Trust Lacking It took me a long time to trust that I knew more than I thought I did. I vividly remember the first time I became aware of receiving a message from the still small voice of wisdom within me. I was young … twenty-four … and I didn’t fit in with my peers. […]
Spirituality
Endurance
An Essential Spiritual Quality Roselin sent our Archeologists of the Spirit group a handout in preparation for our July 7 meeting. It included an excerpt from Caroline Myss’s book, Entering the Castle, based on Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. Myss identifies endurance as a spiritual quality learned in the First Mansion. Endurance is an essential […]
Re-Conditioning Needed
Conditioning When someone young is criticized a lot, they become conditioned to look for what is wrong with them. That happened to me. One of the complements I receive from readers of my memoir, A Long Awakening to Grace, is how honest I was about my faults. For many years, friends confronted me about how […]
Silenced
Almost six months ago (January 21), I wrote “It’s a Process” about the synchronicities that led to my becoming aware of generations of trauma in my family of origin … how I came to see that I’ve been chosen to be an agent of healing for our family. I naively felt honored and enthusiastic about […]
Wisdom to Guide Me in Times Like These
It has been awhile since I have written here. Something in me senses that our pandemic is here to teach us an important lesson if we are open to learning it. And so, I have been spending time with thought leaders who have greater wisdom than I possess. I do that through reading and podcasts. […]
Signs of Hope in the Midst of Polarization
You may know that in January of 2019, I joined Better Angels … now known as Braver Angels (BA) … formed after the 2016 election with a mission to unify a divided nation. Their workshops use some of the skills I used as a relationship therapist to bring citizens of all political stripes together into […]
