What if your soul has rearranged your life and set up this exact period perfectly? Sometimes it looks positive, like a sabbatical or new opportunity. Sometimes there are challenges, like an injury forcing you to slow down. Either way, what if this is your soul making plans and it's done it perfectly? You can't force life-changing moments to happen before their time. But you can be ready for them.

Journaling Question: First, write down the different ingredients making up your reality right now. The situations, circumstances, and things you're dealing with. Both the ones that feel positive and the ones that feel negative or challenging.

Second, look at each ingredient from this perspective: what if your soul planned this out in its infinite wisdom to give you exactly what you need and prepare you for what's coming next? How is each ingredient perfect and required for what you're really meant to do?

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

60% of the benefits of tuning in to your deeper self come from just making the time and space to listen. Even if you hear nothing. Because it shows your inner guidance that you're committed. When you were a child, you lived by this guidance. You followed what inspired you, what felt fun. But you may have ignored it for so long that the connection has atrophied. Time to open it back up.

Journaling Question: Make space right now. Five or ten minutes. Remove distractions. And listen. What is your guide inside wanting to tell you? And if you hear nothing, just enjoy the stillness.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

Life is an adventure whether you want it to be or not. There's always more unknown than known, and there's always risk in being alive. But there are two kinds of adventures: the inner adventure of discovering who you are and what you're here to do, and the outer adventure of bringing that into the world. The right inner adventure leads to the right outer adventures.

Journaling Question: If you saw your life as the adventure that it truly is, if you stopped trying to make everything safe and super predictable, if you admitted that life is risky AND exciting… what would that feel like? How might you approach your days differently? How would you solve problems differently? What would change if you embraced the adventure instead of denying it?

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

For persistent problems that stick around for months or years, there's often something holding the problem in place. A belief. A viewpoint. Sometimes it's shame about not having solved it yet. The solution starts with awareness and pen to paper.

Journaling Questions: First, write down a persistent problem in your life. Something that's been there for months or years.

Second, is there a deeper problem that must be solved first? What belief or viewpoint might be holding that problem in place? What story are you telling about yourself or what's possible that keeps this stuck?

Third, is there shame around this problem? Shame about not having solved it yet? Write it out and let it see the light.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

When unexpected challenges hit and you've done everything you can do, there's only one thing left: surrender. "Surrender everything to God, no matter what." Or to life, the universe, the great flow. In that surrender, there's a spiritual experience available to you.

Apologies, this episode is published two days late due to the health emergency I mention in the audio.

Journaling Question: If you have a situation in your life right now where there's something outside of your control, outside of your current understanding, you've got a choice. You can not trust and freak out, or you can trust and flow.

Think of one of these situations where you know you have to let go… What would you most love to hear right now that puts you back into that experience of trust and flow? Discover what that message is to yourself.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

If you could see the accumulated hours, days, weeks you've spent scrolling and checking and watching, it would horrify you. But here's what most people miss: you don't know what you're meant to create until you stop distracting yourself from it.

Journaling Question: First, write down your favorite distractions. Be honest. What do you reach for when you feel bored or anxious?

Second, how many hours per week do you think you spend on them? Really add it up.

Third, imagine taking even half of that time and pouring it into something that matters to your soul. A project. A relationship. Your body. Your joy. What could that look like in a year? What would you have built? How much closer would you be to the people you love? How much stronger and more confident would you feel?

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

You live in ridiculous abundance, but often you ignore it. This abundance is everywhere you look, all day, every day. How often do you pause to see it and let it in? Say thank you for what you have, pay it forward, and live that attitude of “thank you”.

Journaling Question: Write down ten things that you're grateful for from the last 24 hours. This will probably be relatively easy to do so feel free to go beyond ten. And if you’re in a negative headspace and are struggling to find ten things, think about things and people that you take for granted.

Everything you write, begin with a phrase like: "I'm so grateful for" or "I'm so blessed to have" or "Thank you for." As you write, you might feel more love and abundance. Let yourself fill up with gratitude. Watch what happens just by turning your attention to what you have.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

This session is different. It starts with a trust manifesto. Repeat the lines silently as you listen. You are trustworthy. You build trust breath by breath, action by action. Trust is built in those moments when you feel anxious or weak and step forward anyway. Your state doesn't matter. Trust is built one small courageous action at a time.

Journaling Questions: First, write about an area where you already have enormous trust. Where your confidence is off the charts. Describe what you trust and why.

Second, think of an area where trust is low. Where you experience doubt, fear, or unrealized potential. And just feel: it's okay.

Third, here's the twist. Consider that same low-trust area. Write down all the ways you DO display enormous trust there. Your persistence. Your courage. The energy you put in. How far you've come. How much you've grown.

Discover the truth of how much trust you actually have in this area. Feel these realizations. Maybe a new experience in this area is closer than you realize.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

What if reality is an ever-changing, liquid reflection of your energy, thoughts, and focus? Scientists tell us we're 99.9999999% empty space. Over time, mountains come and go like waves. We die and don't know where we go. This all sounds like fantasy, but this is the world we live in every day. And it makes you wonder… what if your limitations aren't real?

Journaling Questions: First, have you had experiences that make you wonder if we're living in a simulation? Or that life is way less solid than it seems? More fluid and magical. Write down whatever comes to mind.

And second, what if we are living in a simulation? How does that make you feel? What would you do differently? How would you approach life differently?

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!

Things get hard and discouraging right when you're about to make real change. The fear wouldn't be screaming so loud if change wasn't about to happen. The fear's job is to make sure nothing changes. But when you're overwhelmed with fear and negativity, that's a sign you're about to make real progress. Just keep going.

Journaling Questions: First, write down the negative thoughts and emotions that keep showing up when things get hard. The persistent ones you always return to.

Second, what could you do (even if scared) that would move your energy forward and open doors? Actions that, if you did them, things couldn't stay the same.

Third, write positive "what if" statements as the opposite of your negative beliefs. "I feel anxiety" becomes "What if I felt peace?" Don't overthink it. One "what if" for each negative thought.

Silent Sunrise Sessions are short guided meditations and journaling questions to help you reconnect with your deeper wisdom and find clarity for your life.

How to listen:

~ Find a quiet space

~ Have pen and journal ready

~ Close your eyes, settle in and listen deeply

~ Write freely when the question comes. No filtering.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone else who needs to hear it.

Enjoy the ride!