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Burned Out: Rising Up Out of Anxiety and Stress

9/29/2020

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Have you been checking the news?  Often?  Every day?  Is it comforting or ramping up your anxiety?  In an attempt to grab and keep your attention the headlines sensationalize the latest traumatic event in order to provoke a heightened emotional response.  Your brain is geared to being alert to threats to your safety.  Even hearing and imagining worrisome, shocking or disturbing events causes stress hormones to stream into your body.  When you watch repeated startling images it can invoke a posttraumatic stress response.  Your body does not know the difference between an event you are watching or imagining happening and actually experiencing it.....


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Waking Up from a Long Slumber in the Midst of an Existential Crisis

8/30/2020

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​The shut down of the world came as a surprise.  Did you even imagine that it would be possible for nearly 7 billion people to stop their ‘normal’ activities and go into seclusion?  In my part of the world the retreat began in March.  I was suddenly thrust into an alternate reality.  But it took time for me to comprehend the change....  


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My Heart Hurts: We Are One Family

5/31/2020

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Yesterday, my body collapsed and I was shrouded in despair and feelings of hopelessness over how we hurt one another.  The weight in my heart gripped me in a state of grief and emptiness.  Hopelessness and despair is a feeling that so many people live with every day.  When you are constantly being denied, denigrated, blamed, shamed and worse in fear for your life, you can’t help but feel hopeless while the fire of an inner flame burns for equality.  How demoralizing and bereft it is to not be free in a country that expounds freedom.  I can only imagine the daily anguish felt from living this way.  It is apparent that the acute pain caused by vile racism has plagued our nation since its inception causing the division and hatred we are experiencing today.  We can no longer ignore the inequality and subjugation of any human.  The separation we have caused is tearing us apart....


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One Air, One Breath, One Family

3/21/2020

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What we are experiencing on the planet is unprecedented.  Never before have we had the magnitude of global interconnection and communication during a crisis that affects every human being, as we are experiencing in this moment.
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Much of humanity is focused on the media, the daily changes in life and the effect it is having on distant parts of the globe as the Covid-19 virus circulates around the world.  Where is your focus and attention going?  You don’t need to listen to the news to know something remarkably uncommon is occurring....  


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Wake Up to Your Life of Joy: Freedom from Oppression

7/19/2019

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​Sometimes it is best to move on.  Do you need a kick in the pants to disengage from people or situations that do not support you?  Rejoice because the support is here for you now.  The rising social consciousness in humanity mixed with the current cosmological aspects of Venus in motherly Cancer opposing Saturn the taskmaster in Capricorn has created a time period ripe for movement.  It is a movement towards freedom from emotional constraints and patterns of lack that oppress your spirit....  


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Dancing in the Grand Design of Chaos

10/20/2017

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Daily, you are being bombarded with news of disasters, endless tragedies, and destructive and dehumanizing behaviors causing you to be more aware than ever of the Chaos happening in the world.  These random and outrageous events affect your sense of stability and security and may leave you feeling confused, disturbed, helpless and frightened especially when those unpredictable events cause death and destruction.  You are connected in a way that you never have been before.  Instant news and the Internet have created a dense enmeshed information web that envelops the globe.  In any moment you can hear about a catastrophe at the farthest outpost on Earth.  Your body knows even before your mind.  You are feeling it energetically.  You are connected through more than just the wireless radio waves that carry information.  You are a cell in the body of humanity.  Whether you like it or not, you are in a constant reciprocal flow with the human electromagnetic field coursing through your heart and processed through your body and brain....


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Dancing With Change

6/3/2017

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Life is movement, change, and continual transformation.  If everything stayed the same life would not only be boring, it would cease to exist.  When you are challenged with changes in your life that seemingly “come out of the blue,” or are initiated by external forces or that you are unprepared for, it is natural to put on the brakes and resist.  Sometimes change is hard to understand.   As Alan Watts says, “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”   These days I am feeling the quick motion of life sweeping me off my feet into an entirely new realm and the only thing I can do is go with the flow.  Jumping into this river of life can be demanding because it can be so easy and comfortable to stay on the shore of what is known....  


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Developing an Internal Sense of Safety:  Much Ado about Fear (part 2)

9/16/2016

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​“Anxious, stressed, scattered, I can’t concentrate and can’t sleep through the night.  I am not in physical danger, but I just never feel safe.”  The aftermath of fearful situations or the uncertainty that the world is not a safe place can leave you shaky, unsure and on edge.  You have lost a grounded sense of security.  How do you develop an internal feeling of safety?  You may wonder if or even believe that a haven of serenity exists inside of you, but when fear arises you may wonder how to get past the fear...


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What Happens to You when Your Family or Friends Disapprove

6/29/2016

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Conflict is difficult for me.  Life has taught me that my desire for everyone to get along and be in harmony is an almost impossible expectation.  I especially struggle when family members show disappointment and criticize my choice to do something, be with someone or be somewhere that goes against what they desire or want.  It feels as though I am being torn apart and made to decide between my life and the people I love.  No matter what choice I make someone will be hurt.  In the past, guilt would tear at my heart and eat me up.  The pain would muddle my thoughts and hold my energy hostage.  I could not be fully present to my own needs.  It created a “No-Win” situation for my family, my friends and me...


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Whatever happened to Kindness, Caring and Respect?  Why Kindness Matters

3/31/2016

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Have you noticed a change in mainstream cultural values especially regarding the way people treat others?  You may wonder what happened to kindness, caring and respect?  Have you sensed a growing acceptance of rudeness and disrespect as being okay?  Somehow we have forgotten how to be nice....


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Reaching Beyond the Darkness and Finding Your Joy Filled Heart

7/17/2015

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Darkness simultaneously has the ability to bring up primal fear within you as well as induce an attraction for the unknown and unseen.  It is almost as if your fear beckons you to look beyond as a way to keep you safe.  Whenever you feel vulnerable, energy arises to help you overcome fear.  You use this energy to either back away from it or face it. Fear provides you an opportunity to seek what has been hidden from view.  Yet, there is more than the motivation of fear that draws you into uncharted territory....


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The Purifying Power of Pluto: Transcending the Lower Self

3/29/2015

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When a Grand Trine in Water paired with a Grand Trine in Earth, a bold configuration was formed called “The ‘Grand Sextile’ of July 29, 2013″. Within these stellar geometries, concentrated energies of purification called all of humanity to release any vestiges of fear of the divine feminine so that we can fully inhabit all of our being.  Much has been and will be written about this illustrious astronomical configuration and all of the wonders it heralds for our time....


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