Total Health SOULutions

03/26/2022

Last one for the night…. Grief and a Well-Made Bed followed, as you might expect, Rosary Beads. Managing grief is no easy task and finding ways to be gentle with yourself while still beginning to wade through it is no small thing. Sometimes you just have to start…..

Originally Posted: Friday, December 7, 2012 My day should have started much like any other. I had worked until 1:00 am on a custom quote for a new client and had to get up this morning and put th…

03/26/2022

The second blog post that resides close to my heart is Rosary Beads. Sometimes life is terribly hard and tragedies happen. How do we navigate those times? How do we teach our children to journey through them? It’s part of life and yet, life is still precious.

Originally Posted: Wednesday, December 5, 2012Two days ago, I received an email from the Director of Religious Education at the church where my children attend CCD. She was asking us to pray for …

03/26/2022

Life and Candy Land…. In this old blog post, my Kate was only 7 years old but she was still able to teach us all something about winning and losing. Because, sometimes, we don’t so much fear that we will lose, what we are afraid of is winning. And then being seen. Being noticed. Having the responsibility that comes with “winning.” That is why healing our stuff - our gunk - is so important. It’s amazing what you can learn during a game of Candy Land…

Originally Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 When I was a little girl, my Irish father used to joke around with his five daughters and say, “What do you know? You’re just a girl.& #…

03/26/2022

It’s fun to see how far you have come sometimes. But there is still value in these old words of mine. So, if you ever feel stuck or need to free yourself from a mountain of stress, this old blog post is for you. My Own Personal Sacred Feminine…

Originally Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 I’ll admit it. I loved the Da Vinci Code. Great movie. And I loved the idea that women might have had a more equal status than what is tradit…

03/26/2022

This is probably the blog post that is nearest and dearest to my heart because it tells the story of my dad’s transition to Heaven. I was honored to witness it and I love him and feel him with me to this day. How much does your soul weigh?

Originally Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012My father was 77 when he died on March 27, 2012. Pentecost Sunday. He was a deacon in the Catholic church, an educator, a hospice chaplain, a gifted speak…

03/26/2022

This old blog post has been on my mind recently, mainly because the gas prices are the same now as they were then. But this was perhaps the day that changed everything (for the better) in my life. Gas tanks and miracles, people…..

Originally posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Yesterday sucked. There really is no other way to describe it. It was a tough day of roadblocks and setbacks with work projects topped off with broken…

03/26/2022

I am consolidating both my writing and my videos into one place, so tonight I am going to be adding a few of my favorite old blog posts from my “Love That LACTION” blog. Laction was a term we coined in the early days of Genesis to mean the result you get when you combine “your language plus your action.”

This is the inaugural blog entry called, “God is Great, yeah yeah yeah, God is Good…”. Enjoy!

Originally published: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 “What if God was one of usJust a slob like one of usJust a stranger on the busTrying to make his way home”We had an absolutely unbelievable…

07/10/2020

We need more dialog and less debate. Tammy Duckworth said she didn’t understand why Tucker Carlson slammed her for being open to a national dialog but he felt fine about saying he was open to a debate about the same topic.

It’s because a dialog requires that you listen. And a debate is a fight where the only goal is to win. The only reason you listen in a debate is to be able to pick apart your opponent’s position. Note the terminology. Your opponent. It’s adversarial by design.

But a dialog is different. A dialog takes place between two people with a goal of understanding the other better by the end. This is a very different thing. It not only requires listening but also an ability to articulate your position in a way that *the other person* can grasp it! The goal is to create understanding!

There is no name calling, no flinging of insults in a dialog. Those are the things that stop a dialog. There is no “because that’s the way it is” in a dialog. If you can’t articulate the Why of your position, than that is part of the problem and it encourages you to go and truly think about the root of your beliefs - to think about and discover the Why. Which sometimes means you discover that you believed something for reasons other than what you thought superficially. And information like that is always illuminating and always good information to have.

We need far more dialog in this world and far less debate. We are a nation of diverse peoples. Intentionally built that way. And even if we hadn’t been intentionally built that way, it is certainly what we are today. It can either be our strength or our downfall. Dialog will make it our strength. Debate-only will make it our downfall.

We are stronger together than we apart.

We are the UNITED States of America.

— Elizabeth McGonagle
Founder, Total Health SOULutions