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Resume the Stability of Tension

Posted in Envisioning the Future, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , , , , , on July 13, 2011 | 7 Comments »

This is a post from a couple of years ago. I am re-posting it because this phrase – Resume the Stability of Tension – keeps popping back into my mind lately. Although I am in a completely different life situation now (I left my job very soon after this post and started grad school a [...]

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Danger: Toxic levels of self-bashing

Posted in It's all About Me, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on March 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This post is a bit of an off-shoot for me but as I write it I will somehow figure out how to make a journaling prompt out of it. And I also know many of you will relate to what I am about to say. I got rejected. By a home-cleaning professional. Let me explain. [...]

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Trust the Process, pt. 8: I Am Matter

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Looking for the Spiritual, tagged , , on March 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“Are those really concepts? Aren’t they aspects of a woman’s life?” (Referring to the Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone) “What it means to be a woman? Don’t you mean what it IS to be a woman?” “Don’t YOU matter?” … “Yes, I do matter. I matter. I AM matter.” And so go conversations at Goddard [...]

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Clothing optional

Posted in Healing, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , on March 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

When I arrived at Kripalu Yoga Center to teach a spirituality writing workshop, part of the welcome by a staff member was an invitation to use the whirlpool and sauna… “clothing optional.” At the time I thought nothing of that statement, I may even have dismissed it with a small laugh. The next day, after two [...]

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When opportunity knocks… and hands you a gift

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I received a card through the mail. Inside was a magnet that read: “When opportunity knocks don’t be the one who says, ‘Can somebody get that?’” This gift was from Kay Adams, founder and director of the Center for Journal Therapy, and it represents a bigger gift which she gave me when she called out [...]

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What is your Purpose?

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , on July 13, 2010 | 7 Comments »

“Why am I here?” Oh, boy. For a few years now I’ve come to a personal understanding that the answer to that question is,  “To Pursue my Potential.” For me this means finding the things I enjoy and do well and developing them. It means to Focus with Meaningful Intent and Challenging myself to learn [...]

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I write to know I Am

Posted in It's all About Me, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The following post is recycled. I happened upon it this morning and it seemed appropriate today to re-post. I have been evaluating my Purpose lately and bottom line is: I need to write. I have no choice in this matter, it is my calling, my need, my salvation. Denying it would be like dragging my [...]

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Quoting Christina: We write.

Posted in Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , on July 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »

What I think we are up to, we throngs of journal-writing pilgrims, is reclamation. We are searching for ways to reclaim a sense of place, a sense of empowerment, a sense of healthy relationship between our lives and our times. We look for whatever can help us make sense of the moment. We Write. (Christina [...]

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Quoting Natalie: Getting close to our genuine self

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Writing is about getting close to our genuine self and the authentic way we see. – Natalie Goldberg, Thunder and Lightning When I a junior in high school my journal was a chunky spiral-bound notebook with ’1988′ written in big black bubble letters on the cover. I don’t recall much of what I wrote but [...]

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Sharing your light

Posted in It's all About Me, Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, tagged , , , on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I have a friend who used to volunteer as a reading tutor. Her Christmas letter informing me there is nothing as gratifying as helping another person sent me into a self-indulgent, self-hate-fest. I used to complain to my journal or Hubby that I never did anything to help anyone else. I had no desire to [...]

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