For the past five months I have been using Dave Ramsey’s Zero Balanced Budgeting system, stuffing envelopes full of cash after every paycheck… let me tell you, it has worked wonders for me and given me a sense of empowerment around my finances. I have more saved than ever and I have a plan of…
Author: JessIca
Thinking About Death: Tales from Hospice Take 1
I recently was given two new hospice patients… Ah what a blessing it is to work with human beings who are, and know they are, about to die. They are different than normal humans who believe death is far off in their future, these people know what is upon them, they have nothing left to…
Your Real Self
“…You must have Seen yourself by now – I mean the real Self. It must have at least passed close by one day, maybe even stepped on your toes. Or drafted you somewhere. That Self, upon your seeing it, gave you the idea of how eternity could be endured, because of a tremendous enchantment you…
Silence to Transcend
Three days facebook free. It feels FREEING, empowering, wonderful. I do not miss John Doe posting about his gym workouts or Jane Doe posting about her baby and her empowerment seminar she’s holding, or things people are complaining about or feel the need to share publicly. I had a thought today as I was driving…
Golden Year Golden Silence
“For now she need not think of anybody. [[She could be herself, by herself.]] And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense…
Week 7 Presence Process Meditation
I have been participating in the book, “The Presence Process” by Michael Brown and it has been a wonderful journey full of feeling, integrating, crying, meditation, and affirmation.. consciously choosing to show up in life rather than react. I always start the next week’s chapter on a Monday so yesterday I read the chapter for…
The End of 2014
Today, Tuesday December 29th, between running here and there to do this and that I was fortunate enough to pop in to a Starbucks to have my grande Americano while listening in to call #2 of a three day Healing with the Masters ‘Setting up your New Year Right’ starring Jennifer McLean, Jarrad Hewett (myman!),…
Sunday Morning Heart Space
Who looks out through these eyes? Who feels with this heart? A moment alone in the temple this morning to ponder these things. To cry about the suffering of the world. To grieve….To Love….To ask that humanity realize [we are all One] and that we learn to live in Peace and Brotherhood (which is really…
Being Gentle with Ourselves
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” Buddha For the past two-and-a-half years in San Diego…