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No Time to Hold Back on Your TRUE Expression
I want to express my deep appreciation for all of the beautiful comments and connections from my 'garage' blog. For me, it's always vulnerable to share some of the 'wacky' things my intuition...
Dropping What Feels True for TRUTH
Hello Friends! What’s new in your world? I hope you’re experiencing the freshness of fall with a big dose of inspiration.Currently, I’m in a big wave of letting things GO! I have been riding this...
Yoga
A few weekends ago, I did a public yoga retreat at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas. It was so much fun to be in a room with lots of yoginis and yogis, live and in-person; in a spacious room with...
What Are You Producing?
Recently I visited a Presidential library where I watched an autobiographical movie about this president’s life. It played for about 30 minutes in a cool comfortable theater with velvety seats....
The Elephant Whispers
I LOVE this documentary is a beautiful demonstration on giving love for the sake of loving! https://youtu.be/a0J0b_OVa9w
The Summer of Endless Opportunity!
It’s almost summer! Can you believe it? The pace of this new year is offering many opportunities to reflect on how you’re spending your time, along with the opportunity to reflect...
A ‘Steve Hartman’ Feel Good Story
The Heart in Humans Dear Cheryl, I wanted to share this feel-good story with you. In a time when people seem to be more polarized and non-caring, with more bad news than good news reported,...
A Smoother Ride with Change
Anxiety, Agitation & Overwhelm... What's been on my mind lately is noticing how the world keeps changing and noticing how my mind reacts to these changes. It's as simple a fact of life that...
What Inspires?
Living INSPIRED! If you’re in my circle of newsletter connections, you know I’m all about living an inspired and free life. This week I had the opportunity to work with a client who is a...
Summer Hoopla
Here we are in the full swing of Summer 2022. I hope you are full of enthusiasm for how you will spend your time. I just returned from facilitating an Intuitive Painting workshop at Esalen Institute...
“Life-giving” in Taos, NM
How are you? Are you busy with graduations, weddings, or other big life events? I hope this email finds you well and smiling with new hope for what’s ahead. I just returned from Taos, New Mexico...
A Good News Story
Who doesn’t need a good news story these days? Here’s one for you. Kids creating and being fearless or creating in spite of fear. For many years, I have volunteered at the Houston Livestock Show...
Holiday Greetings
I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! My wish is for you to relax, enjoy, and savor all the flavors the season offers. I'm giggling because in these 'flavors' I'm...
A Good Reminder
How's it going? I wonder if you're as surprised as I am that we are well into the month of November and staring right into the face of the holidays? Well, it's true. Here we are. As we enter the...
I Don’t Want to Be a Pickle
Hello! How have you been? I hope you’re doing well. How are you doing with all the change, unclear information, and the way life is unfolding for you? Since March of 2020 does it feel like the world...
Enjoy Today
It’s a beautiful summer day in Houston, Texas this morning. The skies are full of smoky gray clouds and rain is falling hard. Enjoy and relish this day. I just received news about a treasured...
Are You Trying to ‘Problem Solve’ Your Way to Relaxation?
Are you trying to ‘problem solve’ your way to relaxation? Does it look like you have problems that must be worked on and solved before you can move on with enjoying your life? Does working to solve...
Suck it up or Quit: But What if There’s Another Way?
Just the presence of her boss would set her off like a firecracker. With every interaction, she suffered a litany of “feeling criticized,” “getting hooked into her bad feeling,” or “watching my...
Spring Forward
How are you? I hope this newsletter greets you with a fresh excitement for Spring. The clock did its jump forward so fresh newness can’t be far behind. Here in Texas, this is the time when the...
What’s Needed Most These Days If You Want to Lead?
Can you believe it’s March? It was one year ago that I was volunteering with the Horticulture Committee at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo when one of the rodeo’s directors walked up to the...
Relationship Challenges
Here you are! February is wrapping up and March is just around the corner. When I think about March being just around the corner, I’m even more amazed at the crazy weather that hit the country...
Invitation: An Upside to the Times
What’s new with you? I hope you’re doing well and exploring new inspirations that are coming to you in the richness of possibility that seems to come with the beginning of a new year. Possibility...
