12 Days of Solstice: Holiday Self Care

On the 7th day of Solstice...As you know, I think self care is one of the most important things in the world. It sounds silly, that an act of taking care of yourself in a loving way can have epic results on your life but it's true. It helps lessen and relieve stress, anxiety, and depression. It creates self love, self-worth, and self-esteem. It allows you to get to know your mind and your body.It has a ripple effect throughout your life.It's always...

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12 Days of Solstice: 2014 Create Your Amazing Year

On the 6th day of Solstice...Every year for the past three years I have printed out and filled in Leonie Dawson's Create Your Amazing Year (Formerly the Creating my Goddess Year) workbook and planner.It's wonderful for dreaming big - both in what you want to do and how you want your business to grow. I think it works great with my own Self Love Planner. I used both last year!Today I'm giving away one copy of the beautiful 2014 Create Your Amazing...

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12 Days of Solstice: Amazon.com Gift Card

On the 5th day of Solstice...Today I'm giving you a chance to win one $10 Amazon.com gift card. You know the drill, answer the Celebrating Solstice question in the comments and you are automatically entered to win! Winners will be announced tomorrow morning on the facebook page and in the comments!You are gonna buy a book with that $10 aren't you?After all, books make the very best gifts! Okay, okay, if you want to get something else I won't protest,...

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12 Days of Solstice: Winter Holiday Planning

On the 4th day of Solstice...Just in case you aren't all squared away on your holiday planning here's a handy dandy worksheet to help you get all organized. What gifts do you still have left to buy? Do you have all of your Christmas cards sent out? What food are you planning to make or what do you still have left to buy? What crafty things are you going to do this year? Gingerbread men? Cut out snowflakes?[[Download it here]]Be sure to leave a comment...

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12 Days of Solstice: 2014 Self Love Planner Give-a-way!

On the 3rd day of Solstice...Today I'm giving you a chance to win one of two copies of the 2014 Self Love Planner. All you have to do is answer the Celebrating Solstice question at the end of this post. If you've already bought the planner (thank you!) feel free to enter anyway and gift the planner to someone in your tribe or a loved one that might be in need of it!The two winners will be picked at random.Winners will be announced tomorrow morning...

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12 Days of Solstice: An Oracle Card Pulled for you!

On the 2nd day of Solstice Dominee gave to me...Welcome to 12 Days of Solstice, 12 days of give-a-ways, discounts, and free stuff. Today I am pulling an oracle card from the Angels, Gods, and Goddesses deck for [the first 75 people] who answer the Celebrating Solstice question at the end of this post by midnight tonight and I will reply to your comment with the cards message! I love oracle card readings and I love adding a little bit of...

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12 Days of Solstice: Picture Your Day

Welcome to the first day of 12 Days of Solstice. Each day, for the next 12 days, I'll be doing a give-a-way, letting you have a free download, and celebrating the holiday spirit with you!Today I'd like to share with you my last official free offering of the year "Picture Your Day" a free ecourse starting 12/15. Lets capture the simple beautiful moments in our day. Each day you'll have a prompt, something as simple as "Take a picture of something...

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12 Days of Solstice

I'm still recovering from the energy sink that is releasing something new. Every time I release a new product I always feel drained and it takes me a few weeks to bounce back. In the last month I've released TWO - the 2014 Self Love Planner and the Wheel of Wisdom Oracle Readings and I need some time to kick back and relax. What better way than giving back to all of you?Because you are all awesome.Truly. Seriously. The emails you ladies have been...

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This is the End + Being Adrift

I keep thinking "I can't believe this year is almost over." It hasn't really gone my way. It's been a bit of a difficult year, but the last few months have been pretty wonderful creative-wise, and for a creative person, that's such an important thing to have in life. Especially when it comes to having a business that runs on your creativity.Today I pulled a card for myself from Lucy Cavendish's Oracle of the Mermaids to represent this last...

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A Very Blessing Manifesting Thanksgiving

Over here in the States it is officially Thanksgiving Day. A day to be with family and to acknowledge and appreciate the things in your life that you are grateful for.I am celebrating softly.I made my favorite green bean casserole. I'm going to re-watch The Hunger Games and spend time reading Catching Fire and then I'm going to sleep in preparation for working this evening at my retail job.As I said in You Have Permission to be a Scrooge, do what...

