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Shall We Play with Patterns?

May 31, 2017 By Joy Resor

Wow! ​​​​​​​What a difference days and weeks can make. Have you made a change since I invited you to Slip Out of a Structure? Did you become aware of a rut or a tradition that you saw in a new way? Is it time for you to consider the idea? I wrote about the gifts of waking up to structures in our lives that it may be time to move … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Going Deeper, Uncategorized Tagged With: allow, honor voices within, live into newness, play with patterns

Are You Riding Life’s Rhythms?

August 3, 2014 By Joy Resor

Musing about rhythms leads me to name similar ideas, like cycles, habits, traditions, seasons, practices… Maybe you have a neighbor who’s always first to decorate for Halloween….an uncle who lives for The World Series….a son who can’t wait for band practice to begin. Maybe you live for Rosh Hashanah or Thanksgiving. What enters your mind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Going Deeper, Musing, Nature Tagged With: allow, compassion, healing, lean into something new, nurture your soul, ride the rhythms of life

Don’t Take Anything Personally

September 3, 2013 By Joy Resor

I love it. The month that I attend a book study on The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (Be Impeccable with Your Word, Don’t Take Anything Personally, Don’t Make Assumptions, and Always Do Your Best), it feels like a dear friend of mine has put up an impenetrable wall, an illusion of separation I feel so strongly. Has this happened to you, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Healing, Musing, Relationships Tagged With: allow, compassion, Don Miguel Ruiz, Don't Take Anything Personally, drama, joy, patience, separation is an illusion, The Four Agreements

Allow Yourself Some Slack, My Friend

January 8, 2013 By Joy Resor

Allow, honor….two of my favorite words these days, living into this moment-to-moment awareness of life in new ways. Watching and listening to the things I say and choices I make is completely different than the way I used to operate, which was more reactive, leading to this aftermath -- I’d often beat myself up about what I’d said … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Going Deeper, Healing, Uncategorized Tagged With: allow, allow yourself slack, and kindness, awaken ever more, be a good friend to yourself, caring, enjoy all the moments you can, honor feelings, treat yourself with warmth

Healing Into our Higher Selves

September 29, 2011 By Joy Resor

My phone rings at 11:26 a.m. Where are you? says the caller to pajama-clad me typing away, getting ready for tomorrow’s speaking engagement. Wow!  My brain swiftly organizes from chaos to realize this is  the person who invited me to give a talk in front of a group of women  tomorrow.  And she’s on the phone saying the program is today.  And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healing Tagged With: allow, forgiveness, healing, joy, kindness, love, patience, release, story, sweetness

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Consider a Change: Create Intentional Space in Your Life

This article appeared first as a Guest Column in The Transylvania Times in Brevard, North Carolina. Like you, spaces of all kinds have opened for me over the years. When I’m 10 years old, my … [Read More...]

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