by Geoff | May 15, 2012 | Current Affairs, Emotional Healing, Healing, Inner Healing, More Love, Personal Empowerment, Relationship Issues, Relationship Recovery, Relationships Empowerment, Spirit Blog, Spiritual Exploration, Transformation, Transformational Coaching, Weblogs
“You’re not here to get; you’re here to LET…” – Rev. Michael Beckwith When it comes to both life and relationship happiness, I’ve come to see that one of the greatest sources of what I would deem unnecessary suffering is how...
by Geoff | Mar 2, 2011 | Emotional Healing, Inner Healing, More Love, Personal Empowerment, Spiritual Exploration, Transformation, Weblogs
Once upon a time, Buddha was quoted (or paraphrased) as saying, “Life is suffering.” In contrast, many years ago, someone taught me that “Suffering is optional.” Somewhere in between that observation and what we long for as possibilities in our...
by Geoff | Feb 16, 2011 | Emotional Healing, Growing Up in your Relationships, Inner Healing, More Love, Personal Empowerment, Relationship Issues, Relationships Empowerment, Transformation, Transformational Coaching, Weblogs
I was facilitating one of my men’s groups recently, and one of the topics that came up as a “hot button” was how to navigate the slippery slope of getting needs met while not appearing needy, and what are even “appropriate” needs to look...
by Geoff | Aug 30, 2009 | Growing Up in your Relationships, Inner Child, Personal Empowerment, Spiritual Exploration, Transformational Coaching
I'll never forget the first time I saw the film, Billy Elliot. It was 9 years ago, and I went to see it in a rundown theater in Albuquerque. I was with my Spiritual Teacher, who happens to be Irish. I hadn't really heard anything about it,...
by Geoff | Aug 30, 2009 | Inner Healing, Relationship Issues, Relationships Empowerment, Transformation, Weblogs
"Denial - a defense mechanism in which a person is faced with a fact that is too painful to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact...