Posts tagged #trust
84. All In

I often feel like a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to the topic of healthy eating. I talk the talk but lately I haven’t been walking the walk.

Being mindful of what I’m eating has been a focus of mine for many years. It was way back in 2003 when I had a sensitivity test that showed my slight intolerance to sugar and wheat. I would always get bloated. And at the time I was able to make the shift and I switched to everything gluten free and no longer used white sugar or white flour. Actually I still can’t bake with either.

Anyways that continued for many years, although...

83. Trading Expectation for Appreciation

There’s a quote I love and I’ve shared before by Tony Robbins that goes like this. “Trade your expectations for appreciation and your world changes instantly." Think about it for a moment while I tell you a little anecdote about my relationship. 

Deryk and I work opposite shifts. He’s a high school music teacher, so he works days, and I’m a server at a restaurant and work 4 nights a week, plus Sunday's. We both love what we do and there’s a lot of overlapping time together and we spend it together as happily as possible. 

But sometimes, I’ll get in my head about what I’m doing around the house compared to what he’s doing around the house…

82. Redefining Supermom

I recently hired a meal prep and delivery service to help me create healthy dinners for my family. It was an area that I’ve always struggled with, even though I love to cook.

I think part of the reason is because I’ve been in the restaurant industry for so long, I’ve never been used to planning nightly meals.  

And the other, of course,  because while I don’t ever say “I don’t have the time” the reality is, we do only have so many hours in a day.

81. Bring The Sexy Back

I had a revelation before starting this podcast that I should be sharing more personal stories. Like some pretty intimate stuff. So that you may relate AND come to know for certain that you’re not the only one having these experiences. Please know that you are not alone.

And I also realized that I need to be more intentional with my message. So I’ve been spending more time in preparation for my recordings starting this week. I think it’s important to be vulnerable. So thanks in advance for listening.  What I’m about to share isn’t easy...

 

80. The Little Things

Yesterday my partner Deryk and I took the girls and our dog Pax to the park. We were heading out for a family fishing adventure and we wanted to tire our puppy out before we left. And for some reason the girls were whining like crazy and even the dog was pulling more than usual, so it could’ve been a stressful walk. But I decided to shift the focus and started...

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79. Closet Feng Shui

About a year ago, a girlfriend of mine was over and we did a little tour of my closet. I was looking for a more efficient way to organize it, I share a walk-in closet with my partner Deryk, and she had recently created a video to help women sort through their clothes for a more organized space.  So she was just the friend to ask for help. She recommended using the space more efficiently by adding...

78. Sorted

I don’t know if you have the same feelings that I do about laundry, but for a very long time I felt overwhelmed by it.  Especially after having children where the amount of clothes almost tripled. Even after doing a podcast called Happiness Instead Of Overwhelm, where I shared that it’s our response to laundry that needs to change, or our response to anything that isn't working...and I did a really good job shifting the way I felt about doing laundry, but I still knew that having a laundry system that works for me and my family, would be my solution to finally feeling peace with the amount of clothes that pile up.

So for the most part I did change my response to laundry. I learned to let go of perfectly folded clothes and gosh back in the day I would overreact if it wasn’t folded straight away. Now it can sit for a few days and I’m okay with that!  It was when the piles of clothes kept getting washed and not folded and then not put away that I started to feel crazy!!  My partner Deryk used to think it was helpful to wash everything all at once, and I mean 4-5 loads at a time (sorry babe I don’t mean to throw you under the bus) and sometimes he even folded it all. But it wasn’t being put away. And not just when he washed our clothes, even when I did it.  And you know if you have kids that the clean clothes then end up on the floor and back in the laundry bin and get washed again, annoyingly and unnecessarily. And I don’t know why it was so hard to get the laundry put away. It seems so simple and really so silly.  And it only takes a few minutes. But it wasn't happening.  I think it was just the shear amount was so scary that it was actually easier to avoid it. But it certainly didn’t feel very peaceful. And especially with my love for Feng Shui and my knowledge that your home can impact your everyday life, I knew that it was necessary to strategize a better solution. 

Well now I feel like I have finally solved my laundry dilemma. I’ve created a system that works for me...and it has been consistently working for over a month now. And it’s so easy. I wash, fold and put away a load of laundry before I start the next load. I don’t have a day of the week I do it, I don’t aim to get it all done in a day, I just do one load from top to bottom. And it feels good! I feel accomplished. I feel a sense of control over the laundry.

The reality is that there will always be laundry to do. So get over that part and you’re well on your way to feeling the peace with laundry. 

 

77. The Power Of Positive Thought

I’m a big believer in the power of a positive mindset. Positive thoughts partnered with belief can manifest some really incredible things. I’ve seen some real magic happen in my life!

A positive mindset or positive thinking is more than just looking at life with a positive attitude. It’s about the positive self talk.  What are you telling yourself? There are so many thoughts that run through our heads every minute of the day and what we believe matters!

76. A Playful Approach

One of the things that I do when things feel uncertain in my life or I don’t feel in alignment or I feel things are hard and out of my control, is I do a card reading.

I have a deck of angel tarot cards by Doreen Virtue that I’ve been using for about 10 years now and I absolutely love them. They provide me with insight, guidance, and answers and the reading that I did this morning was especially helpful.

For the past few months I’ve been dealing with...

75. Happiness Is A Piece Of Cake

I was recently asked to share my thoughts on a book titled '365 Days of Happiness - Because happiness is a piece of cake! By Jacqueline Pirtle. And what a gem of a book!!  It’s recommended to keep next to your bed so that it starts off your morning with inspiration that nourishes you on all levels...mind, body, soul and consciousness.