Learn the real reason you didn’t do what you said this year

For creators and writers

Are you ready to put yourself or your writing out there more?

Do you break promises to yourself about business or writing goals?

At this time of year we find ourselves reflecting on what we said we were going to do and what we actually did this year.

Before you go making your New Years resolutions and goals for the next year, I am offering a free workshop to give you clarity on:

–Whats really stopping you from doing what you said you would do

–Understand the three areas creators and writers get blocked so you are clear on what’s been going on for you.

–Why starting to focus on how many people you can help is so important (so you stop worrying about what other people will think.)

–Get work out in the world helping people because you make faster progress on your projects and writing

–Easily figure out what you need to do next because you know how to let your intuition guide you

There will also be time on the call to write and reflect have some reflective writing about 2016 and set intentions for 2017.

Free 60 minute Talk with Q&A

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PS I promise we will be really gentle not judgemental! I will share from the heart as well. I hope you can make it to receive this fantastic information to help you make faster progress and do what you said you wanted to do or something even better xo

Sign up Here for the free class on “What’s Really Stopping you” 

Hope your week is off to a good start. Have you had any time to get quiet and listen in? It’s a hustle bustle world out there but do not forget to listen to those quiet reminders from the inside.

Below is the reading for the week, and if you’d like to receive  some EXTRA insights be sure to subscribe to get updates by email.

This week we are listening inside and reworking creative projects.

You may also enjoy this Youtube Video on the message for the week.

This week’s spiritual message is inspired by the Intuitive Tarot card, the Page of Wands Reversed.

It is possible this week that you may receive bad news, or have to rework something for a project. It could also mean that you need to take some time this week to really look inside and attempt to hear the messages that your soul is giving you.

If you have been ignoring some kind of inner call, the signs will get louder and may possibly cause trouble, so admist all the hectic energy of the ramp up to the holidays, be SURE to have downtime to hear your self in the silence. You absolutely need to get clear on what your soul and intuition are trying to tell you, it is VITAL this week. Reach out to me with an email if you want some 1-1 help on this to know what to do next and connect to your intuition.

There is a sense of newness to the ideas or projects you are working on but it is easy to get frustrated. Part of you may want to give up. At the same time this situation may provoke new innovations that will assist you in the long run. Be open to new solutions and do not give up hope. This situation will show you a new side of yourself.

This part of you has been waiting to emerge for a long time. You may receive confirmation messages around your core purpose that echo things you have been feeling for quiet some time now. Maybe it won’t all be “new” things you learn this week, maybe more reminders of what is vitally important to you right now and in2017.

Remember that email subscribers get extra insights!

Soon I will be announcing a free workshop to help you figure out what really stopped you from doing what you said this year!

Keep an eye out for news about “What’s Really Stopping You” a free event where you will discover whats really stopping you from doing what you said you would do

Contact me for more information about how to connect to your intuition so you always know what to do next in your business or creative project, and reach more people.

It’s another beautiful week to connect more deeply to who we really are and share our gifts with the world. I love sharing the “cosmic weather” as I feel tuned into it. They seem to be resonating with those of you on facebook and instagram this week! Thank you. Hope it helps you out so you can do more of what you are here to do.

Just in time for the New Moon in Sagittarius! Happy New Moon

You may also enjoy this Youtube Video on the message for the week.

This week, a new emerging creative power is coming forward, through our feelings, our passion, our actions and deeds.

Trust yourself and your ideas! This week drops of divine inspiration are making their way towards you, like brilliant drops of water sliding down lines of spidersilk.

You must trust yourself, and continue to breathe deeply and make space to receive these gems of insight. Take time for space to receive and take care of yourself. This will help you know the difference between the chatter of your ego mind, and the true direction of your highest and wisest self.

Listen and prepare because soon you will have the strength, power and clarity to roar like a lion, and spread your gifts, message and perspective with the world. You are here to make a difference. Things are changing. But give yourself the right to enjoy the process. Take breaks and savor the good things.

This card bodes well for creators and innovators.

