YOUR WILD FIRE WITHIN

Walk fearlessly towards love. Actually, run.
Run fearlessly, and FIERCELY.
Run, run so fast that the sound of your heartbeat echoes all around you.
Run towards love, and then dance, and move, and breathe for love.

Allow love to permeate your naked, raw self, allow love to fuel your INNATE, WILD FIRE WITHIN.
Allow love to create chaos, a BEAUTIFUL chaos. Allow love to change you, to open you up, to break you open.

Feel how love makes you feel. Feel every ounce of that CREATIVE energy that flows through you now. Feel yourself expand, feel your presence soar.  Feel love heal you. Feel how love can free you.

Walk fearlessly towards love. Actually, run.

Your Anahata Chakra

Our heart's are so, so, powerful. We all know that. But we don't always go out of our way to connect to that space. Our heart's hold IMMEASURABLE amounts OF BLISS, AND JOY. They hold BEAUTIFUL secrets, and wonder beyond wonder. But they also hold sorrow, and sadness, and our deepest of LONGINGS. And they need our love and focus. They need us to keep them open, to breathe LIFE INTO THEM EVERY DAY. 

The heart's centre governs all of our EMOTIONS, and therefore, truly affects all aspects of our Journey. When we close our hearts, we block the beauty of our prana, of LIFE, of love. Do yourselves a favour and stay open. 

Whether you can connect to your Anahata chakra every day, or once a week, the peace and STILLNESS that comes from that open space cannot be matched. When  your heart beats flawlessly and moves to the natural rhythm of your soul, of your body, you start to attract love and abundance and harmony WITHIN YOUR LIFE.  An open heart, opens you to all of LIFE.  

So, here are my top 5 ways I connect to my heart's space, to my 4th chakra. 

1. Say to yourself, aloud, or WITHIN,' I am open & ready to RECEIVE love. I am open & ready to hear the true beat of my heart. I am open & ready to be fully open-hearted. ' 

2. Breathe. Easy one eh? We forget to more often than not. Take 3 deep, deep, belly breaths, and focus on your heart's centre, and really feel yourself open up to that space, to come back down from your head. 

3. For a sweet & gentle way to re-connect to your Anahata chakra on the run, place your one hand on your heart, and the other on your belly, for even a moment, and feel the BEAUTIFUL beat of your heart dance as your belly RISES up and down. (Feels so good!!)

4. Journal, Journal, Journal!! WRITE THAT SHIT DOWN!! All the good, bad, and ugly. Put all of your sorrows and heartache down on paper, and release them from your BEING. Maybe burn some sage, and cleanse yourself of what does not serve you, of what stops the free flow of your heart's energy. 

5. Love yourself. On the deepest level, yes, love yourself, always, but also love yourself every day. Nurture yourself, follow your BLISS. When we do what we love, and honour ourselves, our hearts feel totally ALIVE. Whether you seek solace WITHIN the warmth of a hot bath, a cup of herbal tea, a long heart to heart talk WITH A BEAUTIFUL SOUL SISTER, or a walk through nature's beauty, honour that, and go that space. 

So, how can you re-connect to your heart's space today? How do you nurture and honour your heart? 

Love + Light to you all, have a wonderful weekend and send some love to that heart of yours, today, and always. That WILD, WILD, HEART OF YOURS. 

SHIFT HAPPENS

CHOOSE TO GREET THIS DAY WITH AN OPEN HEART.
MAKE LOVE MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR CAREER TODAY.

POUR LOVE INTO EVERYTHING YOU DO TODAY. 

BLESS AND LOVE EVERYONE YOU MEET TODAY. LOOK ON ALL THINGS WITH APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE TODAY. 

MAKE LOVE MORE PRECIOUS THAN YOUR OLD WOUNDS AND OLD FEARS TODAY.
LET YOURSELF BE LOVED TODAY. MAKE LIFE ALL ABOUT LOVE TODAY.

SHIFT HAPPENS BY ROBERT HOLDEN

Dear Dad

I was angry. I wonder why that's so god damn hard for me to say? I was angry. And I am very much aware that a part of me holds onto to that anger now. To be honest, I started to put those words to paper as took out my notebook and yet for some reason felt drawn to release whatever comes up here, on my blog, for all to see. I feel exposed for some reason, and pretty raw. We can talk all day long about how to LIVE a SPIRITUAL LIFE, and on how to love more deeply and fully, but to actually share my deepest of wounds to whomever reads my posts, well that's a whole other story. But yet, here we are, and here I am, about to get really real.

