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.
Join our community for regular insights, stories, and conversations that feed your evolution.
Soul Food | Inspiration
Today’s #SoulFood | Betty Smith
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” ~ Betty Smith
Today’s #Key: You don’t need a new life—only new eyes. The wonder, the miracle, the joy are already yours.
Today’s #SoulFood | Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious … whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.” ~ Albert Einstein
Today’s #Key: To welcome life is to welcome mystery, wonder, and adventure.
Today’s #SoulFood | Brené Brown
“Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites. Owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we re sacred.” ~ Brené Brown
Today’s #Key: Worthiness is not a door you walk through. It is the ground you stand on.
Soul Practice | The Freedom Zone
What If Age Is Just Data?
Age is one of the most persistent myths standing between people and their potential. Whether you’re 15 or 75, history is filled with individuals who shattered the notion that success has a timeline. Let me show you what’s possible when you stop counting years and start counting opportunities.
When Life Happens … It’s Perfect!
How often have you looked back at a situation that didn’t go your way and, with the benefit of hindsight, breathed a sigh of relief that it didn’t go the way you wanted?
Jillian’s Journey from “Not Enough” to Empowered!
When Jillian’s close friend handed her The Freedom Zone: Your Gateway to Love, Liberty and Happiness, she had no idea she was about to unlock decades of self-imposed limitation. What happened next proves that you have more power than you know to transform your life—no matter how deeply rooted your patterns feel.
Soul Masculinity | Dialogues and Insights
A Prince Among Men
My dad has always been there for all of us in many ways, someone everyone could count on. He has been the model for the kind of man my female cousins hoped to marry, and the uncle (and great-uncle) to whom all the young children were drawn. Now he’s a grandfather of four, generous with each grandchild in unique ways.
A Caring Disciplinarian
My Dad believed it was important that his children should be disciplined and always respectful to others particularly our elders and he never believed for example that an adult would ever say anything untrue about a child.
My Father | Women Are Their Fathers Too
This has been the premise we have existed under for all of our existence – Women – We are our mothers. YES – we are, BUT we are also our fathers and to understand any women you must listen carefully to how she talks about her father.
Soul Care | Wellness Tonic
Brené Brown | The Power of Vulnerability | TedX Houston, June 2010
Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
Dr. Maya Angelou | Forgive Yourself
I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes—it is inevitable.
Donna Marie | Living in Gratitude
In my journey to self, I began a gratitude practice. By this I mean that no matter what is going on, I look for something I can appreciate about it. When I started out, it was not an easy thing to do. I was so used to looking at things from the outside, at feeling that I was a victim of circumstance.
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.