Category: Living in Choice
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Confessions of an Optimist on Thanksgiving
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“Your life – in fact, the future of the world – is within your own power to change. We just have to think differently – together.” —LYNNE McTAGGART from “HOW YOUR THOUGHTS CAN CREATE PEACE IN 2024“ Evidently, I’m the character “Joy” from the Pixar movie Inside Out, or so…
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“I lost my Mommy…”
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Our parents were flawed humans, not gods after all, just like the rest of us… but they will always, and forever, be our “Mommies and Daddies”. Always.
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Is DISCIPLINE a Bad Word?
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I was raised by hippies. Maybe not in the way you’d usually think of hippies. In my house everyone was a rebel. I was encouraged to express myself and even called my parents by their first names. No-one wanted to do anything on a schedule or with any discernable regularity.…
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Are You an “Epiphany” Junkie?
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Warning: This post may piss you off…If one more person tells me that their event will “change my life forever” I may have to hit them with an overripe banana. I don’t know if it’s just a New York thing, but everybody and their cousin seems to be offering “breakthrough”,…
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Gratitude on Thanksgiving
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(Podcast and Post Originally Published on: 11/30/10; Revised: 11/28/13) As we enter the Holiday Season, I notice people’s mindsets tend to line up along a continuum: one extreme experiences the joy of the season, while the other wants it to be over as quickly as possible. We all have the…
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Could you be saying “No” to Joy?
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Many of us live in a very small room in our lives… and I don’t mean a NYC studio apartment! I’m talking about keeping yourself “small”, never getting “too excited”, “too passionate”, “too much”, to avoid feeling disappointed. But how is living an “almost life” a fair trade for never…
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Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: From the Darkness into the Light
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#3 in a Series of 3 (While this was originally published in 2013 when Mercury was retrograde from Monday, 10/21 through Sunday, 11/10, any time Mercury is Retrograde in Scorpio, the following post will apply.) Mercury gets a bad rap. Every 4 months or so, Mercury turns retrograde (meaning it…
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Your Ticket Out of “Crappy-Land” – Get Through a Bad Day
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“What we resist, persists.” — Carl Jung Circumstances, real or imagined, can send us on a downward spiral. We can fight it, trying all the usual aphorisms: “look at the bright side”… “remember all the good” in an effort to play “keep away”, but sometimes we can’t seem to avoid…
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Sun Signs of Change
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Is your life “perfect”? Perhaps you are one of the “well-adjusted” people who can recognize every moment as one that serves a purpose; you flow with what comes, you create your days and live in perpetual gratitude, giving from an endless well… Mazel Tov and a heartfelt blessing goes out…
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The Pilot of Your Soul: Your Patterns of Choice
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(Podcast and Post Originally Published: 9/18/13) People are often surprised when I talk about Astrology from the perspective of “choice”. Many seem to believe that astrology is about static, carved in stone, “the way it is”, fated information… and they couldn’t be more wrong. It’s the reverse that’s true; the…