Brene Brown & Oprah Winfrey - Shame is Lethal!

"Shame need three things to grow secrecy, silence, and judgment and it will grow exponentially!" "The less you talk about it the more you have it." "Shame buys into the belief that I am alone."

Dr. Brené Brown: "Shame Is Lethal"

Shame and vulnerability researcher Dr. Brené Brown says shame is the intensely painful feeling that we are unworthy of love and belonging. It's the most primitive human emotion we all feel—and the one no one wants to talk about. If left to its own devices, Dr. Brown says, shame can destroy lives. Watch as she reveals the three things shame requires to grow—and the one thing that can stop shame in its tracks.

Brene Brown & Oprah Winfrey - Great (Self) & Parenting Tip!!

Dr. Brené Brown: Why Shame Is So Prevalent in Classrooms

Shame and vulnerability researcher Dr. Brené Brown says shame is the number one classroom management tool in schools of every kind in this country. Find out what Dr. Brown wants all parents to know about shame, humiliation and name-calling.

Brene Brown & Oprah Winfrey - Speaking Out About Your Shame

Dr. Brené Brown: Why Guilt Is Better Than Shame

Shame and vulnerability researcher Dr. Brené Brown says shame is highly correlated with addiction, depression, eating disorders, violence, bullying and aggression. Guilt, however, is not. Find out why she says there's such a big difference between shame and guilt. Plus, watch as she reveals how she talks to herself when feeling shame, and get the one surefire way to pull yourself out of a shame spiral.

"I Don't Feel Like It..."

Have you ever taken notice of how you feel when you know you have to do something that you could easily say, "I don't feel like it...", even though you know that it is important that it gets done?  For example, your taxes, balancing your checkbook, completing a paper/assignment. This is how I felt a few moments ago.  What I recognize is that lethargic feeling, maybe even laziness, procrastination disguised as something valuable or valuing are all masks of deception, denial, and a detrimental withholding of good from myself.  However, upon "biting the bullet" so-to-speak and putting in the timed required to complete the NECESSARY things, I felt at peace.  My lying down watching SuperSoul Sunday and the other inspirational things I enjoy, I felt so much better doing so.  Moreover, completing the necessary tasks also helped me stay on track for the things that I know that I want to occur in my life.  Truth be told, I know I am going to be faced with the decision to act or to talk myself out of several things this week as I prepare to launch a new coaching/training series and the steps necessary to make it do what it do.  SO, returning to this life lesson will be repeated!  Let me know about the hurdles you've decided to jump! The world is waiting for your gift!

:-) "Success is achieved step-by-step, not leap-by-leap!"

"Like" My Page, but Stay on Your Own

Being in the profession that I am, as a real estate broker, I am often presented with the invitation of well-meaning professionals and the likes of them with requests to "Like" their page.  For those of you that may not be familiar with the term, they are asking me (and you) to subscribe usually to their Facebook page or some other social media platform in which they pitch products, ideas, business centered language in hopes that I will utilize their services or buy their products, etc.  It has become conscious for me the amount of energy that businesses and people spend to get my attention.   Their hope is that they will get my attention, then keep it to the extent it profits them (i.e., improve their bottom lines).  To this, I encourage you to take an inventory of your life and to cut off the life's  blood supply that's going to external sources.  Take your attention back!  It is yours to direct, to scrutinize how you use it, reserve it, exploit it or to be a good steward over it.  Have you ever considered how your life would look if you detached from all your power centers that currently has you locked in as though it is your adult size umbilical cord?  Today, detach. Reclaim your power and use it to materialize your own vision, call or destiny for your own life.  So, yes, "Like" my page, but be sure stay on your own because one day you are going to have to give an account for how you lived the life that was lent to you for a purpose.

Inspired by SuperSoul Sunday (Ms. Winfrey's Interview on 3/17/13)

I truly enjoyed Brene's talk!  I learned of her via Oprah's Super Soul Sunday!  I paused the show because of my intrigue with the interview and I wanted to know Mrs. Brown's back story in order to fully understand her today... This is the TEDx Talk that caused her message to go viral.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, then endeavor to go forth living vulnerability.  ENJOY!

Restoration Has Finally Come

This is a great day! I just finished "The Princess Within" by Serita Ann Jakes ! It is a recommended read for any women's group, especially those trying to get to the root of their issues with the help of the Lord (touching the hem of His garment) and not alone or just with their "good" girlfriends. It is great for those really willing to remove the mask ("its not covering anything anyway"). I have learned where the root of what was my self-sabotaging ways and other matters. It is not enough to come to the Lord, we must drink of Him and partake of His ways which exposes the snake-a-docious ways within us. ;-) A new word that came to me as I journaled my experience and gratitude to my Heavenly Father. We have true freedom because of what God has done for us through HIS SON, while we were yet in sin!

"Go and sin no more!"

...is what I hear Jesus saying...

"I love you with an everlasting Love. It is not your fault that you were birthed into situations and families that caused you to experience a variation of life that you thought was not befitting for who you are or who you think you shall become, but I know the plans I have for you. My plans are to prosper you and to give you a future. It is all for My good purpose and nothing shall harm you. NOTHING! It is for My good pleasure and the perfect work that I began, I COMPLETE! I AM the PERFECT FINISHER. The enemy asked Me once, can I sift her as wheat? To that, My response was, "No!" There will always be those that desire to challenge your existence, your authority and My power within You. However, do not give into such idiocy. I AM your EXAMPLE, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." I didn't have to prove who I AM...and neither do you. Walk in faith and victory!"