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On Darkness, Despair and Hope

Posted in crisis, depression, healing, hope, resiliance, transformation, Uncategorized, tagged cancer, depression, despair, healing, Hope, illness, loss on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As I tentatively feel my way through a murky shadow land, I remind myself that the whole of my life is still abundantly blessed with love, and sweetness and light even as it requires me to be stronger and wiser than ever before – demands that I do/think/feel more than I have ever done/thought/felt before. Even though it insists that I. must. become. more.

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Self Discovery and The Art Box

Posted in creativity, healing recovery, Uncategorized, tagged art therapy, creativity, healing, recovery on April 2, 2012 |

“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual” Arthur Koestler Dan Montgomery, author of “How to Survive Practically Anything” draws often on his clients’ creativity to help facilitate their journeys of self discovery. One technique he uses for this purpose is called, “the art box.” [...]

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When all that’s left of me is Love

Posted in healing, hope, Uncategorized, tagged cancer, death and dying, healing, lung cancer on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I just finished Linda Campanella’s book, “When all that’s Left if Me is Love: A Daughter’s Story of Letting Go” about a daughter’s experiences supporting a mother who is LIVING with small cell lung cancer. I stress LIVING because that is exactly what her mother did. She LIVED right up until she died and Campanella remained [...]

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Celtic Wisdom and John O’ Donohue

Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In “Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom,” poet, John O’ Donohue wrote, “though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you.” [...]

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Mother Wisdom Speaks

Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This past weekend I attended a retreat entitled, “The Spirit of Aging” at Living Waters Spiritual Center. It was a special time to reflect, connect, and renew — and I needed it. Karen Lewis Foley, unitarian minister, spiritual director, and our retreat leader read an absolutely beautiful poem entitled, “Mother Wisdom Speaks” that resonated deeply [...]

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World Happy Day is February 12, 2012

Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

All over the world tomorrow public screenings will be held of the award winning documentary, “Happy.” Over the course of six years, Roko Belic and his crew travelled too 14 countries and spoke to numerous people from various cultures and demographics and to experts in the field of positive psychology in order to discover how [...]

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Winter Solstice 2011

Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Here in the northern hemisphere tomorrow is the winter solstice, an acknowledgement of that darkness which marks the longest night and shortest day of the year. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the following on Darkness: “You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the [...]

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