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
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Jan 4
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
Imagination
Imagination and wonder are often used synonymously, but in my mind, they are slightly different. When I am asked to use my imagination,...
Melanie Smithson
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Feb 27, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Feb 14, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
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,...
Melanie Smithson
- May 9, 2019
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- Sep 4, 2018
- 2 min
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, 2018
- 2 min
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...
Melanie Smithson
- May 17, 2018
- 2 min
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...