I was angry. I could stop there really, because those words alone have always made me uncomfortable. I have always chosen to see the good that's WITHIN all of us, even for those who have upset or hurt me the most. So to acknowledge how angry I felt, was a huge step for me. 

 A lot of my own wounds, you know the ones that never really heal unless you show up and tend to them, well, they stem from my father, and they hurt so FUCKING bad some days. Even on the Journey I am on, and all of the HEALING I have done, some wounds are deep, and they tend to take us longer to free ourselves from.

So, why was I angry? Well, to spare you all a long story, that we all have one or another, here's why I was angry, angry at my Dad. (Tears stream down my face as I type those words, because I know what a BEAUTIFUL soul my Dad has) I was angry because he has always been gone one day and then here the next. I was angry because I always felt as though a part of me was on a quest to feel connected to my Dad, to know that I was ever so loved. I was angry, because on Father's Day, he could not show up for me. I was angry because everyday, he chose to not show up for me. I was angry, because he seemed okay, and he seemed happy, and yet, we were always apart.
How could my heart ache so badly, and he, okay?

I know the only love I truly needs the love of myself, but yet I struggle to let go of the need to feel accepted, or to feel needed by my Dad. I know he loves me, I do know that, and I understand that we all do the best we can. I also understand that you can never really show up for others, unless you show up for yourself, and so here's my struggle. I am so aware of the goodness that my dad has, I see so much of myself WITHIN that man, but yet, I also feel so angry. And I know I have to allow myself to feel that. To truly feel that, so that anger can be healed, so I can let go of my past.

I am not sure how the story unfolds from here, I sobbed my way through the whole post, and somehow feel LIGHTER. I know my most profound and BEAUTIFUL lessons stem from these wounds, from the unseen CHILD that LIVES WITHIN me. My prayer's that she'll one day feel seen, and know from her deepest of depths, that she's loved, that I am loved. 

I pray that we all heal those wounds that cut us the deepest, and I pray that we can come back stronger, and our hearts more open than ever. And may we acknowledge that we are all apart of the same Journey, and above all us, show up for ourselves, and then we can truly show up for those we love the most.

Dad, In case you ever come across these words, know that even though I, yes, feel anger towards you, lesser every day, that I love you. I love you for you, your truth, the soul that permeates through all the BS. I love you for the man I know you are. And even though we rarely see one another, I see you, and feel the energy between us, that sacred love that connects us. I pray that one day, we can return to that place, where we both see each other, where we both choose to show up. 

Love always
Car

Greatest Of Teachers

Rather then feel shame towards your shadow self, choose to acknowledge your shadows, to send them love. Allow them to be heard, and seen, for merely all they are, a shadow, a story. Allow your shadows to catapult you towards the LIGHT. Love, love, love them, all of them, even for the smallest of reasons, for the lessons they have taught you, or the awareness they brought you. And watch as they transform to be your greatest teachers + GUIDES. 

Our shadows, our ego, can be our greatest teachers, and our greatest GUIDES, so as long as we confront them. So long as we send them love. So long as we allow that energy to pass through us as gently as we can. If we choose the latter, and suppress and deny our ego, naturally, our shadows can become our masters, and we, puppets of our own fears. A false story that serves you no more. 

Allow love to lead you, to teach you, to be the water that cleanses you and allows your true self to FLOURISH, to grow, and to come forth, to take a stand, and step INTO THE LOVE THAT YOU ARE. Into your natural state of harmony and sacred BLISS + JOY. 

Love washes away all that does not belong, all that's not true.
May you be cleansed, free, and BEAUTIFULLY WILD. 

A PRAYER

DEAR GOD, 

I SAY YES TO LOVE TODAY.

HELP ME GIVE AND RECEIVE LOVE.

I SAY YES TO HAPPINESS TODAY. 

HELP ME TO ENJOY EACH MOMENT.

I SAY YES TO BALANCE TODAY.

HELP ME RELAX AND SMILE.

I SAY YES TO ME TODAY.

HELP ME LISTEN TO MY HEART. 

I SAY YES TO MIRACLES TODAY.

I SAY YES TO LIFE TODAY. 

