Sometimes Loving Equals Letting Go-Part II
Last time, we looked at how we may love another person best through letting that person go and giving space. People often take the space and time to heal and grow. If you let the person go, he or she may return to your life, but the only way to know is if you release them from your life your mind and your heart. This time, I want ...Read More
Radiate Love
Love is the force that drives the universe, yet so often we have a hard time feeling and experiencing love. We meet people all the time who are in severe need of love. In fact, you've been or are that person right now. I know I have been. When I was sick and in need of love, I'm convinced the love of people around me were the driving ...Read More
Respect Yourself!
My mentor, Rhonda Shasteen, taught me early on to be true to myself. I've probably spent every day since then trying to discover my true self. I think you continue to discover it a little bit every day for your entire life. I've learned it doesn't mean be selfish. It means listening to the inner voice guiding you and honoring that voice. Listening to your inner voice is ...Read More
Apply the L.A.W.S. of Self-Love
The journey of discovering self-love, continues for a life time. I really only began the observance and connection with my true self-a few years ago. I understood the concept, but didn't know what it meant for me. On that journey, I learned to connect with myself through tapping into my intuition and invoking it to be part of my day. Engaging my intuition and inner voice (also the voice ...Read More
5 Ways to Grow Self-Love Now
For the last ten months, I have been on a beautiful journey of learning to make new choices of happiness and joy. I've been practicing the art of allowing and learning to lighten up and follow my bliss. All of this practice is in an effort to overwrite long-ingrained pathways of though led by negativity, self-criticism, guilt, and self-inflicted choices of suffering. One day last April, I was ...Read More
Lead with Love
If your feelings are your guide to better decisions, a brighter attitude, gratitude,and a happier life then you need to really learn to hone into one feeling, love. Love is your guide to take care of yourself and love yourself. Love gives you your sense of self-worth and the value of those around you. Love helps you approach and deal with conflict in a positive way. Love guides you ...Read More
What Validates You?
As you go through each day, from where does your confidence stem? Does it come from your level of success at work, your bank account, your stuff, your parents' approval, your popularity among your friends, pleasing other people, or something else? I think a number of things contribute to our level of confidence, feelings of validation and sense of self-worth. I know I've been through times where I ...Read More