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What is LOVE??  What does it truly mean to love to someone? What exactly does it mean to love yourself?  Love is one of the most powerful emotions that we experience in our lives.   And yet it seems that we are always searching for it.  Why are we searching though, when love lives within us?  Love can bring us a tremendous amount of joy and happiness, as well as pain.  This is where things get confusing.  Love is not supposed to hurt or feel negative in any way.    So then why does it hurt sometimes?  When we love someone, it seems that they have a power over us.  So when that someone that we love does something that does not line up with our expectations, we feel hurt, we feel let down.  We get angry.  But real love does not really feel this way.  This is something that I’ve had to learn and re-learn many times over.  Love is not conditional.  Love is everlasting.  It just is.  Truly loving is not neediness or the allowing of others to violate us in any way......... Read more

I wanted to tell you today that you are perfect, whole and complete.  Just as you are.  Even as you grow each day, you are perfection now.  People are always there to criticize us and find fault in the things that we do, so why do we do it to ourselves too?  Actually, we can be harder on ourselves than anyone else, trust me, I know from experience! J  Today I want to tell you that I love you and I want you to say that to yourself too.  Be your best YOU, even if for just a moment.  Do not be afraid to let your light shine.  Do not be afraid of change or to grow.  We are growth seeking beings and it is our nature to seek more.  But love yourself as you are right now.  Today, I want you to say to yourself, “I LOVE YOU”!!   I want to share with you today, one of my most favorite quotes ever.  It’s by Marianne Williamson in her book “A Return to Love” and has become like a mantra in my life.  ........ Read more