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Gratitude Challenge 2020 – Week 3

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

Welcome to Week Three of Gratitude Challenge 2020

As Thanksgiving approaches we are reminded of so many things that touch our hearts and souls with sadness and joy during this month of gratitude. Whether it be loved ones we long for who just recently left us or have been in the spirit world for some time, remembering them with a smile and a little heartache feels right.

In this year of a pandemic with tighter restrictions being implemented around the country family gatherings outside of our immediate family are not recommended leaving many people to experience separation and this year who would otherwise celebrate this holiday with family friends or neighbors.

Finding ways to stay connected with those who mean the world to you and to be thankful for smiles, thoughtfulness and generosity this season is a valuable and worthy endeavor, even when your emotions are a bittersweet mixture of sadness and joy.

May this Gratitude Challenge prompt you to reflect on the ways in which others play a role in your emotional wellbeing and happiness.

I send you love in abundance and a big and thankful hug for your presence in my life.

Nancy Yuskaitis

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Day 15: Gratitude
I am grateful for the heartfelt video chats with some of our grandchildren especially during this time when in person visits are not permitted due to covid precautions and restrictions. It is valuable and important to stay connected through time, distance and heart.
Day 16: Gratitude
I am grateful for the ability to support loved ones in our blended family when asked for assistance.
May your heart be open to give and receive support from your loved ones in your immediate and extended family,
Day 17: Gratitude
I am grateful for my health and wellbeing and that of my husband and our family in this challenging time of a pandemic. Soulful Inspired Self Care is a valuable component in my healing journey and life.
Sending wishes to you for radiant health and vitality,
Day 18: Gratitude
I am grateful for the inspiration in creating holiday cheer in our home, yard and beyond, especially during this sentimental time of missing our family gatherings in Florida.
May you feel the holiday love and light being sent to you.

Day 19: Gratitude
I am grateful for the sweet and thoughtful early holiday gift to grace our Christmas tree with wonderful memories and love from a soul sister in our intuitive JOY circle.
May your hearts be filled with the gift of love and light and uplifted joy.



Day 20: Gratitude
I am grateful for a positive outlook with hopeful anticipation of wonderful experiences yet to come with beautiful, loving souls.
May your life be uplifted with joyful anticipation of good things to come.
Day 21: Gratitude
I am grateful for my wonderful husband with his charming, generous and loving spirit. He is my best friend and partner in this adventurous, emotional and creative life. We are blessed.
Sending love from our colorful hearts to yours.

Thank you for visiting my blog, I genuinely hope that you feel the joyful positivity, encouragement, love and light that is being sent to you through my inspired words, experiences and photo’s. Please take special care of yourself. You are a treasure and you are loved.

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Gratitude Challenge 2020 – Week 2

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

Welcome to Week Two of Gratitude Challenge 2020

In this unusual year of social distancing during a pandemic it is especially important to look for the light within your life where you may find peace, healing and sparks of joy. It can be found in everyday experiences if you look closely and then also step back for a wider view.

Participating in a gratitude challenge is a excellent way to be mindful of the experiences and emotions that are uplifting and inspiring to you. It can remind you to look for the sunshine, the rainbows, the blooming flowers, the magic of sunrise, and a sparkling night sky as gifts bearing uplifting grace and joy.

A gratitude practice or challenge can inspire you to channel your emotions into creative writing, art or song that allow free expression and the opportunity to be thankful for the process and the outcome.

It can also help you to notice the relationships in your life, loved ones who may be in your home or are close in heart yet separated by distance. Taking the time to acknowledge and be grateful for the heart to heart and soul connections of family, friends and creative or spiritual partners is a wonderful way to reinforce your sense of community in this isolated world we are required to live in at this time.

I share my moments of gratitude with you to provide a glimpse into my personal healing journey and to encourage you as you seek healing from loss of any kind.

In this third week of November, I wish you beautiful moments of peace, uplifted joy, a heart full of love, soulful self care, and unlimited creativity.

Sending you love and lightness of heart,

Nancy Yuskaitis

Day 8: Gratitude ⁣Challenge⁣
I am thankful for the much needed rainstorm last night in the dry southwest and for clear skies and sunshine today. ⁣
Day 9: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for the blessings of safety, protection and wellbeing of family & friends after a late season tropical storm passed through South Florida and the Florida Keys last night.
Day 10: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for being a part of an exquisite team of lightworkers and mediums from the James Van Praagh School of Mystical Arts who meet weekly to assist in healing, raising the vibration and supporting each other to fulfill our soul’s purpose in light, love and compassion.

