Some days it’s easy to walk around with a proud chest and light heart and feel like I’ve come a long way and am really making a positive impact on the world. Other days that negative voice rears its head and makes me feel like I’m really not doing much at all. I used to view the world as this huge place, with far too many people and I would feel intimidated by it all. How could little me contribute to a place like this and make a difference? I don’t really know when my view of the world changed from this..but I’m so glad it did. I had this moment last night, I was sitting under the deep black sky and I suddenly realized how many stars had become visible during such a short period of time. It’s like I didn’t realize anything was changing until it was all said and done and the whole sky was lit up. Sitting under a sky full of stars used to make me feel small and scared, like …

Andrew and I got a puppy and it’s been such a FULL past few weeks. I think we both were expecting our lives to change but I don’t think either of us were quite expecting EVERYTHING to change. We are so in love with our new little addition and keep wondering what we did with all of our free time without him? Its been so fun to watch Andrew take care of little Nash and find our way together in our new schedule. At the end of the day, when he is all curled up in his crate asleep for the night, we just kind of look at each other and are like “oh hi, remember me?” It’s not just us anymore and that’s ok. I could watch Nash all day and learn so much! Seriously guys, I’m totally convinced dogs are mini gurus sent here to teach us humans a thing or two about living. I’ve been taking good notes the past few days. Here are a few things I think Nash would tell …

It’s Labor Day weekend and I honestly can’t believe its already September. Although I’d like to sit here and complain about summer being over and the winter months being right around the corner, I know better. I know that we always survive another winter and summer always comes back around, just as it should. This weekend we’re in Maryland at Deep Creek Lake. This place is as if it was frozen in time. You know the stillness and quiet in your house and around town when you wake up with the sun? Thats what it feels like here, except all day long. Its not until I’m in these kinds of places that I realize just how fast paced and chaotic our lives at home can be. It’s crazy to think how far away we’ve gotten from the simplicity of life. This morning I rolled out my mat on the dock. Occasionally boats would pass by and as inertia would have it, their wake would ripple over to the floating dock that I was practicing on …

Mornings for me are a sacred time. I love to wake up with the sun, before there is much movement in our apartment and in our town. Taking advantage of the idea that everything I need lies within. Thus, I begin my day with myself. Sometimes that means silence, meditation and deep breathing, other times it means movement and music. The only important thing to remember is to listen. Listen today, without any reference to past mornings, to what your body, mind and spirit needs to set you up for a day that will bear the signature of your soul. I wanted to share with you what my morning looked liked. Not in an attempt to make my morning ritual your morning ritual but to remind you that nothing, absolutely nothing, is more glorious than you being yourself. If you spend your morning listening for your truth, you will carry it with you all day. And you know whats really cool? It will unconsciously allow others to live in their truth. LEMON WATER Besides the multiple …

I wanted to share something that I’ve been thinking about lately: Arrival You see we all have this idea that we’re on the right path, the wrong path, the long, short, brutal, glorious path to the lives of our dreams. This path that supposedly leads to the arrival of our true selves, our highest truth, our ultimate purpose. You know that path I’m talking about, right? Well what if I told you (not because my path is any smoother than yours but because life has recently reminded me and so I’m passing this little reminder along) that we all, every single last one of us, have already arrived. The thing is, we go on through our lives playing this never-ending waiting game. Waiting for that perfect clearing in the meadow where the grass is really green, the sun in shining, the sky is blue and the birds are singing out. But lets be real, that place simply doesn’t exist in the future. That place is now. Woah. It’s kind of freeing right? To realize that …