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Dropping What Feels True for TRUTH

Dropping What Feels True for TRUTH

Hello Friends! What’s new in your world? I hope you’re experiencing the freshness of fall with a big dose of inspiration.Currently, I’m in a big wave of letting things GO! I have been riding this...

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Yoga

Yoga

A few weekends ago, I did a public yoga retreat at Moody Gardens in Galveston, Texas. It was so much fun to be in a room with lots of yoginis and yogis, live and in-person; in a spacious room with...

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What Are You Producing?

What Are You Producing?

Recently I visited a Presidential library where I watched an autobiographical movie about this president’s life. It played for about 30 minutes in a cool comfortable theater with velvety seats....

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The Elephant Whispers

I LOVE this documentary is a beautiful demonstration on giving love for the sake of loving! https://youtu.be/a0J0b_OVa9w

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The Summer of Endless Opportunity!

The Summer of Endless Opportunity!

It’s almost summer! Can you believe it? The pace of this new year is offering many opportunities to reflect on how you’re spending your time, along with the opportunity to reflect...

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A ‘Steve Hartman’ Feel Good Story

The Heart in Humans Dear Cheryl, I wanted to share this feel-good story with you. In a time when people seem to be more polarized and non-caring, with more bad news than good news reported,...

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A Smoother Ride with Change

A Smoother Ride with Change

Anxiety, Agitation & Overwhelm... What's been on my mind lately is noticing how the world keeps changing and noticing how my mind reacts to these changes. It's as simple a fact of life that...

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What Inspires?

What Inspires?

Living INSPIRED! If you’re in my circle of newsletter connections, you know I’m all about living an inspired and free life. This week I had the opportunity to work with a client who is a...

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Summer Hoopla

Summer Hoopla

Here we are in the full swing of Summer 2022. I hope you are full of enthusiasm for how you will spend your time. I just returned from facilitating an Intuitive Painting workshop at Esalen Institute...

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“Life-giving” in Taos, NM

“Life-giving” in Taos, NM

How are you? Are you busy with graduations, weddings, or other big life events? I hope this email finds you well and smiling with new hope for what’s ahead. I just returned from Taos, New Mexico...

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A Good News Story

A Good News Story

  Who doesn’t need a good news story these days? Here’s one for you. Kids creating and being fearless or creating in spite of fear. For many years, I have volunteered at the Houston Livestock Show...

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Holiday Greetings

Holiday Greetings

I wanted to take the opportunity to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! My wish is for you to relax, enjoy, and savor all the flavors the season offers. I'm giggling because in these 'flavors' I'm...

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A Good Reminder

A Good Reminder

How's it going? I wonder if you're as surprised as I am that we are well into the month of November and staring right into the face of the holidays? Well, it's true. Here we are. As we enter the...

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I Don’t Want to Be a Pickle

I Don’t Want to Be a Pickle

Hello! How have you been? I hope you’re doing well. How are you doing with all the change, unclear information, and the way life is unfolding for you? Since March of 2020 does it feel like the world...

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Enjoy Today

Enjoy Today

It’s a beautiful summer day in Houston, Texas this morning. The skies are full of smoky gray clouds and rain is falling hard. Enjoy and relish this day. I just received news about a treasured...

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Spring Forward

Spring Forward

How are you? I hope this newsletter greets you with a fresh excitement for Spring. The clock did its jump forward so fresh newness can’t be far behind. Here in Texas, this is the time when the...

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Relationship Challenges

Relationship Challenges

Here you are! February is wrapping up and March is just around the corner. When I think about March being just around the corner, I’m even more amazed at the crazy weather that hit the country...

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Invitation: An Upside to the Times

Invitation: An Upside to the Times

What’s new with you? I hope you’re doing well and exploring new inspirations that are coming to you in the richness of possibility that seems to come with the beginning of a new year. Possibility...

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Here we are at the end of 2020!   I think this year speaks volumes about RESILIENCE. Resilience is your innate ability to rise to the occasion. Whatever the occasion is. It’s the spiritual nature of...

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Line In the Sand

Line In the Sand

I hope you're feeling strong and vibrant. Are you planning your holidays, celebrating the Festival of Lights, or readying to launch a fresh new year?   I hope you'll take a break this Friday,...

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A Candid Conversation

A Candid Conversation

What are you hungering for? Community, connection, creativity, fresh aliveness? Well all of that can be done safely and virtually. During this time of Covid we’ve discovered that a fun, welcoming...

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LOVE: A Fresh New Season

LOVE: A Fresh New Season

What is new with you? How are you experiencing life these days?   I always find it interesting that in times of great contrast in world events, I see there is also great contrast in how people...

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September

September

It's September! What a surprise to be approaching a change of seasons. I hope you're doing well and easily navigating what's in front of you to do.   In my coaching practice, clients have been...

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Presence. Where Are You?

Presence. Where Are You?

How are you? Here we are in August. I can't believe September is just days away! I hope you are doing well and the ones you love are too.   Recently I was asked to share a wellness tip in support of...

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Podcast!

