Asking for Help is Strength, Not Weakness.

Why has asking for help ever been associated with weakness? I have no idea really. We have associated showing our vulnerability, allowing others to see our truth, with weakness. It has taken me a few years to now realize that it is in our vulnerability, in our rawest truth,  that our greatest strength and light lies.

Somehow we have become obsessed with labeling and categorizing things: this is good, this is bad, this is right and this is wrong. This is how I "should" be. Why have we have allowed our judgement to limit instead of serve us? And who is to say what the "right" way to be is?

There is no right way.

There is only our truth, which is meant to be expressed.

So let us simply be who we are. And if we need support, let us ask for it, without hesitation. Without feeling the need to explain ourselves, justify our pain. We don't always need a reason. What is important is only that we are authentic.

Rather than asking ourselves why we feel the way we do, let us simply feel. 

Asking for help takes courage. Believe me, I know. But we can let go of judgement and learn to be kind to ourselves, to love ourselves for who we are and not who others expect us to be.

Blessings,

Julie

Let Out Your Crazy!

We are all wild at heart. 

We are all free spirits with a special light to shine. We are each born with a unique set of gifts that are meant to be nurtured and shared with others.

And sometimes its simply about giving ourselves the permission to let go of who we think we should be to become who we truly are. Its about letting go of judgement and letting ourselves be ourselves.

So let us ride with our instinct and intuition. Even if it appears foolish.

We like to understand everything in our rational mind. We like to make sense of everything.

And while our rational mind is our friend, helping us to intelligently sort out and navigate our lives, could we also be okay with doing things simply because we feel like doing them, without always having a reason?

Of course we can be.

What if we lived each day as if it were our last? What would you do?

Blessings,

Julie

Learning to Love Ourselves First.

Before we can love anyone else wholeheartedly, we must learn to give ourselves the love we deserve. Because in giving ourselves true love, self respect and compassion, we are able to give to others that much more powerfully.

In replenishing our cup first, in giving ourselves energy and strength, we have the strength to give our energy to others without burning out. We cannot possibly give to others when we are running on empty.

It does not make us an honorable or respected person to give if we cannot give to ourselves.

 In fact, it is interesting how others actually respect us more when we have the respect and kindness to take care of ourselves first.

The amazing thing is that giving become enjoyable, easy and actually quite energizing when we are strong within ourselves first. And when others ask us to do things for them, we feel grounded and know our limits. Because we start from a place of strength.

I realized the difference when I started building a compassionate relationship with myself. How much I am able to give to others when I start from a place of self-respect!

Learning to love ourselves first is not something to feel guilty about. When we start from a place of self-love, we are able to more powerfully inspire, contribute, engage and connect with the world and all of the abundance that it holds.

Blessings,

Julie

Turning Ideas into Action

Transforming our ideas into action, our mental visualizations to physical reality, is powerful. It shows our ability to actualize our dreams, create, and affect our own lives.

Turning our ideas into action is the difference of feeling victim to our circumstances and feeling empowered to create the circumstances for ourselves that serve our well-being.
It is the difference of affecting, rather than being affected.

Often we judge our ideas and their potential before they are actualized. We assume we know how things will turn out when in fact, nobody knows what will happen until it happens. Why limit ourselves through the untruth of judgement and assumption?  

We simply cannot know how an experience will affect us until we are physically experiencing it. 

Let us shine our light and let others see our unique gifts, what we have to offer to this world.

Let us live daringly. 

Whether it be starting a business, participating in a volunteer project or starting a blog, there really is nothing to lose- only so much to learn.

And remember this powerful truth,

"In retrospect, we regret the things we didn’t do more than the things we did."

— Empire Records 

Blessings,

Julie