by Deb | Oct 14, 2014 | Balance, Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Learning, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.” – James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name Any kind of change can be hard but the hardest changes...
by Deb | Mar 4, 2013 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Within seven weeks almost to the day that my father passed away last November, my mother followed. In some ways it was a surprise, and in other ways, it made complete sense. They were both 91 years old and had been married 62 years. An image that remains ingrained in...
by Deb | Nov 27, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
I Would Not Be Remembered to the Sun “I would with memory in befriending lips, Fond lips that loved with love to speak my name. May they speak pledge to immortality, May they speak quietly my name to fame.” – Kenneth Benne My 91 year-old father...
by Deb | Jan 16, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong. anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you -David Whyte (excerpted from Sweet Darkness) The worst limitations we live...
by Deb | Jul 8, 2011 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing
I have suffered from depression on and off all my life. For anyone who has never experienced depression, it is difficult to describe. It is like having no skin to protect your emotions so that the slightest comment, thought or situation can have a huge negative impact...
by Deb | May 26, 2011 | Connections, Healing, Quilt of Humanity
In my recent post on forgiveness, I wrote about the film Forgiving Mengele. This documentary follows Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the inhumane experiments of Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz, who decided to forgive Mengele as part of her own healing process. Eva is a woman...