Follow your arrow. Trust your journey. It belongs to you and it’s beautiful. Each twist and turn has taught you something and brought you to the exact place you are standing.

Stand TALL, dear one. Own your story, own your journey and LOVE yourself through it.

YOU are the author of your story and you are the one who gets to choose where it will go. YOU are the one with authoritative knowledge over your life and YOU are the one you have to trust. Everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life, but not one of them knows you like YOU do. Not one of them knows what is best for you. Only you can truly claim that for yourself.

Your story is yours and yours alone. No one can take it from you and no one gets to have a claim upon it but you. You can choose where to place meaning. You can choose where you want the story go. It’s yours, dear one. Own it. Love it. Embrace it.

Trust yourself, dear one. Listen to the voice inside you. Observe what is happening around you. Notice the actions of others. LOVE yourself and uphold what you need! You are WORTH IT! Thank you @glennondoyle and @ladybcollective !

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. - Carl Jung

Oh how this statement resonates with me from my core. Not only have I lived out this statement — choosing to not be defined by my circumstances — but my research on resilience has proven this to be true.

My article for @gtwomanmagazine is now complete and it takes you directly to the heart of this topic — choosing what you will become.

I am grateful for the opportunity to choose. Every moment of every day. What do I choose for my life to become? One that births beauty from the ashes. Joy from the pain. And BIG dreams for every area of my life from relationships to career to health to finances. I choose abundance and I choose LOVE.

This choice is available to each of us today. The choice IS the turning point. Let’s walk with one another, arm in arm, and summon some courage — and make some powerful change. Let’s become change we wish to see (Ghandi).

Coffee in hand, a run in the books, multiple hugs from my kiddos and the scent of pumpkin spice candles warming the air and inviting in some serious #hygge. It’s time for a day of writing. More of my story is about to be shared. More of the beauty and less of the ashes. More of the love and less of the loss. Stay tuned. It will be available to the public soon in Grand Traverse Woman magazine!

My writing and speaking is a continual challenge for me. It requires me to summon strength and courage from the depths of my being...and to clarify where I have been and where I am going. And most importantly, each time I sit down to write, it invites me to be REAL. Being vulnerable is not easy because it opens the door to being misunderstood, judged or hurt. I have learned that it is also the path to living a full, vibrant, authentic life.  Brene Brown has found in her research that vulnerability and authenticity contribute to living #wholeheartedly. So, onward I must go because I will settle for nothing less than a wholehearted, abundant life.

Happy Sunday, dear one. May this day bring you opportunities to choose authenticity and wholeheartedness...and may you experience it’s transformative power. ❤️

Love yourself my friends. Love the positive things in your life. Love your dreams. Love your people. Love those in need. Love. Love. Love.

When things are seeking to pull you out of a place of love and you are feeling down or drained of the love inside of you, let it be a sign to bring more love in.

What do you love? What brings you joy? What centers you?

Where can you weave in some self care so that your high frequency can become ignited?

Today’s self care for me includes a run by the rugged, wild bay; reaching out to a friend and connecting about the joys and struggles in our lives and making time for inspiration with good friends. Keeping my vibe high and full of love is a personal necessity for me as a full time single mom, business owner and as someone who chooses daily to be an overcomer. It allows me to keep moving forward into goodness and abundance. For myself, my children, my tribe and my clients.

In this change of season, not only are some pieces of ourselves being shedded, but in the shedding an opportunity for new growth to be born exists within us. I invite you to cultivate new growth and allow it to fill in the places where dead branches have been pruned. Tend to it well...and watch it blossom.

Dear one, you are worthy of loving yourself well and you are worthy of an abundant life. May you choose it and may you become transformed by it.

A little healing balm from the voice studio tonight...

I spent a wonderful night recharging with my amazing friends @brickcorbett and just had some creative time in the voice studio hanging some succulent plants. I originally intended for these vases to hang from some pipes on the wall, but it just didn’t work out. This little nook above my piano has been begging for a little TLC and hanging some greenery is just the inspiration my singers need as they pour out their authentic selves from the cozy sheepskin rug that they stand and claim their authority on their personal sacred ground. Tonight, I stand on mine as I connect with my heart through song. All the natural feels and all the love in one place. I embrace it and I choose it.