The easiest way to integrate mediation into your life is to add it to whatever you are already doing. When you walk, use your mind
Staying Focused When You Don’t Know Your Direction
With the busy lives we live, it is easy to lose your focus. I spend time in the morning thinking over the day to come.
Finding Your Service Field
“Many times when we help we do not really serve. . . . Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the
All Violence Begins with Disconnection: How to Help Connect People
I am sharing amazing posts I read from all the blogs I scan in my feedly RSS reader. I scan 300+ blogs on a regular
The Christmas Spirit is the Flame We Ignite in Our Own Heart
“If what it takes for you this year to be present in this sacred, thin place, to feel the breath and presence of a Holy
Holiday Seasons are Hard for Adult Children With Painful Holiday Memories
Everyone who is or has been a part of a 12 step program knows that the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season is stressful for those of us
Learning to Save Yourself While Helping Others in Addiction
“For almost every addict who is mired in this terrible disease, other — a mother or father, a child or spouse, an aunt or uncles
Why I Love Helping Others
Having grownup in a home controlled by alcoholism, I was able to see my addiction very early into the disease. Thanksgiving, 1976, I told my
Family Roles Defined: Mascot and Lost Child
My self-discovery test, the Changemaker Test, is found on another of my blogs. Learning Your Labels. In my test, I have added what I found about the
Family Roles Defined: Hero and Scapegoat
My self-discovery test, the Changemaker Test, is found on another of my blogs. Learning Your Labels. In my test, I have added what I found about the
About the Wonderful Gift of Denial
I believe denial keeps us safe until we are ready to hear painful truths about ourselves. I hate when I am around someone telling someone
Procrastination is My Favorite Form of Perfectionism
Perfectionism is one of my core issues. It seems that procrastination should be the opposite of perfectionism because I am so deliberately not doing what
Self Care is a Balancing Act Between Burnout and Over-Indulgence
“No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to
Should You Be In Therapy?
“When there is no way out, there is still always a way through. So don’t turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it fully.
Suicide Can be Prevented. But First It has to be Understood.
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and
Child Abuse Survivor Blogs Help to Heal the Hurt
“When the family energy is focused on the problem of the adult rather than on the needs of the children, the results for the children
