Tag: challenge

  • 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,…

  • We teach people how to treat us

    We teach people how to treat us

    Enjoy this excerpt from the Unstoppable Confidence Booknip. Then click here to download your copy today!    It’s true. We really do. Through our actions, especially what we choose to overlook or confront, we teach people how they are allowed treat us. When we let them talk to us a certain way or when we look…

  • 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…

  • Let’s see what we think

    Let’s see what we think

    Please enjoy this excerpt from the Introduction to The Becoming Journal! There’s something really wonderful about putting our thoughts on paper where we can see them. Writing slows us down and gives us time to think. Intuition and random thoughts start joining into vivid pictures until all of a sudden, we see new connections, aha’s!,…

  • The promise of Braving It

    The promise of Braving It

      Please enjoy this excerpt from the Introduction of my newest book: Braving It!   Imagine the happy/healthy/sane feeling that comes from living true to our unique goals, talents, and passions. Picture…

  • Let’s misbehave today

    Let’s misbehave today

    Please enjoy this excerpt of Braving It: The gentle art of living boldly …coming this month! It’s always amazing to hear about people who brave their lives naturally, effortlessly. I can’t help but wonder what combination of biology and experiences enables them to be true to themselves, regardless of who they’re with or the situation…

  • Famous no’s in history

    Famous no’s in history

    Beautiful someone, “no” can change the world. In fact, sometimes it’s the only thing that does.   Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, 42-year-old Rosa Parks stepped onto a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on the way home from a long day of work. She paid her fare and took a seat. Contrary to many accounts…

  • Permission to be ourselves

    Permission to be ourselves

    Please enjoy this excerpt of Braving It: The gentle art of living boldly …coming in June!   At the time the idea for Braving It was taking shape in my mind, fueled (as all Blossie’s books are in one way or another J) by my own heartfelt experiences and those of the people I love,…