At this moment, are you feeling the magic of your power? Living in it? Or have you dimmed the light to a flicker? Are you paralyzed? Hiding?

Dancing in and out of the light, I resist moving into its center. I shun the magic power. Past fears and uncertainty about the future. Bumping into an edge, as Amy Oscar often calls it, hesitant to move through it. Keeping the magic under wraps ... believing that I’m confused over what exactly that magic is. That my story doesn’t matter.

That, in order to fully claim your power, a great deal of fanfare and noise accompany your foray into the light beams.

That fanfare scares the crap out of you. Out of me.

Instead of an explosive cannonball, I’d rather land in the pool like a small stone and ripple out, gradually -- naturally -- gathering momentum. Letting my story, my magic, my purpose unfold. Step aside, knowing I can’t control the outcomes, and fully immerse myself in the now, this moment and live it, honoring the magic it brings.  

Stepping quietly into the light and discovering your truth, can be more powerful than brazenly jumping into the spotlight with both feet, twirling fire batons shouting out “Hey world, here I am.”

Perhaps if we simply let go of the notion that jumping off cliffs will get you there faster in a blaze of glory, gently move into light and accept the power within, moment to moment, the resistance will disappear. Quietly, intentionally moving forward, moment to moment with intent and focused on the present moment. As the light grows within, fear melts away. It requires practice, but what if this easing into the light takes away the fear and leads you to the magic ... or even the moment when you know you can leap?

What say you? Is a gentle approach still resistant? I’m curious to know what you think.

Written By, Lori Paquette Your Career Crisis Guide 

Vivacious, dorky, late blooming mom of 2, healer, iPhone photography dabbler, drumming noob, student of life making a living as a visual branding expert. Our fun-loving corner at GLC is all about resolving mid-career yuck; supporting, celebrating and making your BIG BIG dreams reality, and occasional impromptu dance parties. I’m on this journey with you and pretty gosh darned excited about it!

I’m building a new business here and have an about me page here with lots of social media buttons to press. You will find me yammering away on the Twitter @lipdesign. Please drop in and say hello. I love conversation.

Stop waiting for permission to be yourself and do what you want.

Welcome your dreams and desires with wild abandon.

The time is now. The place is here. What comes next is totally up to you.

You have everything you need to create the business, write the book, speak your truth and follow your dream.

Don’t wait for that raise/relationship/outfit/degree to be happy.

You deserve happiness right now. You do not have to do anything else to be worthy. Worthiness is in your DNA.

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 dollars. Do not look for another reason to delay.

No additional preparation is required.

You are ready now.

Leap!

Minimizing who you are and what you want doesn’t serve anyone.

The planet is hungry for your gifts.

Give up being “normal”. It is the enemy of giftedness.

Be contagiously luminous and set the world on fire.

Some people might be disappointed when you follow your heart instead of their expectations.

They’ll get over it.

Those who don’t probably wouldn’t have been that helpful on the journey anyway.

There are two causes for misunderstanding: Not saying what we mean and not doing what we say.

Make it easier for everyone. Tell your truth faster.

Trust that No is as holy as Yes.

You cannot please everyone. Nor should you try.

But you can love them—even if it’s from a distance, even if they think you’ve lost your marbles, even if you’d rather judge them up one side and down the other.

Love is more formidable than fear.

Allow yourself to be a conduit.

Reclaim your broken pieces and celebrate your life’s tapestry.

When you're in the present, you're in your power. You create possibilities inaccessible in the past or future.

Be. Here. Now.

What magic do you want to make today? How do you want to light up the world?

Start there and let the beauty unfold.

Written By, L'Erin Your Personal Liberation Guide 

Hi Beautiful Goddess! I'm L'Erin (pronounced: lair-in). I'm a Personal Coach, Freedom Muse and Life Alchemist Extraordinaire over at SisterFire. I use ancient and contemporary spiritual practices to help Radical Luminaries and Wild Women Evolutionaries such as yourself show up deliciously powerful and radiantly alive on a daily basis.  

I would love to connect with you on Facebook and Twitter.

My house, my sacred space, my body, filled with different rooms, painted with different memories; filled with snapshots, and still frames, all collaged on the wall of memories over memories.

