December 2006, Issue 48 ~ Darkness Gives Way to Light

In our part of the World, darkness gives way to light on December 21. As the Winter Solstice draws near, rituals and healing work centers on rebirth and transformation. What transformation and healing would you like to see in yourself by spring (or your next season)?

This month seems like a fitting time to launch Rev. Laurie Sue's new course celebrating the Goddess (details below). I so enjoyed editing this truly interfaith course and an immersion into the world of the Goddess. Lessons honor and celebrate Goddesses from different faiths and spiritual traditions including: Hindu, Christian, Judaism, Shamanism, Buddhism, etc. This empowering course is rich with amazing prayers, healing meditations, chants, and mystical rituals to honor and celebrate the sacred feminine.

We hope you will consider giving yourself (and a friend) one of our self-healing courses this season. Remember, you can sign up yourself AND a friend for the price of one this month!


Blessings for the holi-days,



June Cook
Self-Healing Expressions (S-HE)

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New S-HE Course Launched!

Discovering the Goddess: A Path to Healing, Spirituality and Joy

by Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway, author of A Goddess Is a Girl's Best Friend

You are invited to the world of the Goddess. In this 13 lesson course, you will discover the Goddess and how her wisdom and power can help heal, inspire and uplift you, your relationships and the world. Be guided to connect to the divinity within and to claim your sacred feminine power. In the last lesson, you will be invited into the Temple of the Goddess with its many rooms - an awesome experience. Learn more and hear ( ( ( audio ) ) ) a message from Rev. Laurie Sue here.

The Heart of Christmas By Laura V. Hyde Gifts are fine if they are an expression of authentic celebration, of real care and joy, but if they are merely an automatic exchange, it is contradictory to the spirit of Christmas. A Course in Miracles invites us to celebrate Christmas by remembering, "The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See it not outside yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the time of Christ has come." The time is now for us to shine our light and be the miracle workers on this planet that we are meant to be. This holiday season, let us be reminded of... Read on. Laura Hyde is the Spiritual Leader and Co-Founder of the Circle of Spiritual Enlightenment in Central Coast, CA (www.spiritualcircle.org) and is the creator/instructor for the online course Dreams for Healing: Using Dreams as a Pathway to the Soul.

Feng Shui Study: A Guide for Planning a New Year with New Energy By Deborah Redfern As we head into January, consider creating an overall plan for your New Year. Not a simple resolution but an actual plan; then take steps to follow through. Like most of us, you probably start out with enthusiasm but then as life happens, you fall back into old habits and your plans fall by the wayside. There are many reasons why efforts to create positive change fail to meet our expectations and most of them do not have anything to do with willpower. Here is a simple guide for making plans that have great chances for success... Read on. Deborah is a certified Practitioner and Master Teacher of Interior Alignment©. She is the creator and instructor of Healing with Feng Shui and Color.

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Things That Make You Go Ommm. . .



HOLIDAY OFFER! Give a Gift of Healing

Give a Self-Healing Expressions course as a thoughtful holiday gift to a friend or loved one. If you enroll now, you have the option to take this course with a friend at no additional cost! The additional course will be a gift from you to your friend. Set up a course today to start this week or in January 2007. Full catalog of course offerings here.

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Holistic Prayers: Healing the Mind, Body and Spirit Through Prayer
Subscribe to this (no fee) uplifting Self-Healing Expressions e-course and get a sense of how our self-paced delivery system works while being inspired by interfaith prayers. Enroll now.

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Dear Marty: Coping with Loss of Pet and Parental Loss during the Holidays Q & A by Bereavement Counselor Marty Tousley Question: It's been three weeks since I had to have my cat Smokey put to sleep. She was 22 years old. It's been very hard dealing with her loss. I'm still depressed about it, and with the holidays coming I just feel like crying all the time. I lost both my parents around the holidays - my mom died four years ago on November 29 (her birthday), and my dad passed six years ago, on December 30th. So now, having lost my life-long kitty, I'm finding it very hard to be... Read on.

Marty Tousley is the instructor of The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey and A Different Grief: Coping with Pet Loss.

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Comments ~ Here's What You're Saying About Our Courses...

"The 'Coping with Pet Loss' course is helping me to accept the fact that grieving my little dog is a normal, human reaction to her death. By reading many other people's thoughts and experiences, it is helping me to accept that her death is a part of living and that my reactions to it are due to my strong love for her. She deserves to be grieved but then finally to be remembered always with love.". ~ Carla R., Oklahoma ( Pet Loss course)


"This course has richly enhanced my prayer life and transformed my thought patterns in positive and constructive ways. I would like to take it again!" ~ Barbara Smith, PA ( Holistic Prayers course)


"I looked forward to Friday [lessons]. Multiple sclerosis leaves me very disabled. The lessons help me smile, give purpose to my life, make me feel less alone, and give me a [resource] to have and refer to." ~ Katryn Sample, Ohio ( Joy of Coping course)

Thanks for Writing! Find our full course catalog here.

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Spiritual Movies: Inspirational Movies to Breathe in Spirit By Linda Pendleton As long as movies have been made, the theme of angels, guides, ghosts or spirits has been woven into story lines. Who hasn't seen It's a Wonderful Life again and again? - And still cries at each viewing? Such movies can serve to inspire, define, and expand the possibilities for a generation. When Spirit is portrayed as being accessible to the average person and supports them through some difficult time or challenge, who isn't inspired to believe? Read on. Join the discussion in this NEW forum! Share YOUR favorite spiritual movie with us and each other! Linda Pendleton, medium and author, is the creator and instructor of the course Healing Whispers: Communication with Your Spirit Guides & Angels and Journey to the Heart: Exploring the World of Spirit.

Write A Way: Journey to "Heart Felt" Creativity By Sandra Lee Schubert

Creativity comes to us in many forms. We are born with talent; or we earn it through study and diligence. But most artists know that training alone will not give you inspiration. It comes from many places. Senses help us to navigate the world and provide us with enough stimulation and inspiration to make a lifetime habit of our art. What wakes you up in the middle of the night with a burst of an idea? Have you ever had a feeling so deep and profound that it compelled you to... Read on. Sandra Schubert is the instructor for the course Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS


Congratulations to S-HE co-founder Ken Cook and our friend Laurie Ulrich Fuller on the publication of their new book: Microsoft Office Access 2007 for Dummies.

New Course Coming Soon!
Deborah Redfern has another Feng Shui course in the works. Stay tuned for more details next issue!

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This Month's Holistic Prayers

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabi


New Year Peace Prayer
By Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway

Let us enter this New Year with Peace in Our Hearts, on Our Lips, in Our Prayers We call to spirits of the North. We honor mother earth and her abundance. May we stand steady on her ground. May this dear planet and all her children grow stronger every day.

We call to the spirits of the East. We honor wind and ask that new opportunities for peace fill the air and that the white Dove of peace flies freely in all nations.

We call to the spirits of the South. We honor fire and ask that we be infused with warmth, enthusiasm and passion for the mission of creating peace on earth.

We call to the spirits of the West. We honor water and ask that it cleanse the hearts and souls of all women and men, and sooth our angers and wounds so that we may never again thirst for war.

We call to the spirits of above, of below and within, we ask to be united with God, Goddess and Great Spirit of All That Is. With all the forces of the universe, we pray for harmony in our world.

Let Peace live in your life, and in your world.
Let Peace live in your day-to-day, and in places far away.
Let Peace abound, all around.
May Peace be in your heart. Aho!

© 2006, Reverend Laurie Sue Brockway
Adapted by the author of A Goddess Is A Girl's Best Friend.


   

Peace, Love and Light,

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