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I want you to experience life with your family
as the joyful, soul-stirring adventure it’s meant to be.
I invite you to lay the foundation of your Nourished Home that at once brings soul-stirring adventure to your life AND let's your whole family know that you are all loved and safe.
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With warmth & light,
You've heard me say that your life will change when you practice gratitude.
But I want to tell you today that gratitude only takes you so far.
Although gratitude brings more joy, it's not the key to moving forward with important goals, making dreams come true, or changing the course of your life.
And I want to share what WILL help you make BIG shifts in your life, your family, and your work.
My parents taught me to choose awe, wonder, and to consciously love my life when I was eight years old. And the teaching came through how they chose to journey through my father's diagnosis with stage 4 lymphoma cancer. He was terribly sick and, statistically speaking, wasn't supposed to survive.
It was a traumatic time for our whole family AND it was a time of great soul-stirring adventure where we got to learn how courageous, connected, and clear we were about our love for each other.
We also learned about the soul's capacity to heal.
The practice of gratitude has changed how I experience the every day of my life. Whether I'm having an easy, flowing day or a more challenging one I'm devoted to getting grounded in my gratitude for what is...
And gratitude always brings me more joy, clarity, and love.
Here are three ways that gratitude helps you feel more joy, clarity, and love in your daily life:
Open your mind in this moment to how PLAY (for kids and adults) is fundamental to the creative process, to getting grounded, to clearing the mental clutter, and to connecting to your innate strengths and gifts.
Both children and adults need to PLAY, and I promise that unstructured, “purposeless” time (no goal in mind), like going to the beach, walking through the woods, dancing with someone you love, laughing, having FUN…
These activities are not only critical to the experience of childhood but also connect YOU to who you really are, as well as your best ideas in work and life.
Here we are at the sixth step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer.
Let's review the steps we've taken so far:
Here's your final step: share your vision of your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer with your family and friends so you can be supported and see your dream through.
“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
~ Maya Angelou
I'm going to keep step five of the From Hectic to Harmonious Summer series short and sweet. If you want to appreciate all of the moments to adore, cherish and live with the ones you love this summer, it’s time to dive into your mindfulness practice.
The simplest of tips that I can share with you is this:
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
You may have noticed that the steps I’m sharing towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer are really about the internal process, the mindset shifts, and personal work that allows us to be harmonious parents so we can bring more joy, connection, and soul-stirring adventure to our families and lives.
Step four is no different and here we’re tapping into the relationship between gratitude and joy.
Welcome to the 3rd step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer!
In step one we explored how to let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you so that you can tune into your intuition and be guided by your desires rather than your to-do list. In step two we got you grounded in how YOU want to feel and experience your life.
And today, I invite you to let go of the need to fix your kids, to make them happy, or to create the "perfect" summer, home, and life for them.
The second step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer is all about getting grounded in how you want to feel this summer.
In step one we explored how to let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you so that you can tune into your intuition and be guided by your desires rather than your to-do list.
So I ask you today, what do you commit to letting go of a bit more so that you can relax into the deeper joys of your life this summer?
Here is the first of six steps to your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer. Step one is all about letting go.
Let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you.
It's time to let go -- Let go of the mental clutter that rules your life. Let go of the need to get everything done, release the need to “figure everything out” in parenting, love, and life so you can spend more time BEING in this moment.
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