 - A PRAYER FROM 'SHIFT HAPPENS' BY  ROBERT HOLDEN

Choose Love

We are often brought to our knees, no matter who we are or where we come from, we have all felt the IMMENSE WEIGHT of a heavy heart. We have all been knocked down one way or another, naturally, we are all one, and we are all human. But I have learnt that we have a freedom to choose how we react, how we handle the BEAUTIFULLY PAINFUL lessons we have come to learn. You can choose love, or you can choose Fear. Trust me, no matter what you have been through, choose love. Choose love. See beauty wherever you look. See hope, see wonder. Allow your heart to carry you back to love. Opened, and ready to learn, to laugh, to fully feel the breath that allows you to really be here, present, open-hearted. 

Breathe, deeply, and fully. Have a lovely week everyone. Love & LIGHT. 

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Have you ever done all that you can to 'save' someone you loved? Have you ever wanted someone you care about to change, to heal, to grow, to love themselves? To love you? Let's be real, we ALL have been there one way or another. The need or DRIVE to 'INSPIRE' someone we cared about to change. We only want for them to be happy, RIGHT? Well, I have come to understand, for myself anyways, that you cannot, and I repeat cannot, 'Save' anyone, and you cannot make anyone change. They have to want change for themselves, I repeat, THEY have to want change for themselves.

PEOPLE DO THE BEST THEY CAN WITH WHAT THEY KNOW, BASED ON HOW PRESENT, CONSCIOUS, AND AWARE THEY ARE. 

But.. we can LOVE them. And I don't mean, the sort of love that causes us to want them to change, or to heal the shadow parts of themselves. I mean UNCONDITIONAL love. And by that I mean, NO CONDITIONS. And by no means does that mean you become a door mat, you do not even have to be around the person to love them UNCONDITIONALLY. All you have to do IS show up, whether you show up PHYSICALLY, or ENERGETICALLY, UNCONDITIONAL love knows no bounds, knows no obstacle. Send them love, and send them LIGHT. 


We all have those people who are apart of our Journeys, and yes they are there for a reason, but the truth's that, even though we may not understand them, or understand how they treat us, or maybe how they see the world, that's not about us. I repeat, for my own sake, THAT'S NOT ABOUT US. And we cannot take on the world all by ourselves, we have to understand that they too, have a path to follow, and though that path may be very bumpy path, or one you don't want to be on, can you love them anyway? Can you choose to see them for who they really are? When we place Judgement on others, we really place Judgement on ourselves. 

We often say that love UNCONDITIONALLY. I mean, I hear people say those terms a lot, and yet I see those same people, MYSELF INCLUDED, turn around and retreat that 'UNCONDITIONAL LOVE' the moment the present CONDITIONS don't match up to what they wanted.  

Are you even aware of the CONDITIONS you have placed on your RELATIONSHIPS, on the people you love the most, or the ones that are apart of your path whether you want them to be or not? I know that for me, I have become very aware of the CONDITIONS I have placed not only on others, but on myself as well. However, yesterday, I had a total wake up call, or as Oprah would say an 'Aha' moment. I had Robert Holden's awesome Hay House RADIO show on,  and as he talked to a very lovely woman, he spoke the most BEAUTIFUL words, and I knew they would change my outlook from here on out. 

'GOD HAS NEVER TRIED TO HEAL ME, HE ONLY LOVES ME'

'GOD DOESN'T SAY, TODAY I AM GOING TO HEAL YOU, HE SIMPLY LOVES ME'

HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT? Honestly? He only loves me. I heard those words and started to reflect on the CONDITIONS I have placed on those closest to me, my parents, etc, and how much I (ego) wanted to save them. How much I (ego) needed them to change, needed them to be on the same path as me, to understand me, to love themselves, to love me. Granted, these all sound pretty normal, but that's not my work, that's not for me to carry on my shoulders, or on my heart. All I need to do IS love them, love everyone, UNCONDITIONALLY, and only then can I love myself the same. If I choose to constantly place CONDITIONS on others, and choose to see what's 'wrong', I deny myself the very love I had yearned for all along, I deny myself the chance to see past the ILLUSION that we are separate. 

And don't get me wrong, to actually show up, and love someone UNCONDITIONALLY, well that's one hard lesson and maybe the most BEAUTIFUL and PROFOUND one we can learn. No matter how much someone may push your buttons, send them love. No matter how dark the path they have walked, send them LIGHT. No matter hurt you feel, send them love. Send them FORGIVENESS. Send them hope. To love someone UNCONDITIONALLY says to them, yourself, and to the world, 'You are perfect the way you are, because you are DIVINE love. You are enough, and you are loved, no matter what, and I'll show up for not only myself, but for you, because we are love.' 

