We were all eating at my parent’s kitchen table, exhausted from a day of condolences and standing in a line receiving my mother’s mourners. We were all eating in her kitchen, but she was missing. Truth is she hadn’t been there in months. Instead she laid in her bed and fought her losing battle with cancer for three months prior. That night I arose from the table in a daze, wandered into my mother’s room and laid down as if beside her. I clutched her shawl in my hands, it stil

Do you feel like less of an empowered woman when you get overcome with insecurities? It is very common, in fact normal for a woman to experience insecurities at some point or another her life. Often these insecurities come up in relationships, friendships or at work. How many times has an insecurity come up for you and you have felt even worse about yourself for feeling that way? You have judged having that feeling as being right or wrong.  You have told yourself you’re being

I have a CONFESSION to make? Ready? Love used to terrify me! Yup, you heard me! That thing that we all want (or think we want), and crave, actually used to scare the you know what outta me. I didn’t know this of course, but everything around me and in my life experience was actually revealing this truth to me. All I could see from the outside was that I kept meeting and attracting all the wrong men into my life. I would experience rejection and abandonment time after time… ev

Back in April 2011 after spending almost 4 years trying to make a very hard decision I finally had the courage to leap off the ledge… and the bridge has been appearing before me ever since.  My life has had amazing and sometimes not-so amazing twists and turns but I had a very honest and true guide with me along the way… my heart’s song. In June of 2011, I wrote the blog post below and as I reflect back on it what I wrote holds a deeper and richer meaning for me today.  When

“These male women assume it is a romantic connection they are missing, so they find men they can control and dominate.  Since opposite energies attract, they attract feminine men.  Unfortunately, their choice often leads to more unhappiness.  Since their energetic makeup is the opposite of what it should be, these women become less and less fulfilled as the years go by.”  Jennifer Granger – from the book, Feminine Lost, Why Most Women are Male Are you a female living more in

Trying to control another person, or forcing someone to be different from who they are and what they are capable of, is not love.  It is more loving to let them go. If there is to be true love then there needs to be freedom within yourself and with the other.  Choose yourself first always. You can’t force anyone to act differently but you can honor yourself and choose what feels loving for you. When you feel or sense that first twinge of fear or attachment that is usually whe

I came to Playa Del Carmen with the intention to only stay 2 weeks. Quickly that turned into the intention to complete a 1 month Yoga teacher course in November. Then, even faster still, I had also decided to stay for the month of December since work always slows down in that month.  Well, my plans didn’t quite turn out that way.  I find myself here now, in December, without any Yoga training and no real plans. Yet, I’m contemplating staying here through January.  Am I runnin

This post was written this time last year and I just happen to stumble upon it while preparing to start blogging about my new adventures in Mexico.  I felt the post was appropriate for this time in my life and so many others around me.  I hope you enjoy it. Finding this was a great reminder for me! Relationships can be many things, rewarding, comforting, loving, friendly, passionate and sometimes a downright mess.  Why is this?  What I want to talk about today are the expecta

A year and a half ago, when my mother died after a long battle with cancer, I felt so many things: sad, devastated, relieved, grateful, and lost. The main feeling, after all the dust had settled, was confusion though.  What happens to all that love I asked myself?  Where did it go?  All the unconditional love of a mother or that of a husband, a lover, or a friend. Where does it all go when that person is no longer with us?  What about when you have a beautiful experience? Doe

Continued… I had arrived “home” after having set off on the very first of my adventures in finding myself and I didn’t feel at home at all.  What was this ugly feeling? The all too familiar feeling of not belonging, and of feeling disconnected and detached?  I wanted to separate myself from everything I had ever known, but why?  Partly because I knew there was so much more out there to learn and to see, and partly because I was ashamed of the perceived limitations of my upbri

What does it mean to find true love? Often we think of the romantic kind, or in some cases we become “addicted” to unrequited love. This is an illusion, and it’s the stuff that movies are made from.  As a self proclaimed hopeless romantic I can see the appeal of this illusion, but as a woman who is on a spiritual journey what I actually want is a true connection to another person.  Real love comes not from our movie fantasies, or beautiful works of literature, but from an und