Choosing Fear or Choosing Freedom

If You Feel Trapped [I had a conversation with my soul while journaling the other day, and it felt potent enough to share it with you all. I hope it inspires.] Me: Why do I always feel like I am walking on the edge of something, close to falling off?  My soul: You see it...

How to Set Clear Boundaries and Keep Them

A Boundary is Crossed Boundary violations happen when we allow something that doesn’t feel right to keep happening. I had an experience recently that gave me new insights into the mechanism behind why we allow this to happen to ourselves (even though it doesn’t feel good), and how we can make internal shifts that empower...

The Secret to Manifestation that No One Talks About

Why You're Exhausted Ok, I’m going to come clean: I’m a control freak from the world of “everything has to be the way I want it or I’m not ok!” Anyone else is living here with me? Let me tell you, it’s exhausting! "I’m recovering from a lifetime of feeling that everything was so out...

Overcoming Obstacles: 7 Powerful Hacks

We’ve all had those days, months, even years when life is just really hard. It feels like a struggle to just get through the day. We feel overwhelmed by the task in front of us. We have to deal with a difficult boss, coworker, group of students, a project that feels overwhelming. Maybe it’s a...

Why You’re Not Happy and What You Can Do About It

Why We Stop Feeling Happy You’re here because you’re sick and tired of living life half-dead. You remember a time when you felt more alive and you want it back. As babies, we have such intense and excited curiosity about life and everything we encounter in it. We experience joyful wonder on a moment-by-moment basis....

What If I Know I’m not Living My Life Purpose?

In my previous post, I talk about what it feels like to be living life "on purpose," in alignment with your soul's highest calling and what it feels like if you're not. Maybe you know that you're not living the purpose you know in your bones that you're meant to be living, and you're feeling guilty,...

What is My Life Purpose?

Have you ever wondered if what you're doing with your life is the right thing? Do you hate your job, but you don't know what you'd want to do instead? Are you just kind of lost and going with the flow, not sure what you really want? For a while now, I’ve been on a...

Mantra for Experiencing Inner Peace

I first heard this mantra sung at a retreat with Guru Singh. It was beautiful and brought such a deep feeling of peace and surrender. I now listen to and/or chant with this mantra when I want to find stillness and a sense of peace & trust in the universe. I like to dim the...

Why You Shouldn’t Take Anything Personally

I had a flash of insight a few years ago after a particularly upsetting interaction. Driving home in my car and replaying the conversation over in my head, I suddenly knew this freeing truth on a visceral level: we are all doing the best we can, with what we have, given the circumstances. This is...

A Meditation to Release Anger

There are times when we are angry and we need to feel it. However, if we hold onto anger, it can have damaging effects on all aspects of our lives. There is an amazing Kundalini meditation that I use for when I'm over being angry, but just can't seem to release the negativity. I find...