Thoughtful Thursday

Hello friends! As I was entering into, what I call, my midseason of life, I was stuck on WHAT my purpose was.  My role as a mother was changing and I didn't believe I had a purpose anymore. I had also been a dancer, a grocery store checker, a sandwich maker, a student, a bookkeeper, a janitor, a children’s music director, a PTA president, a secretary, a real estate agent, a member of my church community, a quilter, a runner, a hiker, a biker, a friend, a daughter, an aunt, a sister, a wife, and a mother. But what I have come to understand is that my purpose wasn’t about any of these roles. A life purpose isn’t about WHAT you are doing, but about WHY you are doing it. WHAT you do may change many times over the course of your life because each season of life brings with it different experiences and opportunities. But it is our WHY that is behind all of it. My WHY is what gives me direction.   It gives me the desire to move forward. It is the fuel for what I d...

  Each body is an incredible gift given to each of us by our Creator to help us on our mortal journey of growing, learning and becoming. But sometimes we can lose sight of this and we believe that if our body was different than it is then things would be better. I get it. I wish my body was different sometimes too. But what if you could get to work on taking care of you without the shame? There really is a difference in getting to work to create wanted change versus being hard on yourself from a place of shame and dissatisfaction.  Beating yourself up in hopes of finding value and self-worth never works.  My guess is that if you have tried being hard yourself in order to change, it hasn’t created the results you may have wanted. If you are ready for something different, I invite you to begin by loving yourself right where you are first. Resisting where you are and believing if it was different then you could be happy doesn’t take you where you ultimately want to be. What ...

As humans, we have two identities and they are fighting for our attention. Our false identity is sometimes called our false self, natural man, or ego. We know we are living in our false identity when we are operating from feelings of fear, contention, lack, comparison, isolation, hate, or shame.   All because of what we believe about ourselves and our lives. Beliefs that limit our ability to create a life we love and our influence for good. Our divine identity is something we were all born with. We didn’t and we don’t earn it.   Understanding this truth will set you free.   It will open your heart and your mind. You will know you are living in your divine identity when you are experiencing life from a place of love, humility, gratitude, hope, connection, grace, faith and joy.  Your divine identity is who you truly are. Nothing is wrong with you.   You are not broken.   You are complete and whole. Our Heavenly Parents couldn’t love y...