Live open to the possibilities; don’t shut anything down. If you think this way, you will feel empowered. Thinking things have to be a certain way is disempowering and feelings of powerlessness always turn into fear. E.L Chappel author of Spirit Dance/Storm…

Fear stems from thinking about what comes next—the next minute, hour, day, week, year; the future. This kind of mindset squanders the moment and will kill your excitement, your ambition, to take on lingering passions for fear of what might happen if…

  Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need~Kahlin Gibran E.L. Chappel author of Spirit Dance/Storm Makers/Coming very soon: The Surge Giving isn’t just a holiday thing; it’s a life-long thing. aka The Glamorous Wife

Before we can jump right into this story, there are a few things you must first know. Who knows what year it was? I certainly don’t! This guy named Eric Blanco decided he was going to move from Washington D.C. to Oklahoma…

Your success will not only be measured by how hard you work, but how fast you adapt when things don’t go the way you think they should. E.L. Chappel author of Spirit Dance/Storm Makers/Coming Soon: The Surge Every disappointment thrusts you towards…

The Gift of Anxiety Have you ever felt anxious? Worried, concerned, or worse yet, completely stressed out? I know I have, and there was a time when I did everything I could—run, eat, hyper-prepare, shop, clean, organize—in order to whisk away the…

I woke up on a Sunday morning with the title of this blog series fighting to get out of my head. Within a half-hour of waking, I had written a series of posts with word count that might typically take days, the…

I was at a writing conference a few years ago, and being a first-time author, I took in every recommendation the top-tier writer’s and editors suggested. During the last day of the conference, I had the opportunity to pitch my story to…