Today’s Music Theme: Waiting For The End Linkin Park. Great kickboxing song. Letting go of emotional pain requires a mature sense of self esteem in an individual – and the use of the word “mature” is deliberate. For the context…
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A Great Song
For those of you who couldn’t get the link to work on the post “Lately” I’ve posted this music link for my new favorite (non Linkin Park) song. Okay, it may be a little melancholy, but I’m in one of…
Ending Emotional Pain: Belonging
Tessie Naranjo, a sociologist from the Tewa Village of Santa Clara, summed up an inner longing for peace and absence of pain when she observed “It’s the most precious thing…to know absolutely where you belong. There’s a whole emotional wrapping-around-of-you-here.…
Ending Emotional Pain: Letting Go Part 1
I thought about this statement for a while, this small sentence that stood out to me amongst the business of the day. “Letting go is love. Holding on is attachment.” I wonder in your world where that might apply? So…
Lately
It’s the theme that I hear more often than not ~ we’re all in some stage of relationship, ladies. I have a new mantra: I am myself lately. I think of how I can be a blessing. I am she….the…
We’ve Never Danced
Woman to Woman: Making Moments that Matter
Sensuality is one of the most misunderstood concepts in American culture. What images does it evoke within you when I say “a sensual experience?” There are moments that matter within your daily life when sensuality abounds…that feeling that you get…
Just Be
Woman to Woman 8: Stop Waiting to Exhale
My day began with an email from a woman with a broken heart. She can’t breathe. She can’t eat. She can’t stop crying. “Nothing…and I mean nothing…will ever be the same.” I wish more than anything I could allow her…
Letters I Will Never Send
It was an amazing letter that I will most likely never forget. There is this WordPress site called “Letters that I will never Send,” an epic journey of emotion from the nameless, faceless masses of people who seem to be…
Whole, Happy and Well: Letting Go, Moving On
Have you ever been haunted by the loss of a friend, love, job, family member….a thought or feeling that settles into your aching heart and shadows the corner of your mind. Loss, more than any other emotion, tends to define…
The View from my Window
Spring is here. I realize that later in the day a mysterious storm is supposed to come dump one to two inches of snow outside my window, but for right now the sun is shining and I see the grass…
Beautiful Like You
I find it remarkable how days reflect the light of your spirit. I am almost radiant. T and I are having a productive home day…she drew an amazing pic for her Daddy. I have this fab opportunity to make a…
A Reason to Win: Faith, Hope and Love
I’ve been thinking throughout the day about my conversation with Jeff yesterday, praying deeply in my spirit over where and how I can serve, what it is that I am called to do in life. It always comes back to…
Possibility
Questions and words…they are my friends. I love the word possibility. It echoes hope for tomorrow, expectation of faith and self, imagination and energy all at one time. Possibility. What is your possibility? What do you dream of? Are you…