Delight is our birthright. Yet right now, many of us aren't feeling that sacred hum of aliveness flowing freely within us and through us on a daily basis. This episode is all about how to be delighted again. Get your journal out because I'm sharing several soulful journaling prompts to help you envision and embody delight again.   As I share in this episode, I am taking a break for the month of July from all online activities, including posting new episodes.  Enjoy going back to previously recorded episodes for soul-nourishing experiences this month. In this episode, I refer to Episode 1:  A Story of Delight.  Check it out for a thorough definition of delight.  Poem read in this episode: To Be Delighted Again (unpublished) --------- To support this podcast, you can make a one-time donation or join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!).  You get access to all previous bonuses through Buy Me a Coffee  To get my books (Gems of Delight and Your Light is Rising), sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support! This is a total grass-roots effort - I do all my own writing and editing.  Your support means a lot to me and the production of this podcast being able to reach listeners all over the world.

Are you a little bit of a control freak?!  Or - maybe there are just some "givens" in your life right now that find you feel a bit helpless, hopeless, tired, overwhelmed and there seems to be not much you can do about them.  When you can’t control everything, here’s what you can do instead. Join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!).  You get access to all previous bonuses through Buy Me a Coffee AND...I am sharing an original poetic print that you can post in your office or home to support you.  To get my books (Gems of Delight and Your Light is Rising), sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support! This is a total grass-roots effort - I do all my own writing and editing.  Your support means a lot to me and the production of this podcast being able to reach listeners all over the world. 

If you know me or have worked with me, you know I love to think in terms of "seasons."  My first book, Gems of Delight, is divided by the four seasons!  Today, I bring you a poetic soulful guide to summer.  I share five soulful ways for your summer to be soul-nourishing and nervous system-supportive.   Join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!).  You get access to all previous bonuses through Buy Me a Coffee AND...I am sharing an original poetic print that you can post in your office or home to support you in having a wonderful summer. To get my books (Gems of Delight and Your Light is Rising), sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

What would it feel like to be wildly yourself?  Will you be bitter or have better boundaries?  We explore this and more on today's episode.  Enjoy this poem and soulful reflection.  May this serve to inspire you to be wildly yourself and bless this world with your version of wild.  Join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!) To get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

I was sitting with what to share after the tragedy last week in Texas when a yoga teacher messaged me.  She told me that she had shared one of my poems in her yoga classes this week.  And both before and after the tragedy, these words resonated with her students and soothed them.  That got me thinking about the power of beauty - both in hard times and in easier times.   I'd like to offer this poem to you today: It's Time for Beauty. I also lead you through a nervous system nourishing guided reflection so you have an experience of feeling your whole system be soothed.   May this serve to awaken us and strengthen us to live and take action with compassion. Join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!) To get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

How are you playing small?  Well, let's be done with that!  This episode is all about poetically and practically leaping out of the nest you are in that's too small for you and taking the soul risk you gotta take!  I lead you through a poetic experience where I share four poems and soulful practices for inspiring you to take flight. And in this episode, I have something delightful for those who are members of my monthly Delightful Divas community:  Liv Lane is an artist and shares messages from the angels.  She has created a mindful coloring page of an angel for us (tune in for how to use it)!  You can find Liv's work here.  You'll also love her new product line of greeting cards: WingTips!   Join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership. (It's just $5 a month right now!) To get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-star rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

Have you been feeling tired, burnt out, fried, or exhausted?  You're not alone.  This episode is for you.  It's for all of us who want to make wellness a way of life - not an afterthought - in our own lives and our work.  Our culture of "go, go, go" needs a big shift. Our way of doing business and leading organizations and communities needs a radical systemic shift to actually support the wholistic wellness of our people.  I share questions for leaders and workers to consider about our organizations.  Then I share how we can nourish OUR nervous systems through Soul Care Practices.  This is PART 1. If you'd like to get PART 2 filled with more Soul Care Practices that you can weave into your day to make wellness a way of life for YOU, join my Delightful Divas Monthly Membership.   It's just $5 a month right now. And you will have access to PART 2 - 30 minutes more of practices!  (Be sure to click on "membership" and you'll then have access to Part 2 + all previous exclusive content and bonuses!). ___________ To get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching, go to my website. Let's connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-start rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!  

This episode is all about opening to sacred possibility.  We start with the poem, Sacred Possibility, from my book, Gems of Delight.  Then I share some "God conversations" I've had with the divine when it comes to letting go and dropping into trust and alignment with the Universe.  I go through each line of the poem Sacred Possibility, to support us to go about our lives with a deeper sense of hope and possibility.  I also share two poems by my favorite mystical poet, Hafiz.  If you'd like to get your own beautiful digital art print of the poem, Sacred Possibility, sign up for my monthly membership, Delightful Divas, and I'll send you your copy of this original poem and artwork -- for the first week of the release of this episode! Be sure to click "membership" and sign up for Delightful Divas here. Get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching on my website. Connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-start rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

Mother's Day -- it can be lovely AND it can be hard.  If you are a mom, if you and your mom are close, if you are caring for an aging mother, if you have lost your mother, or if you and your mom are estranged -- this episode is for you.  I share stories, poems, quotes, and mini guided visualizations to soothe you, support you, and nourish you.  For those of you who are caregivers of an aging parent - I see you.  For those of you who have lost your mom - I included special quotes that I hope speak to your heart. For those of you who have childhood wounds, I wanted to include a section for you. This section of the episode helps to give your nervous system and experience to grow your capacity for being soothed, having self-love, having boundaries, and deepening compassion.   If you'd like to get exclusive content and extra bonuses and support this podcast, sign up for my monthly membership, Delightful Divas.  Be sure to click "membership" and sign up for Delightful Divas!  Get my books, sign up for my newsletter, and check out Integrative Coaching on my website. Connect on Instagram and Facebook. If you have enjoyed this podcast, consider leaving a review and a 5-start rating! Thanks for tuning in and for your support!

Today we are exploring how you can feel lighter and freer. We start with the poem, Rising, from my book, Your Light is Rising. Then, throughout the episode, I am sharing: 3 soulful questions to help you clarify your vision of what helps you to feel lighter and freer, 6 signs to know if something doesn't serve you, and 8 ways to let go of what no longer serves you. **If you'd like to get your own copy of the outline of today's questions, signs, and ways - sign up for my monthly membership, Delightful Divas, and I'll send you the outline.I will do this for the first week of the release of this episode! Be sure to click "membership." For my books, to sign up for my newsletter, and to check out Integrative Coaching on my website. Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook If this resonated with you, would you leave a review and a rating? Thanks for tuning in and for your support!