“Be true to yourself” is a phrase I have come across very often in the last few years. I have even seen a cosmetics range called “Be Yourself.” With 2012 finally here, I have chosen to make this not only my New Year’s resolution but the motto for the rest of my life. I arrived at this decision only after [...]
Arrested Development
It has been several months since I wrote an update on the progress of my book “Phoenix Rising: Healing from Sexual Abuse through Spirituality.” For those of you who were following this and are still interested, this is lowdown… I completed the first part “Just Trying to Survive” about a month ago. I believed I was over the [...]
Good Grief
This week marks two years since my father died when he was taken off life support after suffering a massive stroke. The whole experience was devastating. For those who have lost love ones, you will understand this pain. It may dissipate after sometime but it never really goes away, especially when certain dates roll around…the [...]
Keep the Faith
Faith: trust; belief in religious doctrine or divine truth; religion; loyalty; fidelity; confidence. (The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary) There are two aspects of faith which are generally described in the dictionary definition above: one is religion/spirituality and the other involves trust in humanity. Religion or more specifically, a belief in ‘divine truth’ or spirituality, is [...]
Denial is Not a River in Egypt
The title of this blog post is a well known quote by Mark Twain (it was also the title of one of Judge Judy’s books many moons ago). It is a play on part of the word ‘denial‘ and the river Nile in Egypt…denial is not some far away place or thing but an aspect [...]
Ego is Not a Dirty Word
The title of this blog post is the name of a song written by an Australian band from the 1970s called ‘Skyhooks’ (if you would like to read the lyrics go to www.moron.nl/lyrics/skyhooks/ego-is-not-a-dirty-word-lyrics.html ). In their own way, the band members express what I have come to believe about the ego – the Greek word for ‘I’. My [...]
Just Trying to Survive
“Just Trying to Survive” is the title of the first chapter of my book-in-progress, “Phoenix Rising.” For those of you just tuning-in, this work is an autobiographical account of the sexual abuse I experienced during my childhood and what it took to heal from it. This particular chapter is a description of as many of [...]
Being Real: Reaching the Summit of Self-empowerment
Being real – it is one of the best feelings or states of being that you can experience. It is invigorating to express your thoughts and emotions without reservation. I once heard Shirley MacLaine refer to this as “The exhiliration of expression.” The only thing that I can think of in my own life that [...]
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
With everything that is currently happening in the world (i.e. environmental and human-made disasters, political unrest etc) it certainly looks like we are in the end times, the Apocalypse, which was foretold eons ago. I believe the world is not coming to an end but that in a few short years the Earth and its peoples will be [...]
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – This is What it Means to Me.
Ahh, respect. Everyone wants it, very few people get it in a way that matters. Being ‘respected’ because you have wealth or some other kind of social status is not the R.E.S.P.E.C.T. that I am referring to. Respect, in my opinion, is about being treated like everything about who you are matters – your feelings, thoughts, [...]
