Communicate Because You Want To Not Because You Have To

“Communication to a relationship is like oxygen to life. Without it…it dies.” -Tony Gaskins How do we break the patterns that keeps us separated from the ones we love and want to connect to? To be vulnerable with someone else, we need to be first...

What does it mean to “Find Ourselves”?

 When we reflect back on the route we took to come to know ourselves there appears to be no one way to describe how we arrived where we are now.  Some will tell us it was and still is difficult.  They’ll tell us it’s not always the good that moved them...

Thankful For Ordinary Moments

“We chase extraordinary moments instead of being grateful for ordinary moments until hard shit happens. And then in the face of really hard stuff — illness, death, loss — the only thing we’re begging for is a normal moment.” —Brené Brown Each day I wake up and ask the...

Judge, No More

I’ve had an epiphany… When we judge ourselves or another, we stay paralyzed. When we remove judgement by replacing it with a thought other than judgement, we move forward. Not only do we not suffer emotionally, our people don’t suffer and we haven’t bought...

First, Love Yourself

We’ve all heard or read, “We need to love ourselves first before we can love another”.  But does anyone truly know what to love yourself means?  For years I didn’t get the importance of that message. Even when I read the benefits of loving one’s self, I couldn’t...