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The power of NO and how to use it

  Do you say yes when you really want to say no? Do you say yes even if it may cause you upset, discomfort, or financial or emotional harm? If so, you're...

How to handle holiday meddlers

How to handle holiday meddlers

How to handle difficult holiday relationships Holiday parties, get-togethers, and family events are often brimming with well-meaning, sometimes inebriated,...

10 Things You Need to Know about Success

10 Things You Need to Know about Success

    photo credit: by Camdiluv ♥ 1. You define what success means for you. Success is achieving something that is deeply fulfilling to you. It doesn't have to...

TEARING THE WALLS DOWN

I’ve discovered something so monumentally life impeding that dealing with it forced me to examine some very dark moments and tender places: I’ve...

Permission Granted

One of the most heartbreaking and frustrating parts of my work is watching women think they need permission to do, be, or have something they really care...

The Gold List Process: 2021 – 2022

The Gold List Process: 2021 – 2022

Ditch the resolutions and create the life you were meant to live. My most loved process for saying goodbye to the past and creating a future filled with your...

LIFE 090: Bringing Happy Back

LIFE 090: Bringing Happy Back

LIFE 90: Bringing Happy Back Listen on iTunes.Listen on StitcherStream by clicking here.Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and...

LIFE 088: Inspired Living

LIFE 088: Inspired Living

LIFE 088: Inspired Living Listen on iTunes.Listen on StitcherStream by clicking here.Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and...

You the Universal Mother

You the Universal Mother

The Universal Mother is the feminine aspect of God. She is represented as Isis, Kuan Yin, Lakshmi, Mary, the Goddess Venus, and many more. She is the bearer...

LIFE 087: What Matters Most Now

LIFE 087: What Matters Most Now

LIFE 087: What Matters Now? Listen on iTunes.Listen on StitcherStream by clicking here.Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and...

LIFE 086: Girl Talk

LIFE 086: Girl Talk

LIFE 086: Girl Talk Listen on iTunes.Listen on StitcherStream by clicking here.Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and choosing...

LIFE 082: The Call to Greatness

LIFE 082: The Call to Greatness

Life 082: The Call to Greatness Listen on iTunes.Listen on StitcherStream by clicking here.Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and...

LIFE 081: Crisis is a Truth teller

LIFE 081: Crisis is a Truth teller

LIFE 081: Crisis as Truthteller Listen on iTunes. Listen on Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here...

LIFE 079: Giving Up On Your Dream?

LIFE 079: Giving Up On Your Dream?

LIFE 079: Giving Up on Your Dream Listen on iTunes. Listen on Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and...

Self Centered: What Would Cleopatra Do?

Self Centered: What Would Cleopatra Do?

Cleopatra was a noble queen. Let's embody her as we walk daily through our lives. Cleopatra was a queen, mother, leader of an empire, and lover who lived...

Self Centered: Be a Love Magnet

Self Centered: Be a Love Magnet

Doyou understand the true meaning of self-love? It's not about pleasure February is the month of love, and I've got you covered. Tune into Self-Centered on...

Self Centered: A Self-Love Revolution

Self Centered: A Self-Love Revolution

Do you understand the true meaning of self-love? It's not about pleasur February is the month of love, and I've got you covered. Tune into Self-Centered on...

LIFE: 073 Emotions and Disease

LIFE: 073 Emotions and Disease

Numerous health and wellness modalities agree that stress is the leading cause of disease, but what makes stress? We do.   Listen on iTunes....

LIFE: 072 Create Your Reality

LIFE: 072 Create Your Reality

In my years of dream building a few practices have guided my way. Listen on iTunes. Listen on Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Download an MP3...

You: Stable and Strong

You: Stable and Strong

"They are tossed to drunken heights, only to be brought down into a sludge of headachy despair; their arrogance gives way to humiliation at the next curve of...

My Holiday Wish for You

My Holiday Wish for You

Listen on iTunes. Listen on Stitcher Stream by clicking here. Download an MP3 of the show by right-clicking here and choosing “save as.”...

Holiday Self-Care with Cynthia Occelli

Holiday Self-Care with Cynthia Occelli

The holiday season is upon us. It seems to happen earlier each year. While it's a time intended to be joyous and bright, it's often chaotic, draining,...

Speak Up Like a Diva with Shola Kaye

Speak Up Like a Diva with Shola Kaye

Are you terrified of speaking up? Does your fear stop you from giving your gifts? My guest, Shola Kaye, suffered from fear of speaking and a reluctance to be...

Too Much Woman with Gina Hatzis

Too Much Woman with Gina Hatzis

Learn to dismantle the good girl syndrome, tap into your courage, radically accept yourself, and embrace your too-muchness with author, speaker, goddess, and...

Map Your Spirit Goals with Alex Levy

Map Your Spirit Goals with Alex Levy

Alex Levy, creator of The Spirit Guided Oracle deck and process joins us to share how your intuition can deliver insights from broader perspectives. Learn how...