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A Collision of Magic & Stardust

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Winter Self Care

For as long as I can remember Autumn and Winter have been my favorite seasons. My childhood is full of wonderful winter memories. In the two houses I lived in growing up, I picked the coldest rooms, the remodeled attic and then basement. It was always freezing in the winter time and I loved it, often keeping my window cracked for even more blissful cold air.Some of my favorite memories are of being snuggled up with a ton of blankets, a book in my...

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Win a free copy of the 2014 Self Love Planner + Workbook

Thanks to everyone who entered! The winners were chosen at random and you can now see them below! Thank you! xoxoI'm feeling pretty awesome right now. You see, the last few months I've been very busy creating something that I'm over the moon excited about.The 2014 Self Love Planner Workbook.It was finished a month before the release date which is November 24th! Mark your calendars! The sales page is already up, newsletters are set to go out, and...

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You have permission to be a Scrooge.

You have permission to be a Scrooge. Okay, maybe that's a little harsh because the last thing I want is to see you on the evening news running through a department store yelling "Bah! Humbug!" But - you are allowed not to buy into the holiday cheer. You are allowed to treat the holidays like normal days.You are allowed to celebrate in a soft and quiet way. You are allowed to preserve your energy and not spend it on cooking large dinners, or spending...

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Let Yourself Be Grateful

I'm going to tell you a little secret. I really don't like the holiday season. I haven't liked them since I was a teenager. When I ventured out to live on my own I desperately tried every year to celebrate and create traditions.Each year it flopped.Working in retail will do that to you. This year, I don't want to fall into the Holiday Grumps. I want to remember what the holiday season is about.Love and Gratitude.I hope that you'll join me in celebrating...

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A Different Kind of Abandon

sourceAbandon. I hate that word. It brings to the forefront of my mind all of my abandonment issues, ones that I still struggle with. It's a trigger to unpleasant feelings and emotions.My past is littered with abandonment. My biological father died without wanting to meet me, and my family and relationships have never been what I would call stable or reliable.Abandon: that thing that people do to me.I've been struggling with abandonment lately....

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The Power of the Nautilus Shell

Good morning my sweetlings! November is upon us and I think it's going to be an amazing one. The 2014 Self Love Planner + Workbook is all finished and ready to be released in a few weeks and so is the (free) Epic Gratitude challenge. So excited.Each time I work super hard on something to release out into the world I inevitably get smacked upside the head with growing pains. Sometimes it's personal, sometimes it's professional and sometimes it's a...

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Jump Start Your Creative Mojo

Happy November my friends! Are any of you participating in NaNoWriMo? If you are, let me know and keep me updated on your progress. I'm gonna be your own personal cheerleader! Go you you fabulously writer-y you! This is going to be a big month for me so I won't have the time. Sadface. However,I know the pain of staring at the blank page.Or blog post text box as it were. I was having that very problem the other day and I kept getting more and more...

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Loving All Of Yourself

I've been pretty open about my past. I was not a good person. I was a liar and a manipulator. I was depressed all of the time. I was mean and hateful to myself and others and all of these behaviors were hiding a lot of pain and a lot of depression and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness to change my situation.I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of.I have abused my body. I have verbally and mentally abused the people around me. I've had...

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Doing What I Love and Loving What I Do

I've officially been doing this whole business thang for exactly two years. The experience has been all over the place. I've gone from thinking that it's the most awesome experience ever to being moments away from throwing up my hands and throwing in the towel.At the end of the day, I still love it. I love it a lot. This past month me and the biz had some couple's time. We took time away from the public and we worked on our relationship. We...

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Count Your Blessings In A Pumpkin Patch

Happy Halloween or as I call it, Samhain! May your day be filled with more treats than tricks. This is traditionally a day of Spirits and honoring those that have passed before us.Which ties into appreciating what we have, while we have it.How often do you take a step back from your life? I mean really take a step back, with the intention of looking at your life from a detached viewpoint?Most of the time we don't step back intentionally. We step...

