by Joe Birch | Mar 20, 2020 | Miscellaneous
As humans, we are hardwired with an automatic response to emergencies. The body is the first responder: With cues of danger in the environment, the sympathetic nervous system releases bursts of adrenalin and stress cortisol into the blood stream – to give us energy...
by admin | Mar 17, 2020 | Miscellaneous
There is no doubt that we are living in an historic time – filled with fear and uncertainty. Life as we know it around the world has been turned upside down. Much like the beginning of another world war, this is a war with an invisible enemy that brings death and...
by admin | Sep 27, 2019 | Miscellaneous
You know you are living in a STATE OF GRACE when all the parts of your day or your life fall into alignment. I am blessed by two passions: gardening and providing psychotherapy. It’s interesting because they have much in common: As a gardener, my creations are...
by admin | Jun 11, 2018 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
When my beloved Brutie Boy died on September 29, 2017, my heart was broken and I did not know if I wanted to continue living. The loss of a loved one envelops the survivor in a spiral of emotions: sadness, despair, abandonment, anger, fear, self-doubt, hopelessness,...
by admin | May 10, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In 2013, I sold Polish translation rights of my book CREATING A HEALTHY LIFE AND MARRIAGE to Purana Publishing. They changed the book cover and gave it the title WOUNDED HEARTS to appeal to the Polish people and culture. Although it was my heart’s desire to bless the...
by admin | Mar 20, 2018 | Lessons From Brutie and Hope
“Today we lost the heart of our family. We are struggling to recover our breath.” I want to thank God for giving us 14 wonderful years with Brutie. We adopted him in November 2003 and he blessed our lives beyond our wildest imagination: He brought us his boundless joy...
by admin | Mar 10, 2018 | Lessons From Brutie and Hope
For the last year-and-a half, I had the honor and privilege to focus the bulk of my time and attention on caring for my aging Brutie Boy. I had no idea that God would use those experiences to teach me lessons about myself and principles of life, love, hardship, death,...
by admin | Apr 12, 2017 | Developing Healthy Relationships
When I evaluate all of the pursuits available to man/woman kind, I believe that the very most fulfilling experience one can have in life is LOVING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, ANIMAL, PLANT, ENVIRONMENT, SPIRITUAL BEING, AND ONE’S SELF. I believe that certain keys are...
by admin | Sep 29, 2016 | Developing Healthy Relationships
While I was in Santa Fe this summer, my husband was busy preparing a secret 23rd anniversary gift for me – A GREEN HOUSE! Those of you who have been following my blogs for the last few years have read about my love for gardening and the trials and tribulations I had...
by admin | Sep 21, 2016 | Lessons From Brutie and Hope
Many of us are “living in chaos” – caring for elder animals, elder parents, special needs children, loved ones who have Alzheimer’s, cancer, and a myriad of life-threatening or debilitating illnesses. The needs of these loved ones impose a kind of chaos into our lives...
by admin | Aug 29, 2016 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
To me, this is a valid question for people of all ages, ethnicities, religions, and countries around the world. You see, each of us are human. Each of us are born, live, and die at some point. The value of this question helps us determine how we will live between the...
by admin | Aug 6, 2016 | Blessings from Nature
This summer, at my home in Santa Fe, I had the honor of witnessing the cycle of life with three sets of nesting birds and their babies, right outside my kitchen window. I saw the eggs being laid, the attentive mothers sitting on the eggs all day and night through the...
by admin | Mar 19, 2015 | Honoring Your Body
Today I would like to present a different concept of THE BODY: In Scripture, the body is said to be “the temple of the spirit.” I would like to expand this idea. I believe the body is a “sacred space” – designed and given to us by God – that contains our emotions,...
by admin | Feb 19, 2015 | Finding and Nurturing Your Spirit
I will be writing many articles about the concept of “the Spirit.” In this initial article I would like to define what I mean by the term. I believe that each person has an individual spirit and I believe there is a Higher Power that has a Spirit – which seeks to...
by admin | Feb 11, 2015 | Honoring Your Body
For many people, their body is the “vehicle” that drives their head around. These are the people who are always thinking, observing, calculating – who may have escaped their body in childhood to avoid the uncomfortable emotions and physical sensations that were housed...
