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- St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1345 - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1301(1 vote) - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1291 - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1126 - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1094 - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 997 - St. Germain and doing the "Up Spiral" - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2015 from Adele McDowellThis piece was written with through the generosity of St. Germain. All of us would all agree that life is going faster and faster by the minute. We can’t stay on top of everything, much less get everything done. And there is change everywhere. Much of what we have been taught as real is ...
Views: 1035 - The Seven Essential Questions - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2015 from Adele McDowellIt's spring here in the northeast. The forsythia branches are showing their first spurts of yellow; the air is warmer; and the puppy dogs on the street are friskier because the world is a-w-a-k-e and alive and full of good things to sniff out and smell. These spring energies of rebirth and ...
Views: 1187 - Fatherly thoughts - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2015 from Adele McDowellOver eight days in June, there is the trifecta of Father’s Day, my father’s birthday, and the anniversary of his death 36 years ago. If alive, my father would be 101 this year. This particular trio activates memories of a father who graduated a Jesuit college as a philosophy major (and, boy, ...
Views: 1303 - Opening our awareness to suicide - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2015 from Adele McDowellHeretofore, suicide has been a taboo topic. Now, it is so headline-making and societally embarrassing that clinicians and researchers are madly looking for answers and trying to quantify criteria. Why has suicide become so rampant? There are those that end their life by suicide from hearing ...
Views: 1589 - Gratitude, it's good medicine - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2014 from Adele McDowellGratitude is not a one-serving meal relegated to Thanksgiving and plates full of yummy traditions and comfort. Gratitude is an all-round accompaniment, perfect for gatherings, holidays, and quiet solitude. Gratitude travels well. It works in all kinds of weather and is never out of season, too ...
Views: 1382(1 vote) - Too nice? Have I lost my edge? - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellI have been called nice – a lot – frequently. I know people mean well, but nice can be…er, well…nice. It is so fluffy, so sweet, so damning with faint praise. There is no bite in nice – and that is precisely the point. Nice is toothless and gummy. It leaves no marks. Nice lacks gravitas. ...
Views: 2053(1 vote) - Stalled? Change One Thing - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellStalled, stuck, and procrastinating? Take heart, there is always a new day. There is always a new door to try. We, humans, want to be our better selves, we really do, but sometimes we get in our own way. Or we are just too comfy to let go of the old patterns. Or, like shiny things, everything ...
Views: 1265(2 votes) - Does the Soul Remember? - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellThere is much research being done around past-life memories and experiences. People undergo past life regressions with trained regression therapists or they have spontaneous memories. Perhaps, they have knowledge or a skill set for which they were not trained or a huge fear without any rational ...
Views: 1881(1 vote) - 10 Everyday Ways We Can Help Prevent Suicide - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellSuicide is a global epidemic. We are all connected. What can we do to make a difference? Here are 10 ways to tip the scales in a more favorable direction. Our every action, intention, and belief counts. 1. Be neighborly and reach out to decrease loneliness and isolation. 2. Become ...
Views: 1304(2 votes) - The Goody Good Girl Syndrome - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellWomen of certain generations were brought up to please, aid, assist, and make life easier for everyone. They were trained to be the most excellent of handmaidens and helpmates. It was their raison d’être. They were not to stand out, stand above, or be noticed. They were to be the silent and ...
Views: 2495 - Robin William's, the whole trip to Oz - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellThe shocking news of Robin Williams’ suicide has left us all heartbroken and reeling. Robin’s death seems so antithetical to the Robin we saw brimming with life. He took on the world with his cutting-edge humor and supersonic mind. He was a trip unto himself. We would stay up late knowing ...
Views: 1270 - Nine tips for a dealing with the quickening pace of 2015 - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2014 from Adele McDowellAre you too tired… too stressed …too everything? Are you filipendulous (hanging by a thread)? Do you frequently want to curl into a fetal position from overwhelm? Welcome to 2015, where the pace will be quicker. Y-e-s, quicker, so, hold on, lovies. Here are a few tips to help you ...
Views: 1132 - ***Core Exercises for Today’s Brave Lightworkers and Healers - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2014 from Adele McDowellIt is not easy being a lightworker and healer in today’s world. Challenges have been plentiful and hard-hitting and there have been portals of initiation that have moved you to a new platform, a new way of being. It’s as if you have stepped up and into an expanded perspective. ...
Views: 1178(1 vote) - ***PORTALS OF INITIATION FOR TODAY’S BRAVE LIGHTWORKERS AND HEALERS - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellWe would all agree that the world is fast, frenzied, and chock-a-block with sensory stimuli, challenges, and change. Where is terra firma, we might ask as we bend on our knees, take deep breaths, and straddle that big balancing board called life. We attempt to stay upright, but life does ...
