Lord, Teach Me to Act… Rather than React Article written by June Hunt – Click here to listen to Heartline Podcast Episodes 30 & 31 with June Hunt People who know me don’t see me as an “angry person.” And most of the time, I’m not. Yet, how well I remember that day. I’d opened my friend’s desk drawer (something …
By Johnna Leach -January 17, 2012 Living in a state of Hopefulness… I did not have the fairytale relationship with my mother that a girl dreams of. If I were to put into words what being my mother’s daughter felt like I guess I would say that I felt like I was in the way. When I was young I …
Have you ever had something terrifying happen to you? Can you recall your feelings? If you’re like most of us, you can point to the specific situation or event that caused the distress. But what if there is no situation or event? What if you experience this feeling of fear, terror, and confusion while you’re simply sitting in your office …
Have you ever freaked out? Made a mountain out of a mole hill? Or thought you were so right about something, only to find out later you were way off base? If so, you’re making what counselors call cognitive distortions— or thinking errors. Most of us make thinking errors, but for people who struggle with generalized anxiety, panic, or specific …
Article written by Brenda Nixon – Click here to listen to Heartline Podcast Episode 29 – “Knowing Your Child’s Temperament” with Brenda Nixon. Temperament is a fascinating subject. I love learning and talking about it to parents because it provides self-awareness; parents gain understanding of their personal behavior as well as their childrearing style. Knowing about temperament also assists parents, educators, …
Being mindful of how the losses of life affect our hearts. Life guarantees us two things: change and loss, together they make up the unpredictable rhythm of life. They also exert tremendous pressure on the soul. If we don’t stop long enough to notice, we’ll wake up one day and wonder why the light’s gone out of our eyes, and …
Marry a whore. Keep her as your wife. She will betray you continuously, but you must love her and never leave her. You will be rejected continuously. You will be seen as a fool. Your life will be painful. Your reputation challenged. You will need to trust me. You will need to depend on me. You will always need to …
It’s a rainy day today, the kind of day that surrounds one in melancholy. Something stirs in my memory as I reach down to set my warm cup of tea beneath my chaise. It’s sorrow, roaming the distant corridors of my mind and pulling me back—back to those difficult days of grief after my father’s death, where pain and suffering …
Once upon a time, there was a king and queen who were very unhappy because they had no children. Everything else that the heart could wish for was theirs. Yet none of these things made them happy, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for. When a princess was finally born, there was …