Conquer Your Mountains
Recently I was looking back through a conversation from a few years ago between myself and a friend of mine. She’s several years younger than me, and hadn’t had very good luck with dating or boys in general, and in one of her really disheartened moments after a relationship-gone-bad, along with a dose of low…
What stops us from living our dreams is a question I would love to answer today (topic of my next article), however, I have learned that before we can address what stops us from living our dreams we must ask ourselves what our dreams truly entail? Of what are they made? What do they look…
This great song from Ziggy Marley is my family’s theme song. My wife and I listen to it together and plan to use it as a family time song with our children as they age. The beauty of this song is not only found in the wonderful harmonics and melodies, but in the universal message:…
I believe that within each of our souls there is both a sinner and a saint. In many ways, it is like the legend of the two wolves. An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is raging within my soul,” he told the boy. “It is a terrible fight between two…
An article was written by one of my fellow writers a couple months back, entitled The Kindness of Strangers. I have been thinking about it a lot for the last week because of a little kindness I received from a stranger. It wasn’t as big or as fantastic as my would-be mugging victim taking me…
I have one main goal in life: to live a happy, healthy, balanced life. But there’s one truth I’ve learned just this week about pursuing that goal: Just when I’ve got it all figured out, something changes and I have to pursue my goal all over again. I like to think that I have my…
Haven’t I been here before? I’ve seen this before! I know what is going to happen! In my life I have experienced two types of deja-vu that I’d like to explore today: the traditional Dreaming deja-vu, and the non-traditional Energetic or Spiritual deja-vu. This second form of deja-vu is experienced when you either meet someone for…
Dear Anger, I woke up to the pink haze of the sunrise peeking over the mountains. A fresh breath entered my lungs as I soaked up the pure beauty of a new day. I sat halfway in my sleeping bag, nestled tightly in my sweatshirt. Everyone else was still asleep as I enjoyed the…
Developing a Practice If you are just joining in on the ride, this is the latest addition in a series of posts dedicated to exploring addiction and recovery, the path from fear to love. I began by talking a bit about our fears and irrational beliefs that keep us stuck in self-defeating patterns and went…