The Darkness
Prior to this year most my memories were dark stories of struggle and survival with even darker undertones occupying large rooms in my house. I was allowing others that caused trauma, hurt, and struggles to reside here, in my home, rent free.

I protected those rooms they lived in. I locked the doors so only myself and those others that had the key could enter. I held that key close to my heart, clutched and intertwined in my fingers, easily accessible.  I always locked the door and shut it tight hoping they would stay in there but they never do.

The Light
Something has shifted this past year. I realized that I allowed those others to live in my house, trapped in my asylum rent free. They took over my house; they infused my thoughts, actions, and perceptions.

Never realizing I had control the whole time, until this past year.

I started cleaning house, evicting those that were living rent free in the rooms. Painting the dark layers that stuck on the walls.

I began remodeling rooms and fixtures so they were to my liking.

It was hard at first because those dark undertones of black and scarlet seeped through whatever I put up. It became a mess of a collage with randomness and chaos. It wasn't what I was looking for. This wasn’t what I wanted.

It was easier having those others reside in their own rent free space in my head.

I didn't have to change it; I didn't have to look at my part in all of it because it was theirs not mine. It was their dislike of me, their actions that left me in turmoil.

They made me feel angry, hurt, and violated. They had to fix me, because they broke me.

When I scraped everything off the walls, the paint and layers, that was what was carved in the plaster on the walls. It was all their fault.

It became apparent. This was another kind of project entirely. A massive remodel, one that required a vision, blueprints, and plans. 


Taking Action
My first step was refinishing the interior walls. The foundation was solid, but the walls were in bad shape.

It was a painful process. But the rewards were well worth it. Finding the colors I love, finding the words and songs to fill the rooms, draperies, lighting, fixtures, furniture, artwork; selecting the themes and palettes, intentions.

I'm still working on my house, creating different rooms, retelling the story in certain rooms with a better ending; with a better perspective.

During this process, I realized I had to do this work to become who I needed to be, who I wanted to be. I always felt out of control of my environment, I realized I was always in control but I had to let go of the memories and hurt, let go of my security blanket that I trudged around with me.

And then I got it
I was walking around letting the circumstances that surrounded me become a part of me. Define who I was.

Yes they affected me but they didn't have to infect me.

This experience was in all reality a blip in the radar, a satellite orbiting in the vast night sky.

I am letting those experiences that caused me so much pain and hurt be taken out to the dumpster and scraped off the walls.

I didn't have to forget the process and memories but I sure as hell didn't need to let them live in my house and let them consume my life.

Finding my favorite room could be a lifelong process.

It may even change from time to time.

Now that the crap is scraped off the walls, I think each of my rooms has a quality I love and adore and can sit with for awhile.

But I have to keep trying and pushing forward to finish my inner house and let it become what I want it to be. The life I always dreamed of.

Written By Guest, Jilian McDermott

I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a nurse & Sexual Health Educator, a sensitive woman with a hard outer shell. I work hard and play a lot. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis it affects my daily life but it does not define me. I work and manage an operating room, so I am fortunate that I get to see the fragility of life in a blink of an eye. 

I own a small business where I work with women and couples with cancer and other chronic illnesses to help maintain their intimacy and sexual health. 

You kind find me at Unravel Your Intimacy and follow me on Twitter. 

So much shifting and changing in my world that I am barely holding on with one hand. Everything from my transportation situation, to my money situation, to my career and purpose in life, to my sexual expression is changing. It is exhausting.

I am sure I am not alone in feeling these personal shifts as well as being affected by the larger planetary shifts. So I want to share what helps me release and rejuvenate. 

My savior has been a Healing Salt Bath.

A healing salt bath is a form of radical self-care in which you soak away any toxins or negative energy that is stagnating in your body. 

