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The Inspiration category contains posts intended to inspire you to be your best in both love and in life. To remind you that you are beautiful, that you have worth, that you deserve the best that life and love have to offer. The Inspiration category also includes a collection of various poems, stories, etc. that have given me inspiration over the years that I'm now sharing with you.

A Mother's Day Tribute To You Single Moms

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I am thinking of each of you single moms out there who rarely get the recognition and appreciation that you so deserve each and every day. A single mom or single mother playing with her child in bed with the sheets.It is Mother's Day today, and I am especially thinking of each of you single moms out there who rarely get the recognition and appreciation that you so deserve each and every day.

Because unlike other moms who share the role of raising children with a partner, you walk this path alone.

Some of you have help and support (never enough),  some of you don't have any, but all of you know what it's like to be the sole person that your child relies on to do all those little – and many times big – things you do to make their world a better place.

This is for all of the wonderful, loving things you do:

 

  • For all the owies you make better with your kisses.
  • For all the sleepless nights you endure taking care of little sick ones – or ones that just can't sleep.
  • For all the times you listen when all you really want is to be heard yourself.
  • For all the stories you read and tell, for all the castles you build, the cardboard houses you make, the art projects you share, the homework you help with, the all of the  never ending cleanup you do.

 

And for all the many, many other practical details of life – like cooking and cleaning and shopping and carpooling and helping in every way – each of these things you do make the world a better place because you are raising a child who sees that this is just what you do when you're their everything.

This path of motherhood teaches us so many things too, just as our children teach us the true meaning of giving and self-sacrifice.  And about loving another human being whose world we are to them.

Don't ever doubt what you're doing.

Don't ever question that being a mom is the single most difficult job in the world.  It's also the single most rewarding.

Don't ever wonder if you're good enough or up for the challenge. You are.

It doesn't matter whatever circumstances brought you to where you are today, you are the absolute most beautiful gift your children will ever know.

It is because of you that they will grow up knowing what it truly means to love and give to another human being. Just because you're you.

For you, here's a smile, an understanding hug, and a few compassionate tears. You, my beautiful friend, are doing a great job – keep up the good work!

Happy Mother's Day.

You Don't Need Permission

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You don't need anyone's permission to be the beautiful, radiant, confident women that you are. You don't need anyone outside of you to tell you it's OK to do anything. A beautiful woman walks radiantly through a field of grass with a scarf trailing behind.We all have times when we feel like I'm just not sure if I can do this, or Who am I to think that I can be like that?

It seems like such a stretch to think of ourselves as strong enough, or good enough, or just enough in general to aspire to actually be or do something outside of our comfort zone.

I felt this so many times when I was single, it was like an old friend.

Who you do think you are that he would choose you?

Why would he want to commit to you?

What could you possibly have to offer him that would make him want to be with you?

It was enough to squelch what little self-confidence and self-esteem I had managed to muster up, and once again I would find that I was looking outside of myself for someone to validate me. Someone to give me permission to be all that I knew deep down inside I really already was.Continue Reading

It's Time to Stop Waiting and Start Living

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It begins with getting in touch with who you are and all that you have to offer. A beautiful woman is riding a bike in a field living life to the fullest.We can feel so lost sometimes. We wonder when love will find us, how it will happen, and what it will look like, and we forget just how much in control of our lives and our search for love we really are. Yes, fate or the Universe or God, or whatever you believe in, may all play a role and ultimately step in and help guide our path and the path of our true love when we are both ready to find each other, but there is so much more to our story.

There is a part that we are so very much in control of that we can do everything about. It begins with a decision that you can do something right here, right now, beginning with today. You can begin to live a whole new life with the beautiful, wonderful, loving person that is the real you. You can decide right now that you are going to begin anew, right where you are, and see where this new path may lead.

It begins with getting in touch with who you are and all that you have to offer. It always means more when you put it down in writing, so write a love letter to yourself. Tell yourself everything you love about yourself, everything that makes you beautiful and wonderful and special and unique. Describe in detail those things that you do and those qualities you possess that give you that spring in your step and make you feel alive when you do them. Remind yourself of all of your accomplishments, big or small. This exercise is about reminding you of who you are and all the beautiful attributes you possess that make you uniquely you. It's to remind you that you deserve to be loved!

The next step is to make a list. Write out everything you have ever wanted to do but didn't think you could or didn't have time, or were told you couldn't do for whatever reason - all the way back to your earliest childhood memories. Try a new sport, take a dance class, learn to play the cello,whatever it may be. Even if you’re not sure if you could really do it, include it anyway. This isn't about limiting yourself; it’s about exploring everything you've ever even thought about doing. Even if it seems silly! Then go out there and try one or two.

