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, ...

Caring about what people think can make you a very powerful person. Caring about what people think OF YOU can quickly take that power away. This is the conclusion I came to tonight after some deep soul searching that has gone on inside of me for the last few weeks. My journey in trying to figure out who I really am and what I can do to best serve humanity has lead me to this very valuable truth that explains the walls I keep running into in  my life.  Many times I have repeated this cycle: Get a great idea, work intensely on that idea, share it with a few people, get a plan together to share it with many, and then get scared and let it all go. I have been wondering for a long time why I do that. I see many other people do that same t...

It has almost been two weeks since I left Dallas on a journey of self-love.  I packed up my car and drove to New Mexico to see friends in Santa Fe and followed up that delightful visit by heading to Colorado and seeing different sets of friends--staying at their homes and mixing in their lives for a few days at a time.  I call it a journey of self-love because I keep clearing away the clutter in my mind and when I look out I see these wonderful people reflecting love back to me.  I spent time in Eagle with some amazing and delightful children, and now am on my way to see my grandson.  Children are so inspiring because they are always in the present.  And that is pretty much what this journey has been about for me.  Loving simply being...

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...

I feel like I'm emerging from one of my caterpillar/larva/pupa/chrysalis/butterfly cycles.  I've been diving so deep inside myself over the past several weeks that each time I've tried to sit down and write the words have come out stilted and seem unfamiliar in print. I love these 'fertile void' periods.  They have been a part of my process as long as I can remember, although I still have to resist the temptation to beat myself up for not writing, or being more productive in other ways.  I know that whatever is working inside me will produce results if I am patient enough to wait for it. Waiting is something I've been learning about during this time.  Being able to wait requires patience, and patience requires being able to accept wh...

What do people think about in their final moments of this life? I was watching a recorded Oprah episode today in which she was interviewing singer, Bret Michaels (from the rock band, Poison), about his recent near-death experience. She asked him what he thought about when he thought he was going to die. He said that he thought about his family and the people he loves. He began to ask God to allow him to live longer if he promised to be a better man and let him stay with his family. Oprah agreed that she had heard many people say that their last thoughts were of the people they loved and the people that loved them. In Brendon Burchard's Book, Life's Golden Ticket, he says that people will ask three questions when their life is ov...

We have certain moments in our lives that are pivotal, that matter more than anything else at that particular moment. Those are the moments that define us, inform our lives and change the way we relate to others. This morning I was talking with Lida and we realized that this past month we have both had those kinds of moments. Hers is about her health. Mine is about relationships. They have equal importance because it is what is up for us right now. In this series of blogs about being a Life Entrepreneur, I have been sharing my inner thoughts about my life and what I see around me. I keep talking about listening to the inner voice each of us has--paying attention to it above all else. John Demartini says when the voice on the inside i...

In his 1930’s classic “War is a Racket”, Major General Smedley D. Butler tells the truth about the real costs of war.   Presenting a no-nonsense attack on how the US military is there to make vast profits for US Corporations and Wall Street, we should take General Butler's advice and in wartime force corporations to join our soldiers in making personal sacrifices for their country. We could also pass laws guaranteeing that corporate profits decrease during war rather than increase. Do you think that wars would still drag on for years as in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan?  Whether it is the wrong village bombed in Vietnam or a Muslim wedding party in Afghanistan decimated by an inaccurate drone, the corporation supplying the weapons a...