As a healer, author, mentor, mystic, and coach for leaders, healers, and change-makers I see heart-centered folks giving all of their time, energy, and attention to their families, clients, and communities – without remembering to give to themselves.

In order to give to yourself, you also have to be open to receive.
No matter how much you DO, if you can’t receive you’re going to end up drained – physically, energetically, emotionally, spiritually. Yet, receiving often feels deeply uncomfortable. How does it feel to receive a compliment? Or a gift? Social conditioning, feeling selfish, not feeling worthy, not wanting to feel obligated to give even more… makes us avoid receiving. But we keep on giving, even when it hurts.

We’re doing it backwards ya’ll.
In order to give more, we must receive more.

Think about breathing. You can’t thrive by only exhaling. You can’t exhale huge, long, deep breaths with only sips of air coming in. You must practice inhaling longer and receiving MORE oxygen to GIVE more C02. Reciprocity is the breath of life.