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Guided Meditation – Awareness of What You Like About Yourself 10 minutes
I am trying something new! Let me know what you think. In this mediation we will be focusing on our body, mind and five senses to bring awareness of what we like about ourselves.
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Brene Brown’s Call to Courage
Brene Brown has a special on Netflix about vulnerability. It’s about an hour, and if you want some inspiration about courage and vulnerability I highly recommend it. I was planning on jotting down my opinions and thoughts about the special, but honestly, I found so much of it inspirational. So I’m going to put down some of her thoughts that really spoke to me, and let them (her) speak for herself. First off she has a TED talk. This is how she got her start as an inspirational speaker and author. She also references her book, Daring Greatly. I have this on my to read list. And now for some highlights from her Netflix special:…
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Finding My Wildly Authentic Self, Courtesy of Maria Shriver
I was originally going to focus today’s post on Maria Shriver’s weekly newsletter, particularly, this post. She wrote it at the beginning of the year as a kind of taking stock of where things are and where they’re going. More so, where you want them to go. At the same time, I’m sitting here putting together my work objectives for this year for my 9-5 desk job. (Yes, in case you’re wondering, I am procrastinating the job thing by writing this blog post!) Also, it is the end of March at the time I’m writing this, the astrological new year, around the spring equinox, and there’s a new moon at the end…
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Being Grounded Staying Grounded
Being grounded takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not just keeping centered and standing firm, but keeping yourself centered through playing in nature, running your hands through the dirt and letting it crumble through your fingers. Through listening to the waves of the ocean. Through walking barefoot in the grass and letting the individual blades tickle your toes.
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The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
So I finished it! Only took me a year. Well, actually more like 20 years and a year. I received this book as a gift from a friend years ago. Probably for my birthday, actually our birthday, cause our birthdays were one day apart. She wrote me an encouraging inscription in the front, about inspiration and transformation and great endeavors of flight. You see even then, twenty years ago, I was trying to figure myself out, who I was, who I wanted to be, where I saw my place in this world. But my friend also drew me a picture of a Phoenix rising from the ashes. It looks a…