A Healing Spirit https://www.ahealingspirit.org Support for Healing Mon, 13 May 2019 14:55:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.1 https://i2.wp.com/www.ahealingspirit.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 A Healing Spirit https://www.ahealingspirit.org 32 32 126777450 Staring death in the eye https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/06/05/staring-death-in-the-eye/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/06/05/staring-death-in-the-eye/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2019 08:08:33 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=5240 No one likes to consider death, much less read about it, something I thought about as I wrote this post–I don’t want you to instantly click “close!” But I learned something recently about staring death in the eye, something that might help you: There aren’t many things scarier, for most of us. And if you’re Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/06/05/staring-death-in-the-eye/feed/ 8 5240 We don’t die https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/05/15/we-dont-die/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/05/15/we-dont-die/#comments Wed, 15 May 2019 09:25:30 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=5160 Someone asked a question about grief and loss at a recent Krishna Das workshop, and this was his response. So many of us say these words. But do we really believe it at a gut level? Do we “get” that we are eternal souls that do not die? And that our grief is actually for Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/05/15/we-dont-die/feed/ 2 5160 How living and dying have much in common https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/04/25/living-and-dying/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/04/25/living-and-dying/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:05:09 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4952 Or rather, we should make it a point to die the way we live. No one likes to talk about death. I know I don’t. No one plans to die. We all know it will happen. We hope it’s later rather than sooner. But no matter when it is, a good death is as important Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/04/25/living-and-dying/feed/ 5 4952 How to live with joy through the gritty stuff https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/21/live-with-joy/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/21/live-with-joy/#respond Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:49:19 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4386 Sometimes, it’s difficult to live with joy. You probably know plenty of people facing big challenge, trials and tribulations. In fact, the world is full of them. Where I live, fire has taken so much from people. And I know many others with health challenges. Financial challenges. Grief. Heartache. Life can be difficult. Sometimes, the Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/21/live-with-joy/feed/ 0 4386 How this anxiety-ridden hot mess is managing a cancer scare https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/01/cancer-scare/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/01/cancer-scare/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:04:13 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=5033 Most anxiety is a knee-jerk reaction to something we fear and often fails to withstand any kind of critical analysis. I know this because I’ve just lived it. Some random spotting caused me to see my GYN, who did an in-office ultrasound and, to my surprise, saw something “suspicious”. Until now, I’d felt safe, because Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/03/01/cancer-scare/feed/ 8 5033 Why you should leave an amazing mark on the world https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/01/29/live-fully-2/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/01/29/live-fully-2/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:17:18 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4885 When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up having simply visited the world. That’s the poet Mary Oliver, who died this month at the age Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2019/01/29/live-fully-2/feed/ 0 4885 We cook to keep them alive. Even when we can’t. https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/29/we-cook-to-keep-them-alive-even-when-we-cant/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/29/we-cook-to-keep-them-alive-even-when-we-cant/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:30:56 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4195 I’m a writer. It’s how I think, how I process life and what I love to do. Back in 2010 I started this essay, We Cook.  My girlfriend had been battling multiple myeloma for a long while and was in a rough patch, so I was making her the things she loved to eat. And Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/29/we-cook-to-keep-them-alive-even-when-we-cant/feed/ 41 4195 Check out the best afterlife reading list https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/17/afterlife-reading-list/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/17/afterlife-reading-list/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:05:46 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4138 So this is what I consider the best afterlife reading list. People who know even a little about me know that I am a believer in the afterlife, but not in a traditional sense. We all want to know, right? But we don’t want to die to find out. So we’re not dying to know Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/08/17/afterlife-reading-list/feed/ 30 4138 What you can do about lingering grief https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/07/10/what-you-can-do-about-lingering-grief/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/07/10/what-you-can-do-about-lingering-grief/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:18:49 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=4012 She’s been gone two and a half  years (but who’s counting?) and you’d think by now I’d have my grief more in hand. None of that lingering grief. Instead, what I had in hand was a tissue when I pulled the car over to cry. I miss the hell out of her.  I miss her Read More

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]]> https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/07/10/what-you-can-do-about-lingering-grief/feed/ 21 4012 How to instantly improve your hearing https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/06/20/how-to-instantly-improve-your-hearing/ https://www.ahealingspirit.org/2018/06/20/how-to-instantly-improve-your-hearing/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:26:42 +0000 https://www.ahealingspirit.org/?p=3751 Sometimes a thought can be so obvious, so logical, and yet so deep, that there’s not much more we can add to it. In a world that’s constantly spinning with information, conversation, noise, finding our calm center and being silent for a while can not only improve hearing but clarify a situation. Isn’t that the Read More

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