| To all the Magnificent
Spiritual Beings who find their way to this page on my web site - including,
of course, those of you on my e-mailing list,
Happy Spring to all you Radiantly
Beautiful Spiritual Beings,
I have great news from the recent past, and exciting
news about the future to share with you in this Update. The great news
is that - with the generous donations of close to 100 of you (in response
to the special Help
message I sent out), and a kind loan, I was able to keep my book Codependence:
The Dance of Wounded Souls in print.
Hurrah!!!
I will discuss a little more about that - and
the personal importance to me of the exciting new development - in the
Newsletter portion of this Update below (this
turned into a 2 part update - so Newsletter portion is on another page.)
The exciting new development involves a series
of intensive workshops to train people in my Spiritual Integration approach
to inner healing. The pioneering aspect of my work - that has been
accurately described as taking people to a powerful new level of healing
/ recovery / spiritual awakening - involves a formula for integrating the
belief of a Loving Higher Power / Force / Great Spirit into one's emotional
relationship with life and self in a way that helps people to find unprecedented
freedom from the past (the old tapes / intellectual programming from childhood
and emotional / inner child wounds) while learning to relax and find some
inner peace and enJoyment in life as an adventurous journey, instead of
continuing to emotionally react to life as if it is a test that we can
fail.
(I will include a few quotes immediately below
this table from some pages of my site that are focused on spirituality
/ Spirituality for anyone unfamiliar with how I use the term.)
The approach that I discovered in my personal
recovery - and developed in my work with others - is the missing integration
formula that people in recovery, on a healing / spiritual path have been
seeking for years. We can have lots of intellectual knowledge of
what constitutes healthy behavior, and multiple spiritual experiences,
but until we can integrate knowing / Knowing into our emotional relationship
with self and life it is not possible to fundamentally change our behavior
patterns - especially, and most importantly, our behavior patterns in intimate
relationships.
There are many teachers, books, etc., these days
that will tell you that the goal is to learn to Love your self - but no
one really tells you how to do that. That is what the approach to inner
healing - that I have been gifted with developing - facilitates.
It is a blueprint for how to actually start relating to your self more
Lovingly - how to not only start having more capacity / freedom to "be"
present in the moment, but also how to consciously learn to manifest more
Love in how you treat your self moment to moment, day to day.
"Love is a verb - it needs to be manifested
in action not just contemplated intellectually. You can not learn
to Love yourself - or be capable of having healthier relationships - without
taking action to change your core / foundation relationship with self and
life into one that is more aligned with Love. This inner child healing
work is an effective and powerful formula that allows you to learn:
to be more Loving to self; to gain some freedom from the past;
to develop inner peace and serenity; to own your response-ability
as co-creator of your life so that you can become a positive co-creator
instead of negative (learn to be your own best friend instead of your own
worst enemy); to start relaxing and being present for your life in
a way that creates a more balanced and enjoyable experience. I highly
recommend it." - Inner
Child Healing = a path to freedom, serenity, and empowerment
What I do is teach people how to set internal boundaries
to take power away from the critical parent voice / negative childhood
programming - and to Loving parent the emotionally wounded inner child
places within. This approach is described on my web site in the inner
child healing section - but it is very helpful to be able to hear it
described in detail while being able to ask questions about specific aspects
of the healing. It is what I teach people in the telephone
counseling that I offer, but even though work on the phone allows people
to ask questions and hear described the different aspects of the process,
it is not as powerful as being able to absorb the information in person
in the company of others who are seeking answers. There is a magic
in people coming together to heal - a magic that is based in the metaphysical
laws of energy interaction.
"Whenever two or more are gathered in the
name of Love and Truth, in the name of healing, there is incredible power.
Any single soul's evolution, its awakening, affects
all souls because we are all connected. . . . . . .
A single soul's healing advances the healing of
all souls - imagine the power of two or more." - Codependence:
The Dance of Wounded Souls
In childhood, we learned to be negative co-creators
in our life - we were conditioned to allow emotional wounds and dysfunctional
programming to dictate our relationship with self, life, and other people.
As I state on my Telephone Counseling Testimonial page, this inner work
will help you to transition into becoming a conscious, positive co-creator
in your life.
"So, what I am saying here is, doing this telephone counseling
is not a instant fix. It can help you magically transform
your life. It will give you tools, techniques, and perspectives
that will help you learn to stop being your own worst enemy and stop feeling
like life is a test that you are failing. It will help you to Lighten
up and relax enough to start being more alive instead of just surviving
and enduring. It will help you learn to start trusting and Loving
your Self. To paraphrase what one of my phone clients said in feedback
below: I am not going to give you a "fish" - a lifetime supply of
food, show you the hidden door to happily-ever-after - I am going to teach
you how "to fish" - take Loving control of your own inner process - so
that you can own your power to be a conscious, Loving, co-creator
in your life." - Telephone
Counseling Testimonials
I actually do give people "fish" - that is tools, techniques, perspectives,
insights, etc. - that will help them get through the day. But the
goal of the work is to empower individuals to learn "how to fish" - to
learn how to take Loving control over your own internal process while accessing
intuitive guidance from your own Spirit / Higher Self / Higher Power.
