Are you aware of your deepest desires? The desires held by your heart? The desires your Soul is calling you to fulfill in this lifetime? If you do have a sense – at least a hint – of those desires, are you allowing yourself to want them, to speak them, to prioritize them in your life? […]
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Are you constantly engaging in emotional labor… and perhaps burning out as a result? This post will help you examine where, how, and why you’re doing emotional labor in your life, what that emotional labor is costing you, and how you want to approach your emotional labor moving forward. What is emotional labor? Emotional labor was first defined
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I am here to experience good things. It’s my birthright to experience good things. I welcome the good that’s coming my way, and I welcome the good that’s already here. I choose peace above all else. My inner peace matters more than anything. My inner peace matters more than human drama. My inner peace matters more than
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What is an energy vampire, and how can you protect yourself from one? An energy vampire is someone who uses fear-based or negative emotions to try to gain access to your personal energy field, and drain it. Emotions typically used by energy vampires include guilt, embarrassment, resentment, anger, self-deprecation, and shame. Interestingly, the term energy
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I want to begin this post with an important question: what’s taking up residence in you? Or, better yet, what are you allowing to take up residence in you? What does this question really mean? — If you prefer: to listen to this post as a podcast episode, click here: Inner Work Ep. 8 Essentially,
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The term shadow work often comes up in spiritual and self-development circles. It’s been defined in many different ways, and there are many approaches that can be used to do this type of healing work. For our purposes, we can think of shadow work as a particular kind of inner work. It requires us to face
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Do you find yourself often bracing against life or unwanted experiences? Or bracing against situations or fearful outcomes that haven’t happened yet, and might never happen? Do you try to control your surroundings and other people to feel safe? Do you find it challenging to deal with unexpected setbacks, interruptions in your routine, or last-minute
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Transcending the ego is a common goal on the spiritual path, where the ego is typically seen as opposite to the Soul. This article explores: What is the ego? Why is it important to transcend it? The lies & illusions that your ego might feed you (and how they cause you suffering) 5 ways the Akashic
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Reshaping your life after a spiritual awakening can be an overwhelming experience. I was recently interviewed on the Refractive Podcast to talk about my own process of spiritual awakening and what it took to rebuild my life afterwards. In this interview, I talk about the inner nudges that moved me to question my life trajectory
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The path of spiritual awakening can be really lonely at times. First, there’s the fact that you’re the only person who lives in your body. So, essentially, your very nature is to be alone. You move through life and no one outside of you is able to fully feel or experience what you’re feeling. This
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Healing your inner child is one of the most self-compassionate, nourishing, supportive things you can do for yourself. Your inner child is essentially the youngest part of you, an internal version of who you actually were as a child. This means your inner child carries the wounds, disappointments, hurts, and feelings that you experienced during
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Birth trauma can have a lasting impact on your life well into adulthood. How you first enter the world can affect how you relate to yourself, to other people, and to life itself. Below, I share my personal story of birth trauma and outline the resources that are helping me heal this trauma. I hope
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People pleasing is one way – a powerful way – in which we learned to keep ourselves safe in the world. People pleasing requires you to put your own needs, desires, feelings, and preferences in the background. It requires you to suppress them or deny that they even exist. People pleasing is about making sure
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One of the challenges on the spiritual path, particularly when it comes to enforcing boundaries, is self-doubt. As you begin to follow your intuition and look within for guidance, you often start saying NO to a whole bunch of things – requests, demands, so-called obligations, invitations – that you used to say yes to, begrudgingly.
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As an adult, I’ve always found it challenging to cry. To just burst out crying spontaneously. Without caring about what I’m doing, who’s around, or how others might react to my tears. I’m not sure how this resistance to crying developed in the first place, but I suspect it has something to do with… the
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Are you wondering how to live more spiritually? Clients and students often ask me for suggestions on how to live more spiritually. How can they align their daily lives, work, and experiences with their Soul purpose? How can they express more of their true, authentic selves? How can they live their spiritual beliefs and
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pro·duc·tiv·i·ty. noun. the state or quality of producing something. The Cult of Productivity Our modern culture (at least in the west, where I live and work) glorifies productivity. Speed, efficiency, and being able to produce more – more results, more products, more ideas, more innovations, more money – in less time have become dominant values in this culture.
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This article walks you through how to develop your intuition using the 5 “clairs”. I offer specific suggestions on how to develop each clair, or intuitive channel, so you can connect powerfully to your intuition. What is intuition? Let’s start by defining this term. Intuition is often talked about in spiritual and healing circles. Typically,
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