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Hi friends! Since we’re quickly approaching the spring—a time of new beginnings and rebirth—I decided to offer two life-changing products at 20% off, for a limited time only. I’m also offering all of my inspirational shirts at the same discount, because the uplifting messages can help you and the people around you feel and be your best as you work toward positive change. What’s on Offer? The sale includes: Tiny Buddha’s Mindfulness Kit My bestselling Recreate Your Life Story eCourse Four...

“You know how every once in a while you do something and the little voice inside says, ‘There. That’s it. That’s why you’re here’ …and you get a warm glow in your heart because you know it’s true? Do more of that.” ~Jacob Nordby Mornings running the busy roads with the echo of what this one or that one said, lying in my bed in the middle of sunlit days staring at a bamboo plant on my dresser, seasonal jobs, getting all dressed up for waste-of-time employment fairs, scribbling in...

“Sometimes the thing you’re most afraid of doing, is the very thing that will set you free.” ~Robert Tew I recovered from binge eating and bulimia by giving myself permission to binge. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? My decades-long weight and food war started in my teens, immediately after reading my first diet book, about Atkins, to be exact. I spent the following two decades trying to lose weight (only to keep gaining) and struggling with food. By my early thirties, I’d finally managed to...

“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.” ~Zadie Smith In the last years of my twenties, my life completely fell apart. I’d moved to Hollywood to become an actor, but after a few years in Tinsel Town things weren’t panning out the way I hoped. My crippling anxiety kept me from going on auditions, extreme insecurity led to binge eating nearly every night, and an inability to truly be myself translated to a flock of fair-weather friends. As the decade wound...

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom… You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” ~William Blake Many people discover spirituality through suffering. I found the path due to years of depression, anxiety, and psychosis. Part of the awakening process is identifying behaviors, traits, habits, or thoughts that don’t serve you. As your behavior changes, so does your diet. Not just what you eat, but everything you consume, including what you listen to, watch,...

“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” ~Brene Brown “What do you want to be when you grow up?” “It’s so nice to meet you. What do you do?” These are the questions we are asked our entire life. When we’re children, everyone always asks about the future. They excitedly ask, “What will you do?” The subtext of this questions is: “How...

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.” ⁠~David W. Augsburger The five love languages—a framework for how we give and receive affection created by psychologist Gary Chapman in 1992⁠—include quality time, gifts, acts of service, words of affirmation, and physical touch. As much as I love receiving all five demonstrations of care, I’ve always felt that my truest love language was missing from this list. My love language...

“I don’t always make the best choices, but today I choose compassion over intolerance, sympathy over hatred, and love over fear.” ~LJ Vanier It’s crazy to me now, to look back and realize how freaking hard I was on myself for decades. Had I ever talked to anyone else the way I talked to myself, it would surely have left me friendless and jobless, and I definitely would have been kicked out of school. Basically, I was a bully. Just to myself. If I said something awkward, I called myself...

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ~J.K. Rowling I’m no stranger to feeling hopeless and defeated. After many failed relationships, physical, sexual and emotional abuse my entire life, two bankruptcies, and the recent loss of my online business (October 2020), you could say I’ve been through enough to last two lifetimes. I’ll admit, there were many times I wanted it all to end. There were many days I just didn’t know how much more I could handle. My...

Going to weddings alone, with no plus-one to take along with you. Watching the couples dance, thinking, “Will there ever come a time when that is me on the dance floor?” Going on holidays alone, with no partner to share memories with. Listening to stories of friends’ weekends away, as a reminder of just how solitary your own weekends are. If you are anything like me, you might recognize these signs of single life. “Will my situation and circumstances ever change?” I’d think as I...