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Catching up!

Hello my beautiful peoples! It feels like it's been forever since I sat here and tap-tap-tapped out love notes and stories for you. I know that technically October's not over so this little ol' blogging break of mine should still be in effect but I like breaking rules. I'm a blogging rebel. Rawr. I've missed blogging so much and it's definitely ignited, or re-ignited, my passion for it.What have I been up to this month? Epic Self Care.I started...

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Self Care is Essential For Introverts

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be taking a blogging break in October... but... I just can't help myself sometimes.So along with this whole blogging break thing I've been trying to unfurl my wings a little bit.I've decided to try dating.Talk about energy vortex. Draining, draining, draining. I am an introvert. An introvert gets their energy from being alone. Solitude and quiet gives us a chance to rest and replenish our energy so that we can be bright...

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Sanctuary + October Blogging Break!

Are you signed up for the newsletter? In one of the last issues I talked about how I had decided to take a blogging break in October and focus on creating stuff, like this month's Monthly Challenge and the 2014 Self Love Workbook + Planner. Obviously I've made it three days in and hello... Blog! I love it too much to stay away. P.S. Have you noticed the new look?!I also felt the need to take a step back, figure out if I'm going in the right...

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5 Secrets to Success

Last year, or maybe it was the beginning of this year, I asked you guys what you wanted to see from me and the resounding answer was Not Business Stuff. Which is perfectly fine because I love writing about the heart, mind, and spirit.Then I realized how much my heart, mind, and spirit are connected to my business.I wanted to share some of the stuff I know so I put it all in a handy dandy notebook... er... ebook.5 Secrets to Success for online heart-centered...

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An Island of Solitude

Today I wanted to feature a card from the oracle card deck Earth Magic. If you are signed up for my newsletter then you probably know why I'm feeling this card.The Island a place of solitude.Looking at this picture evokes a different reaction for different people. Some might look at this and see a lush little island with a blooming tree in its center. A tree that is perfect for sitting under alone with a good book, or laying on your back, staring...

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Daily Prayer

I'm a very spiritual (though not religious) person. I bring things into my life that call to my soul, whether they originate in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Wicca, or what have you, it doesn't matter to me. If it calls to my soul, if it nourishes my soul, if it feels good, then I know that's what I need and I embrace it.I don't discriminate with soul-food.I love that Blessing Manifesting is for all faiths, at least I try to make it so that it...

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The Call of Whale Song

I have been obsessed with whales ever since the first time I saw Free Willy or maybe it was Ocean Girl, which was a pretty awesome show. It was about a girl who swam and talked to whales and considered them family.I digress, but my point stands whale = awesome.Whales are the largest mammals in the world and they all exhale through their blowholes. I've talked about the breath and how letting out a big exhalation can relieve stress. You've probably...

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Are you performing psychological necromancy?

Thank you Dresden Files for this wonderful phrase. Psychological necromancy. What's it mean?Reviving old memories and emotions and using them to torture yourself.We drudge them up from where they've been buried in the past and we give them new life. Sometimes it's an accident, sometimes a bad mood triggers it, sometimes we just want to drudge it up to punish ourselves for the mistakes we've made.I am a huge believer in the wisdom of the past. It...

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Hey You Beautiful Soul.

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Story of the Selkie

The Selkie is a being who lives as a seal in the water but can transform into a human on land. The Selkie's story is usually a sad one as they can only stay on land for a short period of time unless their pelts are stolen.There tales are usually of a Selkie falling in love with a human and then having to leave them to return to the sea. Alternatively, if their pelt is stolen they must remain on land and are unable to return to the sea.The Selkie...

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Do You Celebrate?

The other day I was hunting for incense to burn. I must admit something here, I am a huge incense junkie. At one time I had a collection of nearly 100 scents, all hand-dipped in essential oils and each scent stored in a ziploc bag and labeled.Anyway, I picked a bag at random and saw that it was one of my all time favorites. Instead of burning one I put it back."That one is special. I'll save it for later."Do you ever do that with random things? I've...

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