Falling in love one "letting go" at a time

Oh my gosh. It's a fact. I'm in mid-life crisis and it's not fun (at least not now but will be?). What was once important to me is no longer and what seemed too far fetched now has a special mystique to it where I want to know more.

In my phone coaching session yesterday as part of my mentor's program, I had a life altering experience (energy shifted) that left me reconnected to my heart where my dreams await.

We came up with a new "power statement" that not only starts me on a path of new behaviors, but replaces the old negative thoughts that kept me imprisoned in my own life by a belief system (and pattern) that stopped me from living the life I could love. My new power statement is:

"I am loving and lovable no matter what and I create a life I love with grace and ease!"

Now that feels strong, clear, powerful, authentic and an exact statement of how I want to "be" in life. Thank you Kailash Sozzani! I am learning to fall in love with my life and my soon-to-be soulmate one "letting go" at a time. Meaning, as I let go, surrender, and let God direct my way via my heart, I will build a life that I love with a man that I cherish and love.

Since Italy is my theme for my blog, I found this awesome photo on CAKE BOSS's site from his family's trip to Rome. (I so enjoy Cake Boss TLC show and what he stands for - family values and the entrepreneurial spirit that America stood for yrs ago.) Oh the charming, famous Trevi Fountain. I am making a statement right here and now - "I will stand in the same place with my true love when we travel to Italy and will take the same photo."

Ask and I shall receive, right? That's how the Universe works. I'm listening...

I know it's been over a year since I posted on this blog. I was so involved in "doing" my life that I forgot the "being." And this blog requires me to come from the place of being - my heart center. My consciousness was away in a foreign country somewhere, but I am back. It feels so good to be home again, in my heart.

So, today I celebrate a new beginning and new pattern that serves me MUCH better. Hold me to this!

Back soon, promise. xxoxo

A modern day wedding on the balcony of love

Ahh, sweet photo - a modern day wedding on the balcony of love in beautiful, lively Verona
at it's famous square, Casa di Guilietta, where Romeo professed his love for Juliet.

What a girl's dream come true. To be married on the balcony in Verona, Italy...

So here is where I shall begin my search for true love. For those wanting to travel to Verona, you can find Casa di Guilietta at Via Capello, 23

Directions: Via Capello is located down at the end of Piazza Erbe. To find the Casa just watch for the crowds. Located in Northern Italy near the top of the boot, Verona has a rich full history of Kings and battles that placed this famour William Shakespeare play location on the map. The amazing architecture has won this city a world title called UNESCO World Heritage Site. Verona is famous for its Roman amphitheatre, the Arena, completed around 30 AD, which is the third largest in Italy, after Rome's Colosseum and the arena at Capua.

So my story begins with my earliest memory of being attracted to a boy in grade school. Glenn was a handsome (well ok cute at that age) dark haired boy in my class who I had a deep crush on. I had no idea I even had a crush, I just got that butterfly feeling in my stomach every time he walked by me or looked at me. I was always a hopeful romantic even at that early age. Now, I can't remember if he ever gave me much attention, but I was in like with him!

I think I had my first "kiss" with my neighborhood friend at the sweet age of 10. I had such a crush on this guy - he seemed so much older - all of 12 yrs old. :) But this was my first real connection with a guy who reached out to me and paid attention to me. We had been neighborhood friends for several years and then the teens snuck up on us and all of sudden we had different interests for each other. Funny how that happens! Jimmy was a charming, handsome guy with green eyes and a great smile. Nothing more happened that summer but it sure was a thrill to hang out with him. I do remember he had a girlfriend his age in Junior High school and I was a bit jealous. But I did get to kiss him...so I felt special :0

The next adventure was Jr. High. We called middle school Jr. High back in the 70's. I hung out with this group of kids and we'd all go out together on Fri evenings. One night we all went to the movies together. I was so darn naive. I had a crush on this guy Bob but he was someone else's boyfriend. I think he was separated from Susan at the time of our movie evening and somehow I ended up sitting next to him at the theater. We made out but I think it was my first french kiss and I had no idea what I was doing! How awkward that felt. The next school day I heard about my naivety and never lived it down. How embarrassing!

Then I hd my first love and real boyfriend in 9th grade. Bill Dyke was the coolest boyfriend ever! I had moved to a small town, Santa Rosa, from Los Angeles and definitely the "cool L.A." girl in a small town. I made friends fast with many and Bill was one of the first. We fell in like and he pursued me like crazy! Our love affair lasted over a year and now I knew what love felt like for the first time in my life. See, my family environment was unemotional and certainly not spiritual at all. There was little affection in my home, so I sought it outside the home. Bill was my best friend and lover at the sweet age of 14-15.

The next phase of my love evolution coming up!

My love of Italy: the journey begins

My first love has always been Italy.

And, what a perfect setting to begin my search for true love than that of the home of Romeo and Juliet – beautiful mystical city of love, Verona.

My inspiration? Last night I watched this adoring, sweet film, “Letters to Juliet” that touched my heart in places I have not felt in a long time. For the first time in three years, I actually cried during a romance film watching the adventure of three souls and the homecoming of these long lost lovers rekindle their true love portrayed by the graceful, authentic Vanessa Redgrave, mesmerizing Amanda Seyfried, Gael Garcia Bernal and Daniel Baldock. The story premise is "it's never too late to find true love," and so my journey begins...

It is here on this balcony located in Verona's famous square, Casa di Guilietta, where Romeo professed his love for Juliet. And so I begin my heartfelt journey in search of true love that has escaped me for years. I have had many lovers who stayed a short while but none that truly remained by my side and that is the purpose for my inner and outer journey. Who and where is my true soul mate (who I have felt every day), which remains a mystery, until now as my journey unfolds in the land of love to solve this.

So please join me on my emotional adventure as I travel in my heart and mind to the romantic country of Italy to explore the rich countryside of Tuscany to the stunning Amalfi coast region where my heart resides, the Isle of Capri.

Open your heart, share your comments and let's find true love together.