Soulshine

Sometimes we feel stuck. Life suddenly isn’t working. Maybe a relationship we cherish isn’t going anywhere, and we don’t know what to say or what to do to jump start the relationship. Or maybe we feel like we’re in a rut at work. We don’t feel challenged or we may feel like we simply don’t fit in our current position anymore. Or maybe our recovery seems to have stagnated. We were feeling really good about all of the new patterns of behavior we’ve learned to live, but suddenly now, we feel like we did years ago when we were hopelessly lost in our codependency. We feel miserable inside and we feel stuck in the mud of negativity. When we reach difficult crossroads like these, we need to pray for doors to open. First we need to pray for a door to open within our hearts. We need the door to self-love to re-open. This is the door that allows us to breathe-in self-approval and to feel worthy again to receive all that is good in life. There’s a reason why we’ve gone from feeling conf...

You can’t force feelings. It’s my birthday and I know I’m supposed to be happy, but I’m really feeling sad today. First of all, I’m way past the age of being happy about being another year older. And secondly, I don’t have the love and the other heart and soul necessities that I need to feel happy about facing another year. I spent the past couple of days with a really good friend, whom I love a lot, and we’ve had a really good time hitting the amusement parks in Los Angeles. I appreciate his friendship and the fun times and I am grateful for both. This friend even helped to maneuver a surprise birthday party for me yesterday. He’s a really precious person—and I’d probably be feeling even sadder today without his friendship. But I still feel a deep, deep sadness that isn’t going away. I think rationally that I shouldn’t be feeling this way and I don’t want to be feeling this way. Unfortunately, I know why I’m feeling this way:   I feel so stuck in a life that ...