Through the Looking Glass: Healing Loss, COVID Edition (CE)
Through the Looking Glass Two slo-mo seconds in November 2019. An otherworldly feeling. I entered the moment the mirror fell. I was high on a rearranging rampage, so the calm was strange. The outcome was clear and I was well aware I couldn’t afford to replace it. The mess would take hours to clean up. … Continue reading
Prayer for Comfort Amidst Loss
A prayer of surrender gently opens the way to new understandings, which offer the soul a path to healing. We are not condemned to labor uphill daily only to tumble down again each night. So much pain comes from perceiving our losses only through the lens of our personal world. While it’s vital to acknowledge … Continue reading
Music for the Healing Journey
lighting the path through grief Everyone experiences loss. The pain of it tempts us to turn away. Life’s responsibilities and realities can argue they’re more important than meeting our loss. The whole planet is grieving the many losses of the coronavirus pandemic. Music is one way to meet and interact with losses that cry out for processing. Songs … Continue reading
Healing Loss: Choose Love Now
. NOW is the time to step into healing. . Healing Loss: Choose Love Now is your guidebook for healing at home. In print at Amazon.com and eBook at Smashwords for common formats including Kindle (mobi), Apple/iPad (epub) and pdf. While I love the feel of a bona fide book in my hands, I’m enchanted … Continue reading
COVID-19 Symbolism
COVID-19 Symbolism I am both a detail and big-picture person. The more upsetting the “now,” the more helpful it is to pull back and perceive from a greater distance. Deeper meaning is revealed in the long view. Here’s what I’m seeing so far. Coronavirus can be a clarifying influence for humanity if we will allow … Continue reading
Coronavirus and Massage Therapy
Coronavirus & Massage Therapy Massage therapy as it’s typically practiced in the community is not currently safe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So my practice is temporarily closed. Most people get their massage either from a spa with multiple massage therapists and other practitioners or a single therapist in private practice. Both settings provide … Continue reading
Freedom
I am not a body. I am free. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 199) On this bright and steamy July morning I’m walking by necessity to get a package in transit before afternoon storms arrive, feeling grumpy about disrupting my routine by going out before breakfast. Routine keeps my stress down, and thus is … Continue reading
Like Dominoes – Take #MeToo consciousness all the way to healing
(#MeToo #SexualHarassment #SexIsSacred #HealNow) I’m old enough to know what dominoes are, but not how to play. All I ever did was line them up, then give the operative end a little push and watch them fall down in chain reaction—if you align them precisely. It was a lot of work for a fleeting, uncertain … Continue reading
Norwegian Wood
Miten’s version of Norwegian Wood with Deva Premal—mmmmmmm! Consider this classic Beatles’ song as a metaphor for being captivated by the ego and transcending it. “so I lit a fire, isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?” Norwegian Wood I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me. She showed me her room, … Continue reading
Healing Loss: Election Edition
Imagine that you’ve lived your life in the seat of democracy, a shining beacon of ideals, progressive values and freedom that literally draws the world. And picture a slow-motion carnival of the absurd and outrageous, a grainy side show culminating in a presidential election with breath-taking results. Not only does the popular-vote-candidate-by-a-landslide not win, but … Continue reading
Open Heart Creativity
The magnificence of God’s extension lies within each of us, ready to manifest. Our only real choice is whether to allow it or block it. We begin to allow when we ask that the Will of Love be made manifest through us. But the day-to-day, moment-by-moment “choice switch” is at the heart. With open hearts, … Continue reading
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