Far too often words have been minced and the truth has been lost. So, hey there you! I am talking to you! So listen!

Are you happy? What are you doing with your life? Are you being true to yourself? Yes, I am just coming straight out and asking you this point blank. What do you want? Who are you? What is your life for?

Are you waiting for the right moment, the opportune time, the stars to align? Is your life passing you by? Does every birthday go by leaving you a year behind on you having achieved what you know you could have achieved by now? What are you doing with your life? Are you living your life authentically? Are you speaking your truth? Are you?

Recently I lost someone I knew very well. He ended his life, what seemed like, quite suddenly. Like too many others before him, he was gone, and so was his potential. What seemed sudden to me wasn't so sudden for him. He had been suffering silently, bottling up his true pain, depression and sadness for decades.

His loss made me th...

Chakra Balancing can be done to cleanse and unblock our energy centers and to also amplify and energize the health and balance of our Chakras. So get in a comfortable position, take a few deep breathes, relax, and enjoy the calming effect this beautiful meditation has on your energy. Humming vibrations amplify and energize the health and balance of your energy center.

The Crown Chakra reaches the heights of spirituality. It connects us with our indelible and permanent divinity, and is the source of healing energy in the human energy system. The chakras act as a ladder to love, spirituality, and healing, from the base energy of the Root Chakra, which anchors us in life, to the more refined spiritual energy of the Crown Chakra. Like all other energy centers in the human energy system, the Crown Chakra exists as a vestigial core of potential until it is activated.

The Crown Chakra opens when we have attained psychological maturity and spiritual development. The opening of the Crown Chakra coincides with a time in our lives when we may have to face several difficult personal choices and external life challenges. These ultimately bring us spiritual insights and a greater sense of what we are capable of, and what our higher purpose might be. For many, such realizations are often seen as a form of "midlife" crisis – enlightenment often leads us to reject ...

The essence of the Hara Chakra is knowing that what we have and do is good enough! This is the center of physical procreation and the chakra directly affecting sexual maturation. It controls our appetites for food, sex, and pleasure. If we are too indulgent we burn up vital life fuel required by other systems in our body. If we hold back too much energy from the physical part of our lives, we become hungry for what we deny ourselves. Finding the balance between control and letting go is essential for this chakra to function.

The Hara Chakra is concerned with our physical well-being. This means that we learn to honor the body by giving it what it needs to thrive – nutritious food, plenty of rest, and fun, work, and exercise.

This Chakra is also concerned with the quality of deservedness. When we feel that we truly deserve the good we long for, we treat ourselves well. We give ourselves permission to have the things we want. 

Pleasure is another quality of the Hara Chakra. It concerns...

The Root Chakra is concerned with keeping life vibrant and sustainable. It incorporates all the qualities to maintain existence in an orderly fashion, including being constant and stable. It is drawn to the simple activity of staying alive. It focuses upon shelter and sustenance, as well as the things that keep our lives moving along. it flourishes with levels of security that keeps chaos and evil far from our door, and ultimately it is concerned with having the patience and presence to see our dreams come true. 

When we don't feel secure we lose energy, fearing for our existence and wondering whether we will go on. Cultivating a deep sense of inner security helps keep the Root Chakra functional during uncertainty. 

The Root Chakra carries all the qualities of survival from our ancestors. Just as the roots of diseases are transmitted down family lines, so are the spiritual qualities. When we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, we can draw on the qualities our ancestors possess...

The qualities of the Heart Chakra are peace, love, unity, brotherhood and sisterhood, and joy. All these aspects of the heart speak of love of life and a penetrating awareness of the sacredness of all things. The heart thrives on joy and delight; it flourishes on openness, sharing, touch and connection. It contracts with pain, loss, and trauma. Feeding the heart with positive energy is choosing to see the love in people, and the joy in all things.

The Heart Chakra governs the physical heart and lungs. It is essential to our physical supply of energy and vitality as well as the love that nourishes our spiritual existence. Centering ourselves in love gives our life purpose and meaning. It anchors us in Selfhood, which is love itself. What this means, on a real level, is that our very nature is loving, kind, and respectful. Growth and healing open a panorama, where we give love freely and unconditionally and receive it in the same way.

The Heart Chakra is partially open in early childho...

Richa sits down with Dr. Laura Hills, author and president of The Blue Pencil Institute, to discuss Hills' 4 Pillars of Professional Communication. 

 Dr. Hills is a highly accomplished educator, having worked in the field to one extent or another for 30 years. She says, "At the core of everything, knowing how to communicate well and build successful relationships is the key to everything."

Not only does Dr. Hills discuss the 4 fundamental pillars of communication, she also explains the history behind the name of her company, "Blue Pencil Insititute."

This interview is not only fun and entertaining, it's highly informative as Dr. Hills gives viewers a little communication exercise to work through.

If you are searching for ways to improve the lines of communication within your personal or professional life, you don't want to miss Richa's interview with Dr. Laura Hills.

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There is ample stress all over the place in our life; stress is always available, but never imposed on us. We choose stress. The pause on the other hand is also an option. In the pause, we give our minds a rest so it can pivot and choose one experience over another. How will you choose?

The last blog post I wrote was called Beauty of Broken. I have been exploring the theme of 'integration' a lot this year. To me, integrating is assimilating the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of the self.

Last week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my dear friend Ameé Quiriconi for her podcast, One Broken Mom. The podcast is available on all podcast platforms and a video format of the interview is available on YouTube as well.

Could you imagine taking something that is broken, and instead of discarding it, creating something totally new and even more valuable with it?

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing what is broken. A ceramic bowl broken into many pieces is artistically put back together with each crack and vein of the joints filled in with lacquer and then topped off with powdered gold dust. Also called “the art of joinery” and “golden joinery”, this process creates a whole new artifact, significantly greater in value than the sum of its broken parts. 

Think about this for a moment.

According to the philosophy of Kintsugi, it is in the repair of that which is broken that true and lasting beauty lies. The key is not denying the broken, but rather embracing the broken parts, and even celebrating them, sharing them and putting them on display for others to cherish. 

When I see this from the perspective of personal transformation, I think of relationships that have suffered a blow and perhaps even ...