Simple Abundance is the opportunity to evaluate and change how you lead your life.  Through gratitude you will find that all you have is all you really need.  Leading to Simplicity and Order where you make choices about how you spend your time and money.  Harmony allows you a chance to find balance.  Beauty opens your eyes to your own beautiful life along with the beauty that surrounds us each day.  Joy is what you find in your heart along the path to Simple Abundance.

I grew up in southeastern Colorado and I’ve been married to my best friend for 31 years, and thanks to his career as an Air Force helicopter pilot we have been fortunate to live all over the world.  In 1995 we returned to Albuquerque New Mexico from Korea and Dave retired.  He continues to teach Air Force pilots to fly one of the Air Forces’ newest aircraft, the CV-22 Osprey.

We have an awesome hobby, owning a hot air balloon, CAVU meaning Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited, an old weather term and very adequately describes flying in New Mexico and the desert southwest.  We have flown in events in beautiful Monument Valley, Utah: Lake Powell, Arizona; Gunnison and Pagosa Springs, Colorado; Gallup, New Mexico and of course the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.

My wonderful friend Cathi gave me Sarah’s wonderful book, Simple Abundance for my birthday in 1998.  I had read the book off and on for several years, but had yet to realize the full impact of her wonderful gift.  In 1999 I was struggling with the possibility of a job change and writing in a gratitude journal helped me decide to seek less stressful employment.  That change brought me a wonderful doctor and work with over six and half years before he sold his practice.  After just a couple of months, the new doctor let  me go.  Little did I realize at the time this was one of the greatest gifts of my life.

Starting January 2006 I read Simple Abundance every day.  Sarah’s daily mediations lead me to first and for most be grateful; grateful for all things in my life.  Second, that all I have is all I really need.  I was beginning to fully appreciate my wonderful life, a loving, supportive husband and great friends.

Summer 2007 I frequently was journaling about my desire to “give back to women in my community”.  Again my great friend Cathi encourages me to lead a group of women through the principles of Simple Abundance.  Again Sarah guides me, and introduces “Certified Leaders Training”, and I have a new direction in my life.

I thank God, my wonderful husband Dave, and Sarah for this wonderful opportunity.

With Blessings and Gratitude.

Debbie

About Simple Abundance

Simple Abundance(R)  workshops are based upon the principles and writings of New York Times #1 Best-Selling author Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance, A Daybook for Comfort and Joy.  First published in 1995 with little fanfare, Simple Abundance - a daily inspirational guide written for people who want to live by their own lights - soon found its audience through word-of-mouth raves; including Oprah Winfrey's, who named it "her favorite book" of 1996 and called it "life changing".  With over 8 million copies sold in the United States alone and translated into 30 languages.  USA Today declared it to be one of the top ten best selling books of the nineties. 

 Sarah Ban Breathnach's (pronounced "Bon Brannock") works celebrates quiet joys, simple pleasures and everyday epiphanies. The wisdom, warmth, compassion and disarming candor of her #1 best seller, Simple Abundance a Daybook of Comfort and Joy and Something More; Excavating Your Authentic Self, Sarah is a trusted voice to millions of women.  Her newest book, Peace and Plenty, Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity was release in January 2011.

Before, Simple Abundance was published, Sarah taught Workshops to women very much like you and I.  Women who were hurdling through life as if it were an out of body experience.  Women who loved everyone else on the planet too much and themselves, too little.  Women who have forgotten (or never learned) the soul craft of self-nurturance. 

It Sarah’s deepest wish that you will experience all the blessings that come with life on the path of Simple Abundance -- a fresh appreciation of your life and the wonders it embraces -- each and every day.