Your Secret Self: Awakening the Powers of the Inspired Self

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When you follow inspiration, you follow an invitation to be more than you knew you were. Most of us could never imagine the fire and promise we hold. We live in a culture that tells us to be “realistic.” That means dampen our enthusiasms and compromise our vision. But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to listen to our inspired hearts, spread our full peacock feathers, and awaken the invincible love inside us. Read More

Ask Dr. Kel: When You Change Your Mind, You Change Your Life

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Our minds are powerful instruments that create our reality. Our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions bring about what we accomplish in life. If we believe that we are talented musicians, we will play beautiful music. If we believe that we are not good enough, we may fail at any lasting attempt in a job or relationship. When it comes to reaching our intended desires, we have to look for any and all limiting belief systems and change our minds about them if we are to succeed. Learn more about shifting your beliefs in order to create the life you desire. Read More

Simply…Empowered! Stay Focused on Solutions

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Learning to focus on solutions to everyday problems, large and small, instead of the problem is one of the attributes that empowered women possess. An empowered woman has discovered how to assess the circumstances, instantly begins weighing her options and remains focused on finding a solution. She doesn’t allow regret, shame, blame, guilt, or fear to overtake their mindsets. Read More

The Five Foundational Qualities for Practicing Life Visioning

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When we cultivate the five inherent qualities that enhance the practice of life visioning we open the door to vitalizing the mind, heart, and consciousness in ways that successfully motivate us to accelerate and accept the new into our life. Read More

Gratitude in the Face of Fear or Anger

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Anger and fear can become doorways to gratitude—an invitation to look within and choose our perspective, rather than re-experience the default. Lisa shares three tips to deepen your journaling practice and the power of incorporating a gratitude journal into your writing practice. Read More

Tolerating is Dangerous!

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Most of us have areas in our lives where we’re tolerating things. And we get praised for that, right? We hear, “Suck it up! No pain, no gain! It could be worse!” But any time you’re tolerating something, it causes a slow, steady leak of your energy. It keeps you from being your brightest, best, most vital self. Read More

What to do When you Wake up in a Snit

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I began the day growling. From the moment I rolled out of bed I felt challenged by the new day. Read More

My Upside Down Diet: On Transition, Surrender and Writing

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Some life transitions are predictable and others surprise us (such as an illness). Here Inspired to Write columnist Lisa Tener shares her unanticipated transition and the role writing can play in shifting perspective and receiving the gifts of transition. Read More

Creating Energetic Boundaries

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Creating healthy energetic boundaries is key to producing a positive flow of energy in our relationships. At heart, all our relationships are energetic exchanges—opportunities us to become a conduit for life force energy. When energetic boundaries are in place, the resulting flow is growth promoting, first for ourselves and then for others. Without such boundaries, however, we can easily exhaust ourselves of energy or inadvertently take on the unwanted energies of others, outcomes that impede our growth or damage our relationships. Read More

Nurturing the Moment

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Do your days often feel like a blur? Are you just trying hard to keep up with the avalanche of activities before you — paying the bills, answering a growing stack of emails, picking up and dropping off the kids, and meeting constant deadlines in all their forms? You know it’s time to slow down the busy mind if you’re asking yourself, Do moments of calm really exist? The good news is that you have the power, in the very next minute, to reverse the over-stimulation, excessive activity, constant planning, and anxiety that keep your brain in overdrive. Read More