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Baggage Claim
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
As a 57 year old woman penning these words, I am amply aware that I have accumulated some baggage in my lifetime. From the moment we are born into families, we are threaded through with ancestral messages; spoken and silent. As we move through childhood, adolesence and adulthood, we pack into our ever enlarging duffel…
Don’t Leave Your Longings Unattended
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.” -George Eliot What do you long for, deeply desire, crave? It might be a relationship or career path. It could be…
ASAP-Always Say A Prayer
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”-Meister Eckhart What is prayer? Some might say that it is asking an outside male entity for a specific outcome as various faith traditions teach and preach. Others could express it as a certainty that all is well, regardless…
Interbeing
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“All phenomena are interdependent…endlessly interwoven.”-Thich Nhat Hanh This concept jumped out at me today while I was reading a book at the gym, sweating my prayers on the elliptical. It is called Clearing Emotional Clutter, and was written by Donald Altman, MA, LPC whose work is the area of psychotherapy and spirituality. Altman spent time as…
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