inner child – The Self-Help Whisperer®

When it all gets to be too much – Barbie takes flight

15 Jan 202115 Jan 2021

Yeah, I know, adult coloring is soooooo last year! Well, head's up, Buttercup. In my house(s) ... it's been "a thing" since... oh... FOREVER. Funny story: I've always been this…

Self-Help Whispering

2020: Year of Clarity – 2021: Year of _____?

5 Dec 20205 Dec 2020

Since beginning this blog in late 2017, I have chosen a word to focus on for the following year. 2018: Year of Nurture 2019: Year of Water 2020: Year of…

Self-Help Whispering

A Poem – “Like Nancy Drew”

6 Oct 20209 Oct 2020

Twisted candles, cinnamon toast Books with yellow spine My name inside (I'd written there) When I was young and the world was mine. Beneath the pine, on needles there Each…

From My Bookshelf

Healing the Child Within – For Crying Out Loud!

3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020

Don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face I wear for I wear a mask, a thousand masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off, and none…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – How to Live Between Office Visits

8 Feb 20208 Feb 2020

Faith is the health's requisite - John Updike, from "Ode to Healing" It was an act of faith that led me to buy this book... because... as a person with…

From My Bookshelf

Toxic Parents – Emotional aftereffects

2 Sep 20199 Oct 2019

Trigger warning: Discussion of abuse. No details, no photos. Toxic Parents by Dr. Susan Forward has been patiently sitting on my shelf waiting for me to pick it up and write…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – A Grain of Sand

29 Jun 2019

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. ~ William…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – DON’T GO THERE! (This flies in the face of everything I’ve read about healing trauma.)

21 Apr 201912 Aug 2020

As many of you know, my mother is a Dr. Mom (Ph.D. Jungian therapist) and I respect her immensely. She has been my guru and my muse on many-a-post(s) here.…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Elf-help Books

7 Mar 20197 Mar 2019

Sometimes, you just need a tiny thing to feel better. These little books are written by different folks but are all illustrated by one folk: R. W. ALLEY. Elf-help books (Abbey…

Interviews

Teaser for Upcoming Interview – Kaden: All her bags are packed

3 Feb 20193 Feb 2019

You don't know Kaden (yet!) but you will, soon enough. She's my next Interview! How did I get so blessed to know such wise women and men? Well, in this…

Self-Help Whispering

Remember this one? – Recovery of Your Inner Child

23 Jan 2019

Genius is childhood recaptured. – Charles Baudelaire I took the photo of the book in the featured photo askew because there’s a sale ticket stuck to the right corner. I…

From My Bookshelf

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten – He’s right!

8 Nov 20189 Oct 2019

“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted.…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Unbelievable

10 Jun 201812 Aug 2020

Writing posts like yesterday's carries a certain terror vulnerability with it. I was so emotionally spent exhausted afterward. All I did was sit on the couch for hours, watching Dateline and eating…

From My Bookshelf

Dear Me (A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self) – What would you write?

13 Apr 20189 Oct 2019

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” ― Robert Frost Dear Me is *not* one of the classics among my collection ... but maybe it should be. It is a collection…

Self-Help Whispering

Bio Moment – I’m a Survivor

31 Mar 20184 May 2018

I don't believe in self pity It only brings you down May be the queen of broken hearts But I don't hide behind the crown... With gentle hands and a…

Self-Help Whispering

Easy like Sunday – Authenticity

28 Jan 201812 Aug 2020

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud,…

From My Bookshelf

Elf-help Books – Let your prayer be short. Love needs few words.

8 Jan 201826 Aug 2020

Sometimes, you just need a tiny thing to feel better. These little books are written by different folks but are all illustrated by one folk: R. W. ALLEY. Elf-help books (Abbey…

From My Bookshelf

Recovery of Your Inner Child – Picking and Choosing

9 Dec 20179 Oct 2019

Genius is childhood recaptured. - Charles Baudelaire I took the photo of the book in the featured photo askew because there's a sale ticket stuck to the right corner. I…

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