Being courageous isn’t necessarily about skydiving or jumping off of a cliff. Or of taking the leap to self-employment or pursuing creative expression. I often hear clients, friends, and colleagues say things like, “I don’t have that kind of courage,” or “I’m not being courageous” as a reason for not moving toward doing something that […]
Category: Mindfulness
Embracing possibility can help us to feel a greater sense of life satisfaction. I’m all fired up from spending the afternoon with a friend yesterday and talking about creativity, writing, and books. I love hanging out with other people who are actively engaged in their own creative process, daring to live their lives, and daring […]
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Listen to Your Intuition
What does it mean to listen to your intuition? All of us have intuition. It’s our inner voice, the part of us that “just knows” things. Some of us are highly skilled at listening to it, while others may not be in touch with it at all, and still others know how to listen but […]
When you commit to your creativity, you can access a greater sense of creative ease, freedom, and flow. Many creative people struggle with commitment to creativity. Sure, sometimes the well runs dry and we struggle to generate creative ideas, but more often, we have so many creative ideas that we have difficulty committing to one […]
Answering the call to create means saying, “Yes!” to this moment, yes to a Spirit that beckons to us to claim our true nature and become a conduit for the expression of our authentic voice. We are all called to create in some manner—through artistic expression, writing, parenting our children well, developing a strategic plan […]
This week I returned to my morning meditation practice following a few weeks of being out of my routine. The recent launch of the website that I designed and created for my coaching practice and online classes along with recent travel, had taken me out of my daily practice for the past few weeks. The […]
Mindful wellness is an attitude of awareness and empowerment in which there is an ongoing movement toward optimal wellbeing of mind, body, spirit, and environment and an ongoing movement toward one’s full potential. Wellness involves the holistic integration of different aspects of wellbeing. There are 7 major aspects of wellness: Emotional, Physical, Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, […]
Setting clear intentions is at the foundation of creating lasting lifestyle changes. Most of us are interested in living our best lives. On the journey toward living our best lives, we are all attempting to change something—our jobs, our bodies, our schedules, our eating habits, our exercise habits, our self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, our ability […]
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The Importance of Place
The importance of place has been on my mind as I’ve more deeply explored the natural surroundings of my new home city. Now that the warm weather has arrived, I’ve been immersing myself in nature in this beautiful coastal city. The weather hasn’t encouraged blogging, as evidenced by the date of the last blog entry […]
I first stumbled on the Wrightsville Beach mailbox over a year ago when I encountered a funky found art exhibit on the north end of the beach. There are stairs leading to a platform, a mailbox that has written, “Leave a note” on it, a tree limb firmly held in place by the sand that […]