Posted November 20, 2019 in Sacred Stories

See the Blessings in Disguise

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Her husband is in a facility after having had a major stroke almost two years ago. He is losing Medicaid coverage for physical therapy. The physical therapist expressed a willingness to volunteer her time to train the private-pay care team that was working to help him maintain physical strength they have […]

Posted November 19, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Welcome Dad!

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The small building out back had been her dad’s man cave. They called it willeyville.

Her dad had passed, but she still loved the ambiance in that space.

She writes:

“I am out in willeyville lighting the fire and getting it warm because my sister is coming […]

Posted November 17, 2019 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Benefits of Nose Breathing

Debra’s Wellness Tips

Research has shown that breathing in through your nose has health benefits. When you breathe through your nose, the hairs filter out impurities.

Nasal breathing also warms and humidifies the air.

Additionally, when you breathe in through your nose nitric oxide, a colorless and odorless gas produced throughout the […]

Posted November 16, 2019 in Sacred Stories

By Your Side

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The two women had not previously met even though they had both lived in the same 55-and-over community for a few years. Their interaction at the mail station resulted in a conversation about their mothers having both passed.

“My mom used to live in that blue house right there,” she […]

Posted November 16, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Love Makes the World Go Around

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She was writing in her journal about ‘LOVE’ being four parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, and adverb.

She wanted to write a sentence using the word love as each of those. She wrote, “Noun: Love makes the world go around.”

Then she could not think of how to […]

Posted November 9, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Suicide

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He was mulling the subject of suicide. Essentially about why suicide is seen as bad; he had regularly received guidance that every person chooses when, where, and how that person transitions.

When he got home he had received an email message from Abraham Hicks.

The subject of that message […]

Posted November 2, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Atlas

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She had been talking to her friend about synchronicity at a time during which she was in the process of exploring options for relief from physical discomfort. Someone had suggested she try Atlas Physical Therapy. She was hesitant.

Running some errands she saw not one, but two company vehicles with […]

Posted October 26, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Every Memory a Blessing

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She was at the post office feeling so depressed having sold her late husband’s small sailboat.

She looked across the room at a rack of greeting cards.

A familiar image….

A familiar message…. every memory a blessing.

“The pain of her death was exquisite. I cried for weeks, but […]

Posted October 19, 2019 in Sacred Stories

How are you and Ed doing?

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She had been thinking about her friend. The last message from her friend had come in on March 22. That message was about her friend’s husband having been hospitalized in ICU.

One month later, she received a message asking about a session for her friend’s daughter.

She wrote back, asking about […]

Posted October 16, 2019 in Sacred Stories

You Say

She had had yet another stressful interaction with her husband. Knowing she was not as skillful in her words as her whole being longed to be, she had a dream.

In the dream, she heard words of reassurance and comfort. She could not see whom the words were coming from, but in her heart […]