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December 2017 TarotScopes
By: Advisor Christine Our own advisor, Christine, has taken the time to put together these Tarotscopes for you for the month of December 2017. Will things finally start to settle for you? Will those hopes and dreams start to manifest? Read below and then reach out directly to Christine today! Aries – The Hermit Beloved…
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Train Your Mind: Overcoming Negative Thoughts Is Half the Battle
By: Sarah Goodman “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt I could not find the bottom of the pool. The task seemed simple enough: Wearing no more than twenty pounds worth of gear, swim to the bottom of an eight-foot pool, remove your gear, and swim back up. My feet combed for something—anything—solid beneath…
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The Gifts of Empathy: We’re Not Alone with What We’re Feeling
By Nicholas Montemarano “In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.” ~Buddha When asked why I write fiction, I used to say, “Because I enjoy writing and revising sentences” or “Because I like practicing an art I’ll never perfect” or “Because I love to read.” All those reasons remain true,…
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3 Steps to Making an Intimate Relationship Work
By: Lynn Newman “True closeness respects each other’s space.” ~Angelica Hopes It was a Friday, the workweek had ended, and I was excited for my boyfriend to come home. (Okay, I’m talking about an ex-boyfriend—these steps took me time to implement…) I’d gone grocery shopping and had two steaks to grill, with asparagus and a bottle of…
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Love Isn’t Enough (and Other Lessons from Ending a 6-Year Relationship)
By: Nicah Caramba “Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” ~Unknown Sometimes we prolong relationships for the sake of comfort and familiarity. We’re fearful of what’s out there, and life without a partner. No matter how many times we’ve been hurt, taken for granted, or had our needs neglected, we…
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Forgiveness: Are You Able To Forgive Your Ex?
Forgiveness. Are you able to forgive your ex? You have to if you want him back or you will always end up having this conflict in you, which can affect the process of getting back with him. We all need to be forgiven. Usually both partners – even the one responsible for the break up…
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Letting Go of Our Past Identities: When It’s Time to Move On and Evolve
By: Beth Clayton “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ~Eckhardt Tolle The day I decided to leave acting felt like being exorcised from my own body. I was twenty-nine and had been dreaming of being an actor from the time I first saw a regional production of Cats around the age of eight. I spent…
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Embracing Change and Living with Passion: Awaken your Phoenix Spirit
By: Erica Almeida “All the wonders you seek are within yourself.” ~Sir Thomas Browne As history claims, the phoenix began as a common bird that’s nest caught on fire by the hand of a god-like figure. As the fire started to consume the bird, instead of suffering, she decided to dance in the flames. Eventually, the fire…
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How To Wake Up Feeling Confident, Relaxed, And Productive
By: George Mortimer “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” ~Glen Cook Beep! Beep! Beep! Time’s up. You’ve got twenty minutes to shower, get dressed, eat, and get to work. Screw it—skip the shower today. And you can wait till lunch to eat. Go! Go! Go!…
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When You Don’t Get What You Want Something Better May Be Coming
By: Becky Swenson “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” ~Dalai Lama While every adoption story is different, they all start with a loss. Our loss turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to us. I’ve had two migraines in my life. Both were when I…
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Why I Keep My Heart Open Even Though I’ve Been Deceived
By: Myrite Rotstein “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you’ll live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” ~Frank Crane I’m heading home with a latte in hand, listening to This American Life through my headphones when a woman sitting on a bench outside the café waves me down. She looks like…
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I Do Believe My Future is Bigger Than My Past
By: Advisor Stephanie I do believe my future is bigger than my past. As soon as I heard these words spoken by Steve Gleason in his documentary titled, Gleason, it struck a chord within me. There are so many times in life when we are so hyper-focused upon the mistakes we have made. We focus…
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Go With the Flow
By: Psychic Stephanie In any given situation between people, we are both the teacher and the student. You’re in each other’s lives for a purpose and a time. The poem, A Reason, Season or a Lifetime captures this beautifully. We are put on this planet, in this lifetime to learn lessons and grow. Once you…
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How I Prioritize and Take Care of Myself Without Feeling Selfish
By: Sara Fabian “I am worthy of the best things in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it.” ~Louise Hay Looking back on my life, I see that for a long time I struggled to take care of my own wants and needsand didn’t make them a priority. I used to find that very…
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Understanding Differences in Insight
By: Psychic Rhonda But The Other Psychic Said… Greetings! I wanted to touch base about the subject of consulting multiple readers and share my own personal experience and possibly why you may have received different responses or worse, were left feeling even more confused. First, I would like to say that there is nothing wrong…
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Recognizing and Overcoming the Fears That Make Us Settle
By: Britt Bolnick “Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses towards growth.” ~Celestine Chua Settling feels awful. Take it from me—for the past few months I’ve been holding the Scepter of Settling in both my personal life and my business. And it hasn’t felt good. The other morning, as I sat waiting in LaGuardia Airport to board a…
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The Delusion of Separation: We Don’t Need to Feel So Lonely
By: Jon Waterlow “The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.” ~Yasutani Roshi You know those moments? Those brief, fleeting moments that shine through the grey of everyday life like motes of glitter caught in a sunbeam. The moments when you suddenly feel a connection to the…
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You Have to Know What Kind of Love You Deserve to Attract It
By Melissa Terrels “Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi My ex used to stomp out of the house every time we had an argument. Literally, he would leave. And usually before he left he’d smash something. One time…
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5 Ways to Deal With Envy So It Doesn’t Steal Your Happiness
By: Ashley Lilly “Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.” ~Unknown Throughout this year, I’ve noticed myself feeling envious of other people. Particularly, I would feel envious of the famous people that I would see on television, read about in magazines, and follow on social media. I wouldn’t even be envious of them…
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Live by Your Values and Everything Else Will Fall into Place
By Claire Hodgson “Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.” ~Doris Mortman As I sit here writing this, I am still in the middle of a huge shift in my life, a shift that has seen me move from living by other people’s values and expectations…