Honor Your Impulse

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Honor Your Impulse

When the impulse arises to do something, do you seize the moment and act on it? Or do you let it pass like a cloud moving in the sky likely not to return again? 

I've been thinking a lot lately about this concept. How often do you do things on a whim without much reason behind it? An idea arises, your brain says, "Oh, let's do that!" and without much thought or reason, you take a chance and just go with it. When you take the chance and go with it, it can be exhilarating and feel wild and freeing in the moment.

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Homesick for Travel

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Homesick for Travel

And believe it or not, I rarely get homesick when I'm away - at least not in the way that others do. Yes, I miss my friends and family, and Whole Foods (obviously), but I don't long to be back in the same way others do. I get more homesick for travel than I do for home.

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Listening to My Body

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Listening to My Body

I am one of those Early-Morning-Rising-Night-Owls...aka I go to bed late, and get up early (probably some hidden "fear of missing out" around that, but that's another story). It's become a pattern in my life, and lately it's been getting more and more difficult to manage. My body is telling me...REST! 

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Finding Beauty Beyond the Voice

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Finding Beauty Beyond the Voice

How often do you listen to the voice in your head? Like really, stop and listen. Are the things that it's saying kind, motivating, and confident? Or are they negative and degrading? I heard an interesting perspective on this in a recent yoga class. The instructor invited us to take the things the voice is saying and make it about someone else. Would you say to another person what the voice is telling you? You're Ugly. You can't do that. No one likes you. Chances are you wouldn't say those things to another person, so why do you say them to yourself? 

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Stand with Refugees

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Stand with Refugees

We are living in a time of a global refugee crisis. The number of refugees resettling to the US has diminished greatly under this new administration. And now more than ever, it is important that we stand together and speak up for the voiceless and vulnerable.

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Work to Travel

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Work to Travel

When is the last time you took a real vacation? Not a staycation (where you take time off and stay in your hometown) or drop your kids off at summer camp (although time away from them can be a vacation in itself), but a real vacation; one where you pack your bags, hop in the car for a cross-country road trip or grab your passport and jet-set across the world. 

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Wait for it, Wait for it...I'm No Different

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Wait for it, Wait for it...I'm No Different

This obsession and repetitive behavior with watching the same thing over and over again got me thinking. What is it about these movies (Moana, Frozen, etc) that draws children (and adults...you know you like it too) in and hooks them?

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