Posted July 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Hope and Resiliency

Nine-year-old Michaela Munyan, is CEO and sole seamstress of an unincorporated operation. Michaela had learned to sew hair scrunchies in an after-school program, so when her school was shut down because of the coronavirus, she did something constructive. She found a pattern and made a mask. Then she found a YouTube video about batch sewing […]

Posted June 30, 2020 in Monthly News

Independence Day

As the 4th of July comes around it looks as though social-distancing measures to mitigate risks of contracting COVID-19 are likely to be with us for a while. Although Marie Curie said “the way of progress is neither swift nor easy,” there are ways that we can all still let freedom ring on Independence Day.

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Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Willingness to Change

“Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”

Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine

Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […]

Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News

It's About Time

The way we experience time is not the same for everyone, and it changes for us moment-to-moment. NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) is the study of the structure of experience, and our subjective experience relative to time is about as subjective as one can get….

This past December, January, and February our time “flew” while we were […]

Posted November 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Choose to be Helped

A woman friend of mine was at work (here in Michigan) when a co-worker received a call that the woman’s daughter was in critical condition and going into emergency surgery in Texas. This mother was understandably distraught. Even if she left right at that moment she could not get from Michigan to Texas before the […]

Posted September 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Nature's Ways

Early one morning, sunlight on the morning dew illuminated this intricate spider web stretched between our two bird-feeding stations. Still in my nightwear, I grabbed my iPhone, slipped my feet into my ‘yard shoes’ and went out to snap some photos. The ‘seemingly impossible’ is nature’s way.

Most everyone has seen spider webs suspended […]

Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Faithkeeper

“…to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparent insignificance.”~ Thomas Moore Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Recently I submitted this letter to the editor of our local newspaper:

Dear […]

Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News

Healing and Humor

Have you noticed how something that is difficult to learn can be made much easier with humor? Training with Richard Bandler and John LaValle often resulted in our jaws hurting from laughing so hard. Joel and Debra infused SCS/NLP trainings with humor, too, including those who were laughing at our foibles behind our backs and […]

Posted May 31, 2019 in Uncategorized

Thinking about Time

Think of past and present time as layers of “times”. “Times” that we have stored that are still available for exploration, rediscovery, editing and expansion, and capable of being re-lived through our current awareness. ~ Jean Houston

Chatting with a friend about chakras, I asked her if her feet are often cold. “Oh, […]