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Winterizing the Garden of Your Soul

Winterizing the Garden of Your Soul

Exquisite Seasonal Self-Care for an Abundant 2019 Winterizing for Abundance Series:  Removing Invasive Limiting Beliefs, Thoughts, and Patterns that block your connection with money to make room for an even more Abundant 2019 November 30th, December 7th,...

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Full Circle

Full Circle

"A peaceful revolution is going on, a women's spirituality movement, hidden in plain sight. Through circle of women, healing women, Might the culture come around?" - Jean Shinoda Bolen in The Millionth Circle How to Change Ourselves and The World   Hi -...

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Slow Down, Reflect, and Prepare Yourself for the Coming Light

Slow Down, Reflect, and Prepare Yourself for the Coming Light

Dear one, As I write to you from here in the Northern hemisphere, the daylight is shrinking and the nighttime is expanding. The nights are crisp and cool. The stars and moon are bright and clearly visible in the sky. During this season, we're being drawn back inward...

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A Woman Knows

A Woman Knows

by Joy Caffrey as heard on the wind A woman knows the place deep inside that bears the pain carries the load grieves the loss knows the soul whispers the truth listen to her voice be gentle, heal find comfort in the rhythm of life deep inside a seed of hope a garden...

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Homecoming…

Homecoming…

"And the Great Mother said: Come my child and give me all that you are. I am not afraid of your strength and darkness, of your fear and pain. Give me your tears. They will be my rushing rivers and roaring oceans. Give me your rage. It will erupt into my...

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A Goddess is…

A Goddess is…

A goddess is a woman who emerges from deep within herself. She is a woman who has honestly explored her darkness and learned to celebrate her light. She is a woman who is able to fall in love with the magnificent possibilities within her. She is a woman...

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Inner Peace

Inner Peace

It's been a rough couple of days. A lot of grief and emotion coming through. When I've hit my capacity to feel, I resort to eating WAY more than I need.   As if the act of eating could somehow stop me from the uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Or at least provide...

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It’s Sunday … time to Slow Down and RECLAIM Your Money

It’s Sunday … time to Slow Down and RECLAIM Your Money

In our community, Sunday is a day of reflection. We slow down the frantic pace of life and give it all a rest. It's our weekly cultural detox from our habitual ways of reacting, relating, operating, etc. It's the day we get more in tune with ourselves than the outside...

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Slow the F*** Down

Slow the F*** Down

Ever notice yourself resisting what you need the most?   I recognize myself doing this and from a young age, I can recall resisting reality. I didn’t want to stop playing to tend to my body’s needs to eat or eliminate. I didn’t want to have adults controlling my...

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Grace in the Moment

Grace in the Moment

Originally published by The Perpetual You, November 2016  Series No. 4, Issue No. 4 This is my favorite magazine, period. You'll be giving yourself a gift to be touched by browsing and reading it. This is my last contribution for the Living section and I trust that it...

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Putting Your Inner Needs First

Putting Your Inner Needs First

This morning, I'm writing to you from our family car as my husband drives us across town to pick up the grandkids (thank you personal wifi hot spots!) before we drop him off for a meeting. Next stop will be back to the house to pick up our teenage son, the only one...

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From Overcommitted to CEO of Your Life

From Overcommitted to CEO of Your Life

Try this energy matrix to gain clarity about where you're spending your energy and discover what is draining and/or fueling you. Become the CEO of your life (Chief Energy Officer).  You've got a big, sensitive heart and you're an incredibly capable and talented woman....

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Breaks Help You See Life from a Different Perspective

Breaks Help You See Life from a Different Perspective

The following post is an excerpt from the book Sabbatical from "Yes" page 134 “Life is large, but most of us don’t take up nearly the space the universe intended for us. We take up this wee space ‘round our toes, which is why when you see somebody in the full flow of...

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Unleash Your Adventurous Self

Unleash Your Adventurous Self

Ours is a hyper-connected, technologically-driven culture, inside which information flows rapidly hurling new possibilities, expectations, and opinions at us. Our tiny supercomputers lead us to believe the world is ours to command when, in actuality, we're simply...

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Do You Have Too Many Tabs Open?

Do You Have Too Many Tabs Open?

Hello Love, I consider myself a constant student of life and I'm guessing you are, too. I see a lot of truth in that saying we teach what we most need to learn. Overwhelm and overcommitment have been my steady and dependable teachers, helping me learn how to embrace...

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Are You Addicted to Struggle?

Are You Addicted to Struggle?

