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I attended the Westport Writer’s Workshop this past Saturday. I wrote this during one of the intriguing exercises and thought you might like to read it. Jeanne What I Believe I believe we are built for wholeness Even if we spend our whole lives getting there Born whole – staying whole That seems like it…
I dropped an apple at the grocery store earlier today. Those thin plastics bags are really slippery, no? I felt the momentary temptation to put the apple back in the pile and select another. Yes, but then somebody else might take home a bruised apple. I didn’t like the feeling of that. So, I studied…
“A course correction of just one degree can make the difference between reaching land and drifting out to sea.” Jeanne C. Folks, DMin, LPC
“The reason mercy is so important is because we need so much of it.” Jeanne
We turn ourselves into a living indictment to the people who hurt us, because often, when we release our pain, there is a subconscious wrestling with justice that the person who hurt us is being let off the hook.
Consider . . . Strength is 10% muscle and 90% resilience.
“We all make mistakes. It’s what happens why you try.” Barack Obama This is my favorite quote of a turbulent week. It rises above all politics and prose. It, for me, is simply the truth. The first sentence of Mr. Obama’s statement is hardly news. His opine on the fact that we all make mistakes,…
Every once in a while someone will tell me that they really like keeping a journal. Many of these same people also tell me that they haven’t made a journal entry in a while. I suggested to one person recently that for now she might be building new experiences to write about later. Sometimes we…
“Whatever you do, do it with love. If you can’t do it with love it will be a dead end.” ∼ Jeanne
It can take a long time for some emotional wounds to form. It can also be surprisingly hard to know for sure when a wound is healing, especially at the beginning. Let’s think for a moment how these many wounds happen. Frequently they’re cumulative. A number of similar experiences or habits repeating over and over. …