What you need:
up to 1 lb of sea salts (fine or coarse)
up to 1 lb of baking soda
Bathtub :) *see below for Salt Shower Scrub
Drinking water

Extras:
Essential oils, such as lavender or rose or chakra blends
rose petals
crystals, such as clear quartz or rose quartz

What to do:

• Fill up your bathtub with water that is as hot as you can stand it.
• Put in the salt and the baking soda into the bath in equal amounts. You can use up to 1 lb of each if you really want to get those energies out in a hurry. Mix it with your hand. If you do Reiki, draw your symbols into the water.
• Add any extras such a few drops of essential oils, or add rose petals or both! My favorite is to put one drop each of chakra oil blends from One Heart. I use these oils in my Sekhem Reiki practice and they are amazing.
• Another extra is to set up a crystal grid around the bath using clear quartz or rose quartz. Point the crystals inward to bring in energy and outward to release energy. Have an equal number and type of crystals. My teacher recommends this page for Healing Crystals, but you can get crystals at any new age shop.
• Set intention for the bath. You can set intention to release and relax, or whatever it is that you want out of it for healing. Use your intuition on what you need now.
• Call in your Guides. Calling in your Guides to help you is as easy as asking. You can state "I call in my Guides to protect me and help me release whatever I do not need to hold onto anymore. Thank you." If you work with Archangels, or the Directions, or power animals, you can call them in too. The more helping spirits the better in my book.
• Hop in and get to relaxing! Imagine the water and salt pulling out what you don't need to be holding onto anymore. The baking soda seals and protects the body so what is released is not absorbed back in.
• Make sure you drink water while in the bath or when you get out. It can be dehydrating.
• When you feel complete, or the water gets cold, drain the tub. Imagine all that you released going down the drain to be recycled by Mama Earth. Energy is never lost. Only transmuted into something else.
• Thank your guides and thank yourself for taking such good care of YOU!

So that is a healing salt bath! Don't you want to go take one right now? Yeah me too!

What if you want the releasing potential of the Healing Salt Bath but don't have an hour or so to kill?

Go for the quickie Salt Shower Scrub.

What you need:
Fine sea salt
Baking soda
container to mix it in

extra:
Essential oils

What to do:

• Mix equal parts fine sea salt and baking soda together in a container.
• Add a few drops of essential oils.
• Mix together with your fingers, drawing in a Reiki or power symbols that come to you.
• Get your body wet with the shower, and add a little water to the salt mixture to make it into a paste, and then turn off the water.
• Set your intention and call in your Guides. They are waiting to help you.
• Rub the salt mixture onto your body, while imaging all that is not in your highest and best good coming up to the surface, trapped in the salt.
• Note: some people say to stay away from the genital area, and the hair. But I say go with what feels good for you. It is very drying, so be warned.
• Bonus points! Put on some music before getting in the shower and dance while you scrub it in. This is my favorite way to wake up my body. Salty Booty Shaking!
• After you feel complete, turn the water back on and rinse down all the energy that needs to be released. Imagine it being transmuted into something healing for the Earth.
• Thank your guides and shower as usual.
• Remember to hydrate afterward.

Simple, right?

But these salty showers and healing baths can really make a difference in how your energy moves through your body. So next time you are having hard time, just hop in the shower or bath and give yourself some radical self-care.

Ready, set, GO get Salty!

Written by, Jaime Lyerly Your Healing Through Source Guide

I am a Creative Fire Igniter who delved into the lonely, dark nights of the soul, and burst through them to become a grounded, community-loving sister. I help women who are hungry for connection to embody their feminine power by healing deep wounds of the past through energy healing, radical self-care, developing intuitive awareness, and getting dirty with creative expression.

Come connect with me on my personal Facebook, Creative Fire Reiki and Healing Facebook, Twitter and blog. 

So. Freaking. Tired.

For the last three or four weeks I’ve been getting up at 4:11am (don’t ask me, my husband sets the alarm and he likes weird numbers) two to three days out of seven. I get up, shower, eat (turns out I’m starving at 4:30am), drive to work, shelve books for four hours, drive home, stumble into bed, and sleep until just after lunchtime when I get up and start my day for a second time.

I have to tell you, I am exhausted. I am continually, foggy headed, I could nap anytime, bone tired lately. And all this for a temporary part-time job.

The truth of the matter is that there is only so much that I can do in a day, a week. I have the habit of pushing, pushing, p.u.s.h.i.n.g, until I hit a wall; I’ve been knowing to work all hours of the day (I’m more accustomed to going to bed at 4:00am than getting up then), seven days a week. I literally work myself sick (not that that means anything much is getting done beyond wearing myself out). I am no stranger to tiredness. I’m just usually better at covering it up.

You see, I have this problem with being an all-or-nothing kind of doer. Making one of the lessons that I’m constantly learning the fact that we are each only allotted a finite amount of energy on any given day (or week). There really is only so much that I can do.

