Have you experienced a trauma in your life? We don’t always see what we’ve experienced as a trauma. Painful, difficult, mind-boggling events happen in our world every day. We are shocked, dismayed, angry, disoriented, confused, and afraid. What happened to the world we once knew we say to ourselves. Innocence is…
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The value of truth seems to have lost its influence. The world keeps turning. I get up in the morning to the sun, and go to bed each night with the moon and the stars shining their light on my broken heart. The world is a “hot mess” as my…
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Father’s Day is a day, created by a culture whose moral, ethical and spiritual foundation is at times questionable, and yet we are sucked in by it. How many of us are feeling guilt today because we don’t feel a generosity of spirit toward our fathers? Or, sad because our…
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The wounds of childhood run deep. They run broad and wide and are left to fester when the light of understanding, compassion, acknowledgement, and love are nonexistent. In the immediate aftermath of injury, tears may be shed, cries and protests may erupt, but childhood wounds are often covered up with…
View More THE WOUNDS OF CHILDHOODA childhood of abuse or neglect sets the stage for an adult who does not know who they are. Healthy boundaries are either a mystery or non-existent, and their behavior often either too rigid or too fluid. When we don’t know who we are, we may unconsciously cling to the…
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When I stop and close my eyes and breathe in what peace I can find around me…in the breezes that blow, the hum of the chime as the air lifts it in song…I find fear when I want desperately to find comfort. It is a hard journey finding my way…
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