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Stay Curious, Play!: Embracing growth and joy in life

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STAY CURIOUS, PLAY! Sometimes you gotta just go with the flow.  Hold your purpose and keep moving forward through the chaos. Bruce Lee said 'be like the water.' This week's message: Stay curious, play!  This is one of my favorite sayings - for many reasons. Today I share a few reasons why.  What happens when we are no longer curious? When we know enough, have done enough, made enough friends? When we don't feel the need to try anymore or learn anymore? When become more afraid of failing than seeing what new opportunity we may explore? This I find to be the saddest part of growing up. The misconception of being grown. That being grown means that there is no more growing left to do. In my opinion, being grown just means there is a new level of growing to explore.  Play! Spirit is playful. If you have ever prayed or asked the universe, god, etc. for something and were not specific, you know how playful it can be. Playfulness ignites our imagination. According to Descartes,

Me Time: Nurturing Yourself to Nourish Others

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This week’s image is of a man standing on a sandbar by water surrounded by reeds.  We all have a special place or time that is secret or sacred to us. A place we go as a touchstone either in our minds or physically when our minds become too tangled or knotted. A place where we can let the mind unravel and listen more intently to the voice within.  Years ago I remember visiting my yoga teacher at her home. After spending a few days with her, I saw and felt how knotted my mind had become and how unraveled and free hers was. By just being in her presence my mind started to loosen and relax.  It sneaks up on you - the 'knotting of the mind'.  Life is constantly changing and throwing new challenges at us for our growth. Having a ritual for 'me time' is important. Especially for those of us who are cup fillers.  What I mean by cup fillers is basically any mother, nurturer, healer, caretaker...Those who's whole being ignites when they can and do help others.  When you are

Grow + Plant: Blooming Where Planted and Planting Where You Desire

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This week’s image: freshly planted colorful tulips among tall grass, or weeds in the background. The dirt around the tulips is new, tilled, topsoil. The tulips stand bold, proud, colorful and purposeful on their place in the earth.  This image is coming forward with two messages.  One:  Grow where you are planted  and Two: Plant where you want to grow.  Two different ways of looking at the same subject. And also one really long message if you put it all together. Grow where you are planted and plant where you want to grow. There is a reason why we are planted in a certain place, time, family, community, religion, etc when we are born. There are specific lessons our soul is asking us to learn with each encounter, scenario, situation, relationship. Each moment is a chance to learn something new. Evolve in some new way, shape or form.  The lessons are not our choice, but how we choose to accept the lesson, learn from it, evolve with it, is entirely up to us.  If we look at life through th

What is your SUPERPOWER?: Vulnerablilty

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This week's image is of a woman standing naked facing the sun cresting the ocean horizon. She stands without any protective layers. Arms open by her sides palms facing forward to receive the light of the sun.   What is your super power? Do you have one? Have you ever thought of it?  The message of vulnerability, as a force, has been coming forward a lot lately and specifically wanted to come forward this week.  Often we hide and protect our vulnerability. Somewhere along the line we are taught that our vulnerability is a weakness or something that needs hiding.  The message that has been coming up a lot lately is that of the complete opposite.  Vulnerability is an access point to our light. To our energetic and unfaltering strength. Vulnerability often includes honesty, lack of ego, love, truth. I’ll tell you a secret. - where you are vulnerable is where your super power lies. It is the access point to your inner strength.  So how do you find it? Taking a deep dive into wh