Are we not all on the same Journey anyways, one way or another? Let's choose to love one another. Let's choose to love ourselves enough to let go and release all of those CONDITIONS we place on ourselves and on everyone else. They create walls, they create separateness, they create ILLUSION. Even when you feel you have to walk away from someone for your own WELL BEING, and chances are one day you'll have too. So walk away, head held HIGH, and pebbles of love at your feet for those who may one day need them. 

Open Your Heart To The Blood Moon

There's a beauty WITHIN you, a LIFE FORCE so very present, that holds the power of the DIVINE. There's a STILLNESS that can ground you, that can open your heart to the coloured sky above you. There's a breathe you can rely on, that can return you to love, to your FIERY soul. Hold close to you, the part of you that knows only peace. Allow yourself to be warmed by the pure essence of who you are, a DIVINE BEING OF LIGHT AND LOVE. 

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Happy Blood Moon everyone!! Always remember to nurture yourselves and allow all of that energy to move through you. Open yourself up to how you feel so you may release what no longer serves you, and so that you may expand your awareness of your truth and your soul's purpose. 

LOVE + LIGHT

And Do You Dance?!

What's beneath your surface?! Can you sense that there's a depth to you, a depth so profound, so deep WITHIN, that you have often forgotten the very presence of your soul's FIRE? What LIGHTS you up and causes your heart to explode from complete and utter PASSION and DIVINE energy? That DIVINE energy that courses through your body at every 'awakened' moment. Who are you?! And what do you stand for?! 

What's the essence of the courage that moves you to dance along the waves of your dreams?! And do you dance?! Do you honour your body and the way you yearn to move?! Do you watch your soul SISTERS and brothers from afar as they play amongst the Ocean's JOY? And do you wonder why you have yet to feel the art of surrender?! Why you have yet to feel worthy to play amongst them? Worthy to let go, to dance, to connect, to rest, and to laugh. Do you?

What's the part of you that wants to keep you small? To play safe, to dream small, to settle, to close the door on your truth, on your soul's cry for FREEDOM, and throw the key away? Where does that come from, and how does that make you feel? Can you feel that? The way your breath shortens and your heart burns? Can you locate the part of you that sabotages your true self, and your DIVINE presence?

What's beneath the surface? What's down deep, WITHIN your depths? The answers to who are you, and what do you stand for, they are located WITHIN those depths of your BEING, and can be accessed at any moment. The moment you make a CONSCIOUS CHOICE to say YES TO JOY.

Are you ready to go deep? To actually get to know yourself, who you are the very core of your soul, and to lay down, and get DIRTY, to learn what you stand for? Because once you do, you'll look around and see yourself through brand new eyes, the world through brand new eyes, and what you used to see as dull, now has an ever present sparkle that you cannot deny. When you choose to go beneath the surface, shadow work as some would say, you unleash the very truth of who you are, love. And once you have unleashed love, your soul's FIRE can soar, and you may very well come to hold the very answers you seek. So, who are YOU? And what exactly do you stand for?

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Could you?!

Could you allow yourself to let go, for even one moment?! To take a step back and look at yourself, through eyes of love, rather than from a place of fear. Could you, for even one moment, surrender to your true self, and SHINE?! To know that you were created from love, and that you are meant to own your power, to go after whatever you may seek. Our Journeys are not about PERFECTION, but rather, progress, movement, and RISING up after we have crumbled to our bottom. Wherever you are on your path, could you allow yourself to leap? To take that one EPIC step towards the LIGHTHOUSE of love that you were always meant to follow. Could you, for even one moment, see how BEAUTIFUL you are?!

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The arms of peace

There's a love, and there's a LIGHT, that's always near, a present energy, that's yours to take. A breathe away, a dream away, she leaps, and falls WITHIN THE ARMS OF PEACE. Met by the hands of grace and a perfect moment of wholeness, she trusts her heart, open and full. Her LIFE began the moment she gave her fears away and chose love to GUIDE HER. 

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SPRING.. A lullaby of hope

I knew my path was about to change, that I was about to change. That one chapter was about to close, and a new, about to gently start. Warm, and gold sun rays had touched my body, so gently, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS. I could hear the waves ahead of me, the ebb and flow of the salty water, WHISPERING A LULLABY OF HOPE. 

