Choosing a word for the year is a practice I have come to love. It gives my brain a direction and a focus. This is a powerful exercise that can shape your goals and the actions you take to achieve them.

Sometimes the ribbons, bows and Christmas cards are the trappings instead of trimmings of Christmas.

Setting boundaries from a place of love

Choosing a word for the year is a practice full of power. It channels your brain and gives it intention. There are reasons for choosing a word, personal, professional, emotional or spiritual. There are no reasons better than others, but I encourage you to choose one. Post it in places that you frequent, your office, bathroom mirror, refrigerator, or car dashboard. Let your brain strive for something powerful and purposeful this year.

Breaking the chains of the things that keep you stuck or feeling broken is not an easy process. Recognizing your value, your worth and what holds you back is painful, but also creates the opportunity for freedom. Freedom from self judgement, freedom from doubt in yourself and freedom from the thoughts that don’t serve you. Stepping into your power by breaking chains one by one - that is how you truly begin living the life you choose.

We think we know best, but it is amazing how much we can learn from our kids. These teenagers that create so much angst, can actually teach us some incredibly valuable lessons. When we loosen our grip on needing to be right, how can we grow from being open.

In the spirit of giving thanks, I offer you an opportunity to thank yourself first. This exercise may create discomfort in considering these questions, but it may also bring you time to reflect in a new and powerful way. I encourage you to give this gift to yourself as you begin a season of pouring out.

It is way past time to show yourself some love on Valentine’s Day and every day! Self love is the greatest gift you can give yourself and those that are in your life. When we love ourselves, we can offer others that best version. We cannot give what we do not own, so pour into you in abundance and watch your life flourish with love.

Parenthood - a series of first and lasts, a time to gain and a time to lose. This is what we accept when we have children, but do we? Letting go and stepping back into your life, your desires is not always easy. Sometimes we get lost along the way. “It’s not to late” is what the key is, not forgetting, it’s never to late to find you and your purpose

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We strive to make our lives happy, fulfilling, but do we strive to make them extraordinary? What does that even mean? Part of the answer lies in the ability to change what we cannot accept along with accepting what we cannot change. The difference is life changing.

Sending your first born out into the world, splits your heart in two. It is exactly what you want and how you raised them - to be independent and start their own lives, and it rips at your heart knowing his home will never be under your roof again, but instead, home must be the memories in a chamber of your heart.