I went from feeling bad about taking time to nurture myself all the way to owning my true value and it changed my life.

Life used to be really hard.

I'd beat myself up if I didn't live up to the rules I had put in place for myself like:

hitting a revenue target for my business
having an unhappy client that I couldn't "help/fix"
feeling like a bad mom when my kids didn't listen to me
thinking that I wasn't meeting...

Lots of people ask me about meditation. When the mind doesn't quiet down on it's own they think there's something wrong with them and beat themselves up for not having a perfectly quiet mind! Who does? Be nice to yourself, you are in process of letting the mind melt. Just like the wax in a candle...

Love is my super power.

And it can be yours too.

Love it all.

Love spirit.

Love shadow.

Love money.

Love yourself. Love who you are becoming. Love the parts you are leaving behind.

Love the beliefs that hold you back so you can heal them and let them go.

Love your body and nourish it.

Love your...

Love is literally imbedded in my walls. When I painted the basement family room a few months ago I started with the trim and LOVE.

There's nothing more important in life than love. There are many other distractions, but nothing so important as love. When life is falling apart around you look...

I took one for the team.

I knew at a young age I was different. You too probably.

But I grew up in a Catholic family in small town Nebraska where being different wasn't a good thing.

When trying my best to fit in wasn't working anymore, I decided I needed to figure out who I was--not who "they"...

We all have our own kind of golden handcuffs we wear.

And yes, they are golden if you have a roof over your head, food to eat, clean water to drink, a car to drive, and a cell phone in your pocket.

You are better off than most people on this planet.

And yet, you know there is more for you.

You...

I watched a movie, "Military Wives", over the weekend.

I could absolutely relate since way back when, I was an army wife myself.

It deals with the stresses military men and women leave behind when they are deployed.

It shows the realness of how people cope, both in healthy and unhealthy ways.

In...