Hello dear friends, faithful readers, and weird stalkers.

The strangest thing happened to me recently. I woke up one morning with the intense desire to unplug. To free myself from the distractions that constantly surround me and focus on discovering who God created me to be. I think I've spent the majority of my adult life seeking happiness from fleeting external sources. The truth is, I don't think I'll find happiness – no, contentment – unless I allow God to show me who I am and what my purpose is.

So I unplugged. I temporarily disabled my Facebook and my Twitter accounts, and this is the last blog post I'll be writing. For now. I'll be back in January, but for the rest of the year I am going to intentionally quiet the noise around me and hopefully learn some important truths. And I'm so excited about it.

Those of you who know me for realsies, you can always call, text, or email. I'm not unplugging like a cavewoman or anything. I'm still around.

If you want to understand a little more about what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, listen to this interview. Start the file at 18:36. I'm reading the book that is mentioned, 10 Conversations You Need To Have With Yourself. I talk to myself anyway, so might as well have an outline for my text 10 topics, right? The interview is about 15 minutes long, but it's a 15 minutes well spent. Trust me.

Here is the link to the interview. It will download an mp3 file to your computer. I would have embedded it, but I'm too cheap to pay the $19.97 per year to embed audio files. Click here for Rabbi Shmuley interview

I think we all have core strengths and talents that God has blessed us with and that no one can ever take away. But if we allow the chaos and the noise of life interfere, these gifts can be lost, and with that we lose our identities.

Goodbye, distractions. Hello, Heidi. Let's chat.