Views: 1069 - ***Challenges for today’s brave lightworkers and healers - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2014 from Adele McDowellWe are rapidly moving forward with ping-ponging planetary activity. Our world course is hurtling towards a new consciousness. These shifts, changes, and transformations on both the micro and macro levels have not always come easily. Change can sometimes feel counter-intuitive, wrongly timed, ...
Views: 1732 - ***Word for the Year: congruence and resonance required - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2014 from Adele McDowellThe holidays have passed and we have settled into the new year. Might I suggest a focal point for your intentions and energies? I am not talking about the oft-forgotten resolutions. We all mean well and, at the time we announce our resolutions, we think this is the year. We are going ...
Views: 1180 - ***How are we changed by devastating loss? - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2013 from Adele McDowellIt is a tender day here in Connecticut. My eyes well with tears at the memory of the senseless shooting of beautiful, bright-eyed first graders, teachers, and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Loss is never easy. Loss of a child is especially traumatic. Loss of so ...
Views: 1225 - ***The “Holy Yes” and the “Hell No” method - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2013 from Adele McDowellThis world of ours is fast-paced and challenging. Time is elusive; personal energies fluctuate, and a healthy sense of self can get battered in the mix. Needless to say, we want to be happy, feel less stressed, have more satisfying relationships, get in better shape, have more adventures, feel ...
Views: 1311 - ***What I am grateful for this Thanksgiving - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2013 from Adele McDowellGenerally speaking, I am grateful type. I say, “Thank you, God” with regular frequency. I acknowledge drivers when they let me merge into traffic from an uphill entry ramp and am appreciative of any and all assistance, information, and service. Unexpected beauty in nature ...
Views: 1235(1 vote) - ***Six struggles and coping strategies for the motherless and unmothered - by Submitted on May 17, 2013 from Adele McDowellBeing without a mother is special kind of club. Only those that share the experience understand the profound ache for once what was or could have been. Mothers are lost for a myriad of reasons - be it childbirth itself, accident, illness, poverty, circumstances of family, culture, or fate, ...
Views: 2203 - ***The Forgiveness List - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2013 from Adele McDowellThere are days I feel like I am treading as fast as I can and barely can keep my head above water. Glub, glub, glub. Technology is wonderful, and, equally, it can be exhausting for me. My email in-boxes are full of great things I want to read and way too many good intentions on my part to ...
Views: 1843 - ***The Suspended Animation Blues - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2013 from Adele McDowellHave you ever felt that you are simply hanging in the middle of the time and space continuum? You have plans, an agenda, goals, deadlines, places to go, and people to see, but you find yourself stuck in an energetic void where nothing -- as in zippidy-do-dah -- is happening. You want it to ...
Views: 1616 - ***Being a parent during dark times - by Submitted on Dec 21, 2012 from Adele McDowellParents, by definition, have three primary roles. Their first duty is to cover the physical basics for their children. Food, a roof over their heads, shoes on their feet -- the rudimentary physical necessities of shelter, sustenance, and clothing. And under this rubric, there would ...
Views: 2292(1 vote) - ***PAST LIFE REGRESSION THERAPY OFFERS HOPE - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2012 from Adele McDowellThe new A&E/Biography channel documentary series, The UneXplained is taking a look at past-life regression therapy. New York City psychic, Joan Pancoe is featured this Saturday, September 15 at 10 p.m. EDT in an episode entitled “The Weight of My Past.” You will watch Joan doing past-life ...
Views: 1728(1 vote) - ***A lesson in grief - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis summer, I had the opportunity to visit sunny, palm-treed southern California, where it kisses the blue, blue of the Pacific Ocean. It is a beautiful part of the world. I had the great honor and privilege of presenting my new work -- and still in-process book – Making Peace with Suicide at ...
Views: 2682(1 vote) - ***Are you or someone you love going through health hell? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis and you are trying to keep it together for family and friends. There are days you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2173(1 vote) - ***Are you going through health challenges hell? - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellBad diagnosis? Very bad diagnosis? Are you trying to keep it together for family and friends? There are days when you are so freakin’ tired and scared out of your socks. You beg and plead with God, “Please let me see my daughter make it through high school.” You hold on to every slimmer of ...
Views: 2051(2 votes) - ***Got hope? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2012 from Adele McDowellHope … it’s a wonderful four-letter word. Hope offers possibilities; hope suggests that the good will prevail. It makes us happy. It fills us with expansiveness and can make our tight, constricted worlds crack open with a little wiggle room for the good stuff to find its way. Hope has us ...
Views: 2054 - ***How can you be happy if you are never enough? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellThis is what I call my riff on happiness and self-acceptance. It came out of a maddening conversation with a client who has struggled with finding happiness and feeling as if he is never enough. How can you be happy if it’s never enough, not ok enough, good enough, successful enough, famous ...
Views: 2264(2 votes) - ***Where can you go when you run from the madness of overwhelm? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Adele McDowellIt’s too much. It’s way too much. You just can’t take one more something to remedy, re-organize, or create anew. You have been chugging right along, working to keep pace with everything that has come your way. There have been moments when you have been breathless. Yet, you have persevered. ...
