Awaken Your Truth

Deciding to go within and discover the truth of who we are requires us to move out of the head and into the heart. When we only live in the head we are living from a place of constantly doing. We make lists of what we should do. When that list is complete we are…

If we ever want to really experience the truth of who we really are, we must embrace our wholeness. This is a very complex journey, but nevertheless it is a journey worth taking. For when we experience our internal wholeness we experience the freedom and joy that we are all so desperately seeking externally. The…

How are you showing up in your life? This is a big question to ask ourselves. When we have the willingness and the courage to ask ourselves this powerful question, we can really begin to see the truth of what’s happening within us. We are all given the gift of choice and it’s up to…

    Most of us believe that freedom has everything to do with our external reality. We buy into the “When I have”  illusion. When I have more money, more time, a new job, the vacation, etc. then I will feel free. This illusion will spin us in circles leaving us feeling exhausted and frustrated.…

  How do we know when we are traveling on the road of our truth? One good clue is that we will find ourselves on the road less traveled. What does this really mean? It’s the road that your logical mind would never choose. It’s the road that only the soul can choose simply because…

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful ways to release all that is holding us back from being present to who we really are. It is also the one thing that we most resist because our mind will tell us that if we forgive we will make the other person right for what we perceived…

We all have heard that saying “The truth will set you free” Well if this is so true, then why do we work so hard to avoid it? The following are 10 reasons why we may resist knowing, feeling, seeing and hearing the deeper truth within us. Avoiding the truth “feels” easier than facing it…

How do you know when you have held on long enough and letting go is the only option that remains? Thinking about the act of letting go can hurt so deeply. It can feel like it is ripping you open and tearing your heart into billions of pieces. You feel as if you can’t catch…

So often I hear people say, “I just want to be happy.” Happiness is not something that we can want because it is already who we are. This simple Buddha story explains this idea so well and yet we still feel as if happiness is something that lives outside of us. The “I” is our…

“My greatest regret is that I didn’t learn how to tell the truth sooner. I spent a lot of my life looking into people’s faces for what they wanted the answers to be. I didn’t look into myself for the answers. For years, I didn’t say the truth to people because I didn’t want them…

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