Evolution is happening all the time. It takes real time for all the pieces of the puzzle to come together. At each new level of understanding we can see how people, experiences and insight show up for us to see and feel the difference, the space, the joy and the peace. The puzzle starts to look like a divine plan, the tapestry of our journey. The struggle is our resistance to letting go of old habits and beliefs. When we let go of controlling our life and others, each part of our masterpiece can find its own way in its own time. When we allow others the same freedom we contribute to the evolution of all souls. Fear stops us from trusting. Fear can also let us know that there is something or someone we need to let go of. When fear is rising up, be still and breathe consciously allowing your connection to yourself, your Soarce create the impalse to let go.

Let God Interfere, Let God Into Fear, Breathe until the fear is gone. Let Go, Let God, You are free.

"You is kind, You is smart, You is important" from the movie "The Help".

What a moving and powerful film…THE HELP! If only each of us grew up with that mantra so that the lies of self-doubt and unworthiness would stop haunting us. In the movie the main character Abaleen (a black maid and nanny) would say to the 4 year old child that she cares for, these words each day…You is kind, You is smart, You is important. In the movie the mother would ignore her child and treat her badly. The little girl just loved Abaleen and told her that she was her real mom. She felt safe and loved in the arms of her caregiver.

As adults we can become shut down or re-active when we are shamed or feel unloved. Our childhood wounds create an ignition of negative thoughts and feelings. Needing others love and approval continues to keep us reliving patterns and relationships that make us feel not good enough.

It is our responsibility to take care of our emotional body. No one can fix us or take care of us emotionally. Our connection with our inner pain of self-doubt, resentment, guilt, shame and disappointment keeps us available to our own life. If we don’t feel lovable, kind, smart, important or beautiful than it is time to change our beliefs and plug into the void of love inside.

Plugging into someone else to get our needs met will not be healthy for us either. Walking on eggshells and becoming inauthentic when it comes to our relationships will eventually turn others off and cause us resentment and disappointment.

When we are needy for love we put up with disrespect and abusive behavior. Controlling others for love has conditions and creates unsafe experiences within any relationship.
Our void of love is connected to self-worth issues stemming from childhood beliefs.

Put the energy into becoming a healthy man or woman. Become authentic and attractive from within and attract your reflection.

Move away any negative feelings about yourself and become connected to your valuable, lovable and worthy self.

Look at your significant relationships and acknowledge the truth.

Discover how to love and be loved!
Say outloud! "I am kind, I am smart and I am important"!

Make The Choice To Connect

I fed my spirit with time needed and reconnected to my daily pleasures and joyful nurchering.

No one will give us the time to take care of ourself, it is always our choice and our planning.

When days are so full I try to wake up with the sunrise and connect within as I breathe in consciously the precious moments of care giving for myself.

Rushing around with deadlines and details continue to try to take me away from the importance of my needs.

Days seem to fly by and the detication to my health and wellness has to be woven into everything I do.

When I care and support myself I will be supported and resentment won't build up and make me a victim.

Uncomfortable negativity can be released when I acknowledge my feelings.
When my heart opens I connect to the presence and moving forward is easier.

I look at any emotional pain as a great opportunity to be with myself.

Safe communication and intimacy with loved ones can be the pathway to awarness.

Choosing to care for my own heart continues to create a sacred space for anyone who enters my daily life.

Day and night time rituals keep me connected with my mind, body, soul and spirit.

Make the choice to connect!

A Mother's Faith

Every picture that I have seen of our Mother when she was pregnant seemed to capture how she just glowed in a radiance of love. She was told that she could never have children and her faith created her love story.

It was before ultra sound and the doctor had to rely on his stethoscope as he announced that there was more than one heart beat.

Over the next six months it was becoming obvious that Mom was carrying triplets...there were three separate heart beats and a lot of movement.

Mom's dream wa coming true as she anticipated motherhood.

When she would share her excitement with Dad he would hold her and together they giggled nervously as they embarked on their journey.

