This idea of perfectionism these days can be a confusing one. I often hear the phrase “progress not perfection.” Good enough. But every time I heard it, a bell went off somewhere up in my mind. For a while, I paid no attention to it. I was busy trying to take in the knowledge of […]
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Forgiveness Prayer to Forgive the Unforgivable – Oh, Divine Spirit, Creator of All That Is, whatever You and all that You are, thank You for the many bountiful blessings You have bestowed upon us and our lineages. We love You. Thank You for loving us. We come to You, knowing You are always here with us
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Forgiveness is something we are familiar with yet sometimes it is difficult to do. Learning how to forgive the unforgivable stretches us and helps us deepen our compassion for others and ourselves. How Do We Let Go? A client asked me the other day if I could help her forgive the unforgivable. She was clearly
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It Didn\’t Start with You: Healing Emotional Trauma from Your Lineage – It didn’t start with you. We are the sum of our ancestors. They passed down both their gifts and challenges through the genetic code and social culture. Resilience and disease resistance are a few of these gifts. The legacy of trauma can be passed
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We come into this life with the outright markings of our ancestors: eye color, skin color, hair color, and so forth. We also come into this life with other ancestral markings, subtler but certainly as profound, those of unresolved issues from the past like traumas from emotional heartache, abandonment, and tragedies experienced through war and
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Our breathing is an important factor in how we handle and calm anxiety. Conscious breathing techniques can be used to calm anxiety. Consider for a moment what happens when we are startled or stressed. Our breath moves from the easy long deeper breathing of a relaxed state to a shortened breath. In fact, we often
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The snowflake is such a perfect symbol for the holiday season. The snowflake is a creature all its own, a power player if there ever was one, with distinct characteristics, though it is also a special version of water – that wondrous transmuter, able to come to us in so many forms. The big piece
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How do we live forgiveness? It would be living in a state of letting go, of releasing our hold. We often define ourselves by our stories, things that happened in our past. They tend to mold us into who we are now. It would be more accurate to say that the meaning we make about
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We all have negative thinking habits — and for good reason. Our survival instincts track our biggest perceived threat and attend to that, so we hear warning voices in our minds. These voices help keep us safe. It is when we turn these voices against ourselves that we bring in self-hate and other self-destructive behaviors.
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Can we make peace with our shortcomings and fully love ourselves? Why do we have so much trouble with our imperfections? It can be difficult for us to admit our weaknesses. Perhaps it is because we have set a standard of perfection. It may be an unreasonable standard, but it is an understandable one. Here’s
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