​Strive for the freedom that lets you be yourself. Freedom that finds you listening to your inner voice. Freedom that never lets anyone tell you who you are or who you ought to be.

Freedom is knowing that no matter how good we are at something, or successful we may become, we are never better than another being.

Freedom is knowing that its okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them - the first time.

Freedom is knowing that you are your strongest competition. Outwork yourself, not others. 

Freedom is know that taking a couple steps back in order to move forward is alright. 

​Freedom is living your life without regrets. <3

As an adult, everything that is happening in your life is there because you want it to be that way...good and bad.

You hold THE power to change your mind anytime you want to. No one has control over you unless you give them that control. You can leave misery behind anytime you want to. 

The reason you won't though is because you live with fear. You've been led to believe that you can't have the life you want. You are stuck in your limiting beliefs.

That can all change in a heartbeat by you trusting in yourself. You hold the power. Always have. Always will. <3

Do all things with pure intentions. If it is in your heart to deceive, you will receive the same in return at some point.

​Knowing this keeps my heart and mind in the right place at all times. I do not need unnecessary karma in my life so I do all things with pure intentions. 

It's too bad that there are people in this world who don't recognize that the ugliness in their life is because of themselves. The negativity that comes to them is there because they brought it to themselves with the dark frequency that is sent out to the universe. The universe has to respond and will send back what you exude. 

Do good, get good. Do bad, get bad. It is the law of the universe and no one gets away unscathed. To ensure life is good for you, do all things with pure intentions and the universe will respond in kind. <3

There was no such thing as personal space when I grew up. In fact, if you were doing something that an adult thought was wrong they could reprimand you with whatever amount of force they wanted to use. If your parents found out, you would likely get more of the same when you got home.

It was hard to remain gentle in a time where you never knew where your next clout was coming from. But I did. It just didn't seem right to me that people could hurt people just because they wanted to. I vowed to never be like that.

To be successful at it I had to set a firm boundary around who I wanted to be as a person. I protected that boundary and became the adult that I wished I had around as a child. 

Don't let the woes of the world make you hard inside. Look for the good. There is always good. <3

There isn't a single person on this planet who you should trust more than you should trust yourself. My faith in humanity doesn't rest with humanity, it rests with myself. 

There will always be someone who you perceive to be ahead of you and there will always be someone who you perceive to be behind you. They are neither of these things. They are exactly where they are supposed to be in life, as are you. 

Why this is, isn't any concern of yours. How you manage your own life is your concern. There is strength in numbers, but the greatest strength you will ever have in life is your belief in yourself. That is the super power that everyone craves, but is too afraid to go after. 

Once you realize you can do it alone, you become a very powerful person. <3

When I think back over my 56 years, I am not surprised to see that I didn't confer very often with people on important decisions I had to make. I went ahead with what I decided to do knowing that I would own the consequences or the rewards.

It seemed odd to me to have people feel responsible for my decisions. I didn't want to feel responsible for someone's decisions so why would I try make someone own mine?

What I know for sure is that I have to be true to myself by trusting that I can discern and then make good decisions for my well-being. It seems to be working because I've come to trust my intuitive self over anyone else and am at peace with my life's choices.

We always know what we should be doing in any given situation. Trying to find others to blame should things not work out isn't healthy. Be true to yourself and yourself only. It's all that really matters anyway. <3

I have a personal values statement that through much soul searching has become my understanding of my purpose for being here.

"With faith comes the wisdom to have respect for yourself to be honest with yourself to be able to have empathy for others". 

My values, in order of importance, are:
Faith
Wisdom
Respect
Honesty
Empathy

When you begin to understand what you truly value, they become beacons that lead you to know why you are here. What do you value?

Anger is one of the strongest emotions that lets us know that we aren't okay. We aren't meant to hold negative feelings. It goes against our purpose for being here.

We are meant to feel love, joy, trust, peace, honesty and so much more. The negative things that try to keep us from feeling goodness are an oddity for our soul.

Do you every wonder why love feels so easy and hate feels so hard? Its because love is natural and hate is unnatural. You don't have to do anything to feel love, but you have to nurture hate. 

If you are someone who punishes yourself for other's mistakes, please stop doing that. Put your focus where it REALLY matters...on yourself. Find the love for yourself first and see what happens after that. <3

My heart goes out to those who force themselves to live in misery. I say forced because we cannot do anything to ourselves without our own permission. To harbour hard feelings is because you choose to harbour hard feelings. As easily as you hold on to them, you can also release them.

The reason my heart goes out to people who choose to live like this is because I know it is not a natural way of being. We are actually here to love, not hate. Understanding this removes a whole pile of junk from one's life that has been taking up the space reserved for love. 

If you have junk that is yours to own, deal with it. If you have junk that is not yours to own, get rid of it. Make space in your life for how you are genuinely supposed to feel towards your fellow beings. Make space for love. <3 

I, like most people, get huge anxiety while driving through fog where I can't see what's coming at me from all directions. For me its also the claustrophobic feeling of being in a small enclosed space with the unknowns.

Reflecting on that feeling and my feelings while walking my path of spiritual awakening, I can see the similarities. Discovering my soul wasn't done on a well lit path with signs pointing me in the right direction. Discovering my soul took faith and trust that whatever was on the other side of the "fog" was exactly where I was meant to be.

Learning to trust myself was the hardest step that I had to take. Unlearning a whole pile of stuff that wasn't mine to carry was grueling. Understanding that a force much powerful than me was guiding my steps meant I had to learn to have faith. All of this took time and the belief that I was worthy to be the being that I wanted to be. 

Go ahead, take that first shaky step of self-discovery. You will not regret it. <3