A Healing Spirit

How being broken is part of letting go

Carol Cassara — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:52:02 +0000

More wisdom on the idea that letting go of things that weren’t ours to hold on to makes room for better things to happen. The sooner we get that everything in life is a lesson the happier we become. Nothing can shake us because we know the purpose of everything that goes on.

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How hard goodbyes have an upside

Carol Cassara — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:17:59 +0000

Sometimes the hardest goodbye opens the door to the sweetest hello. “I‘ve got to close some doors before I can be open to something new,” a sage friend said to me last week. She’s right. And so I’ll just let the idea sit right here so we can think about how that might have applied Read More

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How to live with joy through the gritty stuff

Carol Cassara — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:49:19 +0000

Sometimes, it’s difficult to live with joy. You probably know plenty of people facing big challenge, trials and tribulations. In fact, the world is full of them. Where I live, fire has taken so much from people. And I know many others with health challenges. Financial challenges. Grief. Heartache. Life can be difficult. Sometimes, the Read More

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How we are what we judge

Carol Cassara — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:49:58 +0000

Oh, how I wish I were perfect! But of course, I’m not. And just like anyone else, I judge others. Judging can be a knee-jerk reaction to things that we think that we would not do. Or how we think we are not. But my favorite spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, teaches us that judgements are Read More

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What to do when the reality of aging hits

Carol Cassara — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:06:22 +0000

M and I were talking the other day about how our thoughts on aging and mortality have changed in recent years. I’m 67 and he’s 70–and if someone had mentioned those ages to me just 15 years ago I would have considered them “old.” Until my mid-50s and maybe even 60, aging never occurred to Read More

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What is at stake? Your beautiful soul

Carol Cassara — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 09:50:57 +0000

You’re not different than I am. We have changes that we’d like to make. Changes that would support better physical health. Better emotional health. Happiness. And yet change can be elusive. It’s hard. It takes effort. It’s easy to talk to the talk, but can we walk the walk? Are we living aligned with our Read More

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No, that’s not how I roll

Carol Cassara — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:44:12 +0000

There are times when I am confused by things that happen in life. Puzzled. As if I am from some alien planet. Such was the case the other day, when I told a group of friends I was having a hysterectomy. One of them immediately responded “Have they told you what to expect post-surgery?” “Yes,” Read More

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Healthy boundaries: Why we don’t have to own the problems of others

Carol Cassara — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:05:56 +0000

Nope. It’s not. Even if you love them. Moms in particular seem to have trouble with healthy boundaries: both their own and those of their grown children. Once a child is grown and out of school, their life is their responsibility. It’s not a parent’s job to take responsibility for them. Or to anticipate their Read More

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How to find answers in silence

Carol Cassara — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 10:10:48 +0000

Silence does not reply, although it is full of answers –Madalina Coman Are you using the silence of these cold winter days and nights to find answers to the big questions of your life? Maybe like me, you think too much. I’ve always tried to reason things out, think them through. But sometimes, the Read More

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How can there be a summer cocktail you don’t drink?

Carol Cassara — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:26:39 +0000

Announcing the new Summer Cocktail Candle Set–our most luxurious candles yet! Fun to make, lovely to look at and they smell so darn good! It’s a set of two or three (your choice) hand-poured soy candles in these stunning frosted glass candle-holders of pink, green, yellow and blue.They’re sizable: almost 10 ounces in volume. Instantly transport Read More

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