Through the Looking Glass: Healing Loss, COVID Edition (CE)
Through the Looking Glass Two slo-mo seconds in November 2019. An otherworldly feeling. I entered the moment the mirror fell. I was high on a rearranging rampage, so the calm was strange. The outcome was clear and I was well aware I couldn’t afford to replace it. The mess would take hours to clean up. … Continue reading
Prayer for Comfort Amidst Loss
A prayer of surrender gently opens the way to new understandings, which offer the soul a path to healing. We are not condemned to labor uphill daily only to tumble down again each night. So much pain comes from perceiving our losses only through the lens of our personal world. While it’s vital to acknowledge … Continue reading
Music for the Healing Journey
lighting the path through grief Everyone experiences loss. The pain of it tempts us to turn away. Life’s responsibilities and realities can argue they’re more important than meeting our loss. The whole planet is grieving the many losses of the coronavirus pandemic. Music is one way to meet and interact with losses that cry out for processing. Songs … Continue reading
Healing Loss: Election Edition
Imagine that you’ve lived your life in the seat of democracy, a shining beacon of ideals, progressive values and freedom that literally draws the world. And picture a slow-motion carnival of the absurd and outrageous, a grainy side show culminating in a presidential election with breath-taking results. Not only does the popular-vote-candidate-by-a-landslide not win, but … Continue reading
Fruit Basket Upset
Healing Loss: Choose Love Now Backstory I had been a student of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) for several years, was in the midst of doing the workbook lessons, had been working hard in the area of spirituality and forgiveness. I thought I saw the fruits of my spiritual labor finally ripening and within reach. … Continue reading
Healing Loss: Addiction and the GOD Hole
“. . . I am a drug addict in recovery, so like any drug addict I know exactly how Hoffman felt when he “went back out”. In spite of his life seeming superficially great, in spite of all the praise and accolades, in spite of all the loving friends and family, there is a predominant … Continue reading
Healing Loss: Choose Love Now Book Review
Healing Loss: Choose Love Now Book Review by Shelagh Cosgrove from Miracles magazine May-June 2012 Healing Loss is a beautiful book, both in its physical form, and in its rich and very inspiring content. Anyone could benefit from working with it who is healing from perceived loss, however large or small, however recent or deeply … Continue reading
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