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Holding a Grudge: Drinking Poison and Expecting the Other Person to Die

Holding a Grudge: Drinking Poison and Expecting the Other Person to Dieby Joyce Vissell. Is there a resentment that lives inside of you? When we first started our counseling practice, a woman came to us that had been raped. We asked her to try forgiveness and compassion. She looked at us like we were crazy. One month later...

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Home Massage for Families: Learning How To Touch & Be Touched

Home Massage for Families: Learning How To Touchby Chuck Fata & Suzette Hodnett. Our first experience with touch is our mother's loving caress in our home. Within our family we learn how, when and where to touch. Yet natural touch among family members is an often neglected means of communication...

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How to Heal a Painful Family Relationship

How to Heal a Painful Family Relationshipby Mary Hayes Grieco. Our relationships with parents, children, siblings, and spouses can be very complex puzzles of love and frustration — we can’t live with them and can’t live without them. We often have long-held patterns and painful feelings related to our sense of worth and family members can trigger these patterns or painful feelings in the present.

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Ideas for Mothers' Day

Gail Mitchell

Whether your mother lives in her own home, with you, in a facility, or a long distance from you, there are many things you can do to make Mothers' Day a special day for her. * Plan to spend loving, compassionate, quality time with her. * Engage her in discussions about her past and where she is now in this stage of her life...

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Creating a Joyful Environment

Scary NewsIn a world where negativity seeps into every corner of our lives and whatever is gross, weird, or shocking is considered hip and appropriate for children, we must find ways to create a home environment that promotes positive thinking and joyful attitudes. Create a fortress of beauty, hope, and peace where we can relax and remind ourselves that these things are a reality, too.

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Biological Family Lessons

biological familyby John Payne. The family blueprint that you inherited was chosen by you because it provided you with opportunities to develop in the areas you had previously selected. Perhaps you wanted to develop the art of forgiveness, understanding, compassion, determination, courage, or any number of...

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Birth Order Personalities

 Birth Order Personalities develop as coping strategies each one of us used as children to make ourselves feel okay in our particular positions in the family. Think about this: A second-born child is surely going to act differently than the first-born, even if they both have the same hair, the family gap between their two front teeth, and big feet.

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What is Family Karma?

Ashok Bedi, M.D.Of course, your ancestors can and do leave behavioral and attitudinal legacies that help you actualize your innate potentials. Mingled with ancestral legacies we discover blessings as well as curses. You can take a major step toward maturing when you can see and accept both the good and the bad in other...

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Abuse & Incest: A Healing Journey

I was sexually abused - for 8 years. By my brother. There it is, out in in the open for everyone to know. No lies, no stories, just the truth and me. I am tired of secrets and hush hushes behind the door. It happens, and no one wants to talk to about it. Can you imagine the furor that would have been caused if I had come forward and said, as the daughter of a protestant minister, that I was being sexually abused by my own brother.

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Gifts From Your Family of Origin

gifts from your family of origin

Donna Martin

The way you see your own family  of origin may be affected by your unique genetic temperament as well as by your childhood experience. Your life journey began with your parents or primary caregivers, and your childhood experience of gifts, hurts, and disappointments: these became the very foundation of your ideas about love and pain.

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Caregiving -- A Gift that Heals

Caregiving --  A Gift that Healsby Connie Goldman. People have told me many stories of difficult mother-daughter relationships that healed through caregiving. Their stories have given me the gift of healing. Forgiveness, compassion, acceptance, and love grow through empathy for and understanding of the experiences of others...

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Family: Different Roles, Similar Lessons

Kathryn Andries, author of the article: Different Roles, Similar Lessons

by Kathryn Andries.

The family unit is a complex mixture of personalities who come together to learn, heal, and love. It is the first place we begin our Earthly journey. Family is instrumental in helping us fulfill our soul's purpose by helping us learn karmic lessons and providing an environment in which we can develop our gifts and talents.

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