My talk in Vegas at the Course in Miracles Conference
I’m thrilled to share my talk with you from the Community Miracles Center conference on A Course in Miracles in Las Vegas! My dear friend and colleague, Craig Villarrubia, and I co-facilitated the session. The title of our talk was Change Your Mind Through...Allow yourself to be exactly where you are at
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) meets you where you are at. Getting caught in thinking that you should be somewhere OTHER than where you are right now is a sticky ego trap. Instead, allowing yourself to be where you are creates an opportunity to be present to whatever is...
Helpful quotes for stepping out of your comfort zone
Stepping outside of your comfort zone can be scary. For instance, I used to have knee-knocking fears of public speaking. I remember one of my first presentations during my freshman year of college where I was so nervous that I was gulping for air, trembling, and...Undoing Anxiety with A Course in Miracles
It was an absolute JOY to be a guest on Craig Villarrubia’s Awakening with A Course in Miracles Google Hangout series. In this hour-long interview, we cover a variety of anxiety-busting ACIM-related thoughts and ideas. Good stuff. Here is a sample of what you...
Peace Pilgrim: 25,000 miles on foot for peace
In my journey to recovery from life-long anxiety issues, there have been several teachers and stories that have had a profound impact on my healing. One such story is the story of Peace Pilgrim. Peace Pilgrim was a woman who “vowed to remain a wanderer until...
How Anxiety About Surgery Created Miracles – Part II
As we allow blocks of fear to be undone in our own mind, it brings our mind closer to it’s natural state, which is a state of pure Love. Because we are not separate from one another, as we allow our own mind to be healed, it produces changes in others...
How Anxiety About Surgery Created Miracles: Part I
A couple of years ago I needed to go for surgery. Since A Course in Miracles has been my “operating system” since I first began studying it in 1997, I immediately began applying the principles of ACIM to the anxiousness I was experiencing. As a result of...
Instantly restore your peace with this “reset button” in A Course in Miracles
I used to be obsessed with a twisted cartoon from the 1990’s called Ren and Stimpy. In one particular episode, “Space Madness,” Stimpy the cat is told NOT to press a compelling big red button because it will erase time and space. Drawn to the...
How the comparison trap… can help you heal?
It is true! Falling into the comparison trap is an opportunity to heal the mind. If you are like most people, you’ve occasionally fallen into a trap of comparing yourself to others. This is a recipe for feeling like crap. Theodore Roosevelt summed it up...
Test Your Readiness to Let Go and TRUST
I used to repeatedly give my fears, beliefs, and perceptions over to Spirit within (our Inner Teacher) in order to receive a miracle (a shift in perception) instead. However, there is a section in A Course in Miracles that used to bug me. That section is “Should...The Link Between Anxiety and Honesty
At first glance, it might seem like honesty has nothing to do with anxiety. But if we look a bit deeper, being hard core honest is how we reclaim the Self we never lost. According to A Course in Miracles, honesty means consistency. Internal consistency calls forth...
