Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Awareness Before Action "The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance." Nathaniel Branden Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #82 Awareness Before Action "Awareness is expressed in many ways throughout our lives: we ignore it on autopilot, we wait until our back is against the wall, or we slowly build evidence. I've experienced all of them. But for most of my life, "back against the wall"...
10 days ago • 11 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Can You Sit With Yourself Without Fixing Anything? "In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to." Dave Hollis Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #81 Can You Sit With Yourself Without Fixing Anything? "Sitting with yourself is the journey of learning to sit authentically instead of running from discomfort. For most of my life, I would sit with myself,...
17 days ago • 10 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Coming Home To YOU "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #80 Coming Home To YOU "Coming Home To Me has been a process of letting go of fear, people pleasing, guilt, and shame. For years, I chased temporary moments of wholeness, never knowing how to hold onto...
24 days ago • 10 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Most Self-Care Is Taught from the Outside In "To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #79 Most Self-Care Is Taught from the Outside In Do you have a relationship with yourself? Not the one you're working on. What type of relationship? Loving? On and off? Only when...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Self-Care Is a Relationship, Not a Routine "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with." Wayne Dyer Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #78 Self-Care Is a Relationship, Not a Routine "We have all types of relationships: financial, manipulative, controlling, and loving, among others. But here's what I've learned: every single one of them stems from the relationship you have with yourself—or the...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: The Inner Voice That Never Stopped Speaking "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." Rumi Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #77 The Inner Voice That Never Stopped Speaking "We have so much stimuli coming at us in our daily lives—what I call the pillars of life: family, friends, work, business, religion, social media, and more. All of these have a purpose: to occupy your attention and keep you...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Feed Your Body For Real "The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison." Ann Wigmore Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #76 Feed Your Body For Real "Am I eating to survive? Or am I nourishing myself to live? These questions may seem simple, but they reveal a profound difference. Eating to survive was a period in my life when I didn't know myself, even...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Stop Postponing Your Life "The most important moment in your life is always the present one. Not because the past doesn’t matter or the future isn’t worth planning for—but because now is the only place where living actually happens." Unknown Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #75 Stop Postponing Your Life "Quite often I would postpone living my life. At first, I was not conscious of it, but when I became aware that...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Choosing Softness Is the Brave Thing "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." Saint Francis de Sales Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #74 Choosing Softness Is the Brave Thing "What does softness mean to you? Not the softness of fragility or collapse — but the kind that lives in a dropped shoulder, an unclenched jaw, a moment when you finally stop performing and simply be. When was...
2 months ago • 9 min read