Gentleness Mood Lady The theme and Mood Lady for this month is Gentleness – how are you using Gentleness with yourself in your life at the moment? I will never forget the first time someone provided me with an invitation for Gentleness with myself. It happened in one of my...
Now is the perfect time for Love
I’ve been writing short articles on the Artful Journey themes (aka Mood Lady themes) for years now. Last year, I wrote one each week for 49 weeks. I made myself a schedule of themes and followed it pretty well, unless some theme was simply a mis-match for that week for...
3 Steps to More Ease
Ease might not be the first word you think of right now in the midst of Holidays and the end of the year. There's so much going on and we're being pulled in lots of different directions. When you look around, you might sense a frenetic energy - a push...
How Simple Can You Make It?
Any time of the year is the perfect time to bring in a bit more Simplicity. However, I'm especially fond of using this beautiful tool at the beginning of a new year or new quarter or even a new month. So let's see what it can offer us as we...
3 Reflection Tips To Lead You Into the New Year
The end of the year. It's amazing that it has arrived so quickly. The end of a year, the end of a month or season - these are all wonderful opportunities to slow down a bit and use the Reflection tool. Reflecting is one of those beautiful processes that often...
Connecting with Joy
Joy. It's such a short, simple word. Very uncomplicated, wouldn't you say? But boy, don't we sometimes make feeling it and experiencing it a lot more complicated than it needs to be? So first off...a few questions for you. What brings you Joy? And what does Joy Feel like when...
How Nourished Are You?
What feeds me - what nourishes me? This is an excellent question to have in your toolbox. So often, we forget to ask ourselves this question. We forget to check in to make sure the answers haven’t changed. This magical question is actually one that is extremely useful in two...
Are You Truly Listening?
Learning to TRULY listen to ourselves can take a bit of practice. With our busy lives and all the information and stimuli that is constantly coming in, there is often SO much noise - in the form of 'shoulds', of unwanted thoughts that don't serve us, of other people's voices...
Are You Committed or Feeling Obligated?
Every once in a while, it is an excellent idea to step back and reflect on what you are truly committed to in your life. Take a moment, now, to think about what is most important to you. Is it family, a passion, a certain relationship, a hobby, connecting with...
3 Questions to Lead You Back to Powerful You
So, you're moving along your day and everything is fine, maybe even much better than fine. Then, something happens. It might be a comment from someone, a phone call, a situation that arises or even something that you hear on the news. Suddenly it's like a little button is pushed...
