For many of us, last year was a kind of “dress rehearsal.” We got to experience a taste of what life could be like if we chose to fully and wholeheartedly follow our hearts. Perhaps, it was a relationship you’ve been wanting to manifest for a while. Or maybe it was your ideal job, lifestyle, […]

Heart Start 2020 is my year-end reflection and planning guide to help you review and consciously complete this year and set a powerful new foundation to manifest your visions and goals in 2020. The idea is to set aside some quiet time for reflection so that you can tap into your heart-based power to start […]

A few years ago I was facing a big, life-changing decision. After completing my studies and ending a three-year commitment to volunteer at a non-profit organization in South Africa, I needed to decide what to do next. I had complete freedom to do anything I wanted. I could leave South Africa, return to Los Angeles, go […]

Our lives are a series of neverending journeys of quest after quest. Deep within our hearts, we all seek experiences that will help us grow, expand, and become more of our true selves. Our journeys shape our characters, our characters, our choices, and our choices, our destiny. We go on all kinds of journeys… Physical […]

Grief: the deep and complicated process we all go through each time we lose a person, place, condition, or thing that we cherish, value, or love. It’s an unavoidable part of the human condition designed to help us become more loving, kind, and compassionate towards ourselves and others. Having gone through so many cycles of […]

There’s a magic that happens when you start facing the fear of being yourself and begin to fully and unconditionally accept yourself as you truly are. There’s a lightness you feel inside when you give yourself permission to ‘unpack’ your heart and acknowledge to yourself and others your own inauthenticities, mistakes, flaws, dualities, brokenness, and […]

For a rose bush to achieve its highest potential of beauty, fragrance, and growth, a good gardener knows that it must be carefully trimmed. Having a clear vision of what a beautiful bush looks like, the gardener prunes the rose bush when: 1) the plant produces more flower buds than it can sustain, 2) parts […]

THE PARADOX OF LOVE: The more you try to get others to love you, the more unloved you feel. The harder you try to communicate a loving and likable image of yourself so that other people won’t find out how unloved and unworthy you really feel, the more unworthy and unloved you feel inside. The […]