Category: Lessons From Nature
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #301
I’m grateful for the symbolic meanings of trees. I’ve felt grounded and centered around trees as far back as I can remember. I’ve always loved taking woods walks and being among them. When I was in my late twenties, I visited the largest Banyan tree I had ever seen. I grew up around Banyan trees,…
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #265
#EARTHDAY2021 An excerpt from Letters from a Better Me is at the bottom of this piece. Happy Earth Day everybody! I’m grateful for the many AWE-INSPIRING gifts from the EARTH! I’m actually overwhelmed with gratitude. I feel waterfalls welling up in my eyes as I think of all the valuable lessons I’ve got from living…
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #41
I’m grateful for life’s storms for these reasons… I’ve learned to be weatherproof I’ve learned to be resilient I’ve learned to be flexible I’ve learned that I can ALWAYS find a silver lining IF I WANT TO I’ve learned that my perspectives define the level of aftermath after the storm clears I’ve learned that this…
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #13
Nature offers us so many tools to get to a peaceful place within ourselves. When we learn to start focusing on the abundance they provide us with, that’s when amazing connections begin to happen. I will be forever grateful to a banyan tree that taught me the importance of getting rid of dead weight so…
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Dreams Coming True: Becoming the Butterfly
Dear Dreamers, I’m writing this today simply because I am beyond excited for what is going on in my life right now. As I reflect on my journey so far, I’m simply amazed at how each and every event in my life has played such an important role in where I am right now. If…
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Feel-Good Friday Book Series: Hope for the Flowers
FEEL-GOOD FRIDAY BOOKS THAT GAVE ME SEEDS TO THRIVE (Click link for the introduction to the series) Today I’m going way, way back. I received this book when I was fourteen years old. I was a teen in crisis. After getting some help, I was given Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus. My counselor told…
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In the Aftermath
Growing-up in Florida, you get used to tracking storms. Should I stay or should I go is commonplace in the midst of an approaching hurricane. Many of us know what it’s like to stay and/or to leave, along with the fear for people on the other end. Sometimes we can get so caught up in…
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90-Day Series Updates
Dear Readers, I’m excited to inform you that I’ve been through each day of the FREE 90-Day A Better Me Series and the 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series and now BOTH series are fully available on FromALovingPlace.com. I provided links on each day for easy navigation through every piece of the series. Now that…
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90-Day A Better Me Series: Day 89 – Being the Change the World Deserves
90-Day A Better Me Series Part III: Living the Journey Making the Now Count: Rebuilding our Lives Day 89: Being the Change the World Deserves “We’re all just walking each other home.” -Ram Dass We make a choice EVERY day how to live this life. Each decision in how we feel, think, and act creates…
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90-Day A Better Me Letters Series: Day 83 – Taking Responsibility for Inviting the Dark Energy into My Internal Home
Letters from A Better Me 90-Day A Better Me Letters Series Part III: Living the Journey Making the Now Count: Rebuilding our Lives Day 83: Taking Responsibility for Inviting the Dark Energy into My Internal Home Dear Self, I’m the only one who can invite dark energy into my internal home. I trust that if…