We don’t all get the same amount of energy - some of us get it dished out in teaspoons while others get cups of it - but that doesn’t negate the fact that our energy is a limited resource. Just like our money and time. And if I want to be at my shiny best then I need to pay as much attention to it as I do to them.

I’ve been a coach for women for a long time now and it’s taught me a lot about both myself and women in general; on thing I’ve learnt, above all else, we woman are horrible managers of our energy. Moms don’t get sick days.

We are literally raised to be Givers and this creates some real problems for us.

The more you get to know me the more you’ll realize that I am the Queen of Theories, Ideas, and Epiphanies (I’m a hard-core thinker), and my own tendency to steamroll my way through my life and my client’s laments about not having time to stop doing has helped me to visualize one of those Epiphanies that is becoming more and more real to me as I struggle with this strange work schedule.

The Well Inside
I want you to imagine that sitting deep down in your pelvic bowl is a well. It’s not a magical, wishing kind of well; it’s just an average, run of the mill, pure, clear, water well.

You may not know this about wells, but they are not all created equal. Some wells are basically nothing more than buckets for run off, while others tap into a still water source (that can be exhausted), but the best wells are self-renewing. These wells are fed by underwater streams and moving waters, they are continually fed and renewed.

The well in your belly is like this. Each day a certain amount of the water is renewed, and used wisely your well never really runs dry.

But we have waaayyy too much to Do to bother with judicious handouts. Everything we do pulls a little more water from our well. Whether it’s running back up the stairs for forgotten socks or keys, washing the dishes, writing a kick butt blog post, or shelving books at 5am. Everything costs us (varying amounts of) water.

We dip down and pull just a little more water from our well. Just one more cup, one more drop, just this one more thing, because it has to be done and no one else will do it.

We don’t know how to stop.

So often I tell myself - and my clients tell me - that I can’t stop. We, they, he, she are all tugging on us. They need us.

But here’s what - inevitably - happens.

First, we pull more from our well than ourSpirit can renew in a given day, and then we pull just a little bit more. Then we do it again and again the next days and the day after. Until we’ve exhausted the well’s fresh water supply, and have even tapped out its reserve, and we are left with nothing but the muck in the bottom.

And still we keep shoveling out the mud and shit without even noticing that our water is gone and we’re pulling right from our very bones just to keep going.

And then we wonder why we are sick, exhausted; why we yelled at the kids for something stupid and keep bickering with our Beloved. Not to mention the overwhelming desire to snap at (on) anyone who rubs us the wrong way.

So, I’m tired - exhausted even- but I’m also constantly, and physically, aware of just how much water is (and isn’t) in my well right this moment. It seems the gift of my 4am wake up is the inability to ignore my inner alarms. I (finally) know exactly when I can’t do one. more. thing.

And you know what? I’m taking the best care of myself that I ever have. Because, it turns out, even though our wells can only renew so much per day, there are things that we can do to help restore, refill, and guard our wells.

And the best thing?

All those renewing, rejuvenating, restoring activities - they are the things you want to do anyway. Things like: taking a hot bath (with bubbles ‘natch), wasting time with a trashy (or fabulous, if you prefer) novel, curling up in front of a fantastical movie, pulling out your paints and crayons and creating something, finally doing some yoga or taking time for your spiritual practice, or just lying by yourself in a dark room floating in a day dream.

Or hey, yay, even taking a nap.

All the things we love, but say that we don’t have the time for are the very things that give us the energy to do all the other things we think we have to.

So, it’s not surprise that at my most tired, getting little (to none) of my own work done, I’ve started my first art project of 2011 (yes, I know it’s almost over, read the above part about not doing the things we should be). My well needs tending and I’ve been mixing it up with the yumminess of baths and naps, but art is calling to me.

What is calling to you?

I know, you aren’t being forced into my crazy, sleep messing up schedule, and that it feels like you couldn’t possibly take the time to answer what ever it is that is calling to you. But here’s the thing. All that slop you’ve ben slinging around in the name of helping and what needs to be done - none of us really want what you are serving.

Nobody wants the muddy dredges of someone else’s mood, day, or energy. And wouldn’t the people who love you the most appreciate (and don’t they deserve) a little fresh cool water for once?

