Since we’re talking this month about opening up to the Universe, here is an excerpt from Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway about how important it is to say Yes: Life offers many opportunities to practice saying yes to your universe. The baby spills milk all over the floor;…
Category: Inspiration
Pain-to-Power Vocab and Illness
This month we’re talking about Susan’s lesson in Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway about Pain-to-Power Vocabulary. Our word choices can make a huge difference to our attitudes. Even in dire situations, such as illness, choosing the right words can help you orient yourself towards healing. Susan experienced this…
Making Connection One Step at a Time
In Dare to Connect, Susan spent a lot of time talking about how hard it can be to create connection to other people, especially since most of us were raised to be competitive with the Somebody Training. Creating an environment of support and caring can seem like a daunting task,…
Breaking the Habit of Lower Self Thinking
This month, we’re working with Susan’s book Feel the Fear and Beyond, specifically the section titled, “Ask Your Higher Self.” Here is an excerpt about getting in touch with your Higher Self: Don’t you love the choice you can have in thinking about various situations in your life? Obviously, choosing…
The Act-As-If Exercise Refresher
When we “act as if” we matter and commit ourselves 100% to whatever we are doing, we can make a big difference in our own lives and also in the lives of those we touch. If you’re feeling weighed down by obligation, duty, or resentment, try this exercise from Embracing…
Taking a Break from the Habit of Work
In this month’s newsletter article, we mentioned Susan’s habit of working too much. She was an avowed workaholic, but that didn’t mean she didn’t work on overcoming her issues. Here is the rest of the story from the newsletter as she wrote it for a published article. I ask you,…
Affirmations For Living in 2020
We’re talking about affirmations this month and how they are an important tool in Susan’s teachings. Whether your affirmations come from Susan or if you write your own, they have the power to change your mood and your mind when repeated often enough. Times are rough right now and many…
Looking for the Deeper Meanings in Affirmations
In Life Is Huge, in the chapter “The Surprising Power of Affirmations,” Susan wrote that even though affirmations are generally short, one-sentence phrases, their power comes from the meaning that underlies that simple sentence. For example, take the affirmation, “I let go of my need to control everything around me.”…
Suspending Our Inner Judge
As a follow-up to this month’s article—learning to greet the light within to create a connection with every person we meet—it is important to not judge people by what you see on the outside. This can be a hard lesson to learn, as most of us have an inner critic…
A Kingdom for a Tomato
This month we’re talking about looking mindfully and looking deeply. Many of us might think that looking deeply isn’t that hard since we spend so much time looking deeply into our past or into our future. Revisiting past events is something that so many of us unconsciously do—thinking about how…