Juicy Joy – A Personal Development Book of Authenticity and Self-Love

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The people we enjoy the most are usually the ones we say we can “be ourselves with.” I spent my whole life searching for those seemingly mythical creatures. Only in recent years have I finally come to understand what a ridiculous turn of phrase that is. No one ever actually prohibited me from being myself.  Not being myself was my own choice, and my own doing, all along . . .   Read more of this article at the site of fabulous Daylle Deanna Schwartz!

I’m liking 2012. I’m the new featured article today on Hay House’s awesome website, HealYourLife.com. I rang in the New Year with lots of laughter, love and cherished family. From right here, right now, 2012 looms like a shiny, radiant bucket of promise and wonder and juicy, juicy possibilities. I’m wishing you every good thing this year. You have all you need to create whatever your heart is most longing for. You are meant to love your life and your self, and you are powerful beyond your imagining. Make 2012 the year that you claim your freedom, your passion, your YOU. I’d love to be part of your journey. 

Read my New Year’s Day article at the link above!

A new year, a fresh start . . . This is the best time of the whole year to intentionally let go of every emotional albatross that’s been holding you back! Many of my students come into Juicy Joy training with a troubled childhood story they’re carrying around like a sack of gravel. Great gains can come from recognizing the factors that led us to create our world-views, but the recognition itself is worthless unless we take active steps to rewire our early programming.

Each of us has many, many factors contributing to our own unique perspective on the world and our place in it, as well as many reasons for our subconscious tendencies to limit our own enjoyment of our successes and blessings. But for people who have suffered childhood abuse (emotional, verbal, or physical) it’s safe to assume that’s a major contributor to their feelings of unworthiness.

If I’m talking to you, let’s try a smidge of inner-child/re-parenting work to see if we can shake loose a bit of that harmful childhood program . . .

(Find this exercise and the rest of this article at Aspire Magazine.)

Happy end of 2011! Happy new beginnings!

‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? So if you’re not, what the heck is wrong with you? The biggest contributor to the holiday blues is the inescapable expectation that we’re supposed to be extra joy-filled this time of year. Every movie, commercial, and song is reminding us to feel ecstatically happy, loving, giving, and generous toward everyone we encounter.

But what if we aren’t authentically feeling that way . . .

and we hadn’t noticed it until “the season” brought that to our attention? We want to feel grateful for all we have, and excited about the promise of a new year.

All these expectations bring up the one question we can easily avoid asking ourselves during all those other less-festive seasons:

 Am I happy?

Get my Christmas-blues remedies in the rest of this article at this fab online magazine!

Yummiest holiday love to you and yours!

I adore and look forward to the holidays, but every year I seem to conveniently forget how freaking crazy-making this season can get. I’m a party girl at heart, so I can’t say no to any holiday gathering. My perpetually unconquerable To-Do list mocks me. And I’m definitely forgetting to take my own advice about being fully present for each and every one of these yummy holiday-time moments. Why is that so especially hard to do this time of year?
Read the rest of my rambling at Rants n’ Rascals. Choose joy!