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“You are allowed to feel! You are allowed!” I was “giving permission” to Betty, a client who was attempting to allow herself to be angry for the first time. She closed her eyes tight, tried to breathe, and stay with me, but panic arose. “What might happen? This feels horrible!” I asked her to describe […]
Have compassion Let Go of Anger There are many reasons we don’t want to feel anger, but it usually leads back to shame and fear. For a woman that consulted me, it was both. She felt anger-shame since from a young age she learned that she was “not allowed to be angry.” This turned into a
Mistake #4: Thinking you are unlucky I had a client who told me that he was the most unlucky person in the world. Wow! Top that for a definitive statement! But his girlfriend confirmed this for me so it must be true… Intrigued, I asked for an example. I can only imagine what awful things
You are probably thinking that the answer is “patience”, right? Well, that too, but patience and is there to help you take a step back, and take a moment to think about your response. (And your response might be to have more patience.) Patience is hugely important, but the response that you decide to take is what
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Every morning for lent I have been sitting with a candle for ten minutes. (Come join me on Facebook, where I share my daily reflections.) Our spiritual community encourages us to do this every morning during advent, to open our heart to what might come. Fr. Jim encourages us to do three practices during advent:
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The storm is ‘a coming. Read further how to calm your inner storm to calm the storms in our world. Anyone who doesn’t believe that the earth is in turmoil, ought to check with the weather channel. As Long Islanders hunkered down, Hurricane Sandy grew stronger and faster early Monday, bringing a “life-threatening storm surge”
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Today I am pleased to post “I’m not angry” – a guest post by Galen Pearl of 10 Steps to FInding Your Happy Place and Staying There. I have been reading her blog for close to a year and have appreciated her honesty and compassion for herself and others. Her pearls of wisdom are never
Today is Memorial Day in the US, a day we honor all Americans who have died in all wars. “Formerly known as Decoration Day, it originated after the American Civil War to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers.” (Wikipedia) There hasn’t been a time in history where war–on a small or large scale–was not raging somewhere