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
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.” ~ Anne Frank
Today’s #Key: What you’ve accomplished so far is just the introduction. Your ceiling is higher than you think.
Today’s #SoulFood | Elizabeth Gilbert
“The universe buries jewels deep within us all. Uncovering those jewels — that is the work of our lives.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Today’s #Key: Life extends this invitation: uncover the gifts within. Your only job is to say yes — and keep saying it, day by day.
Today’s #SoulFood | Thomas Merton
“The beginning of love is the resolution not to twist those we love to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” ~ Thomas Merton ~ (Adapted)
Today’s #Key: The deepest gift you can offer is to need nothing different from them—to release them from the obligation to be be you.
Soul Practice | The Freedom Zone
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Soul Masculinity | Dialogues and Insights
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Soul Care | Wellness Tonic
How to be Healthy and Green
Staying healthy is on everyone’s mind. We all want to live a healthy life. But, did you know that workout machines, plastic yoga mats and sneakers wind up in the landfills? Here are five ways to keep you and the earth in optimum health.
Jackson Katz | Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue | TEDxFiDiWomen
JACKSON KATZ, PH.D., is internationally renowned for his pioneering scholarship and activism on issues of gender, race, and violence. He has long been a major figure and thought leader in the growing global movement of men working to promote gender equality and prevent gender violence.
Madisyn Taylor, DailyOM | Putting Yourself First
Putting yourself first means that it may be necessary to say no to someone else in order to say yes 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.