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

I turn 47 today! And the only important question to ask is: How many hours of how many days in those 47 years have I lived as my deeply true, authentic self? What percentage of that time has been spent in blissful self-love and easy, joyful service to others? Every birthday is a birth of a new year of opportunities to bump up that percentage and rededicate myself to being glorious, full-on, flat-out ME.

In my birthday post one year ago today I wrote: “I’ve never understood why some people lie about their age, or even why anyone would want to be younger anyway. I love the age I am today and I fully expect to love it 30 birthdays from now and beyond. Every year that I live adds a year to who I am. Being in my 40′s is so much richer and fuller than being in my 30’s or my 20’s ever could have been, because all those years are part of me now. My 20’s and 30’s are not gone – they’re absorbed. All that anticipation and wonder and lust for adventure didn’t go away; it just settled in, more comfortably and peacefully than it could have before. My gathered years weave a tapestry that reveals the picture of who I am, coming into focus at last.”

I’m so giddy-grateful for the experiences of this past year and the extra clarity they brought to that tapestry. Happy birthday to me!

A common metaphysical assertion goes like this: Whatever shows up in your outer world is simply a reflection of whatever you’re holding in your inner world. And there’s a corollary to it it that says that when you’re really ready to break through to a new level of consciousness, all the lingering bits inside you that are NOT aligned with that new level will start popping up in your outer world to be dealt with – a housecleaning of sorts. It’s like the Universe arranges a round of rapid-fire challenges for you, just to give you the opportunity to deal with them authentically and fully at last, so that their hold on you can be released.

I truly feel cherished and loved by the Universe, so I know that these painful events and difficult choices are always a gift; an opportunity for me to push through to a deeper place of self-acceptance and self-love. I’m in one of these phases right now and I’m committed to viewing it as a teacher. I must have been a ready student, for this teacher to appear.

And I’m hoping that this metaphysical phenomenon works the same way for everyone because some people I love are wounded and I want Rumi’s “light” to enter them. We can’t do that for other people – not really. They have to be ready themselves, and they have to want the light.

I’m so grateful that I had the foresight to plan some student-time for myself next month. I’ll spend a week early in November with Christian Pankhurst – an amazing coach and mentor that I recommend wholeheartedly.

Then, November 12-14, I’ll be at Hay House’s I Can Do It Conference in Tampa. This phenomenal weekend of inspiring teachers always leaves me expanded, excited, Juicy Joyful, and deeply, deeply grateful to be a part of my beloved personal-development industry.

Sign up for the I Can Do It Conference at this link (And look for me there to say “hello!”)
Check out Christian’s trainings here.

I want to forever be “baking.” It’s the baking that makes life rich, exciting, and juicy joyful! Even though I make my living helping people release their limiting beliefs so they can step into their glorious, gutsy selves and claim their Juicy Joy, I spent all of today working on myself in deep Theta Healing meditation. I went straight from there to give a Juicy Joy presentation at a Rebirthing Breakwork seminar. After speaking, I joined in the breathwork and experienced an amazing release on an issue I hadn’t even realized was there. As much as I love teaching and guiding people on their Juicy Joy paths, I’m nowhere close to relinquishing my role as a student. Being able to switch back and forth is so juicy joyful for me! Thank you, Universe!
Here are links to these two fascinating modalities:
Theta Healing
Rebirthing Breathwork