Not to mention what you deserve.

Seeing as it’s taken being brought to the very brink of - and left dangling over - sheer exhaustion and illness to force me into honouring my well, maybe all you really need is to realize just how tired you are too?

So. Take a deep breathe. Plant your feet on the ground and put all your focus on these words right here. Let your to do list, worries, and thoughts rest and just look here. Be here. Feel your feet magnetically pulled to the ground. Feel gravity holding you down.

Breathe.

Breathe deeply into your belly. Feel the breath pool there. Feel all your adrenaline and all that needs to be done drain away as your breath falls into your belly and feel just how tired you are. Breathe again, and feel it like water, imagine a well.

Imagine your breath turning to a drop of water, and it falling into the well. Falling, falling, until it lands with a soft splash and rings on the water there. How full is your well? Just partly used up? Only a little fresh water left, or are you right down to the dredges?

On your next breath ask: What do you need? What do you want?

Breath and listen for the echoing answer to come back to you from somewhere in the back of your mind.

What is calling to you? Maybe it’s time to make space in your crazy schedule to honour that call.

And hey, if you are tired, why not - instead of clicking away to the next page, or rushing off to do the dishes, or make those calls, why don’t you turn this off and just take a moment to rest? Why not walk away? Take five minutes - take the rest of the night - off. Remember, we each only get so much energy in a day so you have to wonder, what really happens (not just in my figurative well) when we insist on pushing beyond that?

Frankly, I’m too tired to want to find out.

Now that my blog post is done I think I shall take a few minutes to lie here and watch my cat play before I rush off to my next thing. How about you?

Written by, Megan Potter Your Living Your Purpose Guide 

I am  a Lobbyist for Selfishness, a Five Element Diva, a Brilliant Life Lover, a Reader of Hearts and Faces, a Life Expander,  and a Possibility Promoter.  Above all else I believe in the beauty and perfection of You and I work hard to help you see all the gorgeousness I see in you and then to make awesome things out of it.

I feed my Earth/Fire nature with good friends, great books, and lots of Iced Venti 4 Pumps Classic Black Tea.  You can visit my blog, follow me on facebook or on Twitter.  I do one-on-one Face Reading sessions, teach the Five Elements, and offer Elemental self-care retreats.

My friend Jo Anna Rothman and I were having a conversation recently, about this concept of taking responsibility for your awesomeness.

Not just nodding your head in its general direction once in awhile. But owning it, loving it. Revelling in it.  Letting it be wild and free.

See, you know that tendency you have of doubting yourself, of talking down to yourself? The way you sell yourself short and play small?  I’m not buyin’ it.  Not for a second. Because I see you. There’s brilliance in you.  And it’s time for you to own it and walk in it.

That stuff you complain about? That smallness you’ve grown comfortable stuffing yourself into? These are just distractions you’ve created to avoid taking responsibility for your greatness.  I know it’s easier to give the keys of your happiness to others.  I know it’s easier to complain about what’s wrong in your world, than to step up to the challenge of making your world luscious and brilliant.

Believe me, I know.

And here’s something else I know:

I know that while you’re finding reasons to feel small and helpless, your awesome is showing.  It’s there and it’s obvious.  Yup, I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re amazing and you’re just gonna have to learn to live with that!  Because you look pretty silly trying to convince yourself and everyone else otherwise! You’re sitting up on top of that mountain, complaining that you have no view.  Stop that!

It’s time to start asking yourself how you want your life to feel.  And then getting busy on creating that. No more excuses. There are no victims here.  It’s time to take responsibility for your awesomeness.

Doesn’t it feel good when you let your awesome run wild and free? That special, unique “you-ness” that comes alive and shines when you’re walking in your truth and your greatness? Doesn’t it feel expansive and right?

...Wouldn’t you like more of that in your life?

Don’t wait to live and love without holding back.  Let today be the day that you begin falling in love with your awesomeness and walking in it like your life depends upon it.

Because it does.  And the time is now.  

No more playing small.  No more hiding in the shadow of your own greatness.  

You and I both know you’re brilliant and amazing.  

Now, what are you gonna do about it?