THE WIND KISSED MY SKIN AND I SOMEHOW FELT RENEWED.There was an energy all around me, that told me to trust. To feel deeply. To move as the DAFFODILS had when they began to bloom. After a cold,damp, Winter, those spectacular flowers somehow trusted the process of Mother Nature, and knew they would blossom once more. And I wondered, did those DAFFODILS radiate a touch more after every bloom? More and more colourful, peaceful, and open, ready to share all of the beauty and glory that nature had bestowed upon them. I now understood that so many key lessons were all around me, once I chose to see them, once I opened my eyes to the love that was all around me, around all of us. 

And I thought to myself, perhaps one must lose the ground they walk upon, so they may bloom fully, and completely. Maybe, one must reflect, and go deep WITHIN, as the darker days of WINTER'S cold unfolds, and then return as the flowers would, blossomed and full of love. READY TO PROSPER AND DANCE WITH ABUNDANCE. 

WITH renewed hearts and souls, and a welcome to SPRING, may we be GUIDED forward. May we dance and play amongst the ever present beauty that nature has once more unfolded before our eyes. 

To Ground Oneself

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We LIVE IN A WORLD that's so consumed by a false sense of Freedom, a false sense of peace. A world that teaches us to look OUTSIDE of ourselves, when the only way to true freedom and peace IS WITHIN. I spent so many years on AUTO-PILOT, and though there were moments of CLARITY, I had not even been grounded WITHIN my body, not even really connected to my soul. Sounds so surreal to me now as I reflect on where I have been and on where I am. When started my Journey to self-love, and my SPIRITUAL AWAKENING, I went and sought a hand to help me through the darker of days, to help me come bacK to my heart and my truth. That hand that the UNIVERSE so perfectly connected me to, was the hand of a man, who has changed me, completely and fully. That man's now someone I am happy to call a dear FRIEND, and truly, my GUIDE, and one of the only teachers I feel taught me matters that well, matter. 

That man, my own personal guru so to speak, taught me many, many lessons. But the one lesson he taught me that I go back to over and over, was to be GROUNDED. I remember the very first day I went and sat down across from my dear FRIEND, and he told me I was not grounded. That I was not presently connected to my truth, and that I was so scared of the present space I had created, that my soul had fled for help. Grounded. To ground oneself. I can honestly say I had never heard the term or even the concept to be grounded, ever, until that day, when he spoke those beautiful words. They changed me, and they continue to change me every day. 

How could I fully LIVE, how could I fully be present, when my soul's not fully connected to my heart, to my body, my TEMPLE, my LIGHT? To ground oneselfs to be blanketed by a handmade quilt of peace, a peace that takes you back to what's real, and allows you to see past fear, see past ILLUSION. 

When I started to fully understand the grandness of the art of being grounded, I was able to focus on what really mattered to me, and I was able to release all of those STORIES we create that never really serve us. As all paths go, yoga, MINDFULNESS,the way we eat, how we create, to learn to be grounded takes PRACTICE. A CONSCIOUS CHOICE you make every day to be grounded, and maybe even moments, an hour here or there. Trust me, when you have been ungrounded for years, a few hours of pure grounded BLISS feels more than enough to start. I now know that every moment I am stressed, or upset, or have created my own sense of chaos, that I am not grounded. There's so much power that comes once you are aware of that, once you know there's a better way, a spectacular,EUPHORIC way. 

So maybe ask yourself, do you feel grounded? Do you feel connected to your souls core purpose, to your heart, and do you feel yourself apart of every ounce of your body, your TEMPLE? Subtle changes, every day, every moment, can completely change the way you see yourself, see your world, and how you connect to both. 

A few ways I love to ground myself are

~ A long walk outdoors, surrounded by nature and my loved ones, or some days alone. 

~ A good hug of a TREE. No really, I hug TREES more often than not.Totally recommend. 

~A barefoot stroll on grass,a sandy beach by the ocean, Feel your body connect to Mother Earth. 

~ Yoga, of course, grounds me to my very core. 

~ MEDITATION, whether you have a few spare moments or an hour, take what you can. 

~ A hot,steamy bath full of Epsom salts and ESSENTIAL OILS. 

~ Have FUN, play, be goofy, and connect to yourself and your loved ones. 

~ Journal,blog, create, however you create, there's total BLISS that comes from that, and you can connect to your heart completely. 

