[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] Verbal Abuse Victim[/caption] Verbal Abuse is an elusive type of abuse that happens in every day life. It's easy to spot the extreme cases, like those depicted in movies, with name calling and screaming that continues long outside of an isolated incident. But, this kind of abuse lingers in a grey area, and lays a foundation for more violent forms of abuse. Verbal abuse ...Read More

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="232"] Are you looking to your past, present or future?[/caption] Letting go of the past is challenging for almost everyone. Do you have regret and hurt lingering from your past and still affecting you today? Do you need to let go of your anger retained from long ago? I’ve gone through a process of letting go of many of those hurts and the past regrets, which ...Read More

Are you happy? Do you want to be happy or feel happier? I think most of us just want to be happy and spend our lives figuring out what makes us happy and why. I'll confess that I spent most of my life people pleasing and believing I was responsible for other people's happiness. Believing I could make others happy, in turn, made me believe others were responsible ...Read More

For the majority of my life, I believed that loving yourself meant you were vain. I thought it meant you didn't care about other people, were self-centered and stuck up. As a result, I went around being a push over, suffering and sacrificing myself at any opportunity because I thought that equaled being a good person. In the end, nothing was left but a spent person who didn't ...Read More

 Do you listen to your inner voice and follow your intuition? Do you force yourself to believe what you think you should believe, or do you pay attention to the truth within yourself? Love yourself. Love your neighbor. Trust yourself and be honest with yourself and listen to your inner voice and guide to life. That honesty will help you follow your bliss into a life truly fulfilled with ...Read More

Do you have feelings of joy and bliss, impatience and crankiness, stress and peace?  I know I do. Life feels easy and good when I'm enjoying blissful and joyful feelings and emotions, but I feel taxed and stressed when my emotions are negative or conflicted.  I notice that I become indecisive about what decisions to make.  I've spent many years forcing myself to make decisions that my head ...Read More

Last week I met a man at my train station who looked homeless. He had a bike stuffed with goods. He wore a bright orange vest like construction workers wear for safety. His legs were wrapped up in ace bandages. I was glancing at him curious about his situation when he stepped out and said, "Do you know why I have my legs wrapped up?"  "No, I don't" ...Read More

A couple of years ago, I heard Andy Stanley speak on the subject of guarding your heart based on Proverbs 4:23, which says, "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." Ever since then, I've thought long and hard about what it means to me and even wrote a post on guarding your heart. Since that time, I've also done a lot of thinking about ...Read More

I think most of us at some time or another have struggled with negative self-talk. You may have dropped something or bumped into something and called yourself stupid. You've punished yourself for making a mistake or not getting that promotion. I've spent the last year and a half retraining my thought patterns to be more positive and naturally healthy rather than self-deprecating and negative thanks to the teachings ...Read More

I've written several posts about how to lead from a place of love, how to connect with spirit and how to distinguish the difference between the voice of your spirit (true self, soul) and your ego voice. Today my ego was having a fit with me by making me feel sorry for myself and needy. I knew it was my ego voice because ego is needy, while spirit ...Read More