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The Coffee Self-Talk 2-Minute Gratitude Journal

Did you know what’s the easiest tool to immediately make your life better?

It’s gratitude!

Gratitude is one of my favorite tools for living a more magical life because it makes me happier, more calm, and ready for anything.

Gratitude is so important that I spend at least a couple of minutes each day thinking about it. And now you can too, with my latest book, The Coffee Self-Talk 2-Minute Gratitude Journal!

With this new book, you take one minute in the morning, and one minute in the evening, to focus on your gratitude with the easy prompts I provide.

Why you’ll love it:

It’s fun, because it’s quick and easy.Designed for busy people, so two minutes a day can make a world of difference.Immediately reduce your anxiety and stress.Get inspired with uplifting self-talk for each entry.Track your journey, because watching your gratitude grow day by day shows you powerful this daily practice is.Makes the best gift ever!

I specially designed this book to help you celebrate something joyful each day. With short, fun, easy entries that take only a couple of minutes, watch how you instantly find more happiness, calm, and confidence as you jot things down that bring a smile to your face.

Buy this book today, because you want to change your life. :)

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Published on September 14, 2023 14:52

My Big News! Free Coffee Self-Talk Workshop & New Edition!

New updated edition available Nov 1, preorder TODAY!

Big Humongous News! Wow!

I’m publishing an expanded version of Coffee Self-Talk this November! and I am excited and honored to bring you an expanded edition, and continuing to grow the #CoffeeSelfTalk movement. 🤸🏼‍♀️ 🤸🏼‍♂️

The beautiful new edition includes some new self-talk scripts, new exercises and questions throughout, and blank pages for journaling and creating your own affirmations!!! It’ll be available at many more bookstores than before including Barnes and Noble, Target, independent bookstores as well as Amazon! Visit HERE to see all the cool places you can preorder your copy.

To celebrate the release of this expanded edition, I’m hosting my 1st ever hands-on virtual workshop where we will dive into the Coffee Self-Talk routine together, we’ll chat and have fun, and share stories! Newbies and advanced Coffee Self-Talkers are all welcome!

If you don’t own a copy of Coffee Self-Talk, you’ll need to preorder the *new* edition to register for the workshop. If you own a copy of the original edition of Coffee Self-Talk, you’ll be able to attend this workshop for free. This is my way of saying thank you for supporting me from the beginning of this amazing journey. For details on how to register for this amazing workshop visit this link.

Let’s do this!!! Fun Times!

Let’s do this!!! Fun Times!

What is Coffee Self-Talk???

Inspiring affirmations to help you boost your self-esteem, find happiness, and attract the magical life of your dreams—all with your next cup of coffee!

Do you want to live an inspired life of sparkling adventure and achieve goals you never thought possible? Get started this morning! Coffee Self-Talk introduces an accessible, powerful routine to pair with your morning coffee so you can start every day with positivity and energy. This easy daily ritual only takes five minutes and starts with positive, uplifting thoughts to reframe the way you talk and think about yourself. By priming your brain for happiness, success, and self-love, Coffee Self-Talk helps you take control of your life, increase your confidence, and manifest your dreams.

This beautifully packaged new edition includes self-talk scripts, guidance on how to personalize them for your own goals, new exercises and questions throughout, and blank pages for journaling and creating your own affirmations. Coffee Self-Talk is a gift to yourself or your loved ones and will help you:

• Learn to love yourself
• Unlock happiness, resilience, and confidence
• Change your bad habits
• Attract wealth, success, and prosperity

No matter your circumstances, now is the time to live your best, most magical life—faster than it takes to finish your first cup of coffee!

Start Here!

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Published on September 22, 2022 11:48

Change Your Life in a Second!

Hi!

In this week’s Coffee Self-Talk podcast, I talk about a thing called: Mindset Intervention.

This thing, a mindset intervention, can put your life on a new trajectory in a single moment, like it did for me when I was in Italy.

