By Darlene Coleman About 20 years ago, in my former life, I was working as a loan officer for a financial company. One day, I had a conversation with another woman in my office asking for her opinion about a…
Caregiving the Caregiver: An Honor
By Teresa Morrow Caregiving seems like an easy to understand and straightforward word, right? You are giving care to someone else. When I discovered what it meant to be a caregiver, well, it was much more than I expected. Caregiving…
Mama Drama Trauma: How to Forgive and Stop Living It
By Tammy Taylor “To have a serious illness or injury is difficult enough; seeing it as a punishment or the cruel caprice of fate only makes it harder to bear.”—Caroline Myss, medical intuitive, author, mystic Soul alignment is when the…
The Redeeming Dark
By Elaine Mansfield “From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below.” 1 The descent of the Goddess begins with listening. Inanna, the Listener, is the Great Goddess of Heaven and Earth (~3500 – 2500 BC, Sumeria/Mesopotamia).…
5 Ways to Learn from Your Mistakes
By Rena Greenberg “God wants you to make mistakes so you can learn from them,” Sidi, the Sufi Sheik from Jerusalem, explained to the crowd that had gathered to see him. “If you didn’t make mistakes, someone else would because our…
Reinventing Myself Through Compassion
By Debra Loran A man went to the mountain tops in Tibet to ask the wisest monk his deepest questions about life. He arrived and found the One he wished to ask and posed his sincere question: “What is the…
The 3 Tips for Empowered Thriving
By Janice Carlin None of us want to just live in this world. We want to thrive! And we want to see our children thriving as well. Unfortunately, a great majority of us are not experiencing this. Instead we find…
Memories of Heaven by Wayne Dyer
By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer I have enjoyed a lifetime love affair with children, particularly newborns, infants, and toddlers. If a baby is in the room, it’s almost as if there is a magnetic connection that draws my attention and…
Putting Ability in Disability
By Heather Urick “You got to roll with the punches to get to what’s real.”—Van Halen Living with a progressive, terminal, neuromuscular disease for more than 20 years has not been an easy burden to carry as part of…
Where Do You Draw the Line Between Possible and Impossible?
By Linda Albert When I was seven years old, my mother took me out of ballet, telling me I was the clumsiest girl in the class. I loved ballet, had learned all the positions for my feet (flawlessly, from my…