Tag: values based living
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🦋 Stop Dress-Rehearsing Tragedy: Choosing Presence Over “What If”
For me, this week has been full in the best way; movement, reflection, insight, and deep internal noticing. As I near the final weeks of my chakra workshop and spent considerable time this week exploring intuition and imagination, I found myself returning to a phrase I heard years ago that quietly changed how I meet…
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🦋 Softening Into Strength
For me, this week was an invitation not to push harder, but to soften. I carried that word with me intentionally, especially in moments that felt tight: challenging conversations, compressed timing, everyday irritations. Each time I noticed tension rising, I paused and asked myself a simple question: How can I soften here? What surprised me…
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🦋 Honoring the Right to Feel
For me, this week has felt expansive, warm, and deeply affirming. The sunshine outside mirrors what has been happening within me; a sense of flow, gratitude, and emotional presence. Another chakra workshop unfolded exactly as it was meant to, my heart felt full connecting with my children, and I intentionally took time for self-care that…
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🦋 The Pause We Did Not Choose
For me, this week offered a lesson I didn’t plan for and one I clearly needed. It began with movement and joy: a beautiful hike with my pup Quila, fresh air filling my lungs, presence coming easily. It softened into a slow Sunday afternoon nap… and then, abruptly, my body asked for everything to stop.…
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🦋 Grounded in Living: Honoring Our Right to Be Here
For me, this morning began in stillness. A gentle snowfall here in Wisconsin, the world softened and quiet, as if everything collectively agreed to pause. There is something deeply grounding about these moments when life slows just enough for us to feel ourselves here. Present. Breathing. Existing without needing to do, prove, or perform anything…
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🦋When Kind Words Become Steady Ground
For me, this week held everything. Grief and joy. Tenderness and strength. Loss and new beginnings, all arriving at once. It began with the tragic passing of a young colleague, leaving a heaviness that settled into our days and our hearts. I felt it deeply, and I chose to pause, to grieve honestly, and to…
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🦋 The World Needs More of You
For me, this first full week of the year has made something unmistakably clear: the world does not need more sameness, it needs more you. It needs more of your truth, your voice, and your way of seeing, creating, loving, leading, and living. When we choose authenticity, we don’t just change our own lives, we…
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Be the Leading Role in Your Own Life 🎬✨
This week I found myself watching The Holiday, one of my favorite holiday movies. I find it cozy, comforting, familiar and every time I watch it, one line lands a little deeper than the time before: “You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life.” That line stayed with me. So many of…
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