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The most important relationship you have in the world is the one you have with yourself; everything and everyone is a direct reflection of the quality of that relationship. Esperanza

“What You Know Now”

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Thanks to Dr. Brenée Brown’s blog, I have just been introduced to author Katherine Center and to this wonderful reading of her essay “What You Know Now.” A simple question from her eight-year-old daughter—What’s the difference between fashion and style?—sparked Katherine’s poignant reflections on life, love, being yourself, and gratitude. Some memorable quotes from the [...]

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Introducing Connection Spotlight

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I’ve become a connection curator Since the early days of Heartspoken.com, when I first realized that connection was calling me to plumb its depths, I have become a connection curator: someone who studies, explores, collects, organizes, and interprets what they learn about connection. I see connection everywhere now, much the way you start seeing others [...]

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Accept a Gushing Waterfall of Love!

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Hannah Brencher is, I believe, one of the most talented writers living today. She pierces my heart with words she conjures up and weaves together in potent combinations. To call these combinations of words just sentences is like calling Stonehenge just an interesting arrangement of big rocks. Perhaps it was because I needed to hear [...]

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Birthdays are different when you’re face-to-face with your own mortality

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My beautiful cousin, Carlyle Herbert Dorroh, mother of three young children, was diagnosed in August, 2012, with advanced colon cancer. She has chosen to fight with an aggressive chemo regimen and a risky, but potentially effective, surgical procedure. She wrote this piece entitled “Birthdays” last fall and is letting me share it. It speaks powerfully to [...]

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God-Hugs and the Beautiful People Who Deliver Them

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God-hugs are those wonderful moments of grace, insight, wisdom, or love that come to you out of the blue at exactly the moment you need them most. Sometimes it’s a phone call, or perhaps a note or letter. More often than not, it’s something you hear or read or see. It can be a direct [...]

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Affirmations: A Love Letter to Self

From Danielle LaPorte and Cosmic Radio, with my gratitude for making it shareable, comes this audio tool for beautiful self-talk and affirmation. Use it regularly or at least whenever you begin to doubt yourself and your worth. You will hear the lovely voices of: Ann Moller, Carrie Anne Moss, Chela Davison, Diane Chung, Danielle Veith, [...]

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5 Skills Every Artist Needs

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Welcome to guest blogger and amazing abstract painter Gwen Fox. Gwen and I took a writing class together recently, and I’ve followed her blog and newsletter ever since. When I read this piece in her newsletter, I asked if I could share it, because I have come to believe we are all artists, whether we [...]

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Thanksgiving in Action

Click the thumbs up icon on any of these you agree with. What are you thankful for today? Can you think of a way to turn that thanksgiving into action?

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Thinking Versus Feeling!

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Welcome to guest blogger and Connection Messenger Dr. Niamh Clune (see her bio below). It’s a fascinating piece that will, I hope, encourage you to reflect on your own “Emotional Fitness” and realize how the balance between thinking and feeling impacts all our relationships. We welcome your comments below. ——————————– Time to put on my “Doctor” hat [...]

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Join me today at The Sophia Project

Thank you to Dr. Cyndi Briggs for featuring one of my articles on her blog today. Some of you will remember it from Heartspoken a few months ago, but I appreciate the chance for it to receive a wider audience. Please come by to say hello and leave a comment: “Don’t Let Growing Up Destroy [...]

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Forgiveness

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Welcome to today’s guest blogger and Connection Messenger, Mimi Meredith. She is exploring a tough concept that I believe is at the core of much unhappiness in the world. Certainly it can be a stumbling block to cultivating a close connection with God. September 11, when we cannot help but think back on the horror [...]

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All God’s Creatures Got a Place in the Choir

Here’s a fun video to celebrate Labor Day in the U.S. I DARE you to listen to this without smiling and tapping your feet! Thanks to my cousin Liz Henderson for sharing this wonderfully uplifting video. Ladies, I promise you, for reasons that will become clear very shortly, no matter what you think of the music, [...]

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Use Freewriting to connect with your inner self

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Welcome to guest blogger and Heartspoken Connection Messenger Dallas Woodburn, award-winning author and editor.  The rushing river of time Sometimes it feels like time is a river rushing past me so fast and I’m sitting there in a little boat, struggling to get a grip on the oars, not even enjoying the beautiful scenery flowing [...]

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It’s time to get right with money

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Anyone who is serious about understanding themselves—I mean REALLY understanding themselves—had better get a handle on their relationship with money. Our attitudes about money are usually formed quite early in our lives, and far too often, we operate on those initial ingrained thoughts and assumptions without ever challenging them or deciding, in a thoughtful way, [...]

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Don’t let growing up destroy your inner child!

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If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree… I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up, Not me! Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh for the musical production of J.M. Barrie’s book Peter Pan * * * * * * * * * * * Today I’m celebrating the recent launch of [...]

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How I learned to write like James Chartrand *

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The writing course that turbo-charged my professional non-fiction writing is being offered again soon. Read about it below and note that registration opens on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the beginning I could write. I was a nuts-and-bolts [...]

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Visit me at the Sophia Project!

Come join me today as I am a guest of Dr. Cyndi Briggs at her wonderful blog The Sophia Project: Releasing women back into the wild since 2010. My guest post is called “De-cluttering isn’t just for closets and Inboxes.” Are you experiencing any of these symptoms? Emotional fagility Trouble concentrating when you try to pray [...]

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Why today is so important

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What each day needs, that shalt thou ask. Each day will set its proper task. – Goethe If you think today is just another day, think again. Today is all you have, or all you can count on. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may not come. But today can be embraced and enjoyed and made the most of. [...]

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Is it a Seed day or a Harvest day?

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Welcome to guest blogger, speaker, and author Beth K. Vogt.    “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist       You ever have one of those days when you crawl into bed and think, “I didn’t accomplish anything today?” That’s [...]

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Just answer the damned question!

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It’s “Connect with Self” Week at Heartspoken.com. The first week of each month this year will focus on ways to get to know yourself better. “He who knows others is learned;
 He who knows himself is wise.” (Lao-tzu, Tao te Ching) Who am I? That is the question of the ages, isn’t it? Yet not [...]

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