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The Brave Ones Have you ever met a brave hearted individual? I have. Every time I facilitate an Emotional Healing Through Forgiveness© workshop I meet brave hearted people. What are these folks like? No two are the same. Some are tall, others are short. They are formally dressed, casually dressed and some are well tattooed.…

Willing to Trudge Recently, I picked up Bill Bryson’s book, A Walk in the Woods. This book chronicles his adventure of walking the Appalachian Trail back in 1996.  Though I’ve never undertaken such a long and arduous walk as he wrote about, I have slung a backpack onto my shoulders and trudged down trails in…

Starting Out Vulnerable Everyone of us is born dependent, unguarded and completely innocent. As for me, I was fortunate enough to have two parents and five older siblings who cared for me and cared about me.  Even though I grew up in a noisy and chaotic home, someone was always there to feed me, change…

 Discomfort Discomfort is discomforting. Whether our ache, pain, difficulty or tribulation is physically or emotionally felt, we want relief. In our discomfort we long for comfort. But, to find that consolation, we may have to unlearn what we’ve previously learned about discomfort.  My mother was the one who taught me how to deal with the…