The past is a collection of stories. In reality, these stories are the only way the past continues to exist and so it behooves us (me) to tell stories that empower. It behooves us (me) to recount a version that plants seeds of creativity, stories that catapult us in the direction of our dreams rather […]
I was eating an ear of corn on the cob when I noticed it – somewhere along the way, I had adapted the habit of comparing. I had forfeited that was in front of me to enjoy. I had flushed away the present moment’s joy by measuring it against the past; an epiphany that made […]
It seems fitting to me that today’s ACIM lesson is: I am not a body. I am free, for on the heels of yet another ACIM group meeting with “Shams” as an attendee, those of us who were present definitely left feeling high and questioning our reality. Of course, that is the key: question everything […]
I am no longer trying to fix things. There IS nothing to fix. Letting go of this inclination may not seem like a gargantuan feat – after all, it is infinitely easier to NOT do things than to do them, but trust me, it is. It’s huge. It is the taming of ego. It is […]
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God. I have studied long enough to realize that when I encounter stress, I am looking at a place within that needs healing. It is resistance to what is. It is fear. It is lack of trust. Yesterday, as I once again […]
“There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.” ~Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape. When I am in hell, I need to write. The part that is screwed up (of course!) is that I resist writing, as well. When I am in […]
How easily I have fallen back into my old slacker habits! The up side to this is that I spend a good portion of every day in prayer. I have to. I go around feeling bad. I think about Anthony Bourdain’s recent suicide and I understand too clearly how deceptive appearances can be. I am […]
As much as I tell myself I want to heal my life, I find that I regularly slip into avoidance behavior. It is the home of addiction. It is hell, and even though I “know” that the path to healing it is to face it, it is the great battle of my life. I fritter […]
As a child, I remember rehearsing my defense. In my imagination, I was being attacked and I needed to lay out arguments to ward off the assault. These days, I don’t spend a lot of time running through such scenarios in my head, although when something or someone is really getting to me, I still […]
When I was in my thirties, I returned to college and got my degree through an independent study program. During my first semester, I delved into women’s studies and in the course of those studies, I read Clarissa Pinkola Este’s Women Who Run with the Wolves. The one story that I remember above all others […]
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