The 7-Year Itch!

The 7-year itch, along with being a movie with Marilyn Monroe about the temptations of infidelity, is the notion that after seven years of marriage (or a long relationship), you start to get unhappy or unsatisfied and long for something more. I do not know how or who came up with the mark of seven years being […]

Choosing to Shine not Resign

I listened to a powerful talk by Dr. Michael Beckwith today. It was just the right dose of Light that I needed. A few things he said struck me and I want to expand on them here. The first was the idea that during this time of challenge in so many areas, we should shine […]

Lean Into It

To Lean into it metaphorically means, “the act of embracing something, or a situation, by using it to empower yourself. To lean into something is to own it… .” When I was a young girl, I used to ride on the back of a motorcycle. My parents didn’t like it and forbid me to do […]

It All Begins with Me…

Emma Curtis Hopkins the great 19th/20th Century mystic wrote, in here beautiful meditation “The Radiant I Am,” the following words. “ I have let people and objects and activities come toward me and impinge upon me till I have been over piled and mountain covered with thoughts. But now I know that I AM at […]

Forgiveness Begins With Me

For the past few months, I have been stuck in a place that finally, just yesterday, began to rise out of. I asked myself, “How do I release a person from my consciousness that I perceive has hurt me?” I don’t want to hang on to the experience. I don’t want to be triggered every […]

Who’s Behind the Mask?

As the Coronavirus spikes in many places and as restrictions turn into mandates, I might seem as if we will be wearing masks in public places for an indefinite amount of time. Some of us protest about it. Some of us just accept it without much thought. Some of us consider it wisdom to wear […]

We Don’t Just Get to Be Free…because someone else fought for it.

There is no ‘you’ apart from the universe. You are the universe temporarily in the disguise of a person.” —Eckhart Tolle Similar to what Rumi wrote, “You are the ocean in a drop,” we are charged over and over throughout the ages to know that we are more than what we appear to be. There is […]

The Principle

There is a Universal Principle that is changeless. It is always working. We are always using it, and that creates the changes in our life, as we change. We can always depend on it to work. It will never let us down. We cannot break this Universal Principle, although at times, we might seem to […]

Happy Anniversary, Patrick!

Happy Anniversary to my beautiful and amazing husband Patrick Feren. We have known each other for 23 years and are celebrating 19 years of marriage today, July 1, 2020. We chose July 1 as our wedding day because of the film “An Affair to Remember.” We identified with that film because of the love that […]

What is Your Default Setting?

What is Causation? It is that from which all things come. Behind every effect there is a mental cause. We are the mental cause. It is our thoughts, our beliefs, our actions. We can also reset that mental cause in any moment. Ernest Holmes wrote, “We can change the trend of causation in any moment […]