Written by, Daniel Collinsworth Your Self-Love Guide

I am a teacher and pathfinder, here to guide you gently toward authentic self-love and healing. I teach through insight and invitation to sacred space.  I find joy and wisdom in nature, drumming, writing and being silly.

You can find me on Metta Drum and connect with me on Facebook and Twitter.

I’m often asked how I stay inspired and inside of the creative flow.  Even more than this I am asked how I get to this place of creativity.  For me, I consider it a huge blessing that most of the time I find myself in the creative flow in the most natural and organic ways – I just end up there.  But sometimes, I struggle with getting + staying in the sweet spot of creativity.  When I find myself needing to create without ample inspiration, I follow a few steps to get back into the creative flow.  

Make some space
I have a studio that has become my most sacred space and nurtures my creativity.  With the hustle of each day, the nature of late-night projects and the sheer amount of projects I have going on at one time, things can get out of control in this room.  I feel most disconnected from my creative self when I don’t have the space to create in this space I have crafted.  I then start from scratch.  I get to the bottom of my desk, organize my room and put everything back where it belongs and I start work on one project. Making some space for me to get crafty is a sure-fire way to get 

Play some tunes
Music is therapy for me in so many ways.  When I am meeting resistance getting into the flow of my projects, I have a go-to tune that I know, if played on repeat, will get me going.  Then I have a creative play list I can bounce over too after I feel like I’ve got my creative mojo back. To me, music is therapeutic and healing and there are many different songs I use to nurture my soul + creative side.  Take some time and pick the songs that make your soul sing and move you to stay inspired.

Log off
Let’s face it.  We live in a social-web world full of ideas, conversations and connections.  As much as  I love being plugged-in, when I am working on projects in my studio I keep strict no-internet zone.  This helps me set boundaries and develop a space that I focus solely on the task at hand.  I imagine each project I’m working on begin infused with love + light. I enjoy being present with my work and I find this keeps in the creative flow.  

Meditate
I often find myself fairly overwhelmed by the go-go-go of the everyday. Switching from one job to another, taking calls, answering texts, remembering to eat.  Wherever I am, when I find a few moments, I clear m mind and meditate. To me this looks like an emotional reset. Like when your old phone would freeze and you had to pop the battery out.  I make sure I find a couple moments each day to pop out my battery and get back to center.  If you aren’t sure where to start, Deepak Chopra has some great tips

Just start
Procrastination has been something I’ve wrestled with my entire life.  In the past few years, I seem to be winning the battle because I  find that by choosing to wait I’m only making the task or project bigger and heavier and I float father away from being in the flow the more I choose to stay distracted.  Once I started following my “just start” rule things became easier.  When I say “just start” it doesn’t mean you have to be working on the project you know you need to complete.  It means you get to your sacred creation space and just start doing something.  Maybe you meditate there or start drawing or journaling.  The task isn’t the point, the fact that you are indeed creating something is going to help move you towards your creative flow.

While these steps can help you get to your creative sweet spot they can also help you stay there. What do you do when you are experiencing creative blocks?  Do you have a sacred place?  If so, what does it look like?

Written by, Megan E. Collier Your Creativity Guide

I'm Megan - creativity ambassador, memory keeper instructor, and crafty inspirationalist. I'm dishing out doses of creative goodness at Everlasting Present.

I'm passionate about helping people practice the art of life documentation through pictures + words. Connect. Tell. Live. Share. Create.   Your Story Matters!  

Lately I keep hearing the phrase “I am your parent, not your friend!” 

This sounds so strange to me. 

I think you absolutely can be your child's parent and their friend at exactly the same time.  Why not? I truly want to be my child's friend. Not in a needy, inappropriate kind of way, but in a forever kind of way. Let me explain.

I believe if we all treated our children more like a cherished friend, the world would be a much happier place.

For example :

• Would you ever scream at your friend? 
  
• Would you be blatantly disrespectful?
  
• Would you treat them as if you were superior and all knowing?
  
• Would you chastise them for spilling something?
  
• Would you ever, in any way hit or hurt your friend?

Of course not.

I think that often people confuse “seeking approval” (i.e. making sure your child “likes” you)  for friendship.  

Those are two very different things.  Also, you should always be conscious of not overwhelming or inappropriately sharing adult information. You have certain friends where you share certain topics with, but not other things. This friendship is no different. 

