Tag: love
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Beauty Actually
I saw Liam Neeson on The View yesterday and of course they talked about the many movies he has been in. One is Love Actually and it is a favorite Christmas movie of mine. I remember the first time seeing it thinking it was maybe a little corny but I loved it anyway. Who doesn’t…
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Food Edition
Our Chinese New Year meal turned out to be pretty tasty, if I do say so myself. Brad and my nephew, Brent, both appeared to enjoy the pork dumplings, shrimp stir-fry and the beer and wine. Brent talked about the many meals I made for him when I lived in Seattle and he would drive…
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Meditating Outside…in Winter
This morning I woke up early. It was a relatively mild winter morning for Pennsylvania. I bundled up and put a comforter on one of the rocking chairs on the front porch and did my morning meditation out there. In the spring, summer, and autumn it’s my usual place for morning meditations. It’s hard to…
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Happy Holly Days!
I hope all of you are having a lovely holiday season filled with sweet surprises and acts of kindness – given and received. I was reminded on Christmas Day that gifts come in all shapes and sizes and that some of the best gifts are not wrapped. I trust you can all relate to that.…
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Santana – Mystical Medicine Music
Written by Brad This past Saturday Donna and I attended a concert in Hershey to see Santana. I was very anxious to see Carlos Santana, someone who is on the Mount Rushmore of guitar players, at least in my opinion, and someone neither of us had ever seen. The 10-time Grammy winner and member of…
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Do you love yourself?
I was talking with a fellow therapist recently who also grew up in a religious home and I was commenting on how far I’ve come in terms of liking myself. My friend replied, “but do you love yourself?” I’m not sure how I answered her that day, but that question stayed with me. Do I…
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New Moon
We are entering a new moon cycle. A new moon will be on the horizon tomorrow evening at 10:52 pm EST. At that time, the moon and the sun will be joined together in the sky. We will not be able to see the moon right away as it will sit in total shadow, briefly,…
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Summer Solstice
Yesterday was the longest day of the year and the first day of summer (all depending on where in the world you live.) “The summer stolstice is a festival of light, an energy resurgence of the self, and a stepping into a greater awareness of one’s power in community and service.” Shaman Durek “Shamanically, it’s…
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Appreciate all Relationships
“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in your life for a REASON…it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through…
We are all in this together 