“If I were not healed enough to face myself with love and compassion at every turn and seeming misstep–giving myself wide berth for my heaving, healing journey–the process would be unbearable and maybe even impossible.” “Thank you ‘Self-Love’ for opening up a wide pathway and shining light upon it.” ~Journal excerpt 9-15-24 Our journeys of […]
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I walked a Mile with Pleasure “I walked a mile with Pleasure. She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne’er a word said she, But oh! The things I learned from her, When sorrow walked with me.” ~By
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The desperate clawing and scratching in the gutter downspout was certainly alarming and had me convinced that something was in there and it probably couldn’t get out on its own. I was on a Zoom call with a client when my daughter interrupted and expressed that she needed me to come and see the squirrel
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I once embarked on a 21-day cleanse. The details are foggy to me now, but it consisted of drinking only a thin concoction of elemental proteins and quick digesting sugars thrice daily. The objective of this 3-week fast is to “starve out” troublesome bacteria that can be known to overpopulate the intestines. I succeeded at
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Have you ever tried to pry a blossom open? How does a flower bloom? Naturally. You can only place it in the right growth environment and watch the beauty unfold. Have you heard how the Lotus flower blooms? It starts out as a seed in the miry muck at the bottom of a pond
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Do you have recurring dreams? What subconscious messages can you decipher from recurring elements of those? I lived in this little A-Frame in Downtown Bentonville from the time I was 21 o 31. I’ve had a recurring dream about revisiting this house maybe twice per year since I sold it and moved in 2015. In
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So many esoteric teachings compare our lives in some form to rivers. Rivers flow and stagnate, expand and contract, flood and run dry, wind and merge, and lead always, invariably to the ocean… Rivers also fall. Rivers drop in small trickles between rocks and they fall in deafening torrents from dizzying heights. The places where
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