SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Our time is limited. Everything can change in an instant, so don't waste time not being all that you desire. Not reaching for your goals or not finishing the journey.  Never let the "noise" drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to trust your spirit and intuition. Look to your heart to find your vision, your soul to find your dreams, and your mind to awaken to all that you are meant to be!

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

If things aren't changing or happening for you

It doesn't mean that they never going to change or happen

But perhaps.....

It means, despite what you think -  you are not yet ready for it

Look to your heart to find the way.  

When leading your intentions from that place, good things will come - in the time that they are meant to occur

Not in the time we want or even understand.

Faith keeps you believing.

It makes all things possible... it does not make it easy! 

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Keep on Believing...

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Find the peace within you in order to have peace surround you. 

Find it within yourself or or it will escape you everywhere. 

If you have peace in your mind, heart and soul then you will have the energies needed for your dreams and goals. 

Enough to create them rather then chase them!

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Work hard. Expect and choose success - it will change everything. Creating a vision for the future that ultimately settles for nothing less then your best. Follow your heart's insatiable desire to dream big.  Make your spirit soar to dwell in the place where wishes come true.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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Barbara Ward-Finneran

Dream big dreams, but relish all the small goals along the way.  Those small steps change things. You'll only catch flight on your dreams if your desires and actions push you to soar.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

When doubts creep in - be still and wait until your heart and mind can act with unity and courage. 

Look to walk in beauty and allow grace, love and wisdom to surround you. 

Open your heart to find the peace and truth that dwells in your soul. 

When you foster these positive things, your fears and sadness are chased away as hope shines through! 

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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Barbara Ward-Finneran

Transform your life, by believing that can live up to your unique and limitless potential. All that you have the courage to dream, is yours for the taking, if you dare to create the actions to make it possible - one goal at a time.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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Barbara Ward-Finneran

The next step is always yours to take. 

Just look forward and begin. 

Know where you want to go, get up and go there.

It may not always be easy but it will always be worth it!!!

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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Barbara Ward-Finneran

Challenge is an opportunity to build strength and confidence. Overcoming the fear of defeat empowers the treasure of the triumph. For what is gained through your own success is priceless.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Those desires that weigh upon your heart that seem always out of reach will remain there unless you take action. Dare to convince yourself that the reality of your dreams is attainable. Dream! Push! Do! For there is nothing to lose - but an enormity to gain!

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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FROM FUNK TO FISHNETS...BRINGING SELF BACK

Dawn Boyle
It's here. The very last week of "summer". I feel like it was over in a blink of the eye. I feel that the days, months and now years are going too fast. I feel like I am entering into a new phase of my life...

A handful of months ago I turned 40. I handled it pretty well, if I may say so. I celebrated with my family and friends (somewhat - I think someone slipped me a mickey that night...you know who you are). I barreled into my new coming of age year with balls to the wall. I have to admit, I fell short of all the personal promises to myself. I wanted to accomplish way more than I did. I will say I kept to my word on a number of key issues, but once again let myself and my attempt at continuing it to be a "ME" year flat line.

I am not one of those people who believes in making resolutions, but I have to do something to bounce back. To get out of the funk that has encompassed me for a while now. I am taking the starting of the school year as my key to unlock the bullshit I have allowed into my own head and release it.

I had a good summer, not a great summer, but a pretty good one. I feel that I really need to start reading the Soul Food on our site, I need inspiration. I need a boost. I need a fresh start.

My friend Mary Sunshine tells me all the time that it starts with believing it and making it happen. So I say this...I believe. I believe that it's time to snap out of it and MOVE FORWARD. Leave all the crap of what is coming up on the year anniversary behind me. To let go of the issues other people have that for some reason I take on as my own. I need to embrace my immediate future and make it happen...what "it" is, I am excited to reveal within myself.

It's time to pull on the FISHNETS and let it ride!!! START SOMETHING POSITIVE TODAY. MAKE A DEAL WITH YOURSELF TO MAKE THIS A YOU YEAR!!! SHAKE IT UP  AND LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE...I am going to give it my all!!

SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran
Amidst this joy and excitement there comes change and the unknown.  No one is safe from the effects of change.  It is part of life and life changes.  We learn to embrace change and accept that love remains.  You have been loved.  That love fills our hearts, overflows our soul with happiness, and engraves the mind with memories.  It will be with you wherever your life takes you.


Keep the Promises that you make to yourself!!!

SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran
WHISPERS TO THE MOON

Before me the light dances with the clouds. Shadows dart and the scenes slip from sight endlessly changing with a touch of grace from the heavens. Bright light falls behind the darkness. Amber hues beg for it to be known that loves illumination is still present. Still real even when hidden from all views. Even when forced from the forefront. Ever glowing and rebounding. Seemingly beaming stronger with every change and recovery. Each Ray that fights for light promising that from the darkness the warmth of light is born and when embraced is appreciated beyond measure. Life blends moments of unobscured light with wandering in the wanes of the overcoming blue blackness. The depths of neither can be comprehended without the other. For they exist endlessly not in spite of the way they compete to be, but rather because the greatest darkness, or the perfection of brilliance illuminated, does not have life without it's counterpart. Light in the darkness, is to love, as the air that we breathe is to life, as the full moon will forever be to night.

Authors Note: Written in the darkness of the morning of 6-18-11's full moon
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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

You have to choose to want it more then you are afraid it. 

Fearlessly cast aside doubt, for if you are focused on doubt you will fail to find victory. 

Actions and attitude line the path to your success  - take a deep breath, smile and do it.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

All that is possible is measured by your persistence. A determined soul knows that it is not about how you are going to do it or whose going to let you. But rather about concentrating your focus on the mantra that nothing is going to stop me!

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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