ONLY FOOLS RUSH IN

I am receiving lots of emails from, and engaging in many conversations with, people who are alive with the titillating excitement of meeting a new love. ...

HEALING

You are an integral part of Creation.  Your thoughts and actions set off far reaching chain reactions that you cannot fathom. In a world seemingly submerged...

BEING THE EYE OF THE STORM

At some point in life we find ourselves surrounded by seeming chaos; for many of us this happens often. Relationships spin out of control, we lose someone or...

LIFE 067: How to Stop Worrying

LIFE 067: How to Stop Worrying

Do you worry about things that aren't happening? Does it make you feel like something bad won't happen if you worry about it? Subscribe: Apple...

Empowered Beliefs

Empowered Beliefs

People interpret life's difficult events in much the same way. A friend gets fired, a marriage falls apart, an opportunity falls through and we feel...

Radical Loving

Radical Loving

Have you ever lost someone before you'd told them how much you love them? I have. If you have too, my heart is with you, it's an unparalleled pain.  You can...

Why sometimes surrender is the answer

Sarah, my client, has struggled with a challenge that seems to go on and on and on. She’s done all of the work and has taken all of the approaches that people...

What your limiting beliefs cost you.

“You become what you believe.” --Oprah Winfrey This powerful statement has proven true in my life and in every life I've had the privilege of participating...

Advanced Problem Solving

Advanced Problem Solving

Most of us know what it feels like to face what seems like impossible problems. Once your mind agrees that the problem is, in fact, impossible to solve, it...

LIFE 066: Uplevel what matters

LIFE 066: Uplevel what matters

UnDo this and uplevel your relationships, finances, career and health. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android...

LIFE 064: The Magic of Gratitude

LIFE 064: The Magic of Gratitude

A fierce gratitude practice changes everything for the better. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android |...

LIFE 059: Your Birthrights

LIFE 059: Your Birthrights

Your Birthrights are states of being that you don't have to do anything to have. They are yours by the fact that you're alive.  You have the right (and my...

LIFE Podcast 49: Starting Over Again

LIFE Podcast 49: Starting Over Again

Everyone has to start over at some time in life. It's vital and healthy. In this show, Cynthia shares 7 tips to make your fresh start enjoyable and...

Love: The Verb

We are co-creators of our lives, whatever we send out returns, sooner or later, and what we focus on expands. If we move through the world feeling as though...

How to Get Out of Your Own Way

How to Get Out of Your Own Way

You want to pursue something meaningful, but you never seem to have enough time. Months and years have passed and your desire has turned into a dream...

CHOSEN

There are crowds of people imprisoned within the walls of unhealthy competition, criticism, self-doubt and insecurity, waiting for some illustrious person,...

Hack the new year in ONE step

Hack the new year in ONE step

Happy New Year! Slow down and let yourself arrive and settle into the energy of 2019. There are no shoulds, no race to win, no competition. This is...

As a child I learned to do magic

As a child I learned to do magic

  As a child of a single mom, I spent a lot of time in what was called EDC (extended daycare). This meant that teachers and caregivers had tremendous...

Are you lucky enough to have this gift?

I'm feeling tremendously grateful, loved, and blessed today and it's just a "regular" day. I thank the dark times for this. I know that it's because I have a...

A Point of Light in the Darkness

Years ago, my (then) husband suffered a devastating stroke.  He was young, healthy and vibrant and I loved him tremendously. One afternoon, we were pursuing...

DETOXING THE MIND PART FOUR

The Inner Work Becoming aware of the fears and beliefs that shape our lives is a tremendous first step on the path to freedom from self-limitation. Once we’ve...

7 Steps to Create Your Dreams

7 Steps to Create Your Dreams

92% of resolutions fail within two weeks. It doesn't make the most sense to plan and prepare for an entire year of your life during the busy-ness of the...

Holidays, Relationships, and Reality

Holidays, Relationships, and Reality

The last time I wrote about ending harmful certain relationships, I received a lot of negative mail from people who felt that one should stay close to family,...

Where does it hurt?

Where does it hurt?

An angel disguised as a childcare center worker taught me how to meditate when I was five-years-old. She gave me access to an invulnerable source of power and...

Empowered Beliefs

In general, people interpret life's events in much the same way.  A friend gets fired, a marriage falls apart, an opportunity falls through and we feel...

Do not forget this ONE thing

Do not forget this ONE thing

Every day we are confronted with a changing world full of people and events that can impact the way we feel and live. Some are small and relatively...

The Scariest Thing in the World

The Scariest Thing in the World

What scares you? Is it losing everything? Falling ill? Being judged? Public speaking? Losing a loved one? All of these events can be difficult, challenging,...

Breathe this way to dissolve stress now

Breathe this way to dissolve stress now

Do you know how to breathe? Of course you do. But, do you know how to dissolve stress and create emotional and physical well being with your breath? Proper...

How to Awaken the Goddess Within

How to Awaken the Goddess Within

Femininity is anything but weakness. It is strength fueled by the omnipotent power of love. In its purest form, it is inclusive, focused on the highest good...

