MY WORK ... MY PASSION

• Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist ; Past experiences: Dream Analysis /10 Years Experience •Psychotherapist / Use of Gestalt, Jungian, Zen, Reality and Energy Therapies /10 Years Experience •EMDR • Men and Their Journey: the neuroscience of the male brain, and the implications in sexuality, education and relationship • Women: Their Transformation and Empowerment ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs) / 21 years experience •Ordained Interfaith Minister & Official Celebrant • Social Justice Advocate • Child and Human Rights Advocate • Spiritual Guide and Intuitive • Certified Reiki Practitioner • Mediation / Conflict Resolution • “Intentional Love” Parenting Strategy Groups • Parenting Workshops • Coaching for parents of Indigo, Crystal, and Rainbow Children • International Training: Israel & England • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing • Post-911 and Post-Katrina volunteer

MSW - UNC Chapel Hill

BSW - UNC Greensboro


With immense love I wish Happy Birthday to my three grandchildren!

May 22: Brannock

May 30: Brinkley

June 12: Brogan

All three have birthdays in the same 22 days of the year ....what a busy time for the family!

"An Unending Love"

This blog and video is devoted and dedicated to my precious daughter Jennifer, my grand daughters Brogan and Brinkley, and my grand son Brannock. They are hearts of my heart. Our connection through many lives..... is utterly infinite.




The Definition of Genius

"THRIVE"

https://youtu.be/Lr-RoQ24lLg

"ONLY LOVE PREVAILS" ...."I've loved you for a thousand years; I'll love you for a thousand more....."


As we are in the winter of our lives, I dedicate this to Andrew, Dr. John J.C. Jr. and Gary W., MD, (who has gone on before us). My love and admiration is unfathomable for each of you..........and what you have brought into this world.....so profoundly to me.
The metaphors are rich and provocative; we're in them now. This world is indeed disappearing, and the richest eternal world awaits us!
The intensity, as was in each of the three of us, is in yellow!
In my heart forever.........

Slowly the truth is loading
I'm weighted down with love
Snow lying deep and even
Strung out and dreaming of
Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world

We're threading hope like fire

Down through the desperate blood
Down through the trailing wire
Into the leafless wood

Night falling on the city
Quite something to behold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world
This disappearing world


I'll be sticking right there with it
I'll be by y
our side
Sailing like a silver bullet
Hit 'em 'tween the eyes
Through the smoke and rising water
Cross the great divide
Baby till it all feels right

Night falling on the city
Sparkling red and gold
Don't it just look so pretty
This disappearing world
This
disappearing world
This disappearing world
This disappearing world


TECHNOLOGY..........

In “Conversations with God”, by Neale Donald Walsch, there is a warning I think of. I refer to it as the Atlantis passage, and I've quoted it a few times before." As I have said, this isn't the first time your civilization has been at this brink,"

God tells Walsch. "I want to repeat this, because it is vital that you hear this. Once before on your planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your ability to use it responsibly. You are approaching the same point in human history again. It is vitally important that you understand this. Your present technology is threatening to outstrip your ability to use it wisely. Your society is on the verge of becoming a product of your technology rather than your technology being a product of your society. When a society becomes a product of its own technology, it destroys itself."

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Beware Celebrations of Republican Disarray | The Nation

The Republicans did have a class of unruly freshmen; however, I presumed that the Mayhew principle of re-election–seeking behavior would swiftly bring them in line. But the debt ceiling fiasco this past summer undermined this 
expectation.....


CONTINUE READING: Beware Celebrations of Republican Disarray | The Nation

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Razib Khan: Newt Gingrich IQ More Verbal Than Analytical

Is Newt Gingrich as smart as he thinks? He’s obviously not dumb like Rick Perry, or ignorant like Herman Cain. But I think Newt is a “high verbal” type who can impress the dull more than actually get anything done. I believe that Mitt Romney is somewhat higher in I.Q., but more critically he probably has a better practical skill set. Newt is not one known for contingency and coherency, and that’s a problem.
READ MORE: ParaPundit: Razib Khan: Newt Gingrich IQ More Verbal Than Analytical

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Fascinating Scientific Reason Why "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" | Alternet

No matter how you turn it, research says once your basic needs are taken care of, money and other rewards don’t make you happier.

The Fascinating Scientific Reason Why "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" | Personal Health | AlterNet

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Is Alcoholics Anonymous Too White? | AlterNet

Dismissing AA as a white-person's movement, many black addicts take a pass on the 12-steps and seek salvation from their church...

CONTINUE READING: Is Alcoholics Anonymous Too White? | | AlterNet

Monday, January 23, 2012

Sunday, January 22, 2012

"Just the Facts, Ma'am!"


FOSTER CARE IN N.C.: "to be or not to be"?!?!

In my opinion, this disclosure in general has been a long time coming. For me, exposing this is the "takeaway" good news of the month here in North Carolina.While it was posted in a Hickory, NC paper, by no means is my rant focused on this agency, limited to Hickory, or even to North Carolina.

