What is your next right step? This little statement has been profound in my own life. We don’t need to know the end result. We don’t have to see twenty steps into the future. We can just put one foot in front of the other and self-lovingly walk the path one next right step at a time.

May you allow all of the parts of yourself to be awakened today. May you embrace the full range of your emotions.

As my favorite researcher and author on the topics of shame, resilience and wholehearted living says, “we can’t selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light,” Brene Brown.

May you choose to be REAL on this beautiful Halloween morning. And may you love each and every piece of yourself as you choose to embrace vulnerability.

Do not mess with a woman who is slaying a path of light and love.

I love seeing this #rebelgirl own who she is and what she’s about. She’s got it. And so do you.

She scored her first basket in a game last night. She’s loving her role in the Nutracker @danceartsacademytc .  She was student of the month at school. AND she has a heart as wide as the ocean. This sweet young woman has walked out a road, friends. And she is thriving.

I couldn’t be more proud of her resilience and strength. Life has dealt her lemons and she has made lemonade. Go Avery! Way to believe in yourself and way to claim love.

Love yourself, dear one. You’re worth it.

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).