Journey to Joy (Day 2): Smile with Your Liver
Smile with your liver? Crazy. Yet, this was Elizabeth Gilbert’s first lesson in Balinese meditation. She shared her guru’s advice to “sit in silence and smile” in Eat, Pray, Love: One […]
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Journey to Joy: Mastering the Art of Controlling My Destiny
Julia Powell went on a one-year quest to master the art of French Cooking. She shared her adventures on her blog. It became a book and a movie, Julie & […]
The Admiral’s Wife: Barbara Bentley on BlogTalkRadio
On Wednesday evening, August 12, 2009, Barbara Bentley was BettyJean Kling’s guest on BlogTalkRadio to talk about her book A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to […]
Kate’s Couch: Sharing My Complex-PTSD Therapy Sessions
Therapy for Complex PTSD (multiple traumatic events) is more shot-in-the-dark than science. Mental health professionals don’t have viable treatment protocols for PTSD (one traumatic event), and most are totally clueless about treating Complex PTSD. Sadly, too many still think, for example, that EMDR is effective. It isn’t.
Cherished: Daddy’s Little Girl
When we truly cherish someone or something we take special care. We nurture. We’re gentle. Love flows freely and generously.
My hope for each of us today is that we cherish ourselves. We make our-selves a priority. We eat healthy. We get some good exercise. We get a good night’s rest. Essentially, we care for ourselves like we are precious children of God. We all are, you know. Yes, you are precious.
Fern Michaels: “Persevere and you will prevail.”
Mary Ruth Kuczkir created the perennially best-selling Fern Michaels brand, and the rest is history. Ms. Kuczkir’s books have been so successful that she was able to put all five of her children through college, and she’s set up the Fern Michaels Foundation to fund scholarships and help single mothers. She lives in a 300 year-old plantation house in South Carolina.
Alice Miller: Breaking Down the Wall of Silence
Alice Miller was born in 1923. She received her PhD from the University of Basle and worked as a psychotherapist in Zurich, Switzerland for 20 years. Since 1980, she has been the intellectual warrior leader for abused children around the world.
Her initial motivation was to understand Adolph Hitler. She believes there is a direct link between child abuse/domestic violence and world peace. To this end, enlightened/helping witnesses are the key.
Barbara Bentley: Dance with the Devil
Barbara’s charming, fascinating, and charismatic late husband presented himself as a retired Navy rear admiral and the descendent of two infamous admirals named Perry. They were VIP guests of the Navy during Fleet Week in San Francisco. He had war medals including the Congressional Medal of Honor. They were invited to President George H.W. Bush’s inauguration and the inaugural balls. The only part of his story that was true was that he was the black sheep son of Admiral Perry.
The truth was that he was a con man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a US Navy officer.
Sandra Boss: Abused by “Rockefeller’s” Attorney
Sandra Mills Boss had the composure to endure brutal cross-examination by her ex-husband’s attorney Jeffrey Denner in Boston on Monday and Tuesday. It was a classic case of blaming the victim.
Practicing What I Preach, Part 2
A “protection circle” of friends and family can take us only so far. If we’re smart, we’ll know when it is time to bring in a “posse” of professional people who are trained to deal with bullies, abusive people, and gang members.
Anne Caroline Drake 