A Month of Mays: May We Accept Our Hypocrisy
Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone and thought to yourself, “I could throw those words right back in your face!”? Or maybe, when you were a child, did an adult scold you for something that they were just as guilty of doing? And now, be honest....
A Month of Mays: May We Befriend Our Egocentrism
After years of self-analysis, I’ve come to the conclusion that a feeling of strong repulsion within me is a giant red flag. I know that someone or something is reflecting back to me a trait that I do not like about myself. And the explosive rage isn’t really aimed...
A Month of Mays : May We Accept Our Dark Sides
Several years ago, touched off by the song, Have It All by Jason Mraz, I started doing a series of instagram posts called A Month of Mays. In the beginning, I strictly followed the lyrics of the song. The year after that, they were mostly positive affirmations that I...
Lessons To Gain For Our Time From Reading Maus
Recently, my oldest decided to check out the graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman at the library. As it is about the Holocaust, it was very timely, so I read it myself. The book reinforced my belief that I mentioned in my post about sending reiki to Putin. That...
Sending Distance Reiki to Putin
Hello! I know it’s been a while since my last post. There were a lot of things going on personally, and there were a lot of emotions to process in regards to the Russian – Ukrainian war. I just didn’t know where to start! One very interesting thing came...
We Are Earthlings : We All Are One
How are you handling the events of the past week? Are you feeling anxious? Helpless? Frustrated? Probably all of the above, and many more. My dreams are war-related. I dreamt of a memorial along a fence with toy after toy lined up to represent each of the dead. I...
Gender Equality & Neutrality
Last week, I touched just a little bit on gender equality and neutrality in my post about the collective consciousness. In it, I speculated about a future in which everyone chose to be gender neutral. It was an example that I came up with at the spar of the...
Road to Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance is a must in regaining control over your life from your survival instinct, or your ego. But it doesn’t come at a snap of a finger. I struggled with this for years! Deep down, I didn’t think I deserved self-acceptance. I would talk about the need for self-acceptance...
Don’t Underestimate Your Survival Instinct
***NOTE*** I believe our survival instinct and what people call “ego” are one and the same. I’m choosing to use the phrase “survival instinct” because people have such a negative connotation of the word “ego”. I didn’t want the repulsion of the word to influence your understanding of my...