Archive for August, 2008

A book that changed my life: An Imperfect Offering

Posted by Soul's Code on 26 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: A Book That Changed My Life

Introducing a new Soul’s Code feature, A Book That Changed My Life. Name a book that changed Your life, and tell us how it did that for you in mind, body or spirit

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BY KATY LEASK — Everyone should read this book. I’ll come […]

Where is my would-be baby’s soul?

Posted by Soul's Code on 23 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Confessions, Loss & Grieving, Sex & Spirituality

Having an abortion is never an easy decision to make, here’s what I did, and why

BY DIANA  (a pen name to protect the author’s privacy) Twenty years ago I had an abortion, and while not regretting my decision or thinking about it overly much, once […]

Life is a ballet

Posted by Soul's Code on 22 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Loss & Grieving, Journeys

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BY VICKI WOODYARD — Life is a ballet, and although it looks and feels beautiful at times our toes are bleeding and we wake in the night with muscle cramps. All of this strenuous work creates beauty and it is well worth the effort. I have […]

In God we trust? For the love of money

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Presidential candidates + other Pols, Religion Gets Funny, Religion Goes Scary, Soul's Code Canon & reviews, Spiritually Speaking

MSNBC is running a poll asking whether the slogan, “In God We Trust,” should be removed from American currency. A better question is, *which* God do we trust?

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BY DAVID RICKEY — You’ve probably seen the sign over the cash register at […]

Photo Contest: YOGA, aisle 9; PILATES, domestic departures; MEDITATION, wherever

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Peak Experiences, Everyone's A Guru, Soul's Code bulletins, Yoga

Have a chance to be featured in a Soul’s Code slideshow. The prize, other than Web glory, is a $50 giftcard to www.soundstrue.com

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Does the notion of striking a tree pose in the beverage aisle of your local supermarket seem downright ordinary? Then read on.

“I Me Wed”: Making it Through the Day (and Night)

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Everyone's A Guru, Rites & Role models, Mind-Body toolkit, Astrology

This poetic affirmation is beautiful for those moments when you are feeling down about yourself, or whatever . . .We ALL have days like that!

SPECIAL TO SOUL’S CODE, ROB BREZSNY —I first wrote these in a book called, Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How […]

Addicted to the addict: The anatomy of codependence

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

The first in a seven-part SOUL’S CODE series about Codependence

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Are you, or have you ever been, a codependent person?

co-de-pend-ent [koh-di-pen-duhnt] - adjective

1. of or pertaining to a relationship in which one person is physically or psychologically addicted, as to alcohol or gambling, and the other […]

The Parent Trap: Setting the stage for codependence

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Addiction, Eckhart Tolle, Psych 101, Break-Ups & Love Triangles

Part 2 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

parent-trap-poster.jpgBY DAVID RICKEY and PAUL KAIHLA — In the Disney movie, The Parent Trap, a pre-tabloid child star named Lindsay Lohan manipulates a reconciliation between her on-screen, estranged parents (played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha […]

Barack Obama, John McCain and the presidential politics of codependence

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

Part 3 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

BY DAVID RICKEY and PAUL KAIHLA — In our description of the Stage 1 of codependence we talked about how common it is for people who had childhoods with an abusive, dysfunctional or […]

The Enneagram: A chart for ‘predicting’ codependence in relationships

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

Part 4 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

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BY PAUL KAIHLA and DAVID RICKEY — Codependency is such a tricky area for self-examination, one idea is to do your own ‘chart’, so to speak. Check out if you and/or your […]

Confessions of a codependent

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Prescriptions to Problems, Confessions, Psych 101, Mind-Body toolkit, Journeys

Part 5 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

pk-parents-p-shopped.jpgBY PAUL KAIHLA — I grew up with a mental illness, my mother’s.

That’s not a very funny thing to say, but it is a really codependent thing to say.

My mother developed schizophrenia when […]

Psychology’s answer to codependency

Posted by Soul's Code on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

Part 6 of 7 in a Soul’s Code series about codependence

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BY DAVID RICKEY — From a psychological perspective, codependence is an issue of inappropriate boundaries.

The codependent person has difficulty experiencing adequate separation. As Paul […]

The spiritual solution to codependence

Posted by Soul's Code on 20 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Love & Relationships (families included), Prescriptions to Problems, Psych 101

The last of a 7-part Soul’s Code series about codependence

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BY DAVID RICKEY — From a spiritual point of view, especially if you wanted to freak out a passing fundamentalist, you could say that […]

PRAYER WALL Galveston update: Ike’s moved on, the island is CLOSED

Posted by Soul's Code on 19 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL

The near-category three storm ripped across the Texas gulf coast last night

Gone with the wind: Murdoch’s Bathhouse (1910), The Balinese Room (1929), Hooters (2006). Still standing, we hope, is UTMB’s BioSafety Level Four lab, one of only 13 in the […]

PRAYER WALL: Galveston prays for miracles as Hurricane Ike approaches Texas coast

Posted by Soul's Code on 18 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL, Journeys

Residents flee storm that recalls the worst natural disaster in American history

BY BEVERLEY WOOD  — 9:00 am one fateful Saturday in September, a storm began to make landfall in Galveston, Texas from the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, where it had tossed […]

A 9/11 Relfection

Posted by Soul's Code on 17 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: The Pain Body, Sacred Days, Minor Miracles

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SMADAR DE LANGE — I meditate on this day on the worth of life. 9/11 is an exhibit of the way some in the body of humanity do not believe in the worth of individual human life.

It’s easy […]

A 9/11 prayer

Posted by Soul's Code on 16 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: PRAYER WALL

BY RONDA LARUE — 9/11 is, and was, a big wake up call to witness the internal machinations of fear, and its multi-faced projections. And as with all tragedies, it is a call to dive deeper under the ruble of suffering, shock, and reaction to reclaim an ecology of the heart.

How to make love work: Ban the word “relationship”

Posted by Soul's Code on 14 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Eckhart Tolle

Kim Eng is a seeker, and now a teacher, who became Eckhart Tolle’s intimate partner. How has this power couple of enlightenment transcended the disagreements that sabotage us in romance?

Eng answered that question in this fascinating post that no one picked up — and incredibly, conducted a Q&A with […]

MONOGAMY, What is it good for?

Posted by Soul's Code on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Confessions, Psych 101, Journeys

(Cassandra is using a pen name to protect her privacy).

GUEST COLUMN: CASSANDRA KELLY

I only now realized that I have something in common with John Edwards, who went sideways on his wife while he was raising funds and razing his future in a public bid […]

The True Confession of John Edwards

Posted by Soul's Code on 13 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Love & Relationships (families included), Presidential candidates + other Pols, Confessions, Psych 101, Break-Ups & Love Triangles, PRAYER WALL

johnathon-edwards.JPGFATHER DAVID RICKEY — In the public perception, the mighty are just waiting for a fall — and in the public mind the rush to watch the fall is swift.

It is always easier to anticipate, or watch, someone else fall, than to do personal reflection. The […]

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