I just want you to know, that I have felt your pain before.

I have felt your indescribable feelings, your numbness, your lack of direction and your fear.

I have been you.

Well, it's official.

Our family of three has become a family of four.

And what an experience it has been so far.

I'm going to brag a little bit here. 

I always win competitions. 

I have won mobile phones, shopping vouchers, money, a $9000 Spa Holiday across Victoria (through Donna Hay Magazine) and - my fave - I got to drive around in a brand new Subaru Blitzen for a month.

For the next week, I want my home to be a retreat.

No television, minimal noise, lots of incense, candles and space clearing.

Grounding, reading, sleep, pampering and meditation.

Cooking, writing and photographing.

Delicious, healthy, organic food and really spoiling myself.

You know those things that you can't stand?

Like little things that annoy you, turn you off, make you mad- and you don't know why??

Lavender, rose quartz, and Bach flower essences have this effect on me.

Weird right?

Sometimes the words sit, in my throat, unable to move to my fingers.

Other times they flow as freely as the lyrics to a song that I have listened to, over and over and over again (Hurricane- MS MR is still on my playlist).

It's times like this, a steady stream of neatly typed words on a screen; is the ultimate release. 

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all marketing isn't it? Like really, who the hell was Saint Valentine? 

(FYI, he was a third century Roman saint commemorated on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages with a tradition of courtly love).

But despite not knowing this, we do celebrate it, whinge about it, wish that cute boy would send us flowers, or that girl we have a crush on would smile our way. 

Worst case, we are miserable that we are alone- or with someone we don't want to be.

Well don't be!

Following your heart is akin to finding your bliss.

Following your soul.

But what does it actually mean and how do you put it into practice?

Things to be thankful for today...

Something strange happened last night that proved to me that i was on THE RIGHT PATH.

After my self-imposed isolation over the last week and a half (this book is my number one priority right now!) I was feeling neglected, alone, and a little bit needy.