~ Prayer

~ And above all else, breathe you wondrous soul!!

That man I sat across from that day, that open-hearted soul, taught me one of the most valuable lessons I have ever been taught, and I am FOREVER GRATEFUL for the love and KINDNESS he bestowed upon me that day, and every other we have spent UNRAVELLING who I thought I was, and who I thought I had to be. He has helped me every step of the way, to reconnect to my HIGHER self, to my goddess WITHIN. And I hope these words, the concept to ground yourself, to connect to your breathe and your body, serves you and can maybe allow you to connect to your Inner Goddess as well. 

Peace + Love 

Sweet sweet MAGIC

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The truth does not always come to us as we may have IMAGINED. Our paths and our soul's purpose do not always come to us the way we would want them to. PATIENCE, that's the key. Add an open-hearted SPIRIT and the truth always comes. And what makes your soul sparkle flows to you naturally. 

The funny part's that for me, the hardest part's to trust that I know my truth. To trust that I am on the path that has been so BEAUTIFULLY created for me. Ego wants us to create endless amounts of B.S. that only detour us from our truth, from our endless love, from the MAGICAL souls that we are. I do my best to remember to connect to my breath, to really feel my breath as I INHALE, and as I EXHALE. So often we forget to breathe, or at least I know I do. And I mean really breathe the sort of breath that centres you, grounds you,connects you to all that serves you and your purpose of love. The sort of breath that allows you to be MINDFUL. 

Sweet, sweet MAGIC. Breathe that sort of breath. 

Our breath, our truth,our soul's sparkle, our SPIRIT, our true purpose, they are all so completely connected. And I feel as though they all come together so wonderfully the moment we choose to trust. Trust that PRIMAL part of us that knows us better than anyone else ever could,that knows what sets our soul's on FIRE. You know you have felt that when all you want to do's shout out to the world YES,I have found what connects and grounds me to JOY.

A JOY that stems from pure,sacred love. 

I have learnt that for me, personally, PATIENCE can save you. When you let go of the need to force outcomes. When you completely surrender to what the UNIVERSE has planned for you. What GOD has planned for you, whatever GOD means to you. Trust. And TRUST that you have been GUIDED to exactly where you are at THIS VERY MOMENT for a reason. Open you heart and trust. Trust your truth. And as always, breathe. Breathe that sweet,sweet MAGICAL breath. 

The art of FORGIVENESS

It was not that long ago that I truly thought that to FORGIVE someone was weakness on my part, that that somehow reflected onto me as not strong enough. I thought that to forgive someone was for them, that the purpose was to let them off the hook for however you may have felt wronged. 

When I started my Journey, or as the awesome Brene Brown would say, my breakdown spiritual awakening, I learnt that to FORGIVE was about my Inner peace and my peace only. I learnt that the art of forgiveness allowed me the chance to move past LIMITING BELIEFS and become whole. Somewhere along our paths, we start to harness a whole lot of resentment, anger, and overall sorrow. We tend to hold grudges, and replay over and over why we are 'mad' or how awful that person was to us.

If I could go back, I would tell myself to let go, to forgive. To hang on to all that sorrow, you really only hang onto stagnant energy that does not serve you, that actually does a whole lot of harm to you and your soul, to your true essence. 
The art of forgiveness does not let the other person off the hook, you let yourself off the hook. You allow yourself to move forward, to put forth your energy towards your true heart's DESIRES. You bestow upon yourself a MIRACULOUS GIFT.

And the real beauty comes when we choose to surrender to forgiveness, and we actually forgive ourselves, for whatever the reasons may be. That's when the beauty of true self acceptance starts to play, and eventually peace and wholeness starts to dance at our feet. For me, personally, the moment I forgave those I felt had wronged me, so much old energy was released and I had created space for growth, for a fresh start. I took back my power. 

I chose to no longer attach myself to my past. And my sorrow no longer had an RSVP and a plus one to my future. I knew I had a story to tell, and I wanted that story to be my truth,and the only way to my truth was to release all that no longer served me. It has not always been easy, and I have to remember the exact words that I type here day to day. That's why we PRACTICE. 

So, maybe, when you come across an event that would normally cause you to harness anger or sadness or even fear, send love and LIGHT to yourself, and to whomever was apart of the event. Take a deep breathe, and ask yourself whether that energy serves you, whether your peace's worth that resentment. ALL we have to do's be WILLING. Show up, and say to yourself or even out loud, 

I am ready to FORGIVE, I am open to FORGIVENESS, I am at peace. 