Listen in here!

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Published on July 03, 2022 08:45

Tea Time Self-Talk Now Available!

Now available: Tea Time Self-TalkCelebration time! Tea Time Self-Talk

More ways to use self-talk to help you live your most delightful life.

Discover happiness, inspiration, and motivation with your afternoon cup of tea.

Tea Time Self-Talk is the perfect 5-minute, afternoon break companion, designed to give you a blissful moment to yourself for reflection and motivation. To help energize your afternoon and your life. Thoughtful, daily tea time writings and corresponding self-talk affirmations help you find bliss, purpose, and direction in your life.

Reduce anxiety. Attain goals. Enjoy your day. Live your best life!

Is this different than Coffee Self-Talk?

Coffee Self-Talk is the MOTHER book in the series. It’s where you discover the power of self-talk to change your life and why it’s so amazing and life-changing. I teach you how to write your own empowering and confidence-boosting self-talk with Coffee Self-Talk.

Tea Time is dedicated to all my beautiful readers in the UK who said, “But I drink tea!!!”

Tea Time Self-Talk is filled with 85 tea times where you take a few minutes to read a single tea time entry designed to motivate you, inspire you, get you thinking, smiling, and digging deeper into your magical juiciness. Then it’s followed by a special tea time self-talk script I’ve written for you. The whole ritual will take you the time it takes to enjoy your delicious cup of tea.

Get your copy now, make a cup of tea, and start immediately!

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Published on June 30, 2022 19:24

I Love This Book: Pure Skin by Victoria Tsai of Tatcha

Pure Skin is a beautiful, inspiring book about beauty rituals of geishas by the beloved Tatcha skin care company (I’ve been using some of their products for half a decade).

I read this gem in one sitting and was enamored and inspired.

The book is both philosophical, like:

“Instead of seeking to look perpetually 20 years old, geisha focus on having the best skin of their lives at any age”

… and practical, like drinking sake for celebrating hehe.

As you might imagine, I resonated with it because her approach to skin care comes from a beautiful ritual of self-care and self-love, and that’s pure, magical living. I felt like I was dipping into another world when I read about the generations-old, time-tested Japanese skincare traditions that Victoria shared, because Pure Skin isn’t just about basic skincare, it’s also about a lifestyle.

For the beauty ritual, no matter how you customize it, all you need is two minutes and four steps. And although I love her products (like this: phenomenal oil cleanser – I love how easily and gently it removes eye makeup, and this magical rice exfoliator – I’ve also used this for 5 years, 2X a day, and it’s extremely effective, plus so many other products but I’ll mention just one more because it’s one of her most popular: this gorgeous essence)… but like I was saying… she doesn’t push her products in the book, as her whole focus is on the ritual, and yes, the special Japanese ingredients.

A purely lovely read.

Last but definitely not least is how stunning this book is. Even though I read it in one sitting, taking notes like a good student and tabbing pages, I’ll keep this on my bathroom counter to inspire my daily self-care ritual and enjoy the pictures and colors that make me smile every time I open it.

I highly recommend Pure Skin for all women! It’d make a perfect gift.

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Published on June 27, 2022 08:59

A Getaway to the Jewel of Arizona

Hassayampa Inn

We took a little 3 night getaway to what some would call the Jewel of Arizona: Prescott, AZ.

I have to say, Jewel indeed, especially when you stay where we stayed.

Our first night was at the Hassayampa Inn (downtown, established in 1927 and included in the Historic Hotels of America). It’s reputed to be haunted by the ghost, Faith, a woman who long ago… well, she died there after her husband left for a pack of cigarettes one night and never came back (they were on their honeymoon!).

I didn’t sense any paranormal activity but it was a very cool place to stay. Perhaps if we’d stayed longer she’d have paid us a visit. I guess we’ll have to go back.

