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
Become the Hero of Your Story Instead of the Victim: A Free Valentine Virtual Coaching Session
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
What If God Was One of Us?
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
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
Life on Planet Miracle: Answers to Questions About How to Live in the World
If you are called to A Course in Miracles, and it feels like Truth to you, and yet you sometimes struggle with trying to be a student of it while dealing with the bullshit of life in the world (and I’m not just addressing new Course students here – I have been doing both of those things for 16 years … Read More
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