Category: Uncomfortable Conversations
Navigating Attacks on Your Beliefs: A Guide to Graceful Responses
Navigating attacks on your beliefs is not something we talk about enough and perhaps we should. Such confrontations often come at the most inconvenient times, catching us off guard. Unfortunately, we don’t discuss this enough in spiritual communities, leaving many unprepared for these challenging interactions. While discussing these interactions won’t make past experiences better, it […]
The Role of Privilege in Spirituality: Examining Power Dynamics in Mediumship
Exploring Privilege in Spiritualism: Making Spirituality Accessible for All We hear a lot about privilege these days. My husband and I talk about it frequently. As I explore the history of Spiritualism, I see it played out. Spirituality is for everyone, but it is not easily accessible to everyone. There are so many things that […]
Embracing Mistakes and Failures
Embracing mistakes is not a feeling that is good and positive. But what if I told you that some of the best lessons in life that you learn will be from mistakes. Society always celebrates only the winners, so it can make mistakes and failure uncomfortable for you. Some things to think about include: Embracing […]
A talk about Belief Systems (AKA: Religion)
Belief Systems are deeply personal. Many feel very passionately about their belief system. Too often people get stuck in the dogma and they do not change and grow. In Religious people, I see that happening all to often. In many cases it is the traditions that keep thing the same. As the (insert Religion here) […]
Psychic Fairs – An Uncomfortable Conversation…
I originally wrote this uncomfortable conversation in 2018. It was a way to have a serious dialogue that needs to be opened about Psychic Fairs. Ultimately it affects the end consumer — those looking for a reading. Good practitioners are being harmed by poorly run psychic fairs and metaphysical events. It is time to talk […]
You Are Not Alone
You Are Not Alone Though it may feel like like it, you are not alone in struggling to navigate the dynamics of family relationships. Family relationships are not always easy. There are divorces, stepparents, siblings and sibling rivalries. Step-brothers and sisters, half-brothers and sisters, in-laws. Aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents. Deaths. Births. All […]
Creating Boundaries between Work and Home
Let Go of the Work Day and Make Your Evenings More Joyful Creating boundaries with work from your home life has become difficult. Prior to the pandemic we always felt the need to check in when we were home. Now many of us are working at home and the lines are blurred resulting in burnout. […]
Navigating Social Media Positively: 5 Techniques to Mitigate Adverse Impact
It is the first of the year and like me you may want to start the year and mitigate adverse impact that social media has in your life. There’s no denying that there’s a lot of good that we can take from social media. The most important is that it allows us to connect with […]
Have the courage to ask for what you want
Have the courage to ask. Sounds simple until you sit down and decide what it is that you desire. Because you can’t ask for everything all at once. Just by asking doesn’t mean that it will happen. You will have to put some serious work in to make it happen. For way too long I […]
Drama Queen Driving You Crazy?
Drama Queens Are Gender Neutral I have always loved the term ‘Drama Queen’. The vision of Mae West dramatically throwing her feather boa over her shoulder and strutting out of the room while all eyes are glued on her departure. What I DON’T love is the actual presence of a Drama Queen in my life on […]