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Melanie Smithson
May 2, 20222 min read
Lessons from Beatrice
Saying good-bye to loved ones is rarely easy. Over the years, in helping clients move through grief, I have asked them to honor the one...
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Melanie Smithson
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Why Should I Let Go?
As with anything, when it comes to letting go, the mind wants to know “why should I?” And, of course, if anyone tells you that you should...
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Melanie Smithson
Jan 4, 20222 min read
Why Study A Course in Miracles?
If we accept the premise that each lifetime is given us as an opportunity to grow and discover and become more fully embodied as the love...
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Melanie Smithson
Nov 16, 20214 min read
Imagination
Imagination and wonder are often used synonymously, but in my mind, they are slightly different. When I am asked to use my imagination,...
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Melanie Smithson
Oct 29, 20212 min read
The Cost of Giving is Receiving
The Cost of Giving is Receiving.
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Melanie Smithson
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Play For Your Health: Renewing the Joy of Service
The very word "caregiver" conjures up images of one who sacrifices him or herself for the good of others. The burnout rate for those...
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Melanie Smithson
Feb 2, 20212 min read
What is all this resistance about?
What is all the resistance about? “Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands...
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Melanie Smithson
Feb 27, 20203 min read
Coronavirus
Coronavirus-what we know and what to do As of this writing 82,721 cases of Coronavirus and 2,817 deaths have been reported worldwide...
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Melanie Smithson
Feb 14, 20203 min read
I am not a body I am free
A Course in Miracles and the Body In my experience, knowing that I am not the body does not prevent me from working with the body’s...
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Melanie Smithson
Oct 28, 20192 min read
Telling Stories to Avoid Feeling
Here’s an example: The neighbor’s dog runs out into the street and gets hit by a car. I’m devastated. It brings up grief for the family,...
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Melanie Smithson
May 9, 20192 min read
Lets Talk About Play
Let’s Talk About Play! Hearing about another school shooting incident in Colorado brought me to tears. Along with grief for victims and...
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Melanie Smithson
Apr 2, 20191 min read
Practicing Kindness
8 Ways to Be Kind to Self All too often, when I suggest to a client that they learn to be kinder to themselves, I am looked at as if I...
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Apr 2, 20191 min read
8 Ways to be kind to self
All too often, when I suggest to a client that they learn to be kinder to themselves, I am looked at as if I have three heads. I get it,...
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Oct 30, 20182 min read
Was that a gift?
Or maybe you meant to say contract? In our "A Course in Miracles" group last Saturday (during a discussion about giving without wanting...
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Melanie Smithson
Sep 4, 20182 min read
At the end of your rope?
What to do when every little thing is annoying… Do you have days (weeks? months?) where everybody and everything gets under your skin? It...
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Sep 4, 20182 min read
What to do when every little thing is annoying...
Do you have days (weeks? months?) where everybody and everything gets under your skin? It happens to the best of us. Maybe you haven’t...
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Melanie Smithson
May 17, 20182 min read
Are you beating the fun out of yourself?
Are you beating the fun out of yourself? Would you like to have more fun? Are you waiting and waiting for it to happen? Most would say...
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