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!

"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 your 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."

Thursday, September 27, 2012

3 Big Lies in Religious-Right "Voter Guide" Hitting 13 Million Cell Phones ~ Alternet/Adele M. Stan

In his Christian education, Ralph Reed apparently never learned that it's a sin to tell a lie. His voter guide, soon to paper churches and pop up on cell phones across the battleground states, offers three big ones......(click here to read more)

Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Contested Color of Christ - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Contested Color of Christ

How the image of Jesus has been made and remade in American history

By Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey

(click here to read article)

Take a Look at What Paul Ryan Did to His Own Congressional District, and Be Very Scared for Your Country ~ Alternet: Roger Bybee

Child abuse and suicide is skyrocketing, the number of battered women has tripled, foreclosures have tripled, wages plummeting, and more........
(click here to continue reading)

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Voter ID Laws Take Aim At College-Student Voters-Hufffington Post

In Tennessee, a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls explicitly excludes student IDs.

In Wisconsin, college students are newly disallowed from using university-provided housing lists or corroboration from other students to verify their residence.

Florida's reduction in early voting days is expected to reduce the number of young and first-time voters there.

And Pennsylvania's voter identification bill, still on the books for now, disallows many student IDs and non-Pennsylvania driver's licenses, which means out-of-state students may be turned away at the polls.

(click to continue reading article)

Forbes Real-Time (aka: these are really who run our country)

(click here to see Forbes Real-Time Billionaires)

Big Pharma Failures Light the Way to Change - Forbes

This is a guest post by Christopher Bowe, the US Healthcare Analyst at Informa Scrip. Informa is the leading global provider of specialist information to the scientific & academic, professional and commercial markets.

The pharmaceutical industry saw two very big drugs fizzle last week. Both wrecks show the way to real change......(click here to continue reading)

PolitiFact New Jersey | Medicare and football? Democratic congressional candidate Shelley Adler falls short with mock broadcast targeting Rep. Jon Runyan

(continue reading to find out the truth!)

Right-wing think tank leaks salaries of Florida public employees via new website | The Washington Independent

Here we go....Florida again!!!

(click to continue reading)

10 Desperate and Depressed Conservative Reactions to Romney's 47 Percent Moment | Alternet

Some are standing by Romney; the semi-smart ones are running away like he's carrying Ebola......(click to continue reading)

Sarah Silverman's Insanely Great Video Going After GOP Vote Suppressors | Alternet

Take a few minutes to watch this video (without children around due to its language!). Make it a viral hit. And then make sure your voter registration is up to date.
(click to read, and watch video)

Voting Wrongs by Elizabeth Drew | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.......
(click to continue reading)

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Paul Ryan and Allies Dance on Grave of Slain U.S. Diplomat at Right-Wing Confab | Alternet

When Mitt Romney lied about the Obama administration's response to the attack in Benghazi, pundits thought he'd killed his campaign. But at the Values Voter Summit, right-wingers are doubling down.....(continue reading)

Friday, September 14, 2012

Papantonio: Big Pharma Covers Up Antidepressant Dangers

PTSD Policy Changes | Psychology Today (very revealing!)

Army says some PTSD treatments are harmful.... when will we ever learn to cease being minions for Big Pharma?

READ MORE! : PTSD Policy Changes | Psychology Today

Wired for Miracles? | Psychology Today

Epilepsy. ADD. Depression. PMS. Insomnia. What do all these conditions have in common? They're being treated with a new form of high-tech brain biofeedback. So open your radical science horizons.

By Jim Robbins, published on May 01, 1998 - last reviewed on June 13, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Sloppy and Wrong: 11 "Fox & Friends" Corrections and Apologies | Alternet

FOX is the most misleading and most watched morning news show on TV......

READ MORE: Sloppy and Wrong: 11 "Fox & Friends" Corrections and Apologies | Alternet

The Political Awakening of a Republican: 'I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People' | Alternet

A former Republican tells about how his experiences in post-Katrina New Orleans and then Iraq destroyed his Republican worldview.

CONTINUE READING: The Political Awakening of a Republican: 'I Had Viewed Whole Swaths of the Country and the World as Second-Class People' | Alternet

Are Your Favorite National Parks Under Threat From Drilling? Find Out | Alternet

Click to read article: Are Your Favorite National Parks Under Threat From Drilling? Find Out | Alternet

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Hex on Paul Ryan - by Frank Bruni - NYTimes.com

Bruni:
The best morsel of political advice I can offer? If you catch even the faintest whisper that you might be nominated for the vice presidency, make for the hills. Run as fast as Paul Ryan pretends to. Your reputation depends on it. Maybe your sanity, too....(continue reading)

Saturday, September 1, 2012

7 Ways Paul Ryan Wants to Betray His Fellow Generation X-ers | Alternet

The Peter Pan of American conservatism is bursting with immature, half-baked ideas for the country.....Paul Ryan, voted “Biggest Brown-Noser” in high school and born with enough money for Colorado ski trips and a surefire job at his family’s construction company, embraced libertarianism in college.....(read more)

The Ultimate Spiritual Practice

The ultimate spiritual practice, as I teach it, is facing everything and avoiding nothing.

When you truly face everything and avoid nothing, you will no longer be afraid to stand tall—before your own conscience, before others, before God. This is because you are no longer hiding anything from yourself.

Through this noble practice, you will cultivate integrity and discover the kind of soul-strength that only comes from fearlessly facing the truth. The instinctive defense mechanisms that the ego hides behind will crumble, and your self and soul will become a transparent vehicle through which the evolutionary impulse can work in this world.

~ Andrew Cohen

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