Once in a while, there are certain days that stick out as being especially trying. Today happens to suit that description, as this morning, walking through the crowds and the moving-sidewalk mentality of a big city was not working for me. When you feel like even the cashier is impatient as you pull coins out […]

Lately, I have been becoming bored with the regular routine. While most of the time it’s nice to repeat the same actions day in and day out, as it creates a pattern and comfort, there are times when these consistencies become monotonous. For the past two years, I have ordered the same flavored latte from […]

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By Anne Lamott O, The Oprah Magazine   We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. The only problem is that there is also so much other stuff, typically fixations with how people perceive us, how […]

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Making a Change By Madisyn Taylor Expert Content If you are feeling overwhelmed, please take the time to talk with somebody about what you are feeling and take extra time to be kind to yourself. [Let’s] talk about change: what it means and how to make changes without drama. I wrote in my book about how […]

By Dr. Mehmet Oz The Oprah Winfrey Show     Dr. Brian Weiss began his career as a psychiatrist and was well published and well respected by the time he was 35. In 1979, he became chairman of the psychiatry department at the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami and was regarded as a star […]

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Throughout my years of working with the dying and the bereaved, I have noticed commonly shared experiences that remain beyond our ability to explain and fully understand. The first are visions. As the dying see less of this world, some people appear to begin looking into the world to come. It’s not unusual for the […]

We are at the half way point of this year which causes me to ask, how will you finish 2010? 

  If you’re human, you’ve had phases in your life when things are in flux. Maybe you’re even in one of the following flux states right now:  Career flux: Feeling that the career ladder you’re on is very wobbly beneath your feet. Love flux: Believing Cupid rhymes with stupid for good reason. Money flux: Sensing you […]

Via: www.elev8.com // WASHINGTON (RNS) Researchers say they’ve found the most religious place on Earth–between the southern border of the Sahara Desert and the tip of South Africa.Religion is “very important” to more than three-quarters of the population in 17 of 19 sub-Saharan nations, according to a new survey. In contrast, in the United States, […]