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I was moved by the following quote from Father Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M.Cap, regarding the Holy Spirit: Every time someone has a genuine, strong experience of the Spirit, the most vivid memory of the moment that the person retains is of an intense perception of the Father’s love. Witnessing to this, someone said: “All my life…

As I sit down to write my Mother’s Day post, I am filled with both tears and goose bumps. Yesterday at the park I talked to a fellow preschool mom in length about her father, who left for a loaf of bread when she was one year old, and never came back. He had many…

Motherhood provides a host of useful lessons on how to live with mental illness, and vice versa. Here are just a few things the two have in common (in my opinion, of course): 1. Five years into both of them, plastic surgery is your only way of looking young again. 2. There’s only one boss,…

STOP MAKING BABIES! Love, Your Husband

In light of Mother’s Day this weekend, I thought I’d interview Cooper Munroe, one of the coolest moms out there in cyberspace who, with her friend Emily McKhann, started a website called themotherhood.com, one of the most comprehensive resources out there for moms. And trust me, I’ve been to a few. So I’m going to…

? On Cooper and Emily’s site, themotherhood.com, they post the following as their charter. I think it’s fabulous! We Know. We Believe. It’s Time. We know Becoming a mother means becoming a wholly new human being And that transformation can be overwhelming, exhilarating, confusing, wonderful, challenging We know When mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy We…

?? Over the weekend, I e-mailed my friend Priscilla Warner (who moderates the fantastic “The Faith Club” group in Beliefnet’s Community, to get to click here) to ask her what she does when she feels sad, when she experiences the emptiness in her heart, the hole in her soul that my writing teacher Laura Oliver…

Join the interesting discussion thread, “How Do You Fill the Hole in the Soul?” that I started a few days ago at Group Beyond Blue, which you can get to by clicking here. Lots of interesting suggestions are thrown out, such as this one from Group Beyond Blue member Lapatoso: “Find a tree to lie…

I am forever indebted to my writing instructor, Laura Oliver, for everything she taught me about the craft. But more importantly, she taught me how to go inside for what you need, and to try to resist the urge to feed addictive and self-defeating behavior. Here she is to say the same to you.

In her classic book, “The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,” Julia Cameron offers readers twelve ways to recover their sense of self or inner creativity. According to this artist, nurturing one’s creative powers is a spiritual exercise–and an antidote to (mild) depression and anxiety. “I have seen lives transformed by the simple…
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