Posted January 5, 2019 in Sacred Stories

Simon and Garfunkel

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She was shopping for some special gifts.

The shop was quiet when she entered, but soon Simon and Garfunkel began to play.

She had to breathe deeply and hold it together.

She’d just left a session doing profound healing work around her mother’s death.

Simon and Garfunkel was her […]

Posted December 30, 2018 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Fresh Start

Debra’s Wellness Tips

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford

I am one of those people who is maudlin about New Years. I love the way all endings are really new beginnings. Just […]

Posted December 29, 2018 in Sacred Stories

“Dad”

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Her dad had lived with her for about 5 months before he passed.

The bedroom set in the guestroom where he stayed, had belonged to his sister.

After he passed, she put a few of his belongings in the bottom drawer, but the handles have since broken off and she cannot get […]

Posted December 23, 2018 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Do The Unexpected!

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Although he is autistic and normally not very verbal, Sef Scott gave a six-minute graduation speech with a valuable message for all of us: Do the unexpected!

Standing in line a restaurant? When your name is called, let the people behind you go first, he says. “That simple gesture could brighten what […]

Posted December 22, 2018 in Sacred Stories

Donna!

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Her mother had died tragically the weekend of her wedding. She was doing everything possible to make peace around all of that.

Wanting to pick out some hand-crafted jewelry for a couple of her friends, she stopped in a gallery in the small town she was visiting.

She was drawn to […]

Posted December 16, 2018 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Small Steps

Debra’s Wellness Tips “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

Not everyone will write a novel, earn a doctorate, or loose one hundred pounds. But we can all benefit by developing the habit of breaking our aggressive goals […]

Posted December 15, 2018 in Sacred Stories

His Song

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Her teen-aged son had passed, a tragic loss of such a young life.

She had programmed her phone alarm to play what they had come to think of as “his song.”

It was her day off.

She woke up. His song was playing.

In her sleepy fog, she fumbled […]

Posted December 9, 2018 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Placebo Power!

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The cost for pharmaceuticals, with the known adverse side-effects, is coming under scrutiny. Fortunately, placebo power is being recognized as having value as a medical application. Knowingly taking a placebo does not diminish the benefit. That is truly amazing….

In a 2016 study published in the journal Pain, researchers including Kaptchuk randomly […]

Posted December 8, 2018 in Sacred Stories

“Ping!”

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Her father’s passing had been very difficult. She and her sister were holding together his business. Many times she felt herself asking him for guidance.

She noticed her dad’s special African drum would often make one “ping” as answer or confirmation to her thoughts or wondering. She knew he was answering her! […]

Posted December 2, 2018 in Debra’s Wellness Tips

Vipassana

Debra’s Wellness Tips

“These difficulties that we go through, we think they are in the way. They become obstacles. But really, we have to let in a very real possibility that they are the way, they’re not in the way, and what the actual practice helps us do is turn toward what we’ve been avoiding.” […]