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- Are You Running Away from Your Dream? - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanI am in the process of writing a book. It’s a different kind of book than the Soulful Journals that my husband, Dan, and I have written. It’s a full-length book about pushing through fear to live the life of our dreams. It really gets to the heart of who I am – my soul has begun to emerge ...
Views: 1232 - Are You Willing to Toot Your Own Horn? - by Submitted on May 11, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanWhy is it so hard to step into our own power? Why do so many of us have such a hard time claiming our talents and shouting them from the rooftops? We have no problem tooting our loved ones’ horns, yet when it comes to tooting our own, we suddenly become mute. On what page in the “How to be ...
Views: 1432 - Can You Push Through? - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanAt some point in your life, you will realize that it’s time to start pushing. You will realize that your dreams are just on the other side of your fear and trepidation and insecurity and all of that gunk that you really don’t want to deal with and just wish would go away. At some point in ...
Views: 1579 - Choosing to Wake Up - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanOne day I woke up. On this day, I realized that I had been asleep for a very long time – years, actually. Somewhere in my late teens, I decided that life was too scary and difficult to handle, and so I flipped my life switch to auto pilot and crawled back into bed. Every once in awhile, I ...
Views: 1540 - Do You Like Me? - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanWe all want to be loved. We all want to be liked. We all want to fit in. We all want to be understood. We just do. We are social beings. We thrive in groups. We live in tribes. We have leaders and followers and pecking orders and those at the top and those at the bottom. And ...
Views: 1325 - Don't You Think It's Time? - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanI’ve noticed lately more than ever that giving is considered virtuous. The more you give, the better you are. So guess what we all do? We give and give and give even more. I am certainly guilty of this. I love to give. I love working with others who also have generous spirits. It feels good to ...
Views: 1431 - Feeling the Bumps in the Road - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanWe have all had a moment in life (or several of them) where things didn’t go according to plan. We set up a scenario in our mind. We visualized the outcome happening exactly how we would like it to. And we waited for everything to unfold beautifully. And then reality set in. The universe had ...
Views: 1211 - Grateful for an Act of Grace - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanHave you ever gone down a path in life that didn’t feel quite right on a soul level, but it felt comfortable and secure on an ego level? For instance, what if you always knew that you wanted to be a writer, but you had been told so often that writing would never pay your bills: you would have ...
Views: 1232 - If At First You Don't Succeed, Try Try Again - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanWhy is it so hard to slow down – to take ourselves off of the treadmill of our busy lives and just be still? Why are we not welcoming stillness and peace and serenity? Why are we instead choosing chaos and imbalance and busyness? I had planned on taking a day off this weekend. I had big ...
Views: 1300 - It Always Comes Back to Self Care - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanSometimes you just don’t feel like going within and centering yourself and slowing down. Sometimes you feel as though you truly don’t have time for it. Your life doesn’t allow for these seemingly frivolous breaks of journaling, meditating, and soulfulness. What does this have to do with the real ...
Views: 1023 - It's Okay to Feel Afraid - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanOftentimes, when we take a leap and step into the life that we feel we are meant to live, we feel afraid and unsure and unsettled. We wonder if we have made the right choice. We look around us, and it seems that everyone else is confident and entirely sure of themselves and their choices. And ...
Views: 1406 - Making Room for Your Dream - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanWe all have dreams. They start with a simple idea and soon grow into a possibility. And as time goes on, they begin to feel more and more real. We even start to believe that they could actually happen. We really begin to see ourselves living our dreams. We can almost taste them they seem so ...
Views: 1218 - Reconnecting with Your Soul - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanI write a lot about the soul – getting to know your soul, reconnecting with your soul, loving your soul, etc. Because of this, you might think that I’ve had a wonderful relationship with my soul for my entire life. Would you be surprised if I told you that it’s only in the last couple of years ...
Views: 1387 - Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanDo you believe in signs and synchronicity – messages from the universe? Certain events have occurred over the past year that have made me a believer. I believe in the universe, faith, divinity, and love. I believe that there is a power guiding each of us. I believe that we each see ...
Views: 1380 - The Choices We Make - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanTake a look at your life right now. Look at where you live, who you spend time with, how you support yourself financially, your level of stress, your state of mind, your health – all of it. Is this the life that you want to be living? Is this a life that you consciously created or is this a life ...
Views: 2226 - The Importance of Opening Up - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanIt’s not always easy to open up. To be raw. To be vulnerable. To let others see the real you – to let yourself see the real you. To tell it like it truly is. To let go of any pretenses. To step out without a mask. To show your soul. And yet – what is the alternative? Living a life that isn’t ...
Views: 1199 - There is Only One You - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanDo you ever feel pressure to be someone you aren’t? Have you ever felt that if you showed the world the true you, you wouldn’t be truly accepted? We are all under a tremendous amount of pressure each and every day – pressure to look the right way, do our job the right way, perform to a ...
Views: 1156 - We Can Only Change Ourselves - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanThe only person we can truly change is ourselves. What a hard lesson this is to learn, right? And while I truly thought I have worked through my own need to meld someone else into my version of who they should be, I learned the other day that I may still need to work on this. I have a cat, ...
Views: 1260 - What's Your Story? - by Submitted on May 11, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanI was watching Oprah’s Lifeclass the other night and author and speaker Iyanla Vanzant was talking about changing the stories that we tell ourselves. Oftentimes these stories are true. They are parts of our life and parts of our past that happened. Yes, you have been hurt and mistreated and ...
Views: 1240 - Who Knows Where the Time Goes - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2011 from Jodi ChapmanIs it just me, or do you also sometimes feel like while time may be linear, your life definitely isn’t – you instead are spinning around and around, going in endless circles. I will be the first to admit that keeping up with it all and still managing to find time for myself is one of my ...
Views: 1138 - You Be You. And I'll Be Me. - by Submitted on May 11, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanI’m never going to be like you. I could try and try with every ounce of my being, but I still would be a lesser version of you than you already are. I could put all of my focus into acting like you, talking like you, writing like you, being like you – and you would still be better at being ...
Views: 1277 - Your Higher Self - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanHave you ever gotten out of the driver’s seat and allowed your higher self to take over? Have you ever gotten out of your own way and surrendered to your own higher power? Have you ever let go of your lower self – your human self – your ego – your conscious mind and allowed your higher self – ...
Views: 1544 - Your Soul is Calling - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2012 from Jodi ChapmanHave you ever felt called to a higher level of existence, but you resisted because you were afraid to take that leap of faith? Have you ever had a dream that conveyed a message – a powerful message that you knew needed to be listened to and acted upon? Did you answer the call and act on ...
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