This transformational work has rippling effects that extend outward from our hearts and souls to touch the lives of each other and out to the world.
Day 11: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for these cooler fall days, fresh air and beautiful painted skies. It is inspiring a desire for creativity and holiday spirit around our home.
Day 12: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for the uplifting beauty surrounding our home and the bunnies, birds and butterflies who grace our lives in nature inspired and spirit inspired adventures.
Day 13: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for the encouraging souls in my writing critique group at the Storyteller Academy as I discover my path to inspiring children and parents in magical inspired adventures with mindfulness, creativity, kindness and joy.

Day 14: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for this time of intense creativity and inspiration in my home studio. It is difficult to be on lockdown again in our enchanted State of New Mexico but looking on the bright side clearly involves being mindfully aware of uplifting soulful inspired adventures at home.

Thank you for visiting my blog, I genuinely hope that you feel the joyful positivity, encouragement, love and light that is being sent to you through my inspired words, experiences and photo’s. Please take special care of yourself. You are a treasure and you are loved.

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Gratitude Challenge 2020

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

Day 1: Gratitude Challenge
I am blessed to live in a warm, secure home with my wonderful husband and sweet dog, Autumn.
Day 2: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for the ability to vote. It’s an opportunity to impact the world in positive and empowering ways.
Day 3: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for the beautiful souls in my life offering genuine, heartfelt compassion and big hearted love.
Day 4: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for my soulful resilience, hopeful spirit and the healing of my heart as I seek to encourage you on your healing journey.
Day 5: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for my recent baby staycation with my gorgeous granddaughter and her parents filled with love, light, sweet joy and playfulness.
Day 6: Gratitude Challenge
Although I long for our usual family celebrations that are canceled this holiday season, I am grateful for the love of family and friends who share this life with us.
Day 7: Gratitude Challenge
I am grateful for this glorious day filled with the opportunity to make America kind, again. ⁣
⁣Integrity, kindness and empathy are so needed in our leaders and goodness has won.

It has been quite a week in the United States and hope, goodness, integrity, compassion and unity has reigned. I am grateful for an overwhelming sense of positivity this has brought to our lives here and to those abroad.

I am grateful for my inspired life, my resilient soul and the strength and purpose to share my lessons with you in mindful intention to guide you on your healing journey.

I am grateful for my family and soulful friends and so much more that I will share throughout this gratitude challenge. I invite you to join in and play along.

May your life be blessed with gratitude and hope.

Love and light,

Nancy Yuskaitis

Soulful Stirrings from My Garden

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

As summertime winds down and we welcome a new month I am reminded of the gorgeous energy, peace, creativity and healing that I have experienced in our adobe zen inspired garden during this season of isolation and social distancing.

This time in nature while being at home has been an extraordinary time to breathe deeply, meditate outdoors, dream up imaginative stories, journal, garden, paint, receive messages from spirit and observe the beautiful creatures visiting the garden up-close.

Mindful living at its best while life has slowed down allows one to listen to their soul, their souls stirrings and the sounds of nature in the background or the foreground.

Listening to your soul offers infinite possibilities for healing, reclaiming joy, receiving guidance, inspiration and clarity on how you live each day.

It is time well spent and a soulful self care adventure.

Have you given yourself a few moments to be still each day and listen to your soul?

I invite you to do so in the comfort of your own backyard, patio or porch, weather permitting. Allow yourself to write down what you experienced along with any inspiration or guidance you received in a journal to reflect on at your convenience.

I wish you peace, hope and promise in the coming days, weeks and months.

Happy Soulful Adventuring!

~ Nancy Yuskaitis

Thank you for visiting my blog, I genuinely hope that you feel the joyful positivity, encouragement, love and light that is being sent to you through my inspired words, experiences and photo’s. Please take care.

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Happy Mother’s Day

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

It’s a glorious feeling when kindness from a loved one uplifts your heart and soul with gratitude, love and joy.

Becoming a mother is the most magical experience in the world. Being the best mom I can be, has been at the forefront of my life since I was eighteen years old. This had led to many roles in my parenting life along the journey. I’ve have tried to be a loving, compassionate, accepting, supportive and encouraging mom to the absolute ability of my conscious awareness, heart and soul.

What I’m about to share reminds me of the song, “I’ve been everywhere” as mom’s are given the expanding ability to grow along with their child or children in every way.