The place is charming (art deco), and the staff is incredibly friendly, too. I loved the whole place: everything from the cafe in the lobby to the restaurant and the bar… it oozed old decor and glamour. “This ‘living museum’ is where some of history’s most noteworthy celebrities used to come to unwind, including Will Rogers, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable and Steve McQueen.”

One of the best bits about it is that it’s right downtown, which makes walking to all the fun stuff easy. After dinner we walked all around the town which was filled with so much friendly energy that I could’ve stayed up waaaaay past my bedtime. The vibe is a mix of cowboy (I’ve heard there’s still a law on the books that says you’re not allowed to bring your horse inside a saloon. Phew!), art, nature, healthy living without being too granola, and good ol’ wholesomeness.

Playing on the old phone in the hallway…

And of course I did my Coffee Self-Talk and journaling which I do every morning to live my magical life. I woke up early, snuck quietly out of the room so I could leave Greg and K sleeping, and I parked myself in the lovely lobby.

Foxbriar Inn

After a night there, we rented the most whimsical, playful, magical, fairy-like airbnb I’ve been in: Foxbriar Inn. The pictures barely do it justice and I could show a million of them (I took a million of them), but my blog would take a million years to load if I did that. Suffice it say, the detail and decor included things I never considered doing when it came to decorating and I came away with a whole new range of data points in my mind.

This front door says it all.

This is an outdoor seating area for eating, entertaining, and for me… reading!

Things like this all over the place. We kept wondering, how long would it take until we saw all the little touches?

The dining table, our office. The fish. Wow. Why is Prescott considered the jewel of Arizona?

Well to be honest, it’s what our host called it, but I’m inclined to believe it. Maybe a “hidden” gem more like. And we liked it very much. It’s a small-ish town that’s packed with local cafes, restaurants, arts and antiques, pines and boulders for nature (high desert), four seasons, basically no crime (except for this I just saw online – the day we left!!), clean air and water, etc.

Time for PIE!

On the way home, we stopped by a famous pie place. All this time living in AZ and driving by it on the way north I never thought to stop, but Greg said we needed to. So we did.

I’m glad we did.

Cherry Pie!

Let’s eat!

Cherry Pie!

We have a few more mini-getaways planned for the summer. We’ll be heading to the north to get some relief from the heat and surround ourselves with nature while I work on my next books.

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Published on June 16, 2022 16:49

Now Available: The Coffee Self-Talk Starter Pages!

The Coffee Self-Talk Starter Pages are now available!

I’m thrilled to announce that The Coffee Self-Talk Starter Pages are now available.

For all of you who like an easy-peasy way to slide into your Coffee Self-Talk routine with more ease or if you want a bit of help getting started, then this book is for you.

I love it!

21 fun, uplifting days of inspiration, affirmations, and simple, fill-in-the-blank exercises to jumpstart your daily Coffee Self-Talk ritual.

It has never been easier to dive right into your Coffee Self-Talk. This Starter Pages workbook takes you by the hand and makes it effortless to get the most out of this life-changing program.

Get started immediatelySimple fill-in-the-blanksInspiring affirmationsStart manifesting your dream life faster than ever!

Every morning for the next 21 days, get your cup of coffee and your Coffee Self-Talk Starter Pages and a pen. You’ll open up one of the days and easily start writing your Coffee Self-Talk affirmations in a simple, fill-in-the-blank format that is fun to do.

Each day includes inspiring content to motivate you, plus insightful examples of effective self-talk affirmations to help you manifest your dreams and goals.

Get started TODAY!

Start making meaningful improvements in your thoughts and actions, and start manifesting your magical life today, with The Coffee Self-Talk Starter Pages.

*Note: this is not the original book, Coffee Self-Talk. This is the companion Starter Pages workbook. If you’ve read the book, Coffee Self-Talk, or you’re reading it now, then you will love this Starter Pages companion workbook.

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Published on June 12, 2022 09:09

Surfing – I Was Totally Scared

We finally got out and traveled, after spending the past year at home. And what do we do? Go surfing!

