To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?” By Victoria Law, Yes Magazine, April 19th, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/04/19/prisons-dont-make-us-safe/ The United States now has 2.3 million people behind bars of some form or another. These are not 2.3 million isolated individuals—their imprisonment sends reverberations into their families and communities. […]
Pema Chodron: “Just Like Me”
Pema Chödrön, Buddhist nun, author and a pioneer of the mindfulness movement, explains how to deal with suffering by acknowledging the feelings, welcoming, embracing and accepting the emotions, breathing them in to our heart so our hearts expand. Being open, fully allowing and accepting the feelings. . . moving towards them without blame. . . […]
We are Master Constructors and Destroyers
www.voiceoffreedom.ca Everyday we create and destroy on many levels. We make food and eat it; our bodies assimilate and eliminate. We create clutter, then de-clutter. We construct and repair relationships, sometimes destroy them. Everyday — until we master being in bliss — we tend to judge our selves/others, consciously, unconsciously and subconsciously. On a recent […]
Global Sisterhood: Awakened Leadership, Purpose
Global Sisterhood Zoom Video on Awakened Leadership, Purpose Some notes from the video: the space within to rise, be in fullness use of imagination to understand the space within/without, to heal, show up with more heart, Love and courage. . . sisterhood guidelines: confidentiality non-judgement – looking at causes of judgement, comparison of self […]
Limiting Shoulder Pain Created from Old Beliefs in Separation & Control – Jealousy and Hatred
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In September, 2020, I pulled muscles in my back around my shoulder blade. Carrying a heavy bag with my left arm, one day I twisted slightly as I was doing something else, and I felt the muscle pull. . . I can’t say there weren’t any warning signs this was going to happen. There […]