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…
Empowerment
If you are looking for inspiration you will find it here through a number of articles written by authors of Transformation Magazine.
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…
Life Lessons: Good, Bad, or Just Ugly?
By Rev. Marla Sanderson At breakfast recently, I was thinking about a subject for my next article. A man at the next table stood up, and his t-shirt said “Bad Choices Make Great Stories.” There’s my article … isn’t life…
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).…
I’ll Love You Unconditionally, as Soon as You Shape Up!
By Gregg Sanderson “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”—Thomas Jefferson Jerry died last month. We had been friends since the 1960s. He was at my birthday…
The Presence: A Crash Course in Higher Guidance
By Lisa Cedrone It was a busy afternoon, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Lost in thought, sitting in the passenger seat of the Jeep, I suddenly felt “The Presence” hovering over my shoulder. It communicated telepathically: “Look up, but don’t panic.”…
UpSpiral: Are You Ready for Something New?
By Rev. Marla Sanderson “There is a Power for good in the universe and we can use It.” —Ernest Holmes Call me weird, but I love change! If things stay the same for too long, I just have…
A True Story of Christmas Giving
By Natalie Rivera As I remember it, I woke up on Christmas morning when I was about 10 years old, grabbed my little sister—who was sleeping in my room for the special occasion—and timidly crept out to the living…
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…