Happy New Year
Here we are at the end of 2020! I think this year speaks volumes about RESILIENCE. Resilience is your innate ability to rise to the occasion. Whatever the occasion is. It’s the spiritual nature of...
Line In the Sand
I hope you're feeling strong and vibrant. Are you planning your holidays, celebrating the Festival of Lights, or readying to launch a fresh new year? I hope you'll take a break this Friday,...
A Candid Conversation
What are you hungering for? Community, connection, creativity, fresh aliveness? Well all of that can be done safely and virtually. During this time of Covid we’ve discovered that a fun, welcoming...
LOVE: A Fresh New Season
What is new with you? How are you experiencing life these days? I always find it interesting that in times of great contrast in world events, I see there is also great contrast in how people...
September
It's September! What a surprise to be approaching a change of seasons. I hope you're doing well and easily navigating what's in front of you to do. In my coaching practice, clients have been...
Presence. Where Are You?
How are you? Here we are in August. I can't believe September is just days away! I hope you are doing well and the ones you love are too. Recently I was asked to share a wellness tip in support of...
Podcast!
How are you? Are you getting Zoom-literate now? I hope you're feeling well and everyone you love is feeling well too. Exciting news! My podcast is up on all podcast formats. It's called,...
Losing Clarity in Relationships
Welcome to summer! I hope your days are full of hope and promise. This Friday, June 19th (noon CDT, 10 PDT, 1pm EDT, 7pm Paris) I'm having a free webinar on relationships. In my practice the topic...
Society, Creative Destruction, Inspiration
How are you? I hope you’re doing well and finding fresh new ways to thrive where you are. I’m very hopeful during these times that change is happening. I often say that evolution takes many strange...
Covid-Land
I hope you’re doing well! I’ve loved hearing from you about the invitation extended last week to do something you’ve never done before, right where you are in Covid-Land. Right after sending you the...
Quarantine Creative Gaming
Is your quarantine feeling a bit like Bill Murray’s Ground Hog Day? Well, don’t settle for that! You have the opportunity to feel more alive every day, not just the days you can leave the house....
Thank You
How is your quarantine going? Are you discovering new things about yourself, your home, your work, your family? I hope your discoveries are opening your world. I wanted to write a message to all the...
Thrive Where You Are
A few days ago, I planted some sunflower seeds in a cup. I had these on hand because I volunteer on the horticulture committee of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Yesterday morning, I noticed...
Resting in the Big OK
How’s your staying-at-home going? Are you finding fresh inspirations, time to rest, or no time to rest? You might be noticing how the mind muzak you live in has told you, time and time again, a...
Continued Signs of New
I hope this email finds you relaxed in a time of unprecedented change. It looks like some people are loaded with more responsibilities than ever before and others are sitting with a lighter load....
Truth
I hope this email finds you well and settling in to the changes that life is offering up right now. It's a rich opportunity for waking up to the TRUTH that you can love your life at any moment, just...
Signs of New
I hope this email finds you and your family well and rested. I’m sitting at my desk watching the street activity out my window. It’s wonderful to see people moving about on bikes, a wheelchair, a...
Capacity, Resilience, Potential: You’re not tapped out!
Does your mind subtlety suggest to you that you have limits to your capacity, your resilience, your potential? I find it fascinating that our minds are so convincing about what’s available to us in...
Express Yourself! Why Bother?
Since your arrival on the scene of life, you’ve been told how to be, how to act, what’s right, what’s wrong, how to be, been told you’re too much, not enough, you name it, and you’ve been subtlety or not so subtlety influenced by all of these ‘add-ons.’
Love Love Love
In day-to-day life, loving, doesn’t seem like the easiest ride at the amusement park. In real life, there appears to be legitimate reasons to break connection. The connection breaker can be validated and commiserated. We can make differences the problem and build a life from them.
Your True Home
I came across this and thought you might like it. Sometimes, it appears to me that people avoid creating and following inspirations because it’s often an individual exploration. But this essay, to me, states what’s on offer by saying YES.