I can't imagine how busy it was to have three babies at once.

I miss Mom's stories and I remember how she expressed them with such gratitude. Being a Mother was her greatest gift and accomplishment. This sacred place of memories would resonate with happiness and devotion each time she would share her care giving experience as a young Mom.

It is Mother's Day and I am feeling the beauty of Mom's heart and the journey that she took with Motherhood. I miss you Mom! Thank you for being my inspiration.

Today I celebrate all Mothers with Gratitude.

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Each Day Is A New Beginning

Each day is a new beginning, another opportunity to start again, to refresh ourselves and begin to live with more understanding.

Each moment is a precious time for connection within and with another.

Our pain is a doorway to more life.

Every struggle is the pathway to change.

All relationships are the reflection of our inner feelings.

Our breath takes us to physical, emotional and spiritual connection.

Illness moves us to healthy choices.

Time passes... yet being present with our full life creates the presence of more life.

Today let's begin again.....BREATHE.

Release any negative thoughts and feelings.

Forgive this or that...forgive him or her....forgive yourself.

Breathe into compassion....breathe into your heart that is open.

Shine the light as you breathe with ease.

Connect to the presence of love, joy, faith and acceptance.

Begin your day with gratitude...live your life with gratefulness.

End your day feeling peace.

Rest now .....

Dream and manifest your desires.

Begin again....another wonderful chance to be in love.

Happy Father's Day....Love Waits for You to Arrive

Turning inward and connecting to the presence of your heart....Breathe deeply as the doorway opens to your inner sight. See beyond your physical self into a new world that connects you to the truth of who you truly are.

Sit a while in this sacred place and feel the richness of all that you came here to be.

See each person in your world from this love that is unconditional.

Embrace every moment with the joy of your full heart. Share your gift of safe love and arrive here in this moment fully present.

Deepen with your heart as you Breathe deeply.

Visualize your Father and stand before him with an oopen heart. Remember the man he came here to be.

Forgiveness is our most valuable gift of freedom.

Forgiveness sets us FREE.
Look into your Father's eyes and
see the doorway to a world of
peace and union.
Love waits for you to arrive.

ENJOY YOUR FATHER'S DAY CELEBRATION!

Heaven is felt

My first Mother's Day without my Mom. The day took me through the pathway of emotions where I landed...a deeper coonnection with my life and truth.
I wrote this today....

Now that Mom is gone, I realize that heaven for me was in her heart. That is where I always felt uncondional love and a safe place to share my pain and fears.

She never judged or criticized me. Mom always made me feel my worth and she held me when I didn't.

I can be with her when I give to my children the same space and time. This connection of a Mother's heart was handed to me when I was born. 56 years of living it with her strengthened this sacred temple in me...
A MOTHER'S HEART CHANBER OF LOVE, FAITH, UNDERSTANDING AND HOPE.

I am so grateful

Happy Mother's Day

This is the first Mother's Day without my Mom! I am spring cleaning at our parents and family home on the lake this week. As I sort out and re-organize closets, I am being taken down memory lane. Mom kept her treasures and I haave the honor to peek into them. I have spent hours as time unfolds the many gifts left behind. I laugh with sweet joy and I cry with tears of love as I feel her energy around me.

With Mother's day coming, I feel the loss of my Mom. As I reach into the emptiness that grief takes me, I journey to the details in cards she received and notes she wrote. Every compartment of a hutch or drawer holds precious gifts of Mom's life that she treasured.

As I journey with my life without my Mother physically, I feel her so present and I know that she is here with me in my heart. My tears have created more space and this is where she lives.

When I connect to my heart I feel you Mom.
Thank you, I miss you xoxoxo

To all Mothers....May you feel grace and loveliness as you connect to family love as your reflection. I am in gratitude to your loving kindness.
I celebrate each of you.

As a Mother, I give thanks to my children for choosing me to be their Mom.
I love you to the moon and back.
HAVE A LOVING MOTHER'S DAY

Our Connection With Healthy Communication

It is so important to create space with coversations so that we can be present with our feelings as we hear the emotions rising up with the words spoken.

