Centering Tools: Holistic Counseling & Empowerment Tools
Holistic counseling practice since 1987
My Absence Me, for one. I have been absent from blogging and sending out Centering Tools email newsletters throughout the holiday season. The reason why I’ve been so absent involves the final, precipitous and untimely absence of my beloved oldest child Anna, who died December 26 at 37 from still-unknown causes after a heartbreaking and …
Are You Willing to Admit? It is not an accident that these are the core elements of the 12 step program founded by AA – admittance and responsibility as ethics. My mother would have said these are the core elements of being a mensch – a person of character. Religions dictate to us if we …
Channeling for Spiritual Healing and Empowerment Classes held at Lightways, 1228 Gilmore road, Brockport, NY 14420 Part I: Wed, Nov 5 Part II: Wed, Nov 12 6:30-9 pm $25 each class, both for $40. (Attendance at both classes is strongly encouraged!) Class I focuses on Channeling for Healing, Class II on Channeling for Development. Handouts …
The Real Meaning and Challenge of Personal Growth So much of my work, I’ve understood from the beginning, involves personal growth as the key to self-healing and empowerment. It really involves becoming greater, which is the only way to overcome challenges and stuckness – and the only way to “match” yourself with the opportunities you …
An Art, Not Just a Science So much is presented these days about the need for self-care – and no wonder! When we experience great stressors and extended responsibilities in our lives, paying central care to ourselves can centrally fly out the window. Self-care, though, is not just a science filled with concrete tasks and …
How Do Miracles Really Occur? What Are The Real Elements That Make Miracles? There have been some miracles happening in my family this year, which I’m just starting to understand and much more clearly view. I’m also feeling some synchronicity with this view and new clarity after having just finished watching Ken Burns’ excellent miniseries …
Focus on these words: Willing to be Lead Towards Your Heart to open your heart. Are You? How does it feel when you read this title? The heart is our multidimensionally operative center of being. It rules our bodies, feelings and insights. Ten Guidelines to Open Up Willing to open up (perhaps, again – after …
Love Is….. Endlessly present Healing Integrative Multidimensional Nurturing Vitalizing Peaceful Unconditionally accepting Without agenda Without expectation Transcendent Inspiring Creating anew Clarity Greatly aware Energizing Sustaining Higher power Recovering Freedom Accepting and acknowledging of what’s real Connecting and supporting the greater and expanding whole Divine Where These Elements Aren’t, Love Isn’t …and opposites exist and explode… …
Despair is so difficult to heal from because often people are not comfortable admitting to themselves or to their social, spiritual, and mental support systems that they’re feeling it in the first place. The first step must be to acknowledge it in a public space.
How Can We Know What Really is Toxic for Us? There is so much hype about metaphysically and holistically ridding yourself of what is toxic to you that makes it even more difficult to know what is and is not. I think it is so important to clarify what all this means – and doesn’t …