You hold all of the power.
If you are stuck, choose to push through.
If you are holding back, choose to let go.
If you are moving too fast, choose to rest.
Stand in your power—and trust that you are always free to begin again…and to further evolve.
Mantra: I always have agency…even in the moments when I feel powerless.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
Our minds are always speaking at us…to us…chattering words and stories that are on a loop of repeat, and that which we have internalized.
The stories you tell yourself shape how you feel, how you see others, how you witness your environment…and how you behave.
These inner narratives can either promote joy and wellness using dis-cernment…or they can promote dis-order, dis-ease, dis-appointment and dis-illusion…
These stories can also influence the choices that you make…it can make you question your worth…
Today, ask yourself…”Which of these narratives serve me? Are they fact or fiction?
Am I just used to telling this story so often that I have come to believe the narrative that was perhaps originally spoken by someone else? Which stories are keeping me stuck? Do I want to continue to tell this story? How does it make me feel as I share my story? What would a gentle rewrite sound like, look like, feel like?
When we understand that our inner dialogue is created by our instilled beliefs, judgments, memories, fears and even our hopes, and that they are not necessarily truth, we take back our power to be able to write a new narrative.
When we recognize that these stories are subjective and interpreted by our experiences, our culture and even our emotions…we have the awareness of their origin, and have the opportunity to take the first step in our own transformation.
And…transformation does not suggest that we ignore the reality of our experiences. It suggests that we choose a wider lens where we observe ourselves in our experiences with self compassion and even curiosity as to the possibilities of the meaning of these experiences.
When we use forward thinking and use discernment to internalize meaning…we provide ourselves with a narrative of a “growth mindset” versus a “fixed mindset” or, where “A fixed mindset can physically prevent you from learning from mistakes, while a growth mindset can empower you to perceive mistakes as learning”…where change is a choice.
Ask yourself,
“What narrative do I want to tell myself moving forward? How does this new narrative support a growth mindset and my well-being?”
Mantra:
I am learning to use discernment for a more forward thinking, wider lens of my experiences that promotes self nurturing, self compassion and self empowerment.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
When they slam the door but leave the window open…it is simply a tentative peek through the crack at the sunshine that they long for…but cannot summon the courage to risk burning their vulnerable “skin.”
So…they sit by the window and daydream…from days to months to years, until aging is moving like a wildfire crossing paths and burning the foundation…devouring what was never bravely lived…a haunting, sacred truth.…
and now…time is even closer to its destination.
Live, take risks, love…because time IS even closer to its destination.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
“God bless the broken road that led me straight to you…”
not to another, but to myself.
To healing.
To learning and growing…
To thriving.
To this exact moment of choosing love—not from lack, but from abundance.
After all that I have carried, I showed up with an open heart and gave myself permission to experience something new…to connect…
In faithfulness.
And today, the broken road begins to lead me toward someone new… someone ready…me.
Finally…I am finally ready to be met in my unapologetic truth…
Where I am seen…where I am heard…where I am felt…where I am loved.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
Faith is a conscious choice to sit in the feelings of simply “knowing”… it is an intuitive lingering that, with patience and spiritual confidence, eventually manifests when all of the fragments align and fuse together our healing spirits in a parallel void.
With a promising glance, I trust in sacred timing and soul recognition.
Ask yourself,
“Where in my life can I release expectation and lean into trust that who is meant for me already recognizes me?”
Mantra:
I trust in sacred timing and soul recognition.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
In sacred stillness I hear Spirit whisper, “connection is not the same as alignment.”
I continue to use discernment to pray for our highest truth and blessings. I will listen, but I will not lose myself.
I am ready for the love that shows up fully and stays. I remain clear, practice my boundaries, and choose what aligns.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
These sneakers?
They carry me forward every single day…they have been an integral support of my journey. They have offered me my complete independence.
They have walked me THROUGH pain, THROUGH joy, THROUGH healing.
These sneakers are the “soles” of my peace and my joy as they walk me to my destination, and home each day like a best friend…
I am always grounded…
And I do not just tiptoe through my life on these soles…I walk, strut and dance with grace, grit, and grounded beauty.
Wearing sneakers is not a compromise, it is my sole to soul connection.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
No matter how much goodness we build or beauty we experience, past trauma doesn’t simply disappear. It remains—a quiet imprint, a reminder. But our trauma is not meant to define us. It is meant to be recognized, validated, and integrated.
In this sacred space of healing, it becomes not a weight we carry, but a tool we can use to make wiser, more compassionate choices as we move forward.
We can live with caution born of wisdom, not fear born of pain.
Allow yourself to accept your traumatic experience and allow it to become a tool as you move forward. We have a choice to live again while simultaneously acknowledging our experience.
Ask yourself,
“What trauma have you allowed to bleed (no pun intended) into a new relationship or situation that has tainted the outcome? What tools can you apply in order to stop the bleeding and to heal?”
Mantra: “I acknowledge my experience of trauma, and I still choose to live, love, laugh, and learn.”
Love and blessings,
Wendy
In the quiet, tender moments of the dawning day, as I sit in reflection and receiving…
I sense that I am standing in the middle of a holy weaving—past, present, and possibility—all held in love’s hands…carried on the whisper of something sacred…
gently aligning a connection of two souls who are exploring an extraordinary possibility of becoming.
Ask yourself, “What is the whisper I am ready to “hear” inviting me to “receive?”
Mantra:
I hear the whisper that carries a message of becoming—a quiet invitation into we, into possibility.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
(Excerpt from my upcoming book, Soul Notes)
copyright © 2025 Wendy Blanchard/Soul Notes
Where has the desire for disconnection come from?
What has happened to the warmth of the human condition I once knew?
I’m observing more and more people who seem to want connection—but only on their terms, and only when it suits them.
Many seem content with surface-level interactions: “How do you do? What do you do? I’m going to be busy for a while…”
Or they re-direct every conversation back to themselves, too absorbed to truly see or hear the other.
But true connection is a deliberate act.
It is the desire to be witnessed—and to witness.
To care for—and to be cared for.
To love—and to be loved…consistently.
Connection is a commitment.
It lives in mutual understanding, in the willingness to meet one another’s needs.
It is the sacred act of showing up—with selfless devotion and quiet persistence.
It binds one heart to another without pause.
Disconnection, too, is a choice.
It is the quiet closing of a door.
A pulling away before something meaningful can take “heart”.
A deliberate retreat from the vulnerability that connection requires.
Ask yourself, “What am I feeling physically—and fearing emotionally—when I get too close?”
Mantra: I choose connection over fear.
Love and blessings,
Wendy
(This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Soul Notes) Copyright © 2025 Wendy Blanchard/Soul Notes
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