&nbsp; The moments of our lives are opportunities to learn something valuable about ourselves. Instead, we often take them for granted and waste them on negative, unproductive thoughts. Mindfulness keeps us present and aware. It provides a pathway to experiencing an expansiveness that gives us a feeling of oneness with the world. A daily Mindfulness practice allows us to show up and experience all the moments of our lives as present, as accepting, and as real as we can be. Mindfulness is the gift that keeps on giving Mindfulness is not a big mystery. It does not have to be complicated. We think between 40,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day Life Gazing - You take a moment and you sit with something. Take in what you’re seeing. Daydreaming isn’t doing something wrong. It sparks creativity. Present Moment Breaks - Mindfulness that you can do anytime - anywhere. Get into beingness. Are you a past dweller or a future chaser? Do you get stuck in the glorification of the past? It can steal your joy. Takeaways: Mindfulness repair is the key to successful long term relationships Make a commitment to be mindful with each other. Notes to Self: Hello Today! I’m so glad you’re here. I’m ready for you! QUOTES: It’s not what you look at...it’s what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau Live True. Live You. Live Authentically. ~Ora Nadrich

Live True with Guest Ora Nadrich

In this episode: How to live your life free from toxic relationships and emotional abuse. Jackson MacKenzie &amp; Traci talk openly about their journey through toxic relationships in love and in business. Ditch the fairy tale stories and be real in what is happening inside the relationship. What is the difference between having your heartbroken and being in a relationship with a person with a personality disorder? Relationships with toxic people can occur outside of an intimate relationship. They can appear out of nowhere and catch you off guard until you recognize the pattern. How can you protect yourself from these predatorial type of people? What is the difference between narcissism, borderline personality and a psychopath? Are certain personality types vulnerable to these disorders? Identify the most subtle and undermining characteristics of psychopath tendencies What are “pink flags” and why do we ignore them? Tips for how to leave these types of these relationships and how to avoid them all together. If you feel like you like you lost yourself remember. You did not go away. Takeaways: Protect Yourself First If you feel like you like you lost yourself remember. You did not go away. Our hurt lasts for as long as we let it. Note to Self: Nobody wants to eat a half baked cake. QUOTES: The True Self doesn’t actually go anywhere. ~Jackson MacKenzie It’s real but not true. ABOUT JACKSON MACKENZIE Jackson is a young gay guy who loves cats and Christmas. He works with a tech company in New England, and spends most of his free time hiking and taking bubble baths. He is writing a new book about trauma and the heart. Resources: https://psychopathfree.com/

How to Live Psychopath Free with Jackson MacKenzie

Jaquelyn is the Founder of Heartwood Healing, Heartwood Sanctuary and the Creator of the Heartwood Self Mastery program. A motivational speaker and writer of 14 books and Co-Founder of Healing Words television show. We know each other because we worked together on a really fun project for Weight Watchers International and we really developed a really nice intersection between personal and business growth. What does healing from the heart mean to you? Healing modalities that help learn how to master yourself from the inside out and heal yourself from the inside out Mindlessness if effort. You want to it because it feels so good to do it One of the things that is so critical to self care and to really understanding the heart is is looking at the science behind the fact we are not this separate thing. Scientists like to break us into two in the healthcare world. We're not a brain and a body. We're not a brain and emotions and a body. We are all one integrated human that evolved to this place in order to have emotions for a purpose and we have you know we our body tell it talks to us all of the time Figure out the trigger that leads to bad behavior and then replace the behavior to a new and more positive behavior. The Heartwood Sanctuary is an online membership and an online oasis for rest, restoration and rejuvenation.

Healing Your  Heart From The Inside Out

In this episode: We're not taught about money. Whether male or female, where we're not taught in school. We're usually not taught at home so we don't have a foundation on which to really play some competence.&nbsp; What we're getting taught about money is what we're told and what we're shown usually by our parents. We either do what our parents did, which could be good or bad, or we did the exact opposite. Did you know 90 percent of women have a fear that they're going to end up homeless and be a bag lady?&nbsp;The time is now to change women’s perception around money and the idea of shame. We can actually save too much. This can happen when we’re saving or we're not spending and the reason is coming from a place of fear or scarcity or that we don't feel secure. We've got to figure out what our triggers are, what is that story that we're telling ourselves around money and change that, because just getting out of debt or figure out a budget isn't enough. That's why athletes go bankrupt. That's why millionaire winners lose all their money. And that's why the average American racks up all their debt, pays it off, and then racks it back up again is because we're only treating the symptoms. We're not treating the issue, which is our mindset in this story we tell ourselves. Go out and try and find the best way to educate and inform yourself about money. Takeaways:&nbsp; What I find is, we really like to avoid looking at our money. It's there's shame around it. There's guilt. We are brilliant, smart women that have 15 million other things that we need to do. So looking at our numbers kind of as the last thing that we want to do. So what I encourage someone to do is sit down at the end of the day without distractions. Have a glass of wine or three. And then really think about what was a really tough money experience that you went through and just write it all out. Write down all the details. No. Why did you go through this? What did you learn from it and what can you do differently? And I think by just facing some of these things a little bit at a time, you'll start to release that guilt and shame around these different money experiences. You need to really look at who you're taking money advice from. Like dating advice. You're not going to ask for dating advice from your friend that's been divorced seven times and has a string of first dates. So just like with your money, you don't want to ask somebody that you know is living paycheck to paycheck, drowning in debt and doesn't know how they're going to pay their next bill. Note to Self: Forgive yourself for you money mistakes. The shame is not serving you.&nbsp;

Rewrite  Your  Money  Story!

Have you heard of Enneagrams? Ever been curious about your Enneagram Number? Denee King, Host of the Love Thy Number Podcast tells us how the discovery of her number was a game changer for her personally &amp; professionally. Bonus...She gives me the skinny on my number and how has significantly influenced my life choices! An Invitation to Listen from my guest Denee... When I was introduced to the Enneagram almost 10 years ago I began to find answers to some of my own questions and it was absolutely liberating! I learned I wasn’t broken or heartless but that I process thinking from a different perspective than many others. I realized my ability (see how I put a positive spin on that? :-) to move, with lightning speed, from one great idea to the next didn’t mean I had ADHD or was scatterbrained! All those revelations just meant I was hard-wired for excitement and variety and I could now learn how to grow into the healthiest form of myself. Awareness became my greatest gift.  I discovered the world of personality types and found a common thread with others who had my same fears and motivations. Learning the way other types process thoughts and emotions has helped me bridge the language barrier. That’s really what our ‘type’ is: it’s our native language. But trying to have relationship with those who speak a different language requires effort and a lot of love. This is the true beauty of the Enneagram. It’s a tool to help us know ourselves and, in doing so, we can know others…to love ourselves so we can share love with others. I make a fantastic lemon raspberry cake and a banana pudding that is to die for! If you’re visiting our home that might be all you need to know about me. :-)

Traci DeForge