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We Can All Receive and Perform Miracles Are you desperate for a miracle? Do you believe in miracles? Have you ever experienced a miracle in your life? A Rogers and Hammerstein musical revised on Broadway several years ago, The Flower Drum Song, had as one of its songs, titled, “A Hundred Million Miracles”. All great …
Learn about my monthly ongoing women's empowerment groups Join a monthly ongoing women's spirituality group for self-healing and personal transformation. Three small groups that have been meeting monthly for years now have openings. You'll experience a powerful opportunity to meet with a loving and supportive small group of "like-minded fellow travelers" and share in deepening …
Meet, Lose, Get as the Endless Cycle of Self-Healing and Transcendence It used to be said in the heyday of making movies that all great movie scripts followed the same essential plot: “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl”. I believe, minus the culturally conditioned sexism of this directive, that we are meant …
Can You Move Beyond Betrayal? Do you feel knocked down when life lets you down? Betrayal produces tremendous stress and loss of self-esteem, as well as a deep sense of hurt. We are caught off guard when we are betrayed, and can even feel ashamed and powerless. How can we bring ourselves back up and …
The Core Stories We Live to Heal and Develop Ourselves I was talking to my son-in-law the other day about what makes the difference for us all in experiencing major life challenges: to be broken by them or be better through them. He looked at me, smiled, and said, “You know, I remember talking years …
You Can Disentangle Feelings, Especially Anger We don’t do emotions very well – still – in this culture. We attempt to tell ourselves what is acceptable and not acceptable, good and bad, regarding specific feelings. Anger for countless millennia has been tangled up with justifying violence and other abuse, passive-aggressive behavior, and attempts to dominate. …
These Peaking Times Centrally Challenge Us to Decide What Really Matters We live in strange times – times that are intense, different, fast-changing. In such times we can be supremely challenged to find out what really matters to us. When we know that we are able to supremely fight for it, profoundly change to adapt …
When we are under a lot of stress, we can understandably feel deathly afraid to admit feeling a sense of despair. It is significant that despair is part of the next-to-the-last stage of grief, right before the final stage of acceptance, which is where complete resolution and healing occur. When we are in the throes …
Is It Possible to Heal Broken Relationships? Who among us has not experienced broken relationships? How can we heal from what has been broken? Here are my top ten tips to allow, create and experience miracles on many surprising levels from broken relationships. They are designed to be progressive meditative and journaling exercises for multidimensional …
The First Order of Business is to Admit Times Have Changed and It’s All Beyond You for the Moment It has been a while, sadly, since I have seen my way clear to once again writing blog entries. I have been overseas half the month of May. More significantly, since the first of the year …