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Planting in Your Soul
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. ~Rumi A Perfect Time to Look Within Today, the day after the eclipse, the day after the new moon, is a great time to look within and get clarity on what you are wanting to plant in your soul. There is a rich tradition of farming…
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Prettier Than Ordinary
Let your curiosity play. Look deeper. Find something just a little prettier than ordinary. Try This, Instead of Questioning Everything Be curious. Notice sensations in your body without telling a story about them. Go outside. Listen to the song of nature or the city or whatever song is humming. Find something alive and look closer.…
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Give Your Body This Gift
I almost didn’t share this picture because I was embarrassed about my body. Honor Your Body With Gratitude There our bodies are each and every moment of each and every day. They are carrying us through our lives. We push them when we are busy. We rest them when we can. And we complain when…
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Celebrating Our Lives
One the same day I was having a bunch of friends and family over to celebrate me I sat in a temazcal practicing humility. And this is what I realized. Celebrating Ourselves While Remaining Humble Practicing gratitude shows us how to celebrate our lives and ourselves without getting swept up in ego. Because humility is…
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Savor That Pleasure
Immersed. Rich and thick. Fragrant and flavorful. Being fully in it. Savoring It Fully You are inspired to seek out pleasure and relaxation. How will you be when you show up for that pleasure? Fully present. Noticing. Listening. Tasting. Smelling. Feeling. Seeing. And with all of these senses, diving deep into that noticing. Noticing the…
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The Gift of Relaxation
But I don’t have time. Micro relaxation. A Moment of Relaxation Continuing our topic of pleasure from last week today we explore relaxation. Relaxation can be one of the simplest pleasures but we make it out to be this huge unattainable thing. We are so damn busy. That is true but no matter how busy…
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Awash in Pleasure
Don’t you miss feeling good? You Deserve To Feel Good For so many of us pleasure is not part of our daily lives. If it happens, great. But we do little to facilitate it, welcome it, create space for it. Then when we want it we expect our bodies to just quickly move from…
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Try This When Someone Rains On Your Parade
Haters Gonna Hate Staying On Your Path There are always going to be haters, naysayers and complainers. And it can be easy to sink into that negativity. It happens and it’s not that big of a deal as long as we get back on our path. I was confronted with this in a big…
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Fall in Love With Yourself
Happy Valentine’s Day! Look into your heart. Look Into Your Heart and See Beauty There is beauty. It is all around. Do you choose to see it? There is beauty. It is you. Do you choose to be it? On this day of love I challenge each and every one of us to fall in…
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And Then the Anger Came
Gratitude and anger. We rarely talk about these two together but … Is Anger the Opposite of Gratitude? If you’ve been following the last three issues you know I have been going through a difficult time. In full transparency I am grieving the loss of a beautiful partnership. This breakup has been challenging. But you…
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Is Your Gratitude Practice Building Your Resiliency?
And through my gratitude I now know my worth. What Do You Do When Things Get Hard? Do you try to numb the pain? Do you distract yourself? Do you ignore it? Do you practice gratitude? Do you fall back into some old negative patterns? Do you exercise? Do you feel sorry for yourself? Do…
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Earthing
Bare feet on the earth. We connect with nature. We breathe slower. We are grounded. This Week Let’s All Try This Carve out some alone time in your schedule. Walk outside. Remove your shoes. Stand on the earth. Feel the temperature underfoot. Feel the texture underfoot. Take five slow deep breaths. Notice.…
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The Pleasure Tracker
I was wondering. What would my day be like if I had a pleasure tracker, a checkbox waiting to be filled with all sorts of delicious choices? Your Homework Assignment: Find Pleasure Each Day This week we explore pleasure. It is not the same as gratitude but it is not a stretch to…
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The Art of Being Soft
The bees buzzed around me with all their potential to sting. What will I do? Choosing Softness It can be so easy to convince ourselves that we have to be hard and tough. Even here in our gratitude collective a few weeks ago I was talking about fighting. In times when there is…
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Summer Rain Cleanse
The thunder is the loudest, the lightning is the brightest, the rain is the softest. When Life is Stormy Summer rains are showering our desert in blessings. Let the rain cleanse away your worries and your fears. Let the unknowns of life be as accepted as the thunder. Let your gratitude flow like soft…
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How Do You Fight?
My grandparents fought through prayer and hard work and asking for help. Can Gratitude Be a Form of Fighting? In this time of so many people taking sides and fighting it can feel like even peace and war is in its own conflict. But not all fighting is bad. Sometimes we are fighting to be…
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Focus on These Three Things
I looked out and saw life in my back yard, lily pads growing over themselves, lilies in full bloom. What do I see when I look inside myself? Do You Give The Gift of Gratitude To Everyone But Yourself? What do you notice? What do you notice in others? What do you notice in…