Do you have trouble being comfortably mad?
Once they settled, Ireland and I, with mugs of tea in our hands, sat down on the couch facing each other, where we finally had a chance to talk without little ears around.
I have often looked back, over the years, digging in my memory bank and excavating random memories with Ireland in those months, searching for signs of what was really going in in her life.
What happened at this time seemed at first to be a solution to Ireland’s surface life situation, however as time went on, her drastic action and consequences seemed to show that.....
“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” ~ Buddha
This is a story of a survivor; a survivor of abandonment, neglect, incest, sexual abuse, Stockholm Syndrome, repressed memory, and post-traumatic stress. This is a story about my hero.
When we are talking about motivating another to journal, we are talking about helping them to create their own plan of inspiration.
“I have no time.” This is what I’ve heard over the years; not just stated as a reason people don’t journal, but for several aspects of self-care.....
I often hear myself admitting to people that I believe not only that journaling in whatever form chosen is powerful, but is magical.
As an 8-year-old girl, it felt like a treasure was being handed to me as my grandmother told me I could have my dad’s old school notebooks -- my first of many journals.
How to use your feelings to find your way
A poem about drinking and driving...and dying...
The Human Experience. Millions of souls in human body and consciousness wandering around in search of two things. That’s it. Only two things.
We get tune ups for our vehicles. I’m thinking, it’s just as essential for us to take the time to participate in a tune up of the mind.
We, as a human race, have become increasingly aware that we are all, to a personal degree and extent, in the midst of our own inner shift? It starts with the awareness of our own set of beliefs we were born with, a realization of the change of beliefs we were conditioned into by our own personal...
We, as humans being, have entered into the year 2012. We have, in critical mass, led ourselves to this magical and remarkable shift. What is this shift? Well, sit down and let me begin with this one powerful word... ....believe.
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