Do you know you're loved? This morning, I walked through the kitchen into the living room and saw a ceramic wall hanging by the refrigerator. “I love you” was carved on the plaque. As I read it, my heart brightened and felt warmed by the sentiment. I felt calmed and soothed knowing that I am loved. It’s these little reminders that can help...
What ELSE is possible that we just don't see, or aren't paying attention to, right now? - Sarah Haykel During COVID, we’ve suddenly realized the real potential of digital connection. That even though we can’t always be with our family members, friends, employees or co-workers in person, we can be together virtually, see each others faces,...
Are you aware of the power of now? Around 2010, I was introduced to Echkart Tolle's second book, A New Earth. After listening to most of his first book, The Power of Now, on tape, I was eager to listen to his second book. Dear friends of my twin sister’s said this new book was an easier and more thorough introduction to Eckhart’s...
Self-responsibility, though a seemingly "tough pill to swallow," is a gateway to FREEDOM and LOVE: True love that doesn't depend on ANYONE ELSE to feel love/d or be love/d! - Sarah Haykel Have you ever been 100% self-responsible for something you’ve done, said, perceived, projected onto or created in the world? This means no excuses. ...
How life coaching changed my life! In 2009, I began working with a life coach for the first time. Julie Cramer, formerly of The Balance Point in Rochester N.Y., had worked with others I knew and came highly recommended. As I was going through a major life transition, having just finished a year abroad, started a business and left a marriage,...
"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the...
OMG, if anything has been a complete introduction to living a more spiritually guided lifestyle, this is IT! My twin sister, Ms. Laura Aiisha, gave me Sara Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance, 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life, in about 2009. It’s a guide for living that has readings for each day of the year. I started right on January...
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” Galileo Galilei When I first saw this quote, it struck me. What’s your initial response to it? Mine? I could only nod my head in humble agreement. You know, it’s funny, I was having a conversation with my big sister this past fall. I asked why she didn’t try...
The Power of Now Ahhh… This book came into my life around 2005. It was a time I desperately needed to hear it's message (the Universe does work in mysterious ways!). On Maui, having been recently married and started a new life, these troubling thoughts started going through my head. Never having had thoughts like this before, something...
Margaret Mead was a well known, appreciated and respected anthropologist in the 20th century. A quote attributed to her, that I heard years ago, has stuck with me. We need this kind of inspiration and motivation now more than ever to usher in a new kind of society and culture that values all people. Where everyone’s children are safe....
