Author: yourradiantsoul

Life throws curveballs. Change is inevitable. Yet, we often resist it, clinging to the familiar even when it no longer serves us. This resistance, this rigidity, creates unnecessary suffering. Adaptability, on the other hand, is our superpower. It's the ability to adjust to new conditions and challenges with grace and resilience. It allows us to … Continue reading Break Free from Rigidity: Embrace Adaptability as Your Superpower

How often do you check in with your intuition? And what does intuition mean to you? According to Oxford, intuition is "the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning" and according to Psychology Today, intuition is an unconscious sifting through past experiences and cumulative knowledge in which we make quick associations. … Continue reading Follow Your Heart, Your Intuition

Our lives can become so busy that, at times, we default to auto-pilot mode. We do things because "that is how we have always done it" or because that way worked at one point or because it is just the easiest way to get through the day. We can create habits in our thoughts, emotions, … Continue reading Don’t Let Me Get Me

At the core of yoga's ethical teachings lies ahimsa, the principle of nonviolence extended to oneself, others, and nature. Mahatma Gandhi, renowned for his commitment to nonviolence, exemplified creating change through love and compassion. To lead a love-driven life, it's crucial to look within and acknowledge our own contributions to the pain and suffering in … Continue reading All You Need Is Love

In the past few years, a topic that has gained more and more attention is one focusing on the energy of the Divine Feminine. And for good reason. Our culture has taught us to value the traits of masculine energy so much so that things have been pushed out of balance. These energies are not … Continue reading Together We Are

The holiday season can be a very difficult time for many. Lots of emotions pop up as another year is coming to an end and we all become a little more reminiscent. It's not a happy and shiny time for everyone. For some, it is a time of stress, expectations, overwhelm, and complications. For others, … Continue reading Let Your Heart Be Light

Throughout our lives, we may experience things, feel things, be things that we have great difficulty accepting. When this happens, we may push these parts of ourselves deep into the recesses of our minds and act as if they do not exist. This is not necessarily a conscious process, but one that happens so that … Continue reading One

At the beginning of his book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz explains how we are trained into our beliefs when we are young. He points out the influence that our parents, teachers, community, and culture have on what we accept to be true about ourselves and the world around us. We are even taught … Continue reading I Believe, I Believe, I Believe

What is your relationship to time? Do you feel like there is never enough of it? Are you a master of time? Our relationship with time can have an impact on our ability to cope throughout the day and on our resilience levels. As we are living in and influenced by a culture steeped in … Continue reading All This Time

Our voice is so very powerful. It is one of the most powerful things that we have within us. Our voice can manifest our dreams or give life to our wildest fears; it can calm our nervous system or destroy our peace of mind; it can bring our body into a state of health or … Continue reading One Voice

We all have the innate drive to survive and our brains are wired to make our chances of survival as good as possible. Our nervous system will create adaptations based on our experiences to support our chances of survival, but those adaptations can become hypersensitive and turn on when we don't really need them to. … Continue reading I Take It One Step At A Time

In the realm of improvisational theatre, there is a well known and accepted mindset used by the players that involves saying "Yes, And..." in one's interactions with others and with the situation at hand. This concept creates a willingness to accept whatever is presented and to build on it when able. "No" is not often … Continue reading Yes, yes

Sometimes when we make up our minds to move in a new direction or to shift our habits in some way, we buy into the illusion that the intention to change is all we need to get the results we desire. We envision how it will feel once we are there and hope that the … Continue reading Over and Over

Ah, summer.  We often think of it as vacation season. Let's look at the definition of the word vacation: Vacation: noun.  A period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday.  According to the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, it is imperative to take a vacation from everything going on during the summer to prevent burn out. Here in Memphis, the summer can … Continue reading Vacation…All I Ever Wanted

We all know the feeling...We had high hopes; we made plans and envisioned exactly how things were going to go in our mind. And then life does what it wants without even checking with us. Things end up going in a completely different direction and it's like a shot to the gut. The pain of … Continue reading Here Comes The Rain Again