Healing Touch

the power of a circle

There was a time a few years ago after a vipassana retreat that I started thinking that all these healing modalities emerging in the 21st century, at their essence, went back to Jesus and Buddha…


Mary Duennes is passing the torch...huge, cozy campfire

Just about everyone knows what a wonderful human Mary Duennes is... her rich career as a nurse, even pioneering parish nurse in Walnut Hills... Florence Nightingale Award winner...and exemplifying so…


something ever new

Last week I shared with you a little bit about how NLP helped shape my writing of The Naked Path of Prophet  series -- two volumes released last year and hard at work/play with the third as January…


new...

I’ve found myself rather reflective, cleaning out old boxes and amazed at what was in there, dreaming — and remembering — very wild nightdreams, staring into space and finding myself amazed at what…


the future looks scary...or better than ever?

The future looks scary sometimes, doesn't it? Pandemics and earthquakes and fires and droughts and heavy rains and hurricanes and floods out of nowhere. Human beings and wavering economies reacting…


have a bold August!

I’ve been feeling the need to be bold lately. I do not fit into my old life, my pre-pandemic life. No matter how hard I try to do what was easy and pleasurable before March 2020, my soul was enlarged…


the wonder of the dancing steam...

Everyone keeps asking if I'm ready to hibernate...especially after quarantining the past eight months. I think I am. The hibernating months of December and January and February have always been rich…


In Gratitude For Bright Days . . . And Brighter Days

On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, our Board of Trustees made the difficult and wise decision to permanently move out of our space in Norwood, to expand our current online offerings and book-creation, and…


'a healer in every home'

Emergency room nurse Janet Mentgen knew that more was possible with her patients who were in terrible pain. So Janet studied with a medical doctor who was using hands-on healing techniques with his…


SELF-CARE is WORLD-CARE!

How? When I... ...sit with a cup of tea and stare into space and realize it’s all going to be okay, the bigger picture of all things...the meditation that comes, that first begins with a storm of…