I’ve been a nurturer, nurse, massage therapist, fast order cook, coach for sports and life, teacher, chauffeur, band mom, an event planner, legal assistant, door person at concerts, security guard, rescuer, therapist, an adoring fan, enthusiastic cheerleader, counselor, a lighthouse in the dark, a soft landing as well as a bouncing off point, loyal friend, mother-of-the-groom, mother-in-law, bereaved mom twice, and in less than eight weeks I will be a grandmother for the first time. My amazing son and his lovely wife are expecting a beautiful little girl and I am overjoyed with excitement.

Being a step-mom and later a “grandma” of five boys in our blended family has also provided many wonderful opportunities to enjoy family life.

Life is about to change again, for me with the upcoming birth of a precious granddaughter. I am beyond grateful to my son & daughter-in-law for this opportunity and for their love and generosity as well as these gorgeous Mother’s Day flowers. I am also grateful to the spirit world for all the blessings and unexpected magical experiences bestowed on me.

Sending an abundance of love and gratitude to moms, mom’s-to-be, step-mom’s. mother-in-laws and grandma’s everywhere. You are so appreciated and I hope a loved one reminds you of just how special you are.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Love & Blessings, Nancy Yuskaitis

In loving memory of my mom, my mother-in-law, my two daughters & a gracious woman who was like a mother to me. Always close in heart & spirit.

In a Pandemic: Soulful Inspired Social Distancing

By Nancy Yuskaitis

🌷 Hello Beautiful Souls,

☀️ Thinking of you as we are asked to go further into our social distancing in the face of this pandemic.  It is important to create our own sense of peace and to not let fear overwhelm us.

🙏🏻  Please do your best to stay home and remain calm yet positive while taking this pandemic very seriously.

🏠  Are you able to use this time to create deeper relationships with others while maintaining your distance?

💻  Are you exploring every possibility of continuing your work from home or in separated spaces?

🎨  Are you finding ways to express yourself in creative pursuits as cooking, writing, creating artwork or gardening?

🎹  Are you including self care in your at-home activities such as exercise, yoga, meditation, listening to uplifting music?

💐  May you feel loved, supported, creative and beyond all hopeful and healthy.

Stay uplifted and Be well, 💛
~ Nancy Yuskaitis

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In a Pandemic: Uplifted Living for Beautiful Souls

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Soulful Greetings!

Many times in our lives stress and anxiety may play a role in how we feel.  It may be due to the devastating loss of a loved one or we may experience a different type of traumatic loss in the way of our livelihood, relationships, income, health and stability.

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis on Healing

 Usually, in these situations, our stress, anxiety and fear is our own.  It is as unique as our personality, life and situation.  At this time, however in this world-wide crisis, we may be challenged with concerning fears or facts about our loved ones, those in our community and in the world.

We are all collectively experiencing an unusual level of stress and anxiety

…. and it is real.

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis on Love & Compassion

The manner in which we handle this on-going stress varies from moment to moment, depending on our mindset, our personal philosophy and whether or not we experience support, compassion and kindness as we walk this emotional journey.

I invite you to consider living mindfully while adding an awareness of the Soulful Inspired Adventures that could be helpful in your daily life to uplift your spirit, calm your fears, soothe your soul and balance your body 

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis Sharing Love

Reaching out to others who are experiencing this same crisis can also help to deepen relationships and offer encouragement to one another.  Checking on family, friends and neighbors will help you to stay connected in this time of isolation as we are all in this difficult situation together.

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis on Joy

Where do you go to find peace, healing and solace?  

What activities uplift, balance and provide joy to your life?

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis on Compassion

Soulful Inspired Adventures for Beautiful Souls.

  • ZEN INSPIRED ADVENTURE … yoga, meditation and reiki, etc., can offer peace, calm and balance.

  • FITNESS INSPIRED ADVENTURE … exercise, biking, running, dancing etc., can clear stress and free the mind.

  • ARTFULLY INSPIRED ADVENTURE …  art, music, writing, cooking etc., can encourage peace, positivity and balance.

  • NATURE INSPIRED ADVENTURE … walking, gardening, boating and skywatching, etc., can provide uplifting hope and relaxation.

  • SPIRIT INSPIRED ADVENTURE …  connecting with your own soul, spirit guides and the spirit world can bring inner peace and clarity.

  • HEART INSPIRED ADVENTURE …  connection to others, offering assistance, kindness and love is uplifting and mutually beneficial.

