Please welcome back the extraordinary Tama Kieves, life coach, career coach, Pink goddess, and author of THIS TIME I DANCE!: Creating the Work You Love. Today Tama discusses how to acknowledge, honor, and use our gifts - and what happens when we don't. A brilliant reminder to tap into what truly moves you. Thanks, Tama!

I am afraid of failing

I talked to a woman who had been very gifted in music, but who hadn't pursued it as an adult. "I am afraid of failing," she said, but as we talked further, she admitted in the quiet tones of held back truth, that she felt like a failure now. She felt tired and angry, out of sorts with her life. I don't blame her. It takes more effort to create a life you don't want than to create the life you crave.

Welcome back Syda Renai to the Pink Stage in honor of yet another Pink Posse Saturday. You first met Syda when she shared how Twitter led her to transformation. She is here now to share more of her brilliant wisdom on the choices we make. Take it away, Syda! -- Megan Monique

Everything will get... easier?

I recently read a post on Facebook from my young teenage cousin that read, “Everyone says that life will get easier. What I want to know is, when?” A friend suggested that, “They just say that. It never does.”

I began to think about my life and whether it is easier. I wondered if my life is better than it once was -- which was my cousin’s true question.

Okay, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and write a post that literally scares the bejesus out of me. The other day, I was doing a podcast interview with Owning Pink blogger Stacey Curnow, and she asked me how it feels to write stuff like I did in my upcoming book What’s Up Down There? Questions You’d Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend, which is more about me and my vagina than you probably ever wanted to know. In this book, I write about the sexual dysfunction I suffered with my ex-husband, the HPV I contracted from my current husband, the porn my hubby and enjoy from time to time, the elective C-section I decided to have, and yes -- I write about the painful decision I had to make as an OB/GYN about whether or not to do abortions.

“The fact that things change from moment to moment opens up the possibility for positive development…Once you realize things are always changing, if you are passing through a difficult period you can find comfort in knowing that the situation will not remain that way forever.” – How to See Yourself As You Really Are, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama