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 | Anne Frank
““In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ~ Anne Frank
Today’s #Key: Faith in people is not about what they do — it is about seeing further.
Today’s #SoulFood | Mary Catherine Bateson
“Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and one, familiar and exotic, new and old side by side.” ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Today’s #Key: Insight is not addition — it is alignment.
Today’s #SoulFood | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today’s #Key: Every meaningful path begins with a step taken in the dark.
Soul Practice | The Freedom Zone
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.
The Freedom Shift | Turning Dreams Into Reality
Most of us have been conditioned to wait for the right conditions before we act. But transformation actually requires a different approach—not a rigid formula, but a dance between four essential movements that prepare the ground for what you want to create.
Introducing The Freedom Shift
What if freedom isn’t something you find—it’s something you experience by shifting how you see? The Freedom Shift: A Series about Revealing Your Power and Living Fully.
Soul Masculinity | Dialogues and Insights
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
Dad and Me
We hear so much said about Moms … the books, the talk shows … all recording countless stories of a mother’s influence and nurturing. While I couldn’t agree more with the view on Moms … what about all the Dads out there?
A Dad Strikes Out
I took my twin ten-year-old sons to a couple of Angels games this week, and I was shocked-shocked!-to discover just how little they knew about baseball.
Soul Care | Wellness Tonic
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.
Staying on Track Over the Holidays
The holidays are a time of over-indulgence and generosity. There are parties, desserts, and treats everywhere you look. We all let loose during the holidays and think, “This only happens once a year so it’s okay to eat anything I want.” But come January when you step on the scale, you regret the extra calories and vow it won’t happen again.
Leslie Sokol, Ph.D. | Action precedes Motivation
Dr. Leslie Sokol, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with more than 30 years of experience in practice, teaching and research.
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.