Category: Spiritual Growth
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Open Unimaginable Doors by Doing What You Please
Can you sometimes be your own EVIL STEPMOTHER?? “Clean that up!” “Get back to work!” “No, you can’t go to the ball!” Somewhere along the way we started to believe that if we want to be “successful” or of any worth, we need to force ourselves to do things we don’t want to do. ‘Cause…
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Washing the Baby Buddha: The Sacred Tasks of Daily Living
I can get dizzy with all of the daily tasks of living. Like, literally, dizzy. I spin around in circles – from the empty toilet paper roll to the change on the floor to yesterday’s unpacked bags. All while demands are piling up: text message alerts, my children’s constant and urgent needs for snacks and…
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Four Obstacles to Pursuing Your Dreams
One of the foundational stories in my therapy practice is the story of The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (PRO tip: If you want to give yourself a most precious gift, let Jeremy Irons read this tale to you in the audio-book). Coelho, I believe, was the chosen recipient of a message that was channeled from the Beyond.…
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“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
The suffering of our planet is nothing new to those who have been listening with their hearts. But when the pandemic first introduced itself to humankind and we locked ourselves into our bubbles, we were left to sit in our helplessness, captive audiences of the despair that surrounded us. This was when the words from a…
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Life with an Open Palm
One of my favorite stories to share with my clients is the old parable about how to catch a monkey. My Inner Animal Activist always pretends it’s not a real story, so feel free to imagine with me. It goes like this: In the olden days the hunters would carve a hole into a coconut,…
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Seven Signs You May Be Spiritually Bypassing
The road to a spiritual life is different for everyone, but spiritual bypassing is a potential hazard for all. Sometimes our spiritual journey can feel so slow-going that to think that we go too fast seems a far-fetched idea. Some spiritual awakenings can feel like a blissful catapult into a new mind-blowing paradigm where nothing…
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Befriending Time, MacGyver Style
Time is one of those concepts that would likely implode our brains if we ever fully grasped it. All my brain can manage to hold onto is a collection of little stories that secretly hold the definitions of time. One of these stories comes from the show MacGyver, a 1980’s American television program I loved to…
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“OH NO! We’ve Got to Go Through It!”
There’s a song I’ve sung to both my children called “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. It’s the story of this brave quest to find a bear – perhaps you can view the bear hunt as a metaphor in this case for enlightenment or some other spiritual goal. In this preschool song there are MANY…
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