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Those who, through their work or actions, help point the way for someone seeking to understand themselves better and actualize their highest potential.

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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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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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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Struggling with your life’s purpose? Read this book.

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BOOK REVIEW Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaiming Your True Nature  by Martha Beck New Release December 27, 2011 “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear” is a truth that will manifest itself over and over as this exciting new book is read and shared and read again.  The number [...]

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Love, Need, and the Power of Connection

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Introducing Connection Messenger and Guest Blogger B. Lynn Goodwin: author, caregiver, journal-writer Note from Elizabeth/Heartspoken: One aspect of the Power of Connection that we haven’t explored is the notion that connections can change, and when they do, the connection tools that we need will change too. This personal story from Lynn Goodwin is one that [...]

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Find Yourself When You Remove the Clutter

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“Is what you’re holding onto holding you back?” Introducing Connection Messenger Debbie Bowie, Certified Professional Organizer® It was my remarkable good fortune, while attending my 40th college reunion at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA  (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College), to sit in on a lecture by fellow alumna Debbie Bowie entitled, “Using Feng Shui to Clear [...]

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Stress Reduction Secret Combo: Nature and Paper Pitching

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The following is a guest blog post by Connection Messenger Debbie Bowie, a professional organizer and feng shui practitioner whose lecture and book have helped me completely revamp my home office space from one I hated to enter into one that is warm, inviting, less cluttered, and productive. I’ve written in greater detail HERE about how [...]

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Are you kind to yourself?

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Most of us are kind to others most of the time. Most of us will go out of our way to be kind to animals, children, and friends in need…maybe even strangers in need. I don’t know about you, but I have a bad habit of putting everything and everyone else first and forgetting that [...]

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Why I’ve given up on self-improvement (and so should you)…

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I hate Bradford Pear trees. Hate them. It’s not because they’re trees. Trees in general, I like. As a whole, nature is my friend. My dislike of the poor Bradford Pear has to do with the human tinkering that brought it to so many suburban lawns in the mid 1990s. Dubbed the “perfect tree,” Bradford [...]

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Liberating Women, one word at a time…

Cyndi Biggs

Introducing Connection Messenger, Cyndi Briggs. I just love to find women who not only have a vision, but who do whatever it takes to clear the deck of their life to pursue it. I’ve just discovered North Carolina writer Cyndi Biggs, and in just a few weeks, she has written some articles that have just [...]

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Connect with your Inner Artist

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Introducing Nature Connection Messenger/Artist: Jackie Catteron Sometimes you come across a work of art that is so full of light and warmth and beauty that you just wish you could meet the artist. That happened to me last year when I bought some beautiful notecards featuring birds and flowers and country scenes that just…well, they [...]

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What do you need to let go?

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Introducing Connection Messenger: Mimi Meredith Sometimes finding our authentic selves is way more about letting things go than it is about taking new things on. I have a lifelong habit of constantly taking on so many things that sometimes I find my life totally out of balance, and then I can’t possibly do a good [...]

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