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Here's the flowers he brought me when picking me up from the airport. He said, "But I didn't pick them." How sweet is that!?

Days 150 to 162 – A Very Sensitive Girlfriend

By on July 11, 2012 in Full-On 365, Love and Relationships

I am not quite sure what brings me to the precipice of insanity, but lack of sleep these days seems to be pretty good at it. My poor boyfriend. I have been cranking on getting my ducks in a row for a three-month adventure and as a result, I am a bit behind on the [...]

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Days 87 to 90 – Flipping the Kayak and Getting Connected

By on May 1, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

So…some of you may be wondering what happened after the kayaking trip? I flipped the packraft while following Thai into a rapid, and spent the rest of the trip mildly hypothermic, slightly pissed at him for taking me on a “float” trip with rapids (one called Horseshoe Falls or something!?), but also knowing mostly I [...]

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Living Full-On Every Day

Days 83 to 86 Feeling Disconnected

By on April 26, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

Monday I danced in the warm rain. It felt so grounding to have raindrops landing on my face, feeling my body interact with the elements and with my surrounding environment. Being indoors (by that, I mean in a temperature-controlled house) felt stifling after I had spent so many of the last few days in Alaska [...]

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this is the box my soul mate gave me over a decade ago that was in the box

Days 27 and 28 – The Box: Letting Go of a Poverty Mindset Around Love

By on February 29, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

Do you have a Box? I mean, THE box. The box that holds all those old pictures and love letters, cards, newspaper cutouts, plane ticket receipts, foreign money etc. Some would say Pandora’s Box;) I had one of those boxes. Today, I went through it and – gasp! – threw stuff out! Full On. It [...]

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Can I Trust You?

By on February 28, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” ~ Spencer Johnson The ability to trust in all our relationships – not just intimate ones – allows us to take the risks necessary to grow. In addition, knowing how we decide someone is trustworthy is ultimately not so important [...]

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No, it's not a skirt...it's a freakin' dress!

Days 17 and 18 – I Almost Picked a Fight in Lingerie But Didn’t

By on February 19, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

Many of you know me as a life coach at my company, Freedom Junkie. You may not know that I am also a midwife, and when I am on call, it is easy to feel Full On when catching a baby, but kind of hard otherwise. You have to stay close to the hospitals (so [...]

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Stack of $100 bills

Days 15 and 16 How to Talk Money With Your Partner

By on February 17, 2012 in Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

Full On 365™ took it to the mountains, and it was awesome! However, the most full-on part of the past few days was going deep with my partner. We spent our first Valentine’s Day together, even though we’ve know each other for years (12, to be exact!). We both had to take big risks to [...]

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Day 3 – Full-On Vulnerability

By on February 3, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships

Today I woke up with a message from my partner saying he’d be coming home a half day later than planned. He’d been backcountry skiing in Bend for a few days. The snow was awesome, the mountain was beautiful, and he was enjoying exploring. Awesome for him, right? But what came up for me was [...]

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Letting Go Relationships That No Longer Serve You – Cord Cutting Meditation

By on October 1, 2011 in Confidence and Courage, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

Folks from the October Ziji Up! Challenge asked me to post a cord-cutting meditation here. This can help you energetically let go of relationships that no longer serve you, such as friendships you’ve outgrown, people that you want to push away in perhaps not-so-nice ways, and relationships that still seem to suck your energy and [...]

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Unshakeable Confidence: Facing Fear, Taking Risks, and Surviving the Falls

By on July 29, 2011 in Confidence and Courage, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality

ziji (zē’jē) n. 1. radiant inner confidence I’m writing this sitting on a plane ride from North Carolina en route to Ashland via San Francisco. Sitting next to me is Fred, a Texan hydrogeologist. He tells me a story. It starts with a dream. Back in the day as a single man, he promised himself [...]

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