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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” –Steve Maraboli “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett...

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” - Joseph Campbell “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” - Carlos Santana “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of...

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” - Eleanor Roosevelt “Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Be who you are and say how you feel,...

“Often, the only way to improve our lives is to force ourselves to undergo difficult changes.” - Anon “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” - John Wooden “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without...

”If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.” --- Billy Idol “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” Rosa Luxemburg “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose....

“If you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” - Dolly Parton “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” - Victor Hugo “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” - Grandma Moses Does your physical or your spiritual viewpoint guide you...

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.  Growth must be chosen again; fear must be overcome again and again.”  - Abraham Maslow “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” - Amelia Earhart “Do the best you...

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.”   - Helen Keller “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keeping moving.” - Albert Einstein “You have brains in your head, You have feet in...

“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”   - Joseph Campbell “If you can’t find joy in the path you are on and what you are working toward now, how do you expect to find joy when you get there?” - Anonymous “Be yourself; everyone...

We all have a critical, negative voice inside.  Inside where?!  Your head, heart, gut?  You pick!  Does it matter?  We hear the criticisms and negative comments.  We don't invite them.  Most of us absorb what we hear as if it were truth.  When thinking of our negative...

“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”   - Roy T. Bennett “When you connect with the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” - Stephen...

“You’re off to great places, today is your day.  Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.”   - Dr. Seuss “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our...

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”   - Joseph Conrad “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower . . . beautiful in essence.” - Tony Samara “God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.” - Randy Loubier One of the...

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.   Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.  Let reality be reality.  Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. - Lao Tzu “Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.”  - Matthew...

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” - John Quincy Adams “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.” - Orson Wells I...

“Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling.” – Anonymous My brain continues to drink the nutrition information from my courses. Sometimes I feel a bit water-logged, but, for the most part, I am...

Yes, I know it has taken me awhile to post #2 on Meditation.  Now, I am so excited to share a new concept of Meditation (at least for me) in this blog!  I am rekindling my love of body movement through my yoga practice.  Not a certified trainer, yet, but have been in...

There are two ways of spreading light; To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton Change and growth take place when a person has risk himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.  – Herbert Otto You cannot teach a...

“The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.” – G.K. Chesterton What a felicitous (appropriate) quote to open a blog on self-esteem.  I love G.K. Chesterton.  He was an author of books, essays, an art critic, a philosopher.  He was known as the...

“I’m not old enough to know everything.”—J.M. Barrie Another author!  He wrote Peter Pan, Return to Neverland & Tinker Bell.  Right away you know he had a fanciful imagination.  Keep it light! I wanted to share ‘holistic’ as a concept.  I have loved and supported...

This is my first installment on Meditation as a method to help relax, help take control of personal behavior, increase sleep time, and reduce worry. ‘Meditation’ is full of speculation. What is the specific meaning? Or is it one of those elite activities that has no...

Body-Mind-Spirit    Holistic Approach to Health and Healing The idea of body-mind-spirit healing sounds positive. But what does it mean? I have always liked the idea of looking at healing as a comprehensive process. Even though our world tries to treat each...

Counseling Specifically Designed To Meet the Needs of Women  How many of us have had a bad day, week, month or even months?  We think of ourselves as tough, self-reliant and plough on through whatever comes our way.  Hopefully, we have friends to share our feelings. ...

Mindfulness What does it mean to be mindful? It may seem unusual to talk about a word like “mindfulness”. What does it mean? Where did it come from? These are good questions and I believe we can have fun learning about them. To put it simply, being mindful is simply...

Meditations What do we mean by "Meditate"? Meditation has different meanings to different people.  From the viewpoint of Lost Creek Blue Bird, it is the foundation of personal fulfillment.  Once I learned I had value, I was unique, and had a great deal to learn, I...