Filling Up My Cup: 7/27/13

Every week I take the time to read. In fact, I read a lot. Whether it's inspirational blog posts or relaxing romance novels there's not a day of my life that I don't spend at the very least, an hour of reading.Today I want to share with you what's filling me up.These posts and books have made my heart happy, inspired me, made me think or made me smile. Let me share them with you too!The Beauty in Showing Up Messy Mara Glatzel (who I love to...

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Feeling A Bit Unraveled

As you know, I'm far from perfect. In fact, if you were to ask me I'd probably be able to give you a laundry of things I want to work on within myself. However, on your average day, none of this stops me from loving who I am, and it doesn't stop me from thinking I'm fabulous.We all have our shit to work on.Doesn't mean we're any less for it. I've talked a bit about how I used to have pretty terrible anger issues in the past. It took a lot of work...

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Relax and Open Your Heart

Here's your oracle card for the week! The Goddess of Creation from the Gaia Oracle and it's all about transformation, creativity, and wholeness. Do you ever get stuck in those ruts when you find yourself taking everything seriously? I get that way sometimes.I'm forever learning to balance work vs play.Once I leave the pays-the-bills job I have six hours to do as I please before its time to go to sleep. How to spend those six hours? That's the eternal...

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The Weekly Cute 7/24/13

The other day I was thinking of things that automatically cheer me up and give me the happies. Best Answer: Cute baby animals. I mean, that's just one of the things that the internet was created for right? I secretly think that the internet is an elaborate plot for cats to regain their power as rulers of the Universe. Anyhoo here are the things I've found cute this week!Which is your favori...

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If Only I Could Tell You...

How much you deserve to be happy.I wish I could put into words, words that would wrap around you and sink into your skin, how much you deserve it.If only those words would seep into the cracks created by your sadness and your pain, filling you with a light that would radiate from you. One that you wouldn't shy away from because you believe you're all shadows.I wish you could see what I see in you.If only I could tell you to stop wrapping your mistakes...

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Goddess Wisdom: Yemaya's Story

My spiritual path has always been rather Goddess-Centered. I remember a time when I was absolutely in love with Yemanya, or Yemaya, nearly a decade ago.There was just something beautiful about her that spoke of comfort, of freedom, and letting go and with my turbulent emotions, she was just what I needed.Her Story.Yemanya is such a Universal Goddess. She originated in Africa and is now worshiped in Brazil as well as Haiti and Cuba in the Santeria...

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Citronella and Creepy Insects.

I am really creeped out by mosquitoes, incredibly so. I'd rather have spiders crawling all over me than see one mosquito on my arm having a cocktail of Domineeblood. Ew. Gross. Double gross. I never kill insects if I can help it, but mosquitoes make me so slap happy I can't really help it.It's summer-time and that means mosquitoes and that means it's time for the secret weapon.Citronella essential oil.Citronella is famous for it's mosquito repelling...

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Couples Therapy

I talk about loving yourself a lot, but it's really not an easy process, depending on your starting point in the journey. If you are starting at rock-bottom, it's a pretty tedious, exhausting, terrifying process.Think Frodo's journey to Mordor.Love yourself. Two simple words and a whole lot of work. It's more than just doing nice things for yourself, it's more than having a positive attitude, it's a get-your-hands-dirty kind of job.It's basically...

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Stay In the Picture

Before I started my self love journey about three years ago I absolutely hated having my picture taken. Hated, despised, loathed it. Very few pictures are in existence from the age of 15-25 and the ones that you will find were taken covertly by my little sister and were quite unflattering as I was likely to be in the midst of eating or making a funny face.Then self love happened and I realized something.I had no tangible memories. No pictures of...

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Waves of Love

Want to know a secret? I haven't blogged in ten days. Maybe you noticed, or maybe you didn't. I pride myself on my (mostly) consistent blogging because in my life it's pretty easy not to be consistent and you might not know it, but I can be pretty flighty. I have commitment issues.What have I been up to?I've been soaking up inspiration, creativity, and healing. I'm pretty good at recognizing the signs of burn-out and doing what I need to do before...

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