Curious about why we cry? I wish I had a dime for anytime someone apologized for crying in front of me in counseling. As if they were offending me. (More likely, offending themselves.) Why do we shame ourselves for something that can be such a biological relief to our parasympathetic nervous system? Why do we–all […]
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When someone you love is in pain, you look for ways to be helpful. When we love someone so much, it seems harder to see them hurting than to feel hurt ourselves. I find this especially true with my children. I’d gladly take their anxieties away even if it means I’d feel it stronger. In
Today I invite you to write a goodbye letter to fear. Start with, Dear Fear – and let ‘m have it. Name your fears, tell what you have sacrificed, name its tricks and tactics, list your skills and knowledge, tell it what you’d rather do with your life if it no longer held you back. And
Why do people need a personal invitation to heal? “Moved by the force of love fragments of the world, we seek out one another so that a world may be.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Most of us have experiences of other people’s words of anger, abuse or dismissiveness. When this happens, it is hard not
If you do nothing else in 2013, please know that it is time to speak from the heart. For me, not much is more important. It is time for us to get out of our minds, where competition, blame and fear run our lives and into our bodies that follow the flow of nature. And
Finding balance this week may be tricky with all the activity going on. Still tons of people reading and writing about the tragedy in Connecticut, some people stressing over making the holidays special, and many more just trying to survive them after a difficult year of loss or tribulation. Finding balance for you What helps
How many ways are there to heal? I guess it depends on who you ask. If you asked me, I would say, “7, no, 5, no, probably 4, actually a million… but really, they are all one way.” So there are a million different healing modalities, I hear about a new one at least every
You know how people say there are only two emotions: love vs fear? Well, when you have listened to people talk about their life as long as I have, this concept becomes clear. Love vs Fear Guilt, anxiety, worry, doubt, unworthiness, victim mentality, and shame: All fear. Joy, peace, compassion, gratitude, kindness, generosity, trust, forgiveness,
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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A story on CNN caught my attention. (Thanks, Nikky, for sending me the link.) It was about a photo someone took of a stranger in an airport and posted on Reddit. It was a photo of a Sikh woman with a turban and facial hair. This story was posted on September 22, with the caption, “I’m
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