Like a tree find your ground, plant your roots, determine your place in the world. Spread your arms like branches to accept and receive what nature provides, to give in return of what flows through you. Be who you are, solid and strong upon the earth, but don’t forget who you also are, the birds that come to rest in your branches, spirits free to roam the skies and explore other realms. To be human is to be part of nature. Find your place in nature and find nature in you. Be rooted and yet also free spirited.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Think with your heart. Take some time for quiet “thinking.” Let the mind be calm, the heart active. Let the body be still and let the energy of compassion and love flow through you. Be thoughtful in a new way today. Suspend judgment. Breathe love. Think with your heart!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Forgive yourself. This is the only forgiveness that matters, for how can you go on to fulfillment if you are not free? If you can’t forgive yourself, how will you ever be able to get beyond blame and resentment? No one else can grant you forgiveness. No one else can free you. Forgive yourself. Free yourself. This is the deeper work of the heart. It’s really about loving yourself. That’s what really matters—love.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Return to nature when things get too hectic. Walk barefooted upon the earth. Breathe the air. Sit upon the ground in stillness. Let the sun warm you in the day and the moon cool your brow at night. Let the winds carry away your fears and worries and let the rains take your tears. Seek your own place in nature. Take a calm walk. Sit in your power spot. Find a place to root, if only for a moment, an hour, a day. Do not ever forget that you are a part of nature, the most powerful energy there is. Let it course through you and renew you. One day at a time, accept its bounty. It belongs to you. It’s wherever you are, and it’s totally free!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Wind, moon, ocean, stars, times of discontent. Sunny days, times of happiness and peace. Whatever is happening outside, is it not also reflected inside, even a little? No one stays constant, always the same. Everyone changes, like the weather day to day, like nature, a river in constant motion. Yet strive always, in spite of life’s challenges, to maintain your core strength and balance. Stay connected to your knowing self, to your inner you, for if you stray too far from that inner self you are no more than a raging river, unable to maintain its boundaries. A river carries within its depths enough power to forge ahead no matter what challenges it. Learn the lessons of the river, of nature, yet return always to your human core, to your calmness and balance.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne