You Don’t Need Money, You Got A Free Pass
“You don’t need money, you got a free pass” – an excerpt from the song Have It All by Jason Mraz I just spent the morning writing a lot about money and materialism, but I’m scrapping all of that. Because the message here is and should be simple. The most important...
May You Always Lead From the Beating in Your Chest
Listen to your heart. This is a lesson that I’ve had to really face in the last few months and understand at a deeper level. I wish it wasn’t so, but being yourself is one of the most difficult things to do in this life. It’s not difficult for...
Month of Mays: May We Envelope Our Enemies with Love
When I learned reiki and began letting go of expectations, I noticed an interesting change happening. I became more emotionally stable. Fewer things upset me and I spent less time worrying about what other people thought of me. I stopped playing the victim because I realized that things would improve...
A Month of Mays: May We Recognize Our Capacity for Violence
If we’re discussing the topic of bullying, there’s another very important factor that we need to acknowledge, and that’s our capacity for violence. It’s a trait that we don’t like to admit that we have, especially to ourselves. That’s why I think it’s so important to take a deeper look...
A Month of Mays: May We Forgive Our Physical Weakness
In my previous post about bullying, I touched briefly on forgiving yourself for being weak. I believe accepting your physical weakness is a topic that deserves its own post. From the stand point of our survival instincts, being labeled as weak is fatal. Some animal moms will reject a...
A Month of Mays: May We Understand Why Bullying Happens
Bullying is a big concern for parents of school-aged children. It is certainly something that I keep an eye out for with my own children, and I’ve also witnessed a handful of incidents while they play after school. In the 12 years since the time my oldest entered PreK,...
A Month of Mays: May We Recognize the Lies We Tell Ourselves
Nobody likes being lied to. When we find out that someone has been telling us lies, our egos take a hit. We feel stupid for believing the lies. Or we feel offended that this person couldn’t trust us with the truth. It’s not a good feeling, to say the...
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...
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...