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Old Habits

6 Jun 2023
The quote on the featured photo spoke to me this morning. It’s certainly not a new message. Airlines, for example, have been telling us to use oxygen on ourselves first…
Self-Help Whispering

Chicken Soup For My Soul… and Crackers

5 Jun 2023
When I was a little girl and home sick, Mom would prepare chicken noodle soup. On a little plate next to the soup, she would add Saltine crackers with a…
Photography…

“In My Own Backyard” Photo Journal- Also, I’m Depressed

2 Jun 20232 Jun 2023
As mentioned a hundred thousand times, the last year has been a sickathon of epic proportions. Around the time of my surgery (in October 2022) I stopped taking my antidepressants.…
Self-Help Whispering

The Job Interview & Dad

25 May 202325 May 2023
You guys... I have been - is it boring to hear again? - sick. Yes, still. Ugh. I've been to the docs a half dozen times over as many months.…
From My Bookshelf

The Cottage Fairy Companion – Old Soul

19 May 202319 May 2023
How does this twenty-something beauty encompass so much wisdom? I'm asking seriously. Not that I expect an answer. I sure haven't figured it out! Paola Merrill can write. Very, very…
Self-Help Whispering

Home & Healing With a Hint of Gross

14 May 202314 May 2023
While on vacation with my incredible daughter and family, she presented me with a gift bag full of whimsy. There were crystals, a Tree of Life necklace, a handmade felt…
Self-Help Whispering

Gone Visitin’ in Sunny California

8 May 20238 May 2023
I started a blog post on the day I left for California (last Thursday) and figured I would finish it up from my phone when I had a moment. Hahaha…
Photography

Picture of the Day – The View Outside My Window

30 Apr 2023
*bliss bliss bliss bliss bliss* Beats the sound of revving motors and screeching brakes, doors slamming, and people fighting and cussing ANY DAY! Thank God for this lovely space we…
Self-Help Whispering

Solitude~ A True Short Story

29 Apr 2023
I’ve been sick for weeks. In reality, it’s been months. It was COVID last summer, surgery in October, pneumonia last month, and bronchitis this month. It’s wearing me down, both…
Self-Help Whispering

Raphael, Monkey, and Healer – Oh, my!

22 Apr 202322 Apr 2023
You know I talk to animals. I want to get better at it because there are some things I need to talk to my cats about. Actually, I'm serious. Bette…
Self-Help Whispering

Bonus Post – Reborn from the Ashes

22 Apr 2023
I just love my coloring books! This one was done with regular, glitter & metallic gel pens. Just wanted to share!
Self-Help Whispering

Bio-Moment – Meet Sherry

22 Apr 2023
As you can see, you have entered the halls of my teeny, tiny art gallery. My inner child is in charge of this one... her name is Sherry, which is…
Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Haiku: Creation

22 Apr 2023
I love drawing and coloring! My inner child gets positively giddy! I need Spring to hurry. Does it help anything that we woke up to snow flurries? Ahhhh … Nope!…
Self-Help Whispering

Fear does not prevent death it prevents life – Author unknown but I could have said it myself

22 Apr 2023
As I drove into the driveway last night after work, I looked up and saw my headlights illuminating a vine-y heart. I pulled out my phone and snapped this shot.…
Self-Help Whispering

Checking In – Checking Out

22 Apr 2023
Friends and readers, it has been an amazing journey so far! The person who checked into the hospital is not the one who checked out. That's for darned sure! I…
From My Bookshelf

The Wounding of the Human Heart

22 Apr 2023
A post from the past that I removed and came back to... and now have reposted with additional notes. Some days are just like this... I've been **so sick** and…
From My Bookshelf

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook – Speak Kindly to YOURSELF!

22 Apr 2023
Mom wanted me to see a particular meditation on the Calm app. Honestly, I paid for a year of the app myself but never used it. I should say, I…
Photography

Picture(s) of the Day – Soulful Walk

21 Apr 2023
There is a walk I've always meant to take but never did... until today! It (perhaps) wasn't the best day for it as we're between seasons (no foliage to speak…
Self-Help Whispering

Note to self: I can’t paint. (But I sure had fun trying!)

20 Apr 2023
You guys! I had so much fun with this kid's palette I picked up from the dollar store! I don't know what made me do it... but I sure am…
Photography

Picture of the Day – “Never Mind the Raindrops”

18 Apr 2023
We had a gloriously warm LAST week… Trees started blooming! And then, THIS week. Rainy. Cold. Overcast. The magnolias are confused. Still… This shot was taken today. Isn’t it lovely?
Self-Help Whispering

Tiny Photo Journal: A Short Walk on a Spectacular Day!

