Breaking out of the “box”
Breaking out of the “box”….your mission should you choose to accept it....by Robin Jillian “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” -Ralph Waldo Emerson In the past, when I have been faced with a...
Living The Self-Examined Life: Are You Free To Be You? — 7 Truisms That Will Change The Way You Live Your Life
“The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living” — Socrates What does it look like to live a self-examined life? Is it true that the unexamined life is not worth living as per Socrates? For me, there is no doubt to the truth of that statement. In fact, a long time ago...
How to Create Happiness For a Lifetime… 5 Essential Lessons to Free Yourself From Your Self-Imposed Bondage
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ~ Aristotle LESSON #1: HAPPINESS IS NOT A CHOICE… Contrary to what many on the spiritual path may believe, this idea is spiritual rhetoric. Those of you that are under the...
Faith in Life… Is There Any Other Choice?
"Faith is realization itself. It harbors no destructive element, as does belief. Belief can be swayed or destroyed by contrary evidence and doubt; but faith is ever secure, because it is direct perception of truth. Once the world was believed to be flat, but with the...
Unreasonable Expectations… Who Do You Want Me To Be?
“I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship…sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane.” - Unknown author We all deeply desire to be loved, but what do we believe we have to give up to receive the kind of love we want? What expectations are...
I am who I am… but am I okay with who I am?
"When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible” —Tina Lifford When experiencing really difficult times in life, when you have chosen to “toss” away your old beliefs, and experience a new story…creating a new life, choosing...
Commitment… What Does it Look Like?
“Everything in the Universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” - Rumi I was in a loving marriage for almost 30 years. When I awakened to the reality that the relationship no longer supported my growth and personal evolution, I knew that in order to stay in...
Is There Such a Thing as a Failed Relationship?
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Gustav Jung You meet someone, it feels amazing. The energy is flowing, you feel seen and appreciated. You share many of the same...
Are you free to be the grandest version of you?
“There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.” ― Neale Donald Walsch We have been erroneously conditioned to believe that in order to be a “good” person, we must place our own needs aside for the...
Is It Too Good to Be True? You May Be Surprised at Your Answer
“The old adage, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ isn’t always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities”. Richard Carlson I couldn’t...
Breaking out of the “box”
Breaking out of the “box”….your mission should you choose to accept it....by Robin Jillian “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” -Ralph Waldo Emerson In the past, when I have been faced with a...
Living The Self-Examined Life: Are You Free To Be You? — 7 Truisms That Will Change The Way You Live Your Life
“The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living” — Socrates What does it look like to live a self-examined life? Is it true that the unexamined life is not worth living as per Socrates? For me, there is no doubt to the truth of that statement. In fact, a long time ago...
How to Create Happiness For a Lifetime… 5 Essential Lessons to Free Yourself From Your Self-Imposed Bondage
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ~ Aristotle LESSON #1: HAPPINESS IS NOT A CHOICE… Contrary to what many on the spiritual path may believe, this idea is spiritual rhetoric. Those of you that are under the...
Faith in Life… Is There Any Other Choice?
"Faith is realization itself. It harbors no destructive element, as does belief. Belief can be swayed or destroyed by contrary evidence and doubt; but faith is ever secure, because it is direct perception of truth. Once the world was believed to be flat, but with the...
Unreasonable Expectations… Who Do You Want Me To Be?
“I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship…sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane.” - Unknown author We all deeply desire to be loved, but what do we believe we have to give up to receive the kind of love we want? What expectations are...
I am who I am… but am I okay with who I am?
"When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible” —Tina Lifford When experiencing really difficult times in life, when you have chosen to “toss” away your old beliefs, and experience a new story…creating a new life, choosing...
Commitment… What Does it Look Like?
“Everything in the Universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” - Rumi I was in a loving marriage for almost 30 years. When I awakened to the reality that the relationship no longer supported my growth and personal evolution, I knew that in order to stay in...
Is There Such a Thing as a Failed Relationship?
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Gustav Jung You meet someone, it feels amazing. The energy is flowing, you feel seen and appreciated. You share many of the same...
Are you free to be the grandest version of you?
“There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.” ― Neale Donald Walsch We have been erroneously conditioned to believe that in order to be a “good” person, we must place our own needs aside for the...
Is It Too Good to Be True? You May Be Surprised at Your Answer
“The old adage, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ isn’t always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities”. Richard Carlson I couldn’t...
Surrendering to the “What Is” of Life
When your soul speaks...reinvent yourself and become a more powerful you. “Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace....
To Let Go and Forgive is Divine
The More you Know Yourself, The More you Forgive Yourself – Confucious.
I left a 30-year marriage, sold my business of 24 years, and moved across the country in answer to a soul calling to expand and become a more enlightened “me”. All I had known was gone, and much of what I believed to be…
Courage…may not be what you think
“Are you feeling a bit shaken, maybe stirred, maybe fearful and doubtful, and completely and utterly, wildly terrified? Good. Keep going” -Victoria Erickson What is courage…. and how does courage show itself? Is courage the fireman who pulls the baby out of a...