  How are you? Are you getting Zoom-literate now? I hope you're feeling well and everyone you love is feeling well too.   Exciting news! My podcast is up on all podcast formats. It's called,...

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Losing Clarity in Relationships

Losing Clarity in Relationships

Welcome to summer! I hope your days are full of hope and promise. This Friday, June 19th (noon CDT, 10 PDT, 1pm EDT, 7pm Paris) I'm having a free webinar on relationships. In my practice the topic...

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Society, Creative Destruction, Inspiration

Society, Creative Destruction, Inspiration

How are you? I hope you’re doing well and finding fresh new ways to thrive where you are. I’m very hopeful during these times that change is happening. I often say that evolution takes many strange...

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Covid-Land

Covid-Land

I hope you’re doing well! I’ve loved hearing from you about the invitation extended last week to do something you’ve never done before, right where you are in Covid-Land. Right after sending you the...

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Quarantine Creative Gaming

Quarantine Creative Gaming

Is your quarantine feeling a bit like Bill Murray’s Ground Hog Day? Well, don’t settle for that! You have the opportunity to feel more alive every day, not just the days you can leave the house....

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Thank You

Thank You

How is your quarantine going? Are you discovering new things about yourself, your home, your work, your family? I hope your discoveries are opening your world. I wanted to write a message to all the...

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Thrive Where You Are

Thrive Where You Are

A few days ago, I planted some sunflower seeds in a cup. I had these on hand because I volunteer on the horticulture committee of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. Yesterday morning, I noticed...

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Resting in the Big OK

Resting in the Big OK

How’s your staying-at-home going? Are you finding fresh inspirations, time to rest, or no time to rest? You might be noticing how the mind muzak you live in has told you, time and time again, a...

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Continued Signs of New

Continued Signs of New

I hope this email finds you relaxed in a time of unprecedented change. It looks like some people are loaded with more responsibilities than ever before and others are sitting with a lighter load....

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Truth

Truth

I hope this email finds you well and settling in to the changes that life is offering up right now. It's a rich opportunity for waking up to the TRUTH that you can love your life at any moment, just...

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Signs of New

Signs of New

I hope this email finds you and your family well and rested. I’m sitting at my desk watching the street activity out my window. It’s wonderful to see people moving about on bikes, a wheelchair, a...

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Express Yourself! Why Bother?

Express Yourself! Why Bother?

Since your arrival on the scene of life, you’ve been told how to be, how to act, what’s right, what’s wrong, how to be, been told you’re too much, not enough, you name it, and you’ve been subtlety or not so subtlety influenced by all of these ‘add-ons.’

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Love Love Love

Love Love Love

In day-to-day life, loving, doesn’t seem like the easiest ride at the amusement park. In real life, there appears to be legitimate reasons to break connection. The connection breaker can be validated and commiserated. We can make differences the problem and build a life from them.

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Your True Home

Your True Home

I came across this and thought you might like it. Sometimes, it appears to me that people avoid creating and following inspirations because it’s often an individual exploration. But this essay, to me, states what’s on offer by saying YES.

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Following the Inspirations that Come

Following the Inspirations that Come

Following the Inspirations that Come Dear cheryl, Following inspiration is captivating me at the beginning of this new year. It occurs to me that inspiration is an invitation from the Intelligence...

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Living Inspired, Naturally!

Living Inspired, Naturally!

Here we are at the end of 2019! Can you believe it? I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy New Year! We’re not only starting a new year, we’re beginning a new decade. How...

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Light-hearted? Tis the Season

Light-hearted? Tis the Season

The holidays are HERE! Are you ready for what this season brings? Maybe it’s just me but I know my expectations, preferences, and story book images of the season can surely get in the way of seeing...

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Support for “Ick” Conversations

Support for “Ick” Conversations

Maybe I’m the only one who has an adversity to conversations I’d rather not find myself in. I could have been in the circus or worked for the magician, Houdini, because I could find an escape route...

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Following Quirky Inspiration

Following Quirky Inspiration

Taos. This is one word that evokes movement inside anyone who has visited or has longed to visit this unique place. It’s a place filled with real-time postcard images that seem to have been enhanced...

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If I Can See It, You Can See It!

If I Can See It, You Can See It!

Just this week I was asked to share what I do, exactly, with my clients. This question offered me the opportunity to step back and see what matters most to me in my commitment to who I work with;...

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Otis Wisdom

Otis Wisdom

One day on a break between clients, I was sitting at my computer and noticed my neighbor’s dog, Otis, loose on the street. I immediately went out to the street and put him back inside his fenced...

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Saying YES to Life!

Saying YES to Life!

Saying YES to Life. Little did I know that I have been doing this, in a big way, for the past 6 years. It wasn’t as conscious to me then as it is now. Now I see that something larger than my mind...

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Natural Inspiration

Natural Inspiration

My soul-sister-artist-friend, Elayne Goodman sent me this creation! I was surprised at the post office with a large package and this treasure was inside. Elayne lives in Columbus, MS and we share...

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Saying “YES!”

Saying “YES!”

For the last 10 years, I’ve been consistently surprised by what life offers me and what my mind makes of these offers. When I speak of ‘offers’ I’m referring to invitations and inspirations that...

