Liberate Yourself from the Fear of Looking Foolish — Each month I work on a theme. May was “May Scarcity Thinking Be Gone” month, and June was “Pride” month. July was “Liberation” month, and I focused on the idea of self-liberation. Now Liberation Month is coming to a close and I have a BIG tip from me, the Mystic…

And it’s gonna be there till you deal with it, Baby. — They didn’t need context because we all knew what they meant, those cheeky ads for Las Vegas. The implication of “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” was clear — you can act out your wildest fantasies in Las Vegas because that’s what Las Vegas exists for. …

Listen and feel your energy rise — Back in May, I wrote a story about some of my favorite “High Vibe” Musical artists, and I hope I was able to turn people on to some excellent, life-affirming music. What do you mean by “High Vibe Music”? In that earlier article, I included this definition (but I still don’t think it’s complete.) “High Vibe music is…

Five reasons why I love my home yoga contraption — A couple of months ago, a dear friend gifted me a pair of leopard print roller skates in the hope that watching me learn might encourage her to get back on her own skates. When they were delivered, my mom said, “Doesn’t she know you won’t do that?” But for…

What’s made me, what I know, and what I’m manifesting — Being at this writing 50 years old, and being in righter mind than I’ve ever been, I, Leah Welborn, do affirm this to be my trifold manifesto — an accounting of what all’s made me who I am, what I know to be true, and what I am manifesting in…

Finish this Year in Peace, Start Next Year in Power — Does anyone like the time change? And by “time change,” I mean the two days a year when we flop back and forth as to what hour it “actually is”, putting our well-being under considerable strain? This autumnal one hits especially hard, I think. The darkness of night has already…

A Tapping Spell to Calm Yourself — Here’s a quick spell/tapping script that I created to encourage inner peace. It’s quite easy. Simply tap with the fingertips of one or both hands at the following points on your body, speaking the corresponding affirmation at each point. Crown: Peaceful energy flows like water through my world Third eye…

And How I Created a Sigil for Them — My spirituality is eclectic and has developed over decades. Since 2020, it’s been at the center of my life, and it continues to deepen in strength and profundity. While I believe that we all have Spirit Guides who are with our souls for eternity, I didn’t begin to have what…

Reflecting on three years since I survived my own plans — cw: topic of suicide It’s mid-June, 2023, and I’m celebrating my 3rd birthday by being endlessly kind and patient with myself and telling myself that I’m a gorgeous, talented, otherworldly bad bitch every time I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror. Sometimes even when I don’t. Perhaps you’re…

Spring, Self-Love, & My Celebration of the Wheel of the Year — It’s the first week of April and I’ve completed all the little ritualistic acts that I perform at the change of the seasons, little things to remind myself that I am a part of nature, not apart from her. I wrote about it last year, at the autumnal equinox: I’ve…

My joy often waxes with the new moon. — The sky will be dark tonight, but not as dark as it will be tomorrow night when the moon in Pisces will be new. And this weekend, for no particular reason, I’m feeling really good. Could it be that the two are, you know, connected? ✂️ Connected! 5 seconds · Clipped by Leah Welborn: Empower Your Magical Self · Original video "Fargo - Connected - I'm cooperating …youtube.com

And How I Created a Sigil to Honor Them — The subject of ancestry can be a prickly one for white Americans who are aware of history and concerned about social justice. Whether our own ancestors were involved in the trading of enslaved peoples or not, whether our own family forebears were actively involved in the genocide of Native peoples…

Or, what happened when my shameful personal preferences were mandated. — A recurring metaphor runs through my life, and it originates with actual events in my childhood. I’m on a dusty Texas playground where I passed many a traumatizing hour enduring forced fun at the hands of my cruel elementary school teachers. The sun is absolutely blazing and there’s me, clumsy…

Eight high-vibe musical artists people should know — Do you like good music (I hope you read that in Arthur Conley’s voice!)? It’s a trick question, I know. Everybody likes good music, and everybody has a different idea about what constitutes good music. Like a lot of people, I LOVE music and I’m pretty specific about what…

Do you have a mental happy place? — Whether you meditate regularly or not, you’ve probably been prompted at some point, maybe by a book or a teacher, to go to a tranquil spot in your mind. Did you have a mental spot ready to go? …

A Parable about How Things Got This Bad — Once upon a time, and for almost 200,000 years, we had one common language. Not just humans, but animals, trees, water, fire, rock, everything understood this language and communicated in it. That way of “knowing” that we attribute to animals? …

Let Your Subconscious Know: There’s Enough to Go Around — Here’s a quick spell/tapping script that I created to encourage an abundance mindset. It’s quite easy. Simply tap with the fingertips of one or both hands at the following points on your body, speaking the corresponding affirmation at each point. Crown: The energy of abundance flows through my life with…

The change wasn’t overnight, but I began to feel differences throughout my life rather quickly — There’s a sketch from MadTV that I think of a lot. A man & woman are seated at a restaurant, and the woman is, she insists loudly, not on a DIET, she’s on a LIVE IT. The woman, played brilliantly by Nicole Sullivan, is obviously hungry to the point of…

A Glimpse at Humanity’s Timeline (So Far) — My ancestry kit reported that I have way more Neanderthal in me than most people, and I found that oddly enticing. Besides the fact that I’m awkward & have a difficult time relating to people, I’ve always found the deep recesses of human history fascinating, and the cave paintings at…

Sometimes your ego’s just an untrained guard dog — Imagine someone has had their property violated. Let’s call her Sam, and let’s say that she came home one evening to find her home had been broken into and a few things had been stolen. Nothing was irreplaceable, but it was very upsetting, naturally. …