Happy Friday beautiful hearts! Loving the vibe from these musicians and feeling super inspired by their talents!
May we all tap into our talents and passions and have the courage to share them with the world!

May you Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude,
​Sarah

Happy Thursday beautiful hearts!  I hope this season is warming your heart and dazzling your spirit.  In the NorthEast we are enjoying very cool temps and a little white stuff on the ground.  It's rather romantic to be winding up the year in the chill of December's arctic blast.  Warming our heart fires with intentions and dreams.  

As I begin to plan for 2018 I find myself focusing on the word LOVE.  As I look towards my goals I notice they all have a similar theme and that theme is LOVE.  Have you begun thinking about the upcoming year?  What are you excited to create?  Do you have any adventures you are planning?  How are you planning to show up in even more epic ways this upcoming year?  Do you have a community cheering you on?  

I find the energy of this time of year to be quite magical and transformative.  There is a buzz of excitement to finish the current year well and to begin the new year with with fresh eyes.  As I gaze over this past year I am OVERWHELMED with LOVE and gratitude for all of the amazing experiences I have had and the beautiful people that are in my life.   I keep exclaiming this gratitude and find myself planting seeds for even more in the upcoming year.  How about you?  

In a Course in Miracles, they determine that there are only two energies at play in the Universe, the energy of LOVE and the energy of FEAR.  As you begin charting your course for this New Year, how will you chose to see your life?  Through the lens of LOVE or through the lens of FEAR...we're all human and it's easy to slip into old patterns and behaviors, but how would your life transform if you moved from a place of LOVE?  

Cheers to the journey my friends!!  May you be inspired, encouraged, and devoted to creating a life you LOVE!!!

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah 

Happy Friday beautiful hearts!  As we move closer towards Christmas, it can become all too easy to lose sight of the best present, which I am coming to believe is our presence.  Your very existence is a magnificent gift to the world.  You don't have to do a thing...you just have to be you!

Perhaps you have been rushing and bustling in the hopes of obtaining the perfect gift for that special person in your life.  In this very moment, I challenge you to just stop.  Place a hand on your heart.  Take a deep breath.  Turn the corners of your mouth upwards.  (Smile!)  And just realize what an absolute miracle you are.  You being you is pretty cool.  

I don't remember the pile of presents, I remember the people that sat around the room sharing moments of life.  Their love is what warms my heart and memories!  

May you continually offer your being to the world!
Cheers to the anticipation of the season!

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah   

Happy Thursday beautiful hearts!  Today is an auspicious day as we mark the Winter Solstice.  It is also a powerfully charged day as the sun moves into Capricorn and Saturn returns home to the sign of Capricorn and will remain there for 2.5 years.  

Capricorn is an Earth energy and this energy invites us to ground down and get clear about what we really want.  As you look into your own life, are you living it in the most authentic way possible?  The energy of the New Moon is inviting us to 'let go and notice what we are becoming distracted by.'  In addition, the energy of the New Moon is asking us to clearly commit our time and energy.  What are you currently committing your time and energy too?  Are you living your life in integrity?  

I'm so thankful for another lens through which to view my life!  The energy of Capricorn helps us to get down to business.   What are we creating in our lives?  Do we love our jobs?  If not, over the course of the next 2.5-3 years the energy of Saturn in Capricorn will perhaps make this more uncomfortable to stay where the Universe doesn't want us to be.  Maybe we have been making up all kinds of reason why things aren't 'so bad,' or perhaps we feel destined to 'stick it out.'  Saturn is a very determined energy and always gets where she's going.  

In the final days of 2017, in the energy of Capricorn and our New Moon, what are you ready to let go of that is no longer serving you?  Perhaps you create a ritual to let things go so that some new magic can enter your lives?

Feeling so grateful for all the moments that have led to this one.  

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah 

Happy Wednesday beautiful hearts!  In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the season, there are plenty of folks who aren't crazy about this season.  Christmas is perhaps a time of mourning or deep loss for folks everywhere.  As I drove past a church the other day they had a service for a blue Christmas posted.  This sign reminded me that this season of anticipation can often times be a season of dread for some hearts.  In the midst of our jovial experiences perhaps sometimes we forget that others have had the exact polar opposite experience that we have had.  

