Consciousness/Thriving

Teens and Social Media Addiction

  A high school senior recently contacted me for insight regarding his thesis on Teens and Social Media. Here are my answers to several fundamental questions on this topic: What causes Internet addiction?  First of all, it is…

Love: Lighting Each Other Up Inside

  Years ago, I remember being disturbed by my spiritual teacher, John-Roger, describing love as activating or stimulating that place inside of each other where love resides. It seemed so unromantic. I had been raised to believe in the…

How to Maintain Your Inner Well-Being – Part 2

Did you know that your brain gives preference to visual information? Researchers L.D. Rosenblum, Harold Stolovitch, and Erica Keeps refer to our senses as learning portals and offer the following statistics regarding the percentage of data…

How to Maintain Your Inner Well-Being – Part 1

Are you truly committed to mastering the art of maintaining your inner well-being? Do you regularly keep watch for such signs of imbalance as:     Feeling like an outsider Never feeling like you are good enough Being…

Preparing Your Inner Manger

When thinking about the questions, “What are we really doing here?” and “What is the purpose of life?” I always come up with the same answer.  We are preparing our inner manger - a place within ourselves in which the divine can dwell…

What is Your Deeper Calling and Are You Answering the Call?

It took me until my 60’s to deconstruct the persistent patterns of worries, fears and self-doubt that were preventing me from being the best version of myself I knew I could be.  Along the way, I realized that I wasn’t the only woman…

Women Who Doubt Themselves

  I’ve never met a woman who didn’t doubt herself in some way.  Our doubts and fears can either paralyze us or we can learn to hold steady in their presence, assess their content, diminish their power and move forward in spite of…

Where Do We Go From Here?

  For 8 years now, the Democrats have accused the Republicans of foul play for their obstructionist behavior and lack of support of Obama as president of our land.  Tomorrow, the 45th president of the United States will be inaugurated…

Are You in Charge of What You Think?

  In the theater of one’s mind is a multi-dimensional consciousness in which our thoughts point our attention in a particular direction.  Neuroscientists have discovered that repetitive thoughts form neural pathways as neurons that…

When Your Partner Becomes a Stranger

Sometimes, seemingly out of left field, your partner becomes someone you don’t recognize. An invisible line gets crossed and you find yourself being treated like his or her enemy or someone they are disinterested in rather than as their…

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