food for the soul™
food for the soul™ is a unique online experience, a portal of inspiration that supports and empowers you to take 100% responsibility for your life. How? By serving up ideas to inspire personal responsibility and nurture your soul.
Here you’ll find Soul Food for daily reflection, Soul Practice for cultivating freedom as a way of life, Soul Care for seasonal renewal and well-being, and Soul Masculinity—inquiring what it means to feel deeply, connect authentically, show up fully, and not go it alone—through dialogues and insights that honor evolution.
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Soul Food | Inspiration
Today’s #SoulFood | Donna Marie
Today's #SoulFood “To be here, now, in this body, in this life— this is the miracle.” ~ Donna Marie ~ Forward Share Share Tweet Copyright © 2026 Food For The Soul, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our...
Today’s #SoulFood | Cheryl Strayed
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
Today’s #Key: True living asks us to expand, to risk, to be passionately, creatively, all in!
Today’s #SoulFood | Tara Brach
“True freedom comes not from controlling our experience but from changing our relationship to it.” ~ Tara Brach
Today’s #Key: The moment we stop trying to control our experience and instead meet it fully for what it is—freedom is unlocked allowing possibilities to be revealed.
Soul Practice | The Freedom Zone
The Freedom Shift | Gratitude in Advance
What if the thing standing between you and what you want isn’t lack of effort, skill, or timing—but the energy you bring to the waiting? What if what you’re grateful for is already on its way, are you ready to greet it?
The Freedom Shift | From Life Happening to You to Living Life
Move from life happening to you to fully living life by trusting yourself enough to handle whatever comes and allowing yourself to savor the unfolding. The path reveals itself as you walk it—and you’re equipped for the journey.
The Freedom Shift | Own your Power
Ever notice how someone’s offhand comment can stick with you for days? Maybe it’s a critique that keeps replaying in your head, or a judgment that suddenly feels like fact.
Soul Masculinity | Dialogues and Insights
Defying the Loneliness Curve | Cultivating Lifelong Community
Community doesn’t happen to you—you cultivate it. This is the work of Soul Masculinity—questioning inherited patterns that no longer serve us and choosing differently.
My Dad Is…
My father is the greatest illiterate person in the world, Poorest of all the men in the world, I considered him as the Ugliest person in the world, Weakest of all in the World, and A man who knows nothing in this World.
Today’s #SoulFood | Sidney Poitier
Happy Father’s Day ~ “You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were.” ~ Sidney Poitier
Soul Care | Wellness Tonic
Wellness through Breaks | 4 Simple Micro-Breaks That Will Transform Your Entire Day
Strategic micro-breaks aren’t productivity killers—they’re life enhancers. Current 2025 research from DeskTime reveals that the most productive people now operate on a 75/33 work-to-rest cycle.
Wellness through Learning | Your Brain’s Secret Super-Power
What is a growth (or learning) mindset? It’s a theory developed by Dr. Carol Dweck around the belief that you can improve intelligence, ability and performance – that talents are not innate.
Wellness Through Presence | Winter 2022 Edition, Issue #14
One thing presence does is help us recognize, consider and act on what we might call “intuition.” We can ignore intuitive feelings, and we can also misinterpret intuitive feelings out of fear. The key is to be quiet, remain aware and listen to yourself.
About Us
I’m Donna Marie, creator of Food For The Soul and passionate about gratitude, joy, and inspiration. Born and raised in Jamaica (the Caribbean—not Queens, New York!), I’ve called the United States home for over 30 years. I am blessed with work I love, extraordinary friendships and partnerships, and a life rich with mind-expanding adventures.
While my interests span nature, sports, film, theater, art, and beyond, I’m most fascinated by the journey of being human—approaching life as a practice of discovery fueled by curiosity. This has drawn me to attend transformative workshops, seminars, and retreats, all in service of expressing my authentic self and living in Soul Flow.
In the early 2000’s, I discovered Zig Ziglar’s quote, “People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing–that’s why we recommend it daily.” That moment sparked an epiphany: being inspired isn’t a one-tme event–it’s a practice requiring daily nurturing.
Through this journey of self-discovery, I learned that the key to living fully is surprisingly simple: staying aware, awake, and attuned to the magic and miracle of each moment. In essence, being present. Since this is ultimately an inside job, I needed ways to cultivate this awareness and find daily inspiration to bring this mindset to life.
I began a morning ritual of reviewing an inspirational quote and setting an intention for the day. This practice transformed me so deeply that I started sharing these insights with friends. Their enthusiasm gave birth to Food For The Soul™, an inspiretainment website dedicated to feeding the spirit.
In 2007, I officially launched Food For The Soul™ at a charming neighborhood cafe, The Broken Cup.