Wisdom

It’s Not Going To Make Itself

My mom wasn’t the best at explaining things or going into the details.  Not good with teaching much either unless you could “keep up” because she had a dozen things to do all at once and they all needed to get done and I needed to keep out of her way or get run over. … Details

I Thought I Was Done With That

It can be so frustrating. All the work, the struggle, the therapy, the digging and picking to find out the trigger, the specific event, to deal with the after effects, all the forgiving and healing and reclaiming of power…it’s so exhausting. … Details

Meditation Is Not Enough

Let’s face it, there’s a bit of finger pointing out there when it comes to religions of the book and their tendency to be religious on specific days, Saturday/Sunday, and then go back to living however they want the rest of the time. … Details

I’m Stuck

“I’m stuck” is the newest phrase tossed around in the spiritual community and elsewhere.  I say tossed around because, for the most part, it’s no longer being used to mean that the person has come to a point that they can’t get out of or that they need help because they are caught and unable to extricate themselves. … Details

You Know What Your Sin Is?

“Oh, Hell. I’m a fan of all seven.” – Malcolm Reynolds Serenity What if the sins enumerated in the Bible weren’t universal, but instead were formulated to describe a masculine perspective?  If so then they would describe the negative aspects of men, not necessarily of women. … Details

What’s that one thing???

People want to know what that one thing is that they are supposed to do.  That one thing that is going to make everything click.  That one thing that makes it all make sense, that gets rid of the nagging doubts, the unsatisfied feeling, the need to look for something more. … Details

Emotional Body

We’re taught that emotions come from one place in the body kinda in the same way that we’re taught a heart is actually heart-shaped instead of this oval muscular organ.  Emotions supposedly “come from the heart” and yet that’s not where we actually feel them most of the time. … Details

Change Is Good

It is now officially October (Or the Christmas holiday in half the stores across America) and everything is changing.  The weather is moving into fall or in full swing depending on where you are.  Kids are back in school.  It’s time to change from summer to fall/winter clothes and get ready to check the weather report so you know to prepare for wind or rain or hail or whatever.… Details

Creating Good Habits

We’re used to thinking about bad habits.  The one’s that have results that aren’t good for us, the ones that are annoying to ourselves or others, the one’s that cost us money for no reason or prevent us from doing what we want to do. … Details

Karma Is Not the Boogeyman

Most people from Western culture countries have a nominal understanding of Karma which simplifies it down to a check and balance system.  There seems to be no positive Karma in that there’s no way you can have so many positive Karma points that doing something negative is unremarkable. … Details