A breakup can be challenging to go through, regardless of how long you’ve been together. If you’ve been together with your partner for years, the sudden life change is not only tough to deal with, but when combined with other emotions you’re feeling, it can be debilitating. Even if your relationship just lasted a few weeks, there are circumstances where it can be difficult to cope with. For example, if the relationship was your first in a long time, or ever, it can be a blow to your … [Read more...]
FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE OR HERESY?, Shirlee Hall
September 20, 2013 by
We are actually inseparable from our True Nature. Many souls are trapped into believing separation has taken place and that there is some place or level we must return to in order to be liberated. Not so. All we need to do is to genuinely wake up and be aware. A simple reality and yet, we make it complicated. Yes, consciousness is momentarily appearing as phenomena but the body-mind is not a permanent covering. The ideal is to activate the higher consciousness, our true Nature, in the temporary … [Read more...]
Handling the Holidays on Your Own – WOMEN & RECOVERY
December 21, 2012 by
DIVORCE The Holidays are here and one should give a good college try to enjoy this Easter/Passover Season. For all the Women of our World that are starting over in their lives, through this time of year, the following shared experience may offer some solace. There's no way to get around it: Cheer and glad tidings surround you during the holidays, but chances are you don't feel very festive. In fact, you probably feel more alone than ever, especially if you find … [Read more...]
Violence is not always Visible, Henriette Eiby Christensen
September 28, 2012 by
How Anger (and education) Saved Me From Suicide Six years ago, I came out of a 12-year verbally abusive relationship not knowing what had happened. First relief, then not understanding why I felt so bad, and kept feeling like the world would be a better place without me in it. Then ANGER. No way was I going to let him continue to have that kind of power over me – I had to understand everything, not only for myself, but also for my three children. And so I started writing and … [Read more...]
Divorce with Dignity – WOMEN in RECOVERY
July 22, 2012 by
Ending a relationship with dignity? Nothing odd about it at all, it's just a classic case of biting off more than you chew with panache. It's so damn hard ending it with your head held high, when all you want to do is bury it under a pillow and lie there for an eternity. To keep an indefatigable quota of good words and wishes for your ex every time you speak of him when all you want to do is lash out and be human. To keep … [Read more...]
Holidays after/during a Divorce ? – WOMEN in RECOVERY
December 29, 2011 by
DIVORCE The Holidays are here and one should give a good college try to enjoy this Easter/Passover Season. For all the Women of our World that are starting over in their lives, through this time of year, the following shared experience may offer some solace. There's no way to get around it: Cheer and glad tidings surround you during the holidays, but chances are you don't feel very festive. In fact, you probably feel more alone than ever, … [Read more...]
INSPIRATIONAL PHOTO – The Three Graces
February 18, 2011 by
The Three Graces, from Sandro Botticelli's painting Primavera in the Uffizi Gallery. One is the beginning, the creation, the unity. Traditionally the numeral two is associated duality, separation, conflict and is a mythogem of the opposites: Sun and Moon, male and female, life and death, etc. The number three represents unity through overcoming the duality of two by adding one. … [Read more...]
