# Zen Chick

Slow down. Simplify. Love your life.

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## Latest posts

- [Wild Wanderings – Stoke your inner flame](https://zenchick.com/wild-wanderings-stoke-your-inner-flame/) — 2025-10-05
  “You are playing a sacred role that was created just for you.” ~ Mary Davis First, let’s talk Moon energy: Welcome to “spooky” October, where we have a Supermoon arriving on the 6th in the sign of fiery Aries. This…
- [Welcome to “Wild Wanderings”](https://zenchick.com/welcome-to-wild-wanderings/) — 2025-09-02
  I’m so glad you are here! This will be a gathering place for diverse thoughts, wanderings, and an extension of my long-standing Spirit Moon Notes series, which will be included here. Comments are always welcome and appreciated, so share your…
- [My happiness lesson and how it changed my thinking.](https://zenchick.com/my-happiness-lesson-and-how-it-changed-my-thinking/) — 2023-03-19
  Happiness is not some “thing” to be pursued, it is a way of being born from appreciating – Rasheed Ogunlaru At the beginning of 2023, I decided that instead of resolutions or goals, I would embrace two mantras, “Be Happy”…
- [My “10 things for 2021” list and how I did.](https://zenchick.com/my-10-things-for-2021-list-and-how-i-did/) — 2021-12-01
  “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” As I look back to January of this year, I’m reflecting on “My 10 things for 2021”, which were…
- [Your Mama don’t need to give you permission.](https://zenchick.com/your-mama-dont-need-to-give-you-permission/) — 2021-01-03
  Hello, 2021! We have all lived through the tough year of 2020, and we welcome the new year with open arms, pinning our dreams and hopes to it, making our lists, and checking them twice. Call those lists resolutions, intentions,…
- [Eat your cake first, shake up your reward system](https://zenchick.com/eat-your-cake-first-shake-up-your-reward-system/) — 2020-01-20
  “Joy is the ultimate reward in life.” ― Sunday Adelaja January is almost gone and with the month ending, reflection begins on the New Year’s resolutions, intentions or goals. Am I still doing what I set out to do or…
- [Tiny Action Steps = The Wake-Up Call For Your Life](https://zenchick.com/tiny-action-steps-the-wake-up-call-for-your-life/) — 2019-02-23
  “Baby steps count, too, as long as you’re moving forward.” ~Chris Gardner I have been struggling with something, and maybe you can relate. A couple of years ago, I declared lots of white space in my calendar after hitting the…
- [Kick Off 2019 By Giving Us The Real You!](https://zenchick.com/kick-off-2019-by-giving-us-the-real-you/) — 2019-01-01
  “Be yourself–not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” –Henry David Thoreau The start of a new year means a “do over” for most of us, a fresh start, kick the old year out…
- [My Independence Day – One Year Later](https://zenchick.com/my-independence-day-one-year-later/) — 2018-07-22
  “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver (disclaimer: this article is not intended to “shame” anyone who is still on FB or Twitter, it is about my journey…
- [Trending Now: Simplicity](https://zenchick.com/trending-now-simplicity/) — 2018-04-23
  “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” ~ Bruce Lee There’s a new trend happening on the internet, and it’s been catching on like wildfire. It’s called, “Simplicity” and it’s making a…
- [Shifting My Thoughts, Changing My Year](https://zenchick.com/shifting-thoughts-changing-year/) — 2018-02-10
  Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world, Today I am wise, so I’m changing myself. When 2018 started, I was completely determined to make it MY YEAR! I turn 60 this year and with the beginning…
- [How Will You Shape Your 2018?](https://zenchick.com/will-shape-2018/) — 2017-12-25
  “You will always belong anywhere you show up as yourself and talk about yourself and your work in a real way.” ― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone I don’t…
- [The Holidays-What Does An Emotional Time Out Look Like?](https://zenchick.com/holidays-emotional-time-look-like/) — 2017-11-19
  The holidays usually invoke these emotions, dread, joy or both. You dread the family member you have to spend time with and joy comes from spending time together. It’s an oxymoron, right? Not really when we think about all of…
- [Stress Is NOT A Badge Of Honor](https://zenchick.com/stress-not-badge-honor/) — 2017-10-19
  “You pay for stress all the same way, no matter how good the reasons.” ~ unknown I’ve been a massage therapist for 25 years and I see stress up close every day in the work I do with my clients.…
- [The Break-Up](https://zenchick.com/the-break-up/) — 2017-07-23
  “Because I know that at the end of my life, sharing pics & quips & LOLs & emoticons & working diligently to create a “presence”  on social media networking platforms & eagerly seeking “likes” & “shares” & “hearts” and so…
- [What To Do Next……](https://zenchick.com/what-to-do-next/) — 2017-05-21
  This is a follow up from our last post about moving a little clutter out of your life. You have found a couple of things that you need to move out of the way so you can get very clear…
- [It’s Spring! Time To “Dust” Your Life](https://zenchick.com/spring-time-dust-life/) — 2017-05-05
  “Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow” ~unknown Here in the South spring is in the air. Warmer days, nights still cool, more daylight and the call to…
- [Why I Gave Up Goals for 2017.](https://zenchick.com/gave-goals-2017/) — 2017-01-08
  “Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.” ~Dee Hock It all started around the end of October 2016 when I hit the wall. My mind and my body finally said “ENOUGH”…
- [Who Am I?](https://zenchick.com/who-am-i/) — 2016-11-14
  (Spoiler alert-yes this is about the election but not who won or didn’t, so please read on) Like a lot of you, I watched part of the elections returns, sitting in awe as I listened to the calls of what…
- [There Is Always LOVE!](https://zenchick.com/there-is-always-love/) — 2016-06-21
  “Love casts out fear” ~ Dorothy Day There is so much going on in our world right now, turn on the TV, internet or just turn on your phone and you are hit with a firestorm of negativity fueled by…