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The hidden dangers of positive thinking

Sometimes, thinking positively can hurt you. I know, it doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you expect me to say. I teach people how to raise their vibration and connect with their inner self, after all. But I also I teach people how to look, with emotional honesty, at the losses they’ve endured and…

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Book review: Expressive writing as a way of healing

A year ago I was in a very different place with my health than I am now. I weighed 30 lbs more than I do now. I was exhausted, recovering from things my health team couldn’t quite nail down but decided was a combination of adrenal fatigue, post viral syndrome, a reactivation of Epstein Barr…

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Book review: The Art of Communicating – learn to speak with compassion and kindness

I picked up the Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh at a little bookstore in Manzanita, Oregon, while I was on holiday. It called out to me. So I took it home. It took me a while to actually start reading it. (I have a massive pile of non-fiction, yet can’t seem to stop…

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What stops you from trusting and using your intuition and how do you change it?

Your intuition is a wonderful, innate source of knowledge, wisdom and guidance. If only tapping into it and trusting it was easier! Perhaps this sounds familiar: you’re going about your day and get a hunch about something. It could be that you should drive a different way to work, or there’s something going on with…

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Signs you’re probably dealing with unresolved grief

How do you know if you’ve experienced loss? It may seem like a silly question, but we often discount and minimize the real impact of our losses. We’re taught to do this by society and our family. It’s ingrained in us to get over and get on with things, which means we usually don’t give…

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Developing your intuitive hearing

Clairaudience, or clear hearing, is the ability to hear messages and information from Spirit in the form of music, sounds or voices. It’s one of the several intuitive senses including clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairgustience/clairgustance (clear tasting), clairallience/clairalience (clear smelling), clairsentience (clear feeling) and claircognizance (clear knowing). How does clairaudience manifest? Clairaudience feels different to different…