August!

It's my Birthday Month! I always try to celebrate the entire month of August because I love birthdays. Mine, yours, everyone's! I share being born in the month of August with a lot of people. My sister-in-law, my niece, my nephew, and so many friends! Jim is very willing to listen to me say "But it's my Birthmonth" all month long when I want to do something. He's a good man! My friend Ruthi and I used to spend the month of August celebrating and spending lots of time together. :-)

As most of you have probably noticed, the older I get the more spiritual I seen to get. And I love it! I listen to my intuition more now than ever. I have also recently starting to pay attention to the phases of the sun and moon. Really cool stuff! I also have an app on my phone. The Pattern. I won't go into all of the aspects of it but one thing it will do is give me daily updates for different areas in my life.

Part of today's was, "This can be a good time to focus on your health and well-being. Connecting with your body can help you prepare for change and go with the flow. Try doing some physical exercise or slow movement, or just relaxing more."

Reading this made me smile. In early July, I started preparing for August to be "my" month. I planned to relax more, take the month off from drinking alcohol (who does that in their birth month!?!?), exercise more and make sure to take time for me. The Pattern was spot on. I've gotten careless with taking care of myself and this is exactly what I plan to improve.

I feel good about it already! I exercised this morning and have a yoga class tonight. I'm going to give it my all this month but if I don't do things perfectly, I'm also going to be kind to myself. My work life is busy but I am going to try to eliminate the stress portion of it. Anything I can do to treat myself better and be healthier is a success in my book!

I also plan to write more. Writing is a true passion. I have written since I was a little girl with a diary and will likely keep writing until I can't write any longer. Writing relaxes me so that will be happening more in August also.

Well that's it for today. Below is one of my most relaxing moments. This was in Colorado in 2014. We had gone out there for vacation pulling our camper. Stunning!

Love and relaxation to all!