The Bliss Blog http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog Beliefnet Voices - Edie Weinstein Fri, 24 May 2013 15:32:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 beliefnet/blissbloghttp://feedburner.google.com A Box Full of Darkness http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/2013/05/a-box-full-of-darkness.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/2013/05/a-box-full-of-darkness.html#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 15:32:28 +0000 Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/?p=5158 This image zapped me yesterday and at first I didn't want to look at it, or even acknowledge it. I much prefer to live in light than in darkness. Paradoxically, my work as a therapist over the past 3 decades has been with people who sit in shadow, cast out by those who were supposed to protect and nurture them. As I witnessed their pain, I would move to shine a...

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]]> This image zapped me yesterday and at first I didn't want to look at it, or even acknowledge it. I much prefer to live in light than in darkness. Paradoxically, my work as a therapist over the past 3 decades has been with people who sit in shadow, cast out by those who were supposed to protect and nurture them. As I witnessed their pain, I would move to shine a...

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]]>   Overheard in the bathroom at the gym recently : there was a young woman who was there with a friend and looked in the mirror and said "I look like shit today."  My initial inclination was to mind my own business, since what I had to say might not be well received. She didn't...

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]]> There are some moments  when the petty, day to day annoyances melt away in the face of the fireball sun realization that life is fleeting, experiences are transient and people are on loan to us. Last night, when I watched the You Tube viral phenom video called My Last Days (On Rainn Wilson's Soulpancake channel) about the courageous journey of  a young man...

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]]> Recently I was speaking with someone who felt dismayed that she wasn't able to focus on any one career...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/2013/05/ecclectic-enthusiast.html/feed/ 0 Woo woo vs. Whoohooo! http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/2013/05/woo-woo-vs-whoohooo.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/2013/05/woo-woo-vs-whoohooo.html#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:55 +0000 Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW http://blog.beliefnet.com/blissblog/?p=5133   Once upon a time, I would have considered some of the events of my life to be  fodder for Twilight Zone episodes, with the theme song (do do do do do do do do~) playing in my head when they would occur. I didn't dare talk about them, out of concern for being thought weird or  committable. The more they appeared, the more I thought "hmmmm,...

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]]>   Once upon a time, I would have considered some of the events of my life to be  fodder for Twilight Zone episodes, with the theme song (do do do do do do do do~) playing in my head when they would occur. I didn't dare talk about them, out of concern for being thought weird or  committable. The more they appeared, the more I thought "hmmmm,...

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]]> On Mothers Day, my son Adam took me to see Oz The Great and Powerful.  Having grown up watching the Wizard of Oz, I was eager to immerse myself in the prequel in which the Wizard takes on the mantel. Some critics have lambasted it, others have waxed poetic. This eternal child still finds...

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]]> Phenomenal Woman Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's...

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]]> As I listened to the sophomore release (her first CD  which debuted in 2010 is called Red Dress)  of New York City by way of Baltimore singer songwriter Karyn Oliver, I thought of it  as 'the many moods of KO' , since her vocal stylings are reminiscent of Crystal Gale, Eva Cassidy and Norah Jones and the songs range from the light and playful to the...

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]]>   "If your vision's not your obsession than it might as well be a delusion."-Robin Sharma According to his website, Robin Sharma is "the globally celebrated author of 11 international bestselling  books on leadership including The Leader Who Had No Title, the phenomenal #1 ...

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]]> When I initially saw this image on Facebook a few days ago, I had to laugh, as I thought "That would have been me...part Batman and part faerie princess on her trusty steed, pedaling through the streets."   I was rather quirky, an 'alien baby left on my parents' doorstep', with otherworldy ideas,  as well as a bike riding, skating, tree climbing,...

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