Redeem The World Until Your Heart Hurts!

If one is single or divorced, there is nothing else that she can think of but how to alter this situation. In the morning when she wakes up in her bed her first thought is that there is no one next to her. Then that she has to drink her morning coffee alone, then that [...]

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Finding Inner Peace

“People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive everyone requires the same nourishment: inner peace.”  (Sri Sathya Sai Baba) Some avenues to inner peace include: Noticing your breath Meditating Walks in nature Quieting the mind Forgiving others and self Being gentle on yourself and many more not listed here. What exactly is [...]

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Insanity: Or How Crazy You Feel When Someone Else Defines You

I’m sure you’ve all heard the saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting to get a different result.  I always liked that saying because it rang true to me.  So many of us do this, even though it’s illogical. But last night I heard an even [...]

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It “Hurts so Good:” Are You Addicted to Drama?

Submitted by: Elise Fee Believe it or not, feeling unhappy and like you’re a victim is a way of feeling alive. It may be a negative emotion, but at least you’re feeling something. And if you get in the habit of this, it becomes a way of being….always finding something to be upset about, hurt [...]

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A Room of my Own!

February 10, 2011 by  
Filed under Editor's Picks, Evolution, Style, Towards magnificence

Submitted by: Robin Dake I did not like getting a divorce. Divorce is painful and wrenching. It is ugly. It is the death of dreams. Divorce is not something anyone aspires to. However, now that we have slogged through the year of proceedings and court dates and oppressive emotions, I have a confession to make: [...]

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Seven Under-Appreciated Benefits of Divorce

Submitted by: Cathy If you’ve been through a divorce, you know the pain of divorce. Did you know or have you yet discovered the benefits though? I know it is hard to believe that divorce has its benefits, especially if you are someone who didn’t want a divorce. Just ask any woman who has gone [...]

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Open Letter to the New Wife: Take Him, He’s All Yours!

Submitted by: Lee Block He’s all yours and good luck with that!  Maybe he will treat you better.  Perhaps he will love you more.  Oh, you have your own children?  Maybe he will be a better step-parent than he is a father.  Should I tell you some things or let you find out about them [...]

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Are You Constantly Debating Yourself?

Submitted by: Sydney Tyler Thomas I’m a natural-born debater.  I haven’t been in a formal debate since being captain of my high school debate team and my days of debates over policy and procedure in a large corporation are long gone too.  Yet I’m in a season of my life in which I find myself [...]

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What Happy Divorcees Know

Submitted by Deborah Moskovitch  Why is it that some people can move on happy, while others walk around bitter and angry many years postdivorce? It’s not necessarily the decisions you make, but how you learn to live with them There is one thing for certain and that is, there is no looking back. All I [...]

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Healing and Setting New Goals With MIND MOVIES

Submitted by Delaine One of the scariest things about divorce is that, like or not, ready or not, it calls us to look within ourselves and seriously ask:  NOW what?  Who do I want to be right now and in the next phase of my life?  In work, love, home, family, health and so on, what do I REALLY want?  On a [...]

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