You may also wish to review the messages for the last several weeks. They are on my site here.

Lately I am finding these themes are repeating over a long period of time...also this week we start the Pre Shadow of Mercury Retrograde. I will likely be talking more about what that means in future weeks. Basically–these themes are here to stay for a while, and we will likely be recycling them.

But this is a great week to go easy on yourself because you can’t get it all done right now.In fact you have a long time to wrap up what you are working on, but the most important thing right now is to get clear on what is important and what needs to happen FIRST.

Give me a shout if you need any help with this–I frequently work with overwhelmed writers and entrepreneurs to help them to know what to do next. We do this in both a strategic way and an intuitive way so it makes practical sense but also feels really good. Happy to tell you more, shoot me an email.

PS This week is the last chance to receive my Core Purpose Healing if you feel stuck or lost when it comes to knowing what you are really here to do right now.

Because this is such a volatile time and so many people seem to be upset, I’m going to offer that Core Purpose healing recording for sale at $20.

The focus is stepping into your Core Purpose and merging with your inner High Priestess. She is the part of you that knows exactly what to do next. She is your intuition. We need her now more than ever.

You receive a 45 minute intuitive and healing session, prerecorded for a group. Get it right away.

Usually you can’t buy the session with me without being committed long term but go here if you’d like this one time special.

Here I am connecting, connecting! Today I’m here to tell you about the cosmic weather of the week and how to navigate it so you can make faster progress.

You may also enjoy this Youtube Video on the message for the week.

Because this is such a volatile time and so many people seem to be upset, I’m going to offer that Core Purpose healing recording for sale at $20.

Usually you can’t buy the session with me without being committed long term but go here if you’d like this one time special.

The focus is stepping into your Core Purpose and merging with your inner High Priestess. She is the part of you that knows exactly what to do next. She is your intuition. We need her now more than ever.

We need YOU now more than ever, you and your purpose. Please enjoy this recording if you would like a boost to make faster progress on that. I trust you will feel the calling if it is right for you.

You can also contact me if you would like to talk about this or how to make faster progress on your business or creative goals.

I continue to desire a deep connection with you even in these confusing times where I have so many thoughts, it’s difficult at times to know where to start.

I’ll start by saying this week has been an up and down, rough ride for me. I’ve talked to many people that are hurting.

What pains me the most is seeing disenfranchised grief unfolding–disenfranchised grief is a loss and grieving process undertaken when a person feels misunderstood by society or the people around them. This includes people not understanding why that loss was so extreme and merits an emotional response. My Professor Jeffreys taught me this and has a book called “When Tears are Not Enough” if you’d like to read more on grief. Feeling misunderstood in your grief takes longer to heal and can be very complicated if we can’t process it.

With so many people hurting for so many reasons, I urge you to be kind to yourself and let’s all do our best to consider that others may be hurting for entirely different reasons and motivations that we may understand.

Something useful may be to meditate with the feeling that something bigger in the universe understands everything you are feeling. You can do this by sitting quietly with your physical sensations and bringing in an understanding light to witness with you or an angel to hold you in whatever you feel right now. Just allowing yourself to feel it as legitimate and imagine you are accompanied and understood deeply without even needing to explain or justify your feelings. Only by honoring what you feel will you be able to process and let it go.

That brings me to the theme of the week: Releasing Limiting Thoughts. One of the big ones I have been releasing for example is that my voice doesn’t matter. Considering I have nearly a thousand people I can email weekly, and send posts to, you may think it strange, but it goes to show that we all have our ways of framing reality that can get in our way. This week we will be better able to release and let these unhelpful thoughts go so we can step into our purpose.

I’m speaking so much about Purpose today because it was the major theme in my Monthly Forecast and Healing Session that I record monthly on the Full Moon for my members. That was Monday.

Because this is such a volatile time and so many people seem to be upset, I’m going to offer that Core Purpose healing recording for sale at $20.

Usually you can’t buy the session with me without being committed long term 1-1 or as a member of my monthly programs like Sacred Writing Circle (here) and theTransformational Member program (here) program, but today I’m opening this special up so you can receive it for $20.

