Christmas Shopping Crazy Unplugged: Break Up with Your Gift-giving Anxiety

  Yo Yo Ho Ho, Stars of Wonder, Stars of Light! In case you didn’t know this about me, let me just jingle all the way out of the holiday closet right now (because nobody likes a half-assed jingler) and out myself as a bona-fide Christmas freak. The phrase, “Christmas is too sparkly’ said no one ever” should have originally … Read More

How to Transform “F-You” to “I love You” Without Even Using Magic

So, what the hell does A Course in Miracles mean when it talks about seeing everything people do as either expressing love or calling out for it? Expressions of love are fairly easy to spot, but sometimes in this world our calls for love come disguised in some pretty gnarly and butt-ugly camo, and it can be almost impossible to … Read More

There’s No Place Like Home

“There’s no place like home.” Dot from Kansas repeated that mantra over and over again while clicking her sparkly red heels together, and in the end she finally woke up on the other side of that rainbow and realized that she had never left home and it was all just a crazy dream. The “Great and Powerful Oz” turned out … Read More

What If God Was One of Us?

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So what do we do when someone is straight up pissing us off? Our ego minds tell us we need to take action – giving us helpful advice like, “Don’t be a doormat, don’t let them get away with that – you deserve better – you need to demand respect, put them in their place, teach them a lesson.” This … Read More

Election Day: Peace or Attack?

It’s Kelly Russell here to give you the 411 about exercising our power of choice – peace versus attack. As Election Day and Veteran’s Day both fell within the last week in the U.S., this blog is a live teaching I did on that subject at the Teachers of God Foundation’s Friday A Course in Miracles group last week. I … Read More

How A Course in Miracles Healed My Anxiety

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

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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