No matter what choices we make in life, we are destined to have a ghost ship.

By Jessamine Gibb In my years of case management and coaching, I have worked with many people with what you might call colorful backgrounds: drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, criminal histories, untreated mental illness, long-term unemployment and anger management issues. They are the kinds of things that are highly stigmatized in most segments of society. […]

By Lonny Reardon As a kid in Newfoundland, Canada, I grew up through some very hard times. My dad was an alcoholic, we were poor, and I saw many terrible things that a child should never see. As a result, I had a lot of shame in my life and, as I grew older, I […]

By Nancy Selig Amsden I was very fortunate to spend my most formative years participating in what is probably the grandest social experiment of all times. In 1969, my family moved to a small, new city called Columbia, Maryland. Unlike most planned suburban developments that were popping up, Columbia was more than just a planned […]

By Natalie Rivera Here we go again… another New Year’s Resolution. Haven’t we learned by now that a declaration to change because another year ticks on the calendar is an ineffective form of commitment? The excitement and hope that surrounds the symbolic progression of time gives us all a sense of possibilities for renewal, re-alignment, […]

By Marcia Bender I am going to use Numerology to show you how to look at the personal year vibrations for yourself and loved ones for the coming New Year. Numerology is a combination of the Sciences of Astrology and the ancient science of Acrophonology. The latter began as a study of the letters found […]

By Russell Heath Let me tell you the story of my own stuckness. It starts in Tel Aviv, which, in 1980 when I was there, was a dysenteric’s paradise: It had public restrooms on every other block—the limit of my range. I’d been a year and a half overseas—first in Italy, then, in the fall […]

By Gregg Sanderson “There is no path to happiness: Happiness IS the path.”— Gautama Buddha Peace, love, and happiness are yours for the taking, along with a long, healthy life. Stress kills, suffering is no fun, and misery sucks. It all has a single cause, and you have full control over it. Last month we […]

by Terez Hartmann The Fire of HAPPINESS Ah, sweet happiness! When you feel, express, embody, and experience this light and lovely state of being, all most certainly is right with the world. Life has more sparkle. Things that once ruffled your feathers seem inconsequential. There is a soft breeze of music that fills your moments […]

By Sarah Sparks What if we had the opportunity to fall asleep one night and awake to knowing our soul’s true path? All we had to do next was to say YES to all the opportunities we were given throughout the next several days, and by saying YES we would jumpstart a healing journey for […]