Using discretion and setting healthy boundaries is an important part of any relationship.

It is possible to be friends in an age appropriate fashion while still giving “proper guidance”. 

You can show up authentically, thoughtfully and lovingly. You can be a good listener, take concerns seriously, be accepting and affirming. Our friendships with our children can help encourage open communication and show how to genuinely respect and honor each other.

I believe it is possible to gift your child and yourself with a rewarding friendship while still meeting their needs as a parent.

Will you lose your temper, sure. Will there be times you have to adjust your expectations, of course. Will you still have to set limits, definitely. But if you keep it in your mind and your heart that you want to truly treat your child as a friend, you can watch a beautiful relationship blossom.

Written by, Jen Land Your Parenting with Purpose Guide

I am a mother of 2 small boys, doing my best to shine the light of truth on this tricky, twisting path called parenting. 

I am a lover af all things truthful, liberal, loving, sparkly, sentimental and handcrafted. 

You can find me at the Funky Chic Studio. 

I'm having a moment of crisis. 

On the cusp of writing on a different subject, my heart races due to some other topic shaking my ground.

I've been all set for sometime now, planning a trip to Las Vegas to go to Parker Seminars 2012. This will be a big one not only in speakers.

Marianne Williamson

Louise Hay

Carolyn Myss

But for some reason, I feel as if something has shifted in me and I'm ready to receive some much needed direction, guidance and inspiration. Starting off the year with clarity and healing energy that is abundantly emitted when I'm in the room with such powerful people.

This year has been a very....for lack of a better word, eventful. There have been a lot of obstacles and lessons, as well as, broadened horizons and treasured moment that have brought me to this junction of time and space. List form doesn't seem appropriate, so I'll leave the contents for a later post. 

Granted I have my frustrations, my set backs, my traction-less battles. Within all of that, I apply what I know, what's coming to me and available there for me and move forward. Pressing on, making the best life of my experiences that I know how. Striving to bring authentic healing to myself and spreading it to the masses. 

Yet, at the moment, I feel a little annoyed. A little pawed at. Some times I feel like I stretch and stretch, all the gaps covered cleanly. 

Then BAM! I get smacked with something else, sometimes there seems to be not enough ebb. I question about what lessons I am suppose to be learning at the moment, but my mind flashes and finds, well, annoyance.

This trip was NEXT on my list of financial tasks to tackle. One for ME! One that I've been excited about since January's seminar. That was the place I got to hear Dr. Wayne Dyer speak. 

*Pause for sigh* 

Even now, the reflection on how I felt after those 3 days leaves me with space and room for breath. 

So why the annoyance? Well, it just so happens that when it's time to take steps to get this trip going.

1. I find out the seminar is more than I thought - Even though I've looked at the site 100 times, I looked at it wrong 100 times, not until I called for registration did I find out that the price for was not $220, but $410 IF you register and pay by December 5th. 
2. An unexpected expense fell into our laps & we are taking steps to get that under control.
3. Finances that were suppose to show up by Friday are 1/3 of what they were suppose to be.
4. If the seminar isn't paid for by December 5th it goes to $750 

My heart sinks at all of this, it just seems....so insurmountable. I also get annoyed with myself and the feeling of annoyance that I feel about this situation. 

This is by far, not the most difficult space I've ever found myself in, but at the moment. It's just TOO much. 

I desire some ease. 

I'm still attempting to discover the lesson in all of this and whether or not we will actually be going. It seems a little beyond my figuring or planning. 

I know if we are suppose to be there, we will be. I just feel like the rugs been pulled out from under me. The cherry on a very trying birthday weekend. Something else I tried to plan with ease, ended up being the contrary. 

Written by, Heather Cherie Your Possibilitarian Guide 

I am a passionate massage therapist, driven to live my most authentic life with integrity. I honor the details of each moment, that is where the true magic lives. My path leads to possibilities rather than the limitations. Knowing that on the other side of my fears and challenges, there is much to be learned, expansive growth to be had and true authentic healing. I want to share that healing with the world. 

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My life has been a snowball experience of the miraculous. My purpose on this planet is to infuse love into the lives of everyone I come into contact with (myself included). I believe in the possibility of YOU. I believe in collaboration, not competition. + I know that when we put our minds together, anything is truly possible. 

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