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Inspiration to me means something that is exciting and possible and makes me feel motivated to do my best and attempt to create an experience in my life, even if I haven’t had success in that area before.

One of the most inspiring things for me is hearing someone sing a song that speaks to a universal emotion – the big ones like sorrow and grief, or love, or wonder. I cry when I see someone sharing something beautiful like that because it resonates so deeply with what I hold to be important and true.

I believe we all find inspiration from the things that most resonate with our values and best desires for our lives.

When we witness an event or the success of another that aligns with what we hold important and dear to our soul, it allows us to dream even larger, to inhale deeply, and to add that experience to the language of our hearts.

In times of slowing down, when we can consume books, binge Netflix series, and listen to the podcasts we cherish, I believe it is a time of building up our ideas and forming our next steps for how we want to show up in the world.

It’s why I think it’s important that we choose what we consume carefully so that we constructively lead ourselves towards inspirations and ideas that help us live a happier and more joyful life.

If you find yourself taking in too much darkness, it can end up derailing your efforts and keep you stuck.

May you find the beauty in whatever it is you are experiencing, and connect with creations that inspire you to live your happiest and best version of yourself.

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In the winter colder months, most of us want more pampering, to feel that we belong, and to have the time and space to rest. I am a hibernating type of animal, and I very much want peace and respite at this time of year. After weeks of celebrating and connecting with my friends and family – another key desire of mine! – I partake in a large amount of quietude. Tea, a cat on my lap, and a good book is all I really want.

Nature calls us to retreat when it is colder and food is less scarce, and humanity often doesn’t want to align with that demand. But when we do, there is a great nourishment that seeps into our hearts.

Humans complicate desire and want to quantify everything – to judge what’s best, to judge how well we are measuring up against what we believe everyone else is doing and experiencing and having. We can’t quite believe that life could really be as simple as relaxing and enjoying the moment. We have been taught to fear that if we take a break we’ll be judged, or that the world will suddenly stop working so we prod ourselves on endlessly.

I’d suggest that we are allowed and called to release ourselves from all the desires for MORE at this time of year, and to indulge the desires for rest, recuperation and dreaming. It’s a great time of year for dreaming and planning, and not necessarily a time for tackling huge and arduous goals. Let that be for the Spring!

For now, rest, my friends, and indulge your deep human desires for comfort, love, and connection. A time and season for every purpose, yes?

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We are more than the sum of our successes and failures in 2022.

What a relief to look at a new year and wonder how I can enjoy being myself even more than I have before! Being myself by making choices that feel the best to me leads to moments of connection that I want to savor going forward.

I had a conversation with a wild crow this past week, and it delighted me that I could forge the opportunity for that kind of interaction by simply being me and doing what I do with regularity.

May this year have a lot of joy and contentment for you as you release into the moment and allow yourself to receive what is yours to have. I want to think that in many regards, life can be simpler like this, if not always easy.

May you become an excellent receiver of the gifts that are given to you!

Rather than resolving for anything – what will you allow to happen and manifest? I’d love to know!

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I find that identifying where I am seasonally in the arc of a year really helps me to feel more present and focus on the activities and thoughts that are the most effective for that time.

The end of the autumn and beginning of the winter is a season of dreaming, planning, and getting myself inspired for the coming year. It's a time of slowing down the frantic harvesting and production of the fall, and to allow myself time to really consider how I want to create my next leaps forward next year.

Personally, I want the coming year to be about embracing contentment - to feel that I am enough in all that I do, whether it's in my business, my health journey, or my relationships. And I also want to balance that with curiosity for how much I can accomplish while staying in that belief. Not over-working, not proving to myself anything - but embracing a peace that feels comfortable and sustainable as I continue to strive towards my goals and complete them.

Who's with me?

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I've learned a lot about myself by deciding to face my fears through exposure to them. One of my fears was snakes, but after I adopted one I have found that I have a totally new understanding of them, or at least the individual snake, Timmy, that has become a part of my family.

Snakes teach me to slow down, to think more slowly, deliberately, and calmly about what I am trying to say or do. And, they have revealed to me that my dreams can sometimes be more meaningful and insightful than I knew they could be!

Slowing down and being more deliberate might be something I like to embody, but it takes awareness for me to implement it more often. Most of the time I seem to default to a more sporadic and chaotic expression of activity. For me, being around a snake on a daily basis reminds me to chill out, recognize that things don't need constant effort to turn out well, and that a few moments of well-placed effort can result in huge gains.

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Sometimes it's good to reconnect with an activity you've lost touch with. For me, it's felting and crafting. I haven't had a lot of creative time with the arts in the last two years, and have spent most of that energy on my business and being a mom. But giving myself a chance to dabble with my felt and needles brings a little spice to my life and some delight, too. And, it offered a new way to connect with my daughter, who it turns out also loves to sculpt little creatures!

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Did you notice that the name of the podcast changed from Full Spectrum Feeling to the Self-Awareness & Self-Compassion Podcast today? I'm super excited to usher in this new change for the podcast and get to the heart of my message.

I also want to share that sometimes it's easy to get in our heads about how hard a change might be to implement - all the ways it could be hard, or go wrong, or be misperceived. But we have control over how we think about this, and it translates into how we feel and the actions we're willing to take.

I am thrilled to say I have a plan for the 2023 season of the podcast and it's going to be so much fun! So thank you for sticking with me through the last two years and get ready for an amazing and more heartfelt deeper dive in the coming year. I appreciate you!

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This time of year is my annual reset. I like to review the year and discover everything I am grateful for, how it all connects to my values, and decide where I'd like to go in the coming year.

Each year I choose a theme of the concept I am learning to embody more of in my life. Two years ago I chose to learn how to become a great receiver and understand more about allowing vs. forcing or manipulating events, and last year I chose belonging and to find where I serve the best in my life and community.

This coming year I suspect I will be exploring what it means to be content in my belonging, content in what I have and do, and content that I am enough. There is a sense of wanting to deepen my relationship with the present moment and stop continually ruminating on the past or slogging forward without appreciating the gorgeousness of now.

These kinds of New Year goals feel quite rich and full of possibility and guide me in how I make choices, how I reflect on events, and contribute to a sense of peace for me. 

I hope you have some lovely year-review rituals, too! And if you don't yet have one, perhaps consider choosing a theme to settle into on your next turn around the sun. The experience is quite enlightening!

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Black Friday has me feeling all the feels. I end up stressed about the sheer amount of sales emails in my inbox from every store I've ever visited once, and even though I know they are pushing me to buy, I still can end up feeling worried that I might miss out on a great deal if I don't take them up on their offers.

But, I also had one company try something different that really resonated with me, which was the concept of a giveaway. It's amazing how much that shift in the spirit of the offer changed how I felt - not only about their offer and product, but about how I prefer to do business.

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This episode gives you a glimpse into how I put together keynote speeches and practice for my live workshops. I really enjoyed how this one turned out and I am sharing it with you this week!

The talk is about how we can become more aware of how our expectations and thoughts contribute to our feelings, how our feelings create sensations in our bodies, and how we can use that awareness to create more compassion for ourselves as we stretch towards our goals and dreams.

I had a great time putting this one together and I hope you enjoy it!

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