If you are connecting within and with a person you will get clarity into what is really going on....this is mindfulness.

I usually find that during conversations with my loved ones, this space that I give can open a pathway of feelings to be shared once the safe place has embraced the connection and conversation.

Often one of my daughters can get to a place to release any fears, hurts and disappointments once they become safe to open up.

Authenticity and intimacy flows because of this precious time of sharing.

When I am plunged into a drama, I become conscious of what I am feeling and my breath connects me to the present moment. Instead of reacting or moving into fixing mode, my breathing centers me and I can see clearly what is going on.

I remember a time when I did not know how to take care of my emotional body and my awareness was not strong enough. I would be ignited into a past experience with emotional pain and my connection would get clouded by guilt, neediness, fear, disappointment, control, anger, judgment or self-doubt. My heart disconnection would pull me into the drama placing my old pain over the situation.

As I continue to learn to live more present, I can see the drama or person as the gift to allow me the opportunity to respond differently.

It feels so good to stay connected to my open heart when my children, family, husband or friends need a safe heart to see the truth gently reflected.

When I am clear, the drama has a chance to dissolve and my reflection without negative charge opens a doorway for the flow of healing energy of peace and unconditional love.This is our responsibility as we consciously create safe communication and healthy relationships

Look In The Mirror of The Moment

It is not our responsibility to change anyone, to fix them or to make them feel good about themselves. If we carry someone while they are feeling their lack or wrapped in the arms of a drama, they will depend on you for love and acceptance. This is enabling and they will eventually become emotionally disabled. Once you let go they will be left standing exactly where they were before. If you continue to fix or change someone you are not seeing them as perfect just the way they are.

The kindest and most loving thing to do is to be open and create a safe place for them to feel their pain…..and while they share it with you….
Continue to breathe and say to your-self, “I am here and I am safe”.
Connect with any fear, disappointment, resentment, anger or self-doubt by
Acknowledging any negative charge or judgment inside you.
Feel your own connection to your emotions rising up and while you breathe ... move
into compassion.

We cannot heal anyone, but we can inspire another while we become responsible for our own conscious presence. Awareness automatically connects with the higher purpose.

Once we attain our own peace the moment will become a sacred safe place for gratitude and unconditional love.

This reflection of our life reminds us all that any struggle or resistance is just as important to be with as the joy and beauty.

This moment is perfect just as it is.
Breathe deeply and be here consciously.

This person in front of you, in the moment, mirrors a part of you…..
Instead of reacting….BREATHE and take RESPONSIBILITY.
BE THE REFLECTION and RESPOND with your HEART in mind.

Dancing with Joy!

Bruce and I are taking Ballroom Dancing. We have wanted to do this for years. Like all life experiences, dance brings to us inner connection of awareness and a relationship discovery together.

When we are first learning the steps my past dance experience rises up inside me and I feel a familar comfort, yet while moving with Bruce there is some resistance initially. Because this is a new experience for Bruce, he is counting and thinking as his process of learning is moving through him differently.

Initially we are stiff and awkward together...our knees bump and I go one way and Bruce goes another. Our timing is off and frustration interrupts the flow.

Our teacher is accomplished and he is kind as he guides us without judgment.

In time our breathing becomes the center of our movement and the music moves us into the rhythm. There is a moment when it all comes together and the breakthrough has happened!...
WE ARE DANCING!

When the resistance is gone and we have let go, the music and dance steps becomes joy within us.

Dancing in relationship also takes practice and even when life brings us struggles we can move through them with the intention of finding that beautiful moment together.

Have a wonderful day as you connect with the rhythm of your own dance.
Peace and Love,
Colleen

TRUE LOVE SITS PATIENTLY AWAITING OUR ARRIVAL.

The voice of our ego is misleading.
True Love dissolves the false voice of the ego.
The voice of our higher self is of True Love.

