Summer Evening Walk

Went on a evening walk with my sister and two daughters. A warm summer breeze swept across our faces and carried our laughter and chatter into the mystical California sunset. The birds  flittered along with us, happy to be a part of our merriment. The end of the road opened into golden fields. For a moment, time stood still and we were a part of eternal glory.

Do More Of It!

Embarking On a Healing Journey

Part 1 

Why heal?

Part 2

Beginning to Build Your Personal Power

Part 3

Finding Your Voice

Morning Meditation with LizAnn

Part 1

Getting the Body Ready

Part 2

Relaxing and Clearing Your Mind

Part 3

Gratitude and Positive Intentions

Eighty Year Old Woman Dances the Salsa!

Eighty-year-old Nico, dances the Salsa on Britain's Got Talent. What and inspiring example that age never has to be a factor in living life to the fullest!

Your Amazing Just the Way You Are!

All you lovely ladies out there; play this for yourself, and sing it to yourself all day long, because you are 

AMAZING!

Just the way you are!!!!

Be Your Own Best Friend

Healing requires a commitment to becoming your own best friend. This is not as easy as it sounds. When the wounds are touched and the pain begins to surface, you may surprised to find self-sabotage on board that you never realized was there. You may be surprised at what you have externalized and accepted about yourself. When it comes time to offer yourself nurturing, you may find a real struggle going on within. It will be a challenge to say the least. But sooner or later you will learn, that no one knows you like yourself. No one understands what it was like better than you. And no one but you can administer instinctively, the right medicine for healing. Practice being your own best friend. Pay attention to how you talk to yourself, how you treat yourself especially when you have a need. Ask yourself, "If I had a friend hanging around that treated me this same way, would they be my friend for long?"

Start treating yourself as if you are the BEST friend anyone could ever have!

Creating Space for Healing

"Empty pockets of space can feel intimidating, but they are an integral part in healing . . . "

Last evening I was planting onion sets in my garden. They came in big clumps that had to be broken apart before I could put them into the ground:

Each onion set needs it own personal space in order to grow into its full potential. If I tried to plant them altogether, none of them would have the space they needed to grow and reach their highest potential. 

This demonstrates the same concept of creating our own personal space. We too need that space to grow and experience our fullest and highest potential. 

Spring Cleaning 3 & All or Nothing Thinking

All-or-nothing thinking affects so many who have been through childhood abuse. Learning to recognize it working in your life and creating more space for yourself can be great tools in overcoming the pendulum swing that results from this. Stay tuned for more videos on this subject.

Joining the 14 day bikini body challenge

So tomorrow I am going to jump in with Kristina and try the 14 day fully raw bikini body challenge. Of coarse, my body definitely is in need of more than 14 days to look decent in a bikini. LOL! However, its not the bikini I am aiming for so much as the challenge to stay on a good, healthy, fully raw diet for 14 consecutive days, and to see how I feel at the end of it all.
I have not been on the scale for awhile, but tomorrow I will weigh in, and then I will weigh again at the end and see if I shed any weight. Here we go...

Spring Cleaning and Self Nurturing

With this past semester now behind me, and summer vacation before me, I am in the mood to get in and get this house to SPARKLE! Follow along and we will get the job done as well as pep up our spirits with a little self-nurturing!

Yoga With Adriene

Check out yoga with Adriene. She's charming, relaxing, inviting- the experience is like practicing yoga with a positive, uplifting friend! She has many free Youtube videos from 20 minute yoga for complete beginners, 6 minute yoga for abs, to 1 hour total body workouts. Feeling stretched! Feeling inspired!

YOGA WITH ADRIENE

Through the Eyes of a Child

"There is joy and wonder every where when you see the world through the eyes of a child."

A Walk in the Rain

Last Friday, my sister and I took a magical walk in the rain along the 

American River at Ansel Hoffman Park.

These two ducks followed on our entire walk along the river

Our last picture as we walked back to the car. 

Do you see all the little orbs that joined us along the way? 

The one in the middle has a heart inside. 

Morning Yoga

Found a perfect yoga morning warm-up. Not too difficult, pretty short- 7 minutes.

Yoga to Get Your Morning Moving!

By Tara Stiles