Love is not earned. It is not something you ‘deserve’ if you meet certain conditions set down by others or society. Conditional love is an oxymoron. If it’s conditional, it’s not love. It’s coercive control.We often think of this in terms...
There’s a concept in A Course in Miracles called ‘no private thoughts’. As it suggests, it speaks to the idea that instead of trying to hold thoughts in our private brain somewhere and keep them secret (normally for fear of being judged somehow), we...
What I’m learning about love…We think that if we love too much, we will somehow run out.We’ve all had the experience of loving someone or something so much, that when we don’t get back what we expected, wanted or thought we deserved, we feel...
I had this quote printed and framed to hang in my kitchen. It means I get to read it many times a day.I’m also getting plenty of opportunities to learn what it means and practice it.For those who don’t know, I’m currently in a year long ministerial...
I’ve counselled enough immigrant parents over the years to have learned that the phrase ‘it takes a village’ could not be more accurate.I moved to Portugal to find my own village. Despite being very happy in splendid isolation in the middle of the...
When we put boundaries in place we’re not saying ‘I reject you’ but instead ‘I reject this version of you which you are currently choosing because I know it’s not the truth of who you are’.A Course in Miracles teaches that we are...
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