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Welcome Home
This is not goodbye. Today is about welcoming you home. You’ve climbed out of the cave and are atop the mountain.

Shirley Riga
Jul 31, 202110 min read
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Doorway or Hole
I am a barometer, not just using my senses to navigate my world. I use my whole field, the space around me and in me. I need balance.

Shirley Riga
Jul 20, 20217 min read
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Educated Freedom of Choice
Three years ago, I had Stage 3 Kidney disease. Then I developed severe digestive problems and was forced to change my food choices.

Shirley Riga
Jul 14, 20218 min read
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Living in My Light
Someone once told me that there's nothing more important than being good. I learned to be good at a spiritual practice. It takes practice
Thea Iberall
Jul 11, 20217 min read
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Picking up Trash
I used to pick up trash on the sidewalks as a spiritual practice. How does one do it without anger, without judgments?
Thea Iberall
Jul 10, 20216 min read
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Relief
We all seek relief of some kind. My moments of self-care in a day get de-prioritized as I am distracted from one thing to another.

Shirley Riga
Jul 6, 20217 min read
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Love and Fear
We enter this earth as a shining light with a desire to grow into who our soul aspires us to be. But we are affected by our circumstances.

Shirley Riga
Jul 5, 20217 min read
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Freedom in my Choices
Gentle Teaching is an approach to help those struggling to feel safe, feel love, be engaged and show gentleness and love to each other.

Shirley Riga
Jul 4, 20216 min read
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Being Human in the Divine
The two worlds are growing closer. The great merging of the egoic mind and the Divine. I’m a spiritual being in a human body.

Shirley Riga
May 30, 20214 min read
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Decisions, Decisions
It's surmised that every 6 seconds a decision is made to do the same thing or do something different. What are your daily decisions?
Thea Iberall
May 28, 20215 min read
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It's an Inside Job
I'm recovering from good/bad thinking. My good has been defined by high ideals. Hitting a wall is a wakeup call. Pain is a motivator.

Shirley Riga
May 23, 20216 min read
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I’m Forgetting to be Small
I've lived my life in fear. I had an inside infrastructure designed to keep me safe. Making a commitment has changed everything and nothing.

Shirley Riga
May 19, 20219 min read
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Digging a Hole
I once dug myself into a hole so deep that I had no idea how I would get out. It became my secret. And my burden.
Thea Iberall
May 15, 20217 min read
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The Great Turning
Slowly I am unwinding from Covid hibernation. My atrophied body improves daily. It's the great turning as our authentic self emerges.

Shirley Riga
May 13, 20215 min read
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Another Layer Another Learning
I'm comfortable living with my core beliefs and behaviors until they don’t work any longer. I bumped up against my awareness this weekend.

Shirley Riga
May 10, 20214 min read
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Ten to One
I used to beat myself up. If I messed up, I'd call myself names. I'd have deep regrets for things I didn't do. That changed with a question.
Thea Iberall
Apr 22, 20216 min read
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Life’s A-Mazes
And so we go on, deeper into the maze and edging our feet into the water, and we and it – maze or water – are not the same as we were before
Ancelin Wolfe
Apr 19, 20215 min read
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Steadfast or change
Screenwriters learn that there are 2 types of characters: steadfast and change. Story happens when they meet and bump up against each other.
Thea Iberall
Apr 17, 20215 min read
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Pupils Learn
My greatest pivotal moment came when I viewed myself as a pupil of life rather than a victim. I still struggle with it but I'm learning.

Shirley Riga
Apr 13, 20218 min read
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Lean in to Support
I can’t make sense of the struggles that befall people. My life changed because I found lessons in everything I experienced.

Shirley Riga
Apr 12, 20219 min read
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