Views: 2431(2 votes) - ***Ernest Hemingway, Oprah, and my new spiritual discipline - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2012 from Adele McDowell“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.” That’s how it started. Those six words, we are told, are the shortest of Hemingway’s short stories. And those provocative words inspired Smith Magazine writer and editor, Larry Smith to challenge his Smith Magazine web readers to describe their lives in a ...
Views: 3927(2 votes) - ***Packing your cosmic backpack for the Big Shift - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2012 from Adele McDowellThe world is changing at break-neck speed as we inch ourselves closer and closer to the planetary shifts of consciousness and being. And, as with any new birth, there will be some pain, contractions, doubt, fear and maybe, even, a bit of panic as we work to bring forth a bouncing new world that ...
Views: 2535(1 vote) - ***Crazed by the holidays? Six steps to avoid overwhelm - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellOMG! The holidays are here. Are you ready? Good God, I’m not -- even though I swore up and down that I would be all wrapped and carded by Thanksgiving. Well, such is the way of my good intentions when life does life. I am guessing you can relate. It’s not too late to find help. Here are six ...
Views: 2791(3 votes) - ***Mental health needs a booster shot - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe majority of mental health practices are deeply rooted in the medical model, knee-deep in the latest edition of the DSM to provide diagnostic labels and entrenched with pharmaceutical solutions. And much of this is aided and abetted by the insurance companies who look to quantify and contain ...
Views: 2732(1 vote) - ***Five ways to deal with today’s chaotic energies - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you feel the energies bumping up against you? One minute, you feel pushed; the next minute, pulled. One minute, you’re ok, and the next minute, you’re not. It’s chaotic out there. Our world is in flux; nothing feels normal anymore. Disasters are becoming way too familiar, and terra ...
Views: 3494(2 votes) - ***A psychologist’s suicide - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellThe word came last week that a friend and colleague, a clinical psychologist, had committed suicide. She had suffered a hammering of profound losses and fell into a deep hole of depression. She had placed herself in good professional hands, was hospitalized for two weeks, and released with ...
Views: 5385(1 vote) - ***The skinny on mindless eating research - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from Adele McDowellAccording to Brian Wansink, Ph.D.’s research, we typically make 200+ food choices a day. Wansink, a professor of marketing at Cornell University and author of Why We Eat More Than We Think: Mindless Eating, has devoted his career to researching why we eat and make the food choices we do. He is ...
Views: 2276(1 vote) - ***Five ways to be happier, steadier, and more balanced in today’s upside-down world - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2011 from Adele McDowellCan you remember when you last felt happy, really happy? Would you like to feel steadier in a healthy, mind-body way that does not involve pharmaceuticals? Is straddling a teeter-totter the last time you consciously considered balance in your life? Today’s topsy-turvy world has us all ...
Views: 3929(3 votes) - ***Showered with blessings? - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellRob Brezny's book Pronia is the Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings "an extensive array of experiments, games, rituals, and meditations you can use to boost your levels of ingenious happiness." His work is fun, outrageous, provocative, earthy, and will up ...
Views: 2524(1 vote) - ***Psychic swamps and camp guru - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellI’m in a strange place these days, nothing feels right. My skin is itchy; my allergies have run amok. On top of that, I am irritable and sensitive and there is not enough chocolate in the contiguous united of states to keep me satisfied. I am cranky. And why, you might ask? I have no real ...
Views: 2310(1 vote) - ***This year, I choose surrender - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Adele McDowellMy dear pal, Debbie, passed along this birthday ritual. On your birthday, you choose one word to be your focus for the coming year. Once, I chose the word “sparkle” – just the thought of it made me happy. This year, my word arrived unbidden with cat-like stealth and sure-footed certainty. It ...
Views: 2593(2 votes) - ***Redemption in Joplin - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2011 from Adele McDowellHome again, home again, jiggedy jig. I am back in Connecticut after three weeks of Red Cross deployment in Joplin, MO. I arrived in Joplin eight days after the tornado. Everything was still chaotic -- and my repeated response to viewing what was termed “the footprint,” the 6 x 1 mile area of ...
Views: 2289(1 vote) - ***Overworked? Seven strategies to help you cope - by Submitted on May 06, 2011 from Adele McDowellAre you screaming unmentionables in your head all day long? Do you feel like the character in the movie, Network, bellowing out the window for all the world to hear, “I’m mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore?” Do you fantasize about walking away from your job when you are within ...
Views: 5117(2 votes) - Pay It Forward - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2011 from Adele McDowellSomeone wise once said, “If you have much, give your wealth; if you have little, give your heart.” And here is the perfect occasion: Thursday, April 28 is international Pay It Forward Day. Based on the 2000 movie of the same name, Pay It Forward is the concept of doing a good deed for ...
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