Patience


With kindness, practice putting your impatience on pause for moments throughout your day. Take a couple of deeper, relaxing breaths, look around the room you are in, feel your feet on the ground and remember that life isn’t meant to be a relay race. Make caring for your body, mind and heart a priority.  A sense of urgency may still be present, but you can relax into knowing you are doing the best you can, mindfully and compassionately, moment-by-moment.

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Self-Transformation

S: I’m grateful for the God tea. Sidebar, what do you feel like your top three contributing factors to self-transformation in the last few years have been?

KL: The power of honesty and being honest with myself, perspective about the person sitting across from me, and learning that vulnerability is not a weakness. That last one probably been one I’m still developing.

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Flourish

Taking Care Of Our Inner World Allows Us To Flourish In The Storms Of Life.

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Unconditional Love

Unconditional Love  (2012,186 pages) by Dr. Lela Haynes Session and Cynthia Session (MSW). This did not make my 50-page cut. I stopped reading at page 46. This left me wondering how this book ended up in my library. Did the coauthor Cynthia Hughes (MSW) and I cross paths at one point in time? The story reads like a beautiful obituary of Dr. Lela Haynes Session’s life with countless friends, family, and community writing her letters of gratitude and thanks. From what I could gather, she had sent out a form letter asking for letters and their permission to publish them in her book. After pages of letters, there is no clear introduction to who Dr. Haynes Session is, other than a kind woman. Nor was there any clear indicator of what she was a doctor of. In my reading I gathered it was of education, a quick Google search reveals she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 1967. I wish I could return this novel to the family of Dr. Haynes Session, but since I cannot, I will place it in my neighborhood  free library with the hope someone will appreciate it for what it is meant to be.

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Compassion

Pause to offer yourself a dose of whatever may be needed – perhaps a dose of kindness, appreciation, self-compassion, and/or forgiveness. Turn the same warmth and kindness that you so freely offer to others inward now, toward yourself. Maybe offer yourself some words of kindness, understanding or caring. With a dose of humility, compassionately recognize that this being human isn’t always easy for any of us.

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