Divine Chaos: Spiritual Awakening, Psychotherapy, and the Jacked-Up Journey of Our Life!

Welcome to another deep dive reflection with Janine! In this episode, we explore Love's call to return to our natural state as we learn that, "It's never about the outcome. It's only about your remembering." In recording the morning minis, Janine is rediscovering firsthand the power of repetition as she takes a deeper dive into a recent morning mini recording entitled, "...

In today's episode, Janine shares a powerful exchange with Love Itself in which Love challenges her to consider that she needs to let go of the desire to struggle. Janine ponders this compulsion that almost feels like addiction and at least very powerful conditioning. How many of us are like birds sitting in cages with the door wide open and yet still entrapping ourselves by old messages and t...

In today's episode, we relish in Love's reminders that we are not meant to suffer and struggle but rather get to choose again to allow ourselves to experience joy! We have some fun reflections to share on this topic and explore practices that help us to get to this place of allowing joy instead of struggle. Please join us as we all learn to embrace this gift of peace, happiness, and joy th...

In today's episode, we reflect on the mystery of Love. Ruth shares a thought-provoking and inspired writing that lends itself to contemplating this divine mystery. We're just following Mother's Day weekend and this prompts us to consider how Divine Love expresses through and as motherly love. We explore how difficult emotions may block our awareness of Love's presence and yet we al...

Today, we both have some moments of awe and wonder to share as we reflect on Divine Encounters reaching out to us through nature! Love Itself reminds us that we are being bombarded by countless signs of Love's presence, if we can only still our mind's enough to notice. We explore the power and peace that comes from letting go of the ego's need to perceive and therefore judge what our s...

Today we welcome Brenda Francis, a lifelong spiritual searcher, recent seminary graduate, and Janine's partner in celebrating miraculous encounters! Today we explore the importance of making sure we have a solid support system to help us live our lives and navigate the challenges of this journey. Brenda aptly reminds us that Love Itself/God is in the space between each one of our relationships...

Welcome to another solo reflection with Janine! I just received a new Message from Love Itself and it's both powerful and soothing. Join me in unpacking all Love Itself would have us realize and accept. Can I accept the reality that Love Itself is calling me home through all of the pain and the ego messages? Can I hear Love calling me through all of these ego messages? Join me in utilizing the...

Join us today for our personal reflections on the growth that can come through this sometimes jacked-up journey of stress and pain. Following a month of our own stressful life events, we explore the ups and downs of emotions, how hard doesn't necessarily mean bad, and lessons learned within the journey and from Love Itself . Often, just learning to notice when the ego is leading, stop and brea...

In today's episode, I (Janine) share a powerful Message I recently received from Love Itself. Actually, I start first by sharing my process of clearing my mind and emotional blocks so that I can be in a space to feel and receive Love's presence. It's been a challenging month and I was reminded yet again of how difficult it is to tune into Love's presence when the ego is leading! To...

In today's episode, Janine shares her process for integrating Love's Messages so that we can move past the denial of the ego operating system into fully absorbing the truth within. The Tree of Compassion is a wonderful tool to use with each Message of Love from Love Itself. Today we absorb Message of Love 6 from Lesson 12. It is called "Your Space of Truth" and is one of Janine&#...

In today's episode, we dive into a deep spiritual topic. It's all really about our choice to experience this life apart from our Love Itself/God and the guilt we feel as a result. Ruth admits this is a hard one for her to get her head around, namely because she was raised in such a conservative church where the concept of original sin was embedded at such an early age. The parable of the p...

In today's episode, we explore the challenge to live by our own truth rather than accepting another's toxic core messages. An encouraging Message from Love Itself uses a beautiful metaphor of collecting sea shells to remind us that we only need to gather up our own shells on this journey of life. We must leave the feelings/shells of our loved ones to decide for themselves what they will ca...

Today's episode might also be called, "You Are Worthy of Happiness!"  But we begin with Ruth's story of an unexpected flip from peace to panic.  Together we process how quickly one can become 'activated' by feeling responsible for our loved ones' happiness and safety.  A message from Love Itself reminds us that we are worthy of happiness even when those we love are st...

Today Janine shares a small piece of a Message from Love Itself she recently received and has been absorbing and practicing since.  Together Ruth and Janine process this invitation to enjoy life more by accepting we are worthy of joining in the Divine Dance.  Both have some personal experiences to share as they've come to recognize and release the fear that keeps one stuck in old habits...

In today's episode, we move into the third and fourth steps to healing through grief.  This is primarily about what begins to happen once we've named our losses and brought each piece of sadness to the loving embrace of Love Itself, the compassionate voice within.  We share how the lens begins to change and with it our sense of worthiness to receive and our ability to experience our life...

In Janine's first solo episode, "A Portal to Everything Your Heart Desires,"  Janine shared a powerful message from Love Itself about feelings.  Most significant is the revelation moving through all of our feelings is in fact the portal to Divine Connection, directly through the heart.  Today we dive a little deeper into healing through painful feelings by sharing a step-by-step pro...

This is a very special episode.  It is the first of Janine's lessons and reflections in tandem with Love Itself.  Janine received this enlightening and liberating message from Love Itself just the day before this recording.  It's a deep dive into clarifying how going into and through our difficult feelings directly opens the portal to remembering our Divine connection with Love Itse...

In our second episode on anxiety, we offer you an abundance of insights and tools to help you begin to undo and ease anxiety.  There's a lot packed into this episode and so we encourage you to bring your pen and paper if you are personally looking for help with anxiety.  Take this slow and go one step at a time.  Simply starting with a simple breathing exercise that Janine shares wi...

In today's episode, we bring awareness to the different ways anxiety shows up in our bodies, noting how important it is to tune into our feelings so that we can begin to shift this fear response.  In part one we are focused on naming the various causes of anxiety that may stem from physiological responses and/or thinking patterns.  We explore the concept of differentiation which is the a...

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Join us for a powerful part two of Love's message and questions to all of us:  What of My love have you let in?  What have you blocked?  What is it your soul longs for?  What is your heart's deepest desire?  We process and explore the power of allowing ourselves to go deep into our most difficult feelings so that we can remove the blocks to Love's presence and therefore op...

In today's episode, we explore how easy it is to fall into searching for our sense of self-worth through social media and other social interactions.  Together we explore personal experiences, challenges, and the joy that comes from finally letting go of fear-based messages and actions.   A message from Love Itself reminds us to let go of any actions that are sought after from a stat...

In today's episode, we invite you to be easy on yourself.  It's a nurturing conversation that goes out to all who might be feeling a bit run down, tired, or struggling with any type of illness.  We explore the truth of our Home which is with Love Itself and not in the head/thinking mind.  Love Itself calls us back to peace, one mind, and union with Itself where we are already as Lov...

In today's episode, we ponder the challenge of accepting the reality of Love's continual presence, guidance, and abundance available to us when we practice unconditional trust and are open to receive.  Janine elaborates on a life-changing message from the book series, "Choose Only Love" by Sebastian Blaksley, as we contemplate how God is surrounding us within an eternal embrace of deep love i...

As a follow-up to our first episode on Narcissism, we decided to dive a little deeper into some common defense mechanisms that individuals with strong Narcissistic traits develop to avoid feelings of shame.  We explain the nature of defense mechanisms and their impact on one's sense of worth over time.  We also look into the pros and cons of counseling with a partner or loved one who exh...