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Energy Hygiene: The core to self acceptance

In all the decades that I have held self-acceptance as the core practice that supports us in choosing the path of happiness in our life, one of the skill sets and awareness practices that I have found to be very helpful is Energy Hygiene.

Think about it*…how many habits do you have in the name of taking care of yourself every day? I hope you brush your teeth! ☺ Maybe you take vitamins, exercise, bathe, meditate or make sure you get to bed in time so you get plenty of rest. Remember that all these self-care habits have been taught to you or you have chosen to cultivate…in other words, they are all learned skill sets.

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Will I Be Mine? A Valentine’s Day Inspiration

Let’s go radical this Valentine’s Day! Make it a priority to ask YOURSELF to be your valentine.

Are you are your own worst critic?

If so, the challenge of your personal growth is an attitude adjustment from self-judgment to self-acceptance. Are you driven into your personal spiritual work from a deep desire to serve? Then the personal growth challenge is to find a way that allows service to be offered easily without an attachment to an outcome. A core thread in my spiritual integration work is the practice of radical self-acceptance. An ordinary motivation to choose the work of self-inquiry is wrapped up in the packaging of punitive self-judgment. Reliable detachment from outcomes comes only as a result of a deep acceptance of yourself. By loving yourself and having compassion for all of you, you are better equipped for loving others

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Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

Here we are heading down the path to Winter’s Solstice on December 21st. This is the dark time, the time that the sun shines on us the shortest, and we have the darkness to enfold us. For many of us this is a time we dread.

I am here to present you with a re-framing of that attitude. What if this time of year is an opportunity to pull in and rest? To relax and reflect on all the projects you worked on over the year? To have the down time you need for balancing the very active lifestyle you live the rest of the year? What if this time of dark is a natural opportunity to look for that quiet voice that softly tells you what living a congruent and authentic life really is like?

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How Gratitude Can Build a Positive Foundation in Your…

Gratitude is the foundational underpinning of life acceptance. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is this time of year that I am reminded (most often sweetly, though sometimes it feels more like the proverbial 2×4!) that gratitude is the antidote for yearning. If I can have gratitude for my life and what is in it right now, then I am in the present and the anxiety that is produced by yearning for what is yet to be accomplished quiets. I can then see what is right in front of me that I need to do to move me forward to attain that goal I have set.

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Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

On top of the stress of your everyday life – family, job, finances- you also witness world events like Ebola, terrorist assassinations and devastating tidal waves in real time. This can be overwhelming to your emotional, physical and mental well-being. As an Intuitive Counselor, I work with many people who are dealing with feelings of frustration and helplessness, caused by overwhelming events in their lives or in the world.

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It’s Okay to Say No: How to make the…

Often we feel pressure (from inside and out) to say yes to everything, but it’s important to remember that it’s okay to say no. Not only is it OK, it is imperative to have the ‘No’ response to an inquiry as a very valid option! The thing is you see, if you come from a family belief system that values their members to ‘make nice’ or ‘think of others BEFORE you think of yourself’, allowing ‘No’ to be a valid response to a request or an invitation will seem something like a betrayal of a foundational value.

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How to Take Advantage of Starting Fresh in Spring

The Spring season is upon us and with it comes the possibility of a new start. Take advantage of the growth and revitalization that comes naturally with Spring. If you are feeling lost or want a fresh start, and needing courage and motivation, using the ‘greening’ power of Spring can be very helpful.

I have yet to find a better comparative for the cyclic quality of growing the soul than Mother Nature. She shows us how it is natural to cycle our way; to rest and to work, to be in joy and to be in grief, to be in the dark and to be in the light. It is the practice of the mystic to cultivate acceptance of the ebb and flow of our lives.

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The Importance of Asking for Help

There is importance in asking for help. Time and time again I get to say to my clients that asking for help is not always a needy action. It is very often a sign of healthy independence. Having the belief that asking for help is a sign of weakness, is problematic for compassionate soul growth. When your self esteem is bright and shiny, asking for help is part of health. Know that when your self confidence is grounded, you know that reaching for the perfection of being able to manage life’s tangles all your own is a myth.

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Growing Fear and Aging

One of my subscribers (and old time friend :)), Kat, commented on my last blog post: “ … I find that the older I get the more fearful I become. I wonder if it’s part of the aging process.” This wondering has sparked my curiosity for a long time. I think it was from reading The Soul’s Code by James Hillman that my own inquiry started. If I remember correctly he posits that when we become elderly our so called ‘social veneer’ lifts and what we are left with to participate in the world with is our true character. So if what we have presented with in our lives consists of a character mantle that covers unfinished personal work, we then are faced with the uncomfortable truths at the end of our lives that we didn’t work on before.

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Energy Hygiene: The core to self acceptance

Will I Be Mine? A Valentine’s Day Inspiration

Are you are your own worst critic?

Embrace the Dark: How To Take Advantage of Winter…

How Gratitude Can Build a Positive Foundation in Your…

Three Tools to Manage Overwhelm in Your Everyday Life

It’s Okay to Say No: How to make the…

How to Take Advantage of Starting Fresh in Spring

The Importance of Asking for Help

Growing Fear and Aging

God is so good humor

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