Category: spiritual journey
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Through Dreams
In my dreams last night, I said goodbye to those in my past who I will not have an opportunity to say goodbye as I move onto the next phase of my journey. In my dream, I spoke to each person separately saying my farewells. My interaction with these important individuals who I encountered…
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First Step to Transformation
It has taken me most of this lifetime to find inner peace. It has always been illusive to me because I wanted to control everyone, everything, and all situations around me. As a person who experienced childhood abuse, this is the natural response after experiencing trauma. Most people are on auto pilot using the same…
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Gratitude for 2017
I have much gratitude going into 2017 as there is so much to be grateful for in my life. I am grateful for all the doors that closed in my life and the many situtaions that did not turn out the way I wanted them. In retrospect, those people, opporutnities, and situations were never meant…
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Living in Fear
Most of us may not even realize it, but we live with constant fear nearly every minute of every day. Fear is not just about being frightened about any particular thing, person, or event, it is a mental state. This is what I feared. I feared change, abandonment, rejection, trusting others, being unlovable, being unworthy,…
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Love: Living Beyond Dependency
The truth is that most of our relationships are dependencies. Love is unconditional while dependency requires the condition that we are with the other person or that we serve certain conditions in each other’s lives. Dependency is a form of addiction. All my relationships until recently have been dependencies, either serving as a victim or…
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Closure of Our Past
At the end of each phase of our emotional and spiritual growth, we need closure and house cleaning of sorts. They are closure on relationships that no longer conform to how we live or want to live our my lives. Similar to alcoholic who want to change and quit drinking, they must let go of…
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Healing the Trifecta
There are three other members of my immediate family, including my parents and my younger brother. Because of the abuse and dysfunctions within my family, which I believe is our family karma, I needed to overcome the abuse and dysfunctions of my family, including the roles I played with each member of my family. About…
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Reflections of the Journey
During my spiritual journey, I have encountered so many people. Some helped and supported me, some taught me lessons, and some reflected back the unhealed wounds within me. Whoever they were, I had a chance to observe their progress, some from afar. It is a miraculous things to see others moving forward on their journeys,…
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Healing the Heart
The human heart is so very fragile and yet resilient. It is able to endure so much pain and hurt, but it also can easily be wounded by those we love. Recently, during a meeting with a sexually assaulted student with whom I worked disclosed that she had been sexually abused as child, tears streamed…
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My Journey Home
I finally found my way home, and it has been a long journey for me. My story began when I was cared for by my grandparents as an infant, and at the age of eight, my parents came for me and wanted me back. As I began my life with my parents, my childhood abuse…
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