Inspirational Quote by Nancy Yuskaitis on Love

What soulful inspired adventures do you choose today?

Whatever activity, experience or expression you choose to calm your anxiety and fear, raise your level of contentment and balance your energy at this challenging time is beneficial to your well-being, those around you and the world.  

How we choose to live in this unprecedented time, paying it forward with mindful awareness, empathy, compassion, hopeful positivity and gratitude for those on the front lines will go a long way in raising the immense collective vibrational energy on this planet and in our own lives.

Always remember, to seek professional care if you are feeling overwhelmed by the level of grief, stress or anxiety in your life.  Many therapists and counselors are available online to support and guide you through this difficult time.

Stay safe, healthy, filled with hopeful promise and love.

~ Nancy Yuskaitis

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Soulful Inspired Intentions for Beautiful Souls ~ 2020

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Hello Beautiful Souls,

There is so much to enjoy, to celebrate and to love about a brand new year and this year we are also changing decades.  Wow!

My wish for you in this new year … is for your dreams and desires to be illuminated in the light of self-discovery.

May you live a life of love, hope and reclaimed joy along with new opportunities of soulful self care and magical healing adventures that uplift and nurture your soul.

Personally, I prefer to set intentions rather than resolutions at the beginning of a new decade, year or month and these are some of my favorites.

Please share if any resonate with you. I’d love to support you to dance into the magical with me.

Love & Cheers to 2020.

~ Nancy Yuskaitis

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Soulful Inspired Adventure: Unite and Rise Up

By Nancy Yuskaitis

It was a magical and inspiring day as five soulful women gathered around the table aligning their expansive hearts and conscious awareness to share in meaningful conversation, encouragement and positivity.

It was an honor to host this Soulful High Tea Gathering at our adobe home in Santa Fe this past week and it was enjoyable to prepare and provide an array of fresh, healthy fruits and veggies in a salad bar style along with fire-roasted vegetable vegan pizza and of course tea and cookies to nurture our bodies and sustain our energy for this powerful exchange of passions and dreams.

This gathering was in part to welcome back for a visit my friend, Renya Craig a soul-inspired artist and rainbow connector who has a genuine desire to bring beautiful souls together in purposeful ways of uplifting each other and healing the planet.

She is a delight to collaborate with, to set intentions and to join in her passion for life.  Her artistic handwork, attention to detail and joyful heart is apparent in her beautiful Prayer Bundles: Sacred Sachets of Beauty & Blessing designed to uplift the heart and soothe the soul while spreading peace and grace and her handcrafted ceramic Earth * Spirit Pendants are spirit-guided and spirit infused.  She can be reached at  http://www.renyacreations.com

Several of us first met at a writing workshop a few summers ago facilitated by one of our guests, author and writer’s consultant, Heloise Jones then again last summer for a soul inspired lunch gathering. We connected on multiple levels of art, writing, transformation and inspiring others to heal as we live out our purpose and passion.  

Heloise, is fiercely passionate about supporting artists, writers and creatives to move forward, complete writing goals, feed their soul and create lasting creative freedom.  At this gathering, she implemented her storytelling into expressions of disclosure, process and plans regarding past, present and future.  Her book is titled, The Writers Block Myth: A Guide to Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom.  Heloise can be reached at  http://www.heloisejones.com

Also joining us was Ellen Burns Antill, a Life Transition Guide & Counselor.  She manages Thriving in Wholeness and leads a healing Women’s Way group in Santa Fe.  Ellen shared with us her intentions to assist families as a Death Midwife providing guidance and support through the last days for the terminally ill and their family.  Her kind, compassionate heart, intuitive spiritual nature and experience will be of comfort to those needing this heartfelt service.  Ellen can be reached at http://www.thrivinginwholeness.com

Marya Michael, an author of Fire Love: Igniting the Freedom of Your Heart & Soul has inspired readers to fathom and perceive as attainable the creative union of the mind, heart, soul and body through the healing and freeing nature of love.  Love and self-realizations have been core to the work in education and transformation for forty years.  Although I had just met Marya her gentle and heartfelt presence at our gathering offered wisdom, kindness and love.  Marya can be reached at http://www.maryamichaels.com

In this warm and encouraging light, it was my experience to announce my multi-decade study, practice and upcoming certification in psychic mediumship and spiritual life coaching.  It is something I have just begun to share with family, friends and the world although it has been a part of my life for over thirty years.  

