Empowerment Category

Living Beyond Our Challenges

Challenge sounds so much more manageable than struggle.  And when we’re in it, we need all the help we can receive. We may go through phases when we fragment daily, only to piece ourselves together enough to repeat the cycle the next day.  You’ve been there, you know what I mean.  Thankfully, these cycles aren’t permanent.  But […]

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One Thousand Gifts

One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp, is a beautiful guide to living grace and gratitude in the middle of regular daily life. “A dare to live fullly right where you are”, this book does not pretend a perfect practice–but it delivers a spiritually supported process. Constantly, consistently, with personal failings.  Embrace the imperfections, begin again.  The journey itself is a […]

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Finding a Measure of Comfort

I share with you a message of comfort, from today’s Weekend Meditation by Katy Brennan from the Archetype Me community: Many of us read the lovely quote from Fred Rodgers that went viral this week. Ubiquitous as it was, I’d like to launch us into the weekend with a reminder of his sweet and comforting words. […]

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The Tapping Solution

Nick Ortner’s The Tapping Solution was given to me by Hay House in exchange for my honest opinion of it.  This book is a guide for readers to successfully use the powerful tool of tapping, also known as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Tapping addresses physical and emotional issues in our lives by using the enegry meridians in our bodies.  […]

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Confessions of a Non-Facebooker

Hi, my name is Gina, and I don’t Facebook. It’s okay that you’re staring–I understand that you probably haven’t seen anyone like me before. You wonder if I have any friends at all, and how I can possibly stay updated with life. You probably even feel a twinge of sadness for me at the normal […]

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