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Have you ever wanted something so much you were afraid to go after it? Yeah, that’s me right now.  I’m in the process of redesigning my coaching website & blog and I really want it to reflect my true heart’s desire.  But, I feel so vulnerable with it all. You see, I want to explore the topics of:

• Connecting with your Soul
• Receiving your Calling
• Creating your Success

But, I’m afraid I’ll fail. Oh my gosh.  It just hit me that I’m making myself a failure before my site has even been published.  Ouch.  Why am I torturing myself?  I guess the torture feels safer than actually opening my internet doors {read: heart} to the world.  It reminds me of this quote:

“Known hells are safer than unknown heavens.” ~ unknown

I wonder…what am I really afraid of? That people won’t like it?  That people won’t hire me?  But, those are all external factors.  If I were working with a client on this challenge I would ask her to focus on the internal factors: her desires, her message, and her heart.  I would ask her to trust her Soul, her Calling, and herself.

Another aspect to my stuck-ness is that I feel like I have to choose between business or spiritual coaching.  Over the last year I’ve worked mainly with women business owners.  In fact, people refer to me as a business coach.  I do have one foot in the business realm and one foot in the spiritual realm.  The business realm feels so easy in that I know the language and where to go to meet people.  It feels so tangible.

The spiritual realm feels so out of reach. I don’t know exactly how it will work or where to go to meet people.  Wait a minute.  That’s so not true!  I mean, it is how a part of me feels.  But, it isn’t true.  The truth is…I’m a part of a national spirtual community that has totally transformed my life.  I’m taking classes in preparation to enter the Licensed Practitioner program.  In fact…

I am an aspiring spiritual leader!

Whoa.  I “said” it out loud.  Yowza.  It wasn’t even that hard or scary.  You know what?  This is one of those times when thinking about it is worse than actually doing it.  I just need to go claim my Calling, write my web copy, and put it out there.  Wahoo!  I’m outta here…

{fyi ~ my blog is moving to SimplyFearless.com ~ more news to follow when I launch}

Tags: confidence, courage, decisions, fear, Life Coaching, spirituality, success

I’m taking the Foundations Class at the Center for Spiritual Living and one of our assignments was to do a guided meditation about love for a week. Here are some of my notes from what I learned through the experience:

• Focusing on love is easier with practice!
• I learned very young that it was not okay to love
• Today I gave my very young self permission to love her mommy
• She loves her mommy so much.
• She feels safe in her arms and she loves to cuddle
• She loves that her mommy is a big woman with brown hair
• Her mommy is soft and sweet
• Love feels tingly in my hands and arms – sometimes in my feet too
• Today love was not about sex, which was very nice
• Love is an emotion, sex is a physical act
• Love and sex are related and not exclusive
• It feels amazing to love
• It feels incredible to share my love with the world
• I did an exercise where I imagined my love growing from within me all the way through the stretch of the entire plane of existence – even to places I’ve never seen or can even comprehend right now
• And then I practiced shrinking the love back into my body
• It was a fun exercise that I enjoyed
• I also imagined loving all parts of myself from babyhood through childhood
• It gives me chills to imagine hugging my college self
• Oh this loving stuff is getting easier and easier!
• I’m so grateful for this exercise and that I am committed to it for every day this week
• The foundation of my day is love
• The foundation of my life is love
• It’s okay to love openly
• I’m free to love deeply
• Love is not going to kill me
• It’s okay to be vulnerable
• Life is better when you love openly
• I am strong and vulnerable
• It takes great strength to be vulnerable
• Love is our natural state of being
• Humans are loving machines

Wow this is cool!

Tags: Center for Spiritual Living, CSL, love, meditation, spirituality, Spirituality & God

You know that I love to post about God and spirituality. Well, if you like these topics too, then you absolutely must read The Shack by William P. Young.  It offers an incredibly unique perspective about God, religion, and our relationships with both.  Plus, it’s literary!  It’s very well-written and the story is super intriguing – it’s about a father who’s daughter has been brutally murdered.  Don’t worry I didn’t give anything away!  The reader knows up front about the daughter, but it’s still a mysterious read.  You’ve gotta read this book…in fact, even if you don’t believe in God.  No wait, especially if you don’t believe in God!

For those of you who are regulars here, then you know that I’ve grappled with Christianity a lot in my lifetime.  Well, this book has inspired me to look at Christianity in a whole new light and believe me, that is huge!

Here, I’ll make it real easy for you to buy the book on-line.  Here’s a direct link to it on Amazon.com:

Happy Reading!

Tags: Book Reviews, church, God, religion, spirituality