Midlife can be a scary time for anyone. Life-altering changes are frequent and unexpected and often disorienting. How can you prepare for it? More importantly, how can you deal with it when it comes. It IS all a question of “mind over matter” but just telling yourself to “get over it” won’t work. What will?
Read More..>>Pain, whether it’s from sickness or just growing pains, offers its own challenge to those of us who would move forward physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, or politically. “No pain, no gain” the old saying reminds us, but that really all depends on what we’re willing to do with it when it comes.
Read More..>>Dreams go bad when we attempt to unpack and move in. They are motivators, inspirations and sources of great joy. They can also become our prisons and blocks to our achieving a sense of satisfaction and contentment when we permit ourselves to get stuck in them.
Read More..>>Midlife exposes the reality that, in most cases, our fears are misplaced: we fear the setbacks that may arise from outside of ourselves without recognizing or acknowledging the obstacles from within that are holding us back. The devil that we face is far more insidious than any artist’s rendering could possibly suggest: we carry it around with us in our very hearts.
Read More..>>Today I celebrate my (ongoing) recovery . . . not from a physical disability, but from a dysfunctional belief system that threatened my very existence. I live in a daily reprieve from succumbing to the belief that I am a victim of circumstance. Today, regardless of the challenge, I live in the knowledge that with every breath that I draw comes a new opportunity for spiritual growth.
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