Ever wonder why one event will traumatize one person and not another person? Traumatic events happen, but trauma is what happens on the inside of us in those experiences and how we interpret and internalize those events. If we experienced a traumatic event as a child and weren’t supported in that moment, we find a […]
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The Shadow Side Of Spirituality: Wild Wild Country
Recently, I finished watching the mini-series documentary Wild, Wild Country on Netflix. It tells the story about the time the Indian Guru Osho moved his commune from India to the small town of Antelope in rural Oregon in the early 1980s. The story gives perspectives from residents of Antelope, residents of the commune, law enforcement, […]
Creating Calm And Beauty In The Home
(Above: “The limits to pleasure are neither known nor fixed”. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin) Like many people, I have read Marie Kondo’s, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. One of the themes of this book is that as we tidy and create beauty around us, this will also increase the calm and beauty in our inner […]
Christianity And Energy Healing: A Book Review
I was excited to buy a copy of the newly released book Blessed with Energy: The Mystery of Energy Medicine Explained Through Science and Scripture by Marcy Meyers. I attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing with Marcy for a couple of years. During our final year, she gave an excellent presentation about Christianity and […]
The Art of Slowing Down
I started writing this post about the art of slowing down about 3 weeks ago. From one perspective you could say that I’ve mastered this skill, because it took me 3 weeks to write this post haha! From another perspective you could say I failed, because I was busy in other areas of my life. […]
Small Pleasures
Sometimes every day can blur into the next so that you end up at the weekend wondering where all the time went. I find that sometimes adding small things to my day is a way to add moments of pleasure or joy, or it’s a way to notice the moments in my day that bring […]