13 Apr 2023
It seems like only last year that I was walking, walking, walking for my health and happiness (along with talking to Dad on the other side - and his leaving…
From My Bookshelf

Love Yourself to Health – Divine Intervention

7 Apr 2023
Sometimes I marvel at what we can do these days. I saw Love Yourself to Health by Giuliana Giuliano-Melo on Facebook one day, and the next day I had a…
From My Bookshelf

You Make Your Path by Walking – Stunning!

3 Apr 202322 Apr 2023
I was asked to review You Make Your Path by Walking by Suzanne Anderson by Book Publicity Services and you can see on the corner of the cover (in the…
From My Bookshelf

Fiction as Self-Help – A Thousand Miles to Graceland

29 Mar 2023
Fiction as Self-Help came about because I can always find something of (self-help) value in storytelling. Sometimes, it's a quote that jumps out at me, like the one in The…
From My Bookshelf

Hope for the Hurting – A Port in the Storm

23 Mar 202323 Mar 2023
I talk a lot about spiritual things here because I believe we are spiritual beings wrapped in physical bodies. I don't pretend to have all the answers... or ANY... for…
Self-Help Whispering

Five Years – It’s an Inside Job

20 Mar 202320 Mar 2023
I can't tell you how many times I've written, erased, and come back to write again. There's so much to say and yet, so little. It will make sense, I…
Self-Help Whispering

Is Surrender the Same as Submission?

11 Mar 202311 Mar 2023
At first blush, these two words seem... almost... identical! Submit: Oxford Languages sub·mit /səbˈmit/ To accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another…
From My Bookshelf

The Velveteen Principles – Becoming Real

9 Mar 2023
If you've read around here before, you know that I find inspiration from pretty much any/everywhere! Children's literature is no exception! The Velveteen Principles by Toni Raiten-D'Antonio is a neat…
Self-Help Whispering

Ta Da, Told You So!

8 Mar 2023
Today’s journal entry. Apropos because I have just gone through a medical thingie that could have been avoided had they simply listened to me when I told them what was…
From My Bookshelf

The Zenned Out Guide to Understanding The Wheel of the Year – Nothing to Argue About!

7 Mar 2023
Spirituality can certainly be an important part of self-help and healing. However, not everyone will agree on what that means. I have talked at length about my own beliefs, which…
Self-Help Whispering

Message From Boaz

5 Mar 20235 Mar 2023
Since yesterday evening, I've been working on a project that is keeping me engaged but not active, considering I still can't breathe and now I've added "can't talk" to the…
Photography…

Winter Pals

3 Mar 2023
So, I guess there is yet another side to my word this year: Surrender. It’s an even more primal acceptance of the FACT that something is **really** wrong with my…
Self-Help Whispering

My Vision Board 2023 – You Need to Make One, Too!

23 Feb 202323 Feb 2023
Those who have been around a while know I take my vision board(ing) very seriously! In the past five years, I've had... A Vision line with tiny "clothespins" and lights…
From My Bookshelf

Prevention: Find Your Calm – Even at the Checkout!

10 Feb 202310 Feb 2023
I've just started my 2023 Vision Board as I mentioned HERE. While I was standing in line at the grocery store, I perused the magazine rack for something that might…
Self-Help Whispering

I haven’t written a post like this for a million years

10 Feb 202310 Feb 2023
Back in the day when I was a very prolific writer on ye olde message boards (think late 1990s-early 2000s), I would be up late at night for one reason…
Self-Help Whispering

As far as the eye can see…

3 Feb 20239 Feb 2023
The featured photo was taken along the shore of Lake Ontario. I love looking out across... how it seems to go on and on... Life is like that... Today, we…
Photography…

What I See Now vs. Then

26 Jan 202326 Jan 2023
You may know that we moved on the first of the month - a new beginning for a new year. Yeah, we're goofy like that! We lived in our last…
From My Bookshelf

The Power of Awe – Meditation Again… and it’s A.W.E.some!

19 Jan 20239 Feb 2023
Life has a way of bringing back around the things you need - but fight against - until you stop and listen. Throw in that my word of the year…
Self-Help Whispering

Blurry: A Haiku

15 Jan 2023
I miss you most when I have something to tell you. It won’t be long now.
Self-Help Whispering

Another day gone by…

9 Jan 2023
Hi Friends & Readers, from the land of Boxville Corners, where everywhere you turn is boxes, boxes, boxes… as far as the eye can see! I have not dropped off…
Self-Help Whispering

2023: The View From Here

30 Dec 2022
For those who don't know... our little family is moving the first week of January 2023. Lovely time of year for it, don'tcha think? LOL So, you may have noticed…

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