Are some foster kids over-medicated? Interesting question. No-brainer answer. YES!!! (And it is even more despicable to watch the "system" rationalize it in all its steps!) That system (a true example of "trickle-down" ethics) is drenched in decisions of profit and convenience for the system, but with little respect for the welfare and highest good of the child. Truth be told, if a child's life and emotional well-being were not at stake, observing the dynamics is almost perversely humorous. Many "systemic sustainers" who love, at times, to use the monicker "healer" ... should hightail it for the Cannes movie festival!

With long experience working with foster care in this state, and observing the abuses from which "the system" dispassionately turns its eyes, I remain convinced that most foster care is a necessary evil. 

Sitting in a case management meeting is a head-shaking experience, and is often a microcosm of the dysfunction of our culture. The motto might as well have been, "Save and accrue the buck, so that it passes state investigation (generally a travesty of a process anyway!), but the kid be damned!" 

Any professional adult (mental health care, foster care and group home systems, social services, etc.) who interrupts this schizophrenic process is more at risk than one of the state's abused children. Many of these children, who are in a foster home due to a "stated" effort to save them from abusive homes, receive even more abuse in foster homes ... sexual and otherwise. Emotional abuse, because "we can't leave marks", is sometimes so horrific that one wonders how the child can put one single confident foot into the next day. To make matter even worse, when the kids' behaviors sometimes reflect the corruption of the systems, they again are harshly punished.  The old "blame the victim" paradigm. The systemic efforts to cover up are interesting and oh-ever-so-slick!

If you are interested in less-than-unimpressive outcomes (and isn't that the operant word in federal and state care?!), give this site a glance.  You may find yourselves shocked:

It was a rare foster parent with whom I worked whose TRUE caring for the children they had in their care, put the highest good of the child as a priority. Oh, they talked a good game, but were generally so transparent, the process was "Ridiculosity Unplugged"!  It did not take ten minutes, combined with a good amount of intuition, to understand that the money (not insignificant, I might add) drove the foster parents. Many had up to 3-5 foster children in their home. Multiply what the parents get for that, along with benefits for the child, and you will begin to get the point. Of course, I get that it costs money to raise a child in any family, but when one really adds up the "change", outside of any foster parents' income, it is quite interesting! Many natural parents would be thrilled to be receiving the money and benefits into their family coffers.

Rat study throws new light on animal consciousness - rats behave with empathy

(NaturalNews) An animal whose very name is often used as an insult may harbor more "human" traits like compassion than previously suspected. A recent study by University of Chicago researchers suggests that rats are capable of behavior which


READ MORE: Rat study throws new light on animal consciousness - rats behave with empathy

Mitt Romney Wouldn't Know a Free Market If It Bit Him on the Ass /AlterNet

At Bain Capital, Romney used the tax code to redistribute wealth from taxpayers to his investors and partners.....


READ MORE: Mitt Romney Wouldn't Know a Free Market If It Bit Him on the Ass | Economy | AlteryNet

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Disgusting: Wall Streeters Mock Occupy and Poor People at Fancy Frat Party | AlterNet

One of the things that makes Wall Streeters so unsympathetic is that, even when disdain for their greed has not just spread across America but across the world, they don't seem to realize it. 


And if they do? Well, they don't give a flying fuck......


READ MORE: Disgusting: Wall Streeters Mock Occupy and Poor People at Fancy Frat Party | AlterNet

SOPA STRIKE - Largest online protest in history - January 18 - blackout your site

READ THE STUNNING FACTS: SOPA STRIKE - Largest online protest in history - January 18 - blackout your site

BBC Reports on Bilderberg Secret Society

READ MORE: Bilderberg Secret Society

"10 Reasons the U.S. Is No Longer the Home of the Free"

This morning's email brought a powerful block of "Just the Facts, Ma'am!" from...well, we'll call her Nancy.  She wrote:


Folks, This is a very important and informative article about the erosion of our freedoms in this country!!  Please look into it and follow your own instincts!!
Nancy



READ MORE: http://www.wanttoknow.info/g/land_of_the_free_erosion_of_freedom

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Afghan Child Bride Traded to Pay Opium Debt | Womens eNews


Afghan Child Bride Traded to Pay Opium Debt

Sunday, January 15, 2012
Afghanistan's opium trade impacts the daily lives of Afghans like nothing else, says Fariba Nawa in her book "Opium Nation." In this excerpt she shares the story of Darya, a girl who was sold into marriage to settle an opium debt...
READ MORE: Afghan Child Bride Traded to Pay Opium Debt | Womens eNews

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

"America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters" by Bill Moyers & Michael Winship/ Alter Net

While police have cleared many Occupy encampments, a collective cry, loud and clear, has gone up from countless voices across the country: Enough's enough.......


READ THIS: America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters | Take Action | AlterNet

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

4 Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs | AlterNet

Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children....

READ MORE: 4 Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs | Personal Health | AlterNet

"there were no words, but images flooded every cell in her being ...4 and a half decades!"

"there were no words, but images flooded every cell in her being ...4 and a half decades!"