Inspiration: Color

In the summer, I love to wear all white. White jeans, white dresses, white floaty tops, but lately these colorful looks have been making me swoon for all things brighter. I especially love the long maxi from Atlantic-Pacific. The girl can do no wrong!

I hope you all have a wonderful day. I am back to the regular schedule... for now!

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Maybe that's enough for now...

Happy Tuesday everyone! Sorry for the missed post yesterday. My mom is still in town and we have been filling our time with yoga, lunches, shopping and doing all of those extremely wonderful things that are special to the time mom's and daughter's get when it's just the two of them. Although, seeing my mom, talking about what I want to do with my life, showing her my life here has stirred up some interesting emotions. There's a very large part of me that would so badly like to share with her all the time. There's a part of me that wants to have a life closer to home, but there's another part of me that says, what if I stayed? What would my life be like? Here or there... I'm hoping one day, I'll just know what to do. Ohh the trials and tribulations of trying to figure out what to do with my life. Hopefully, I'll just be led because right now, all I'm sure about is that I am a writer, and I love yoga and want to share it with as many as I can. It has changed my life in so many ways, which I will save for another post...

I was reading an excerpt this morning and I thought I would share,"Trust and act on the guidance you have now. Some parts of our lives appear like a long, paved highway. We can see exactly where we want to go; we have a panoramic view. Other times, it may feel like we're driving in the dark only with one headlight on a winding road through fog. We can only see a few feet in front of the car. Don't worry if you can't see that far ahead, if only have a glimmer of light to guide your path. Slow down. Listen to your heart. Guidance will come. Trust what you hear. Do the small thing. Take one step. Go as far as you can see. Then go back to your heart, and you'll hear the next step. It may be a step of immediate action, or deliberate action. Sometimes you may have to quiet down, wait, and prepare yourself to hear what you're to do next."- Melody Beattie

Wishing you all a wonderful day! :)

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Have A Wonderful Weekend

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. My mom gets in town late this afternoon, which means the evening/weekend will probably be spent with lots wine and cheese... and talking about all the things you forget to talk about over the phone. I can't wait! 

Hope you all have a great one!

Weekender

I know it isn't the weekend quite yet, but my mom is coming to visit and in light of it, I thought I would share these sweet tips for making guests feel at home. I don't have a guest room, but if I did, I would be sure to add these things for a nice little touch when people come to stay. Is there anything you do special when guests come to visit? I always think fresh flowers in the house and in the bedrooms add for such a nice touch. I'm so excited to take her to my yoga studio, have lunch dates, see movies and go shopping. Nothing is better than mama coming to visit!

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I will, I will, I will

I stumbled across this yesterday and I absolutely love it. Such a nice reminder to believe in and get to know yourself. To learn that you deserve the best and to walk away when it isn't working... It's necessary to recognize what your heart needs and wants, as well as how it wants to share with others. It's important to know your body, it's wounds, it's scars and to take care of yourself.

Most of all it's important to be honest. With all of your heart, be honest.

Lots of love and light to all of you!

And thanks for stopping by.

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...Allowing...

Lately, I have been thinking about what it means to come from a place of "allowing." Allowing life to happen to us and being open to it, instead of feeling like we have to fight to get what we want. There are so many things that we want... a better job, a great relationship... when it comes down to it, all we can do is put ourselves in situations for good things to happen to us, but overall we really don't make anything happen. We "allow" it to happen. It's natural to want to control things and often we make decisions about things before they can even happen. For instance, when we meet someone and want to date them we automatically make it up in our minds that it should work out. I was talking to my brother the other day about relationships and sometimes we meet someone we like and we think, "oh I want to date them," without even really knowing them. The relationship is coming from a place of "getting," and in turn the relationship can become an unhealthy version of trying to please the other person, or a constant fight to show them how great you are. If we come from a sense of allowing, we aren't trying to make it happen, it just happens. We don't have to prove ourselves. We don't have to try to be something we might not be. There's no worry because when you allow, you're authentic. I was reading Baron Baptiste's book this morning, and he says, "When we control things that we are not meant to control, we are interfering with our natural success and potential... Trying to control all the instability and uncertainty is crazy-making and exhausting, and it creates disease. No matter what the circumstances happen to be, the way of the universe is for all things to move in the direction of healing, that is wholeness. The body wants to heal itself, our emotional body is seeking balance; however we need to get ourselves out of the way in order for our natural health to shine through. We need to totally lose control, and this scares the heaven out of us....
We are always fighting. We are fighting for the job, we're fighting for the relationship, we're fighting our partner or parents to be a certain way, we're fighting to maintain our fixed agendas. We're fighting to get people to understand us, we're fighting to get our body a certain way, we're fighting to make money, we're fighting to avoid failure, we're fighting for the next success, we're fighting to be what we think we should be. All this fighting hardens us, contracts us and makes us sick. Fighting has to do with getting. And a get state of mind is not a healthy state of mind. When we put out a get mentality, we'll be got. But when we relax, we receive."

I think sometimes the best things in life are the things we weren't planning on... from relationships, to jobs, to life's process in general. When we allow for the universe to take care of things, often things happen that we would have never planned on, but they end up being exactly what we need. For this Tuesday, allow life to happen. Open up to all the possibilities, because most of the time I think life has a plan, and it's better than anything we could have ever dreamed of ourselves.

If your interested Baron Baptiste teaches a power vinyasa flow and has a great book, 40 Days to Personal Revolution, I highly suggest checking it out! It has so many great insights. 

Berries & Greens

 

Good Morning all! Happy Monday! I'm excited for the new week. This morning I took a que from The Healthy Ginger for my breakfast smoothie. I used coconut water, banana, blueberries and spirulina. I think it's a great start for the day. Do you all have any favorite smoothie recipes? I typically like every kind... mangos, yogurt, agave and peaches is a great one for an afternoon treat. 

Wishing you all a great Monday!