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Tag: 2014: Year of Pain

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Bette’s Twilight

13 Oct 202115 Oct 2021
We have two cats and you've met them both. You've heard about them both at different times throughout this blog, too. One is Hannah, our younger, black-and-white, crazy-ass, sprite that…
Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – 3 Questions

2 Oct 2021
Remember my Romany Fortune Cards? Since I haven't talked about them for a while, I will remind you of their provenance (and prominence) in my life. *ahem* While I have…
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

The Me You Can’t See – Inside Out

25 May 202125 May 2021
TW: Mental Health, Suicide Ideation, Depression & Anxiety I've been watching the AppleTV series, "The Me You Can't See" and have been feeling that all-familiar nudge to write about it.…
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…
Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – Self Portrait, if I were a butterfly

22 Dec 202022 Dec 2020
Today I sat down to draw a butterfly. But let me begin at the beginning. Beginning. Ah yes, butterflies and new beginnings. So perfect. Yes? I've always loved butterflies. I…
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…
Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – A long story & A bonus musing at the end

29 Oct 20207 Dec 2020
Facebook is so kind to bring up memories from past years. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, always a peek into what was going on in my head that same day last…
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…
Self-Help Whispering

Blast from the Past – Here lies the vestiges of my former blogs (RIP)

24 Jun 20208 Aug 2021
Do you remember me telling you - oh, way back at the beginning - that this blog was not my first rodeo? In fact, I might have said it was…
Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – My appointment with an Intuitive Life Coach

2 Oct 201916 Oct 2020
For those following my schedule, per Sunday's post ... yesterday was my meeting with Aly, the life coach and tomorrow is my meeting with MB, the intuitive animal communicator for business…
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

Dear Friends, Readers and fair Countrypeeps (far and wide)

6 Aug 20196 Aug 2019
I owe you both an apology and an explanation. Apology: I'm sorry you've been seeing me at my worst more often than you've seen me at my best. I never…
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

Easy like Sunday – The Wall of Sh!t

24 Feb 201912 Aug 2020
I created the featured photo ten years ago... and I know why I did it (I was asked by my therapist to draw it) but I don't know why (why…
Self-Help Whispering

In The News – Suicide: It feels like the last tool in the healing toolkit

9 Jun 201825 Feb 2019
I'm beginning a new category for current issues that touch my heart. This week we lost two celebrities to suicide: Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade. Both still young, doing what…
Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Finding solid ground

4 Feb 20185 May 2021
“Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”  Michael Shermer My very first blog post was written on January…
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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