Beautiful Life Mentoring

10/30/2025

Some people claim that Disney is the happiest place on earth. But we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

10/30/2025

This morning I was awaken by this little squishy smothering me with kisses all over my left arm and cheek. Then the pups jumped onto the bed ran to my head and licked my face (not my favorite and it happens every morning before rob takes him on his walk).

He said quietly, “that’s why I stayed.” I said, “Oh? To protect me from the Gus attack?” He said, “Yeth, (he still has a slight lisp)… I knew he would do it.” Then proceeds to smother me with kisses again. Then hops out to go down to breakfast.

Yes he still makes his way to my bed in the middle of the night. Some might say that’s horrible and he is too old for that.

I say cherish every moment because you never know when it will be your last.

Coming up on November 15th is my intuitive art class focused on the power of gratitude and how to leverage it to experience inner peace regardless the circumstances.

This is not toxic positivity. It’s rewiring the brain.

Will I see you there? Comment or message me.

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10/29/2025

Anyone looking for a yoga teacher? 🤣 this kid joins me every morning for my alignment routines. Mostly I just get distracted from mine by his adorable self.

10/28/2025

Crazy hair day with this cutie.

10/27/2025

After a two year hiatus, I am bringing back my art classes that focus on emotional intelligence and healing the heart. This Wednesday will be focusing on the shadow self. Learning how to transmute the shadow self to our advantage! If you’re local, I would love to see you there!

10/18/2025

This cute boy of mine is one of 5 winners of the UVYSO Concerto competition out of 18 entries and 15 kids besides himself. His own composition Rhapsody for Tenor Saxophone and Orchestra was chosen out of his two entries. This kid blows me away!

(Funny thing is, He was least happy about his performance of this piece as he missed a couple of notes. But it’s not everyday that a 16 year old is composing music if this caliber.)

10/08/2025

Hang on my friends! There is always hope.

10/05/2025

Today has been all about supporting this kid in his dreams. He had a rehearsal with his accompanist for the Utah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition auditions coming up. The tenor sax piece is his original composition called “Rhapsody for Tenor Saxophone”.
The baritone sax concerto is a very difficult piece by Ibert.

We then select several hours researching composer competitions. We found one that is due in just a few days! This kid has been composing prolific since he was 14. So he had a lot to choose from that is ready to go!

(The tenor sax concerto didn’t make the cut since he has a few others he likes better) 🤯

We also researched setting up social media accounts so he can start sharing his gift with the world.

I love watching and supporting this sweet kid!

09/29/2025

Little M’s teacher asked them to write down the qualities they see in themselves. 8 love what her wrote:
I am confident
Funny
Nice
Focused
Listening
Love

I was relieved to Learn that he meant to write “focused” not “fascist” 🤣🤪

09/29/2025

There are some days when what is going on in the world weighs so heavy on my heart that the only sensible thing to do is to be present with what is good in this world and lean into that.

These boys are my world. And I love creating with them. Today I spent the day spiffing up our little practice studio in our basement and turning it into a recording studio. Something I have wanted to do for awhile now.

Then we played around with laying down some tracks for a Latin arrangement of Feelin’ Good palmer wrote. We aren’t finished but here is a sneak peek of what we got done today. Palmer is on Bari sax and flute and Lincoln is on Tenor sax and I am vocals. The backing track is the midi file Palmer composed in Sibelius. It needs work and our set up is crude but we had so much fun!
Lincoln was skeptical about a Latin version of this but what do you think?

09/19/2025

Mathew was so excited to have Mrs Smith our elementary school counselor, sign his book for him! He kept saying, “this is a very special book!”.
He chose her book over all the other books at the book fair. I love his tender and kind heart! May we all be kindness keepers!

09/09/2025