What if you knew, like you knew, like you knew that…

You are so loved and supported!

What if there was no more need to strive or struggle

What if you were able to consistently and confidently tune in & trust your guidance?

What if there was no such thing as the “right way” to do something?

What might that make available for you?!

Can you imagine a life where you are able to always take inspired, aligned action with ease and no extra thought? Where your day flowed magically as you tuned in and trusted, following the signs and serendipities that naturally unfolded? A life where you are clear and confidently working toward ALL that you dream of in your business and your life?! And what if at the end of the day “being selfish” acutually meant having more - not less! - to offer your family because you were living excited and on purpose (and inspiring them to do the same!)?

Maybe you’ve been feeling responsible for everyone and everything, not feeling right asking for more for you. Maybe you’ve been struggling to figure out your “purpose” or the next right step. Maybe you feel like something unseen is holding you back from doing all you can in your career or business. If you’re tired of trying to do it all yourself and you’re ready to lean into Divine support and lovingly shift what’s in your way…

it’s time to start Living Loved.

If you’ve known for a while that there is a higher vibration possible, that there’s a more connected way to live, but you haven’t quite been able to get there on your own (believe me, I’ve been there!), then this retreat for you. 

How big are you willing to let your life get?! ?

Sacred Creative Adventure - in Africa!

Create the Flow!

A SACReD CREATIVE ADVENtuRE

What I know for sure is that so much more is possible than most of us think! Through the years I’ve become an expert at reinventing myself. I’ve lived in five foreign countries, speak four languages (Well, five, if you count Texan… ;)

I’ve been: an office manager at a US embassy abroad; a Home & Garden editor for a newspaper in South Texas; a freelance editor and ghost writer; co-author of more than 50 Lonely Planet travel guidebook titles; and now a transformational coach-writer-creative.

This most recent transition has been the toughest. I was in the middle of coach training when my not-so-very-old, very-healthy-seeming mother died suddenly of a heart attack.

Shopping for a dress for my mom’s funeral I came across an inspirational towel that read “Wild & Free.” In an instant I knew… that’s what she was now. And if she could be free, so could I —- and she would want me to be. I spent the next few years going within: studying transformational tools, reading spiritual texts… and living through and learning from more personal challenges and loss. It wasn’t until I discovered sacred self-compassion that I found some real emotional freedom.

We all have thoughts, habits and beliefs that are no longer serving us. Part of my magic is the ability to see the big possibilities for people… and to recognize the blocks that hold them back. I help independent-minded adventurers - women who are small business owners, solopreneurs, home CEOS (aka moms), contractors, creatives and more - bring awareness and love to all their parts, so they can step into all that’s possible. Are you ready to claim the sacred and unlimited life the Universe intends for you?! Sign up below for my weekly Art, Life & Lions below to peak behind the scenes in my own journey, get inspiration and tools for creating a wildly expansive life.

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I came a little unmoored when my mom died suddenly in 2016. I was floating loose, more than a little lost. The self-definitions I’d used to tether myself to life as I knew it… to her as a mother, to me as a daughter… no longer held sway. Looking back, I can see there was a gift in that.

Without any preconceived limitations, I was able to explore things I never would have tried.

For example, I:

• got up on a virtual stage…

• played hooky to go to a massive antiques week festival

• art journalling class…

I got up on a virtual stage for an oral story telling competition, I played hooky to travel last minute a massive antiques week festival, on a whim I enrolled in an art journalling class…

Growing up I had always thought my mom and my sister were the only artists in the family.

They both could draw and paint with seeming ease. Outside of one semester of high school art class, I had never really created anything. Thankfully, the online art journalling was very free-flow and forgiving. I’d been accumulating art supplies with no purpose for years, so I put them to some use.

A few weeks in, the assignment was to create some kind of self portrait. “Why not?” I thought. I picked up a reference photo and some colored pencils and went to work. Much to my surprise, the result looked like a human being! Not necessarily me exactly, but it was unmistakably a smiling, blond, not misshapen human, which seemed like a miracle. I may have actually even looked around to see who had drawn it! Next I tried copying a painting that hung on the wall of a favorite cafe. Again, astonishment: it closely resembled the sandy beach with dunes and ocean spray and waves that I was staring at. People couldn’t believe it was my first watercolor ever. I couldn’t believe I painted it at all.

The only explanation that made sense to me was that my mother somehow gifted me her art ability when she passed.

Or at very least left me a legacy so I wouldn’t feel so alone. Either way, my life hasn’t been the same since. I started sketching everyday scenes, experimenting with different techniques, reading every urban sketchers how-to I could get my hands on…. Then a friend suggested I try abstracts, and I got into acrylics. More books and online classes later, that morphed into collage and mixed media. I even recently held my first mini art workshop about loosening up and embracing your fears! (Check it out here)

A few short years later, I cannot imagine my life without art.

I believe at heart, we as humans are creative beings. We’re always making something, whether we realize it our not - we create our days, our conversations, our outfits, our meals... ultimately our lives. For me, playing with paint, experimenting with form and texture and line and value is the stuff of life. I don’t always love what I make, but I always love that I made it. And I think mom would too.