What If It Has Been There All Along - Awaiting YOU?

“A miracle is a shift in perception.” A Course In Miracles

May you experience a miracle as you read Portia Nelson’s Autobiography In Five Short Chapters below:

Autobiography In Five Short Chapters
~ Portia Nelson

“Chapter 1
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter 2
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I...

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Stop Being Nice #be kind #bekind #kindnotnice #stopbeingnice

I want you to feel hopeful, secure, and empowered about yourself and your life today and tomorrow and next week and next year. We cannot wait for the external circumstances of our current reality to change in order for us to feel better. Each day that goes by, I’m noticing an increasing level of despair and overwhelm, of discouragement and exhaustion. We are working so hard to put smiles on our faces and show up for our people, our work and our lives. If I see another post complaining...

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Twinkle Lights and Miracles

One of my all-time favorite song lyrics is inspired by Garth Brooks, She’s Every Woman, written by Garth Brooks and Victoria Shaw:

She's so New York and then L.A.
And every town along the way
She's every place that I've never been
She's making love on rainy nights
She's a stroll through Christmas lights
And she's everything I want to do again.

Thing is, I’m terrible with lyrics. SO, I always sing it as, “She is the glow of the Christmas lights.” Rather than describing his...

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Cigars & Thanksgiving #both and #both/and #courage

You are such a giver. Such a doer. Such a caretaker. You give and do and love. You take care of the house and the work and the pets and the people. You are quick to praise them, encourage them, check-in on them and advocate for them. You are your people’s cheerleader, nurse, counselor, chef, Uber-driver, and shoulder to cry on.

This Thanksgiving, like all the ones before, you will be asked to reflect on what you are grateful for. And while this is a year like no other, full of losses on...

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Cuban Cigars and Margaritas for Thanksgiving

You are such a giver. Such a doer. Such a caretaker. You give and do and love. You take care of the house and the work and the pets and the people. You are quick to praise them, encourage them, check-in on them and advocate for them. You are your people’s cheerleader, nurse, counselor, chef, Uber-driver, and shoulder to cry on.

This Thanksgiving, like all the ones before, you will be asked to reflect on what you are grateful for. And while this is a year like no other, full of losses on...

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I AMs & My 20-Year High School Reunion

My 20-year high school reunion was in 2013. I wouldn’t miss it and I simultaneously didn’t want to go. I grew up with those humans and wanted to know what they were up to, how their kids were, and meet their spouses. I just wished I could be a fly on the wall, listen in to get the details, and not be seen.

I was in the early years of my own self-awareness awakening and I used my newfound sense of self, and beginning stages of disconnecting from old, limiting beliefs, to find the...

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Take Delight

When I first started opening up to consciousness and personal development there was a lot of talk about joy. “Remember a time when you were little and felt joy.” “Access your joy.” There was even one newbie coach whose website was something about having some of her joy. I was really irritated by it all. WTF is joy? was pretty much my feelings about that. I don't remember a time when I was little that I felt joy. This isn’t to say that I had a terrible childhood,...

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Blades of Grass and Standing for Love

Years ago one of my kids was being excluded and kids that were supposed to be his friends and teammates were saying things to him that were devastatingly painful. The mama bear in me ROSE up and I wanted to fight - ready to call the parents and the principal. My husband would continuously say, “Don’t get in the weeds.” In other words, don’t do that. It won’t fix it. At the time, I wanted to punch him in the face. Looking back, he was giving me infinite wisdom...

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A Little Lunchbox Note of Love

You have navigated so much this year. The trajectory of this week and the weeks to come are not showing signs that things are going to miraculously become easy and carefree. There is so much inside of me that I want to impart about all of it. Perhaps all of my wisdom and guidance will come out of me in the form of a book someday.

Today, on this Sunday, November 1, 2020, the message is simple and it is clear.

Imagine for a moment that you are a child again. You are at school and you’ve...

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Scarlett, Scarcity, and Shame

Last Tuesday morning, I made my morning smoothie as I always do: washed and cut the stems off of four strawberries, added half a banana, filled the vitamix almost to the top with greens, added around a quarter cup of blueberries, some vegan protein powder and almond milk. Blend and then pour. I took my sip of my yummy breakfast beverage and. had. to. chew. what. I. thought. was. unblended. greens. Except- it didn’t dissolve. Turns out it was a piece of plastic. Weird. I spit it into a...

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