Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Something Just Shifted "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #69 Something Just Shifted Everything in nature shows us that things shift, change, grow, and move through stages of evolution. Look at how a sperm and egg merge to form human life—journeying from embryo to fetus, infant to full-grown adult. Within those major...
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Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: The Body Doesn't Forget "Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you." Gabor Maté Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #68 The Body Doesn't Forget This is so true—the body doesn't forget! I remember my Grandma telling me it was going to rain because the arthritis in her hands had flared up. I've experienced it too: when I felt unsafe or uncomfortable in an...
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Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Receiving Is Allowed "When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits—anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving." Kim McMillen Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #67 Receiving Is Allowed When I think back to how uncomfortable I was with receiving—whether it was a compliment, a gift, or help from...
23 days ago • 7 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Own Your Grind "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing." Pelé Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #66 Own Your Grind Own Your Grind means Own Your Stuff! It is a process. In my beginnings, I was running away from my inner self. I knew from being an observer of adulting that it required heavy inner lifting that at that period in...
30 days ago • 8 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: The Real Cost of Saying "I'm Fine" "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." Gloria Steinem Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #65 The Real Cost of Saying "I'm Fine" "I'm fine," "I'm ok," and "I'm good" were on constant rotation and autopilot for me. These phrases were truly a way to cloak myself, to defend myself in situations that would have required more of me when I didn't feel comfortable...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Growth Takes Its Time "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." Joyce Meyer Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #64 Growth Takes Its Time I remember saying, "I don't want to grow up." In my observation, adult life seemed too complicated and stressful. I noticed that growth and responsibility are linked, and I realized there's no way out but to go within. That's...
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Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Courage Isn't Comfortable "Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it." Bear Grylls Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #62 Courage Isn't Comfortable I have a saying: "Get familiar with being uncomfortable in your comfortableness." My old mindset was one and done—no revision, just do it even if you've outgrown it. But life and Mother Earth (or Gaia) provide us...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: Notice What's Going Right "When you focus on the good, the good gets better." Abraham Hicks Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #62 Notice What's Going Right A great part of my life was focused on what was not going right. I was so consumed by what others thought of me that I felt deeply disconnected and profoundly lonely, cut off from my inner being and knowingness. In a world that trains our brains to be...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Rejuvenate & Thrive NURTURE YOUR ESSENCE Focus: WISDOM LIVES WITHIN YOU "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Carl Jung Your Weekly Intentional & Sustainable Self-Care Newsletter Volume #61 WISDOM LIVES WITHIN YOU "My early years were spent seeking external validation and playing roles to live up to everyone's expectations, hoping to fill an internal void. I would feel moments of gratification, but the...
2 months ago • 7 min read