This is the first slide in a new series of simple affirmations. It isn’t by accident that the first is about “acceptance,” It was one of the first steps on my road to recovery from years of deep depression. My first really important insight around acceptance came towards the end of my mother’s life. She and I were…
The funny thing is, the more I experimented with Loving and Blessing others, especially those who had hurt me, the more I liked myself and the less I felt like a helpless victim of fate.
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Whatever happened in your past, here you are now, strong and resilient. Blessed be. You might disagree about strong, but I know you are because you are HERE.
As most of you know, I spent many years in the throes of clinical depression. I was a therapist during those years and still I suffered from depression. And even during those dark days, I knew that I felt best when I was loving other people. What I didn’t understand until much later was that it was…
Jordan’s picture has haunted me even more than they usually do. Because you can see it, can’t you? The spirit, the humor, the warmth, the potential. All that potential. Shot dead in front of his brothers for something that probably would have produced a police warning, if that, had the kids been white. But you […]…
So… this post is a heads-up for FB users and a request for assistance if anyone has a solution to my dilemma. A few months back, the email address I had used to create my FB account years ago ceased to exist. Indeed, the entire server ceased to exist. No problem, I changed my email…
Depression is a sometimes-fatal illness subject to periodic relapses. The first time that relapse part happened to me, after I had some years of solid recovery from my years of deep depression, I thought the world had come to an end…I would NEVER be free… and all the old neural pathways swung into full action.…
Source: Head. Heart. Repeat. By BY HILARY JACOBS HENDEL Sadly, many of us have learned to protect ourselves by blocking access to our emotions. We do this with defenses, the protective armor we wear to avoid feelings. Our thoughts and our defenses are sometimes the same. Thinking moves us away from our deepest emotional truths. I…
Source: 3 Tips and Action Steps to Stop Feeling Undeserving BY JENNY MANNION at The Wellness Universe.com You are deserving and worthy of a happy, healthy and fulfilling life though you might feel anything but. Please leave comments on Source blog. Most people are their own worst enemies instead of being their biggest cheerleaders. I bet you…
By Moira Hutchison at The Wellness Universe excerpts…. Have you ever noticed someone who was self-confident, not to the point of arrogance, but just that it came naturally for them? Some individuals have no apparent issues with self-confidence. How is it that some people seem to walk through life without ever doubting themselves or their intuition while…
Instructions: 1.Place your hands on your heart center. 2. Breathe deeply for 60 seconds. 3. Smile gently – a Mona Lisa smile 4. Repeat to yourself, “I love myself exactly as I am, a work in loving progress.” When your monkeychatter begins about all your errors of judgment, failings and flaws, tell it to “shut…
OK, I have not quite known what to do about my writing, or exactly what happened. I think when I started considering writing a book, I froze. The best I can come up with is that writing stopped being fun – and making creative posters and developing a network on Facebook was much more immediately fulfilling.…
Whether we are talking about a family or a planet, we must build a culture of nonviolence, a culture of Love Consciousness, where we see the Goodness within even those who have hurt us and learn to treat them with dignity and care and teach our children to do the same.. For many years I worked…
Forgiveness Prayer for Calm Mind and Open Heart: originally shared at http://www.theWellnessUniverse.com Divine Light, God, Higher Power, Infinite Creator, Source of All That Is – You go by many names, but You are One. We love You. Thank You for showering Your love upon us and never turning Your back on us. We are so grateful…
"We are love, we are one, we are how we treat each other when the day is done. We are peace, we are war, we are how we treat each other, and nothing more. " (The Alternate Routes, from the lovely song Nothing More)
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