Expectations: the belief something will happen. Creating, placing expectations on myself often helps me achieve but it also creates the overwhelming pressure to meet them. The expectation that I will be excellent at what I set to achieve is both empowering but also paralyzing. Why are expectations both empowering but also paralyzing? They can be destructive to our happiness or a source of inspiration to it. The idea, however subtle it may be, that one person, one job, one project is your everything is blocking your route to happiness. All your relationships, all your career choices and your passions make up parts of you, all create parts of happiness. No…

We all battle with self-doubt and insecurities. Often we are not fully aware that they are even present in the moments we share with our friends and relationships. When these insecurities sneak into our minds, into our relationships with ourselves, our friends, our significant others and our families; we often end up fighting or getting frustrated with the other person. We become pulled into self-doubt and our immediate reaction is self-preservation of our own ego instead of understanding the other person’s truth. In this state we feel alone, we feel isolated. THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! I was reading a friend’s (@ammday) post today about loving unconditionally and it reminded me…

I am not one for setting resolutions at this time year however, I want to use this time to reflect on the past year. As I look back it has been good one, filled many happy memories and personal achievements. It started out to be a lot harder than I expected. Though, as the year progressed everything became more and more sound. The challenges that I faced over the year reminded me of love I have for myself as well as all the things i want to work on. Resonating Moments from this year include:– My hubby and I reaching our one year anniversary. I am really proud of us…

Christmas is by far my favourite holiday! There are many reason why I love it and yet I have been struggling to put it into words why it is so special. The words started to come together on Christmas Eve, there still not perfect but I think you will get the idea. When Jake and I recently went on our vacation to Costa Rica I was worried that we were going to miss out on the Christmas season by being somewhere warm for December. Yes I know that was bit silly but it was how I felt being away from home and snow in December. Once we start our travels…

Love. We all seek it; we look for it in every aspect of our lives. I have based so many of my life decisions on love; good or bad it almost always comes down to love.  For a long time love was at the basis of my insecurities, over the years it has grown to be the base of my strength. I firmly, truly believe love begins with oneself and not another person or object. This of course much more simply said than it is applied to one’s life. It has taken me along time to begin to understand how important that statement is and how to love myself. The other thing…