PATHWAY TO JOY AND HEALING

Recently when I looked in the mirror, I was astonished to see a beautiful woman looking back at me.  When earlier in my life, I saw the frowning, sad, and heart-broken face staring back at me.  Because of the trauma I experienced as a child, then later on struggling with difficult and abusive relationships as…

During the practice of my emotional release work on my spiritual journey, I have come to awareness that the people in our current lives frequently serve as messengers or teachers for our life lessons.  It is the awareness of these messengers or teachers that can help us navigate our way on our spiritual journeys.  The…

Part of being on our path during our spiritual journey is the willingness to live without expectations of outcome.  When our path takes a turn in the road, we must be willing to continue along this route to where our path will lead us.  This is what I have come to accept on my spiritual…

As I progress in my spiritual healing work, I have experienced different stages of emotional healing.  I believe that I have reached an important landmark in that work, and wanted to share with you how it feels.   After two and a half years of emotional healing work, I experienced a heart opening, several solar…

When we learn our life lessons, how do we know we are done?  This has been my question to myself since I started down this road of moving to a town that I know no one, and taking a job at a college here.  I question what is my purpose here, and what am I…

Yesterday as I was discussing relationships with a friend about helping another friend with a recent breakup, I mentioned why this friend has been unable to see why so many men have left her in the recent past.  It appears obvious to me why men repeatedly have left this incredibly beautiful woman.  As she is…

During my recent emotional healing work, I have been contemplating what makes us feel lonely or lacking.  In the past, I felt extraordinary, heart wrenching loneliness.  It has taken me awhile to figure this out, but loneliness stems from the need to fulfill our desires to our attachments.  For instance, earlier when I depended on…

Yesterday, I was talking with my friend about the recent events involving giving up my emotional attachments to a man who is emotionally unavailable as he is emotionally and romantically involved with a married woman, but continued contacts with me and treated me poorly.  As my friend is aware of all the events involving this…

My recent development in my emotional recovery has opened the door to a whole new life for me.  I have decided to visit my parents over the Christmas holiday.  While there I will be visiting a man who I met while in Italy and believe that meeting him was to remind me that there are…

Our childhood experiences so impact our decisions as adults. This happened to me in regard to having children. I witnessed my parents who were so emotionally wounded that they were unable to give love to themselves or others.  As as result, they taught me and my sibling self loathing and self hate.  Each parent must…