This work can empower you to not only to find inner peace / stop the war
within - to learn to "be" present for your life journey today with the
capacity to be happy, Joyous, and free in the moment - but is also the
key to healing your fear
of intimacy enough to learn how to open up to Love and be healthier
in a romantic relationship.
I am very excited about doing these workshop - which will begin with
one in San Francisco on April 23rd, and if successful, will follow about
once a month in such places as Los Angeles, San Diego, and Las Vegas (and
hopefully, in the future, include cities across the country.)
I am also working on developing a 3 or 4 day intensive experience that
hopefully will become a reality soon - and am considering a training program
for other healers who want to learn to facilitate this work. To get
information about these new intensive training days, go to the Intensive
Training Day page. To sign up to be notified by e-mail any time
I add new information or locations to the upcoming
appearance page you can go
here.
The Day of Intensive Training that I will be doing in San
Francisco will be for 8 hours. I will also be doing a
short presentation / workshop
at the Southbay CoDA Spring Mini Conference on Saturday April 29th
in Santa Clara. (I
will not be in Santa Clara on the 29th) Other
additions (listed in the right column): include two new articles from my
series on A Higher Power of my own understanding - including one
I wrote after my fathers death that I will be referring to in the Newsletter
below; an article in my Fear of Intimacy series Fear
of Intimacy - Relationship Phobia that I belatedly realized I
had not linked to my site index page - which spurred me to do some reorganization
of the suite article section on that site
index page; I updated my Suite101
articles page - including some notes on why I am no longer writing
for them; I have added a new batch of heart
warming testimonials to the Testimonial
page for my book, tapes, and website; several new resources were
added to the Referral to local
Resources page; some new Awards were added to my Awards
page; and on one of my Handout
pages (there are 3 of these listed on the siteindex
page - and I decided to add them to the right hand column here) - the
original source of the valuable handout Characteristics of Adults Shamed
in Childhood has been identified.
Also, due to the reorganization of Suite101, the
pages on which it is possible to buy the 2 e-books of my articles have
disappeared. Here is the link to purchase
those e-books: Dysfunctional Relationship Dynamics
~ Healthy Relationship Behavior and Inner Child Healing: The Path
to Empowerment, Inner Peace, and Freedom from the Past (both are made
up of articles available on my site at this time. I am thinking of
bringing these out as print on demand books, and will decide then if I
am going to leave all of them available on the regular site.)
In addition I added some international offers to the Special
Offers page that I put up for the Holiday Season and decided to leave
up indefinitely because it offers some phone counseling packages that have
not been available previously - as well as some offers for copies of my
book and/or tapes along with the pay to view sections of my site: The Joy2Meu
Journal and Dancing
in Light. Subscriptions to those pages are also gifted
to people who make donations to Joy2MeU - as noted on the Help
page and the page Metaphysical Law: Giving
and Receiving
Donations
/ Love Offerings. |
Additions to the web site since the January
Update include:
Two new articles from my series on A Higher
Power of my own understanding:
God the
Father, and my father
Quantum
Physics - expanding my Spiritual paradigm
Major news:
I am offering for the first time, a day
long intensive training
in San Francisco on April 23rd.
In addition:
Last year I added to Joy2MeU.com
an article in my Fear of Intimacy series Fear
of Intimacy - Relationship Phobia that I neglected to add a link
to on my site index page and I did some reorganization of the suite article
section on that site index page.
I added a new batch of touching
Testimonials
for the book, tapes, and web site.
New resources have been added to
the Referral to local Therapist / Counselors
page for resources in Texas and California.
Some new Awards were added to my
Awards
page.
I added some international offers to the Special
Offers page that I put up for the Holiday Season and decided to leave
up indefinitely because it offers some phone counseling packages that have
not been available previously.
I was made aware of the original author of Characteristics
of Adults Shamed in Childhood - a very helpful list that is included
on one of my handout pages - and decided to list all three of those handout
pages here.
The Serenity
Prayer for Codependents
Some versions of the Serenity Prayer, a Personal
Bill of Rights, Characteristics of Adults Shamed in Childhood,
and some possible signs of Hidden Anger.
The
10 Commandments of Self Esteem
Also includes: The Rules for Being Human and Risking.
Twisted
Codependent thinking
Also includes: One Day at a Time, As a Person
I have the Right to, and a discussion of some metaphysical levels of
The
Growth / Recovery Process.
I updated my Suite101
articles page - including some notes on why I am no longer writing
for them:
October 2005
Higher
Power of my own understanding - final word
Links to past Update Newsletters
for the Joy2MeU site (launched February 4, 1999) can be found on the Information
index page. Links to the Newsletters of my original Joy to You
& Me web site (launched February 28, 1998) can be found on the Joy
to You & Me page which list pages from that site not moved to Joy2MeU.
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