Thanks to a recommendation from my highschool friend Becky Rusell, I recently finished reading Kate Bowler’s remarkable and moving book Everything Happens For A Reason: and other lies I’ve loved. (Amazon link) When Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, she was 35, happily married, and had a newborn son named Zach. She was […]
Self-Knowledge (Connect with Self)
Is It Well With Your Soul?
In our time on this earth, we are both body and soul. We are bombarded with advice on how to take care care of our bodies (though many of us do it quite poorly), but the nourishment and care for our souls is not such a mainstream topic. It should be. I have certainly been […]
What Masks Need To Come Off?
This updated and expanded post appeared originally in the February 2021 issue of Heartspoken’s “Compass Points” newsletter. If you’d like to be the first to get my content straight to your Inbox, subscribe to “Compass Points” using the form below or in the sidebar. After the last year (2020), we’ll never think of masks the […]
My New Year’s Message: Open Your Heart And Mind
I’m bringing this back from its original publication on this blog in 2015. Its message is timeless and it still expresses my deepest wish for you in the year ahead. And remember, every single day is a new beginning, even if you’re reading this in July. Forget the New Year’s resolutions At least for today… […]
A Song To Myself ~ New Year Prayer
I am so happy to repost this prayer from my friend Robyn Harrison, who generously agreed to let me share this poignant poem she wrote several years ago. The gorgeous photograph above is one of hers as well. She says she pulls this poem out each year, dusts it off, changes the date, and reads […]
Why Today Is So Important
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 […]
Here’s What It Means to Leave the Corporate World to Work for Yourself
NOTE FROM ELIZABETH: Every Heartspoken Life is unique, and it has been my honor to meet many smart, interesting, caring, generous women and men through my online activities who exemplify the Heartspoken Life in their own way. Today’s guest, Sue Painter, is one of them. She and I are among those folks who have had […]
Book Review: The Book Of Longings
Author: Sue Monk KiddPublished 20205 stars There were so many marvelous layers to this book! First, it is a fascinating and well-researched story based on the premise that for ten years before his ministry, Jesus had a wife named Ana and she was both a writer and a feminist of her time. Viewing the life […]