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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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Awareness Helps Educate
As a member of Spiritual Directors’ International, I participated in a Native American Spirituality workshop. The messages were profound.

Shirley Riga
May 18, 20215 min read
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Courage to be Accountable
I’ve decided to put a wall mirror in my meditation room. Nothing fancy. Just something I can gaze at to reinforce my accountability.

Shirley Riga
May 17, 20218 min read
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Practicing
Last week was full of doctors’ appointments. I don’t like focusing on my body. I’d rather feel and sense life through my heart’s eyes.

Shirley Riga
May 16, 20215 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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Journal Power
I was committed to suffering. It hurt too much to do anything else. But journaling changed my life.

Shirley Riga
May 14, 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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Infusion of inspiration
With open arms I welcome Spring with the newness, the color and warmth. Inspiration offers an overall dose of good. So I made a decision.

Shirley Riga
May 12, 20215 min read
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Space to Unfold
In my awake times when I am surrounded by responsibilities and timelines day after day, I often feel the weight of life’s challenges.

Shirley Riga
May 11, 20216 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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Our Higher Self is the True Mother
I kept having a dream last night, my children suffering. It's so difficult to feel helpless when a loved one suffers. Easier to blame myself

Shirley Riga
May 9, 20216 min read
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Seven Directions
When I'm in the unfamiliar, I disappear. I steady my breath. Today, I step over the threshold into my alignment.

Shirley Riga
May 8, 20216 min read
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Feeling Unloved
For years I have been telling myself a story that begins on my first birthday when my sister was born with a hole in her heart.
Nancy Bragg
May 7, 20217 min read
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My Intentional Threshold
I’ve been thinking about the power of intention as plans come together for a getaway. I set an intention for a commitment ritual for myself.

Shirley Riga
May 6, 20216 min read
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Friend or Companion
The friendships never went anywhere and I couldn't understand why. What was it about me? Was something wrong with my personality?
Thea Iberall
May 5, 20218 min read
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The Process of Letting Go
Some pain is so great that it's necessary to hold onto it to give it the significance it deserves. Anything short of that trivializes it.
Thea Iberall
May 3, 20215 min read
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To Let Go is Not to Deny, but to Accept
Yesterday, I surrendered. I cried. It was a windy day. I sat outside in the sunshine, I closed my eyes and saw sands blowing in the wind.

Shirley Riga
May 2, 20219 min read
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I Want to Be All of Me
Another evening of terror dreams from the pot I stirred leaving me tired but determined to conquer my fears.

Shirley Riga
May 1, 20215 min read
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Hello Core Belief!
A concept is an idea or notion conceived in the mind. I developed a belief I was unsafe if I was misunderstood. How to release it?

Shirley Riga
Apr 30, 20218 min read
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The Stages of Learning
In psychology, there is a model called the four stages of competence. Can I apply this model to the new tools I learn in our incubator?
Thea Iberall
Apr 28, 20215 min read
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