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Intuitive Tuesday * Putting Your Voice Out There

Putting your voice out there can be hard. The voices in your head, along with external voices can haunt you, test you, taunt you, and challenge you.Will you step up? Will you back down? Will you let others determine who you are going to be? What you are going to believe? Will you risk them feeling hurt over your decision, especially if their intentions are conceivably good?How will you respond?Today, I am personally haunted, tested, taunted, and challenged. And I choose to step up! I choos...

Medicine Monday * Replace the Script

The best way to silence the outer critics is to silence the inner one, because when you silence the inner one, you find the voice within you that will silence all the others. And the best way to silence the inner critic is to replace the script! ~Michele Jennae

Have you ever stopped to ask who the voice in your head is? The one that tells you that you aren’t good enough… The one that makes you doubt that you’ve got what it takes… The one that isn’t very loving, but awfully criticizing…

Is that y...

Fabulous Friday * Fabulous Imagination

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.     ~ Ian McEwan

Einstein said something to this effect as well. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Do you notice a theme? On Wednesday, I posted about knowledge and wisdom. The day before that, I posted about Intuition being about looking within! In my studies of Inner Wisdom, I have found that the most valuable tool for Inner Wisdom is imagination!

Imagination is pure freedom. It removes limits from what our truth is supposed to look...

Thoughtful Thursday * Changing the World

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”– Margaret Mead

Perhaps more than ever, this quote resonates with me. As we watch world events, we can shake our heads and wonder what’s become of our respective nations, our communities, our friends, our own sanity.

For me, the key word in this quote is thoughtful! Apropos for a Thoughtful Thursday post too, don’t you think?

What does being thoughtful mean?  What do...

Ep. 32 The Energy of Showing Up * Point of Departure

As I transition from audio only podcasts to audio and video (also sharing to YouTube) I show up with a digital background as I record in Zoom. I look like Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars if I move too much, but it lends itself to the topic of The Energy of Showing Up.Showing up is difficult and so most of us do it with masks on. Invisible masks, yes, not just the masks so evident today due to Covid. These invisible masks are Personas that we adopt to protect ourselves from the spitballs and d...

Wisdom Wednesday * The Personal Whisper

“Faith requires following the power of a whisper.”― Shannon L. Alder Yesterday, I shared a quote about looking within for wisdom and how that’s easier said than done. Today, I wanted to expand on that. Because wisdom is often a whisper, a very personal whisper.Before I get too far, I have to say that this isn’t a whisper from one person to another. It’s a whisper from within, from the Divine Self within us, from our connection to Source. It’s more like a soft breeze that rustles leaves and ...

Intuitive Tuesday * Looking Within

When you are confused about something, look inward; intuition is always there to guide you. Let your feelings guide you to what is good.
~Jitu Das

There is so much truth in the quote above, but if you’re like me, you’re probably thinking…”that’s great! So, how do I recognize intuition? What does it look like. What does it feel like?”

I totally get that. Until I started an active (almost) daily practice, I couldn’t answer those questions for myself, much less for others. Now, my whole purpose wit...

Medicine Monday * Meaning and Healing

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.~Viktor FranklSuffering is relative but when it comes to survivor wisdom, Viktor Frankl brings it home. A victim of the ghastly inhumanities of the Holocaust, Frankly watched family members die and be taken away, never to be seen again, and also spent years in the concentration camps of the Nazis.Before he died in 1997, he left a legacy of meaning in his books Man’s Search for Meaning, The Will to Meaning and Yes to Life: In ...

Fabulous Friday * Our Most Creative Act

“Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves, not only in another’s shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.” ~Michele Jennae

Every day it seems we are presented with more and more opportunities to embrace and show our unity and connection with the world or to withdraw and separate, focusing on differences and distance.

What I can’t comprehend is how much the darkness is truly threatened by the light. I can’t comprehend how a universal idea of love and unity i...

Thoughtful Thursday * A Voice of Compassion

“We can’t heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.” ~Mary Davis

Our hearts are hurting today, in the wake of the events at the White House yesterday. So much chaos and confusion. And in an attempt to make sense of all of it, some are choosing sides.

This is what hurts my heart most of all. In our dissectionist and reductionist way of thinking in the Western world, we make snap judgments on slices (often media driven) that further sep...