Leslie L. Sommers: Spreading the light for a better human experience. Leslie is a colleague at The Wellness Universe and a Reiki Master/Teacher, Card Reader, Empath, Intuitive Coach, Ordained Minister & Spiritualist. Wow! She has written a great post on integrity in relationships and treating people with respect (I’m a big fan of that) I…
My colleague Robin Wahlgast of New Direction Dating has written a great article for The Wellness Universe blog about one of my favorite subjects – how we, as male and female beings are SO different. Not understanding that causes us to wonder, well, why can’t a man be more like a woman???? A dating and relationship expert, Robyn…
Good luck with that, Gerry! As it happens, I needed to see this again this morning. I actually shared the poster on Facebook on March 18. A family member said something to me yesterday that left me feeling confused, defensive and sad. I didn’t sleep well and am still feeling sad this morning. Obviously, this particular…
You may have been wondering why I have been collecting all these “Season for Nonviolence” posts here. Maybe not, but I’ll tell you anyway. I made a commitment that this year I would post “something” for every one of the 64 peace principles for the Season for Nonviolence. As I followed this commitment, it all felt a little “beside the…
Have you ever heard of “Model Mugging?” Excellent article about a unique way to learn to defend your boundaries!!~ Knowing that I literally “had it in me” to fight back against physical attack empowered me to defend myself from psychic and emotional attacks; to actually experience how it felt in my body to connect blows, to yell,…
We ALL need to feel valued and HEARD. I am thinking right now of conflict within families or work groups, people who have a reason to find a solution that is fair so that relationships are strengthened rather than torn apart when people think they have conflicting interests. Of course, when nations dialogue, their true interests…
Originally posted on Kindness Blog:
I was kinda a loner myself but it’s easy when it’s by choice. He sat alone at lunch , and I didn’t have anyone to sit with so I just quietly ate with him every day. I soon noticed he was in a lot of my classes and I started…
In the 1990’s I worked for a brilliant child psychologist, Dr. Dennis Embry, who had created a “Peacebuilders®” positive school climate initiative adopted by many schools here in Tucson where we live and around the country. It was very effective in decreasing behavior problems in schools and making schools safer. Dr. Embry has gone on to create…
"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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