09th March 2009
For quite a while the "midlife crises" was assigned to men. Wives were advised to be patient, overlook the "craziness" and wait it out. Women's midlife transition was labeled "the change of life." Husbands were advised to be patient when their wives becam...
14th February 2009
Becoming your Authentic Self is a process of deprogramming who you were trained to be and rebuilding your perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors to be in alignment with who you were born to be.
And this means change.
"Everyone wants to go to ...
02nd February 2009
Most of us were taught that life is hard and full of things we have to do whether we like it or not! From an early age we were programmed by our family and our culture with beliefs, values and principles to support working hard, putting others first and b...
22nd January 2009
Although we have been taught that "good people" put other's needs ahead of their own, it turns out that doing so often causes resentment. Resentment is a poisonous sentiment that sooner or later can leak out in the form of snide remarks and hurtful "jokes...
17th January 2009
So you've decided you want to grow spiritually. Perhaps you have heard it is important to avoid judging yourself and others. The problem is if you don't know the difference between judgment and evaluation, you can have a misguided belief that has you tole...
16th January 2009
Although it is often distressing to feel confused about what next step to take on your spiritual growth path, the mental state of confusion is actually a higher state of consciousness than being certain of your beliefs and spiritual principles.
Feeling...
09th January 2009
In all the years I have been working with people interested in spiritual growth, I have found that being afraid of being seen as selfish is the most prevalent stumbling block to living their lives on purpose.
The sad thing is that the invalid beliefs a...
19th December 2008
As you progress on your spiritual journey, people close to you may begin to notice, and be confused by, some changes in your life perspectives. How do you explain to them what it means to grow spiritually?
Especially when so much of spiritual growth is...
17th December 2008
If you have been reading Eckhardt Tolle's books, The Power of Now, and The New Earth, you know that the most important task for humanity right now is to expand consciousness. If you got excited by Eckhardt's books it means you are already in the process o...
17th December 2008
If You Think You Have No Choice — You Are Mistaken!
In all the years I have been helping people grow spiritually and expand their consciousness, it still causes me a twinge of distress to hear someone say "I had no choice. I had to do to it."
I re...
15th December 2008
Distinguishing Between Earned Guilt and Unearned Guilt
Earned guilt comes from realizing you have committed a wrongdoing. Guilt's unpleasant feeling is a strong motivator to right the wrong. The antidote to earned guilt is forgiveness, either self-forg...
21st September 2007
Unlike our mothers and grandmothers, today's midlife woman gets a second change at life without the duties, obligations and commitments that were pervasive in their young adult years. Midlife women today are used to freedom and opportunities that their mo...
03rd September 2007
Although midlife is generally defined as the years between 40 and 60, just as with any other maturing stage of life, there are those who start sooner and those who start later.
It is not your chronological age that indicates you are entering your secon...