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Tag: 2014: Year of Pain

From My Bookshelf

The Power of Now – “Cut them off with a sharp knife!”

11 Aug 202125 Aug 2021
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That…
Self-Help Whispering

Journal Art – When words won’t work

16 Apr 202116 Apr 2021
My next podcast is about "Writing as Self-Help" and so... I'm going through my journals. I've noticed how many times I stopped to draw instead of write... And it made…
From My Bookshelf

Wintering – Life’s grimalkin, no more!

21 Dec 202021 Dec 2020
"Watching winter and really listening to its messages, we learn that effect is often disproportionate to cause; that tiny mistakes can lead to huge disasters; that life is often bloody…
From My Bookshelf

The Afterlife of Billy Fingers & My Life After Death – Only if you listen

19 Oct 202019 Oct 2020
“Beliefs are big on earth. People collect them. Some of these beliefs are helpful, but others just keep you running around trying to follow rules that others have laid down.…
Self-Help Whispering

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Old Lady & the Buffyverse

21 Jul 202011 Aug 2020
What is an old lady like me doing watching a series about teenaged vampire slayers? Good question! Sit in a comfy chair with a cup of herbal tea (or in…
From My Bookshelf

Mind Over Mood – First, you must understand the problem

28 Sep 20199 Oct 2019
Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger, PhD and Christine A. Padesky, PhD is the perfect self-help book, if by self-help you mean actually doing stuff to ... you know...  help yourself.…
Self-Help Whispering

Ghost Whisperer – What festers below the surface?

18 May 201919 May 2019
It will not surprise you to know that during 2014: My Year of Pain I gravitated toward mostly-spiritual television. I've already talked about Being Erica. Today, I will be talking about…
From My Bookshelf

New Beginnings – It’s time.

23 Apr 20199 Oct 2019
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. - Ann Morrow Lindbergh New Beginnings by Betty Jane Wylie has been sitting quietly on my…
From My Bookshelf

Healing Crystals and Gemstones – Healer or Amateur Geologist, you’ll like it!

25 Feb 20199 Oct 2019
My friend Bonney presented this book to me in the year I'd like to forget, 2014. I know this because she inscribed it: "To my gem of a friend"... and…
Self-Help Whispering

Being Erica – Regrets & Time Travel

18 Jan 201825 Feb 2019
If you are not living, working and/or watching television in Canada, you may not have heard of Being Erica. More's the pity. When it was on television, I didn't watch…
From My Bookshelf

The Book of Awakening – Wisdom from the trenches

10 Nov 20179 Oct 2019
One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from this book: If I had experienced different things, I would have different things to say. Mark Nepo The Book of Awakening…

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