No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker #quotes

Business Owners have it rough, but there's hope for dealing with issues from work related stress, imposter syndrome, and not enough'ness to anxiety, depression, and even thoughts of wanting to escape from it all.. bit.ly/2F80CjS

How Having a Morning Practice Strengthens My Mental Health bit.ly/2JU6oWx

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. -Maya Angelou #quotes

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. -Alice Walker #quotes

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. -Nikki Giovanni #quotes

Almost forgot today was... #InternationalAsexualityDay shout out to my fellow Aces. #AceAuthor #Ace #ACEDAY

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. -Audre Lorde #quotes

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. -bell hooks #quotes

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -Maya Angelou #quotes

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. -Howard Thurman #quotes

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. ~ Paulo Coelho #quotes

Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they’d like to go. – Seth Godin

I am more than any one incident that happens to me. I am more than one set of experiences I have. I am more than my sadness. And yes, I am even more than my happiness. We all are. -Dr. Monica Coleman

I will sing a new song. As difficult as it is, I must learn the new song that is capable of meeting the new need. I must fashion new words born of all the new growth of my life, my mind and my spirit... Howard Thurman #quotes

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. - Marian Wright Edelman #quotes

Your heart is but a hostel on this Camino journey, and many emotion-travelers will find you...They will rest for a while, then be on their way...another traveler; another emotion; another arrival and departure; another opportunity to practice love. ~Crystal Chan #quotes

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. -Mae Jemison #quotes

I honestly do not believe in competition... I don’t believe in competing for what I want, I believe in creating what I want…In order for me to be successful I don’t believe I need to take anything away from anyone else. ~ Z. Asher #quotes

New post over on Substack "Seeing What Love Can Do" open.substack.com/pub/lynettedav… #amwriting #spirituality #soulcare #contemplativepractices #Quakers #ReligiousSocietyofFriends #retreats