Concrete to Grass: How Green Spaces Unlock Our Inner Magic
When did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of parks and other areas of green spaces?
I’ve been asked a lot lately: what are my dreams? What is it I want to experience?
So many things ping pong around in my head.
I just read this headline and remembered one I’ve held for a long while:
As developers pave over Charlotte, a local farm gets $1.4M boost to grow dramatically
It reminded me of a desire: to be able to buy LAND with no buildings on it to save it from being paved over. We need the trees. We need empty expansive spaces to run and feel delight and freedom. We just need to not have more buildings with climate controlled environments and no sunshine.
Whenever I take my grandson outside, especially to a park, he runs and runs and runs. Sometimes he’ll turn back and wait for me to catch up — and when I’m close enough, he starts up again.
And I find myself wondering: when did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of these spaces? WHY do we have to...
Unlocking Your Quintessential Self: The Path to Authentic Power
Mary Jane.
Not the shoes, but the woman who owned the small business where I’d been hired to help in an assistant role.
Mary Jane liked things done one way, and one way only.
Her way or it was wrong.
Never mind that the result is the same. She was a sock, shoe, sock, shoe sort of person. Those that are sock, sock, shoe, shoe — well, that’s just wrong.
The entire conference table was set up for a project. She showed me how to do it (her way).
It didn’t work in my brain; in fact, I found it illogical.
So I did it my way.
As a micro manager, she came in to hover… and I got busted! I had to switch back to her way.
But then I switched back.
This environment was oppressive.
It’s an environment I did not and do not thrive in.
This experience was at a time in my life when I was pushing my way out of my cocoon — and Mary Jane kept shoving me back in to cook a bit longer to her liking. Trouble was I was ready to emerge… And I was finding...
Your Life As A Puzzle: Clarity Through Redo
1000 pieces.
I swore there were pieces missing.
Then, as I neared completion, I was sure there were TOO MANY pieces.
How crazy is that?!
The sneaky puzzle people had two areas where the pieces were the same shape, and you could tell the piece needed to be “there” but it just was not working.
Until I changed the way I looked at it.
And that’s when I saw their sneakiness.
I took that area apart and redid it. And everything fit.
Perfectly.
I had to do that in two areas.
And before I knew it, the puzzle was done.
We are never “done.” It’ll never happen. If we are breathing and our heart is beating, we are not done.
Sometimes, though, we need to pull everything apart and have a redo.
What might that look like?
That relationship that feels so comfortable but under the surface you have anxiety around it.
The dread on Sundays knowing you have to go to your job the next day.
That project you’re working on, for whatever reason, you resist and put off....
An Embodied Jewish Priestess is a Quintessential Woman
I met a Quintessential Woman last week. She is an embodied Jewish Priestess who exudes joy, grace, mirth. She lives and breathes her faith without pretentiousness. Her faith is her life; her life is her faith. She carries out her best practices without any show or need for attention. In fact, if I didn’t know what she was doing softly in the background, it would not be obvious she was doing anything. I believe most people didn’t even notice her actions.
I even heard her daughter ask her ‘mama, would you bless me?”
I didn’t even have time to ask her what that meant? Is it a daily practice for a Jewish Mama Priestess to bless her children?
How utterly delightful. And holy.
The world needs more women like this.
There were other women there who were the exact opposite — forcing their faith on the group as a whole. At the very least it was inappropriate. At the most …. well, I have lots of...
Momentum Begins Now Not Later
Many of us slide through the month of December. It’s easy to do that, thinking “I’ll start next year.”
The thing is if we plan a bit, dream a bit more and start now we hit January 1 with a bit of momentum.
Momentum at the beginning of the year will help you reach your desires sooner.
Are you ready?
What went well this year?
What did you accomplish that you are super proud of?
Where did you slack and now regret?
What gaps did you expose that you need to fill?
What are you fed up with that you are resolved to remedy in 2023?
On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being excellent, rate:
Your health:
Your wealth
Your family life
Your relationship with yourself
Your relationship with Spirit
Your fitness
Your happiness
Rate yourself on any thing I may have missed but you feel is important
If you’re ready to work with someone who can help collapse the time it takes to achieve your goals, I’m ready if you are. From a more premium choice of a Quintessential VIP...
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵
I’m sure you’ve heard that expression.
Some breakdowns are massive. Obvious. Ridiculously painful. And usually feel never-ending.
Some, however, are almost unrecognizable. If we are not tuned in, in fact, we may miss it altogether and “just” chalk it up to a bad day.
Some breakdowns feel like you’re standing in the middle of the room looking at your life as it is piled around you — a heap of junk that’s all broken apart and ugly.
Some breakdowns feel like ugh, I am too lazy to give a damn about anything today.
Whichever breakdown it is, it can be comforting to know your breakthrough is soooo close! You can’t push, pull, prod your way there faster. You have to go through the tunnel first.
Did you know that as the butterfly struggles to break free from the cocoon, that if you helped and opened it up just a bit for her, she would die? Her struggle is part of her breakthrough.
The same holds true for you.
Someone can lovingly...
Fire Within - The Quintessential Woman