Take a deep breathe, and allow your INNER GUIDANCE to take care of you. 

Pure + sacred act of acceptance

Self-love's such a pure and sacred act of acceptance. There's a freedom that naturally flows from that, and I pray that everyone gets to feel that. I pray that anyone and everyone who has ever felt unworthy, know's that they are more than worthy. We have to let go of what we are taught to see as beauty.

To me, beauty's an energy, beauty stems from the love that you are. From the love you have for yourself and for all others. 

Love yourself always, and allow your true beauty to be seen. 

An open letter to yoga

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Dear Yoga,

Had I known all you would do for me, I would have started my practice years and years ago. You have taught me to breathe, I mean truly breathe,somewhere along the way we forget how. You taught me how to release. How to release all that does not serve me anymore. You allowed a sense of peace to wash over me and allowed me to reconnect to my soul. Yoga, long story short, you saved me.

I could have never dreamt of the peace you allow me to feel. The oneness you have brought my way. Every downward dog to every swan pose, I learn more and more about myself and who I am meant to be. You have taught me that the moment I want to release the pose, to keep my breathe and push through, because as soon as you push through you conquer all that has held you back.

You have taught me to love my body. No matter how I look, I can rock a yoga pose, and feel damn good about that. I now love curves I sought to change for years. I love the sweat that falls down my face as I know I am on a path to change. A path to self-love and connected to my truth. Yoga, I was wrong about you, I once thought you were a fad, a trend. I thought you were all about Lululemon and how the ‘cool’ people passed the day away. Oh how I was wrong. You are so much more than I could have ever known, yet so simple at your core. You have taught me to breathe, to love oneself, to love all others, to release, and to know when to push through.

You have brought me teachers who have changed my world, who have allowed me to see myself through brand new eyes. Thank you. I owe you more than I could ever say. Much love.

Breathe as you push through your walls and breathe as you release them.

Namaste

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Dear Wondrous Soul

 Dear wondrous soul, the one who knows that love's all you need, who knows we are all one. Allow yourself the chance to be set free. Perhaps, you can allow your soul to expand from all of the corners of who you are. 
Be your truth, allow yourself to be present + allow the FIRE that grows WITHIN you to become the heat source of love that connects us all. Open your heart, dear one, and allow yourself to be fearless. Take that leap, connect to your true self + know above all else, that LOVE always GUIDES us back home. 

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The Answers You Seek

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I have thought long and hard about what my message to the world,about what my soul’s purpose was. I have done my best to force the answers to appear, and even try to control the outcome. What I have found’s that the harder I try to come across these profound answers, the further away they appeared, and the further away I became from my truth.

So I surrendered! I opened my heart up to the my source, and I slowly began to learn to trust. I trusted that the answers I seek would come to me when I was ready for them.

One of the most profound answers that came to me was that I had to truly embrace the unknown and to trust the ebbs and flows of my Journey. The changes are constant, and they are pure beauty. To be able to go through complete sorrow and then come through eyes open, and heart open, that to me’s one of the greatest comforts, almost as though someone has wrapped a warm blanket around you and you completely melt from that comfort, from the safeness you feel.

That warm blanket of comfort, the safeness, and the courage to trust, they came to me through MEDITATION.  

I can honestly say that meditation was one of the key factors that saved me and taught me how to love myself. When I actually allowed myself to relax, and to breathe, I was able to reconnect to my true essence. I was able to reconnect to love. The process was not always easy, and took months to really  allow myself to get to that place.

The hardest steps are usually the ones we know we have to or need to take.

Meditation allowed me to go within, and to connect to who I really am. Meditation opened up the space for me to heal, and to let go what no longer served me. Day to day, I have been able to release fear, and to let go of fear based thoughts and doubts that kept me closed off to my soul’s purpose. That kept me closed off to pure, sacred, love and harmony.

Whether you have never meditated before, or whether you do so regularly, the peace and answers you seek are ready for you the moment you allow yourself to open up to them. So start somewhere, start anywhere, allow yourself to reconnect to your truth, and to come through the fog that fear has created for you.

We can always choose love, and can always choose to heal, no matter what we have been through. We all have a story, and we all can create a story of courage,love and trust.

WHAT YOU SEEK IS SEEKING YOU.  RUMI 

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