The best, most useful time to cultivate compassion is right now. Don’t you think? You could change the course of your future, even how you experience the past if you focused on loving better, deeper right where you are: others, yourself, this breath. Take these love affirmations and use your favorite to bring more fulfillment and ease to all your relationships — even with your barista and the mailman. It’s always the season for love.

Here’s another way to think about forgiveness: it's the lighter way to what you need, want, and already deserve: peace. Read these forgiveness affirmations. They'll remind you, guide you towards how you want to feel and live and give and receive. You deserve the life *you* want.

Your story, your strength, your compassion, your passion, your perspective has the power to become someone else’s lifeline or lantern. These affirmations for a better world are from my new book, Morning Affirmations! They’ll encourage you to bring your natural brilliance wherever you go — it’s how you make a difference.

Be an inner peace activist this year with these special affirmations for Christmas. I wrote them for you so peace would come easier. And so joy would be the most natural thing in the world. No matter what's happening around you.

These affirmations for loving relationships are beautiful reminders first thing in the morning: to stay true to what you value, to promote what you love, to take responsibility for what you can control (your energy, your responses, your contribution).

How amazing would it be to finish that thing you’ve been working on (or thinking about starting) for, what feels like, ever? To speak your mind and do what lights you up? You’ve got to know about my high performance coach! I mean it when I say she can help you change your career, health, relationships, life. I'd know.

The words we choose and the *way* we use them together can hurt or heal, destroy or build, isolate or unite. If you want to be more mindful about what you say and how you say it, read this. It'll remind you how powerful YOU are. To live and love, the way YOU want to.

The more we tell the truth about what we’ve gone through and are still going through, the easier it is to trust ourselves. I think that’s because sharing is daring to discover who we can be beyond any one story. Bearing your heart and soul: that’s one of the bravest ways to heal and grow.

Giving the perfect gift and seeing that look of pure gratitude on someone’s face is one of the greatest feelings. Finding the perfect gift is another story. To help you make this holiday season more joyful and less stressful, here’s my 2018 gift guide for self-help fans, friends & family!

Love that's never lost, never apart, never incomplete... what love really means. Read these notes to remember, and feel better about every single relationship you have. When you're hurt, dismantled, closed down, misunderstood, consider the love that’s “missing” and treat the pain like it’s a call for your own love.