Following the Inspirations that Come
Following the Inspirations that Come Dear cheryl, Following inspiration is captivating me at the beginning of this new year. It occurs to me that inspiration is an invitation from the Intelligence...
Living Inspired, Naturally!
Here we are at the end of 2019! Can you believe it? I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year! We’re not only starting a new year, we’re beginning a new decade. How...
3PGC – Level Up: Saying YES to Life Zoom Chat
https://youtu.be/BfShj-YP8iU
Light-hearted? Tis the Season
The holidays are HERE! Are you ready for what this season brings? Maybe it’s just me but I know my expectations, preferences, and story book images of the season can surely get in the way of seeing...
Nearsighted, Farsighted, Hindsighted: Giving Thanks
It’s almost Thanksgiving! Can you believe it? It’s the season to put on your gratitude glasses and see all that’s in front of you to be appreciated. Whether you’re nearsighted, farsighted, or...
Support for “Ick” Conversations
Maybe I’m the only one who has an adversity to conversations I’d rather not find myself in. I could have been in the circus or worked for the magician, Houdini, because I could find an escape route...
Following Quirky Inspiration
Taos. This is one word that evokes movement inside anyone who has visited or has longed to visit this unique place. It’s a place filled with real-time postcard images that seem to have been enhanced...
If I Can See It, You Can See It!
Just this week I was asked to share what I do, exactly, with my clients. This question offered me the opportunity to step back and see what matters most to me in my commitment to who I work with;...
Otis Wisdom
One day on a break between clients, I was sitting at my computer and noticed my neighbor’s dog, Otis, loose on the street. I immediately went out to the street and put him back inside his fenced...
Saying YES to Life!
Saying YES to Life. Little did I know that I have been doing this, in a big way, for the past 6 years. It wasn’t as conscious to me then as it is now. Now I see that something larger than my mind...
Natural Inspiration
My soul-sister-artist-friend, Elayne Goodman sent me this creation! I was surprised at the post office with a large package and this treasure was inside. Elayne lives in Columbus, MS and we share...
Nature Moment
Learning Through Living: Insights from a Colonoscopy
Seeing something fresh and new is not special. Human beings are designed to receive insights, fresh thinking, aha moments, whatever you want to call them. It’s built into each of us and you don’t...
Saying “YES!”
For the last 10 years, I’ve been consistently surprised by what life offers me and what my mind makes of these offers. When I speak of ‘offers’ I’m referring to invitations and inspirations that...
Connection: We All Want It
A desire for connection seems to be something we all share. People want to feel more connection in their lives, loves, families, and friends. Another form of connection, often discussed in coaching...
On Offer? More Freedom
Happy 4th of July! In the United States we celebrate the 4th of July as our declaration of independence from Great Britain beginning in 1776. What does Independence Day mean to you? For me, this...
“Pay It Forward”.
“Forget the past and the future, and just be, and you will surely be rewarded by living in the now.” Sydney Banks
“Forget the past and the future, and just be, and you will surely be rewarded by living in the now.” Sydney Banks
Humanness & Insecurity
We’re on the cusp of a New Year! This February marks the 12th birthday of True You Creativity Studio. At the conception of this inspiration, I could never have imagined how many wonderful people I would get to know.
A Great Gift: “Getting Over Yourself”
I love the fact that all human beings have the ability to receive new information via insight. Insight is the effortless, natural ability to see something fresh. Insight seems to pop into our minds from out-of-the-blue. Something that was once invisible to us becomes obvious… that’s insight.
Insight is the effortless, natural ability to see something fresh…
Insight is the effortless, natural ability to see something fresh. Invisible-then-Obvious = Insight.
“I began to see it wasn’t my external circumstances that created my reality…
“I began to see it wasn’t my external circumstances that created my reality; it was the way I viewed and thought about my situation that formed my experience.” -Elsie Spittle
“The life force beyond all things has no form…
“The life force beyond all things has no form, yet it gives form to all things.” Sydney Banks
“Greet life where it meets you.”…
“With a sincere and open heart,…”
“Where are you going to let life take you?”
