🌟 Welcome to Week 4 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  Happy Friday! 🎉 We’ve reached the final day of this week’s journey reflecting how pain—both productive and unproductive, and our internal maps and past experiences shape our lives and influences our ability to grow. 📍 Our internal maps, shaped by painful past endings, often lead us to tolerate pain or avoid change. By understanding how these maps keep us stuck, we ca

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect. Last week, we began exploring the idea of pruning—letting go of what no longer serves us—so that, like a well-tended rose bush, our lives can truly flourish. 🌹 This week, we’re working on normalizing endings as a natural and necessary part of life, drawing inspiration from Chapter 3 of Dr. Henry Cloud’s book, Necessary Endings. By embracing endings, we allow them to b

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re focusing on rewiring our brains to see endings as a natural part of life—something to embrace, not fear. In nature, seasons come and go. For spring to begin, winter must end. The same is true for our lives—new beginnings often require letting go of something else. Take a moment to reflect: 💭 What is your heart’s response to the idea that endings are n

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’re working on rewiring our brains to see endings as a natural and necessary part of life—something to accept, not fear or avoid. Yesterday, we took our first step by reflecting on seasons and life cycles, observing how endings make way for new beginnings. Building on that, today’s reflections invite us to look inward: 💭 What endings are you resisting in

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  This week, we’ve been on a journey to make endings a familiar and natural part of our lives—so familiar, in fact, that our brains no longer see them as threats. Over the past couple of days, we’ve reflected on the concept of seasons, accepting that endings are an essential part of life’s natural rhythms. Today, we’re taking the next step in this journey by revisiting a

🌟 Welcome to Week 3 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart and your mind can connect.  Happy Friday! Today marks the last day of our reflection for both the week and the year before the holiday season. This week, we’ve been on a journey of acceptance as part of normalizing endings in our lives: ✨ Accepting that seasons and life cycles are a natural part of living. ✨ Accepting that our lives produce more opportunities, relationships, and commitments than

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series  ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Last week, we took our first steps toward embracing change.   This week, we’re exploring the idea that our lives, much like a thriving rosebush, often produce more growth than we can sustain. 🌹 To truly flourish, we must prune. Pruning means letting go of: Things that no longer serve us. Things that are “good” but are taking up space for something great. This isn’t

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. 🌟 Today, we’re starting our journey into the practice of pruning—letting go of what holds us back so we can grow and thrive. 🌱 It’s neither an easy nor a quick process, so we’re starting with a simple but powerful question to ease our hearts and minds into the idea: 💭 How does the idea of pruning make you feel? 🌱 ❤️ Take a moment and let your heart speak to you. �

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. Yesterday, we began exploring pruning by reflecting on how the idea makes us feel. Today, we’re taking it a step further, diving into the different types of pruning that apply not only to plants but also to our lives. In his book Necessary Endings,  Dr. Henry Cloud highlights three categories of branches we may need to prune: 🌿 Healthy branches  that are good but not

🌟 Welcome to Week 2 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. We're still working on getting used to the idea of pruning in our lives. 🌹 As we’ve discussed, our lives often produce more growth than we can sustain. To complicate things further, our resources—time, energy, finances, talent, and emotions—are all finite. To allow our lives to truly flourish, something has to go. But where to begin? Let’s try a visualization exercis

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ Happy Friday! 🎉 We’ve reached the final day of this week’s journey into the concept of pruning our lives. Yesterday’s reflection was a big one. I’ll admit—it wasn’t just one question; it was a cluster of deeply related, and yes, hard  questions. So today, let’s take more time to sit with those same reflections. Sometimes, the deeper insights come when we revisit

Welcome to the first week of our Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ This week, we’re focusing on a foundational step: embracing change . Here’s why this is so important—until we’re ready to release what no longer serves us, we stay stuck. The good things waiting for us often can’t begin until we face the necessary endings. But here’s the challenge: It’s not our intellect that drives those first steps toward change—it’s our hea

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ Today, we’re starting our journey of embracing change in our heart. How we feel about change impacts how we handle endings.  Therefore the reflection for today is 💭 What’s your heart’s response to the idea that endings are necessary? 🎥 Watch today's video below. 📖 Since our hearts need time, the article is the same for the whole week, and is available on the r

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ We’re continuing on our journey of embracing change in our heart. Today’s reflection is about creating space for growth.  Therefore the reflection for today is 💭 What do you need to let go of to create space for new opportunities? 📖 Since our hearts need time, the article is the same for the whole week, and is available on the resources  section of my website.

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ We’re continuing our journey of embracing change. Today’s reflection invites you to explore what holds you back. 💭 What has stopped you from making an important ending in the past? What’s stopping you now? 📖 Since our hearts need time, the article is the same for the whole week, and is available on the resources  section of my website. 🌱🔄 See you again tomorr

Welcome back to Week 1 of the Change Reflection Series ❤️ A space where your heart can catch up with your mind. ❤️ We’ve made it! 🎉 Today marks the final reflection for Week 1 of our journey toward embracing change: 💭 What endings are you avoiding? What makes it challenging? Take a few quiet moments today to let these questions sink in and listen to what your heart has to say. 🌱 🌟 That’s a wrap for Week 1! 🌟 How was this week’s soul-searching journey for you? I’d love to

Are you curious about what a Change Reflection Series is? ℹ️ Each Monday, we’ll dive into a fresh topic on navigating change, inspired by Dr. Henry Cloud’s book Necessary Endings and neuroscience insights from the Huberman Lab. But here’s the thing—lasting transformation doesn’t just come from more head knowledge. It comes from engaging our hearts 💡✨ 🌟 That’s why I’m offering daily guided reflection questions to help your heart catch up with your mind, unlocking new oppo