One morning before going off to work, after nearly eight years of marriage, Alyssa’s husband told her he wanted a divorce. The announcement sent her into a state of shock. Leading up to his announcement there had been no identifiable indicators that he wasn’t fully committed to their marriage. After…
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Are We Grateful or Are We a Burden?
In End the Struggle and Dance With Life, Susan shared a story that illustrates perfectly what we are talking about this month in the newsletter article. Here is an excerpt: Noah benShea tells us a very relevant story. A little boy goes to a parade with his father. In order…
A Visualization to Let Go of Anger
In this month’s article, we talked about not letting ourselves be dragged down by the divisiveness that seems to be affecting the world. We described a visualization technique adapted to for the article. Below is the technique in its entirety as found in Chapter 10 of Feel the Fear and…
Rising Above Conflicting Opinions
Watching the news, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, browsing your favorite social media—these things should be entertaining but wind up causing us to be stressed, to feel anger, even to feel hate. Susan noticed this within herself and in the world around at large. “Every day I see…
I Can Learn From This
We’ve been talking this month about learning from our experiences—no matter how scary or troubling. Susan had first hand experience with this while she was writing Embracing Uncertainty. Here is her account: I was sitting at my computer when, all of a sudden, the vision through my right eye became…
Learning to Always Learn
As we talked about in April’s newsletter article, in Embracing Uncertainty, Susan recommends that we always choose to learn from our experiences by choosing to value every experience—good or bad—as an opportunity for discovery. In chapter 5 of the book, she wrote about the “I Can Learn From This” exercise.…
Knowing vs. Understanding
This month we’re talking about taking our time on the path to spiritual growth. When we seek only to accomplish, we are not giving ourselves the time to assimilate spiritual lessons into our selves. We can’t truly be in touch with our spirit if we only seek to check off…
Finding the Way
In End the Struggle and Dance With Life, Susan related a tale that shows the difference between the modern-day thinking of “try harder!” and the wisdom about obtaining true mastery. This story relates perfectly to the subject of the newsletter article this month—that the process is more important than the…
Setting Relationship Goals like New Year’s Goals
Now that we are well into 2018, we hope you are still going strong on meeting the goals you set for yourself for this year. People may scoff at resolution and goal-making, but making a commitment to yourself can go a long way to helping you be your best. Keeping…
Setting Relationship Goals like New Year’s Goals
Now that we are well into 2018, we hope you are still going strong on meeting the goals you set for yourself for this year. People may scoff at resolution and goal-making, but making a commitment to yourself can go a long way to helping you be your best. Keeping…