I’m saying JUMP BACK IN to your “bad-ass” self!  Get back into alignment.  Don’t wait three weeks until the guests are gone.  Don’t wait until you’re bankrupt.  Don’t wait until you’ve gained 5 pounds.  Don’t wait! 

When I take inventory of my good fortune, the talents and strengths I possess, my health, my kids, where I live, the opportunities I’ve been given, and even the lessons I’ve learned, I’m in a different realm of consciousness.A realm where I find happiness, joy, acceptance and peace. 

And as you begin to practice, this quiet alone time allows you to clear the slate.  And as the slate clears, things like creativity, connectedness, calmness and courage start to reappear. When we have slowed down enough, we start to realize what is really important in life.

We don’t want to feel pain, suffering, anger, etc. So, as socialized humans we’ve learned to numb and avoid feelings. How that looks is different for everybody. It could be food, drug, sex, alcohol, video games, internet shopping - and/or any combination of those and more. We tune out.

Here’s the thing….if you surround yourself with competitive people, people that put you down, belittle others, compare, criticize, gossip-- you are not helping your psyche. You are staying in a low energy, vibrational state. Like attracts like.

They say that traveling is “Food for the Soul.” I firmly believe that. What that quote doesn’t mention is that the food you find while traveling can be Soul-robbing.

As an educated, single, female, bit of a “wild child”, twenty something, I latched on to the quote - “domesticity is death.” I don’t know who said it but it became my mantra. I had just finished graduate school and did not want to be relegated to the kitchen, ever.

I wanted to use this writing this week to announce that this will be the last Monday Mantra from me for a little while. I hope this last mantra for the time being can be of some help to you if you are dealing with something similar in your life.

I wanted to use this writing this week to announce that this will be the last Monday Mantra from me for a little while. I hope this last mantra for the time being can be of some help to you if you are dealing with something similar in your life.

My relationship with food has been complicated, to say the least. To back it all the way up to the beginning, I did not get off to a good start. My young mother was convinced by her doctor to bottle feed her babies.

I wanted to use this writing this week to announce that this will be the last Monday Mantra from me for a little while. I hope this last mantra for the time being can be of some help to you if you are dealing with something similar in your life.

Affirmations are simple, positive statements of your goal(s) in its completed state. Although simple, these statements can have a profound effect on your conscious and unconscious mind. They are an integral part of shifting your mindset from the muddy waters of ambiguity and negativity to one of clarity and positivity.

This past year has provided most of us some breathing room to assess what really matters. I’ve felt what it’s like to slow down and get still and reestablish a long lost connection with my intuition, and my connection with God.

Open, free energy is energy that elevates not only you, but those around you. When people feel your openness, and they will, it allows their inner light to shine. They, too, will feel more energetic and open in your presence. The opposite is also true.