by admin2018 | Jan 30, 2023 | All
The New Year almost always opens the floodgates to resolutions. Home. Workplace. Spirit. Health. I am no exception. For example, I crafted this glorious schedule for the website: 2 blogs a month, one Thought Leader, and a newsletter. Yet here I am as the end of...
by Peggy Flynn | Jan 30, 2023 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
Carl Jung compared the unfolding of a human life to the course of a day. As surely as the morning moves into afternoon and then becomes the evening, each life progresses through stages. What can go wrong? “Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the...
by Peggy Flynn | Nov 30, 2022 | Aging, All
It is important to have a day dedicated to saying Thank You. Of course, as with Mother’s Day, the project can devolve into a commercial, saccharine mockery. My inbox is full of Thanksgiving reflections–many of which are profound, others not so much. Is there...
by Peggy Flynn | Oct 31, 2022 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
Tis the Season! No, not that season, although I am sure that we will be inundated with Christmas Holiday stuff soon. But this coming week, we are invited to pay special attention to our dead. Summer is ended. The harvest is in. The days grow shorter and shorter. The...
by Peggy Flynn | Sep 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction
Another leg of the journey to this current adventure called spiritual direction has been decades of going to school in the land of compassion. Exploration. Acculturation. Learning the language and behaviors. Willingly going native. (according to Merriam Webster: to...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction
One of my mentors in this adventure called spiritual direction described three essential elements in the unfolding director-directee relationship: educator, accompanier, and witness (thank you, MM). I have continually focused on my responsibility to keep widening and...