Category: Personal Growth

by Marlene Buffa A chain email circulating around these days tells the story of a woman planning her own funeral.  In her directions to the undertaker, she mandates that her right hand hold a fork.  When the inquisitive mortician asks why, she answers, “My mother always said to ‘Keep Your Fork,’ so I’m going to [...]

by Lisa Tully To be or not to be — a lone female ranger during these times of great change? As a thirty something female on a journey of self-discovery I have found myself in a position that I would call the “lone female ranger.” I live alone, mostly work alone, reside in a different [...]

by Joyce & Barry Vissel Finding peace in your lives and relationships, especially if you feel stressed with financial, health, or relationship challenges, can sometimes seem almost impossible. And yet finding that peace is essential. There is a story of a king who offered a prize to the artist who could paint the best picture of [...]

by Joyce & Barry Vissel In a court of law, if both partners of a married couple claim they have irreconcilable differences, the court will grant them a legal divorce – without even asking what the differences are! Joyce and I, on the other hand, having worked with thousands of couples over the last 37 [...]

by Lynne McTaggart One chilly Saturday morning, I was standing in a drafty auditorium watching one of my daughters in the midst of a dress rehearsal for her drama class’s annual production. A talented actress, she had been chosen for the lead part during the auditions, but a few weeks before the dress rehearsal had [...]

Summer is a time of warm temperatures, sunny skies, green leaves, neighborhood cookouts, family vacations, ice cream cones, and more. In short, it’s a season that’s full of opportunities for enjoyment—so why do so many of us drift through these warm weeks in the same hum-drum fog we’re lost in during the other three seasons? [...]

By Eric Best, author of Into My Father’s Wake An old friend who is struggling through a dark period in life (recent death of a cherished parent) is trying to climb back into the light, so to speak, and called to talk things over. I found myself suggesting something that I realized I would do [...]

By Marlene Buffa In response to the question of how long a man’s legs should be, Abraham Lincoln reportedly answered, “Long enough to reach the ground.” Dust settles – especially in Phoenix, AZ.  The other day when cleaning house, I realized that the chores I perform the most often result from the law of gravity.  [...]

By Deborah Fairfull Relationships can cause us our greatest pain or our greatest joy. Generally speaking, no one wants to create a life of pain and hardship. This type of life is created unconsciously! Learning to understand your unconscious allows you to live in an aware state, enabling you to create the life that you [...]

by Sherrie Dillard In my work as a professional intuitive I have discovered that intuition surfaces in four primary ways, through our emotions, our spirit, and the physical body and through the mind. I call these different intuitive modalities your intuitive type. You are most likely a combination of two or more primary types. (In [...]

by Abigail Brenner, M.D. Ritual has its roots in religion, and life’s fundamental passages are often traditionally accompanied by religious ritual. But life’s great passages are by nature spiritual. They affirm human mystery and mutability, our connection with the universal. Rituals serve as a bridge between our outer and inner worlds, between the profane and [...]

Louise Hay tells us that all relationships are temporary.  In fact, most things on the planet are temporary, or at the least, always evolving and shifting.  As humans, we’re on our glorious planet for mere blips in time, yet we observe the brevity of our environment.  Recognizing a natural deterioration, food processing companies stamp an [...]