The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice– though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you had…
I AM By using two of the most powerful words, “I AM” … it is one way to help free the self from ALL limiting thoughts. Put what you are or what you want to be, right behind those two words, and repeat it out loud, over and over. I start my day with this and…
I promised myself to take at least one photo a day and post online, whether award winning or subpar. Why? Commitment. To commit to not give up even if the going gets tough, which it has been lately. Titled : “a lonely fall day” Always Love, Brenda (p.s. A brand new Website is coming…
When you’ve struggled with anxiety and fear for as long as I have, and something, someone comes along that gives you hope, tools and some relief; well, that would be Mel Robbins, I just can’t get enough of it right now. I’m devouring anything I can find of hers in written word and video, and…
we are the quietest, most shy, least bold, most challenged, most messed up, least focused most often the silently wise /brendajohima
This is me. The Hummingbird. I am grateful to Oprah for providing the platform via Super Soul Sessions, for me to hear Elizabeth Gilbert talk about the curiosity-driven life. I have been trying to write about this for months by myself; and I mean months. I have been unable to get the words out with…
Falling to pieces, falling apart … what if that phase in your life where you feel you are falling apart, is actually the path leading to the place where you are once again having everything falling together again? When in the depths of despair and grief, sadness and loss, transformation and change, it can not…
Knowingness When you know, you know. Sometimes you know, alone. Sometimes others know with you. Sometimes those with the same knowingness as you, live half way or all the way around the world … or worlds away from you. Knowingness can be lonely, as it is an inner experience, with body and with heart and…
Snippets of Wisdom Today marks day ONE of a brand new feature that will be on my website regularly, and I am calling it “Snippets of Wisdom.” These will be tiny little sound clips of me speaking or reading, most often things that I have created and written myself, but sometimes will include writings by…
WOW. (This is a re-post of an article I wrote in 2007) Actually I think it may have been 2006, but it was published online in 2007. This was part of my Creative Nudge business, which is no more, as I closed it. I think that I may have been ahead of my time, and…