Are you afraid of being important? 

Are you afraid of being important? 

Does making yourself the most important person in your life make you uncomfortable? I asked 10,000 women and the answer was overwhelmingly yes, according to...

How to Raise Great Children

How to Raise Great Children

  The secret to raising great children: Knowing that what they see is what you get, and they see everything. So, it all begins with you. Your child's...

5 Ways to Sabotage Yourself

5 Ways to Sabotage Yourself

5 Ways to Sabotage Yourself today. This morning, I woke up to a gorgeous day. I am healthy and so are the people I love. I am loved by many and in all the...

You decide what everything means to you

You decide what everything means to you

Everything that appears in our outer world is filtered through the lenses of our understanding, beliefs, habits, wounds and teachings. We assign subjective...

Here’s How to Handle Life After Loss

Here’s How to Handle Life After Loss

We all endure losses, big and small, some more intense than others, and some of us experience more than others, but we all go through it sooner or later. For...

My Radical Approach to Prayer

My Radical Approach to Prayer

Most spiritual and religious people agree that God is within us. "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within...

A Celebration I’ll Never Regret

A Celebration I’ll Never Regret

In 2013, my mother turned 60. I wanted to mark this milestone birthday in a special way. Mom and I had been through a literal lifetime of challenges and...

You the Universal Mother

You the Universal Mother

The Universal Mother is the feminine aspect of God. She is represented as Isis, Kuan Yin, Lakshmi, Mary, the Goddess Venus and many more. She is the bearer of...

The Proper Care and Feeding of Dreams

The Proper Care and Feeding of Dreams

Nearly every day someone asks me: Is it really possible for me to have my deepest desires and dreams? My answer is always: ABSOLUTELY. The following ten...

How to heal sadness and painful feelings

How to heal sadness and painful feelings

Life's challenges often call up our skeletons, dirt, pains and "toxic holding-on." This creates the opportunity to heal and release them. This is the time for...

Your Purpose

Your Purpose

It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters. –Mother Teresa   The purpose of your life is to express your gifts and...

Happy – 5 Things You Need to Know

Happy – 5 Things You Need to Know

READY TO GET HAPPY? I had the tremendous good fortune to stumble across the work of Sonja Lyubomirsky, the genius extraordinaire, who did us all a huge favor...

Why I am spiritual and not religious

Why I am spiritual and not religious

I’ve studied many faiths, from Catholicism–the religion I was born into–to Islam, conventional Christianity, the Kabbalah, Buddhism, Taoism, and New...

7 Secrets about the Law of Attraction

7 Secrets about the Law of Attraction

  Some thoughts on the Law of Attraction: 1) There is no cosmic vending machine that spits out whatever you claim. If inspired thoughts are king, intelligent...

Change this and your life will change

Change this and your life will change

change this and your life will change I woke up this morning thinking about having to have a business conversation that I don't really want to have (but know...

Ditching the Life Jacket

Ditching the Life Jacket

  "Listen to the MUSN'TS, child, Listen to the DON'TS Listen to the SHOULDN'TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to...

The Immense Power of Letting Go

The Immense Power of Letting Go

The Power of Letting Go What if you could free yourself from negative feelings, hindering beliefs, attachments to outcomes, and fear of the unknown? Learn to...

ARE YOU ASKING FOR IT?

Most women habitually do not ask for what they want and we don't ask for more (as compared to men). I've long challenged myself to ask for things, even if...

Watch This Twice

Do you want to reach for your dreams, but you're afraid? NOT. ANYMORE.   Watch this twice.

Taming Wild Child Curls!

Taming Wild Child Curls!

Multiracial Curls! I'm totally off topic here, but I get a lot of email from parents of mixed-race children asking how to tame the wild beauty atop their...

Have you locked your true self away?

Take 10 minutes for yourself. Get still inside and turn down the voices of everyone outside of you and ask yourself some questions, WITHOUT FEAR AND...

The Law of Attraction Gone Wrong

The Law of Attraction Gone Wrong

I can't sit by and watch another person judge and beat themselves up for not being positive or high-vibration enough to avoid attracting unwanted events. It's...

Putting the Past in its Place

Putting the Past in its Place

In my most recent podcast, I shared my process for sifting through 2016 and identifying the people, events, actions, and thoughts that brought good to you and...

Good Grief, It’s Going to be Okay

Good Grief, It’s Going to be Okay

Sadness, anger, emptiness, despair, disappointment and hopelessness are all aspects of grief. The experience of grief is often perceived as an adjunct only to...

The Guru in You

Recently, I was a guest expert for a documentary about women and the issues and the experiences they have around sensuality and femininity. One of the...

My whole life changed at once

Ravished by change. Last year, I was in a long term relationship with a very nice man, my mom was home and healthy, we lived in my dream home in Bel Air,...

When Free Will and Destiny Collide

I haven't wanted to write in a very long time. This year has been, bar none, the most challenging of all. I'm living through it and taking the opportunity to...

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