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Connection: We All Want It

Connection: We All Want It

A desire for connection seems to be something we all share. People want to feel more connection in their lives, loves, families, and friends. Another form of connection, often discussed in coaching...

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On Offer? More Freedom

On Offer? More Freedom

Happy 4th of July! In the United States we celebrate the 4th of July as our declaration of independence from Great Britain beginning in 1776. What does Independence Day mean to you? For me, this...

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Humanness & Insecurity

Humanness & Insecurity

We’re on the cusp of a New Year! This February marks the 12th birthday of True You Creativity Studio. At the conception of this inspiration, I could never have imagined how many wonderful people I would get to know.

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A Great Gift:  “Getting Over Yourself”

A Great Gift: “Getting Over Yourself”

I love the fact that all human beings have the ability to receive new information via insight. Insight is the effortless, natural ability to see something fresh. Insight seems to pop into our minds from out-of-the-blue. Something that was once invisible to us becomes obvious… that’s insight.

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4 Tips for Stress-Free Solutions

Hello Friends, Today I’m writing you from Salt Spring Island, BC, where I’m attending a conference.  Preparing for this conference is where this story begins. Getting to Salt Spring requires taking...

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Love

Love

This morning the sweetest message came to me, out of the blue, "We came from LOVE, we are LOVE, and we will return to LOVE." It appears to me to be a response to a recent inquiry with God about how...

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Where is Aliveness?

It’s fall! It was very exciting to step outside this morning and feel a hint of fall. With the change of weather it occurred to me how that seems to stimulate an awakeness to life. All of a sudden any feeling of stuckness goes to the back and aliveness comes to the fore front. Aliveness is a topic that fascinates me and seems to show up in the majority of my coaching client’s desires for seeking support…

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Where Limitation Lives…

Where Limitation Lives…

Have you ever wondered where limitation exists in your life? This has became so obvious to me lateley that I felt the need to share. Recently, I have been surprised by the notion of just showing up in life regardless of my preferences and perceived capabilities. It occurred to me, to move with the flow of life and to not micro manage its unfoldment…

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Squirrels-Living Discouragement Proof

On Saturday, I was sitting at my computer and something caught my eye. As I looked up, I saw my bird feeder swinging largely from left to right. At first I thought someone had walked by and pushed it because it was swaying so big. As I looked closer, I saw a squirrel working its way up the trunk, getting in position to take another giant leap at the feeder. With the focus…

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Consistently Buying a Train to Crazy Town

Consistently Buying a Train to Crazy Town

Where do you go when you’re not present in your life in real time? I don’t know about you but I find myself in Crazy Town. I named this place Crazy Town because I find myself there when I’m living from my thinking and not in the moment. Have you noticed how often you find your mind has taken you into another place or time? It’s like waking up from a dream! You were having the full experience…

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Stories and the Actions that Follow

Stories and the Actions that Follow

With all the divisiveness and unusual happenings occurring around us in recent times, I often wonder how to affect change or make a contribution. It occurred to me to start right here where I am. This idea showed up. “The most dangerous weapon we possess are the stories we play in our minds which propel our…

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A Journey Into The Unknown

A Journey Into The Unknown

Recently, I had the opportunity to ask this question to a group of intuitive painters who were discussing their upcoming travel plans. One person was talking about visiting Egypt, another about her plans to see Japan, and another about her spring break in Portland. As the conversation unfolded, it occurred to me to ask, what excites you about travel? They looked at me with heads tilted…

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Overwhelm & A Sponge

Lately, in my coaching practice, I’ve heard many clients talk about feeling overwhelmed. They believe it’s from their current life circumstances, or from the amount of ideas that are coming into them. Oftentimes, when you open yourself to the truth that all things are possible, yes even for you, the flood gates seem to open. When this happens, it all appears chaotic or too much to deal with…

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I am not exaggerating when I say you changed my life … that afternoon was an awakening for me and within a short period of time a transformation happened. Now I feel like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon!

– K.O.

Cherie Ray is gifted, grounded, heart-centered coach dedicated to creative success. She can get you in touch with your aliveness and help you move in the direction of your dreams.

– Alan Cohen, Lecturer, Teacher, and Author

Thanks, Cherie. Your support for “the creative artist” in each of us was a step on my journey to making this dream come true. I still remember walking the path past the prayer flags to your amazing “True You Creativity” studio…and finding out that, yes, a “DOT” could be art. I had so much fun “playing” in the safe space you create. Keep doing what you do–following your dream–and facilitating and inspiring so many others.

– B.A.

Cherie Ray is a unique and inspired leader into the process of exploration of the self through painting. She aims for truth and freedom of expression, holding the space for people to be who they truly are and realize their joyful potential in their creations.

– Michele Cassou, Point Zero Teacher and Author

Though I’ve focused on my spiritual path for years, it was through my work with Cherie Ray that I was able to round that final corner into unconditional life and peace. Cherie’s steady, shining positivity and creative approach to her coaching were just the mulch I needed to blossom in a whole new way.

– P.V.