Is this a time of testing in your life? That’s what the topic is about in this lesson today.
Welcome to Soul School, a weekly Wednesday installment for you. AND this time spread the word! The VIDEO class and worksheet, normally for Varsity Club members ONLY (people who sponsor the show on a monthly basis), is free and available to anyone, this week! Whooot.
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Thanks for listening to the Spark My Muse podcast today. Each Friday is a conversational guest episode. Today’s episode is a Spark My Muse first–not one, but two guests–the women from the podcast Sacred Ordinary Days. Jean and Lacy have quickly grown a strong tribe as they help listeners understand the seasons and rhythms of the liturgical year. They have both launched some fascinating resources too you will want to hear more about.
LENT 2016 February 10 – March 26 (but not Sundays)
MIN 32
Season of disruption where you make space and grieving the sad things about life. It prepares you for other sorrowful times in life. And prepares us to truly celebrate the wonderful times as well. We can hold both together. There are paradoxes. Both/And
MIN 35 Being fully human.
MIN 36 “It’s all grace.”
MIN 37
The underlying season remains and we can return to it whenever we need it.
I’m excited to have Bruce Van Horn on the Spark My Muse podcast.
His story is inspiring and his coaching, his presence on the internet at his WEBSITE and social media where he is one of the most Retweet encouragers on Twitter, in books, and on his podcast heard in 194 countries (Life is a Marathon) he has been an encouragement to millions.
His book “Worry No More: 4 Steps to Stop Worrying and Start Living” is an Amazing International Best Seller.
MIN 5 Early in life Bruce got into Computers/IMB and tried to make his fortune and contentment externally.
Bruce losses it all at 27. At 42 loses it all again and feels like giving up.
MIN 10
How Bruce started to turn his life around and had his major epiphany.
How Bruce learned that the hardest part of running a marathon is the decision to run one (each day).
MIN 13
How Bruce applied his big success to all the aspects of his life.
MIN 15
How Bruce started to take responsibility for his whole life and take his thoughts captive and end negative self talk.
MIN 18
Peter Sage
“Complaints are the glue that keep you stuck to your problems.”
“Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill
Express gratitude for what you have because it makes it easier to get what you want.
Making a list of things to be grateful for—which, at first, was insincere.
MIN 20 What would you miss if it was gone?
MIN 22
Making changes in life and relationships. Changing language like eliminating sarcasm.
MIN 24 Starting a life coaching relationship that led to jobs all over the world.
MIN 28
The stage four cancer that changed everything.
The surgery that went wrong and no pain medication to recover with.
MIN 34
“In this moment, if I can breathe, I have everything I need.”
Pain is not a curse. Somehow this experience is a gift. The story was a detour not an end.
MIN 36
“Worry No More” the book
Worry is like Mediation done wrong.
MIN 39
Experience is thought in this moment. We are telling ourselves a story. We can see another story. Worry is a story about what you don’t want to happen. and you can tell a different story.
Every Friday is a conversation with a guest. My guest today is Erika Hayasaki. She teaches workshops in nonfiction writing and classes in digital storytelling at the University of California, Irvine, where she is an associate professor in the Literary Journalism Program.
In her career as a journalist Erika’s seen many tragedies, but it was her involvement with Norma Bowe, the instructor of an unorthodox and very popular course at Kean University called “Death Class”, that showed her a completely different way to think about death and living and initiated her celebrated book project by that same name.
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This time writer and award-winning journalist, Erika Hayasaki on the fascinating rise of “Death Salons” and the increasingly popular classes in Universities across the United States related to death.These trends reflect a cultural shift of people trying to get better acquainted with their own mortality and ease the anxieties that come with being so separated from terminal illness, end-of-life, dying, burial, and grief processes common in modern times and affluent cultures.
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