Lessons from a Recovering Doormat

Today is Day 3 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. You can feel better by changing the temperature of things you use. In the summer, refrigerate body lotion or eye gel when you’re tired and get a kick…

Today is Day 3 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. When you don’t accept yourself, it’s hard to love yourself. Seeing yourself through the eyes of self-love helps you accept yourself as you are. Body imag is often…

Today is Day 2 of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™ Someone had to drag me to a mirror and make me really look at myself to notice that I have pretty green eyes—not hazel—green. I didn’t know it,…

    Today is Day 1of my 31 Days of Self-Love posts to celebrate Self-Love Month with suggestions for jump-starting your own self-love and joining The Self-Love Movement™. It’s a new year!! It’s also the start of Self-Love Month! If you haven’t signed the 31 Days of Self-Love Commitment pledge to start the new year…

Every decision you have made, for better or worse, has led to who you are today, hopefully a person who is wiser, stronger and more evolved than yesterday. ??It’s easy to feel ashamed of things you did years ago. We all make mistakes and foolish choices. Or we hurt folks with our actions, even if…

Soon New Years’ resolutions will begin to be made. It can be fun to declare all of your wishes for the New Year. I used to enjoy the thrill of making make New Years resolutions every December. It was fun to declare all the things I wanted once the calendar changed. Sometimes my friends and…

At the end of every year, I clean and get rid of everything I can to make room for more good stuff. The first time I did it, was hard. As I looked at all my stuff, how could I know what to get rid of? I could give things I didn’t need to people…

Sadly, there are many victims of abuse. And even if it stops, they’re is still victims unless they find a way to heal, which can be hard. Many of my clients who come to me for help in learning to love themselves or to feel empowered are unable to do it because of their memories…

This is post 265 in my series on the Law of Attraction in Action. You CAN use your power to manifest your desires.. I do it every day! Read all the posts in my Law of Attraction in Action Series to see how. “Tis the season to be jolly,” or so the saying goes. Yet…

This is a time of gift giving. I hear people stressing out over what to get for special people in their lives. And many end up working extra hours or a second job to make more money while their loved ones wish for time with them. A more special gift can be you being present…

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