A & B Sides! (Allow Both In)

We all have A and B sides (our “B” side shown above). 

We all have good times, but we also have the challenging times…we have the days the sun sits at our backs and days the glare limits all visioning (don’t ever think you’re alone in any feeling, suffering or dark night of the soul, because although not everyone is comfortable sharing about their challenges, it doesn’t mean they don’t have them, the human condition is both, no matter what kind of house you have, relationship you’re in or if you consider yourself a happy person or not…). 

We each host the range of all of life. That’s life’s entire point.
To live the full range. 

Are you living yours?

Are you allowing yourself to feel versus push down or swallow the discomfort pretending it’s not important to acknowledge? 

Allow it, as much as you allow joy. 

Because it’s the challenging times that can open us up to eventually also feel or create more joy!

Every single emotion is possible within love, and when we allow our “B” sides, we are very much loving ourselves and accepting all of our humanity. 

Resiliency comes from love, hope comes from love, health comes from love, creative ideas come from love and on it goes like that…

Allow all in and allow yourself into your life! 

A and B sides! Both welcome!

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

Mother Of Reinvention

When they’re one and learning to walk, without any words, they are saying to us, hey, Mama, what do *you* want to learn, too? What do you, in your own life, want to passionately take from a walk to a run?

When they’re 10 and they do their first big thing inside whatever activity, trip or friendship, by [their] example, they teach us to do ~ and keep doing ~ activities that empower us, too.

When they’re 18 and we’re helping them pack bags for college, they’re reminding us, yet again (maybe using many more words now) — so, what are you, sweet woman of my life, who has loved me so right, going to [continue] to get into now? What more or other [life] lessons will you pursue? What new curiosities or paths will you follow with verve? How will you continue to nurture your creative being so right?

All the while, at one, 10 or 18, all signs and figures of them are also wanting to say: …and aren’t you excited!?! Be/stay excited. about. *your*. life.

Doing this keeps you young, Mama! Keep living, learning, exploring and traveling to new heights.

The way for us *both* is up. 

Growing…

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

Ask THIS! (Two Q’s)

Sometimes we may feel like the guru, or wise one inside, is sleeping. Maybe we *are* a sleeping guru right now, but we ARE the gurus or mothers of our own reinvention, nonetheless. 

To wake up even more, ask: how can I bring a new element of the woman I am today to this experience? 

Once you become aware, you become accountable. 

Tap into your innate wisdom.

Take the long rest you need, but then tune in…

Follow your fullest soul expression, even when it’s inconvenient. 

Even when you’re tired.

Even when your young son is asking you not to leave on your business trip. 

Even, and especially, when it would be easier to {blank}…

Life only changes to the degree we do. 

Exhaust yourself in your growth.

Move from a sleeping guru to the awakened one…

Every day, you can be awakened, all over again. The next, most important question then is, will you wake up to answer?

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

How I Moved Grief (Surprise, Surprise)

Let me tell you how I have moved through grief:

I haven’t. ;))

I have carried it *alongside* the rest of what life offers (and I offer to it).

Because healing doesn’t mean that it (grief/missing them) goes away, it can simply mean that you keep living a wild and beautiful life *with* the grief and all her valuable lessons in a front pocket.

The only choice we need to make need not be to get over it or force ourselves to “feel better”, but to simply continue to live all other parts of life AS WELL. Live and love your joy AS WELL.

And, really, why would I want “grief” to go away when I can carry her valuable lessons to help me relate and communicate better? To feel for others deeply and to be intimately connected to the knowledge that today is truly all we have?

To me, keeping grief around, is asking these questions on the daily and it’s worked. Most of all, it’s worked to deepen relationships and to continually say yes to all forms of adventure.

Grief has made me a better life liver / giver.

And this is the duality of holding space for both, for the pain — *and* for the joy.

Honoring this and my sweet brother, Dino, today and always.

Let’s make happiness your business by creating your authentic brand…

To the best of the rest of your life!

Life is good.

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