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Meditating Allows Me to Slow Down Enough
I started thinking about those things that I can change
Christine Babson
Sep 15, 20205 min read
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The Divine Inside Me
I reflect often on the path humanity is on to discover this inner essence. It’s hard to maintain this perspective when my mind gets fearful

Shirley Riga
Sep 14, 20205 min read
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Listening to My Self-Talk
My awareness of my self talk leads me to discover what my beliefs are which leads me to find a remedy for...

Shirley Riga
Sep 13, 20206 min read
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My Guiding Lantern
The memory is in the lamp I hold up to the dark searching for respite. Where is my calmness? Where is my comfort?

Shirley Riga
Sep 12, 20205 min read
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Voices are being heard
Trees lose their loved ones and in their plight, they reach underground to each other to strengthen
their existence.

Shirley Riga
Sep 11, 20204 min read
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My Teacher
She was a caged butterfly needing space to fly free. Grief comes when it comes without an invitation.

Shirley Riga
Sep 10, 20205 min read
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My Higher Self is My Ally
It’s my choice whether I side with my Higher Self or feed the fear in my Lower Self. When I interact with my Lower Self, my Higher Self is..

Shirley Riga
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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You Are Worth the Inner Fight
It’s my job to love you and to hold you as you discover you are worth every teardrop and every fearful
Thought. You deserve the best.

Shirley Riga
Sep 8, 20205 min read
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Weaving Our Way Through Life
My meditative practice is in my recipe for survival through these tumultuous times.

Shirley Riga
Sep 7, 20206 min read
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The Valley of Detachment
Whenever I am asked to do something when I would rather be doing something else, I think of the dog keeper.
Thea Iberall
Sep 6, 20205 min read
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Old Stories New Beginnings
I am not my story. Sometimes grief consumes me and my day is encumbered with sadness. I remember my tools to help me move through my grief.

Shirley Riga
Sep 5, 20205 min read
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Finding a New Perspective
A change in perspective
Is refreshing as it’s so easy to get caught up
In the humdrum of life.

Shirley Riga
Sep 4, 20204 min read
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My Journal is the Meeting Room
I started a conversation yesterday with forgotten friends, long ago acquaintances I lost touch with, the younger me...

Shirley Riga
Sep 3, 20205 min read
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I Didn’t Know What to Expect
Safety always comes first, and in any transition, my safety is threatened no matter where I am. My body feels it first with stomach pain...

Shirley Riga
Sep 2, 20204 min read
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Training with Kindness
My old self would feel lost
amid the rocky goings-on
with fingers pointing at me
if something went wrong.

Shirley Riga
Sep 1, 20204 min read
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Naming Things
I can feel the fingers of expectation pressing on my shoulders, I can hear the lists of to do’s being read out loud slowly

Shirley Riga
Aug 31, 20205 min read
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Gifts of Hindsight
All these teachers in my life
gifted me with insights,
opened my heart, taught me compassion and self-respect

Shirley Riga
Aug 30, 20205 min read
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Our Stories
We all have stories. They define where we’ve been, who we are and where we’re going. True healing happens when our stories are heard.

Shirley Riga
Aug 27, 20205 min read
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My Anger Fuel
When anger is ignored, it’s a fuel that burns uncontrolled. Being creative helps me use my anger fuel.

Shirley Riga
Aug 26, 20205 min read
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A Meditation on Rocks
The sound they say was louder than anything ever heard except perhaps for the cry of the sailors, returning to find, instead of their homes,
Thea Iberall
Aug 25, 20206 min read
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