While stopped at a local drug store to pick up a few household items, I was caught off guard by my visceral, adverse reaction to hearing Andy Williams' 1963 holiday song, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, as it blasted through the store's loud speakers. Why was my Soul so disquieted by a mere song?

A year ago at this time, the Soul Alive Women website was about to be launched and I was writing the first edition of It’s Soul Time. Filled to the brim with gratitude and joy, I knew I was doing what I was being called to do. At the same time, there was a part of me saying: ''What in the world are you doing? You know nothing about navigating the virtual worldwide web!'

“Staying young forever is an impossible burden. Our bodies change. We slow down. We grow old. Growing old is a natural process of the life cycle; . . .  it is a time to open our minds and deepen into the wisdom and strengths that are inherently our own.” ~Eve Reed The Fall season of our life is the time to realize our whole self. We came into this world being one with our Soul. As infants, we unconsciously manifested this reality. The budding of our consciousness, both in context and focus, was the concrete physical world. The first two...

“For behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal, or a window opening on something more than myself.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery When you put your ear to the ground of your daily life experiences, what do you hear? I ask you this question as it is what I asked myself when, after several days of procrastinating, I finally sat down to write this month’s It’s Soul Time. Why the delay? It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say; on the contrary, with each new day came more awe-inspiring experiences that stirred new Soul Alive...