​Writing last week was like getting a green light. Go!

​It's crazy how therapeutic getting words out of my head and on to paper, or in to a post, can be.

​Now I can move on.
​Now I can create action.
​Now I can attract energy.

​Whoa. Did that last one catch you? I'm sort of a secret hippie wanna be. Total daydream believer.

​Well, real dream believer.

Cause it's actual fact that you can attract what you wish to happen. Or bring what you need in your life by believing it. Thoughts become things. Good and/or bad. I 100% believe in this.

​Gabrielle Bernstein is a best selling author and life coach who speaks a lot about this. I've read some of her books, watched videos and follow along various social media accounts of hers. She makes me really intrigued by her thoughts about the universe and how we attract things in our lives.

​Sometimes I'm really in tune with this. Like, I recognize when I'm "attracting" something I needed. For example, feeling stuck and off balance, then I write about it and suddenly I feel a shift... OK that's not the most inspiring example. But one you might relate to is thinking of a person and then they call. This is the universe answering. Do you think I'm crazy yet?

​Cause I totally own it if I am... I really do believe in the power of visualizing, meditating and attracting.

​Gosh, free typing gets me on tangents. But that info was important. Cause just by putting it out there: that I want to achieve balance. That I want to accomplish all of those things. I am making it happen. I am finding ways. I am taking steps.

​And tonight I took a really overdue step at pursuing a long time dream of mine, that feels so easy now that it's done!

​Stay tuned on that ;)

​...It's go time, baby!
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​​Summer is go time, as well. I can just feel the energy motivating me all around!

​I have been craving fitness lately, too. Running, like writing, is becoming therapeutic for me. Sometimes I just need to do it, and it feels so damn good!

​I went for a late night jog with the dogs the other night and surprised myself at how long and how far I could go.

​Physically going, totally aligned with my mental need to go. Like the movement paralleled becoming unstuck in other ways.

​Do you get it now? I get it, I got it, and I'm going with it and I'm ready to make things happen.

​This really wasn't what I planned to write tonight. Actually, I didn't even plan to write. But somehow a week has passed and I wasn't going to let time slip away from me again. And if you can't already tell, I'm on a serious roll here.

​Annnnnd, go! ;)

​XO thanks for reading,

Oh look at that, another blog hiatus!

And let's talk about that last post. It certainly was meant light heartedly...

That's the thing about blogging. Looking back can be a good and/or a bad thing. Sometimes you write in the moment and re-reading makes you wonder how you felt or thought that way.

The start of Spring and those feelings seem so long ago already...

Speaking of long ago, I have been blogging (off & on) for almost 3.5 years now! This little push to return to posting comes to you by having to renew my domain name. Which happens to be 2 years old now!

But there's been other signs, to start writing, too. People asking me about my blog, people telling me to pursue writing, people commenting that this is what I should focus on.

Truth is, I never planned to take this hiatus. As I usually don't plan most ;)

Life has been a busy, yet not busy, whirlwind lately.

Enter post topic: Balance.

I'm struggling with balance lately.

There are so many things I want to do and accomplish in my day to day, and in, well, life.

It's overwhelming.

Where do I start? What do I prioritize? Read: HOW do I prioritize?

And then how do I not feel guilty about all I don't get to do? Or "make happen."

What should I be doing (first?)

This seems to be a good spot to insert a quote from one of my favourite authors:

"Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act." - Dr. Suess

If my heart is talking it wants to follow up with the optimist quote from this book:

"And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)"

But when it comes to balance, my head is sometimes more:

"I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."

Let's call this a come back post though and finish off positive with:

"KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!"

"So... get on your way!"

​Gosh, that book (Oh, the Places You'll Go!) is spot on.

Beyond quotes, too.

Back tracking to how long I've been blogging... This book kind of parallels how my writing has grown. My blog started as a place to document my pregnancy and share baby updates. Over time it evolved in to more "dear diary" posts, insights in to motherhood and life, and writing became a creative outlet for ME.

If I've lost you with the parallel. I'm thinking call it a "children's" book but it's truly a pick-me-up for adults, or inspiration for any age. You might sit down to read it to your child (how my blog started out about baby) but in the end you realize that the story was equally important to you. Like how this little blog is a space for me... To share, to learn, to grow.

So here's to making time for this space when I choose to.

To balance.
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To maybe not doing it all, but making the best of all you can do, when you can do it :)