Category: Resources
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The Bandaged Place of Light
Find Your Sacred Space Words of Inspiration “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” ~Rumi Mindfulness is more than a strategy to calm down and relax. Practicing mindfulness helps create a rhythm; it balances body, mind, and spiritual well-being. But frequently, we need to pay more…
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Siddhartha: A Depth Psychology 4 Finding Light in the Shadow
Siddhartha and The Sacred Journey “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of…
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Teaching the Next Generation: Lessons 4 Successful Parenting
Teaching Respect and Positive Parenting A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham I often hear the word respect thrown around as if one is entitled to something. The sad fact is that 99.9% of the time I hear this term used, it…
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Practical Parenting Now: A Promise 4 the Heart
Parenting Words of Wisdom “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin Parenting from the Heart What child should not hear these words daily? However, the problem, as I see it, is that we have been taught primarily from a material…
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Practical Psychology: How 2 Deal with the Negative Skew of News and Social Media
A Sacred Journey Podcast Faith and Practical Psychology With so much media buying for our attention, how can we develop that desperately needed inner sense of peace? This is especially true as it relates to the negative bias most sources of information used to play upon the strengths of the autonomic nervous system that will…
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Practical Parenting: Let Go of Past Hurts 4 New Beginnings
Parenting Wisdom “The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!” ~Louise Hart “The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” O. A. Battista A Psychology of Parenting If we have had parents, we have…
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Practical Parenting 4 a Positive Future Generation
A Philosophy for Parenting Instilling Responsibility, Hope, and Honoring Childhood Bliss Parenting is a collective affair. I started my professional journey long ago, teaching the next generation in a kindergarten classroom. While I have practiced psychology for two decades now, I cannot help but see some atrocities at play in the one place parents should…
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Shadow Work 4 a Psychology of Wellbeing
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman A Psychology of Self-Development Engage the Shadow Within Shadow work is a well-known psychological construct in the field of analytical psychology. Yet, in the modern era of diagnosis and fast-track treatments to soothe humanity’s ever-decreasing attention span, we…
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Surfing A Paradox 4 Consciousness Development
Live with Dr. Tom Learning to Fly A Paradox of Consciousness I began today’s journey looking into what seemed an Indiana Jones magnitude leap of faith into a chasm of everything unknown, fearful, yet somehow calling upon my soul as an avenue for growth. Consciousness is that way. Like the birds pictured above, it calls…
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A Truth 4 Joy
Quotes of Inspiration Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell The Psychology of Joy Ever wonder why the emotion of joy is so hard to grasp? For decades, I have heard a very similar storyline. Regardless of race, age, gender, or other demarcation levels, one…
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A Sacred Journey: Dream 4 Destiny & Inner Potential
A Sacred Journey Podcast Feeling Stuck? A Sacred Journey Podcast A Sacred Journey Podcast Feeling Stuck? What does your sacred journey entail? What does the future, that image of your hidden potential, tell you in the present moment? This affirmation and guided meditation will encourage you to dream your future forward and think just for…
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Personal Development: A Powerful Exercise 4 Your Best Self
Ever heard the saying that we must let go of the old to bring in the new? This saying is certainly true regarding our personal development. To grow and change, we must be willing to let go of the things that no longer serve us. This blog post will discuss what it means to let…