Co-dependent, Independent or Interdependent… you choose
“If you want to meet the love of your life, look in the mirror” Byron Katie As I continue to fully engage in the journey I have chosen, I question what it means to be on my own. I am single again after 30 years in a marriage that felt emotionally destructive as I...
Falling in love, is it worth the pain of illusions lost?
“Don’t find love, let love find you. That’s why it’s called Falling in Love, because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just fall.” Unknown When we are falling in love with someone, it is so amazingly wonderful…we just want to stay in that feeling of “heaven”...
Conscious relationships, are you willing?
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Carl Jung What I am...
Time Heals All Wounds, or does it?
“I have learned that love, not time, heals all wounds” Andy Rooney The other day, I was speaking with a friend, and sharing that there had been events in the past that had caused me incredible pain and trauma….leaving me with feelings of shame, guilt, inadequacy,...
Authentic Freedom, Can You Commit to Yourself?
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose, and commit myself to, what is best for me” Paulo Coehlo When I made the decision to listen to the calling of my soul, …free my heart …live a new life… develop new wings to soar… rise from the ashes...
It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over….. what about your Soul Contracts?
“Don’t hold on to someone who’s leaving, otherwise you won’t meet the one who’s coming”…Carl Jung To understand the depth and purpose of our intimate relationships requires determination and a passionate desire to grow beyond what is comfortable. You must have...
Excavating Your Authentic Self…You Are Not Who You Think You Are
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche Have you ever...
Fear… Breakdown or Breakthrough?
"Your limits are liars. Your fears are thieves." Robin Sharma What I noticed during my journey of awakening is the tremendous suffering that came with what seemed like constant fear and anxiety. Fear was running through me like an electric current, I felt paralyzed....
When Gratitude is Mistaken for Love…
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that...
Can You Let Go of Love? Love transformed can never be destroyed…
"Why do I love you? I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I'm with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself but for what you are making of me. I love you for ignoring the possibilities of the fool in me, and for accepting the...
Denial, Positive Thinking or Something Else?
“The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad...
It’s Love’s Illusions I Recall…. and I Do Know Love After All
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so...
Are you who you say you are?
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung I love the expression “you teach what you most need to learn.” I believe this is so true and a necessary part of embodying wisdom for ourselves. I invite you to take a closer look at the...
Life After Pain… Rising Into a New You
“Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.” — Debbie Ford Today is Easter and not...
How Deep is Your Dark?
“Playing to win comes out of inspiration, but playing not to lose comes out of desperation” — Harkamal Preet Pal Singh Ubhi In the past when I would hear the word “desperation” spoken as in “he is desperate”, it made me want to run for the hills. I conjured up an...
Are You Walking Your Talk?
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung Do you walk your talk? Is your behavior consistent with what you are “teaching?” I love the expression “you teach what you most need to learn,” but let’s take a closer look at the implications...
Instincts… Are you listening?
“You can love her with everything you have, but she still won’t belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with every step, but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts don’t settle between walls and their instinct is...
Change Your Vision, Follow Your Heart
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain What does it feel like to know in your heart and soul that you have a great purpose to fulfill? What does that feel like to you, and are you tuned in enough to...
How Bright is Your Light?
“If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle I have always been the kind of person who wants to see the best in everyone. If you tune in to people with your heart when you meet...
The Dark Night of the Soul
“The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.“ - Joseph Campbell You sense the calling to recreate yourself anew, to become a grander version of yourself. You...
What happens when our stories no longer serve us?
“Awakening means you’ve come home to yourself, that consciousness shifted back to its original nature.” - Maria Erving As children, we are heavily conditioned by our environment. We need tremendous love and acceptance from our parents in order to be able to develop a...
What is Courage?
“It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” ― Marianne Williamson Have you ever wondered what true courage means? I have… a lot… especially as I...
We don’t need no thought control….parents leave your kids alone
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson I was walking on the beach the other day, which I often get to do living in Southern California. It was such a lovely day with the sun...
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?
"People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty — even when it limits them." — Robin Sharma Inspired by my own personal journey to end my marriage of 30 yrs…. In my soon to be released book “Hugging...
Breaking Out of the Box — Your mission should you choose to accept it
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” -Ralph Waldo Emerson In the past, when I have been faced with a challenging situation, i.e. giving a group presentation for work, I would often be fearful...
Is There Such A Thing As a Mistake
"There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error” -Robin Sharma Have you ever thought about what constitutes a mistake? Is there such a thing as a mistake? We have often heard the expression “we are human and we make mistakes”, but is this...
When It Is Time to Fly, There Is No Choice
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." — C.G. Jung What happens...
Life is a Journey… Beautiful or Painful It’s Up To You
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” William Shakespeare I am sure you have heard the expression “life is a journey”. It sounds so wonderful, like a fun and exciting adventure waiting for you at every moment. When you have an expansive view,...
Who Are You When You Are Not Being Yourself?
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man”. - William Shakespeare How are you not being truly yourself? I have a friend. He was a Monk for 30 years. He taught me tools to “be” fully present in the...
Trust and Faith…Do You Have Any?
“Faith…When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
– Patrick Overton
Have you noticed that the words trust and faith are often spoken especially when…
Excavating Our Authentic Self
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." – Friedrich Nietzsche Have you ever...