Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: The Sacred Pause: Where Sustainable Self-Care Begins "In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still." William Penn Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #84 The Sacred Pause: Where Sustainable Self-Care Begins "I know we've all heard the phrase "pause for the cause." But do you truly understand how a brief pause can prevent chaos, regret, and protect your own peace?...
7 days ago • 12 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Creating Inner Safety: Giving Yourself Permission to Pause "Nowhere can woman find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in her own soul." Marcus Aurelius (adapted) Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #83 Creating Inner Safety: Giving Yourself Permission to Pause "In the midst of life happening, can you pause? Being the doer. On autopilot. The busy bee. The fixer. The helper. Where do you have time to create...
15 days ago • 11 min read
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"...
22 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,...
28 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...
about 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 9 min read