Tag: healing
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Healing the Broken Circle
When I was a little girl, the song I heard playing all the time in my home was Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Maybe it was a super popular song at the time, or maybe it was popular in my own home because it was so soothing to my mother in those fast months when…
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Alice Munro’s Daughter Hits Close to Home
I could read only so much of the OpEd penned by Alice Munro’s daughter. I might have gotten a hundred words or so in, and I had to stop. It was too close to the bone to continue. The OpEd, entitled “My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro,…
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Those Fighting Battles Unseen
There’s a beautiful piece of advice that says we should be kind and compassionate towards everyone because everyone we meet is fighting a secret war. As a supervisor and small business owner, I have found this to be true. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip…
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Let Pain Be Your Guide: Suicidal Thoughts as the Catalyst for Change
In honor of National Suicide Prevention Day, I’m reposting an article I published on this blog on 23 July 2008. I’ve made no changes to the original article, and rather than posting a new photo of my own with pretty writing on it, I’ve elected to keep the original picture I used 5 years ago…
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Healing Yourself: Easing Dis-ease and Illness by Listening to How You Feel
One of the most valuable things I’ve learned in the past year is that I can cure myself, that I do have that power. I’ve also learned that it’s not always easy for me to use that power. I’m not new to the mind-body-spirit connection or to the idea that there is a metaphysical reason…
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Prayers, Rituals, and Spells for the BP Gulf Oil Spill
Enjoying the sugar-white sand of the Grayton Beach – Destin area at Thanksgiving, pre- Oil Spill. Photo copyrighted; all rights reserved. Since I posted A Pagan Point of View of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks ago, I’ve been inundated with requests for rituals, spells, and prayers–both pagan and…
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Just Enjoying the Moment
I’m not “in” a relationship,” but this new friendship is proving to be very enjoyable. In some ways, I think it’s an anti-relationship because I’ve set the ground rules early on of no-pressure, just enjoy each other’s company, treat each other well, and be honest. I’ve known from the first conversation that there would be…
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Physical Healing, Woo-Woo Stuff
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I’m feeling slightly better after spending some concentrated time visualizing in conjunction with my meds. Yes, I mix alternative medicine with classical. Blame that on my back injury in 1995 and the neurologist who told me I’d have to live with it because…
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Blasted from the Past
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. My asthma is getting better but I’m zonked. I’m in one of those moods where I don’t want to sleep and don’t want to be awake either. But the water heater repairman’s come and gone, and I’ve been quietly productive, editing a book…
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Stars, Reality, and Perspective— and Loving Again
This is important for reasons I cannot yet fathom, except that I’m looking for what is real. We’re so sure of what reality is. We gaze at the night sky, at what’s not visible in the glare of harsh light, and congratulate ourselves on seeing the reality that those stars are there, both night…
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Why I Really Don’t Miss Daddy So Much
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. It’s weird how I sometimes forget that Daddy’s dead. I don’t miss him. I really don’t. Some people, judgmental ones who don’t really know the situation and some who do but are judgmental stone-throwing bitches anyway, would probably say not missing him makes me a…
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Regaining a Positive Mindset
Yes, I’m having a melancholy moment. It happens. Not often, but when it does, I write through it and I’m okay. “It’s impossible to bring good things into your life and keep a positive mindset when your life is full of shit,” a woman contended in her email to me regarding the Law of…
