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Understand how Envy hurts your soul

Posted by on Apr 25, 2023 in Blog | 0 comments

Envy   In my youth, envy leered at me from all the dark corners. The hearty apparition of envy is a legacy of my ambitious, competitive parents. Ted and Klarese followed the cultural maxim that to succeed, you compete. Competition and comparison go together. Who is up, and who is down? Once, I joined a watercolor class with several friends. The purple haired experienced teacher looked over my shoulder at my work and smiled. My friend beside me inadvertently flinched as her face showed envy souring her creative experience. In the same class, on a table in front of us, a man’s...

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Heal the inner critic and the soul speaks

Posted by on Apr 24, 2023 in Blog | 0 comments

  Healing the inner Critic allows the soul to speak. Transform the inner Critic into a friendly guide and free the voice of your wise spirit. Who is the Inner Critic, the harsh voice who says we are not good enough, we need to be better, we might fail, or we have failed? Our inner Critic derives from our authority figures and enculturation beginning in early life. If we were fortunate enough to be in a school system or to live in a family with gentle, authentic ways of guiding us, our inner Critic would be a more friendly guide. However, if we didn’t benefit from such good...

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THE HEALING ROOTING OF SOUL, SILENCE & PRESENCE

Posted by on Apr 16, 2023 in Blog, Spiritual | 0 comments

The soil of our lives is our existence. Healthy soil is rooted in the sense of being rather than doing. The only way to fully grow, thrive, and blossom is to be present in our lives. From industrial economic and historical forces, industrial beginnings in our economy. Time clocks exert pressure on us beyond our conscious awareness. We peddle on a treadmill of constant doing so that even meditation or yoga is sometimes more in the realm of doing than in re-focusing on the presence necessary to be. We feel an urgency to be more efficient and to produce something. We tend to look for something...

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facing the darkness

Posted by on Oct 30, 2018 in anxiety, Blog, Grief, Highly Sensitive, introversion, Relationship, Spiritual, supervision, trauma | 0 comments

I dreamt the other night that I held in my hand a bright true blue light. At the center was a globe of white surrounded by a thin rim of gold- yellow. The light trembled and radiated in my hand.  I felt its healing force and in that force was an inexhaustible, vital, irrepressible joy. We cannot bring light into the darkness unless we approach the darkness and look at it.  We cannot escape our own darkness or the darkness in the world. Facing and transforming our darkness with light brings growth, liberation and, yes, joy. Our growth and our hope is to bring the light to the darkness. I mean...

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Beyond the superficial

Posted by on Oct 22, 2018 in anxiety, Blog, Grief, Highly Sensitive, Relationship, Spiritual, trauma | 0 comments

Seems like fate now. My first work was with older adults. And I trained as a hospice volunteer in my early twenties. Later,  I was hired as a mental health counselor working with elders.  Initially when I started visiting people in nursing homes I was depressed. Nursing homes are a sad facsimile of home. These institutions dressed up as shabby homes are rife with tragedy, decline, loneliness, fading beauty and gathering weakness. It was a lot to carry in my heart. Still, in some cases these places hid the hidden gems of compassion and community.  I like,  most of us,  was brainwashed by this...

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Alleviating loneliness

Posted by on Oct 16, 2018 in anxiety, Blog, Creativity/artists, Featured, Grief, Highly Sensitive | 0 comments

We live in an era of loneliness. Suicides have gone up 30% over the last 30 years. Why is this? Studies suggest we have overemphasized self-reliance and underrecognized our need to connect, to bond which is primary to every living being. Let us remember the richness we are a part of. How do alleviate loneliness? In part, the solution lies in a change in our way of thinking about the fundamentals of life. We are profoundly interconnected with one another as well as with the earth. We are not merely self-serving aggressive beings out for ourselves as the patriarchal brand of the sciences...

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