8 Step Recovery – another way

8 Step Recovery – another way

Oct 1, 2014 | Health, Inspiration, Mindfulness

Book Recommendation: Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction Dr. VALERIE MASON-JOHN Here are the 8 steps: Step One: Accepting that this human life will bring suffering Step Two: Seeing how we create extra suffering in our lives Step...

I can wade Grief –

Whole Pools of it –

I’m used to that –

But the least push of Joy

Breaks up my feet –

And I tip – drunken –

~Poem by Emily Dickinson

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Just for Me

Just for Me

Sep 19, 2014 | Inspiration

What if a poem were just for me? What if I were audience enough because I am, Because this person here is alive, is flesh, Is conscious, has feelings, counts? What if this one person mattered not just for what She can do in the world But because she is part of the...
Hardwiring Happiness

Hardwiring Happiness

Sep 10, 2014 | Inspiration

A great way to take charge of your happiness is by rewiring the brain with this 3 step process proposed by Dr. Rick Hanson 1.  Look for good facts and let them becomes good experiences. – think of little things you are grateful for – for example, the...
Shame

Shame

Sep 5, 2014 | Inspiration

Shame is known as the ” universal silencer” , It is such an intense emotion, we often try hide it. We hide it because we believe that we alone suffer in this way. We isolate, freeze and spiral down. In fact shame is so prevalent.  It shows up in...