One of the things I've found that always seems to put my own life in perspective is to give back to others who are in so many ways less fortunate. So I would encourage you to consider volunteering for something you're passionate about. How would you change the world if you could do anything? If money was no object and if there were no limits on what you could accomplish? How could you make a difference? Most importantly, what are you passionate about? Begin there by answering those questions and see where that takes you.

Wherever you feel you could you make that difference in the world, start in your local community.  Take the time to explore this, to ask yourself these questions and find out what you really care about and where you would really enjoy making a difference in the lives of others. There are so many possibilities to explore!

Sometimes, we just have to get creative and look outside of the box to find our own answers. You are never too old to begin again, to live your life at the beginning, like the little girl inside you that so many of us forget is always there waiting for her turn to show you all that she’s capable of, if only she's given half a chance. When we connect with that part of ourselves that knows all this, that just needs a reminder; we find a real kind of living. The kind where the possibilities seem endless and don’t hinge on us being in the right place at the right time, waiting for life to reward us.

Instead, we find a rich journey full of so much life and love because we go after it, we go exploring that part of ourselves that knows all of this. There is no secret to this seeking of love and a life worth living that makes everything else in the world rise up to meet us. It’s right there, right in front of you beginning today right where you are, wherever that may be.

Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. People defy the odds and statistics all the time. This is about you stepping out and finding out that it is at the intersection of your fullest life and your greatest outpouring of love, there waiting for you is exactly the one your heart and soul have been looking for all this time.

And you, my beautiful friend, deserve nothing less than this!

A New Perspective on Valentine's Day

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The reality is that many of those seemingly wonderful relationships that for appearances sake seem to hold everything we long for are not anything we would really want. A valentine's day heart shaped candle burns against a white background.It’s the day I remember all too well. As the entourage of flower and hearts and candy deliveries made their way into the office, the most I could usually hope for was my own Valentine’s bouquet sent from my well-meaning Mom (thanks Mom!)

Or it was a beautiful show of flowers from someone I was with that knew how to do all the surface things, but anything deeper than that was a whole different story.

But what I came to realize over the years, was that typically all of the fanfare hid the fact that there was very little depth behind these outward shows of affection. That the show of roses was about an expectation that’s come to be associated with this holiday, but doesn't necessarily show the real love of a real heart of a real man.Continue Reading

That First Step

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You don't need to settle like this. You do have worth. You don't have to prove your worthiness to receive love. It's not in everyone else except you; it's all there, in you! A beautiful woman is taking that first adventurous step across the water into the unknown.You know you don't want to settle anymore. You know it's time to start focusing on what you really want, and deserve, and to start making this about you and not about any him.

But even as you know all this, even as you know in your head so clearly what you need to do, the reality is your beautiful heart, the heart that knows how to give so much better than how to receive, doesn't even know where to begin. Or if it really even wants to begin.

So you stay.

Or you think about making changes, but you don't know where to begin, so you stay right where you are because if feels comfortable. Giving yourself away, even if it doesn't serve you and all that you are very well. At least it's what you're used to.

At least it's predictable. Even if it's unpredictable, at least it's predictably unpredictable.

But sometimes, you get a glimpse. Just a small one, but still some glimpse that there might be something more out there for you. Something better, something more on an equal level, something that might be a whole lot closer to what you know deep down in that beautiful heart of yours you really deserve. But then that fear comes again. That familiar fear that keeps you staying right where you are, settling for less than you know you deserve because, after all, the fear of the unknown always seems so much worse than the less than ideal reality of what you're living now. And besides, most of the time, you manage to convince yourself it really isn't that bad, it could be worse, and besides it's so much better than being alone. Continue Reading

A Christmas Wish

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My wish for you this year is the same wish I always have, which is that you will realize just how much worth you really do have, how much you deserve and that you will know that what you attract into your life is all about how much you really feel this about yourselfIt's Christmas. And it's been awhile since you've heard from me. I've been down with the worst flu I think I've ever had, and we've traveled 14 hours on the road to celebrate Christmas with extended family, which is why I haven't posted in while. But although my energies have been focused elsewhere for the past week, you have all been in my thoughts and my heart along the way.

I wanted to let you all know that I am so grateful for each and every one of you who allow me to inspire, support and encourage you, and make whatever small contribution I can toward making your life and this world a better place for everyone.

My wish for you this year is the same wish I always have; that you will realize just how much worth you really do have, how much you deserve and that you will know that what you attract into your life is all about how much you really feel this about yourself and understand that it is true!  And in believing in yourself this way, in understanding that you really do have so much to offer, so much to give, you will show someone how to treat you, and you let them know what is required of them to be in a relationship with you.

Because this Christmas, wherever you are, whatever you're going through, whatever you happen to be feeling right now, this moment is about you. And what you make of it, what you choose to do with it, is entirely up to you. You, my beautiful friend, are worth so much and deserve all the best love and life have to offer you. May you see that love reflected back at you wherever you are today.

Merry Christmas!

Love,

Jane

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