Empowerment Category
A Very Good Friend
Posted on November 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
When you are living end-stage pet hospice for the first time, you will wonder about making The Decision. Your friends who have experienced this will supportively assure you that you will know when it’s time, and great comfort is found in that. They lie. Go easy on them, they don’t mean to. They mean it […]
A Meeting of the Minds
Posted on June 17, 2013 2 Comments
Summer has arrived with a pleasant and natural adjustment. My archetypes sit down for a meeting to examine this time. Everyone is present around the kitchen table, settling into my old wooden chairs: the Sage, the Caregiver, the Lover, the Creative, and the Warrior. My Sage has requested this meeting. She is the thinker, the […]
Living Beyond Our Challenges
Posted on May 13, 2013 8 Comments
Challenge sounds so much more manageable than struggle. And when we’re in it, we need all the help we can receive. We may go through phases when we fragment daily, only to piece ourselves together enough to repeat the cycle the next day. You’ve been there, you know what I mean. Thankfully, these cycles aren’t permanent. But […]
One Thousand Gifts
Posted on April 21, 2013 1 Comment
One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voskamp, is a beautiful guide to living grace and gratitude in the middle of regular daily life. “A dare to live fullly right where you are”, this book does not pretend a perfect practice–but it delivers a spiritually supported process. Constantly, consistently, with personal failings. Embrace the imperfections, begin again. The journey itself is a […]
Finding a Measure of Comfort
Posted on April 19, 2013 1 Comment
I share with you a message of comfort, from today’s Weekend Meditation by Katy Brennan from the Archetype Me community: Many of us read the lovely quote from Fred Rodgers that went viral this week. Ubiquitous as it was, I’d like to launch us into the weekend with a reminder of his sweet and comforting words. […]