I've realized that there is a lot of 'undoing' I need to do within myself to have the life that I want to live.  Negative thinking, self doubts, fears, etc.  In realizing this, I see that the advice and converstaions that I have with my kids is the life advice I need to impliment myself.  I find myself parenting myself as I guide my kids on their own paths.  It's a really beautiful realization to see how far I've come and how much I can teach my kids from an early age.  Grateful!

Just reflecting on my journey of finding myself, growing up, healing and discovering what the truly pretty part of myself is.

What I now realize as I'm able to reflect is that live serves us experiences, painful, joyful, exciting and so on.  What we do with these experiences is what shapes our future.  Are you going to take those lessons and use them or are you going to let them use you?

I'm taking charge on my own terms.

The discipline and reward of meditation has been a real emergence of a new way of life for me.  Starting my practice 3 years ago was not easy and it felt very difficult.  It was something that i wanted to learn and would force myself to do every single morning.   Fast forward to today, I still meditate but my brain, my body and my soul feel aligned when I sit to do my 15 min practice in the morning.  I literally trained myself (almost like an animal) to be deliberate about how I wanted to set my day up for success.  

Who out there practices meditation?  I can honestly say it's changed my life.

I can honestly tell you that learning to like and to love myself has been a long and painful process.  Coming from a home where children were to be seen and not heard was one of the obstacles I needed to grow from as well as societal pressures of being a girl.  Taking you through my process of building up my self esteem, confidence and trust within myself which has brought me to a place of self respect and in turn, love.

When we think of disease we typically think of diseases of our body but I want to talk about diseases of the personality.  There are 3 that I specifically acknowledge: Pessimism, Excuseitis and Procrastination.  I have struggled my way through living with them and then being aware of them. I can now recognize these 'diseases' as they crop up in my life to redirect myself to a more empowering thought/belief/action.