Bottom of Form Healing after Betrayal – Is it Possible? Betrayal is a breaking of trust and goodwill in a relationship that can take a long time to heal from and can leave us changed forever.  It has broken marriages, ended long term friendships and created rifts in families that can span generations.  It can happen suddenly and leave us feeling shocked, as in the case of an exposed affair. Or it can happen over time, involving a series of lies or indiscretions that deteriorate trust and respect. Whether it’s our good friend, partner, work colleague, sibling or parent, many of us have experienced the specific wounding that is felt from betrayal.  How do we get betrayed?  Our betrayal could be caused through a broken promise, ...

Deciding moments come along many times in our lives, and each one gives us an opportunity to turn one way or another--which then informs and shapes our lives from that moment on. It fascinates me to see people on TV in what are called Reality Shows. I think part of the public's addiction to those is it gives us a window to observe how people deal with those moments--and the consequences they bring. Last night I watched a woman who had come across as a fighter, a resilient contender just give up and walk away when she could have turned around and shown us another part of herself. Maybe she had more going on in her life than we could see--and maybe she really is a "Quitter" as she was called on the show. I know there have been times in ...

Late last night I was winding down about to go to bed when I got a call from a friend who was channel surfing and had run across the Tucson Festival of Books on CSPAN and discovered a panel of three people from the 1960s era talking about their experiences.  The man on the panel was Mark Rudd, there to talk about My Life with SDS and the Weathermen.  SDS stands for Students for a Democratic Society and Mark was famous for having led the sit-ins at Columbia University in 1968, fanning the fire of the growing student movement (which we all called The Movement). It is so interesting to see someone you haven't see in 40 years and both recognize him and remember so much about him.  I was a member of SDS back in the late 60s.  For those o...

Join Vincent as he presents a special guest, Brenda Crawford-Bee, for this special episode of Life Open Miracles. Discover how gratitude can be the trigger for an incredible transformation in your life Blessings, Brenda http://www.beeblesseddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/show_1255964.mp3

This may sound like a strange question to ask since you are alive enough to read this but why did it capture your attention? Did you know that many people are more dead than alive in their daily existence? Having worked as a nurse for over 13 years, studying health and wellbeing for over 18 years and working with thousands of people who were ill, I realised two incredible facts. The first is that most people who end up in hospital, especially with progressive illness, have spent much of their life dying from within. They have low energy that has been blocked and/or drained for several years before ever ending up in hospital. What would you do if you had more energy? Certain things can happen as a result of having more energy. You...

"Those who are victorious plan effectively, and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course, but adjusts its flow. They have form, but are formless. They are skilled in both planning and adapting, and need not fear the result of a thousand battles: For they win in advance, defeating those who have already lost." — Sun Tzu I am well aware that there is nothing new under the sun, and that most of what I perceive to be 'original' ideas are actually my musings and reinterpretations of what I have read, been taught, talked about with others. This quote, which so powerfully expresses why it is vital to have a vision for one's life, is from The Art of War by Sun Tzu, which I read over twenty-five years ago. It mad...

Something strange happened to me this week.  I was traveling back from London and I picked up a copy of the Evening Standard. I turned to the back page and began reading the sports section - my normal routine when I read newspapers. Usually, I stop reading when I incur the first non-sports story. I do this because media tends to focus on problems and since I tend to get what I focus on I tend not to read, watch or listen to news. On Wednesday, for some strange reason, I felt compelled to read beyond the sports pages. After flicking few a few pages of travel and television news I reached pages 24 and 25, where I was in for a shock. On each page contained an inspirational story. Page 24 reported how children in a London primary are b...

January seems to be a very popular time for new promises, plans, and resolutions. With the new beginning of the year, many people are prompted to make it a personal new beginning as well. However, even though making resolutions is still a very popular practice among us, many have begun to think of it as just another broken promise or failing ideal, and the statistics back up this claim with an estimated less than 10% of all resolutions ever being realized!  I must admit that this grim forecast of realized resolutions and my own experiences have caused me to fall out of love with this once very-important-to-me, annual ritual. Perhaps you can relate. Someone recently asked me if I had set my resolutions yet for 2010. This question was fo...

"It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those most responsive to change."  This is a quote from Charles Darwin, and I found it striking because we usually think of him in relation to "survival of the fittest" and this statement puts an interesting slant on what is the fittest.  I also recall John Demartini saying that the amount of stress we experience is a direct correlation to our ability to adapt to change.  The greater the flexibility, the less stress.  The greater the rigidity, the more stress. Being a Life Entrepreneur requires amazing agility.  As Demartini also points out, we grow on the border of chaos and order.  Balancing that precariousness is vital to being able to withstand an...

New Years Resolutions....Hmmmmm. I have to wonder if that is a negative or a positive idea! Listening to people worry due to the pressure of the New Year's Resolution tradition.....has definitely made me stop and wonder. These are just a few things that I have heard repeatedly from others... "I seem to always struggle around New Years....Did I get ANYTHING accomplished this year?.....Am I thinner this year?.....Does my husband love me more this year?....What will I be like next year at this time?....Am I a better person this year?....I just try to remember .... "Would I judge a friend's year the way I judge my own.....and would I be this hard on someone I loved?"" Another New Years dilemma ..... do I even appreciate the chan...