I find myself always returning to words when I need to make sense of things.  If you are a heart that is experiencing grief during this season, then my prayer is that you will feel loved and supported, not isolated and afraid.  I found this quote that speaks so beautifully to whatever grief we might be moving through.  Grief really is just love.

Happy Tuesday beautiful hearts!  Today I am feeling so blessed and excited to share that I will be out and about in the community this coming week signing and selling books.  If you are in the area on Wednesday December 20th, I will be at Ely's to Go from 11am-3pm.  If you've never been to this amazing vegan eatery in Boardman, Ohio, you need to check it out.  Not only can you grab a book, you can also chow down on a delicious meal and perhaps buy a GC for someone special in your life.  

Thursday December 21,  I will be at Studio Oxygen in Poland Ohio at the hOMe for the holidays event which will feature local vendors, as well as sales in the boutique.  Studio Oxygen is such an amazing community!  

And finally on Friday December 22, I will be at Stone Fruit Coffee on Market Street in Boardman from 4-6pm.  This is the site that I wrote Ode to Love.  My friends from Third Class, (a local band) will be playing in order to promote their new album.

If you are in the area come out and join us....and if you are further away, checkout https://coolcreativepress.com to make sure you get our book in time for the New Year. 

It's such an honor to be working so hard and yet so effortlessly for something that I simply adore!  Words have been life giving!  May you all enjoy this season!

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In gratitude, 
Sarah

Happy Friday beautiful hearts!  Loving this chicky and all of her wisdom!  Leaving behind an old construct in service of something better...

Where am I emotionally hooked to having things be a particular way?

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah 

Happy Thursday beautiful hearts!  As I gaze out my window I see a blanket of snow coating the world around me.  It seems to soften the muffles of busy-ness that is in the air during this season.  

I settle in to review my daily to-do lists, reassess my Christmas lists and simply pause in the splendor of the quiet.  I feel now more than ever a pull to live more intentionally?  Can you feel that same pull in your life?   I allow my mind to drift in daydream to what this looks like.  I see myself engaged in enriching conversations, participating in 'work' that brings about passion, loving in ways that are not limited or confined.  Presence brings about a certain element of bliss.  It's not about the presents that we offer to those we love or the world, it seems that it is our presence that matters most.  

I have heard this notion before, but as the season of Christmas draws near I feel the need for presence in an even greater way.  I want to be present to experience the joys around and within me.  I desire an even more aware presence to love those who are right in front of me.  I want to savor our time together as I savor sunsets.  

As you perhaps gaze into your own life this season, how can you create more presence?  Perhaps it's pausing with a cup of tea and feeling gratitude for this moment.   Maybe it's making a time to celebrate with a dear friend and showing up fully to engage with them.  Or just maybe it's knowing when you need some self care time and allowing yourself to disengage so that you can re-engage?

In this season of our lives, may we offer our presence as the most delightful gift:).

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah 

When we dance with life, we are often asked to keep on going.
A faint whisper becomes audible sigh in the center of our hearts.

In the midst of sorrows and regret.
In spite of fear and because of love.
With joy in our step and surrender in our engagements.

To follow our intuition into the depths of a bottomless ocean
To let go as gracefully as the glistening snow.

To expand as vast as the horizon line
To bow in gratitude like the setting sun.

Life whispers, "Keep on going."

We meander like a stream.
​Most of the time not knowing where we end up.
The silver lining; trusting that it will be magnificent, far more marvelous than imagined.

Life whispers, "Keep on going."

Follow your heart amidst your hurts.
Speak your peace and keep on going.
Don't linger on the battlefield of regret.

​Life whispers, "Keep on going."
Labor through the pains of giving birth.
Invite in the intimacy of the beloved.
Trust...just trust.

​Life whispers, "Keep on going."
Success is yours when you realize that this moment contains everything you have been searching for.
Dream your dreams to life.

​Sarah