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THE TAO OF DANA
Do You Feel Guilty For Being Happy?
(ellsworth kelly) Happiness isn't for every moment, but I am for the mind that it can be your normal. Lots of you have turned a page toward a life of more happiness or you have always found great joy in life and haven't ever been quite comfortable with the idea that...
How To Start Creating Your Dreams!
Every day, ask for what you need. From a place of humility, ask your life to bring you what will move you forward. Be grateful for every heartbreak, disappointment and obstacle along the way— its how we know with more clarity what we truly need to move our lives...
Is Someone Making You Wrong For Feeling A Certain Way?
(cy twombly) How you feel is how you feel. It was very freeing to realize that I am in charge on my own happiness. It isn't what anyone gives you or brings you. Some people make you happier and make you feel more powerfully one with the world. Some people drag you...
The One Thing That Will Make Your Life Extraordinary
There is only one valuable thing you need to have in life to make it extraordinary. Empathy. The ability to sit in someone's shoes and feel what they are feeling. The ability to suspend your own way of seeing life and see it through the eyes of someone else. Without...
Do You Really Know How To Relax?!
What I learn from Bob as I spend more time with him every day: relaxation is something to revel in! In my downtime, I am never "down"… I am reading, writing, cooking, making art, cleaning, researching… and I say it is downtime because I've cleared space in my calendar...
Allow Yourself To Accept The Best Things In Life!
You are worthy. You are worthy. You are worthy!!!!! Tell yourself over and over again great things, even if you don't believe them yet. At one point you will. In the meantime these words repeated over and again will crowd out the other clutter of...
Did You Make A Big Move Toward A Better Life But It Suddenly Doesn’t Feel Awesome?
You quit drama. You left bad things behind. And now… you should feel exuberant, but you don't!?! Has this happened to you? A breakup, a job you quit, a habit you broke… And yet, you feel terrible! There are a handful of things that can happen when you walk away from a...
Possibilities, Opportunities & Curiosity!
Leave it to a powerful artist to sum up a life of work that only flourishes more by the second in a few words. xoxo Dana
Grain-Free Coconut Wild Berry Oatmeal!
What did you have for breakfast today? All-too-often lately I have slid into a no-breakfast cycle, alternating with a sad breakfast without protien (like a banana or two) or one with no variety (eggs, plain). While the somewhat uninspired breakfast is better than...