You can’t know this right now, but…your ragged, rugged honesty…your crazy, passionate, naked vulnerability…your trusting plunge into the unknown of Life at every turn…your journey of love and healing…these change your world, the world of...

Be brave, be strong!

If you look up the meaning of healing you can find many different definitions. There’s the adjective, noun, and verb (with and without objects). For argument’s sake we will use the verb. Still there are...

Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down

I will take away your means of escape.

And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He’s been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted...

Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I...

You haunt my days and dreams.

there’s something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden...

All along it was not by stunts of glory, but by touch and laughter and tears that Jesus has healed and restored.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage...

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first...

Frankl asserts that “the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values.” Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for...

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

Don’t let sickness, depression, and disease THUG YOU OUT. Eat healthier, think healthier, speak healthier, and more positively over your life. When you do so, you will soon begin to conquer your life and your...

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

Healing comes through God’s work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.

Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we...

The Anatomy of Conflict:If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is no caring. If there is no caring then there is no understanding. If there...

With the change of the seasons, God reminds us that darkness always ends. Light always exists and will always return when missing. There is no night that doesn’t end. No nightmare from which you cannot...

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

An accident you’re in? It marks you on the outside, maybe. Scars your face or your skin-breaks bones,crushes skulls,leaves the body changed.An accident witnessed? You’re different on the inside. Maybe there’s no cut someone else...

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in...

Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.

Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.

I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered – especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less...

The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of “labels” we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see how I had no control over the situation. He was a big man,...

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected…

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

God showed me something that day. It’s not about me. It’s not about how strong or how weak I am. It’s about speaking and declaring the WORD over someone else. What did God say about...

Dear Human:You’ve got it all wrong.You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. This is where you came from and where you’ll return.You came here to learn personal love.Universal love.Messy love.Sweaty Love.Crazy love.Broken love.Whole love.Infused...

It was your body….that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was your body that got down and dirty in the back seat of your...

So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and...

Two great prayers;Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

If you don’t take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given…where are you going to live?

Happiness is a state of mental,physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly,engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.

Although healing brings a better life, it also threatens to permanently alter life as you’ve known it. Your relationships, your position in the world, even your sense of identity may change. Coping patterns that have...

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our...

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient’s wishes.

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me...

It’s not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn . . . spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end . . . earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside...

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion – Shavasti

What are the inner man and woman? Our being consists of two energies: the male and female aspect. Irrespective of if we are a man or a woman, we have both a male and female...