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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.

Everything Changes

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Beautiful flowers on a tree signifying changes.
Whether we like it or not, change happens.

I just revisited my hometown for the first time in over seven years. I haven’t been back since before my children were born, but the memories that came up for me brought it all back as if I had just been there yesterday.

The sights, the sounds, the scents, the feelings, the emotions. The memories of a different time and place – and a very different me.  And a reminder of just how much everything changes.

I hardly recognized the little town where I grew up. It used to be way out there – a little suburban town far away from the big city. But now it’s become its own big city.

With so many new roads and bridges, new huge shopping centers and office buildings, even a new high-rise that’s the first of its kind there. Old houses that I remember have been torn down, and new apartment buildings and condominiums built in their place. And construction still going on everywhere.Continue Reading

To Love is to Risk

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Street sign saying the words risk ahead.
There's always the risk of getting hurt.

Some email correspondence I had with a reader last week got me to thinking about how life is really all about taking risks. And how anything worth having usually requires risking something of ourselves.

Like love.

Especially when we’re talking about love in the truest sense of the word.

Because when we put ourselves out there and share part of ourselves with another person, whether it’s in the emotional or physical sense, there’s always the risk that our feelings will not be reciprocated; that someone else may take advantage of our good will, our purest intentions, our selfless love.

And there’s always the risk that we will be hurt in the process.Continue Reading

Something from The Inspiration Box

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A beautiful woman is in a field with her arms outstretched and her face to the sky, feeling inspired by love.
I hope this gives you a bit of inspiration today.

Here’s one of my favorite poems that I've found inspiration in many times over the years.

This one I had on a print hanging on my wall when I was in my twenties; it’s now very tattered and worn from taking it down off the wall and hanging it back up each time I moved.

Unfortunately, it’s now too worn, torn and creased to display on the wall, but I keep the print folded in my inspiration box to enjoy on those rare occasions when I have a chance to take the box down from the closet, sit and look through it.Continue Reading

Run...Run for Your LIFE!

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A group of beautiful women finishing a running race and supporting each other.
It's time to find your true strength.

Do you really know the REAL YOU?

If someone asked you to describe the real you, would you even know what to tell them? About who you really are? What you’re really capable of?

Do you have any idea how amazing, how unique, how special, how incredible you really are?

I didn’t think so.

Because most of the time, we’re thinking the opposite. That we’re so lacking. If we could just be more like so and so. If we were thinner, sexier, prettier, funnier, smarter… whatever.

You get the picture.

We think the reason we haven’t found love, why we’re still single, is because there’s something wrong with us. And we really believe there is. When we think like that, we find that we’re not surprised we haven’t found someone. Continue Reading

The Inspiration Box

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A beautiful woman looks out over the ocean.
And you learn.

Today I was sorting through a box of old papers and books I found tucked way up on a high shelf in the back of the closet.

I had all but forgotten about this box of sentimental items so carefully packed away in a corner of the closet, left over memories from a life I had almost forgotten about.

Among other things, in it I found some letters I wrote to myself back in my single days, when love seemed like such a faraway dream. Many of them were sayings and quotes that touched me deeply.

I would read these to myself on the dark, lonely nights, and they helped to inspire me to keep going.

One of the papers in particular caught my eye, as it had a poem written on it that I had come across long ago, and printed out to save in this special box. As I read it today, it brought back such a flood of memories for me, tears were streaming down my face as I remembered that earlier version of myself, so uncertain.

I want to share it with all of you. May it inspire and help you as much as it did me.Continue Reading

Planting the Seeds of Love

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A woman's hands surrounding red seeds in the shape of a heart, representing planting the seeds of love.
Just keep planting those seeds...

My mom called me the other day and asked what I’d like to do with all of my self-help books. All 987 of them.

OK, maybe it was more like 100, but you get the idea.

They were all of the relationship books that I left at her house when I finally had the courage to head off for California to follow my dreams. I didn’t have the space to take them with me, and couldn’t bear to get rid of them.

They had been such a good friend, so supportive during some of the darkest times of my life.  Such a shoulder to cry on.Continue Reading

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