Well, if you call taking a surf board into the ocean and attempting to get on it surfing, then, yeah, I surfed.

And I was totally scared to do it, but you know me, I made a surfer self-talk script for it, tamped down that anxiety, and decided to give it a go. (Listen here about doing things that terrify you.)

I never got up on the board, though I tried (water was super strong and crazy that day, but it was also my first time, so I’ll have to try again and see how I do).

But here’s a big lesson I learned from surfing:

When surfing, you can fall a lot. And every time… you don’t even think twice… you get right back up!

There’s no “Oh I failed, boo hoo, tuck tail and leave.”

No… you get your booty right back up on the board and try try try again. I anchored this idea every time I failed surfing because I was wowed by the experience of constant falling down and getting back up every time. Imagine applying that to everything else in life.

(Check out my podcast to learn more about surfing life lessons.)

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Published on June 09, 2022 07:25

Wine Self-Talk Is HERE! New Release!

Celebration Time! Wine Self-Talk is available!

I’m thrilled to announce my latest book:

Wine Self-Talk !

*Note: Wine is not required to reap the benefits of using this book.

Somewhere deep inside you are all the answers you seek. Answers to questions. Solutions to help make your problems go away. Ways to make your stress and anxiety vaporize. Ways to make your dreams come true.

Wine Self-Talk is a simple, delicious ritual to help you relax, unwind, and tap into your inner genius.

Start living your brilliant life…

There is a source of sacred wisdom in you. A voice that knows what to do. A connection to a broader consciousness. It’s your inner creative genius. We all have it. The problem for most people is that our minds are too full of other things to hear that inner voice.

Creativity is not reserved for just painters, poets, and musicians. Creativity is also for moms, dads, teachers, and grandparents. It’s for wives, husbands, and anyone in a relationship. It’s for business owners, managers, salespeople, or anyone who wants to do better at whatever it is they do.

Creativity is the key to brilliance. It’s the key to living a brilliant life.

Creativity is empowering.It helps you tackle everyday challenges with ease.It improves your mood, making you feel wonderful.It makes you happier and more satisfied.It takes your life in exciting new directions.It makes you feel like your life is magical.It gives you feelings of meaning and purpose.

Wine Self-Talk is a simple, fascinating, 15-minute ritual that you do anytime you want to tap into your inner genius and unlock your creative brilliance. All that, with one glass of wine! (There’s a chapter on Champagne Celebrations, too!)

If you sometimes feel like problems lurk behind every corner, then you need to tap into your inner creativity to find new ways to handle them. You’ll soon find confidence and grace, seeing opportunities instead of challenges.

Or if you just want more fun in life, creativity is the answer!

When you’re more creative, you live an easier, happier life. The more you do it, the easier it gets… we can all massively improve our creativity muscles. Not just for problem solving and epic living, but, yes, for traditional creative passions, too… writing, cooking, painting, making music, photography, sewing, gardening, dancing, acting, coding, doing puzzles, coloring, interior decorating, graphic design, and so much more!

Whether you’re into creative endeavors or not, that’s fine, because this book will help you hone your creativity skills to become a problem-solving ninja, smashing through problems, coming at all sides with brilliant ideas.

Creativity helps you improve your imagination in your business, love life, family and all relationships. You can even improve your health by being more creative.

Get started today! Amp up your creativity, and watch your life soar to new heights in everything you do.Similar Posts:Coffee Self-Talk for the New Year and Happy New You It’s Here! Pillow Self-Talk 5 Minutes Before Bed to Start Living the Life of Your Dreams NEW Book Release! The Coffee Self-Talk DAILY READER #1 New Release! Coffee Self-Talk for DUDES!Morning Pages Changed My Life. They’ll Change Your Life, Too.

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Published on February 26, 2022 09:32

Wine Self-Talk is HERE! New Release!