Right now, this very second, power is bubbling within you. Energy is percolating away and straining at the seams of confinement.
Do you feel it? Do you sense it?
Power is changing the way you think and how you perceive the world, why you’re here and what you’re going to do about your life’s calling.
Do the shifts scare you? Are you scrabbling to hold tight to old ways or breathing deep to let change flow in + through you? Continue reading
When I look at the soul, my line of vision splits in two: I see it as it is, and as it could be.
Are you weighted down? You can be lifted up.
Are you wilting? You can bloom.
Are you cowering in fear? You can stand tall, bold and unashamed.
Are you searching? You can discover what you seek.
Are you thirsting? You can be fully satisfied.
What I do as a soul visionary is to visualise what we’re capable of when we let ourselves go. What’s holding you back?
Why are you holding you back? Continue reading
Raw.
Vulnerable.
Exposed.
All your protective layers ripped away to reveal the part of you longing to burst out into the world, the part that’s fragile and easily daunted by the scope of your visions and expectations.
Do you ever feel naked – stripped down to your very essence with no place left to hide?
Do you ever reach a stage in your growth/evolution where you are lost because you don’t know how to move forward? Where you know the magic exists outside your comfort zone but fear of the unknown grips you so hard you can’t move a muscle? What do you do?
What do you do? Continue reading
4 weeks ago, I decided to go professional with my blog. My first admission here took a lot to tap out.
I sat down with my journal and teased out my personal brand of magic/my calling, my contribution to humanity, and what I could do to set the world on fire. I felt light and free and clear about my life’s purpose. Cue hallelujah chorus and angels rejoicing.
Then I woke up the next day and the fear began: what if I fail? What can I possibly offer the world that isn’t already out there? HOW will I get started?
Luckily, helpful souls restored my faith in myself pretty damn quick.
The fabulous Nikki Groom calmed my fears when I sent her frantic messages on Twitter and shared her story with me through email; turned out I wasn’t crazy and my emotional roller-coaster was totally normal after such a momentous (and public!) declaration. Phew.
John Kowalski added me on Skype, talked me through the uncertainties, and even shared his own personal word map and infographic that laid the foundation for his heart-centred approach to entrepreneurship. Amazing or what, right?
THEN the incredibly wise and lovably ass-kicking Sandi Amorim rattled my cage during a complimentary 30-minute call and freed my soul to reveal more of herself in my blog. This led to The Bonds Between You and I because Sandi emphasised the importance of being real and true to yourself, of letting out your story complete with emotion, authenticity, and purpose. So I did, and more of you connected with me because of it. To those who commented here and on my Facebook page, I thank you.
But I didn’t start this post to tell you all about my journey and leave it at that. I started it to emphasise the power of declaration.
Things fall into place when you get clear on what you want, why you want it, and what you’re willing to do to get it. Opportunities start flooding in to test your resolve, to see how committed you really are to the process.
How badly do you want that dream? Continue reading
“Lovely lady, I’m sitting on the bus having gone wow at the beauty, insight & courage of your writing!! The world needs to read this . . .”
My new friend and soul sister Marie Milligan said that to me on Twitter after she visited my blog for the first time and read The Bonds Between You and I. She later asked me how I write the way I do and if my English degree had anything to do with it. University certainly polished my skills but I’d like to think the raw talent was there all along, ha ha. 😀
So she made a special request for a post on How to Write From the Soul. The idea is to encourage those who feel they have something to say but don’t know how to say it, or if they’re even ready to say it. At the risk of claiming to know the answer to instantly fabulous writing, I’ll do my best to make this less about me and more about you. So, here goes.
I believe we all have a story waiting to be told. A truth, a yearning, something we must express to feel free, to feel true, to feel real. We long to be seen and heard, but we worry that our story isn’t interesting or witty or juicy enough. So we shut it in. We shut our voice in. And our spirits wilt with every passing moment. Continue reading
We all have the yearning.
Sometimes it’s faint, like a moth flitting around on the edge of our consciousness. Other times it’s a keen sensation, like a ball of fire in your gut as you ache for something you cannot yet identify.
The yearning is a sense that you want more to feel fuller, broader, more complete. Completion. It is an ache to fill a void so we can achieve completion.
What does completion mean, anyway? Doesn’t it imply that we are somehow lacking and need something else to make us whole? The answer to that is contradictory in and of itself: yes and no. Yes and No. Allow me to elaborate. Continue reading
How often do we let ourselves speak? Truly speak?
I don’t just mean having the courage to pipe up when we’re taking a stand for something or admitting an emotion.
I’m talking about letting our hearts talk to us without holding back. I mean conversing with the soul in a way that is free and open and attentive.
No holds barred. Anything and everything free to flow and emerge and just come out.
Out of the darkness stuffed with all our best ideas.
Out of the space chock-full with our desires and visions and abilities.
Out of the knowledge that we are bright enough to do whatever we want to do and we deserve to shine, goddammit.
Today’s post is all about connecting and going beyond innocuous small talk. Sometime in late February I read Tia Sparkle Singh‘s post 11 Questions you’re NOT asking that could change your life and realised that we do live our lives asking and saying the same things over and over and OVER again. Kinda boring when you think about it, right?
So today I’m taking a stand to change the way we perceive communication. I’m taking a chance and putting my truth on here because I don’t want to wake up one day and find that I lived my life too afraid to share what was truly important to me.
Chances are you don’t either, yes? I mean, what’s the point of being here if we can’t be true to who we really are and what we honestly feel?
These are my answers to the 11 questions. I hope you’re moved to share yours as well.
1.) What is your dream job?
Earning a living combining my passions and interests, namely travel, writing, motivational work, and humanitarian philosophies. I guess that means I’ll either have to work for myself or find a very specific work position, yes? 😀 Continue reading
“I don’t know what to do.”
You do. You do know what to do. You’ve always known.
You know that you need to live true to yourself. You know that you need to work towards your desire, not against it. You know that you need to feel alive by doing the things that are sacred and important to you.
You know. You know.
Your soul is nudging you right now, isn’t it? Whispering in your ear and urging you to leap. Leap. Piping up and saying “She’s right, you know. Let’s go for it. Let’s!”
Let it move you. Let it speak. Let it grow. Let your soul guide you. Continue reading
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What lights you up? What completes you? What spurs you to live fully and ecstatically as you centre yourself in the present and bubble with possibility?
Your answer = your soul juice.
There’s currently a lot of talk about self-care, being good to yourself, and acknowledging your achievements even as you strive for more; about looking in the mirror and smiling at what you see. Why? Because doing all those things jazzes up the soul and fuels your engine like you wouldn’t believe. Truth.
Interestingly, though, it’s all too easy to fall into toxicity and self-flagellation. “I shouldn’t have done that. Why did I do that? I’m such a dumbass, I can’t ever get it right.”
We berate ourselves when things go wrong, and out of a misguided sense of modesty, don’t take nearly enough credit when things do go right. After all, isn’t it uncool to blow your own trumpet and tell the world just how magnificent you are? Continue reading