Books
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Music of her soul
I have been listening to Jewel's book, "Never Broken" and her life story is quite amazing. She understands, that you can't see reality UNLESS you have clear eyes. I love this. It isn't reality that changes and transforms; but our vision,… Continue reading
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Warrior Love?
Today I listened to Glennon Doyle Melton read her book "Love Warrior". I didn't write down the things I loved about the book, but its overall rawness stands out. She disassociated from her body, like I did by giving mine… Continue reading
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I Live My Life in Widening Circles!
"I live my life in widening circlesthat reach out across the world.I may not complete this last onebut I give myself to it." Rainer Marie Rilke I heard this on a podcast with Joanna Macy. What I love… Continue reading
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Peace Inside!
More from "Trust" by Iyanla Vanzant. "When you don't trust yourself, you become a victim of circumstances and time. You will miss the learning for mental, emotional, and spiritual growth and the details of your personal and unique healing process.… Continue reading
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The Way Out
In listening to the book, "Ghost Boy" by Martin Pistorius, I had so many moments of incredulousness. First, after not being able to communicate, when he finally did, he didn't know that others could choose not to listen. He… Continue reading
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Reality Arose
More wonderful insights from "Trust" by Iyanla Vanzant" "When you are taught to think that you are inherently wrong, that something is wrong with you, and/or that you are guilty, you see others in the same light. These thought… Continue reading
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Waiting For
While reading about trust, I found the piece of the puzzle that always puzzled me. My passion and interest has been the complex nature of abuse and its generational clutches. How it seems this cycle is so damn hard… Continue reading
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More from "Trust" by Iyanla Vanzant "To Trust or Not To Trust" "It is impossible for people who are untrustworthy to become trustworthy simply because you want them to be that way. Trust is a matter of character. Some folks… Continue reading
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I am listening to "A Mother's Reckoning – Living In the Aftermath of Tragedy" by Sue Klebold. The foreword is by Andrew Solomon. It is not the book I thought it would be. It is a book of acceptance and… Continue reading
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Potential of who I am.
In "Trust" by Iyanla Vanzant, there is a segment on "Owning Yourself". Just the idea, that we don't own ourselves seems odd. If we don't own ourselves, who does? Iyanla writes, "Once we understand that the voices in our heads… Continue reading