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Expansion

Wishing you a year of gratitude, insight, and wide-open possibility.

December 29, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

On the eve of the new year, he stood on his balcony, leaning over just enough to feel it arrive. The promise and forgiveness of the night embraced him. He pictured the aches and worries of the last 12 months scatter in the winter wind and fly away. Only their lessons remained.   He listened to the…

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Filed Under: Clarity, Courage, Expansion, Grounding, Live Free, Live Happy, Love You, Self-Help, Short Stories

For hope, comfort, and calling forth guidance.

November 11, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

Dear Universe. Dear Life and Love. Dear Muses and Guides of the Truest Compassion. Dear Higher Self, I love the way the trees’ shadows come to life in the afternoon and how the sunlight dances in their bodies. Please show me more of that. I want to learn to follow the shadows back to the light….

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Filed Under: Clarity, Compassion, Courage, Expansion, Live Happy

A few things I know about fear…and being brave.

October 31, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever hated your fear or wished it would disappear, if you’ve ever shamed it or rejected it…wait, and try this: “Thank you, Fear.” Go ahead and try it now. How does it sound in your voice? “Thank you, Fear, for your unconditional attention.” How does it feel in your body? “Thank you, Fear,…

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Filed Under: Courage, Expansion, For Courage, Live Free

Here’s to showing up.

October 20, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

  Dearest One, Here’s to showing up. To the little bit of courage we found beside our fears and the little bit of kindness. And the time and attention paid to the things that mattered most. May we all be so clear. Here’s to the love we filled our homes with and the hope we filled our…

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Filed Under: Compassion, Courage, Expansion, Live Happy, Words Tagged With: affirmation, blessings, clarity, compassion, Courage, showing up

For the lost days, the troubles, and the fire in your belly.

September 24, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

Tenderness is a solution. But then, there’s also planning. Breathing is therapeutic. So is goal-setting. Clear priorities have medicinal properties. Magic waits in every baby step. Inspiration feeds authentic action. Your response to life’s challenges can be systematic or something more limber, more spacious. Choose a time to act or choose to wait consciously as…

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Filed Under: Clarity, Compassion, Courage, Expansion, Good Work Tagged With: clarity, only ever with love, simple instructions

Open, open, open…you will be soft wonderment. 🌱

September 3, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

They knew her as Dream Girl, Child of Awe. She lived in the fields just outside town. Gardens surrounded her home, and beyond that a wall with a great door. You could find her balancing atop the wall, listening. Her bare feet felt for familiar stones, ruddy cheeks turned toward the sky. “Feel how soft…

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Filed Under: Compassion, Expansion, Grounding, Lightness, Short Stories, Story Tagged With: compassion always, grow through everything, radical acceptance

Let it all drop 🍃

August 21, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

Once, I was a falcon, or at least I tried to be. Fast and focused, I was quick to act, quick to think, never a moment wasted. I wanted to fly the farthest and be the most ruthless. I carried with me always a sense of urgency, as if to say, “Look how much I…

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Filed Under: Expansion, Grounding, Live Free, Love You Tagged With: fear, groundedness, how to have your back, pain, self-compassion, self-love

This is what I trust above all else

July 28, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

Love yourself, come what may. When it comes to suffering and healing, this is the path I trust above all else. It’s the foundation of my writing, the first step in my clinical work, and the lesson I keep learning myself. If it were that easy, I’d leave it at that. Love yourself, come what…

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Filed Under: Books, Expansion, Grounding, Love You, Words

They say there’s a reason we’re here

July 22, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

They say the stars have consciousness. Do you think they dream? And what of? Do they search for us in the sky to wish upon? I wonder how many of our midnight confessions they’re keeping secret. They say the trees talk to each other. Do they dance together in the monsoon? And do they tell…

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Filed Under: Expansion, Grounding, Lightness, Words

What Lies Beyond These Walls

April 29, 2019 By Leslie Ralph Leave a Comment

I long to tell her, “Yes, yes. Come this way.” But it’s best she hears it from inside. – Love.From Love, Child. Love.  There are walls upon walls upon walls in me, and I’ll admit it, I built them myself. I laid them down, brick by brick with my own two hands.  I used to see…

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Filed Under: Expansion, Good Work, Lightness, Live Free, Love You, Words

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