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Tips for Dissolving Fear with Love

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Typically, in Chicagoland there is an unpredictable period between Winter ending and Spring beginning.  The temps warm up enough to melt snow and ice and for men to wear shorts and hoodies to stores and women ditch their winter parkas. We get overly confident that Winter is done.  Quickly the temperature plummets and it freezes […]

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Creating a Year in Review

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What do you do to wrap up the year?  Celebrate with a big party surrounded by your group of friends?  Or a nice dinner out with your partner or loved ones?  Do you stay in with family, eating appetizers all night, playing board games, and watching the world ring in the new year on tv?  […]

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Meditation with Fresh Eyes

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I have been practicing this new thing. Well, not an actual new concept to myself or the world. But new because I am practicing it with fresh eyes. After I finish my meditation, I have been journaling.  (That part isn’t new.) Not about hopes and desires.  Not about dreams and wishes.  Not about intentions and […]

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Healing Compassion Fatigue with Mindfulness

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“We are living through the most exciting, challenging, and critical times in human history—possibly the most critical time in the history of life on Earth. Never before has so much been possible; never before has so much been at stake.  And never before has the rate of change been so fast. We are being led […]

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