Let Go and Rise Up

The message to let go is a common one during awakening. What I am learning is that it is a continual process. Our ego’s will continuously work to get us to grasp onto the familiar to try to stay in control. We must learn to recognize when we are doing this, when we are drowning ourselves, and remember that if we let go the fight and are quiet and still, we will rise.

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Teaching my Kids About Their Conscience

I want my kids to know that their conscience isn’t a voice in their head judging their decisions and waiting to punish them when they make mistakes. I want them to realize it is the voice of their higher selves and that it is all knowing and all loving and only wishes to guide them toward their joy.

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Clear and Balance the Throat Chakra with Reiki

Have you ever felt like your voice is trapped, unable to express your true thoughts and feelings? This struggle is often linked to a blockage in the Throat Chakra, the energy center responsible for communication and self-expression.

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A Little Peace and Reiki

My Peace and Reiki Day will include an energetic clearing of our home. It really needs it. Everything feels a bit stagnant. I will also be giving myself a full self-Reiki treatment. I’m going to go all out like I would for a client. I’ll set the stage with candles and soft music. I’ll use my crystals and have plenty of ice water available. I’m going to take time for yoga and meditation.

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When Challenges Arise, do not Worry, Grow

We are suddenly being faced with some really big changes. I cannot deny that I felt the heaviness of change and uncertainty and a lot of pressure to find my family a new home and get us packed and moved in such a short time. I feel the pressure, but I do not worry.

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3 Steps to Turn Your Spiritual Education into Spiritual Practice

One day I realized that my list of completed courses and certifications was growing impressively, but my actual spiritual practice had become stagnant. I was taking in a ton of great information but failing to apply it. I had acquired all sorts of new tools to care for myself and nurture my spiritual growth, but they were just sitting there in my toolkit, unused.

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Committing to 5 Self-Care Practices

By recommitting myself to these self-care practices I will get back into a routine that supports better supports my physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Things will come up in life that may interrupt our self-care. We need to be gentle and non-judgmental of ourselves when this happens. What is important is that when we recognize we are neglecting our self-care we take action to nurture ourselves again. What self-care practices can you re-commit to?

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The Power of Conscious Intention

I have recently realized that intention is not only the most powerful ingredient in my spiritual work and healing practice, but in all areas of my life.  I trust the Universe, Spirit, will find a way to bring all of my intentions to fruition.  It is only when I forget this that life seems hard and things feel as if they are going wrong. 

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 3 Tips for Staying Motivated in Your Reiki Practice

It is tough to find time, but it shouldn’t be impossible. We can fit Reiki into our lives in so many ways. Once we incorporate a regular practice into our routine, if we can keep it up long enough, it becomes a habit and then doesn’t seem to be such an imposition. So, how can we work into our daily routine? Here are three tips to help you stay motivated.

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5 Lessons About Abundance I Want my Children to Learn

These five lessons have improved my life so much.  They have brought me peace and security.  There is no magical formula that will make us rich, but these lessons can make us appreciate the abundance in our lives, no matter how much there is or what form it takes and can help us begin to manifest more abundance.  They can take us from a poverty mind-set to an abundant mind-set and prepare us for success.  This is what I want to teach my children. 

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6 Questions to Help Healers Cope When a Loved One is Not Ready to Heal

It is one of the most difficult lessons of helping people as a lightworker.  You learn that you are not a healer to anyone but yourself.  Everyone must do their own work.  By working on your own self-healing you raise the collective vibrations and make things a bit easier in the world and you are able to lead by example and you are in a position to hold space and inspire hope, but you cannot heal anyone else. 

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7 Tips for Handling Worry and Anxiety

Everyone gets nervous or worried sometimes.  Anxiety is a natural emotion that puts us on high alert so that we can better deal with tough situations.  But, for people who suffer from anxiety disorders, it can become debilitating.  Our anxiety can be triggered by everyday things that do not cause a moments distress to someone else.  A knock on the door, standing in line at the store, talking on the phone…so many things can become a source of distress for someone with an anxiety disorder. 

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7 (Mostly Spiritual) Ways I Care For Myself through Depression

I’ve lived with depression as long as I can remember. When I was younger it was debilitating. It affected every area of my life. There were many times I didn’t feel I could go on. Dealing with depression is no longer the struggle it once was though.

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Join Me on a Mission to Love

We’re in the midst of a great war.  A war that we cannot win by fighting.  A war that calls us to love.  We are called to love in the face of our own fear and that of others.  For it is fear we are ultimately trying to overcome.  Fear that keeps us separated from each other.  Fear of our differences, but maybe even more so of what we may hold in common. 

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