“I do not need anyone else’s permission but my own”   Okay, story time…a looong time ago when I was married I had this beautiful red skirt suit and I felt like a million dollars in it.  I had just had our first daughter and had lost all of the baby weight (and then some) and we were going to my husband’s company holiday party.  I wanted him to be proud of the way I looked so I asked him, “Hun, how do I look?”.  Without even glancing over...

warning: don’t feed the ego Who do we need to be for ourselves and then for our loved ones? Establishing limits and boundaries to be true to ourselves is a necessary thing.  Someone that sets no boundaries is feeding everyone else’s needs and not their own— which is external validation, and is ego based vs. soul based. Pride is the nemesis to healing. We are made to grow and transform, to stretch our very being, but our ego gets in the...

…priceless wisdom to see your future Often we hear of our “present moment” as a gift. Clever words indeed — and perhaps it is true — but really, couldn’t our past be a gift as well?  We have unwrapped it, played with it, broke it, abused it, and replaced situational batteries from time to time (as well as relationships), but THE GIFT lies in the RESULT of each of those events. GET IN ACTION: Stop and truly assess where you are now from...

the first component… Honest communication with YOURSELF.  There is no way you can have any kind of substantial relationship with any one else if you don’t or can’t have one with yourself. How do you know if you are being honest with yourself you may ask? If you are deeply honest with yourself, there is an inner peace that you experience. The ability to take a nice big deep breath without any difficulties or constraints. Not rationalizing when...

Well-behaved women seldom make history.  Well-behaved women rarely make history.  Well-behaved women NEVER make history.  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and many other famous women have parroted this phrase and those that did, lived it in its entirety.  They didn’t allow society to squander their natural ways — they lived with no blinders, no fears and, in some cases, with reckless abandon. All my life I have teetered on this fence of society and...