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Book Review Synopsis: Love and the Mystery of Betrayal

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Oct 292014
 
Book Review Synopsis: Love and the Mystery of Betrayal

Reading Time: 2 minutes Book: Love and the Mystery of Betrayal (Recovering your Trust and Faith After Trauma, Deception and Loss of Love) Author: Sandra Lee Dennis Genre: Nonfiction, Psycho/spiritual; relationship Published by: West County Press   If you have gone through the trauma of betrayal, no matter how long ago it was~ get this book immediately and clear time not just for reading; for healing. The journey through this book is a healing experience that helps us to understand what we’ve gone through, to name the invisible, hidden cracks this trauma inflicted in our psyche, to validate our soulful intuition and finally to help us emerge into an ecstatic experience of self-love and higher love. If you are going through the trauma of betrayal now, get many copies of the book. One if for you. The other is for your closest friends and relatives; your support system, and one or two for the healer or therapist of your choice. This book is your blueprint through the dark stormy seas of betrayal into the harbor of radiant health. If someone you love has gone [Read more.]

Emotional Mastery: Are you reacting or responding?

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May 272014
 
Emotional Mastery: Are you reacting or responding?

Reading Time: 5 minutes Monday Meditation   Emotional Mastery Are you reacting or responding?   Are you feeling like an emotional roller-coaster? An erupting tornado? Are you defending your emotions while a loved one is telling you that it is causing chaos, pain or confusion for them? After all you have a right to feel what you feel, right?  If they want you to change what you are feeling, isn’t that invalidating you?   Yes, you have a right to your emotions. No, you are NOT your emotions, and if they are causing grief to others, they may also be causing grief to yourself. Becoming conscious and channeling your emotions does not invalidate you. It empowers you. But what does that even mean?   What emotions are and what they do Emotions are electromagnetic waves of energy carrying responsive or reactive potency as a response of thoughts or situations. Because these waves are electric they charge us with potent power, like a power house. This power can fuel motivation, passion, perseverance, courage and many excellent responses to life. Because these waves are magnetic, they [Read more.]

Meditation: Responding vs Reacting

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May 272014
 
Meditation: Responding vs Reacting

Reading Time: 2 minutes Monday Meditation Are you reacting or responding?   Are you feeling like an emotional roller-coaster? An erupting tornado? Are you defending your emotions while a loved one is telling you that it is causing chaos, pain or confusion for them? After all you have a right to feel what you feel, right?  If they want you to change what you are feeling, isn’t that invalidating you?   Yes, you have a right to your emotions. No, you are NOT your emotions, and if they are causing grief to others, they may also be causing grief to yourself. Becoming conscious and channeling your emotions does not invalidate you. It empowers you. But what does that even mean?   What emotions are and what they do Emotions are electromagnetic waves of energy carrying responsive or reactive potency as a response of thoughts or situations. Because these waves are electric they charge us with potent power, like a power house. This power can fuel motivation, passion, perseverance, courage and many excellent responses to life. Because these waves are magnetic, they attract allies, resources [Read more.]

Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death

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Feb 272013
 
Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death

Reading Time: 6 minutes Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death   What conversations are you listening around the tragedy suffered by Sarai Sierra? Are the responses from women and men widely opposite or at odds? Are others condemning or blaming her before all the evidence is out? Do women feel scared? Are men angry? Here’s a story that shares how Sarai’s death tapped into painful issues of gender and human rights within marriage. This is a long post, so I’ve divided it into three posts. Please read the entire story and then you are welcome to respond. When Joy gets poisoned Several days ago I was at a social celebration. Several women friends had been published and were doing a public reading. After the reading we went to a restaurant to celebrate. Half through the dinner I had the misfortune to mention Sarai Sierra’s tragic death in Turkey. I was sad, scared and upset that this woman had been so brutally murdered in a country that I had dimmed safe to visit. A good friend, a woman, had just been working in Turkey for [Read more.]

Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death-Part 2

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Feb 262013
 
Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death-Part 2

Reading Time: 6 minutes  Gender, Marriage and Sarai Sierra’ death Part 2 This is the second in a series of three posts about how Sarai Sierra’s tragedy connects to issues of gender and human rights within marriage. Read the first post here. In the previous post: ————————— “So you are saying that we just got to let our wife, the mother of our children to go to a country that’s dangerous and disappear, just because she wants to, and we just ‘let’ her?” “I am saying that a woman is an independent adult and no one ‘lets’ her or ‘allows’ her. I am not saying that as a couple you cannot talk it over. To say that you ‘don’t allow’ her is to transgress her rights. However, if you talk it over and tell her that you don’t feel it’s safe and you both…” “So it’s a matter of semantics!” the young man snapped. ——————— Argumentation: Men’s sparring Oh, I know this path so well. I repeated it for decades in endless arguments in tables where men ruled. I know the old, patriarchal techniques [Read more.]

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