Inspiration

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.

Programmed to be Nice

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The word nice carved in wood. — Maybe being nice isn't the way to go.

We’ve been programmed to be so “nice” that it’s no wonder we’re confused. We have so very few role models to show us what it means!

So many of us were raised by mothers who either were always “nice” or eventually blew up into something that was anything but what they preached at us to be. And the same went for grandmothers, aunts, cousins, sisters.

You name it, we women have so much to learn about being confident, assertive, and yes, that word “nice”.

It’s about setting boundaries and teaching these men in our lives how to treat us so that we don’t get to the point where we blow up into something we’re not, which is often how we end up before we realize something needs to change.

Sound at all familiar? Continue Reading

Becoming Fearless. Again.

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The word fearless printed in a dictionary. — I want to be fearless again.

The words echoed back at me.

"Your mother was fearless."

It was a scene in Beauty and the Beast that stayed with me the entire night. And it made me realize something. Something big.

I want to be fearless again.

Oh, I used to be. We all used to be. Before we knew what we knew. Before we saw what we saw. Before we went through what we went through. We all remember that “used to be.”

Where did it go? Where did we go?

I used to believe I could do anything because my do anything was tied to my youth, to my being what the popular culture said I should be.Continue Reading

The Undeniable Power of Yes - The Rest of the Story

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A beautiful woman rising up from the grassy field with her hands in the air proclaiming Yes! — There’s a power here you can’t imagine.

She wanted to know more.

What did I mean about this power of yes? What was I talking about? She wasn’t the only one. I heard from many of you who asked the same question.

What was I talking about in my post "The Undeniable Power of Yes"?

So we’re going back. To answer that question for the rest of us.Continue Reading

Between Now and Then

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Words just be, written on sand of a beach. — Whoever you want to be.

I see so many of us striving so hard to become what we feel like we "should be".

Moving as fast as we can to get out of the now that we want to leave, that we’re in such a hurry to put behind us, to become who we want to be.

There’s such an important point that we miss as we go through this journey of life. This life isn’t about all those picture perfect moments that we can neatly photograph and post on Facebook for all our friends and family to see.

You’re not defined by an engagement, marriage, your career advances, the number of birthdays you've had or everything else our culture tells us we're defined by.Continue Reading

You've Been Told the Wrong Story

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Woman having a cup of coffee surrounded by books representing her story. — This isn’t the truth of what happened.

You’ve tried them all.

You go from place to place, looking, searching for the one thing that will be your magic answer. You search the world over for the one thing, the one person, the one magical formula that will finally make everything right in your world.

You may not know exactly what it is you need, but you think you might.

You think it’s found in the idea of the perfect man for you, or the idea of the perfect job or career for you, or the perfect location, or the perfect body, or the perfect house, or the perfect family, or whatever your particular perfect thing may be.

Except that you’ve tried so many things already, and nothing lasted for long. The feeling of everything finally being right in the world was temporary – fleeting – until it was no more.Continue Reading