Category: Serene Living
Posts on the practice of a serene life — the small disciplines that hold steady when the world doesn’t, the choices that build calm over time, and the moments when contentment becomes a skill worth practicing.
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What Would You Do with a Second Chance?
What would you do with a second chance? Would you squander it? Would you change your life? Would you promise to start over and then lapse back into old habits? We think, most often, of second chances in life as being related to health or even near-death experiences, but they can just as easily be…
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When I Don’t Know How to Have a Champion
She’s been her own champion for so long that when someone truly steps up for her, she doesn’t know what to do. A raw essay on trust, vulnerability, and finally learning to let someone else fight on your behalf.
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Those Fighting Battles Unseen
There’s a beautiful piece of advice that says we should be kind and compassionate towards everyone because everyone we meet is fighting a secret war. As a supervisor and small business owner, I have found this to be true. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip…
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Why Manifesting a Lover Is Taking So Long
Explore why manifesting a lover may be delayed and uncover insights into the timing of the law of attraction. If you’re familiar with the law of attraction, you’re probably familiar with the idea of manifesting your lover, as well as riches, power, happiness, etc. Most law of attraction followers I’ve encountered are looking for one…
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Overshoot Your Goals. Always.
Walking the Camino de Santiago changed everything — and it started with a quarter mile. Here’s why you should always overshoot your goals, no matter how far the finish line seems.
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March 2016: March Full Moon in Libra and Eclipse Meditation
March Full Moon Details The March Full Moon, aka the Full Worm Moon, occurs in Libra on 23 March at 7:01 AM Central time here in the Florida Panhandle. The Eclipse–more details below–begins at 4:39 AM on 23 March, hits its maximum at 6:47 AM, and ends at 8:54 AM. As a penumbral lunar eclipse,…
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How the New Moon Solar Eclipse 8-9 March 2016 Might Affect You
The March 2016 solar eclipse falls at 18 Pisces — tent revival energy, conjunct Chiron for healing, with a Uranus-Pluto square stirring the chaos. What parallel events from 1980 and 1998 might be circling back for you?
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February 2016 Full Moon Meditation – Snow Moon in Virgo
A spontaneous Nate Ruess concert under the full Snow Moon became the perfect object lesson for this February 2016 Full Moon meditation in Virgo — on unexpected magic, seizing the moment, and what happens when you fling yourself off the train.
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When You Do Everything Right and Things Don’t Work Out
Hard work, loyalty, kindness — and still things don’t work out. Here’s an honest look at the hardest truth: doing everything right is no guarantee, but it’s still something to be proud of.
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Meditation Breakthrough on the “Shadow Farm”
Last year, a friend of mine named what I see in my meditations: the Shadow Farm. Overall, the Shadow Farm is a new thing to me. Or maybe it’s better to say that it’s a new awareness of it that has taken a huge leap in the last 6 months since I healed all those…
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5 Things I Learned from a Shaman in Less than an Hour
I’m used to high stress situations but by Thursday night, I was this close to banging my head against the wall, literally. I was at that point where I’d been working 12-15 days for so long…20 hours on one particular day…that I didn’t know how much longer I could keep it up, even though I…
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My Name Is Consequences
My name is Consequences. That’s my secret name. Known only to you. You gave it to me. But not at first. At first, you called me by the name Curiosity. You called me Fun. You called me Adventure and later Happiness, and often Love. You called me Deep. You called me Soul Mate. You called…
