Soulful Musings

Life Change

Summer Greetings to you and yours from SoulfulLiving.com and a very warm welcome to all of our new Newsletter Subscribers! Thank you for your interest in our internet community and web magazine dedicated to personal and spiritual growth. I hope our Newsletter finds you well and enjoying the beautiful days of summer. We have a "life changing" issue of SoulfulLiving.com posted for you this quarter, exploring the topic of "Creating Life Change," featuring articles by notable authors Dr, Judith Orloff, Victoria Moran, David Richo, Debra Lynn Dadd, Barbara Biziou, Suzanne Zoglio, Robin L. Silverman, Donna Henes, and Sandra Schubert.

I chose "Creating Life Change" as this season's theme, as change has been the predominant theme here at SoulfulLiving.com this past year and particularly this summer.

When I founded Soulful Living in 2000, I set out with a passion and fervor that I had never known before to create a website resource that would offer hope and healing to others on a similar path of personal and spiritual growth. It was my intention to bring you insights from a wide array of experts who could inspire and inform you to live your most soulful and satisfying life, and to create a community where like-minded souls could share wisdom and friendship. I feel we accomplished that, and it has been a great privilege and honor to serve you and present SoulfulLiving.com to you over the past decade.

However, the last year has been a challenging and difficult one, and I find that I am being called to move in new directions and that it is time to pass the reins of the website onto a new owner.

I have held hope in my heart that the perfect person would appear to take on this role, and I believe very strongly that she has. Her name is Emily Aiken and she will be ushering in the next decade of SoulfulLiving.com. Emily has a great deal of enthusiasm and respect for the website. She is filled with many fresh ideas for growing the website, and I am confident that she will continue to deliver the same quality of transformational columns and content that have made SoulfulLiving.com what it is today.

Emily is a very soulful woman. She has spent much time studying, practicing and contemplating many different spiritual modalities and techniques, including: conscious breathing, yoga, meditation, affirmations, mindfulness, chakra balancing, and flower essences. She is excited to be following her soul's path as the new director and owner of SoulfulLiving.com and is deeply committed to upholding the integrity of the website as well as continuing it's mission.

Thank you for being part of our Soulful Living Community and for all your support over the years. I feel very blessed to have been given the gift and honor of presenting SoulfulLiving.com to you. I wish you the very best, and I hope you will stay in touch.

Blessings to you on your soulful life journey!

Soulfully,
Valerie

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Starting Somewhere - Welcome to My New Blog!

Welcome to my new blog, "Soulful Musings"!

I thought it was high time that I enter the age of blogging. So, here I am. My name is Valerie, and I am the founder, creator and soul of SoulfulLiving.com.

I have long wanted to begin blogging, but, "Where to begin?," was always the predominant question entering my mind. The project of bringing a blog to life has seemed like somewhat of a daunting task, particularly since it would have made perfect sense to have started seven years ago, when I first began creating SoulfulLiving.com, which by now would have produced a wonderful written history of its creation.

But, this summer, I finally decided that "starting somewhere," was much better than never starting at all.

Of course, my next important question became, "How to begin?" I found inspiration on the subject of blogging from a frequent contributor to my website, Suzanne Falter Barns, author of Living Your Joy; A Practical Guide to Happiness, who shares her knowledge about all topics related to "getting known now" at her wonderful and informative website, GetKnownNow.com, and her terrific "Get Known Now" Blog.

It was through one of Suzanne's newsletters that I learned about a great new book, BlogWild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging, by Andy Wibbels, which I just received from Amazon.com yesterday and spent today reading cover to cover. It's a dense, fact-packed, quick and fun read on everything you could ever want to know about blogging for business or pleasure. I highly recommend it. I have gleaned tons of knowledge from this great little book and am really excited about becoming a professional blogger! You can visit Andy Wibbel's blog here: http://www.andywibbels.com.

I hope you enjoy my new blog as much as I am enjoying creating it. I'd love to hear your feedback and comments. Thanks for reading!