I'm really dragging this week and it's no surprise. Last week was filled with this ideal set of circumstances, many honoring one of my core desired feelings of spaciousness with time: Relaxed time to play with some loved ones One on one time with several friends A few...

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[YFP 003] Only You Can Live Your Life with Judith Morgan

[YFP 003] Only You Can Live Your Life with Judith Morgan

You First Project | An Interview Series about Prioritizing You   In this interview Judith Morgan, talks about owning your life. She brings an inspiring blend of compassion, wisdom and practicality to this conversation. Judith is a business coach and entrepreneur...

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Be ‘Selfish’ and Fuel Your Soul’s Evolution

Be ‘Selfish’ and Fuel Your Soul’s Evolution

Hello Love, Has anyone reminded you lately that you’re soooo worth having what you want? As a highly sensitive, big-hearted lover of people, you care deeply about others and being of service is important to you. However, many of us can get caught up in serving others...

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Have you been denying the truth of who you are?

Have you been denying the truth of who you are?

   "The moment we deny a difficult experience, it owns us." - Brene Brown   Hello Love, As a 1/3 in Human Design, I’m that Investigative Martyr, the crash test person for life. My role is to go out and experiment, try things and then come back and report on...

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[YFP 002] Bliss is Your Birthright with Bonnie O’Boyle

[YFP 002] Bliss is Your Birthright with Bonnie O’Boyle

You First Project | An Interview Series about Prioritizing You In this interview, Bonnie O'Boyle talks about bliss being our birthright. She's a graduate of Self-Full Living™, the inspirational muse for it, who completed her sabbatical through the class. She talks...

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Taking Better Care of Yourself

Taking Better Care of Yourself

First, I want to say that by sharing the video below, I'm not suggesting that you will have a heart attack soon. What I am suggesting is that paying attention to the cues that your body sends you is vital to taking good care of yourself. Those little cues, often...

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Let’s do something brave today (here’s mine)

Let’s do something brave today (here’s mine)

Gorgeous One, Do you have something in life you really want to do, be or experience, but fear keeps getting in the way? (( give yourself a little white space to ponder this for a moment ... what is calling you? )) Let's do one brave thing today. I'm challenging you...

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Stop hiding … scare yourself shitless with me!

Stop hiding … scare yourself shitless with me!

Dear Gorgeous One, Hide and Seek is a default strategy in my coping repertoire. It's helped me survive those uncomfortable interactions with ... gulp ... almost every human being. I've been unconsciously playing an extended version of this childhood game, but this...

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Give Yourself a Raise

Give Yourself a Raise

    You are a masterful work of art, a unique expression of the divine, and priceless beyond measure. So, why doesn't everyone in your life get this? And why is it so hard for you to realize how much you matter?     "When you value yourself, people...

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Learning to Prioritize Yourself

Learning to Prioritize Yourself

Dearest, big-hearted, generous soul. One thing you must know is that: When you hold yourself back, you also hold back your gifts. In a world filled with so many WTF moments, now more than ever, we need each other. We need each other to be showing up as our 100%...

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“Living” in the Zombie Zone? Bring Yourself Back to Life!

“Living” in the Zombie Zone? Bring Yourself Back to Life!

Have you noticed our culture's obsession with zombies? Have you stopped to consider if you're one of them? In 1998, I encountered my first zombie on a steamy Summer evening. The air's consistency hung thick like mud as I walked through the house opening all of the...

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7 Steps to Reduce Frustration and Gain Clarity

7 Steps to Reduce Frustration and Gain Clarity

  I'm passionate about authenticity. I love helping a person strip away the non-essential, what no longer serves, and the programmed recordings to reveal an authentic expression of themselves in the moment. To get to that point of clarity, it helps to back up a...

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Synthetic vs. True Pleasure (Part 1)

Synthetic vs. True Pleasure (Part 1)

When you hear the phrase, "survival of the fittest," can you feel the energy of struggle embedded into it? It makes me want to swing back the other way and focus on what is fun! Humans are wired for pleasure, as well as survival. At our core, we are pleasure seeking...

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Stretching Beyond Your Safety Zone

Stretching Beyond Your Safety Zone

As humans, we're blessed with innate gifts of flexibility and resilience. Yet, the survival skills we acquire by leveraging these gifts, can end up being roadblocks to growth. Once we learn what is needed for survival in an environment, we tend to create a safety zone...

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I’m Worth More than This

I’m Worth More than This

Sometimes you just have to draw a line in the sand. That's exactly what a Sabbatical from "Yes" is all about. It's giving yourself a well-deserved break from compulsive compliance and agreement to requests for your time and energy. It's also a break from certain...

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