Happy Birthday to my daughter Holly Jean

Happy Birthday Holly Jean I love you so much I never let you off my mind....

Garden Party at Midnight

Garden Party At Midnight
oil on canvas... work in progress

http://pl.st/p/18703007499

October Breast cancer month

My painting for the month of October
for breast cancer awareness month
in honor of my Mother, Jane
I Love and miss you so much
will see you again my beautiful Mama ♥

A Ride Back Home

http://youtu.be/QjJsUaILYk4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJsUaILYk4May 15, 2009 - 3 min - Uploaded by concordrecords
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Denial

The Language of Letting Go... Owning Our Energy

Monday, August 29, 2011

let go of

You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go

Owning Our Energy

Learn to keep your energy inside.
—From Women, Sex, and Addiction, Charlotte Davis Kasl, Ph.D.

For many reasons, we may have mastered the art of giving away our energy. We may have learned it when we were young because the feelings we had were too overwhelming to feel, and we did not know how to process them.

Much of our obsessing, our intense focus on others, is done to facilitate this "out of body" experience we call codependency.

We obsess, we babble, we become anxious. We try to control, care take, and fuss over others. Our energy spills out of us on to whomever.

Our energy is our energy. Our feelings, thoughts, issues, love, sexuality; our mental, physical, spiritual, sexual, creative, and emotional energy is ours.

We can learn to have healthy boundaries - healthy parameters - around our energy and ourselves. We can learn to keep our energy within ourselves and deal with our issues.

If we are trying to escape from our body, if our energy is spilling out of us in unhealthy ways, we can ask ourselves what is going on, what is hurting us, what we are avoiding, what we need to face, what we need to deal with.

Then, we can do that. We can come back home to live - in ourselves.

Today, I will keep my energy in my body. I will stay focused and within my boundaries. God, help me my need to escape myself. Help me face my issues so I am comfortable living in my

body.

communication

Spirit Struggle, oil on canvas by Kwhimsical420
Do you often plan out conversations in your head before you have them? Do you go to multiple people for advice on what to say? Do you “backpedal” in your communication meaning you think first about the end result you want and then script a conversation to create that result? Are you being strategic in your conversations more than you are being present and authentic? ~ Christine Hassler

Be Still

Be Still...Acryllic on canvas

The Spirit of Crazy Horse
charcoal on canvas