This has been a really good week. I’ve been practicing some of the NLP skills that my friend taught me last week and I truly believe it’s making a difference in my overall emotional reactiveness. When I was thinking about what to write today, I knew I wanted to say more about the insight I had last week and then it occurred to me that I had an experience on …
Switching Gears
This week’s entry will be shorter than usual because I’m writing on Friday night and I want to get it published before you all wake up on Saturday morning. I know how much some of you enjoy reading it first thing :). I didn’t go to Rooster to write this week because I received some interesting feedback from two readers regarding my last post which really made me pause and think …
Choosing “Me”
The playlist at Rooster is so funny today. It’s some pop music from my youth, but the really cheesy stuff like “Oh What a Lonely Boy”, “Mandy”, “You Fill Up My Senses”… you get the idea… I find it so refreshing and I’m sitting here, singing along. Part of that pre-amble is probably me just procrastinating. I’m feeling a little “off” today and somewhat unsettled. I’ve been thinking about why …
Old Story, New Ending
This week I’d like to talk about good stuff. Things have really shifted for me lately and I’m noticing a profound and seamless change in me. I know it didn’t happen overnight and nobody knows better than me how much hard work and soul searching I’ve done to get to this place but it still feels miraculous to me to be feeling the way I do after experiencing such a …
My Complicated Year of Self-Love (Farewell, 2013)
The following is this morning’s Facebook post by a dear friend of mine. It inspired me to get out of bed and finish the blog post I’ve been “processing” for over 3 weeks. It says it all: “Here’s the truth. The truth never dies. The truth lives on and finds you. And does indeed set you free. To live a lie is to die inside. To live the truth is to know …
The Paradox of Tracy
I’m not gonna lie… I went down the rabbit hole last week. I had been riding the wave, being “in spirit”, manifesting miracles, sending vulnerable, validating letters and having perspective-altering realizations and then POOF! Sometime on Thursday afternoon, a fearful thought grabbed hold of me and down I went. I tried everything but nothing could shake it. It made me miserable and discouraged and angry at the universe, as if …
Manifesting Miracles
After my whirlwind trip to New Orleans last week, I’m happy to say that this week has been pleasantly calm, relatively uneventful and a much needed respite from the high energy events of the previous week. As is often the case when I return home from being away, I needed some down time to process everything I had experienced. Unfortunately, that also included a bit of a “shame hangover” from having …
Will the Real Tracy B Richards Please Stand Up
This is a long post, folks. Just sayin’… Here I am, sitting in the departures terminal at Louis B. Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, Louisiana. I’ve been here almost a week, after a last-minute decision to attend the Imago Relationships Conference. I had planned to come all along but flights were too expensive, however the universe intervened and, voila! Off I went! The past 7 days have been a …
Tracy Gets Angry
First, I’d like to offer a heartfelt “Thank You’ to all of the people who took the time to reach out and tell me how much they enjoyed last week’s blog post, “Giving Myself the Gift of Creativity”, as well as my 4-minute music-video memoir, “A Perfect Blessing”. It is so gratifying to know that so many people are able to relate to what I write (or create) and I’m …
The Self-Love Sisterhood: Part Two
So, what is Self-Love, anyway, and why did I choose it to be the focus of the group I recently started called “The Self-Love Sisterhood”? Last week, the story began in March, 2013, upon my return from a Meditation Retreat in Puerto Vallarta. However, in order to fully answer this question, I will have to back up a bit. In my article, “Take a Breath and Fall In” (March 22, …
