“When the family energy is focused on the problem of the adult rather than on the needs of the children, the results for the children are the state of not knowing they come first, the state of believing that they have to fix the situation, and the state of believing…

“Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme.” Beth Kanter What is Content Curation? I have been a content curator on all 6 of my Wordpress blogs since 2006…

Have you ever wondered what your personality labels mean about you? Everyone has many personality labels yet most of us resist being labeled. Over a lifetime, we each will have hundreds of labels because we have unique life experiences. The main way that we learn our labels is from others…

The field of therapy is the study of personality. To understand youreself and others better, invaluable tools to use are personality tests. The more we know about the labels for our personality, the better we can see these same traits in others. …

I was a single parent for my daughter while she was ages 5–16. Then we hit a rough patch. Her father was in the military and I knew they would be good together. So I suggested they try living together. All agreed and then I went into a deep mourning…

“If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete.” Jack Kornfield “Not only does a more supportive, loving attitude toward ourselves help us heal. But also our growth requires that we step away from the crowd, even if it scares us to do so. When we love ourselves as…

“The observer self is that aspect of consciousness which can watch us act like fools and stand back at a safe distance, shaking its head in disbelief. It is capable of observing our behaviors with an even, unattached point of view. The observer can help us see our wounded areas…

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one’s presence would be healing.” Hazrat Inayat Khan 1…

My 33rd year of recovery from alcohol addiction began Nov. 24, 2009. Needless to say to anyone living a spiritual quest, many emotions are stirred up during an anniversary. In taking another 5th step, I realized that I had recreated the home of my childhood. I had the good mommy…