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The Energy Vampire Called Perfectionism and How to Stop It
We all have encountered those people who drain us completely or make us feel angry or frustrated or hopeless. What we often forget is the worst energy vampire of all: Perfectionism.
That horrible nagging need to make things perfect before going public with it…

Spiritual Immersion & Self-Sabotage: How to STOP the Self-Sabotage Short Circuit
"If you don't stop celebrating, I'm gonna give you something to celebrate about!" Michael Bernard Beckwith Gah. I had a moment when I “should” have been feeling super inspired but instead I was squirming in my seat and shocked by what was happening inside me. So it’s...

Spiritual Identity Crisis: Who Am I?
I feel like I’m having a spiritual identity crisis. That’s because I am. Me, my business, my health and my spiritual development. We’ve been going through some major evolution once again. I wrote that line originally in 2015, the year before my son died, and here I am...

5 Hot Tips to Help You Uncover & Uplevel Your Spiritual Gifts
1. Figure out your special brand of self-sabotage that stops you from valuing yourself and channelling your gifts through your work and play. Really get to know your habits, how you feel inside your body and what kinds of emotions are coming up. What and/or who are...

Lessons from Mom About How to Never Get What You Want
Trigger Warning: Suicide, parent loss Most of us… our parents weren’t perfect. They gave us the teachings they knew, verbally and by example, whether those teachings were proven to be useful or not. You know what? Sometimes we receive unexpected, unwanted traumatic...

How to Fill in Your Year Plan… with SPIRIT
What’s in your Year Plan so far? Are YOU and SPIRIT fully included? I find it fascinating that many spiritual entrepreneurs go one of two ways: 1) Spirit will take care of it all. I don’t need to plan. The Universe will take care of it for me. 2) I’ve got my year fully planned out with all the steps and to do lists ready to go. We need BOTH as spiritual entrepreneurs.

When Your Inner Conversation Messes with Your Success (and what to do about it)
At a meetup recently, I was having a lively conversation with a couple of folks after most of the people at our table had left. And I noticed my little ego popping up to say “Hey, look at me, I'm important.” You ever notice those moments? You know when you’re in a...

How to Open Yourself to Receive Spiritual Downloads
People keep wanting to talk to me about spiritual downloads, so I wanted to offer you a bit more on that. It’s an exciting topic for me because I get ALL of my products, services and signature systems as downloads, most of the information for my clients comes that...

Surviving, Arriving or Thriving – Which one describes you?
I just wrote about this somewhere - the difference between surviving and thriving. And it keeps coming up in conversation, perhaps because people are really starting to be at an impasse with doing what they don’t love and not giving themselves the gift of doing what...

Tripping Up the Universe – How to Change Your Life One Pattern at a Time
I know a lot of you are going through a major shift (or more than one!) and just so much transition right now. Some of it feels good, some it sucks and some of it is just plain scary. New things. I like to call it “tripping up the Universe”. And then sometimes… the...