How to Be Alone
Some people can never be alone without anxiety and some people need lots of alone time to revitalize their souls. Kerry Slavens explores the difference between alone and lonely and shares a beautiful YouTube video she discovered called "How to Be Alone." [Read more]
A Mom’s Sacred Sanity Savour
A mom finds revitalizing 'me-time,' and away from the house and kids, on her weekly Sacred Saturday Sanity Savour. [Read more]
Synchronicity
When her friend's lover fakes his disappearance in an elaborate con job, Thriving on the Other Side finds herself overrun with memories of a similar situation that happened to her just three years before. [Read more]
Why Is This Fantastic News So Scary?
An author receives a personal phone call from a publisher, who is excited about publishing a book he has written. The author is not thrilled, as would be expected. He is terrified, and doesn’t know why. This is the first Life As A Human Post by Dan L. Hays whose writing about growing up in an alcoholic home has helped many people realize they are not alone. [Read more]
A Secular Buddhist View Of Spirituality
Secular Buddhism does not embrace any form of spirituality, including a belief in God, deities or souls, but it does not deny that there are forms and forces of nature beyond our five senses or our ability to comprehend them. To quote one of my earliest heroes, Arthur C. Clarke, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” [Read more]
Happy Birthday, Traci
According to Sean the whole island is going to be there. It will be the last chance for the locals to party together before the summer tourist weekend crowd gets there. Traci, the birthday girl will be putting on her usual show. She can be surprisingly... [Read more]
Awakening
A woman remembers how her mother rescued her from an abusive father and protected her from further abuse, yet she wonders why her mother shut the door on any kind of communication about 'what happened'? [Read more]
Tip on a Dead Junkie
I figured it was safer in the open. Dopers have an amazing calculus when they’re out of dope, when the sickness is on them, knowing that they need something now. I always believed the romance that junkies were fallen angels, had danced the Nutcracker, were just down on their luck, a day or two away from getting their “shit” together. Mostly though, they stole my wallet and my drugs and then they helped me look for them. [Read more]
11 Rules for Positive Memorable Experiences in Life and Business
Great thoughts and ideas flood to me when I am training. I need to train in order to maintain well being, health and positive flow. Recently, I was injured in a car accident and have been spiraling downward without my training routines, partners and places.... [Read more]
Hippie Lessons #2: To Live in Peace One Must be Peaceful
As the child of hippies living on a boat in Vancouver in the heart of the 60s, Christopher Holt learned a lot of his lessons and values from the hippie culture. As he explores in Hippie Lessons, most of those lessons and values are still valid — and more needed than ever. [Read more]
