Health & Well-being

I just woke up, my head is pounding, the sound of construction and the debris it tosses around is filling my sinuses with dirt and I just want to take…

In an all-new episode, Oprah Winfrey sits down with public speaker and author Charles Eisenstein on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing Sunday, July 16 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Things have been a little heavy lately; emotions are running high, longer commutes for affordable housing, less pay more work, family tensions on the rise, and your news feed is filled with political doom and gloom. The shift has hit the fan, the underbelly has been revealed and it’s time for us “warriors of the light” to step up our game.

It’s time for yet another shift and it’s going to take a whole lot of courage from people like you and I to make it happen. It may cost you (us) best seller status, industry friends or followers but it’s worth it because you will gain yourself. Are you with me?

In a special edition, Oprah Winfrey asks today’s top thinkers, teachers, and spiritual leaders life’s big questions on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing Sunday, July 2 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

It’s 10AM, I’ve had three coffees, sent my husband off to work, and I am still sitting here in my underwear feeling rather emotional and defeated. It’s been grey and rainy here for the better part of spring, and now summer, and after a really long miserable winter, both weather wise and personal, I have had just about enough.

These words are packed with such truth. There’s a reason they hit you right in the gut, or perhaps bring tears to your eyes. No matter how many times I listen to the song I feel the feels, I shed the tears, I give myself the time to “be still and know” that I don’t need to do or be anything to be better. I am better, I am good and none of that depends on anything outside of me.

This is life as Jesus, Muhammad, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, and of course Buddha and many others described. But why after thousands of years and thousands of teachers have shown us “the way” are we still wrapped up in our egos, perpetuating the way that creates the most suffering and resisting “the way” to freedom?

Oprah Winfrey speaks with Dr. BJ Miller, hospice and palliative care specialist, who shares his revelations about a subject that is often taboo in our culture – the experience of death – on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing Sunday, May 7 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Oprah Winfrey talks to New York Times bestselling author Geneen Roth about her belief that our spiritual health is directly affected by our complex relationship with food on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing Sunday, April 30 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Oprah Winfrey is joined by author, humanitarian and global visionary Lynne Twist for a conversation about the wounded relationship people have with money on an all-new episode of “Super Soul Sunday” airing Sunday, April 23 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

“It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it” a lyric from Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 plays in the background as I write. and it is… Resistance gets in there every time. Sometimes it digs in real deep. Makes you feel like every bit of air has been sucked out of your lungs.

Making decisions can be a difficult task. As soon as we check in with ourselves and feel like the decision is right for us… In comes the many voices of resistance. They may sound like your mother, father, teacher or a collective of all the voices that we allow to pull us around like some kind of puppet.

Listen to your heart. We hear this phrase over and over again, from guru’s, teachers and if we have supportive friends and families we hear it from them too. But why don’t we listen?

Until you give yourself the space to eliminate distractions, conditioning and get silent enough to listen to your own desires. To listen to the whispers within that are effortlessly guiding you in the direction of a life that is easeful and fulfilling for you. You will be but a puppet that is picked up and put down as others desire.

So excited that Oprah & Deepak have launched yet another “21 Day Meditation Experience” titled “Hope In Uncertain” Times” which couldn’t be any more timely. With daily talk and headlines of uncertainty and destruction there couldn’t be a better time to go within.

So, I’m back! But not in the same way. Wow what a journey it’s been. Disconnecting for 21 Days of my own VividLife Quest program I really saw its value and my own. I read a lot, meditated a lot, connected with the people who lift me up and got really focused on who I am, what my intent is and how I want to deliver that going forward.

As I transition from producer and curator of VividLife.me to sharing My VividLife experiences with all it’s challenges and celebrations. As I step further away from ‘Likes’ and “Shares” and walk deeper into the awareness of why “likes” and “shares” matter I have lost a lot of “followers” and since I’ve decided to take a break from social media and do my own 21 Day VividLife Quest I have been deeply contemplating why I am challenged by it.

So much realization in such a short time and I owe it all to something that a week ago I felt would be the cause of a downward spiral, and it could have been, however as always, I allow myself to process the emotional consequences of it all and once clear take it to self-inquiry and care.

I’m leaving for a while and here’s the vulnerable truth of why… For those of you who know me personally you know vulnerability is my super power. But for those of you who know me virtually it might seem like my life is sunshine, rainbows, trips around the world, smoothies and meeting Oprah. It’s not.

Even at 41 I still question myself and my path. I battle with my head (conditioning) and my heart (inner knowing). But what I know for sure is… that every time I follow my heart I end up exactly where I am suppose to. Every experience might not be sunshine and rainbows but it’s what I needed to gain a greater understanding.