The Wisdom and Magic Blog
Kintsugi – Mending Cracks With Gold
There is a Japanese art of pottery mending that is known as Kintsugi (golden joinery) or Kintsukuroi (golden repair). In North America, when we break a piece of pottery, a plate, a bowl, a vase, etc., we usually do one of two things. Either we throw out...
Is Your Glass Half-Empty or Completely Full
Airline pilots have an expression - 'excess capacity'. Excess capacity is the ability for anyone to cope with additional stress and pressure in their lives. Someone who is stressed and having difficulty dealing with their normal everyday life has very...
Why Some Life Coaching and Self-Help Techniques Don’t Work
I have been working as a Life Coach for several years now. I've completed and became certified in several top notch coaching programs. And, I believed that the techniques I was being taught were universally beneficial. That they would work for everyone....
How to Shift Your Identity
If you read my last two blog posts (available here and here) you should have some understanding of what Identity Shifting is, and whether or not you are interested in consciously shifting your identity to something/someone you are dreaming to become. I...
Identity Shifting – External Sources
Identity Shifting - External Sources Our identity is created not only by internal sources, what we say, think, feel, and do, but also by external sources - our immediate environment. If someone who did not know you very well walked into your house, what...
Identity Shifting
Our Identity How do we really know who we are, what our 'identity' is? For that matter, how do we know who someone else is? I can easily say and believe that my name is Anne Bolender, that I have Lupus, that I am a Lupus Life Coach, that I love to travel,...
A Positive Mindset – Tips and Techniques
In my last post, I wrote about the importance for people with Lupus in maintaining a positive mindset. If you missed that blog post, you can read it by clicking here. I do admit that creating or maintaining a positive mindset while you are in the midst of a downward...
Feel All The Feels
You've just heard the diagnosis from your Doctor that you have a chronic autoimmune disease called Lupus. All of a sudden, the world around you disappears and you can't focus. In fact, you feel numb. You can't think. You certainly can't process what you...
Celebrate All Your Successes – the Big Ones and the Small Ones
How do you define "success"? I used to define success based on how others defined success - money and all the consumer trappings that money can buy; a full roster of repeat clients; eating in the finest restaurants; first class travel.... Don't get me...
When a Solo Entrepreneur is Diagnosed With a Chronic Illness
As a solo entrepreneur, one of the hardest but best lessons I have ever learned was to be prepared for the unexpected. Unfortunately, this lesson was learned very recently - and after a chronic illness unexpectedly forced me to completely stop working on...
What Is An Authentic life?
The word 'authentic' has become one of those seriously overused cliches to the point where it's easy to roll our eyes at the mere mention of living an authentic life. We have become desensitized to the pure beauty of what living an authentic life really means, and as...
What Do You Love About Your Life?
And by 'LOVE' I do not mean 'like' or 'feel comfortable with'. I mean what aspects of your life or activities in your life do you love to the point where you could not live without them! I started thinking about this the other day (yes, I know - dangerous at the best...
It Is Never Too Late
One of the stories we tell ourselves, especially as we begin to mature, is that it is too late to begin the process of transforming the life we are currently living into the life we were meant to live. We get comfortable....the job we hate is, at least, familiar to...
The Power of the Positive “What if…..?”
Last summer, a local radio station ran this photo on their Facebook page advertising a show dedicated to people who were about to leave for a vacation. The show was all about the things that could go wrong while people are on holiday. I'm sure from the picture, you...
Consciously Creating Travel Magic
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you used the power of deliberate creation when you traveled? Would it work? What would you set an intention for? What would you try to manifest? And how would you go about doing this? Would you manifest first class travel...
10 Small Steps That You Can Take Today………
............ to help you get motivated and get moving into your new lifestyle. One of the biggest challenges we face when we attempt to make big lifestyle transformations is that the gap between where we are right now and where we want to be can be huge! The bigger...
10 Things To Consider Before Moving To A New Country
There is something romantic, exciting, adventurous about moving to a new country. Or maybe the decision to move to a new country is the result of having had several wonderful vacations in the area being considering, or is based on something read about in books or...
Can Subconscious Limiting Beliefs Affect You?
Beliefs are just thoughts that we think over and over and over again. Thoughts become habituated in us and create our beliefs. Limiting beliefs are repeated thoughts that have a negative impact on what we are trying to accomplish. They limit our ability to succeed. We...
Seeing Driftwood – Recognizing Signs of Success
Have you ever walked along a beach after a storm and noticed how littered the beach was with sticks and bits of debris - driftwood. The average person would likely walk past this debris, ignoring it, or silently thinking about how untidy the beach looks. A creative...
Focusing on Love Versus Happiness
Recently, there have been a lot of conversations, blogs, and information published that is focused on happiness. Happiness as a means of making significant successful changes in a person's life, and as the basis for building an ideal life on. If the job you are...
Four Tips To Help Achieve Greater Alignment
For Conscious Creators, the concept of alignment refers to the situation where you are a vibrational match for what you are trying to manifest. So, for example, when you are in alignment with trying to create a new lifestyle, then you are a vibrational match with the...
The Alignment Trinity
Being in alignment is a powerful manifestors technique and the Alignment tool can help conscious creators be aware of whether they have achieved alignment, or not. Sometimes, both beginner and experienced conscious creators struggle to successfully manifest their...
Food Magic to Enhance Conscious Creation
The history of food magic is absolutely fascinating, well, at least I find food magic fascinating 🙂 For centuries, foods have been used to bolster the energy of rituals, of conscious creations (even before the practice was identified as Conscious Creation or Law of...
Can the Law of Attraction Help Me Get My Ex Back?
Valentine's Day is just past and all you can think of is your ex. You miss them. You want them back. You're willing to try anything to get them back. So the big question on your mind right now is "How do I use the Law of Attraction to bring my ex back?" Not...
Unconditional Self-Love
Everyone has heard of unconditional love - affection without any limitations, love without any conditions. It's the kind of love we look for in soulmates. It's the kind of love we receive from our pets. But is it the kind of love we have for ourselves? I was reading...
Everyday Values vs Personal Core Values
I was having a conversation with a friend the other day about personal core values and the question came up about how many personal core values an individual could have. Numbers discussed ranged from two personal core values to 97. My response, and what I firmly...
Welcome 2016, A Year of Clarity and Energy
Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016!! I don't think I have ever been happier to say "Goodbye!" to a year before, and so excited for a new year to begin. The year 2015 was so bad that I didn't even want to do a review, not even a personal review, in case I attracted more of that...
Clarity First, Then Manifest
Have you ever tried to manifest something and thought that you hadn't been successful? You know you worked your magic to the best of your ability. You were certain that the Universe was hearing your desire, and that all the right energies were lining up perfectly for...
Sliding Through Overwhelm
Overwhelm is a very interesting place to visit, but I am not really excited to be here!! Unfortunately, overwhelm seems to be a place that most big transformations take you through at least once on the journey to something new. It is almost a necessary step towards...
Intuition and Your Core Values
Why are we attracted to some things but not others? Why do some things bring us pure joy but to other people, they bring nothing but pure misery? How can we design a life that is fully in alignment with things and people and activities that we love? What if there was...