The focus is stepping into your Core Purpose and merging with your inner High Priestess.She is the part of you that knows exactly what to do next. She is your intuition. We need her now more than ever.

We need YOU now more than ever, you and your purpose. Please enjoy this recording if you would like a boost to make faster progress on that. I trust you will feel the calling if it is right for you.

You can also Contact me if you would like to talk about this or my other offerings to help you hear your intuition, trust it to always know what to do next and make faster progress.

I’ve been wanting to write to you and it has been an evolving process to find what I want to say. I am committed to remaining in deep connection with you, so here goes.

While I know many people cannot attend, I will be teaching a free class on “Why Your Writing Is Not Done Yet” In Annapolis, MD this Sunday and I am super excited. Please let me know if you’d like to attend. (Info here)

But what’s coming to me to share is that you hold the keys to your reality.

This is the message–and a joyful one–that I want you to know about.

Maybe you are aware that on social media, I share a weekly reading. The outlook this week is very positive. I know many people are feeling anxious and upset by the election happening today.

In fact yesterday I heard the Director of GRASSROOTS, a suicide prevention organization in Maryland, and he said they anticipate an increase in suicidal behavior after this election. It has been a ramping up of mental health problems as it has approached, which is an increase from previous elections as well. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts please direct them to check out this free app and hotline.

My heart goes out to anyone feeling upset today. Apologies if this note makes you feel upset but it seems too important not to mention. Several groups of people and I have spent time in prayer and energy work. I’m not affiliated with any religion but I believe in the power of setting a positive intention. I know many people are praying today across the planet.

Let’s be open to celebrating and appreciating the good things going on in our lives. Please protect yourself from negativity, if you need to avoid certain news sources today or facebook or want to seclude yourself, that is ok. If you want to be with friends or family, that is ok, too.

But most of all today I want to say: Let yourself have a lot of heart and a little bit of fire. We will all have lives that continue on tomorrow.

As we approach the new year, it is time to plant seeds and bulbs that will sprout later. But you won’t be able to plant the best seeds if you don’t know what is truly going to make you happy, and how can you know that if you don’t let yourself believe in something or believe good things are possible for YOU.

If you don’t let yourself want for something and get passionate about it because you can’t allow your heart to go there, then the door is going to be closed. YOU hold the key to your reality, by embracing a lot of heart and even just a little bit of fire, sweet Sofia.

Note that this has nothing to do with the election this is about letting yourself want things that are only about you. What do you want? Why do you want it?

There’s a special quality of apathy that sets in after we have been disappointed that keeps us confused and stuck. Be careful to notice this. I invite you to see those places of apathy, sit with them, and explore how to heal so that you can have a lot of heart and a little bit of fire in your life.

Sometimes guilt can set in and block us but we can turn it around. Yesterday as I heard the speaker talk about suicide in my graduate Loss and Bereavement Class at Loyola, I felt my whole body have a reaction. I realized that the fear I was feeling wasn’t just discomfort with the subject but I was feeling survivor’s guilt because my mother died indirectly from self-destructive actions. I’ve heard about survivor’s guilt a billion times but only now did I realize how it colors MY experience, and how it has gotten in my way.

Finding clarity on what was wrong turned everything around and I felt myself expanding and transforming–full of heart and a bit of fire, too. I know I instantly became a gift to the rest of my class by raising my vibration and that of the room. A fellow student reflected to me about my uplifting presence today. But I have been through a lot, and I know that this sort of shift is possible for us all.

If you as a creator, writer or entrepreneur need help feeling clear and fired up on what you are doing next, Contact Me. If it feels good we might have a conversation to see what you might need to hit something really important and make faster progress at it, too. Maybe I can help or maybe I know another source of assistance.

Please take care of yourself today. Be open to possibility and look to see where you can open your heart, feel the fire and celebrate your every success.

I hear something along the lines of this from women writers and creative entrepreneurs  ALL the time:

“No one gets me cuz I’m weird (or geeky, or different).”

