We greet each other during the holiday season with “Happy Holidays”. This year I wish you my faithful readers a “Healthy Holiday’. I have been busy creating new ways for my readers to experience a healthy and happy holiday. So before I begin my actual article, I would like to take a few moments and tell you about my holiday specials. My husband Michael Brady starts writing his new column for Spirit Crossing called Everything Unconscious this month. I am so happy and proud to share his insights and brilliance with you.
My co-author and host of Conversations with Linda, Kim Patron is highlighting one of our conversations on having a healthy holiday on her web site, http://soulestialservices.com/2011/11/how-to-handle-holiday-eating/. Kim has an uncanny ability to ask the important questions that you would ask me. She challenges me to be clear and concise. Here are a few of her questions.
- What do you recommend for dealing with food and weight control during the holiday season?
- Given that food often does represent comfort, should we allow ourselves indulgence anyway?
- Given that the holiday season is also a social time, what do you advise to those who feel upset about being a few pounds heavier for the holiday parties, when we want to look our best?
- It can be so hard to get back onto a healthy diet once we get off track. Do you have any tips for that?
Please check out her blog for answers to these questions and many more, Our recorded version will be available soon too.
Creative Choices.com is being revised and will be launched on November 22nd with many options to create a healthy holiday
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- Through the Eyes of a Child; A Baby Book for Your Inner Child
My husband, Michael and I have been doing inner child work with our clients for many years. This manual is a culmination of that work. Between us we bring over sixty years of education and experience to helping people develop a relationship with their inner divine family. I hope that you will enjoy this exciting journey in claiming this wonderful precious part of yourself. Michael has provided four powerful meditations to connect you to your unconscious places where your inner child lives. I have shared my personal journey to finding and parenting my little three year old inner child, Lynnie. This baby book is filled with strategies, tools and astrological insights. I hope that it helps you find the true joy of knowing and parenting your inner child. Check it out on our NEW web site on the Products page.
· Give the holiday gift that continues to grow: The Magic Pot
Give the holiday gift that continues to grow. Provide your friends and family with an opportunity to attract positive changes in their life. Begin 2012 with more than New Year Resolutions. Create affirmations that align and resonate with the growing power of nature. Our herb pots are designed by William Rhodes, an acclaimed San Francisco
· Check out our new Blog that will be launched with our web site on November 22nd. We welcome your comments and questions.
Discovering My Inner Mother
Now as promised, my article. Four years ago next month I wrote my first article for Spirit Crossing dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This blessed Christmas season I will again be honoring Mary, the Mother of Jesus in a richer, more personal manner. To me, she is the symbol of the divine feminine that becomes the divine Mother to my sacred child. Mary is the physical embodiment of the sanctity of earth through which spirit can manifest. She joins with many other archetypes of the Great Mother – Eve, Demeter, and Isis to name a few. In each case the Great Mother became the manifestation of the divine feminine principle that gave birth to a god force that she loved and nurtured. As with all archetypes that we collectively create this divine feminine principle is within us all, male and female. We too have physical bodies which are connected to the sacred earth. We too have the divine force that is giving birth to acts of love and generosity. We are the divine feminine integrating our spirit and soul as we journey on the sacred earth. When I welcomed her into my life, my life and my relationship with my inner child was transformed.
In the Arms of my Inner Mother
Being nurtured by our Inner Mother is never more important than during the holiday season. The holidays are when our Inner Children are really present and engaged. It is also when they are the most fragile. Our emotions are heightened at this time because of our Inner Children. They are always hoping for something wonderful, magical and new to happen, but they may be disappointed. Many of us have had problematic childhoods. The holidays tend to escalate whatever abusive prevails. Our little ones remember and feel the pain of holiday disappointment and neglect. One of the things most of us can reliably count on at this time is food or alcohol to be our best friend and deaden those emotions. If your inner child equates food with love, security and nurturing the holidays can be fraught with opportunities to use food. Find out what food represents to your child. Allow your Inner Mother to provide you the love, compassion and nurturing you have always wanted and needed. Can you feel Her arms around you? Can you open your heart to Her? She is the Mother that will never abandon or reject you. She knows what you feel and honors those feelings. She is the Mother that you have always wanted.
My Inner Mother Saves the Holidays
As children we were at the mercy of our parents. They were happy, we were happy. If they were not our expectations of magical holidays disappeared. I remember many Thanksgivings and Christmases being filled with expectations of gifts, candy, family peace and harmony. I was often disappointed. Peace and love was disrupted by alcoholic outbursts by my stepfather. Many times my Mother, who loved the holidays, did so much to provide us a beautiful Thanksgiving and Christmas to have them destroyed by her husband. My little girl remembered all of that and was sad beginning at Thanksgiving. Her birthday is in the middle between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Years of this mild depression marred even the best of holidays. I did not take control of the holidays for her. I allowed her memories to be in control of me. I discovered my Inner Mother a few years ago. Her loving advice to me was to create Christmas for my little girl myself! I could make sure that she had what she needed and wanted. I could make sure that she would never be disappointed again, she is no longer at the mercy of others. She has me and my Inner Mother!
Have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving. I would love your holiday stories for my December article. I would love for you all to create a new holiday ritual with the help of your Inner Mother and share them with us. Please visit us on our new web site, Creative Choices.com and don’t forget to check out our Blog.!
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