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.
Whether it’s some daily Soul Food, timeless Dad Stories, seasonal Wellness Tonic, or how freedom can be experienced in The Freedom Zone, simply fill out the form to become a member and get your fill of ideas to chew on by joining our FFTS community. It’s free!
Inspiration
Today’s #SoulFood
“Love is an act of seeing and honoring what already exists rather than attempting to change or fix.” ~ Unknown
Daily #Key: Love transforms not by changing the other, but by changing how we see.
Today’s #SoulFood | Warren Buffett
“When you help someone in any of the thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless.” ~ Warren Buffett
Daily #Key: To lift another is to elevate the whole – we are not separate islands but part of one vast ocean.
Today’s #SoulFood | James Clear
“The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you want to become.” ~ James Clear
Daily #Key: Your habits are simply expressions of who you believe you are. Be before do. Become before achieve.
Dad Stories
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.
Life Lessons
When I was a little girl, I felt a great deal of instability–living away from home, divorced parents, a stepmother, younger siblings–being in a blended family can cause feelings of insecurity. But through it all, you remained the one constant in my life.
The Freedom Zone
Where is Your Focus?
Catastrophic thinking robs us of our Liberty—our power to choose our response in the present moment. When we’re mentally living in imagined future disasters, we lose access to the Love and Happiness available right now. We become prisoners of scenarios that exist only in our minds.
Wellness Tonic
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.
Wellness Tonic Ingredient: Evolution & Change | Fall 2021 Edition, Issue #13
There is no question that the pandemic has led many people to shift their perspectives–not only have I heard this in the many conversations I have had with friends and colleagues in the past year and half, it is something that is well-documented.
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.