If you are a subscriber to my emails, you are receiving weekly tips. For those for you NOT on the email list, here are some tips for you! January tips: Wing Tip #1 Grieving from the loss of a loved one takes time and patience. You can expect to go through many stages and layers of feelings and reactions. …
Celebrating Milestones (and creating rituals that sustain you)
Celebrate! Part Two My husband and I recently sat in the local hamburger joint discussing the new year, new diets and OTHER —Important—Things—In—Our—Lives. We discussed a number of things we were not happy with. We talked and talked and talked. And then…at the same time… we both wondered out loud: why are we more likely to remember the Awful Bad …
Celebrating a New Year
http://youtu.be/nkJBxRlPp90 Celebrating milestones in life (and creating rituals that sustain you) Part one Welcome to the New Year 2015! I am fascinated on how we (society, culturally) created this whole New Year thing, and how it managed to land on January 1, the middle of the winter. How odd is it that we make resolutions about the time to come, …
What Abundance?
Being grateful is about seeing the abundance in our lives, it isn’t about passively accepting what comes along. Forcing ourselves into a frame of reference that doesn’t fit certainly doesn’t serve us at all. When we choose to look at what is around us and inside us, without judgement, for it’s own sake, that’s when we discover the essence of …
Fight Night! Fear vs. Hope
Uncovering the HOPE in Hopeless If your essence is dragging, dark and cynical, with nothing new going in or out, then it is time to open up to how your really feel and let yourself express your inner self. No matter what comes out, it is a an important journey to re-connect yourself to your emotions. This will re-awaken your …
Is It Safe To Be Hopeful?
Hope, when I am in dire, scary situations often looks to me like a temptation to believe in something that is not possible. In my own anxiety and fear I hold back from hope and the grace it offers and put my shoulder to the grindstone of “reality of the situation.” This is often an arduous and draining process. I …
Slow it Down, Clear it Out
GREED is the begetter of many miseries in this world. It takes personal integrity and perseverance to remind our self and each other that there is enough for everyone. When we are told things like: “There isn’t enough money… we have to charge more for this service… I am taking that away from you….” or when we experience loosing jobs …
Hope Springs Eternal
As the ice melts and breaks apart from winter to spring we begin to feel the “Hope” of the season to come. Just as spring can be dangerous as snow melts and then creates sheet of ice on the road at night, or ice on lakes and ponds become unstable causing all kinds of problems, so we must thaw emotional …
Book Review: Nurturing, Healing Love
Nurturing, Healing Love A book by Scarlett Lewis “Following Jesse’s death, Scarlett went on an unexpected journey, inspired by a simple three-word message he had scrawled on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died: Norurting Helin Love (Nurturing Healing Love). It was as if he knew just what his family would need in order to go on after this horrible …
Creating a Practice of Gratitude
How to Create a Happy Dance of Miracles Let’s imagine gratitude as a practice not an emotion. Lets imagine gratitude isn’t about what we already have or don’t have. Instead, allow ourselves to SEE who we are and really see the world that surrounding us. Be in gratitude for the gift of YOU. Allow that gratitude to feed your …