By: Advisor Christine Introducing The Angel Tarot Deck Aries – The Tower The Tower is hitting you with sudden changes this month Aries!  These changes areinevitable and beyond your control.  This influence can shatter your ego, so you may feel vulnerable and confused.  You can only surrender and accept the huge shift in awareness it…

By: Mai Pham “I want to live my life without stress and worries. I don’t need to be rich or famous. I just want to be happy.” ~Unknown Have you ever set a goal and then become obsessed with it, making it the center of your life and arranging everything else around it? Did you think…

By: Aska Kolton “Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.” ~Russ Von Hoelscher Being in love is awesome. Sharing your life with someone special who gets you, adores you, and loves you for who…

By Banu Sekendur “The most perfect relationship is the one that supports you in fulfilling your destiny—the one that empowers you to be everything you are meant to be in this world and beyond.” ~Jan H. Stringer As I was sitting up in my bed, reviewing my “Ideal partner wish list” from six years ago, I was…

By: Eric Ibey “Resilience in love means finding strength from within that you can share with others.” ~Sheryl Sandberg It took me a couple months to start repairing my broken heart after the toughest breakup of my life. I thought we were going to spend our lives together, but the gods of love had other plans….

By Nicholas Montemarano “In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” ~Buddha When asked why I write fiction, I used to say, “Because I enjoy writing and revising sentences” or “Because I like practicing an art I’ll never perfect” or “Because I love to read.” All those reasons remain true,…

By: Lynn Newman “True closeness respects each other’s space.” ~Angelica Hopes It was a Friday, the workweek had ended, and I was excited for my boyfriend to come home. (Okay, I’m talking about an ex-boyfriend—these steps took me time to implement…) I’d gone grocery shopping and had two steaks to grill, with asparagus and a bottle of…

By: Beth Clayton “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ~Eckhardt Tolle The day I decided to leave acting felt like being exorcised from my own body. I was twenty-nine and had been dreaming of being an actor from the time I first saw a regional production of Cats around the age of eight. I spent…

By: Brianna Blake “When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” ~Maya Angelou After having been a rebound girl the summer of 2013, I swore I would never get involved with another emotionally unavailable man who had baggage and was a poor communicator. I thought I was a pro at all of the tell tale…

By: Amit Pagedar “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~Plutarch We live in an age of information overload. Our televisions and the Internet are flooding our senses with a myriad of things. Researchers carefully craft all the advertisements we watch and all the magazines we read to…

By: Erica Almeida “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” ~Sir Thomas Browne As history claims, the phoenix began as a common bird that’s nest caught on fire by the hand of a god-like figure. As the fire started to consume the bird, instead of suffering, she decided to dance in the flames. Eventually, the fire…

By: George Mortimer “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” ~Glen Cook Beep! Beep! Beep! Time’s up. You’ve got twenty minutes to shower, get dressed, eat, and get to work. Screw it—skip the shower today. And you can wait till lunch to eat. Go! Go! Go!…

By Lori Deschene “Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.” ~Brian Tracy There was a time when I thought peace was a destination, in much the same way I imagined I’d eventually arrive at happiness or success. It seemed like something I needed to chase or find—definitely not something…

By: Becky Swenson “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~Dalai Lama While every adoption story is different, they all start with a loss. Our loss turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to us. I’ve had two migraines in my life. Both were when I…

By: Abby Seixas “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” ~Swedish proverb I’m a worrier by nature, and I come by it honestly. My mother was afraid to cross bridges and ride in elevators, boats, and airplanes. Her mother died of cancer at the age of forty, and my mother spent many years—including those…

By: Rita Loyd “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~Louise L. Hay When I first began painting twenty years ago, I had no idea what self-love was. A few years prior, I thought I knew, but when I lost my health to chronic illness and could no longer do…

By: Gray Miller “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~Carl Bard My life has been a long string of failures. The earliest I can remember is having my teeth knocked out when my grandpa braked too hard at a…

By: Myrite Rotstein “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you’ll live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” ~Frank Crane I’m heading home with a latte in hand, listening to This American Life through my headphones when a woman sitting on a bench outside the café waves me down. She looks like…

By: Advisor Stephanie I do believe my future is bigger than my past. As soon as I heard these words spoken by Steve Gleason in his documentary titled, Gleason, it struck a chord within me. There are so many times in life when we are so hyper-focused upon the mistakes we have made. We focus…

By: Psychic Stephanie  In any given situation between people, we are both the teacher and the student. You’re in each other’s lives for a purpose and a time. The poem, A Reason, Season or a Lifetime captures this beautifully. We are put on this planet, in this lifetime to learn lessons and grow. Once you…