Let Your Life Bloom

Top 10 fun & free

Fun is an essential part of staying healthy. I think of it as an attitude and an activity. When I was a kid I loved to make lists. I made lists of lists. My focus nowadays is more on the "To Do" list than anything else. Same with you?

Your new coaching assignment is to make a Top 10 list for all the fun & free activities you can do. Share with friends. Pick one & go have fun!

My Top 10 fun & free list
1) Go to a dog park. Watch the canines play & their owners run after them. Quite entertaining.

2) Sit outside a theatre or fancy place like an opera house and admire the eloquently dressed folks. It's like attending a fashion show. Works well during prom time too.

3) Swing & play in a park playground. What looked huge when you were younger now seems pint sized in comparison. Fun at night. Ideally, only when no kids are around or bring a kid, then you have a good excuse to play!

4) Go to Whole Foods or your favorite deli and sample their current dishes.

5) Renting videos at the library exposes you to old classics you might never see at the video store or on Netflix.

6) Have a spa day at your house. Put sliced cucumbers on your eyes. Spread avocado on your face. Make your own salt scrub and exfoliate away.

7) Collage. Pick up last months magazines at a nail salon (they'll give them if you ask). Choose your favorite pictures and create an art project.

8) Challenge your friends to a dance off. Give creative prizes to each person (strangest move, fastest dancer, etc.)

9) Picnic at night in front of your house. Or you could find a lovely spot in the city or country and have the picnic in your car.

10) Window shop. Mentally decorate your dream house. Glam yourself up with the dress in the display window. Walk through the isles of a kitchen store and envision that raucous and enjoyable dinner party you will throw.

What are your Top 10 fun & free? Share a few here...

Time to dance and be happy

I've always been a concert goer. I love the vibe of the crowds and how much the musician is enjoying performing. Lionel Richie. Wham! Prince. New Edition. The Lilith Fair. Bridge School Benefit. The Wallflowers. Counting Crows. Tori Amos. Ani Difranco. Speech & Arrested Development. Andrew Bird. Soundgarden. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. Digable Planets.

This summer, I've been blessed to see Michael Franti & Spearhead twice. Once at Harmony Festival and...tomorrow! He's playing at the Wanderlust Festival. I've put one of my favorite songs of his below for you to enjoy and happily dance into your weekend. Awesome music and eye candy!

When's the last time you took the bus?

Goin' my way?


You're welcome.

A little ha ha for your weekend

A minister, a rabbi, and a priest were sitting in a boat, enjoying the warmth of the day. The minister says "I left my fishing pole on shore, I'm going to go back and get it." He stands up, walks across the water, gets his pole, walks back across the water & gets into the boat.

The rabbi looks on incredulously.

The priest now gets up, says he's going to get his book back on shore. He walks across water, gets the book, comes back. The rabbi thought to himself - I love my brothers but I can't let them stand me up like this.

He says to them - I'm going to get my sandwich on shore. He steps out of the boat and falls into the water. The priest and minister help him back in. Determined to walk across the water himself, he tries again, only to fall back in.

As he's swimming back up, the minister says to the priest - "We should probably show him where the stepping stones are."

"The most profound question"

Speaking of Abraham, YouTube has a fabulous selection of their videos ranging on issues that we all want the answers to. Here's one I immensely enjoyed, made a lot of sense, and could be easily applied to other questions as well. Cheers!

Trailer week: Imagine that

For anyone that has ever been around kids (and liked it), you'll appreciate this movie! Plus it's all about how play and magic and answers are right there in front of you but we often miss it because we are too busing "working." And I couldn't resist that the imaginary princesses are providing the intuitive information to the main characters. Long live princesses.



Buy my princess book, the first of three, right here.

Random funny habits

We all have these random funny habits that we do unconsciously. Have you ever watched someone do something and think, what in the world are they doing? It's really quite funny when you see it happen. Being able to laugh instead of react feels so much better. Plus it takes the pressure off of the embarrassment we sometimes feel from how weird we can be.

Here's a random funny habit I have:

I collect silverware from other people's houses. I don't do it on purpose. In fact, I don't think I've ever stolen anything ever. It was the one rule I remember being drilled into me as a kid. If you want it, ask. Simple enough. Back to the silverware. I almost always have food on me (to eat, not wear) and I almost always forget to bring silverware with me. Thus, I use others. Funny thing is, this only happens in temporary relationships. People I see once or twice but never again. I now have a random collection that reminds of the people that briefly graced my life with their utensils.

What about you?

Start a movement!

In this case, a dance movement. It's at the minute mark that this gets pretty fun. Enjoy!

The Global Brain

Fascinating! Gives you a whole new perspective, huh?

"It's tough leading a holistic life"

Going through my filing cabinet the other day, I stumbled upon my funny file. Yes, I have a file folder labeled "Funny." We all should! I found a funny (of course) article called, "It's tough leading a holistic life." The author is unknown, though I swear, I could have written half of it! Those in the holistic field will especially appreciate this. If you're of the coke drinkin', cigarette smokin', fast food eatin', mall shoppin' species, you might not get it. That's ok! Perhaps a psychic reading will help you integrate the information. Ha ha!

It's tough leading a holistic life

I was having an out of body experience one day so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and almost astral traveled anyway, but the phone rang. I sensed the negative vibrations so threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart and nearly had a primal scream, but my energy was too blocked, so I did some bioenergetics and self parenting, took some flower essence and ate an organic oat bran ginseng muffin, but my inner child wasn't feeling nurtured yet

so I had a Rice Dream Frozen Pie too, but that made me hyper so I did the relaxation response while listening to my subliminal tapes, but I was feeling depersonalized so I did some polarity work, foot reflexology and past life regression, then rebirthed myself and called Moon Beam, the bodyworker, to make an appointment for Shiatsu, Reiki, Rolfing, Feldenkreis, Swedish, Japanese deep tissue massage, but she flaked and never returned my call,

so I decided to energize my crystals and do some positive imagery because all of my visualization techniques and affirmations made my space feel invaded, so to get empowered, I got a psychic reading from Mother Heart Love around the issue of my assertiveness so I could feel my radiance and have some energy for my psycho-calisthenics and inversion swing before my harmonic brain-wave synergy session, which made me more focused for my actualization seminar, holistic healing class and dreamworkshop,

so I'd be more clear for my Gestalt behavioral cognitive transpersonal Reikian Jungian Freudian Ericksonian session at the hot springs but my aura was weak for my trance-channeling group so I fasted until non to recharge my chakras and I sensed my intuition was high and my cycle focused, so I turned on the ion generator to open up for my neural-linguistic programming session, but I needed to have my pyramid recharged before my guided synchronicity meditation,

so I got some cranial sacral therapy, which aligned me for the fire walk, which was between my tarot card reading and my sensory deprivation tank appointment, but after all that I felt what I truly needed was a meaningful relationship to mirror myself so I went to my personal shaman, and then to my guru, but they were no help, so instead I went to the Intensive Whole Life Earth Rebirth Cosmic Expo Symposium Workshop to find someone who really knew what was going on, but that didn't work either, so I locked myself in a calcium coated Orgone Box and went to sleep so I could "get it" in the dream state.