Posts Tagged ‘connection’
Stop Blaming Your Partner ll By Michele Bailey, MA, MFTC
Stop blaming your partner! Ouch, yes – I said it. Stop blaming your partner, and, while you’re at it stop blaming yourself. Blame, either projected on someone else or directed back on ourselves will not bring us closer together. It in fact draws us into a blaming-defensive spiral that is designed to keep us in…
Read MoreA Summer Solstice Meditation on Change and Light ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year. It’s the day where the sun seems to “stand still” at that point on the horizon where it appears to rise and set, and then it appears to reverse its course over what it just traversed. It’s…
Read MoreReconnecting: A Short Guide to Bridging the Distance ll By Michele Bailey
As our world starts to open up many of us are excited to get out and see our neighbors, friends, coworkers and families. Some of us may be wondering however, where did our community go? We’ve been quarantining, wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart, no handshakes, no hugs, no big events, minimal gatherings, and then…
Read MoreThe Slippery Slope of Social Media ll By Marielle Grenade-Willis
Lately, I’ve been trying to find a way to leave an abusive relationship…with my screen. I grew up in the lion’s den of social connectivity and technology. My mother worked for one of the earliest Internet Service Providers, and I changed usernames like teeny bopper outfits for a weeknight mall loiter. Like so many millennials,…
Read MorePresence in Humanness: Connection with Ourselves and Connection with Others ll By Colleen Ladd
I’ve been contemplating the way we run from presence, in all of the ways we have been taught and have so finely crafted for ourselves. Whether it be with work, substances or social media, our dominant Western and white supremacist culture has us valuing and investing energy and time into independence, yet the culture doesn’t…
Read MoreSpirituality and Psychotherapy: A Spiritual Approach to Addictions ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC
If you’re reading this title now, you may be thinking, “Hey Lady, AA, NA, etc. are way ahead of you. They’ve been doing the spiritual thing with addictions for a very long time.” And you would be right. Twelve step organizations have been saving lives for nearly a century now, with a proven approach involving…
Read More7 Tips for Staying Power ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
How will you navigate what’s next? We’re more than six months into a pandemic with more months to come, even with the promise of a vaccine. Anger: A secondary reaction to pain, not good or bad—but what you do with it 1-TURN OFF THE NEWS. I cannot stress this enough. We as a species come…
Read MoreMind/Body/Spirit : 3 ll By Faye Maguire, MA, LACC
In this blog, we will look at treating depression with a holistic, spiritual approach. Major Depressive DO is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental health issues in our world today. Most patients are treated with a combination of medications and therapy, and many people experience an improvement in their symptoms. However, many do not.…
Read MoreOne Air, One Breath, One Family: An Unprecedented Shared Experience ll By Dorothy Wallis
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. Much of humanity is focused on the media, the daily changes in life and the effect it is having on…
Read MoreWhen Looking to get Lucky Let Your Mind Shine! ll By Brenda Bomgardner
Let your sapiosexual self out and get lucky this Saint Patty’s Day. The term sapiosexual, which is now mainstream on dating apps, such as OkCupid and Sapio, is putting a new twist on dating and takes a very different approach to partnership than the hook-ups and looks status quo. If you prefer brains over beauty…
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