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Feb 19, 2019
Balancing Parenting with Other Life Pursuits
Feb 19, 2019

I’m currently reading You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay and finding so many gems. The premise of this book is that most physical illnesses stem from emotional roots. She doesn’t believe all illnesses can be cured through spiritual/emotional healing but her own story is one where she did in fact cure herself of cancer through forgiveness and claiming her worth and power.

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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 12, 2019
Let's Talk About Sex, Baby
Feb 12, 2019

As we near our annual love day tomorrow, I thought I’d take a moment to write about sex today; sex from a progressive Christian standpoint; sex from the standpoint of one who has further developed her thoughts from the rigid and restrictive teachings about sex she was taught growing up. 

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Feb 12, 2019
Feb 5, 2019
Happy New Year!
Feb 5, 2019

Happy New Year, everyone! New year, you say? Wasn’t that over a month ago? Yes and no. The New Year of the solar calendar took place on January 1st but the Lunar New Year changes every year. This year, it fell on Tuesday, February 5th—yesterday.

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Feb 5, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
For the Unchurched, Re-Churched and Churched
Jan 29, 2019

I had an amazing conversation with a graduate student this past week who wanted to interview me for her class on gender, sexuality and religion. We discussed a multitude of topics but her final question provoked a passionate response within me that I wanted to share with the rest of you.

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Jan 29, 2019
Jan 22, 2019
Hear Me Roar
Jan 22, 2019

A reader emailed me a couple of weeks ago with a question about one of my posts. It was such a great question that I wanted to dedicate an entire post to it. 

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Jan 22, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
Simple Tips for Re-Learning to Sleep After Loss
Jan 15, 2019

This week, we have a special guest post by Sara Bailey of TheWidow.net. Sara has a heartbreaking yet empowering story of unexpectedly losing her husband at the age of 40. Left to parent two children alone, she had to figure out how to put her life back together and mend her family’s broken hearts.

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Jan 15, 2019
Jan 1, 2019
The Compounding Effect
Jan 1, 2019

Here’s what I’ve been thinking a lot about as we embark on this new year: the compounding effect.

Many of us have heard about this in regards to our finances, I’m sure. We put a sum of money into a savings or investment account and it grows exponentially over time.

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Jan 1, 2019
Dec 24, 2018
It's All a Gift
Dec 24, 2018

I write this on the eve of Christmas. Some of you may not celebrate Christmas. I value and affirm the different spiritual paths we choose to take. My faith tradition is Christian and at our Christmas Eve service tonight, I was stunned by how this old message I’ve heard hundreds of times could touch me so once again.

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Dec 24, 2018
Dec 18, 2018
How to Deal with Strong Negative Emotions (Part 2)
Dec 18, 2018

I was recently at a tense meeting where two of the people have a history of offending one another. As so often happens in these situations, one of those people said a comment, which the other person misinterpreted.

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Dec 18, 2018
Dec 11, 2018
How to Deal with Strong Negative Emotions
Dec 11, 2018

I have experienced my share of strong emotions throughout my life ranging from delirious elation to down-in-the-dumps misery. For a long time, I would get swept up in my emotions and I truly believed there was no other way to deal with them than to express them.

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Dec 11, 2018
Dec 4, 2018
Christmas in San Diego
Dec 4, 2018

This is our very first Christmas season in San Diego. The first of what will probably be many more. Who would have thought? I wouldn’t have even just one year ago.

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Dec 4, 2018

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