Julie Tallard Johnson
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Hidden Victims Hidden Healers: An Eight Stage Healing Process for Familes and Friends of the Mentally Ill
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1988
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The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are
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2013
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Spiritual Journaling: Writing Your Way to Independence
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2006
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The Thundering Years: Rituals and Sacred Wisdom for Teens
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2000
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Wheel of Initiation: Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light
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2010
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Teen Psychic: Exploring Your Intuitive Spiritual Powers
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2003
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I Ching for Teens: Take Charge of Your Destiny with the Ancient Chinese Oracle
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2001
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Celebrate You!: Building Your Self Esteem
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1992
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Understanding Mental Illness: For Teens Who Care about Someone with Mental Illness
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1989
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Making Friends, Finding Love
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1992
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“Sometimes our blessings are limited. There is a tangible poverty that surrounds us. We are not offered an obvious tapestry of choices. Still, even when the choices seem bleak between a tiger’s teeth or deadly fall -- every moment offers up some third options (the true potentiality within the situation), and it is in our choices (conscious or not) that a future harvest depends.”
― The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are
― The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are
“There’s nothing complicated or expensive about living purposefully and meaningfully. And we don’t have to travel to some exotic place to “find ourselves,” or to make a difference. The most effective practices that afford us the most happiness and meaning are done within the context of our daily lives. This is the premise of all my work – bringing our ideas and practices into our daily life. The place we make a real difference is within our own personal lives.”
― The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are
― The Zero Point Agreement: How to Be Who You Already Are
“We can’t change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.”
― Wheel of Initiation: Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light
― Wheel of Initiation: Practices for Releasing Your Inner Light
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
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“BAD PEOPLE
A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks—what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams—that’s the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, “You.”
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless god—who refuses to let people
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge—can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little.”
― Morning Poems
A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks—what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams—that’s the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, “You.”
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless god—who refuses to let people
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge—can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little.”
― Morning Poems
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
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