True love tames fear and rescues us from the ego’s power.
Acknowledge, breathe, feel and let go of negative emotional barriers that close our heart to the presence of peace.

True Love is personal acceptance and presence in the moment .
True Love is forgiveness… Begin again and allow your authentic self to live freely.

True love inter-connects our mind, body and spirit, inter-grating our attention and intention.
True Love cannot live with illusion.

True Love does not ask for a thing…
doesn’t need….doesn’t control…doesn’t hurt…doesn’t deny us of joy or peace.

Each event or relationship of struggle gifts us the opportunity to be the keeper of the truth.

Once the awareness becomes conscious, the veil of darkness lifts and the light of compassion can heal a pathway to our open heart.

True Love sits patiently awaiting our arrival.

"Be at home wherever you are as you deepen past the negativity or fear. Here is the comfort of who you truly are. Here there are no lies. Here you don't need anyone's love and approval. Here you are safe. Here you are full of pure love and from this space and the connection in you, an energy, life force rises up, a passionate sensation, the one that is resonating in you is conscious awareness and sacredness as your inner voice expresses softly from your heart. Feel your radiance and the glow of your inner riches."

Colleen Hoffman Smith

Taken from Colleen's upcoming book

The Goddess Connection

"Listen to what fear wants to tell us.
Create a safe place for the fear to be realized and released.
Once the negativity of fear has a voice it will dissolve as
we breathe into our own connection of fear.

The process of letting go of fear re-connects our heart compassionately.
Compassion is the purest of love without conditions or judgment.

A deeper connection is made and we are free as we set someone
else free.

Respond with compassion and allow your own fire to burn and ignite your loving heart."

Colleen Hoffman Smith

"She used to take care of her home with joy; decorating and entertaining. Now she says, "I don't remember this place." My mother is living a waking nightmare and she is medicated to keep her out of her tortured mind. Alzheimer's is a terrible disease.

He withdraws into his inner world. He used to hear music and sing. My father has lost his hearing because of strokes. He is weakened physically by heart failure but he always says, "I'll be stronger tomorrow."

Each day I let go of a part of me that has been attached to my parents...I become more of myself.

Feeling deeply and authentically the darkness of sorrow without guilt, blame, self-pity or resentment can be our doorway to the light of transformation."

Colleen Hoffman Smith

"When a loved one is living in their tortured mind....
connect with your own feelings and show up for your self first.
Breathe into any fear or self-doubt that wants to torture you.
Let go of control.....look in the mirror of your life....stop blaming others.
Take responsibility for your emotional struggle....
Be with your own connection with your heart and breathe fully.
Allow the energy to support you.
Be patient as you hold your self first.
The solution will come on the wings of peace.
Be with your loved one here...the peaceful moment of connection.

My Mother has Alzheimer's and the darkness of the night takes
her to a dark, confused and fearful place.
Our family reminds her of the love she has always been.
We are here, inside our own heart with her."

Colleen Hoffman Smith

"Line up with the flow of your life.
Know that you are worthy and everyone else is also.
Move your fear out of the way and allow the support
to show up for all.
Be conscious and trust that it is all possible.
Hold your inner child and be the expression of pure love.
Give your self the unconditional love you needed as a child.
Connect to your open heart.
Breathe here for a while."

Colleen Hoffman Smith

"Life doesn't have to be a sacrifice.
Let go of the mind that holds guilt, fear, anger and disappointment.
Acknowledge the emotional body that needs your attention.
It is so important to allow the darkness of the situation to take you inside to feel.
Drop into your feelings and allow your voice and tears to express the pain.
Release and Breathe fully until the veil is lifted and the truth is shown to you.
Here in this place the solution will come....be patient.
Feel your self present and grounded.
You are balanced now with one foot in and one foot out.
Feel your heart open as you experience your life in totality.
Now you can make healthy choices and show up with clarity.
Be in the flow and journey with your unconditional heart."

Colleen Hoffman Smith