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choosing love is an act of courage

In a world that tells you all the reasons to be afraid, choosing love is an act of courage. When faced with uncertainty love will ask you to grow, encourage you to be self-aware and request you show up with consciousness. When life gets rough fear will tell you to...

you get to choose who you are

You get to choose who you are. There will be times in life when others try to tell you who you are. Don’t listen. There will be times in life when others try to reduce you to a label, adjective, or judgment. Don’t acquiesce. There will be times when others will tell...

why your soul might be sad

Some days, I slip into automaticity and emerge eight hours later irritable and discontent. When days become monotonous replicas my soul feels sad. Thankfully, this doesn’t happen very much anymore. But, when it does, it reminds me of when I wanted to quit everything...

do what matters most

I believe in letting it be easy. Most of the time, if it doesn’t feel like ease I don’t do it. But, there are times when it is necessary to do hard things in order to honour what deeply matters. The question is not, what is easy? The question is, what...

fear, upper limits, and what it takes to be free

Fear has a way of sounding like truth. It snakes into the mind and whispers stories of protection, safety, predictability, and familiarity. Fear establishes our upper limits and and traps us in psychological prisons. We all have upper limits to how much love,...

six things I remembered in Peru

Peru. The land of wonder, color, and love. My most recent adventure to Peru was packed with soulful experiences and meaningful life lessons. Here are six things Peru helped me to remember. Presence Deadlines were looming. My inbox was blossoming. Normally, when I...