Billie Holiday soulfully sings, “You don’t know what love is… Until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues… Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose… You don’t know what love is.” Clearly, she’s not the only one portraying love as something that hurts; most of the songs and stories and movies out there convey a very similar message.…
Category: Empowerment
Do You Know What Holds You Back?
I don’t know about you, but since the beginning of the year I’ve been feeling like a very strong energy has pulled a lot of us in almost the opposite direction we expected to go. Some had to push harder to pull through health, financial and relationship issues, while others had to completely redirect their lives, or at least find…
5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Lose Hope Now
When we look around and see what’s going on in the world, and how much suffering and misery most of the population is going through, we wonder if anything is really changing. Are we really moving forward or it is just a collective illusion we want to believe in? And yet, you shouldn’t lose hope. It’s easy to feel hopeless…
Do You Know What Makes You Happy?
We all want to be happy. Yet my idea of happiness may be different from yours, and yours is probably unlike someone else’s. Although it is supposed to be the state of mind that we all desire, if you asked a politician, a scientist, a psychologist, a young kid, and an enlightened saint what happiness is, you’d get completely different…
Are You In Love With Your Life?
Whenever I ask people if they are in love with their life, more often than not I get a look of hesitation that tells me that they don’t ask themselves this question much. They have to stop and ponder… I understand. Life keeps us busy and focused on what we do and the people we interact with—our jobs or businesses,…
Do You Know The Purpose of Your Relationships?
Did you know that relationships are eternal? They reflect the energetic ties and karma to be played out incarnation after incarnation, as we carry them along on our soul journey. In truth, we’ve been meeting pretty much the same souls over and over, trying to heal our wounds and learning to relate with love and compassion for one another, or…
I Am Too Old For This!
Do you ever hear yourself saying or thinking this? I know I do and have to remind myself that each life phase has its pros and cons. After all, if I had known 30 years ago what I know now, I would have saved myself so much grief! I know, I know, life is a process… We tend to forget…