What exactly IS love, anyhow? Well, that’s the bazillion dollar question, isn’t it? Let’s not burn out too many brain cells unnecessarily trying to define it, for, as A Course in Miracles says about teaching the meaning of love, “…That is beyond what can be taught. It (the Course) does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of … Read More
Healing vs. Sickness: How to Break Up with Your Dysfunctional Relationship with the Body
Sickness is one of those areas of teaching that many students of A Course in Miracles take serious offense to. It’s like, yes, ok, the world is an illusion; yes, fine, I need to forgive my brother so that I can release myself; yes, I get it, we are all the light of the world as created by God; yes, … Read More
How A Course in Miracles Healed My Anxiety
What is anxiety anyway? As a psychotherapist and transformational coach, I see and treat symptoms of it every day. Anxiety sucks. Right out loud. The end. That’s my clinical assessment. At best, for some, it takes the form of a low-level undercurrent of worry; at worst, for others, it means debilitating, paralyzing panic, accompanied by very real feelings of reliving … Read More
Well… Isn’t That Special? Relationship Coaching by Spirit vs. the Ego
So, what the heck does A Course in Miracles mean by talking about our relationships being special like it’s a bad thing? Aren’t our relationships with our closest peeps supposed to be special? Isn’t that the whole point, for crying out loud? I am a coach, teacher and minister of the Course and have been a student of it for … Read More
Do You Have the Courage to Be Free?
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder, Hopi Nation Everyone we admire and respect, who made significant contributions to our world in terms of peace and freedom were and are radicals, heretics and maladjusted. Think about Jesus, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Llama, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Mother Theresa, … Read More
Planning with Spirit vs. Planning with Ego: How to Stay Centered When Your Plans Go Awry
They say that we make plans and God laughs. They also say that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Is it me, or do the “they” that say everything seem to be contradicting themselves? I’ma just go out on a limb here and call “they” the ego mind, since trying to convince us all that opposing thoughts … Read More