Anxiety is something that I struggled with for most of my life. I’ve gone through various stages of believing that it meant something was wrong with me, that it was something I had to hide and something that made me weak, to believing it was just a fact of my life and personality and something […]

I saw something on Instagram recently that reminded me of the quote above from Ekhart Tolle.  The post looked like this: This got me thinking about the power of gratitude.  The special thing about gratitude is that, when you are feeling grateful, no other emotion can exist in that moment.  It takes over your being […]

It’s been 4 years since I’ve been back to this place. This little yellow cabin in the woods, right on the edge of a still, blue lake, lined with green pine trees. I first came here right after I moved to Germany. It was my second week here I think. It felt magical. I was […]

I’m writing to you from a room with a view of the sun-drenched coast on the Baltic Sea.  This little corner of the Earth,an island off the northeastern coast of Germany,right on the border of Poland,previously would have never been in my field of vision,but it has become a routine little getaway for my family and […]

“The curious paradox is, that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.” Right now I’m reading “On Becoming a Person” by Carl Rogers, and it has me so inspired. Rogers was a great American Psychologist and founder of the humanistic psychology movement. He was a pioneer and a rebel of his […]

Do you ever find yourself talking yourself out of your dreams? Maybe you feel like they are too big, or too far-fetched. Maybe you feel like you don’t have the time, or the money, or the talent to actually achieve them. Or maybe someone else’s voice like your mom’s, or your partners appears in your […]

Today I want to talk about the word surrender. What does it mean exactly, and why is it so important? Surrender is the key component to manifesting abundance.   In order for us to attract all the magical things we want in our lives, we have to surrender to the way it’s going to happen. […]

I spent almost my entire life with the nagging feeling of “not-enough.”  While I always had a strong sense of who I was and what I believed, I dimmed my light and played small, afraid to shine too bright or to step into my power.   I spent years letting fear control my life.  I […]