Self-Care For The Soul

The human ego struggles with sovereignty, power and authority. We need to have power and authority over that which is ours to protect and provide for in this world. Yet, we struggle to claim rights to make our own decisions. We either grab for too much power, or we abdicate our own knowing to those who we perceive to be in positions of power and authority over us, or those who have influence over...

Have you ever tried to express your viewpoints and needs only to have them dismissed? You try again, rationally and a little firmer, only to have them devalued and negated. Next time, your voice is raised, the anger is flying. “Why can’t you hear me? Why don’t you listen to me?” Oh, so now you’re labeled hormonal, moody, hysterical. You’ll get over it and life will be “back to normal.” You get the...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and as most of my programs have centered around the Food-Body-Spirit Connection, I like to acknowledge this month in a special way. Our guts, and the whole abdominal area that contains the guts, hold incredible wisdom – vital to the health of the body, emotions, mental health, and yes, the spirit too. Yet, we tend to be totally disconnected from...

Feeling into the group this morning, it feels like we could use a general Prayer & Healing Circle, offering our prayers for healing from life’s challenges – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Please Join us for today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle. You are welcome to bring your prayers for personal struggles, challenges of and with those you care abo...

Do you find that sometimes the spiritual and healing work can be a bit intense? By its nature, it sometimes stirs up the pain in order to crack open the heart and facilitate the breakthrough that ultimately brings relief. But sometimes we need a practice that can simply put us in a good mood – that takes us out of the stress and worry mode so common for us human beings living on planet earth. Join...

Do you have something in your life that is weighing you down? Do you feel buried under piles of debt? Do you feel tied to someone or something that has more control over your life than you do? Join us for today’s Community for Conscious Living Prayer & Healing Circle to explore how you can change your relationship with these things. Climb out from under that which holds you down so that...

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin You’ve probably heard this quote before, but what does it mean? Perhaps it is meant to encourage us to view our lives through the eyes of the spirit rather than the eyes of humanity. Through the eyes of humanity, we can view this life as what is real, with all it...

Every pain or block that we carry today can be traced to an earlier time – an experience of a younger self that is still present inside, still holding on to the experience, still unsure what to do with it. Sometimes we are that person, and sometimes we barely recognize or relate to him/her because we’ve buried the past and moved on. However, what is held inside is still with us, and in subconsciou...

Could your heart use a little peace today? Today’s Prayer & Healing Circle is for you and for all you pray for, whether it is for yourself or for others. Please bring your struggles, heartaches, hopes and dreams. Whatever is on your heart. We will do an experiential practice to bring healing to the turmoil and witnessing to the deep inner peace that is in Unity with the Divine Reality shared b...

Do you wonder how the Divine creates? How an intention moves from concept into physical reality? Join us for today’s Prayer & Healing Circle, and bring your intentions and resolutions, your hopes, dreams and ideas with you. Regardless of whether you made any New Year’s Resolutions, you were created to have hopes and dreams. It’s ingrained into our humanity. Our hopes and drea...

One of the teachings that has been most helpful for my spiritual journey is summed up in the phrase, “Be in the world, not of the world.” It’s meaning is simple, yet far-reaching. What does it mean? We are spirit beings traveling in dense bodies on planet earth – spiritual beings having a human experience. The spiritual experience is lofty – it sounds holier and highe...

To resolve or not to resolve? This is the question that we ask ourselves – especially at this time of year. Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Or have you given up on such nonsense? Do you feel like it’s not practical or not spiritual to make resolutions? Perhaps you’re of this mindset – Shouldn’t I just love myself the way I am? If I’m on a journey to kn...

So much has come up with the Me Too Movement and women speaking up. More and more men are also speaking up about their own wounds and their own experiences with sexual violation and the things that they’ve gone through as well. In the healing process, we don’t make each other male and female villains, victims or victimizers, and create a further divide. We heal in a way that can bring...

When you start hitting those roadblocks in life, you may be asking yourself the question, “Am I doing what I’m supposed to be doing? Should I be going in this direction and put this much energy into this?” Knowing your gift marks, your soul purpose, and what your life lessons are can give you that motivation and that encouragement to keep going and to stay on course. Mary Halima Fleming is a...

Food can be used to numb feelings. Many people who binge eat or restrict use it as a way to disconnect from the body. Food addiction specialist Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, thinks we don’t talk a lot about how we use food in our culture to help us deal with stress. That’s why we have the term “stress eating” to help us deal with the emotions that are uncomfortable. Carolyn says food is a regulato...

Not knowing what grief was, Mary Havens, author of The Shadows in My Heart, suffered a long history of silence from when she was sexually molested at the age of five. It was not until her mid-twenties that she found her voice and broke that silence. Triggered by the confession of her five-year-old sister and her daughter who were molested by her then husband, Mary’s story began and has since inspi...

If your heart is hurting from the pain and struggles of this human journey, you are not alone. We are in tough times, and many people are hurting. Our planet is hurting too. Yet, we are contained in an ocean of love and compassion. We have the ability to adjust the dial on our receivers to open to the flow of compassion that relieves us from doubt and worry and fills us with love and kindness, a m...

How do habits begin? For many of us, it’s way back in childhood. For some of us, it’s as simple as being taught to finish everything on the plate or have some cookies and milk and you’ll feel better. For a lot of people, it’s a way of self-soothing and comforting when we’ve had trauma that we don’t know how to process and we can’t talk about and we don’t have an...

What is it that keeps us from releasing the veils that keep our light from shining? Human beings were given freewill. In order to exercise freewill, we have to forget our connection with that all that is that is so much greater than what we are. We are one with that all that is, but we forget that as we get squeezed into this bodysuit of consciousness that we live in. We’ve squeezed ourselve...

Overachievement is something that some victims of abuse do as a way of surviving trauma. They either go one way to the pendulum or to the other. For Rev. Dr. Anthousa Helena, that overachievement was working to fill that void in her. She thought that having all these learning credentials would give her value and self-worth. Anthousa is the founder of SOLLITE Integrative Medicine, a holistic medica...

Do you ever feel that spark of passion inside of yourself where you feel that there is something you’re here in this world to do, to create, and to give, or somehow that you’re here to affect change for some part of this population that is in turmoil and suffering in pain? Do you feel that passion inside your heart? What happens with so many of us is we feel that passion and then we sa...

A famous picture in the Sistine Chapel is of God in the heavenly realm reaching down to Adam’s extended index finger. Looking at it now, Amina Deb Lewis realized that they’re not in contact anymore. Amina Deb Lewis has been a seeker and student in esoteric, spiritual and scientific studies for over 40 years. She saw that God is no longer is reaching down towards Adam, and Adam is no longer strivin...

People who have suffered trauma at such young ages put up this frozen wall of trauma and hide behind their silence. Dalzenia Sams, author, painter and artist for peace, had suffered such trauma as well, having been a victim of sexual violation. Dalzenia’s story of abuse includes three separate cases of rape. After the third instance, she felt completely broken and was ready to take her life....

Sometimes, even when you know you’re right, it can be difficult to stand in your truth in the face of your adversaries. Sometimes your adversaries live in your own head. We second guess ourselves. It’s what humans do. A documentary of Maya Angelou’s life is called And Still I Rise. Dr. Angelou was a living example of embodying truth, courage, confidence, and strength no matter wh...

Having your world shaken up and become so unsafe at a very early age completely changes your whole world view, that what you mostly do in this lifetime is to try to find safety and a way to feel safe on this earth. Registered Somatic Movement therapist and educator Donnalea Goelz was molested twice, at the age of three and then at the age of five, which made her gravitate toward studying things th...