Posts tagged "Laurel Mellin"
Welcome Joy!

Welcome Joy!

Welcome joy!  What a lovely phrase… it makes my heart open and sing. Over the past several years I have been paying attention to my tendency to judge, be judgemental… toward myself, toward others.   I’ve written about this, felt into it…and am beginning to notice, with gratitude, that it seems to be softening, fading…  One of the fruits of this work is...
Wired for Joy!

Wired for Joy!

At last writing, I mentioned how important it had become for me, in dealing with my dark side and the pains that I’d been having, to ‘Find the Feelings, and Feel the Feelings.’  One of the tools (we could call it learning a new step in My Dance with Pain :-)), which  I have found extremely...

Cutting the Mustard

One of the first essays in BECOMING, is called Cutting the Mustard. It’s in the section Growing Up, and after spending a great deal of time with many of my grandchildren this summer, I am poignantly reminded of the wonders and challenges of this business of ‘growing up.’ Indeed, I think most of us never...