In this Episode:
It took much soul searching for me to forgive my early religious experience. Born gay and raised in a fundamentalist Christian church in the southern part of the United States was a nightmare. The treatment I received was anything but Christ-like. Today I still witness many people who call themselves Christian behaving in ways that are opposite of what the man Jesus asked from those who desire to follow in his footsteps.
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Our thoughts create our behavior. Our behavior creates our life. We create the loving and fulfilling life we want by teaching ourselves to remain connected to what we think and why we think it. We, the heart soul of who we are, become the gatekeeper of our thoughts by teaching ourselves to master a mind with a mind of its own.
In this Episode:
Yes, we need things to live. But, as our consumeristic society grows ever more focused on the latest and greatest gadgets, it is important for us to keep in mind things do not bring lasting or genuine happiness. Things cannot buy love and because love is the reason for the season, this is the perfect time of year to remind our children and ourselves of what is truly important in life.
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Satisfaction and joy come from the relationships we form with other people and other living things. Not just the relationships we have with family and close friends, but all encounters we have in life are relationships. When we begin to move through life seeing each encounter as a relationship, it changes us in profound ways.
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I was downsized from an executive position right before 9-11-2001. Without any prospect of a job in the city where I’d lived for twenty years I had to move away. I was forced to sell the new home I’d moved into only two years before. I had to leave the beautiful English cottage garden I’d built stone by stone and plant by plant. I lost my relationship. It seemed overnight I was involuntarily removed from the familiar, from friends, from the life I knew.
In this Episode:
There is much in the news about bullying and disrespectful behavior in our schools, over the internet and throughout society. We have many organizations that are working to end bullying and yet we are continuing to see an increase in incidents. I believe the answer to end bullying and disrespectful behavior lies in our ability to set healthy boundaries in all of our relationships and to teach our children how to do so also.
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We wear many hats in life, roles and labels we put on ourselves and on one another. Wife, husband, mother, father, lawyer, doctor, gay, straight, black, white, rich, poor, etc. But these do not truly tell others who we really are.
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It’s easy to see yourself as only human when your body is all you’re focus on seeing. But there is so much more to you than meets the eye. Your body is home to a Divine energy that only stays invisible until you allow yourself to be moved by its presence..
In this Episode:
Our goal in any relationship is to be our best half—unless, we’re talking about the relationship we have with ourselves. With the relationship we have with ourselves we must be whole. We cannot be whole if we’re focusing on everyone else first. Unless we value our needs, desires, wants, bodies, time, energy, attention, values, beliefs we will end up losing ourselves in relationship.
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We do not have the power to change anyone but ourselves. The only power we have is to love others by setting a positive and powerful example of what self-love looks like. We can be a mirror for a healthy life filled with self-respect and control but other people have to look within themselves to see what about their behavior is preventing them from happiness, self-respect and self-control.