In numerology, the study of the metaphysical significance of numbers, 2016 is a year nine*, and the number nine is all about endings, so it isn’t surprising that so many cycles ended for me this year.

For example, earlier this year I finished my book, Answering Your Inner Calling. This was a culmination of a long cycle of learning, gathering, and then creating. I am still in the process of integrating the birth of my book as I step out of my comfort level and share my teachings with new audiences.

Another ending happened, just a few days ago, when we sold our former house. As we prepared to sell that house, and sorted through everything we still had stored in the attic, I found long-forgotten pictures of my children, and looked through hundreds of pictures of myself in my former career as a middle school teacher.

That process of sorting through stored things in the attic gave me the opportunity to reflect on all of the blessings of those years AND to release any of the burdens, and outdated beliefs that I still carried from that time. Continue Reading.