by joyreichard | Oct 27, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
Last week I wrote about shame and the many ways that adults live with deep-rooted feelings of shame. Shame often comes through the abandonment of the child by parent. There are many ways that parents abandon their child: physical leaving, not modeling emotions, not...
by joyreichard | Oct 20, 2016 | Emotional Healing, Personal Growth and Development, self help
John Bradshaw, author, counselor, theologian, philosopher and teacher, claims that the high rate of dysfunctional families is the source of crisis in child to adult development and functioning. This is because each family has its own social system complete with rules,...
by joyreichard | Oct 10, 2016 | Personal Growth and Development, self help
I was deeply saddened by Trump’s performance in the Presidential Debate on Sunday October 9, 2016, as well as his “locker room bravado.” Trump’s comments would have disappointed many of us mothers if those words had come from our adolescent sons. Yet they...
by joyreichard | Sep 8, 2016 | goddess, self help, Spiritual Growth
In my last email I talked about the Devil card in the Tarot and how it kept showing up at a time when my whole life was breaking down (marriage, health, work, friendships). I was going through a massive transition that put me on a whole new life path. The Devil card...
by joyreichard | Sep 1, 2016 | Personal Growth and Development, Spiritual Growth
I discovered the Tarot about 14 years ago. The Tarot is a pack of playing cards (most commonly numbering 78), that originated in mid-15th century Europe. From the late 18th century until present time the tarot has been used by mystics and spiritual seekers as a...
