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Books

  • The Function of Mindfulness

    "Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child" by Thich Nhat Hanh. The Function of Mindfulness "First function of mindfulness is to recognize and NOT TO FIGHT. We can stop at any time and become aware of the child within us. When we… Continue reading

  • Healthy Psyche

    Here is another section that I love in the book, "Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child" by Thich Nhat Hanh. "Consciousness is like a house in which the basement is our store consciousness and the living room is our mind consciousness.  Mental… Continue reading

  • Listening.

    In the book, "Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child" by Thich Nhat Hanh, he writes about Listening. "When we speak of listening with compassion, we usually think of listening to someone else.  But we must also listen to the wounded child… Continue reading

  • Grateful for being Detached

    "We cannot begin to work on ourselves, to live our own lives, feel our own feelings, and solve our own problems until we have DETACHED from the object of our obsession. From any experiences (and those of others), it appears… Continue reading

  • Shattering Dream

    While commenting back and forth with Lynn C. Tolson, the Author of "Beyond the Tears", on facebook, it came to me why folks support the Coach and the Organization and not the abused boys…they don't want to lose that which… Continue reading

  • It knows and Forgives it away!

    Byron Katie, "Loving What Is" "I love thanking these men for sacrificing their entire lives to teach our children how not to live – and therefore how to live – if they want to be free.  I tell them that… Continue reading

  • Freedom

    Martha Beck writes in Leaving the Saints, "My defection from Mormonism changed me in the same way Adam's disability did: it became an open-ended tragedy that I wouldn't give up for anything in the universe. (not even my own planet)… Continue reading

  • What we endured.

    From Martha Beck's book, Leaving the Saints "All my life, I'd read and reread a thousand religious epigraphs to the effect that "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  I'd always been told this had… Continue reading

  • Whatever Reality Serves.

    My brother's blog (www.messyguru.typepad.com ) shows the switching characters that a mother often displays when faced with truths that directly oppose her life.  Her life and dream and ideals. I have somehow had this wrong.  I had presumed that my… Continue reading

  • Coming From Whence We Came…

    Our book club is reading the book, "leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck…this section was particularly affirming to me when I first read her book about five years ago. She recounts how her life began to make sense after getting… Continue reading