-or-

“No one gets my work because it’s hard to describe (or complex, or different).”

But here’s what REALLY is going on, as I heard a colleague say recently:

“It’s not that you’re too weird. It’s that you’re not weird enough.”

Here’s the thing – what makes you unique, different and unlike ANYONE else – is what SETS YOU APART from everyone else doing similar work.

Your weirdness is important.

How you are UNIQUE is your POSITIONING, your “Unique Selling Position” or “Value Proposition.”

But often we resist showing our uniqueness in our Marketing, worried we’ll be too weird.

And showing our quirky or weird in video?

Hell, no.

That’s exactly the problem!

Until we find a way to STAND OUT and GET HEARD among the numerous others who do similar work or who have a similar message, we can not have the kind of impact, reach and success we want.

But figuring out the ways you and your services are TRULY UNIQUE can be elusive (to say the least).

Here’s a hint: You find your Positioning in your quirky, your point of view and your strong opinions.

You don’t have to figure this all out alone.

If you want some help bringing your quirky and uniqueness out in your Marketing and Videos, give Sarah Michael 21 Days and she’ll sort you out.

Check it out here.

Sarah is heading into the next round of her game-changing course Project: You on Monday, October 31st.

Project: You is ALL the INNER work you need to get you COMFORTABLE passionately Sharing your Opinions + Owning your Power.

By the end, you’ll be comfortable:

– Showing your face on camera + being SEEN in the physical

– Sharing your opinions and quirkiness

– Giving of your MOST brilliant and unique gifts and talents

– Being your most brilliant, clearly demonstrating you know your stuff

Through the process, you’ll also figure out your 1% Unique Factor, which is what Sarah calls your Unique Positioning, so you SOUND like YOU (and only you).

And bonus! You get to connect more deeply with me because I love going through this event. I meet the coolest weirdest women this way. I love making friends and deepening connections so I hope you will play with me!! xoxoxo

Get the full skinny + Get started here.

Sarah is someone I’ve come to trust for ways to bring more of ME out in my Marketing. If you want some help with video, she’s your gal.  

Just today, I am opening the doors to let more people read what I have been working on, my book Freedom. I want to tell you why sharing with others is so important, and also give you an opportunity to enjoy a free preview of the book.

This moment of sharing is what I call “closing the loop.” I actually got the phrase about a month ago talking to my uncle who is an editor and a poet. He was saying how something changes, not just when you publish writing but when you know people are reading it. Even reading something out loud in front of people can get that affect, or having the feedback that yes, it was heard. Then you are more inspired or you get good feedback and you can start back fresh with the writing process again with more energy.

I instantly was grateful for this phrase to put something intangible into words.This topic of closing the loop is so important, I will be discussing it in my upcoming presentation at the On Purpose Woman Conference!! Very excited for that talk on “Why Your Writing is Not Done Yet.” If you are in the Maryland area I hope you can come join us there.

I see a lot of people get stuck in this part of the creative process— something goes wrong here when they try to share or maybe they just can’t bring themselves to do it because the project isn’t “done” enough yet. Regardless of what goes wrong, those writers often end up having a serious decline in productivity and are missing out on all the yummy feelings that come up when your work has been heard and loved by another person. If we can close the loop successfully, we will make faster progress in a short amount of time.

It’s a journey.

I’m happy to say that after closing the loop behind the scenes with my Freedom test readers and editors over the last three years, I am now opening the work up to an even wider, more public, audience. It is time for me to share more of my book Freedom with the world. Soon it will be published, so I’ve decided to give away the first few chapters so you can read and get a taste of my style.

So if you haven’t already signed up to get information about Freedom, you can sign up here to get sample chapters for free, right here.

I hope that this email inspires you to make steps towards closing the loop in your own work and creativity, whether you are a writer or not. It’s time to make a move towards sharing your dreams with other people. If you need a safe space to do so, you can always contact me for a discussion around your goals and challenges making progress and sharing your work with people.