Empowerment Category

How in standing down I’m stepping up

I have a few things in my life to manage, and I tend to try to be on top of them. I feel better (read: more sane) when I face things directly. My tasks, jobs, things that are necessary of my days, interests of mine, and so on. I much prefer to take the lead […]

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Four feel-good fiction features (plus 287 more)

There is always a book that I am currently reading. I used to hear of people who had two or more books going at the same time, and I never understood how they could tear themselves away from the first one before it was finished, to immerse themselves into the second. Now, I myself have […]

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Not having agreement? Here’s the harmonious antidote, no other player needed.

As we proceed through more, extended time of StayAtHome, we –and the ones we love most — might be starting to drive each other nuts. Can you relate? However, let me pose this thought: nothing about this in our relationships is new, we just can no longer look at it out the corner of our […]

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A soundtrack for our lives

I adore this book. This is A Course In Miracles for, well, everyone. This finally makes ACIM all make sense for me. On a live-your-life-daily level. The how-to. In specifics. With all my human-ness, included. This resonates. For example, Pam Grout has connected songs to some of the lessons.

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Living through, together.

The robins have returned this past week, the weather now embraces sitting outside in the sunshine, and I went for a walk with my dog. I’m grateful for a returning sense of peace — I’ll be honest, I had lost my sense of balance of late. And while on my walk I received a profound […]

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