“Enjoyment of Life is Natural”
“The Principles of Nature are the Principles of Creativity”
"The Principles of Nature are the Principles of Creativity"
“It speaks to connection; that…
"It speaks to connection; that we're all linked at a spiritual level, soul to soul." ~Elsie Spittle
The Cassou Institute for Creative Freedom Board Member: Cherie Ray
I was bitten, but by what? It happened at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in majestic Taos, New Mexico in the early 2000’s. This is where I met Michele Cassou and directly experienced her...
“Our thoughts are the camera, our eyes are the lens. Put…
“Our thoughts are the camera, our eyes are the lens. Put them together and the picture we see is reality.” Sydney Banks
“YOU CAN HAVE YOUR EXPERIENCE…
“YOU CAN HAVE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITHOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE HAVING YOU.” Linda Pransky
4 Tips for Stress-Free Solutions
Hello Friends, Today I’m writing you from Salt Spring Island, BC, where I’m attending a conference. Preparing for this conference is where this story begins. Getting to Salt Spring requires taking...
Want to be Authentic? Let’s Look at the Truth of Who You Are.
Hello Friends- I hope this article finds you smiling and thriving in your life. In my work with coaching clients and facilitating workshops exploring innate creativity, my intention is to...
Love
This morning the sweetest message came to me, out of the blue, "We came from LOVE, we are LOVE, and we will return to LOVE." It appears to me to be a response to a recent inquiry with God about how...
Intuition/Inner Wisdom supports the evolvement of your human-ness.
First Responders: Noticing and Getting Curious
Recently I noticed that when I considered following a new idea or inspiration about my business, some very familiar thinking would show up almost instantly. I also began to notice the same...
Reboot Your Life, a “Do It at Home” Creative Immersion Retreat
Wouldn’t it be grand… to greet the New Year with confidence, courage, and an abiding sense of ease? But holy cow, is that really a thing? Actually, it is! Even if you’ve been grappling for...
Where is Aliveness?
It’s fall! It was very exciting to step outside this morning and feel a hint of fall. With the change of weather it occurred to me how that seems to stimulate an awakeness to life. All of a sudden any feeling of stuckness goes to the back and aliveness comes to the fore front. Aliveness is a topic that fascinates me and seems to show up in the majority of my coaching client’s desires for seeking support…
Where Limitation Lives…
Have you ever wondered where limitation exists in your life? This has became so obvious to me lateley that I felt the need to share. Recently, I have been surprised by the notion of just showing up in life regardless of my preferences and perceived capabilities. It occurred to me, to move with the flow of life and to not micro manage its unfoldment…
Squirrels-Living Discouragement Proof
On Saturday, I was sitting at my computer and something caught my eye. As I looked up, I saw my bird feeder swinging largely from left to right. At first I thought someone had walked by and pushed it because it was swaying so big. As I looked closer, I saw a squirrel working its way up the trunk, getting in position to take another giant leap at the feeder. With the focus…
Consistently Buying a Train to Crazy Town
Where do you go when you’re not present in your life in real time? I don’t know about you but I find myself in Crazy Town. I named this place Crazy Town because I find myself there when I’m living from my thinking and not in the moment. Have you noticed how often you find your mind has taken you into another place or time? It’s like waking up from a dream! You were having the full experience…
Stories and the Actions that Follow
With all the divisiveness and unusual happenings occurring around us in recent times, I often wonder how to affect change or make a contribution. It occurred to me to start right here where I am. This idea showed up. “The most dangerous weapon we possess are the stories we play in our minds which propel our…
A Journey Into The Unknown
Recently, I had the opportunity to ask this question to a group of intuitive painters who were discussing their upcoming travel plans. One person was talking about visiting Egypt, another about her plans to see Japan, and another about her spring break in Portland. As the conversation unfolded, it occurred to me to ask, what excites you about travel? They looked at me with heads tilted…
Overwhelm & A Sponge
Lately, in my coaching practice, I’ve heard many clients talk about feeling overwhelmed. They believe it’s from their current life circumstances, or from the amount of ideas that are coming into them. Oftentimes, when you open yourself to the truth that all things are possible, yes even for you, the flood gates seem to open. When this happens, it all appears chaotic or too much to deal with…