Tag: brave

  • The Beautiful Becoming

    The Beautiful Becoming

    What if the challenges that feel like they’re breaking us are actually making us more beautiful? In our toughest moments, it’s hard to believe that pressure creates diamonds—that our struggles might be turning us into people more radiant, more resilient, and more authentically ourselves than we’ve ever been. Discover why science backs up what your…

  • “It’s amazing what love can do”

    “It’s amazing what love can do”

    Please enjoy this excerpt from my new book: You, Beautiful: Getting gorgeous from the inside out. Coming soon! No time to read? Listen here! When we say someone loves themselves, it’s not a compliment. Just the opposite. Loving yourself is being self-involved, selfish. It’s embarrassing to be described this way. “It’s amazing what love can…

  • Be kind to yourself

    Be kind to yourself

    Please enjoy this excerpt from my new book: You, Beautiful: Getting gorgeous from the inside out. Coming soon! Blossie’s Books started with journal entries, just pages of scribbles and reflections about my life: a young marriage, his infidelity, then divorce. Remarriage, infertility, miscarriages, then one day, two beautiful babies. Working for other people, then myself…

  • “Trust your gut — it never lies”

    “Trust your gut — it never lies”

    Sometimes, a choice seems perfect… He/she says all the right things. The job in Chicago has great benefits, good opportunities for advancement, and the company will pay for relocation. The apartment is close to work, spacious, and available for the right price. Still, for some reason, we hesitate. When we hesitate, there’s a reason There’s…

  • Courage to create

    Courage to create

    Please enjoy this excerpt from Braving It, one of my absolute favorite books. You gotta read the whole thing…there’s so much in here about living boldly and freely! This post is from the chapter: “Create your joy” “Creativity takes courage,” said master French painter Henri Matisse. It definitely does take courage to dance and sing…

  • “I am beautiful”

    “I am beautiful”

    Please enjoy this excerpt from my new book, You, Beautiful: Getting gorgeous from the inside out…Coming Soon! “I am beautiful.” What would it feel like to say this to yourself — and really mean it? Most of us would feel silly or even cringe looking in the mirror and saying these words. We’d think first,…

  • Only love

    Only love

    Please enjoy this excerpt from Braving It, one of my absolute favorite books. You gotta read the whole thing…there’s so much in here about living boldly and freely! This post is from the chapter: “Let only love in”   So what should make it through our souls’ screening process if our invisible fence is only supposed…

  • Just getting started

    Just getting started

    Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield The theme I have for you this month is “Just getting started” — and beautiful someone, we SO are, in every way. So what if today is the day the everything changes for you? What if today you realize that you…

  • Invite joy: Yes Changes Everything!

    Invite joy: Yes Changes Everything!

    Picture a buffet filled with freshly-made food: crisp veggies, grilled chicken and fish, salad, and whole grain bread, but also creamy pasta salads, saucy wings, fried everything, and buttery garlic bread. Self-serve! We get to spoon whatever we want onto our plates. We’re choosing what we want, what we say yes to. This is life…

  • YES changes everything!

    YES changes everything!

    Please enjoy this excerpt from the opening of Yes Changes Everything! There is this amazing story about the day John Lennon and Yoko Ono met: in the Fall of 1966, Yoko was in London for an art exhibition. Already an accomplished avant-garde artist, Yoko was displaying her works at the Indica Gallery as part of…