Are you ready to embrace Self Love in 2013?

I've been a busy Dominee lately! I decided that it was time to buckle down and create this Self Love Planner that's been bouncing around in my head this entire year.And guess what?I did it!I am so proud and bursting with joy over my new baby! I tried some new things, tinkered with some new programs and I think it turned out completely rock balls awesome.I want to share it with you and I really really REALLY want to hear what you think. This is like...

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What I Learned in 2012: Business Edition

It's still really hard to identify myself as a business woman. I mean yeah, I have a business and I have girly bits, but the term business woman puts into my head the vision of a powersuit and a corporate office.Not someone who sits around in her jammies with a cup of coffee.This year has been a huge year for me as far as my business goes. It has been epic. No matter what I do in the years to come, I know that this year has been, and will...

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What I'm Reading 12/29

I read so many blogs and have so many soul-sisters that rock, that I never seem to have enough time to showcase their awesomeness! I thought I'd take a bit of time today to share with you some blog posts from the online family that I've especially enjoyed.Give 'em a read!Listening to your Muse! Petrea at Art Therapist shares the importance of letter writing, even when writing to yourself! Get in touch with your creative desire!Top 10 Tips For Avoiding...

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The 10 Best Blog Posts of 2012!

This year has been a great year for me as far as blogging goes. Currently Blessing Manifesting is at 322 posts and 130425 pageviews! I can't wait to see where I'll be at this time next year. I feel this big shift in energy and in creativity and I hope that I do it proud in the coming year.I hope that I am able to continue to shine, to be bright and brilliant, and to share all of the things that are in me to share.I am so proud. Really I...

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9 Things I Learned in 2012

2012 was a decent year for me. In fact, I would even say it has been the best year of my life so far. Nothing earth-shattering happened, nothing life-changing occurred, and that within itself is what made it amazing.There was no drama, no huge revelations, no deep, dark, sinister, depressions. I can totally dig more years like that!Here's a list of what I learned this year.I do not have to punish myself for being the person that I used to be. Punishing...

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What I've been up to!

At this moment I'm watching the movie "Brave" while covered up in a nice warm blanket (as is my way) relaxing while a corn bag sits on my belly warming the monthly cramps away. I can think of worse ways to spend my day.My day job has been hectic and crazy, with more hours put in than I'd have liked, but I am glad the holiday rush is over. I'm glad that normal can return.My heart is still a bit aching and sore in some ways, as stories...

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Protect Your Sensitive Soul

Have you ever cried while watching a movie? Or when your favorite character in a novel dies? Have you ever been around someone that was sad and you felt those emotions yourself?That's empathy.Empathy is the ability to recognize and feel the emotions that are being experienced by someone else. You are able to understand, be aware of, and be sensitive to, the feelings and thoughts of others. Compassion and empathy are often intertwined.Empathy...

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What the movie Butter taught me.

Last week I was relaxing and decided to watch the movie "Butter". It's a quirky comedy about a little girl in foster care, who decides she wants to enter a butter-sculpting competition at the state fair. She goes up against the wife of the local butter-sculpting hero and hilarity and rivalry ensue. It's a very sweet, funny, and touching comedy.There was a part that I found especially wonderful and I really enjoyed it and I wanted to share it with...

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Winter Solstice a time of reflection

The Winter Solstice is coming upon us, and I do not know about you, but with the first wintery wind, I was feeling the effects of it. A time for Quiet. A time to Withdrawal. A time for Reflection.It hit me harder than it has in years past, maybe because this year has been one of movement and passion, and so many wonderful things. Now is the time to sit with it, process everything, and begin refilling the well.It's kind of nice.I've...

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My 12 Wishes... on 12/12/12

In honor of 12/12/12 (may you have a magical and wonderful day!), Jamie Ridler is asking us to make 12 wishes! Twelve seems like a lot, but then I have many hopes, dreams, and wishes for the new year.Here are my 12/12/12 wishes for 2013!I wish to remain a Blogging Goddess, churning out posts as much as I do and sharing my story in the lover-ly way that I do.I wish to remember that rest is essential to the work that I do. Taking a break isn't something...

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Story Time: The Night Before Christmas

Ready to partake in Blessing Manifesting's Plan A: Christmas Spirit? Grab a cup of egg nog, hot cocoa, tea or coffee, put on Christmas music, sit back, and enjoy The Night Before Christmas.Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,Had just settled...

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Story Time: The Fir Tree

Ready to partake in Blessing Manifesting's Plan A: Christmas Spirit? Grab a cup of egg nog, hot cocoa, tea or coffee, put on Christmas music, sit back, and enjoy The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen!Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree. The place he had was a very good one: the sun shone on him: as to fresh air, there was enough of that, and round him grew many large-sized comrades, pines as well as firs. But the little Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree.He did not think of the warm sun and of the fresh air; he did not...

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Story Time: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Ready to partake in Blessing Manifesting's Plan A: Christmas Spirit? Grab a cup of egg nog, hot cocoa, tea or coffee, put on Christmas music, sit back, and enjoy The Elves and the Shoemaker by the Brothers Grimm.Once upon a time there was a poor shoemaker. He made excellent shoes and worked quite diligently, but even so he could not earn enough to support himself and his family. He became so poor that he he could not even afford to buy the leather he needed to make shoes; finally he had only enough to make one last pair. He cut them out with...

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Story Time: Gift of the Magi

Ready to partake in Blessing Manifesting's Plan A: Christmas Spirit? Grab a cup of egg nog, hot cocoa, tea or coffee, put on Christmas music, sit back, and read O. Henry's Gift of the Magi.One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next...

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Story Time: Grandma got run over by a reindeer

Ready to partake in Blessing Manifesting's Plan A: Christmas Spirit? Grab a cup of egg nog, hot cocoa, tea or coffee, sit back, and enjoy the lyrics to a song that makes me giggle, Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer!Grandma got run over by a reindeerwalkin' home from our house Christmas eve. You can say there's no such thing as Santa. But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog. And we'd begged her not to go. But she'd forgot her medication, and she staggered out the door into the snow.When...

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