Soulful living

Don't fill your life with busyness.

Create a life that feeds your soul...

Growing pains

Be thankful for the good days,

 but be especially grateful for the hard ones. 

It is through difficulty that we grow the most...

An open heart

Let love seep into everything you do

Complete trust

The premise of faith is built on the ability to breathe and surrender...

Merging with God

 Empty yourself of self. 

Heart wide open

 

Remain teachable. 

An open mind will open new, unexpected doors...

Surrender

We all get life lessons to help us to grow and move forward. 

If we resist the lessons, they will not go away. The more we struggle against them, the more we may suffer. To move gracefully through our lessons, we must surrender...

Forgiveness

How different would your life be if you released the past? What if you forgave everyone? What if you were to look back at your childhood through eyes of love and compassion?

Simplicity

It's the simple things that matter...

Open to life

The true gift in life is love. 

Love for ourselves, for others, 

and for the unpredictable journey called life.

Giving up self-will

Though we may want to avoid pain as much as possible, it is often our greatest teacher. The harder we struggle against pain, the more we will suffer. Surrendering to what our experiences are there to teach us, is the key to lasting freedom...

Truth

 When we're afraid, we will settle for living small.

 When we're afraid, we will betray ourselves in so many ways. 

 When we're afraid, we will hold too tightly to people, objects...

Letting go of old stories

If we fear the future, 

we've not made peace with the past.

The path to healing

The way we begin to heal our pain (physical or emotional) is to give it a voice. 
We stop seeing pain as a character flaw. We come to understand that we all experience it.  We push past our own shame and judgement by telling our story out loud. The moment we begin to share with others is the moment we are no longer suffering in silence...

Matters of the heart

If we weren't nurtured as children, 

we may not be kind and gentle to ourselves now.

We may put other people's needs before our own

or shut down our ability to feel empathy for others.

Either way, it's never too late to learn compassion. 

It begins with opening our heart to the child within...