Depression

This Life, This Body

March 10, 2011

I want to talk more about pain and suffering.  I remember a time when I could barely tolerate this world.  My thoughts were constantly on heaven where I believed I would no longer suffer.  This life and this world were simply a matter of surviving until I entered glory.  In other words, grin and bear [...]

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Spiritual Coaching

October 12, 2010
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Be Authentic, be Awake, be Alive You are unique..  You  hear the sound of a different drummer but have some reticence in following it—maybe even shame. You are fed up with conventional wisdom. Mainstream consciousness is too constrictive.  Even the alternative options feel inauthentic and limiting. You yearn for change and realize that you must [...]

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Unfolding from Hiding

August 5, 2010

From time to time, I’m concerned that I don’t give an accurate account of who I am in these blog posts.  I suppose it’s easier to write about the ways in which I have overcome, triumphed, and expanded than it is to write about my shortcomings and struggles.  There is a part of me that [...]

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A Shade Darker

May 27, 2010

I really don’t have a thing to say today.  I’m writing because I made a commitment to myself and to you to write Monday through Friday.  I’m writing because I know that if I skip a day here then I’ll probably skip a day there.  Before I know it, I won’t be writing anymore.  I’m [...]

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How to Stay Grounded During Difficult Times (part 2)

March 24, 2010

In part one of this series, we began to explore the difficulty in remaining grounded during troubled times.  Today, I am listing 8 ideas that have helped me move towards a solid sense of being grounded.  I hope at the end of this piece you will share the ways you stay grounded.  My readers and [...]

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How to Stay Grounded During Difficult Times (part 1)

March 23, 2010

In many ways, the world seems to be spinning out of control.  We hear about economic meltdown, peak oil, climate change, over-population, species extinction, and more.  We experience the breakdown of relationships, either personally or of those we love.  The political arena is a muddle.  And the list goes on.  How do we cope in [...]

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Silky Seeds of Life

March 19, 2010

This is a weed–Milkweed.  Milkweed is the host plant for the Monarch Butterfly.  What you see in the photos is the flower turned to seed.  The silky threads are almost ready to release to the wind which will carry the seeds to their new destination.  Those seeds embedded themselves into the soil somewhere last fall, [...]

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Beauty in Decay

February 16, 2010

I have several friends who are in a dark/decay season of their lives.  Somehow I want to honor the beauty of those places.  I want to support my friends to find the richness in those places.  I want to encourage them to stay, just as I am encouraging myself to stay during those times.  By [...]

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a Slug & a Shroom

February 15, 2010

The little slug has found a cozy resting place atop a cushion of moss in the company of a mushroom.  Look closely at the tiny, tiny moss fern (click on image to enlarge).  Notice the contrasting colors of the slug and the texture of the mushroom nestled against the dead branch. This photo elicits feelings [...]

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Dancing with Impermanence

February 9, 2010

The reality of impermanence hit me between the eyes 15 years ago with my mother’s diagnosis of cancer and her death a year later.   At that same time, it became clear that my husband and I were unable to have children.   A year or two after that I was divorced from my husband.  [...]

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