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2021: The year I let go of ACIM, fell apart, and allowed myself to be rebuilt

I’m writing this 2021 year-end reflection for myself, while sharing it with others in case it is helpful. This post is part of my process of moving forward after a tumultuous year.

2021 presented some of the most challenging experiences of my life. As of today, it has also earned the top spot as a year that facilitated warp-speed growth that I can still barely wrap my head around.

Pain can be an incredible catalyst for transformation if you allow it. By allowing it, that pain brought me to new p...

Choosing to Look and not Spiritually Bypass with kironJ Gardner

Spiritual bypassing is when we use spiritual truths to avoid that which is uncomfortable.

We like being comfortable. It’s easy to go to the ultimate truths of A Course in Miracles like, “there are no bodies!” It is much harder and more painful to look at the ick that resides in the mind, which as we know, is what gets projected out onto the world.

Spiritual bypassing is something that prevented me from going as deep as I wanted to with A Course in Miracles and with healing anxiety in general. My...

My Journey with the Black Madonna, our Divine Mother

When my great grandparents came over to the United States of America, they became “American.” Much of my maternal Polish and paternal Italian cultures were forgotten. As a child, my mom was forbidden from learning Polish. The only things that survived from each culture were our love of pierogies and good pasta.

This past spring, while reading a book about the Black Madonna, I learned that in Southern Italy, the Black Madonna is still worshipped today in the same way as She had been in the Middle...

All that Holy Spirit does FOR us…

For many years in my study of A Course in Miracles, I ignored the tiny but very important three-letter word, “for.” This little word makes a big difference when we look at what the Holy Spirit can do for us.

In preparing for my From Anxiety To Love Masterclass, I searched the Web Edition of ACIM (published by the Foundation for Inner Peace) and below you will find the compiled quotes that speak to what the Holy Spirit (or Jesus) does for us. You can click on any of the references to see the quot...

Edgar Cayce and A Course in Miracles

In our weekly A Course in Miracles Study group (join us and access the recordings here), we recently read the Cameo Essay in which we learn about the acclaimed psychic, Edgar Cayce (we are reading from the Complete and Annotated Edition of ACIM).

There are so many beautiful nuggets of wisdom in the dictated material, including how no effort we make (in expressing love) is wasted. I also find it helpful that while noting Cayce worked under “very great strain,” we are reminded that this “is always...

Journal dumping: Writing until you are empty and ready for a shift

A Course in Miracles teaches us a type of forgiveness that is different from the worlds definition. The Courses forgiveness is recognizing that what you thought your brother did, never actually occurred because we are dreaming a dream. (NOTE: Keep in mind this is the end point of the Courses forgiveness we have a process to go through to get here).

To be completely honest, in my daily life, simply reading this definition has never been very helpful at all! It feels way out of reach and like...

Episode 29: The body does not have to die

A Course in Miracles is leading us to awaken FROM the dream of this world, not just IN it. The deepest teachings of A Course in Miracles are radical and liberating, and it is because of these deep teachings that my anxiety has fallen away.

This episode is a replay of a gathering hosted by kironJ Gardner, Nouk Sanchez and me. We discussed and contemplated one of the deepest teachings of A Course in Miracles, the idea that the body does not have to die. The mind that projects the body can simply s...

An open letter to the Course in Miracles Community about unexamined racism

“You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true: If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson and not yours. Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind, which hurt and hinder you and everyone around you.” – A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

Greetings Mighty Companions,

It’s time to look at the lessons in our mind that...

Episode 28: Get serious(ly happy) about healing anxiety

Get your pen and paper ready to take notes!

I was recently a guest on “Align with Laina,” a fun show about ordinary people who have spiritual awakenings. The show is hosted by Laina Orlando, a fellow student and teacher of A Course in Miracles and my new friend!

Our conversation was so uplifting, so deep, and so healing, that I felt moved to share the replay with you for this episode. You are going to love it!

We chat about all things anxiety:

My journey of healing from anxiety disorders
ACIM a...

Miracle Worker Tools for Coronavirus Anxiety (transcript)

Listen to the episode or view it on YouTube.

 

Welcome to this episode of From Anxiety To Love Radio.

I’m excited to be doing a video podcast today, which of course you can still listen to the audio version on Apple Podcasts.

I’m going to be sharing a lot so if you want the transcript of this episode, please go over to the show notes page at FromAnxietyToLove.com/27.

So I felt guided to speak about some Insights and Tools that have been helpful to me in dealing with this current COVID-19 situat...