When I look back, I see how much I struggled with fear-based patterns that kept me emotionally trapped. It took me years to transform my life into the journey of trust, openness, and emotional flexibility that I can now enjoy. And it’s not that I don’t have fears; it’s simply that by embracing my emotional terrain I’ve developed much greater…
Category: Self-Healing
Does Your Sense of Otherness Keep You Small?
If you are on social media sites, you’ve probably read this story. A seminar speaker asks each person in the audience to grab a balloon and write their name on it with a marker. Then all the balloons are collected and placed in another room, and everyone is asked to find the balloon with their name on it. Within 5…
A Love Prayer For Healing and Oneness
As the Year of Love begins to awaken, I was guided to share this Love Prayer, in the hopes that it will provide healing, support and upliftment, and inspire you to commit to the process of finding true love within—both for your benefit and that of the planet. You can follow along and recite the Love Prayer out loud, with…
Do You Know What True Love Is?
Billie Holiday soulfully sings, “You don’t know what love is… Until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues… Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose… You don’t know what love is.” Clearly, she’s not the only one portraying love as something that hurts; most of the songs and stories and movies out there convey a very similar message.…
A Spiritual View on Depression and Anxiety
It is amazing how many people are on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications nowadays. What is even more surprising is how many of them are teens and young adults who get diagnosed and put on drugs for the long haul. After antibiotics, the most common prescriptions are for antidepressants, and it is believed that depression is caused by low levels of…
The Power of Emotional Self-Expression and Self-Reflection
The path of self-awareness is not a highway. It is a long, slow process of uncovering and emerging; of discovering and nurturing; of expressing and releasing. In our rush to get where we think we want to get, we forget that our purpose here is to experience the world in human form and then also to transcend it, as we…
Choosing Between Victimhood and Personal Empowerment
There is a choice before us all, whether we are aware of it or not. As the old world structures continue to collapse, the battle for the dominion of our energy is becoming more intensely obvious. It’s time to make a conscious choice regarding the direction of your life: will you maintain the old fear-based beliefs and emotional wounds or…