Gratitude Can Save Your Life
An Excerpt from Kickass Recovery: From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams, by Billy Manas The idea of projecting a positive vibe is not just a goody-goody way of going through life. I’m not trying to alarm you, but I have seen firsthand how a lack of gratitude led to someone […]
The Questions We Ask Ourselves
An Excerpt from Kickass Recovery: From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams, by Billy Manas Having lived through a romantic separation recently, I had the opportunity to experience many different emotional states I didn’t necessarily appreciate. Whether it was logging onto Facebook and seeing my ex with her new boyfriend or […]
Get Your Attraction On!
An Excerpt from Kickass Recovery: From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams, by Billy Manas I opened the notebook and began to plan a perfect life for myself with the premise that anything was possible — because that is exactly how I felt. My first idea was that I would take […]
Ask, “What’s Missing?”
An excerpt from Stop Checking Your Likes by Susie Moore Now more than ever, we as a society are addicted to our phones. Even more so, we are addicted to getting “likes” on our social media posts — and it can work like an actual addiction in our brain chemistry, activating the ventral striatum part […]
Second Opinions Aren’t Better Than Your First Feeling
An excerpt from Stop Checking Your Likes by Susie Moore Your intuition is the inner pressing of the wiser you. It’s the still, small voice inside giving you direction. It’s the oldest, wisest part of you. Notice how every time someone gives you vacation recos, they’ll describe the best activities based on what they did. […]
Flame Tending for the Yet-to-Be-Born
An excerpt from Seasons of Moon and Flame by Danielle Dulsky As a young woman, beloved witch, author, and teacher Danielle Dulsky found refuge, nurturance, and wisdom when visiting her grandmother’s rustic home. Next to the fire of the winter hearth and sitting outside with the wildflowers of spring, her anorexic body was loved and […]
Season of Tender Roots: Belonging
An excerpt from Seasons of Moon and Flame by Danielle Dulsky May this first moon of spring, this Season of Tender Roots, greet you as the Garden Hag does, with childlike curiosity and much, much joy. Her face is lined, her hair is gray, but her heart beats in the rhythm of the innocent erotic. […]
Shining Light on the Shadows
An excerpt from The Bright Way by Diana Rowan From a young age, author Diana Rowan knew she was destined to be a musician. But around the age of ten, she started to get anxious and afraid, feelings that stemmed from the immense pressure she felt to be perfect and please the people around her. […]
The Time for a Spiritual Revolution is NOW
An excerpt from “I Am God in Disguise, So Are You” by Craig Kolavo As I sat on the floor in my closet, unpacking boxes of dusty journals and notebooks I’d collected over the past 20+ years, the task at hand seemed overwhelming. How do I organize all of these life experiences into a coherent […]
Today’s Inspirational Quote
“An open mind allows you to explore and create and grow. Remember that progress would be impossible if we always did things the way we always have.” An open mind reminds me of a big plot of land with absolutely nothing remotely resembling a fence on or around it. I guess it could also be […]