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People don’t need fixing or lecturing. The most basic human need is to feel understood. When we are listened to we feel heard and cared about…..it allows us safety and helps us to understand ourselves better and to expand into who we really are. –Brenda Strausz Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative [...]
If you allow someone to be who they are and they allow you to be who you are, then that’s Love ♥. Anything else is torture. ~ Ra Uru Hu As a therapist I often hear, “If only he or she would do this or that, I would be so much happier.” No matter how [...]
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little. -Jon Kabat-Zinn All of our emotions are our babies. Treat them tenderly, care for them. Be with them. Understanding and compassion will ultimately transform them. -Thich Nhat Hanh My years of living have finally taught me how little control I really have. I can’t bring peace [...]
Trees are beautiful in their peace; they are wise in their silence. They will stand after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them. -Altiem MacDunelmor I love the word equanimity. Just saying the word fills me with a sense of relaxation in my body and soul. My life has had its stresses [...]
“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.” -Jack Kanfield We all have days when we are just plain down on ourselves. Days that we tell ourselves that we are just not good enough. If only we were smarter, more efficient, more witty, more attractive. On these kinds of days we just want [...]
I love that my friend Teri calls me the Joy Lady. I don’t think she could give me a nicer compliment than that. To me joy is a reverent state of being. It goes beyond peace. I like to say that joy is peace with wings. Peace is nice. But joy… joy soars (think of [...]
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” ~Barbara DeAngelis The Sarasota restaurant was bustling with life. Women in breezy summer dresses and men in Hawaiian shirts filled the sunny room. The aroma of spicy herbs tantalized our senses. Our morning at the beach had made us hungry for lunch. Soon enough, an [...]
An old woman was once asked why she was always smiling. And she replied, “Well, I wear the world like a loose garment.” –Anonymous As winter is slowly nearing its end, I dream of packing away the warm winter coat and wool sweaters that constrict my body (and lately my mind and soul). “It is [...]
“We don’t see things as they are we see them as we are.” -Anais Nin “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust When my kids were in elementary school parents and their children were invited to hear a motivational speaker whose name I have [...]
So often we carry pain from a person in our life who has hurt us deeply. It may be a parent, a spouse, an ex, a friend, or even a child. Allowing ourselves to feel and acknowledge these feelings of hurt, fear or sadness is vital to our sense of well-being. As we allow ourselves [...]
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