It is my intention to share hope, light and love with you from a place of healing, compassion, soul strength and generosity of spirit.  My nearly lifelong study in the healing arts has uplifted my soul along with the practice of self care, meditation, mindfulness and inner work as I am called to rediscover and reclaim joy beyond child loss with a gracious heart and an adventurous spirit.  I invite you to join me on this soulful healing journey and to dance into the magical with me.

The theme for dialogue was suggested by Ellen Burns Antill: Where Are Your Dreams Taking You?  It was a thought provoking subject and one which allowed each of us to consider the value we have to give to others and to life by our experience, passion and commitment.

The afternoon was filled with inspiring acknowledgment, intention and soulful connection as well as an exchange of gifts.  It commenced later outside in the fresh air and ambiance of our private zen inspired garden with a circle of women committed to encouraging each other and others to rise up and pursue the dreams of their heart and to share their light and positivity with the world.

I am proud of each and every one of these strong and powerful women as they set their dreams in motion to uplift, inspire, guide, encourage and support others to heal, transform and grow while expanding their own soul evolution.

Love & Blessings,

Nancy Yuskaitis

 

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Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian

By Nancy Yuskaitis

Soulful Greetings

My heart is heavy and I am in disbelief at the loss of a beloved island that changed my life and its direction, forever.

I cannot yet wrap my mind around the concept that something like this could happen and yet it has.

Hurricane Dorian, a Cat 5  has swept away and devastated an island that meant so much to me and my family.  It has torn apart the lives of those in the Abaco’s and throughout the Bahamas.

Hope Town is just an island, but to me it was my paradise island, historically quaint, simply beautiful and colorfully charming.

A magical island I went to for solace, healing and soul searching, a home I loved and lived in at a crucial time in my life, a place I will always cherish for the remarkable experiences shared with family and friends throughout many wonderful years.

I am so grateful for the adventures and our family’s connection with this little island, yet I shudder to comprehend that all we have left there are memories.

 My heart goes out to the genuine and good-hearted people of Hope Town, Abaco and all the Bahamas islands impacted by this devasting hurricane.

Founded in 1785 in part by a widow from South Carolina, Wyannie Malone.  It is home to the famous red and white candy-striped Elbow Reef Lighthouse.  It is one of the last manual lighthouses in the world.  Visitors would climb the 100+ steps to the top just for the breathtaking panoramic view.

I can still recall my late, daughter Crystal excitedly playing on the beach in our backyard as a pre-teen while enjoying the freedom from the heaviness of our real life.  

I remember my son, Clayton enjoying the island life boating and snorkeling.

I look back on fond times of island hopping, cooking and being entertained by the late, Maitland Lowe aka Bonefish Dundee, a local legend that my dad adored like a son.  Last year, after his passing my husband and I met Maitland’s loving wife, Mercedes for the first time.

In the last years of my dad’s life, I spent all the time I could with him in Hope Town and in Lighthouse Point, Florida.  On one particular occasion, I had the opportunity to comfort him while we walked the beach behind his home as he shed long-held tears over the loss of his father and best friend some fifteen years prior.

While at a wedding for the Lowe’s with my dad and step-mom I was introduced to a long-time Hope Town resident and friend of theirs who I would later thank for saving my life.  I was emotionally and physically unable to go on with life as I knew it and this relationship while it lasted offered a restorative re-boot to my tattered spirit.

Four years later, I returned to Hope Town to visit my dad and step-mom and share this paradise with my then-boyfriend who proposed to me at dinner at Rudy’s Place with my family.  This year we will celebrate 22 adventurous years of marriage.

When my dad passed away and three years later my step-mom, we returned to Hope Town with my brothers, Frankie & Jeff and their families for each of their celebrations of life.  

There was a burial at sea and two markers at the beachside cemetery that I would tend to on our visits.  Even our friends Kelly & Jill, from Crested Butte would place flowers there when visiting.

Last year, along with my husband, Bob, brother, Frankie & Sister-in-Law, Karin we were able to connect with local long-time friends and enjoy all the beauty, ambiance, cuisine and love of this sweet island community that impacted our lives as the caring souls we’ve become.

We are grateful and encouraged by the many efforts beginning to take place in the way of rescues and assistance for the Bahamas Islands.  If you can find a way I invite you to donate to one of the charities benefitting the Bahamian people at this time of need.

Love & Blessings from our family to the Abaco, Bahamas

Nancy Vernis Yuskaitis

Info & Resources for Hurricane Dorian Relief: 

Hope Town Sailing Club

Hope Town Volunteer Fire Rescue

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