When your body feels OH so real…
As students of “A Course in Miracles” we “get” the whole idea that the body isn’t real and that this is all an illusion. But if you’re like me, I wake up everyday thinking that I am Corinne and that I am limited to an existence in a body. “Getting” the idea of this...
ACIM Q&A Day: How to work with social anxiety and self-consciousness?
I’ve never considered myself to have social anxiety, but there are definitely times when I feel more outgoing than others. I’m naturally on the quiet side. I took the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (a personality indicator) years ago when I was in college. I...
ACIM Q&A Day: What self-talk helped you with anxiety?
Question: I suffer from anxiety and depression. My question may sound dumb for someone practicing “A Course in Miracles” for 11 years but … for example … I get stuck mentally … I do very well at picking up on the fact that fear and/or...
“The light in you is too bright to fail”
These were the words my stepdad said to me as I lay flat out on the couch, incapacitated by anxiety, unable to eat for days, with dark anxiety-induced circles under my teary eyes. “The light in you is too bright to fail.” These words gave me hope and a...
The Peace of Easter
Being an anxiety sufferer, Easter, from A Course in Miracles point of view, has always given me a profound sense of comfort because it teaches that Love cannot be destroyed. “There is no death. The Son of God is free.” – Lesson 163 in A Course in...Working with Anxiety
A very powerful lesson for me in “A Course in Miracles” is Lesson 136 – “Sickness is a defense against the truth.” You can substitute many different words for the term sickness…. Depression is a defense against the truth, addiction is a defense against the...
